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"This is gonna be a big task everyone. This building has nine more floors and bunch of rooms. This could take all day." I tell the group as everyone gears up to head out, we've decided to clear the entire building today. And to make sure it's secure, meaning all doors and window locked and possibly boarded.

"This is seriously gonna take all day." Aiden whines.

"It needs to be done." Arthur says.

"Does it though? I don't really see the point. It's not like we're planing on staying here forever, we just need to find a cure and be done with this place." Glen chimes in.

"We want to have a safe facility to work in though, son." Arthur tells his son who rolls his eyes and nods.

"Jo and I are going to stay here with the kids and everyone can meet back here at in five hours for lunch." Paula tells the group and everyone nods.

"I'm going." Kyla says standing up from the floor.

"No you're not." I shake my head. "You're staying here, where someone can keep an eye on you." I tell her sternly.

"I'm tired of you treating me like a baby Ashley!" She half shouts at me. Where is this coming from? "Spencer and I..." I should've known this was about Spencer. "...are the same age and you don't see anyone treating her like a kid." Kyla pleads her case. Glancing at Spencer when she said her name.

"Technically-"

"Did I ask you?" Kyla turns to Spencer and asks. Spencer smiles then pretends to zip her lips and throw away the key.

"Kyla don't talk to her that way." I interject.

"It's fine." Spencer waves it off with a smile.

"I'm not a kid anymore Ashley, I'm almost seventeen. Mom and dad aren't here, so stop treating me like a baby." She finishes and everyone looks at me for my response. What do I say? She's not a baby anymore but that doesn't mean she doesn't still need protecting.

"I don't know Ky, I don't think..." I trail off as she stares at me with narrowed eyes. "Fine." I say through a sigh. "But you're coming with my group so I can keep an eye on you and you're not allowed to have a gun." I tell her shaking my head.

"You're kidding right?" She questions with a raised brow.

"Those are my conditions." I tell my little sister. "Here." I hand her my pocket knife. "This will do."

"This is ridiculous." She says shaking her head as she takes the knife.

"That's all you're getting Kyla so take it or leave it." I tell her with a shrug.

"Fine." She says and walks away from me.

"Are we ready to head out?" I turn and ask the rest of the group, everyone is smiling at the scene that just unfolded between Kyla and myself. She may be getting older but I'll do everything I have to, to protect her.

–

"You should probably take your hands off my sister." I tell the man who's holding Kyla down to the ground. Kyla and I have been on our own now for quite some time and we haven't come across any people...any alive people anyway, since the outbreak started. That is until now.

"Or what?" The guy holding her down asks with a smirk. He doesn't know me...he doesn't know what I can do. I'm trying to keep my composure because I don't want to hurt the four men trying to take our things right now, but they aren't making this easy.

"Just do it." I tell the guy, shaking my head. The four of them chuckle and the one holding Kyla turns back to her. "Okay, I tried." I mumble and shrug as I break free from the two men holding me. I turn and kick the one on my left in the stomach as the one on my right takes a swing at me, I duck and he misses, my left fist connecting with his jaw.

"Stop her." The man holding Kyla, I'm guessing the leader of the four idiots, yells to the other guy. The idiot that I hadn't hit yet. He runs towards me, I roll my eyes before spinning as he punches at me, and hitting him in the back. He drops to his knees and my foot connects with the back of his head. The other two men charge me. I chop idiot one in the throat as idiot three gets a cheap shot into my side. I pull myself back together as idiot one hits the ground holding his throat and I uppercut idiot two. Idiot three recovers from the kick to the head, jumping on my back. I fling him off on idiot two and they both hit the ground.

"At least make it a little difficult for me." I shake my head at the three grown men laying on the ground.

"Stop!" The man who was holding Kyla shouts. I turn around to see a gun pointed at me. The three other men groan as they get up from the ground. I reach into my pocket and take out my knife. The leader chuckles. "You just brought a knife to a gun fight." He says in a condescending tone.

I smirk before flicking my knife open and quickly tossing it at the mans hand. It goes straight into the back of his hand. "Ow!" He shrieks, as the gun falls from his hand. Kyla quickly scrambles to pick it up.

"Now, you can leave voluntarily or I can make you leave." I tell the men as Kyla points a gun at the leader. He looks back between me and Kyla before turning his men and nodding his head to the left. I guess signaling that they're gonna leave voluntarily. I turn around and all three men give me a hard look before walking off, without our things. "I'll take this back." I say, walking over to the man and snatching my knife out of his hand. He lets out another scream but doesn't dare give me a second glance as Kyla still has the gun pointed at him. He scoffs then walks off with the other men.

"Nice moves." Kyla says once the men are out of sight.

"No biggie." I shrug.

"I'm starting to think that dad did a lot more than just give you tours when he took you to work." She says looking down at the gun, admiring it.

"Give me that." I say and take the gun out of my sister's hand. I really don't want to go into what went on at the C.I.A. Especially not right now.

"Can't I keep it?" She asks me as I put it into the back of my jeans.

"Not a chance." I shake my head.

"When are you gonna stop treating me like a child Ashley? If you haven't noticed..." She says gesturing around us, "...we're in the middle of a zombie apocalypse. There's no time for you to hover." She finishes with a hand on her hip.

"You're still not getting a gun." I shake my head and smile at my sister.

"You suck." She tells me with narrowed eyes as we gather up our scattered things and head in the opposite direction of the men.

–

"I bet you got your first gun when you were like five right?" Glen asks as we clear another room.

"No." I chuckle and shake my head.

"Six?" He questions.

"No."

"Seven?"

"Glen will you leave my girlfriend alone!" Spencer scolds her brother. He's been asking me questions nonstop since we started clearing the building.

"Well she shouldn't be so mysterious and intriguing."

"Really?" Aiden turns to his boyfriend and asks. Glen shrugs.

"I should have gone with Tim's group." Kyla says behind us.

"Walker." Glen says from the front of the group.

"Ashley." Aiden says and I know what he's asking.

"Got it." I tell them. Him and Glen duck, I raise my bow, pull back and release the string hitting the walker in its left eye.

"Nice shot." Glen commends me.

"So should I pull down her pants or did you wanna do that part yourself?" Aiden asks his boyfriend. Spencer and I snicker.

"Let's separate guys, we can cover more ground that way. Meet back here in ten?" I ask and everyone nods. "Ky where are you going?" I ask my sister as she starts to walk off with Glen and Aiden.

"With them." She tells me simply without so much as a second glance back at me.

"Is everything okay with her?" Spencer asks me as we start to walk in the opposite direction as the others.

"I'm not sure." I turn to my girlfriend and say. Her lips curl up in a smile.

"I don't think she likes me as your girlfriend very much anymore."

"Oh, so she did at first?" I question her with a smile.

"She talked to me about not hurting you so I was assuming she was giving me her blessing." She says and shrugs.

"I'm gonna talk to her, see what's-"

"She probably just feels like she's losing you or something, like she's not the only girl in your life anymore. It was just the two of you for a while right?" Spencer asks, cutting me off. I smile at her.

"Yeah." I nod. I was thinking the exact same thing. It's amazing how much Spencer and I think alike.

"Well if I were her, I'd probably be acting the exact same way." She moves close to me and says. "I'd want all your attention too." She adds and smiles.

"Spencer Carlin." I say in a sultry tone, flipping my bow onto my back and pulling her closer to me. "Don't start something you can't finish." I tell her looking straight into her eyes.

"Who says I can't finish?" She questions with a raised brow.

"Oh." Is my reply as I pull her into a kiss. We're in the hallway and I don't want her brother or my sister to sneak up on us so I open the door closest to us and back her in, never breaking our kiss. I kick the door closed as we move further into the room.

"I really love you." She says pulling back, out of breath.

"I love you more." I say before reconnecting our lips.

"Argh. Ungh." Spencer and I hear and we immediately freeze. In our kissing frenzy we didn't realize that we'd walked into a room that we hadn't cleared yet.

"Ashley." Spencer whispers.

"I can't see anything." I tell her already knowing what she's asking me.

"Can we run?" She asks.

"I don't know where the door is." I whisper back. "Move behind me. I tell Spencer and she does it. I try to focus my eyes to see where the walkers are and how many there are but I can't see anything. Ironic that we chose the room with no windows to make out in. "Search for the door." I tell Spencer, digging in my pocket for my knife. Shit. I forgot I gave it to Kyla. "Give me your knife." I whisper to Spencer. I hear movement before I feel a sharp pain in my arm. I shriek and realize I'm now on the ground with a walker on top of me trying to eat me.

"Ashley!" Spencer yells out and I'm assuming runs towards me. I know that I can't die from a walker bite but it doesn't mean they can't still eat me. "Ashley don't move." She tells me and then I don't hear anything but the sound of the walker grunting on top of me and Spencer's heavy breathing, like she's fighting something. I try to push the walker off me, to no avail, as something hits the ground with a loud umph followed by another one.

"Spencer!" I shout. Not being able to see what's going on is really not the funnest thing in the world. Spencer doesn't answer me, I go to call her name again as the walker that was struggling on top of me falls limp onto my body. I throw it from me and scoot backwards until my back hits a wall. I take my bag off my back and take out my flashlight.

"Ashley." Spencer calls to me as I shine the light on her, then around her. There are three dead walkers laying on the ground, including the one she just saved me from.

"How'd you...what did you...wow." Is all I'm able to get out. Spencer's lip curl up into a smile.

"Glen and I played hide and seek in the dark a lot." Is all she says, still smiling at me. I shine the light back on the walkers, lifting myself up from my position on the floor. I walk over to them and see they all have stab wounds right between the eyes.

"Impressive." I turn to my girlfriend and say.

"Lucky." She shrugs, standing up. "This room is clear." She adds and smiles.

"Thanks to you." I shine the light down on the bite mark on my hand.

"It's nice to be able to save your life everyone once in a while." She smiles. "Oh wow, it's healing already." Spencer says examining it.

"Yeah, it um...it kinda does that." I tell her.

"Wow." She turns to me and says then looks back at my hand. "How long before it completely heals?" She asks as we walk out of the room.

"I don't know." I shrug. "An hour maybe. I've only even been bitten once, it wasn't this bad." I say looking at my hand again. "Let's not tell Ky about this k." I turn to Spencer and say.

She chuckles and nods her head, "We wouldn't want to give her another reason to dislike me."

"Now that I think about it, maybe we should tell her. Maybe if she knows you saved my life she'll stop being such a-"

"Sister." Spencer interjects with a smile.

"Let's go and meet back up with the group before they come looking for us."