9 Chapter 9

After you were done with your shower you came out of the bathroom to see that Daryl set up a lot for you and he was passed out on the couch. You layed down snuggling under the blankets and fell asleep.

When you woke the next morning you noticed Daryl was already gone. You got up and changed then headed to the dinning area. You walked in seeing mostly everyone was already awake. Sitting down T-Dog sat a plate of powdered eggs in front of you. You looked over to Glenn seeing him with his head in his hands groaning and Jacqui rubbing his shoulders. "First hang over there Glenn?" You chuckled "Don't ever ever ever let me drink again." He moaned out.

Everyone was eating and chatting quietly when all of a sudden Shane spoke up. "Hey, doc" "Doctor, I don't mean to slam you with questions first thing..." Dale says "But you will anyway." Jenner responds "We didn't come here for the eggs." Andrea says so you all get up following Jenner into the big room.

"Give me playback of TS-19." Jenner says Vi comes on saying "Playback of TS-19." "Few people ever got a chance to see this. Very few." Jenner spoke "Is that a brain?" Carl asks amazed "An extraordinary one. Not that it matters in the end. Take us in for E.I.V.." "Enhanced internal view." "What are those lights?" You ask "It's a person's life... experiences, memories. It's everything. Somewhere in all that organic wiring, all those ripples of light, is you... the thing that makes you unique. And human." He replies "You don't make sense ever?" Daryl says while taking a drink from his whisky bottle from last night. "Those are synapses, electric impulses in the brain that carry all the messages. They determine everything a person says does or thinks from the moment of birth to the moment of death." "Death? That's what this is, a vigil?" Lori asks "Yes. Or rather the playback of the vigil." "This person died? Who?" You ask "Test subject 19. 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." "What is that?" Andrea asks "It invades the brain like meningitis. The adrenal glands hemorrhage, the brain goes into shutdown, then the major organs. Then death. Everything you ever were or ever will be... Gone."Jenner says

" Is that what happened to Jim?" Sophia asks Carol "Yes." Carol responds Andrea looked down tears in her eyes. You felt bad for her losing her sister just a xouple days ago. "She lost somebody two days ago. Her sister." Lori tells Jenner "I lost somebody too. I know how devastating it is. Scan to the second event." Vi Scaned to the second event. "The resurrection times vary wildly. 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." You look at him and say "So what It restarts the brain?" "No, just the brain stem. Basically, it gets them up and moving. But they're not alive? You tell me." You looked back up at the screen "It's nothing like before. Most of that brain is dark." You said "Dark, lifeless, dead. The frontal lobe, the neocortex, the human part... That doesn't come back. The you part. Just a shell driven by mindless instinct." After Jenner stops talking you seen something go through the head of the person. "God. What was that?" Lori says "He shot his patient in the head. Didn't you?" Andrea says

Jenner starts waljing away saying "Vi, power down the main screen and the workstations." "You have no idea what it is, do you?" Andrea asks "It could be microbial, viral, parasitic, - fungal." Jenner says "Or the wrath of God?" Jacqui commented "There is that." Jenner says

Everyone was silent for a second. Until Andrea spike up saying "Somebody must know something. Somebody somewhere." "There are others, right? Other facilities?" Carol asks "There may be some. People like me." "But you don't know? How can you not know?" You ask Jenner looks at you and say "Everything went down. Communications, directives... all of it. I've been in the dark for almost a month." You just looked at him in shock "So it's not just here. There's nothing left anywhere? Nothing? That's what you're really saying, right?" Andrea says "Jesus. Man, I'm gonna get shit-faced drunk again." Daryl says taking a drink of whisky.

Dale walks closer saying " Dr. Jenner, I know this has been taxing for you and I hate to ask one more question, but... That clock... It's counting down. What happens at zero?" He says pointing at The clock on the wall. You noticed it counting down when you got here but thought it was nothing. "The basement generators... they run out of fuel." Jenner says sitting down in a chair "And then?" You say "Vi, what happens when the power runs out?" Lori asks Vi answers by saying "When the power runs out, facility-wide decontamination will occur." You all look at each other. "Decontamination... What does that mean?" Glenn says "It doesn't sound good whatever it is." You say

After hearing what it meant and finding out the building was going to blow Rick hollord for everyone to get there stuff but as you were getting ready to Jenner closed the door licking you in.

"He just fucking locked us in here! Open the fucking door! Now!" You yelled Daryl started going at the door with an axe while Rick and the others tried talking and threatening Jenner into opening the doors. "Those doors are made to with stand a rocket luncher" Jenner said "Yeah, your head aint!" Daryl days running toward Jenner with the axe but Rick and Shane stop him.

Eventually Jenner opens the door and you all rum outgrabbing your stuff and goung up stairs. But when you get there you can't break the glass. Shane tried shooting at it but it didn't do anything to it. "Rick, I have something that might help." Carol says digging in he r purse. "I don't thing a nail files going to do it Carol." Shane says and you just roll your eyes. Carol walks over to Rick handing him a grenade. Rick took it and put it by the window telling everyone to get down. The Grenade blew out the window and you all jumped out the window getting to the cars just in time.

Daryl throw his body over yours as the building blew up. After a couple minutes he sat up asking if you were okay. You nodded your head. And then the caravan started driving away with out a clue where to go from there.