A/N: Okay so there are a few people that are bashing Spencer in this story and saying that hate it or it's boring or so on... Don't get me wrong, I love my fans and people that review this story but people seriously, if you don't like it...don't read it. I completely understand that not everyone will enjoy something that I put out but to continuously say every single chapter what I SHOULD or SHOULDN'T do in MY STORY, it's kind of an insult to ME. Not to my story. Plain and simple, I'd just prefer if you didn't say anything at all. Not trying to be rude cause I'm not a rude person at all, just wanted to let that be known.

For those of you that are still enjoying this, I hope this chapter is good for you. :)

"How's that going over there?" I turn and ask Eric as he boils something on the burner. We've finally started working on the cure. We all have our little parts of this process, we figured we'd get way more done this way.

"Yeah, almost." He nods before turning back to what he was doing. "When'd you know." He stops, turning back to me and asking.

Huh?

"Know what?" I question him.

I swear if this is a question about my sexuality, Eric and I are gonna have serious problems.

"That you were the cure, that you held the key to fixing all this?" He asks with genuine curiosity.

"Uh...only recently actually." I reply honestly.

"Must have been a pretty hard pill to swallow." He says softly, turning back to the burner. "I don't think I would have been able to handle that." He shakes his head.

"It's not so hard to take when you have this preconceived notion that you're the reason all this is happening anyways." I shrug.

He turns to face me, "You can't think that's true." He says shaking his head. I just shrug again. "This isn't your fault, Ashley. It's the government's fault, they did this. They decided that our capabilities as humans wasn't enough, they were the ones that tested serums on all these innocent people. They are the animals and they are the ones that caused all this, not you." He shakes his head. He's right, this isn't my fault, and I know that deep down, but I can't help but feel like...wait...how does he know...

"How do you know how this all got started? What the serum was for?" I question him with narrow eyes.

"I saw it on the news." He shrugs and turns back to what he was doing.

"No." I shake my head. "The news never talked about the serum, everyone was under the impression that Trinity Flares started the outbreak."

"I must have heard it somewhere, how else would I know?" He turns back to me with a raised brow. That's a very good question, how would he know? "I'm gonna finish this." He thumbs towards the burner and turns back to it. I get up from my seat and walk out of the lab, down the hall to where Spencer is.

"Hey." She smiles.

"Hey." I return the smile, as I bend down to kiss her lips.

"Mmm." She moans into the kiss.

"Can I ask you something?" I ask, sitting down next to her.

"If this is about us getting back together, I already told you last night Ashley that I-"

"No." I shake my head and smile. "This isn't about us Spencer."

"Oh." She smiles. "Then ask away."

"When the outbreak started and the news was the only way of hearing about anything, did any of the news stations ever talk about the outbreak getting started any other way than Trinity Flares?" I question.

"Not that I know of." She shakes her head. "And Glen and I were always glued to the TV."

"That's what I thought."

"Why? What happened?" She asks and I shake my head.

"Nothing." I lie. I don't want to get her worried about something that could be nothing.

"Okay." She shrugs and purses her lips. "Can I ask you something now?" She asks as her tongue snakes across her lips. I suppress a moan.

"Mhm." I nod, not really trusting my voice right now.

"Last night, why didn't we um..." She trails off, scooting her chair closer to me. "I was there, I was in the tent with you. We talked and then you left, why?" She asks with a raised brow. I consider my next words very carefully.

"We're not together anymore Spence, remember." I say standing up. "It would be inappropriate to sleep with a girl I'm not in a relationship with, don't you think?" I ask with a smirk. She hits my arm and pulls me back down into my seat.

She leans in close to me, "Don't be an ass. I'm really horny and if you don't come with me right now to our tent, I swear Ashley Davies I will-" I cut her off by putting a finger to her lips.

"You had me at horny." I shrug and stand, holding out a hand for her to take. She smiles and takes my hand before pulling me down the hall to our tent.

I think we'll cause this round a draw.

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"Ashley we're about to get started on the oh..." Angels words die in her throat when she sees Spencer and I inside the tent. We probably should have zipped it up huh. What if Angel had been Paula or Arthur oh my God.

"I'll be right there Angel." I tell her with a smile as she closes her eyes tightly and nods.

"Yeah okay." She continues to nod. "Take your time. No rush." She adds and shakes her head. "Eric and I can handle this if you want to-"

"No." I cut her off. "I'll be out in a sec, I just need you to leave so I can get dressed." I tell her, my voice laced with amusement.

"Oh, yeah sure, okay." She nods and turns away, her eyes still shut tightly.

"Aw poor Angel." Spencer chuckles and kisses my neck as I sit up.

"Poor Angel?" I question her. "I highly doubt that seeing the two of us in such a compromising position is a poor anything for anyone." I tell her with a smile as I pull my shirt down over my head.

"True." She nods and does the same. "I'm gonna go shower, so come find me when you're done playing Bill Nye the science guy k?" She says before kissing my lips and heading out the tent.

Oh did I forget to mention that this building has a back up water supply and because we got the generators working we have hot water? It's so amazing, you have no idea!

"You love Ashley Davies the Science Goddess." I shout to her as she leaves the room.

"Keep telling yourself that." She shouts back as she closes the door. I smile and shake my head at my girl...ex...at Spencer before getting up and heading back to the lab.

"Ashley can I talk to you for a second?" Angel asks me as soon as I walk in the door.

"Sure." I nod as we walk to the corner of the room.

"Have you noticed Kyla lately?" She asks. I'm not sure I know what she means. "I mean, with Eric." She clarifies, reading my mind.

"Um...uh..." Shit what do I say? Angel has always been cool, should I tell her about the conversation Kyla and I had last night?

–

"How's Spencer doing?" Kyla asks as I walk into the room she's been sharing with Angel.

"Her parents just caught us making out..." I trail off and shutter. "And they caught my hand on her boob." I add.

"Nice." Kyla smiles.

"Seriously, what have you done with my sister?" I question her with a raised brow. She shrugs. "Where's Angel?"

"I don't know." She shrugs again. "She came in, gave me this look...then she left. I don't know what's going on with her."

I take a seat in the chair next to hers. "You like her Ky?" I ask with narrowed eyes. My sister and I have never really had 'the talk' before. I'm not even sure if she's into girls.

"She's cool." Kyla replies nonchalantly.

"Ky, you know what I mean." I turn to my sister and say.

She rolls her eyes, "I did...I do. Well, I thought I did. I don't know." She shrugs. Aw, young love.

"So you're into girls then?" I ask tentatively. Like I said, we've never had this talk and I'm not really thrilled that we're having it right now.

She turns to me with a raised brow, "We don't have to do this you know." She says.

I smile, "I know, but you're my sister and I wanna-"

"Be nosy." She cuts me off with a smile.

"Sure." I return the smile.

"I like Angel." She nods. I feel a but coming on. "But," See! "When I was interested, she didn't seem that interested in me. We've been sleeping in the same tent for forever now and she hasn't even attempted to kiss me." I'm liking Angel a little bit more now. "I like her, I just don't think she likes me."

"She does." I reply quickly.

"How do you kn..." Her sentence dies in her throat when she see's my facial expression. "Of course she came and talked to you about it." Kyla stands and rolls her eyes.

"Ky she just wanted to know if it was okay for her to ask you out. That's all." I try to explain to my sister.

"This is a freaking zombie apocalypse for goodness sake, we don't have time for those formalities, we have to go for what we want, when we want it. Otherwise, they could be gone in the blink of an eye."

"Are we speaking in general or..." I trail off, letting my question linger in the air.

"Eric asked me out yesterday. I don't have time to waste my life away waiting for a girl that knows how I feel about her, sit around day after day and not ask me out."

"How can you be so sure that she knew you liked her?" I question.

"Well I all but said the words. It doesn't take a genius to put two and two together." Ky finishes with an eye roll. "I'm going out with Eric now so," She shrugs. "I guess it's too late anyways."

"I thought you thought he was a dork?" I question with a raised brow.

"Yeah, he is, but it's one of the things I like about him now. That and the fact that he doesn't have a problem telling me how he feels."

"Ky don't-"

"Doesn't matter, Ash." She waves me off before leaving the room.

–

"You should talk to her Angel." I settle on. I don't want to lie to her but I don't want to be the one to hurt her feelings.

"Right." She nods and looks down. I guess she got her answer anyways. "We should get back to working on the cure." She says quickly before walking away.

"Angel wait." I call her back.

"Yeah?" She asks with a confused look on her face.

"When this all started, did you hear anything on the news about what caused the outbreak, the serum my mom was working on, or what it was for?" I ask in a hushed tone, glancing over at Eric to make sure he wasn't listening.

"Uh... no." She shakes her head. "Why?"

"No reason." I wave her off. "Just wondering."

"Okay." She says and walks away.

So he lied about how he got his information, I wonder what else he's lying about...