Chapter Eleven
Daryl's POV
The next morning we all went back to the cafeteria area to have breakfast. The majority of us were hungover. Andrea then asked Jenner if the CDC had found any cures. He took us to the main control room where we first entered the underground area of the building and showed us a video document of a test subject that had been bitten and agreed to be tested. It basically showed that when we come back it's just our basic instincts. None of ourselves survive it. Summer and I went back to our room after the demonstration and as we were sitting there discussing what to do when the baby comes when the lights went out. I stuck my head out the door at Jenner and Rick walking by and asked what happened with the lights. Everyone exited their rooms and followed them back to the control room. Once we all entered the room the doors shut and sealed behind us. Jenner explained that once the countdown clock hits 30 minutes the power source shuts everything down to reserve the last of the power to keep the computers running until the last possible second.
"What happens when the clock runs out?" Lori asked.
"Facility wide decontamination," Jenner replied calmly.
"What does that mean?" Glenn asked.
"It basically lights the air on fire. One millisecond. No pain. Just death," he replied and sat down.
That's when everyone started freaking out. The women started crying everyone started yelling at Jenner. Shane and I grabbed axes and began to swing at the doors.
"Those doors are built to withstand a rocket blast," Jenner said.
"THIS IS NO WAY FOR MY PREGNANT WIFE TO DIE!" I shouted storming at Jenner with the ax raised.
Rick pushed me back away from Jenner and I noticed the look on his face. If I killed Jenner there was no way to get out of here.
"My daughter doesn't deserve to die like this," Carol said crying ushering Sofia toward the door.
After a few minutes of heated arguing, Jenner finally opened the doors with one final warning that the top floors doors wouldn't open. He couldn't control those.
"Everyone, lets go!" I shouted and grabbed Summer by the hand.
Jacqui said she wanted to stay and so did Andrea. Dale was distraught by this and told the rest of us to go while he talked to Andrea. We all ran to our rooms and grabbed our things and made our way to the top floor by the entrance as quickly as possible. Shane and I headed to the window and started slamming it with our axes but it wasn't doing anything. T-Dog ran up with a chair to make a dent. Shane shot at the window but nothing was working. It was quickly becoming apparent that we weren't getting out of here. Finally Carol called to Rick.
"I think I have something that could help," Carol said rummaging through her bag, "When I washed your clothes that first morning at camp I found this."
She handed him a grenade and he ran over to the window.
"Everyone get down!" He yelled before pulling the pin.
I covered Summer looking her in the eye, making sure that if we were killed by the grenade blast that the last thing I saw was her face.
"Oh shit!" Rick yelled running back to us and then the explosion happened.
Once the blast subsided we all began climbing out the building killing walkers as we ran to the cars. Summer and I ran to the motorcycle and climbed on. We were all about to drive off when we saw Andrea and Dale climbing out of the building. We knew we had to wait for them and that the building was going to blow any second. They made it behind the sand bags around the perimeter of the building and I knew the motorcycle wouldn't provide enough coverage for me and Summer so I pulled her behind the RV. We heard the building blow and after waiting behind the RV for a few minutes trying to calm down and catch our breath we made our way back over to the motorcycle and got ready for the caravan to start moving. I was just hoping that we would find somewhere safe soon. I wasn't going to let Summer have this baby in the middle of the highway.