…Ivy's POV…

…Last Chapter…

"Glenn, it is nothing. I swear!"

"You're lying!" He snapped. Damn, Glenn. Who knew that you could be so aggressive when you're drunk.

"Fine! I tell you!" I yelled, sitting up.

"Go ahead!"

I took a deep breath, looking down at the blanket that covered my lap. My red hair fell down around my face, trying to hide the tears that began to fall.

My voice cracked.

"Jenner raped me."

…Ivy's POV…

…Now…

"He what?" Glenn asks, sounding suddenly sober.

I looked over at him. "He raped me, Glenn. I used to be an intern here and he was my mentor. He took me to a convention and got a few drinks into me. Then we got back to the room, he forced himself onto me. I couldn't fight back, no matter how much I was telling my body to move, to fight back, it didn't. I stopped working as intern after that and moved back home. I hadn't told anyone about it until I told Amy the night before the attack."

"Why didn't you tell anyone about it when you found out that we were going to the CDC?" He asks, laying back down next to me.

I sighed. "I didn't think he would have survived this long. He was always a bit of a coward, so I figured he either kill himself or run. There must be something holding him here."

We sat in silence for a little bit, both of us trying to digest what was going on. Glenn has been the second person that I've ever told about what Jenner did to me, and I am kind of glad that I told him. I feel different now than I did when I told Amy. Everything felt different when I was with Glenn, even killin' Walker's felt different; like I was doing it to protecting him and he was protecting me.

"Why don't we try to get some sleep? Don't want the others to think that we stayed up late doing gross things." Glenn pointed out, sounding a little awkward.

I sighed, again. "That sounds like a lovely idea," I turn away from him, slightly excepting him to do the same thing but he doesn't. He wraps his arms around me, pulling me to his chest, "I care about you, Glenn. No matter what I say or do, just know that I care about you and me doing that is hard. It would be less difficult if Jenner never did what he did."

Now, it was his turn to sigh. "I know, Ivy. I care about you too."

I smiled, "Goodnight, Glenn."

"Goodnight, Ivy." He said kissing the back of my hair.

We both fell into a dreamless, restful sleep. It was nice to finally be able to sleep and not have to worry about some monster coming into eat you in the middle of the night.

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…The Next Morning…

The next morning, I woke up with my head buried into Glenn's chest. His smell, most like natural, was alluring. I didn't want to pull away from him, but my stomach wanted to do the opposite. When I pulled away, I noticed that Glenn was awake any watching me.

"Morning." I said.

"Morning, Iv." He replied, groggily.

"Are you hung over?" I ask, brushing back his hair.

He nodded, "I never want to drink again."

I smiled, "Well lucky for you, I know a great cure for a hangover. Now, get dressed and meet me in the Café. I'll be there creating your cure." I kissed his forehead before standing up.

I grabbed one of his button up shirts and slipped it on. I only buttoned a few of the buttons, before tying the bottom of it so that you could see the lower part of my stomach. I dug around my bag for a pair of clean jeans, finally finding a pair I slipped them over my underwear clad hips. I pulled on clean socks and my boots. I stuffed my clothes into my bag and set it next to Glenn's.

"You know, my shirt looks really good on you."

I looked over and saw Glenn walking out of the bathroom. "I thought it might."

He walked over to me, "You are every nerd boy's wet dream."

I laughed, wrapping my arms around his neck, "But I only want to be yours."

He leaned in and kissed me, "Oh don't you were, you are."

I kissed him back, it was long and slow, "Okay, now get dressed. I'll meet you in the kitchen."

"Okay, darling." He kissed me again, before letting me leave.

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…Kitchen…

T-Dog was in the kitchen, when I walked in. He was cooking some powdered eggs and something that looked like bacon. I smiled and mentioned that a little chili powder in the eggs would make them taste better and help with a hangover.

He looked at me, "How do you know that?"

I laughed, "If you don't remember, I am a doctor. Plus, I've drowned my emotions in alcohol several times."

He grunted, "What emotions were ya runnin' from, kid?"

"Pain, disgust, hatred of myself. You know, all the self-loathing feelings."

"Why-"

"T, I don't want to talk about it right now."

He just nodded. "I get it. Why don't you go sit down in the café, I'll take over from here?"

I nodded, "Sure, if that is what you want T."

"That is what I want." He gave me a side hug and pushed into towards the door. I stuck my tongue out at him, which caused him to laugh.

"Morning." I heard Rick say, while walking towards the table. He sounded just like Glenn; hungover.

"Are you hungover?" Carl's small voice asks. I chuckle, walking into the room. The kids had plates of food sitting in front of them, "Mom said you'd be."

"Mom is right." Rick replied, sitting down next to his son.

"Mom has that annoying habit." Lori chuckles, running a hand over Carl's hair.

I stepped forward, "Lori, can I talk to you?" She looked up at me and nodded.

I led her out into the hallway. I leaned against the wall and took a deep breath, "I am sorry about last night."

She nodded, "It is fine. You seemed to be a bit stressed."

I chuckled, unamused, "Stressed doesn't even cover what I was last night."

She leaned up against the wall next to me, "Do you want to talk about it?"

I nodded, "You can't tell anyone, Lori. Glenn is the only one that knows, and he forced it out of me. My sister doesn't even know."

She looked worried, "I promise not to tell anyone."

I sigh, "I used to be an intern here and Jenner had been my mentor. One weekend, he took me to a special health convention and on the last night he got a few drinks into me. When I was drunk enough, he took me back to my room. When we made it back to my room, he forced himself on top of me. I couldn't fight back, no matter how much I was telling my body to move, to fight back, it just couldn't. I stopped working as intern after that and moved back home. I hadn't told anyone about it until I told Amy the night before the attack on the camp. And Glenn last night. Being here, with him here, has me going insane, because it has brought back so many memories and heartache."

She had tears in her eyes, "Why didn't you say anything back at the camp, when we were talking about coming here?"

I bit my lip, "Honestly, I didn't think he'd be the last one here. He was never brave, he was a coward. He always took the easy way out, like when I called and told him that he had gotten me pregnant," Lori gasped, "He found me and forced me to have an abortion."

"That bastard." She mumbled.

"I can't have kids now, because an infection set in my uterus after the abortion. They had to remove it to save my life." A tears started to roll down my cheeks, "Ever since then, I've been closed off and cold."

She pulled me into her arms around me, "No one should have to go through that by themselves, especially at a young age."

I nod, "Now, do you see why I was so harsh last night?"

"Yeah, I do. Now, come on. We should probably get back before the others think that you killed me." We both laughed.

I nodded and went in before her. I saw Glenn sitting with his head down on the table. He looked so pathetic. I went and sat next to him. I ran my hand up and down his bad.

"Eggs." T-dog yelled, walking out with the pan of my chili powder powdered eggs. I smiled as he set some on Glenn's plate, "Powdered, but I do 'em good." Glenn groaned at the smell of them, "With a little help from Dr. Ivy, I bet you can't tell. You know protein helps the hangover." I smiled.

Lori sat some pain relief on the table in front of Rick. There wasn't a smile on her face anymore.

He looked confused, "Where'd all this come from? He asks, taking ahold of the bottle.

Lori growled, "Jenner."

He held out the bottle, "Could you help me, please?" She smiles and opens the bottle for him.

"He thought we could use it." She handed him two pills.

"Thank you."

"Well, some of us." She pointed to her husband.

Soon Daryl and my sister came strolling in, they didn't look hungover in the slightest. That made me smile, at least that they weren't in pain. Because I know from dealing with my sister when she is in pain, that she can be a pain. Daryl is just a pain.

"Don't ever ever ever let me drink again." Glenn mumbled taking a bite of his eggs, then he started to cough, "What is in these eggs?"

I grinned, "Chili powder."

He glared at me. "Why?"

I chuckle, "Because it wakes you up."

"Hey." Shane said, walking into the room.

"Hey," Rick said, "Feeling as bad as I do?" Ansley moved to sit next to me. I smiled down at her, eying Shane a little bit.

"Worse." I chuckled a little bit.

"What the hell happened to you?" T asks, seeing some scratch marks on Shane's neck, "Your neck?"

"I must have done it in my sleep," He says, eying Lori.

"Never seen you do that before." Rick said, raising his eyebrows.

"Me neither. Not like me at all." His eyes never left Lori. The way he watched her gave me and eerie feeling. I pulled Ansley closer to me. Glenn looked at my sister and frowned.

"How are you not hungover, you drank twice as much as I did?"

She laughed and sat on Daryl's lap, "I have a higher tolerance, when it comes to alcohol."

Jenner walked in, "Morning."

Lori, Glenn, and I all glared at him. Glenn looked like he was about to shove his fork into Jenner's throat, so I took ahold of his hand. Across the table from me, sat Lori. She looked like she wanted to cut of his balls with a toothpick and make him eat them. I found it amusing. I wrapped my arms around the back of Ansley's chair.

"Hey, doc." Shane said.

"Doctor, I don't mean to slam you with questions first thing..." Dale started.

"But you will anyways."

"We didn't come here for the eggs." Andrea inputted.

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…The Com Room…

After we finished, Jenner led us to the computer room. Ansley hadn't let go of my hand the whole time, it was like she could feel the weirdness like me. Jenner stood in the middle of the room, at first he wasn't facing us then he turned to face us.

"Give me playback of TS-19." He said. The large computer in the front of the room turned on.

"Playback of TS-19"

"Few people ever get a chance to see this." He said as images of a brain showed on the screen, "Very few." He sounded upset.

"Is that a brain?" Carl asks, walking away from Lori. She pulled him back.

"An extraordinary one." Right then is when it clicked, this is his wife's brain. I frowned.

"Not that it matters in the end. Take us in for EIV..." Everyone looked confused.

I rolled my eyes, "Enhanced Internal View." Everyone nodded. I wrapped my arms around Ansley.

"What are those lights?" Shane asks.

I rolled my eyes as Jenner replied, "It's a person's life...experiences, memories. It's is everything. Somewhere in all that organic wiring, all those ripples of light, is you...the thing that makes you unique. And human."

"You don't make sense ever?" Daryl asks. Isis and I roll our eyes.

I stepped forward, "Those are synapses, electric impulses in the brain that carry all the messages. They determine everything a person says, does, and thinks for the moment of their birth to the moment of their death."

"Death? That's what this is, a vigil?" Rick asks.

"Yes." I answer for Jenner.

"Or rather the playback of a vigil." He added.

"This person died?" Andrea asks, horror crossed her face, "Who?"

"Test subject 19 was someone who was bitten and infected... and volunteered to have us record the process. Vi, scan forward to the first event."

"Scanning to first event." The screen show the black roots in the brain spreading.

"What is that?" Glenn asks, taking my hand.

"It invades the brain like meningitis. The adrenal glands hemorrhage, the brain goes into shutdown, then the major organs." The 'person' (aka his wife) stopped moving as the brain went black. "Then death. Everything you were or ever will be...gone."

"Is that what happened to Jim?" Sophia asks, looking up at her mother.

Carol looked at her, "Yes." I heard a little whimper and followed Jenner's gaze to Andrea. She was crying.

"She lost someone two days ago." Lori said, "Her sister." She tightened her grip on Carl.

"I lost someone too. I know it is devastating it is." He said, "Scan to second event."

"Scanning to second event." The video sped up until it showed the brain still dark, but aa spark of red and white was starting to appear.

"The resurrection times vary wildly." Jenner said, "We had reports of it happening in as little as three minutes. The longest we heard of was eight hours. In the case of this patient. It was two hours, one minute...seven seconds." He sounded so broken.

"It restarted the brain?" Lori asks,

"No, just the brain stem. Basically, it gets them up and moving."

"But they're not alive?" Rick asks, looking confused. Jenner pointed to the screen.

"You tell me."

"It's nothing like before. Most of that brain is dark."

"Dark, lifeless, dead. The frontal lobe, the neocortex, the human part...that doesn't come back. The you part. Just shell driven by mindless instinct." Suddenly, something shot across the image of the brain, causing everyone to jump.

"God, what was that?" Carol asks, cuddling her daughter to her.

"He shot his patient in the head." Andrea pointed out, "didn't you?"

Jenner ignored her, "Vi, power down the main screen and the work stations." He said.

"Powering down main screen and work stations."

"You have no idea what it is, do you?" Andrea asks.

"It could be microbial, viral, parasitic, or fungal." Jenner replied, leaning against a chair.

"OR the wrath of God?" Jacqui spoke up.

"There is that." He looked at her.

"Somebody must have known something." Andrea said, "Somebody somewhere."

"There are others, right? Other facilities?" Lori asks, not looking at him.

"There may be some. People like me." He said, not sounding serious.

Rick stood up and walked forward, "But you don't know? How can you not know?"

"Everything went down. Communications, directives...all of it. I've been in the dark for almost a month."

"So it's not just here." Andrea sounded panicked, "There's nothing left anywhere? Nothing? That's what you're really saying, right?" Jenner nodded, sadly, "Jesus."

"Man, I'm gonna get shit-faced drunk gain." Daryl said, rubbing his face. My sister took ahold of his hand and nodded.

"Dr. Jenner." Dale said, "I know this has been taxing for you and I hate to ask one more question, but...that clock," He pointed the giant digital clock on the wall, "it's counting down, what happens when it hits zero?"

"The basement generators...they run out of fuel." He looked down, feeling ashamed.

"And then?" Rick asks, "Vi, what happens when the power runs out?" Everyone froze. I tightened my grip on Ansley and Glenn.

"When power runs out, facility-wide decontamination will occur."

TO BE CONTINUED...

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A/N Hey there!

So this chapter has been a long time coming! A lot of this have happened since I last posted. School has been crazy for me and then you add work, ya get the double crazy. So, I've been thinking about somethings that should happen in the future of this story... nothing bad like ending it here. But like, putting Maggie and Rick together. I think that would be neat or adding another OC. But I am not sure. Comment and let me know. I also want to know, if Ivy should tell the whole group about what Jenner did when he locks them in the Com room. Like she gets pissed and yells at him. Tell me what you think.

Sweetkitty: thank you reviewing my story! I hope you enjoyed this chapter.

MrsBennLafitte: Thanks! I hope you like how I had Glenn react! I had him react (sorta) twice to the news.

Angelicedg: So you liked the last chapter? I hope you like what I did with this one. I didn't know if I should have had her apologize to Lori, so I had her do it. And you liked the intimate scene? That's great, I've never been good at writing sex scenes. I didn't want Glenn to be really out of character, so he isn't going to like kill Jenner or anything. I am glad that you had a great time on Vegas!

I don't know when I'll update again.

So sorry in advance.

G-V Princess.