AN: Yeah, remember when I said it was gonna be a while before Chapter 5 was up? Holy motherFUCK, I'm sorry I took so long. I'm sorry everyone, but I can't get myself to update this story. Every time I try, I hit a block or see an error that makes me delete an entire paragraph. I'm sorry everyone. I am going to tell you where this story was going to go, however.
Carl, Chuck, and Theo headed out to the Wal Mart a few miles away and raided it for whatever supplies were left, finding a few generators in their hunt. They hauled them back and got their apartment building running, the electronics in Carl's room finally having a power source to run on. They manage to find a stable internet connection and find that it's maintained by a group of survivors. Specifically, the ones they had attempted to eradicate while out of control of themselves.
Eventually they meet up with the survivors and help found a shelter for infected like themselves, rehabilitating any SI to help in an effort to decrease hostility in the world around them. Eventually, it's just Carl and Jess left as everyone else had either died violently or broke down because their bodies couldn't be maintained. In a last-ditch effort, the scientists working under Carl and Jess devise a serum to help rever the effects of the virus and release it into the countryside via missiles.
As their bodies revert to what they once were as humans, Jess and Carl age rapidly as if time had finally caught up with them. As they grow weaker, they hold each other and kiss one last time, smiles on their faces as they crumple to the ground and slowly wither away into nothing.
Again, I am SO SORRY for not updating earlier than this.