Whatever happened to things being easy? That was one question that was racing through Quinn's mind as she sprinted back towards the lake that she had come from. She could see the darkness slowly creeping into her vision and this terrified her.

"What the fuck is happening?" she cursed under her breath.

She felt like she was losing control just from the slightest hug from Rachel. As her mind raced her footing faltered and she slammed against the ground, hard.

Her mind began to be assaulted by images of Rachel, memories, she thought. She scrambled backwards until her back hit a tree. She could no longer see anything and she screamed as she slammed her eyes shut.

She knew the heartbeat she had heard in the woods now belonged to Rachel. The heartbeat that was echoing in her mind because she had felt it pound against her own chest many times.

Images of Rachel singing and Rachel chasing after her and moments in a bathroom struck her all at once.

She could feel the gentle hands of Sally and could hear the faint sound of Kamau asking her what had happened but she couldn't answer. Rachel's voice crept into her ears, into her chest and into, where she think it would be, her soul.

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Rachel panted heavily as the vehicles began to approach, however they turned slightly and parked. Two men exited the vehicles, one she could make out clearly. It was Sam and just as she was about to make herself known she watched them begin to cover the vehicles with tarps.

Rachel dropped down low and snuck behind a tree in an effort to better hide herself from view. She had to lean close to hear what was being dicussed.

"Look, just give me a few more days and I'll talk to her…"

The other man, Rachel couldn't make out "No way Sam, I've given you enough time and people are getting restless. That left wall," the man pointed back in the general direction of their camp. "That wall won't be standing in a few more days. We are all gonna get killed before we can even make it out.

Sam began to pace, his hands clasped above his head. He let out a long sigh. "Fine, I'll talk to her when we get back, okay? She may not like it but…I don't know, just have everyone ready."

The man paused. "Why?" He offered, "Do you think she's not gonna let us go?"

Sam let out a short laugh. "Knowing Rachel? Probably not, at least, not with the supplies. But if I talk to her then there's a better chance..."

"No deal kid, she will take it all back and we all have worked our asses off." The man stared down at Sam. "I'm warning you, you better not talk to her. You got it?"

Rachel could swear that Sam shuddered at the threat but couldn't quite tell. "I have to. I can't just abandon them! We've all been in this since the beginning. She's smart, we should at least have her hear us out.

The man stopped as Sam began to pace again. Rachel was about to make a grand entrance and thoroughly reprimand both of them when the man spoke up.

"You're right Sam," he said as he walked towards Sam who stopped his pacing. "I mean, you've known her this whole time, hell even before everything went down!" The man laughed and it made Rachel's stomach churn. The man rubbed his hands together and came closer to Sam. "I'll give you a few more days to talk to her, alright?" The man asked Sam and stuck his left hand out to shake Sam's in a deal.

She watched Sam chuckle. "Okay. Thank you, thank you so much P-" Rachel watched as Sam took a deep breath in and gasped. The man was now chest to chest with Sam and Rachel watched as he pulled the blade from Sam's body.

"Shh shh shh." The man said as he lay Sam's body gently against the vehicle. Rachel watched in horror as Sam gasped for air and the man knelt beside him. "You see, when it comes to my family and my people, no one is getting in the way of it. Especially some blonde haired, big mouthed, pretty boy." The man wiped the blood onto Sam's jacket and let out a long breath.

Sam tried to talk but the man shook his head. He reached into his back pocket and pulled a gun. "You couldn't just do it quietly, could ya?" The man laughed bitterly and shot once into Sam. He then put his gun back into his waistband and glanced around the area. For a moment, Rachel swore he was staring at her. Just as he took a step forward he heard something move slightly in the bushes. He drew his attention to that before disregarding it and taking off in a run towards camp.

When Rachel was certain he was gone she ran quickly towards Sam. She stopped a few feet from him and he sat lifelessly against the truck tire. Rachel crouched down and bowed her head. "Sam…I'm so sorry." She whispered to the wind. Rachel glanced at the trucks and the mess in front of her before standing and beginning to walk away.

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Kamau was walking lightly against the sand as he approached the small area that held enough shelter for them to stay at that night. He smiled as he saw Sally who was watching a confused Quinn. "When you are ready, you need to have blood. It is important that you keep yourself at ease and don't get too wound up."

Quinn looked up at him with anger in her eyes. "Why? Because you know that I have questions for you?" Quinn stood and burst right into Kamau's personal space.

"Quinn…" Sally warned.

Kamau smiled towards Sally. "It is alright, my love. I knew that she would have questions."

Quinn growled at him in anger. "You knew about my past, didn't you?" Quinn ground out. Kamau nodded while Sally looked away, anywhere but at Quinn. "Are you the one…the one that was there when we crashed?" Kamau nodded again.

Quinn sighed and stepped backwards. She felt her stomach drop, something that she hadn't felt since that little girl-

"Enough!" Quinn shouted into the open space. She wanted those thoughts and images away from her. She looked up at Kamau with pure rage in her eyes. "Why…why did you do it? Why me?" She shrugged as she asked.

Kamau stood silent for a moment while stared at him. He looked to Sally and smiled. "You know, Sally and I worked together. We worked at a lab that was doing research in order to stop deadly diseases from spreading. We wanted to find cures." He smiled lovingly at Sally. "The brightest minds all together working towards the betterment of mankind." He looked at Quinn. "We knew your father."

Quinn stared blankly at him. "You knew my father?" She had very little memory of him, the memories that had come back to her were brief, more like pictures than anything.

"I'm afraid so." Sally spoke up from behind Quinn. She motioned for Quinn to sit. "He was always known as the lawyer for our department, at least by technicians. But…we knew him as so much more." Quinn looked to Sally's clenched fists. "He was a monster, Quinn." Sally stared directly into her eyes. "He was a monster and he created a monster."

Quinn looked down but Sally immediately reached out. "Not you, Quinn. Look at me." Quinn looked into Sally's kind eyes. "If there was ever anything good to be said about Russel, it was that he had a daughter as amazing as you are." Quinn smiled gently at her, more curious than ever what her father had to do with Sally and Kamau, other than being the world's biggest jerk. "Russel started to propose that we use human subjects for our testing. He thought that it would further the research and help us better understand what we were working with."

Quinn stopped Sally. "But you both worked with deadly diseases." Quinn looked to both of them. "That would mean…" she trailed off.

"Many of the subjects were offered an abundance of money to go through with the trials." Kamau spoke.

"Wait, so you guys went through with it?" Quinn stared in disbelief.

Sally nodded. "We lived at the lab. While our research demanded the brightest minds, it also demanded that no one ever knew who was working there or on it." Sally explained. "We knew that once these individuals came to the lab, they would never leave. They were past saving."

Kamau sighed deeply at this. "Many didn't live long and as awful as their fates were, they did advance our understandings of these diseases by decades." Quinn watched as Kamau clenched his jaw firmly. "A foreign exchange student, down on her luck with no money who had decided that if she took this offer to be a research subject, she would be able to pay for food and living and her education." Quinn watched him laugh emotionless. "Evie." Quinn's eyes snapped to his at the mention of her name. He shook his head in agreement with her silent question. "Your father had told her that the company would pay for her education and that he would even offer her a position at the lab once she was finished. God! Her eyes were so warm she illuminated pure happiness and joy at this. And as a watched him smile happily at her it struck me, Russel wasn't the one killing these innocent people. We were. I knew then and there that I could no longer do it." Kamau glanced to Sally. "That we could no longer do it. We were going to find a way to get her out before any injections took place.

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Kamau looked nervously to Sally and motioned for her to come towards him. "Whatever you're thinking, it's not possible Kamau!" Sally hissed under her breath. "It's no worth this, worth us." Sally said lowly, putting a hand against her still flat stomach.

Kamau looked down and gently put his hand atop of hers. "We have to do this. We have to do what's right in this life. For people, to protect them. We have to do this to protect us," He glanced down and then back at her, "for our family."

Sally let a lonely tear escape from the edge of her eye, catching it before any decided to accompany it. "Then we leave. As soon as this is done, we leave. You promise me that!"

"I promise you, my love." He smiled at her gratefully. "I won't let anything happen to our family."

"These two lovebirds," Russel set a tight grip onto Kamau and spun him towards Evie who giggled at the acknowledgement of the relationship, "are the very best minds you could ask for. With the data that they gather from you," Russel put his hands to his head and made an exploding sound. He and Evie laughed at this, "it's going to be out of this world, young lady." He smiled his most charming smile to which she returned fully.

She turned to Sally and Kamau and smiled. "Hello!" She struck her hand out to be taken. "I'm Evie, I'm incredibly happy and excited to be here! I never knew that a place like this even existed." She shook both of their hands and gave them a warmth that settled low within them. They felt extremely guilty for her naivety. She looked around in awe at all of the equipment that was within this section of the lab. "I can't wait to work here." She smiled at Russel. "Thank you so much, for everything!" She shot forward and wrapped her arms around him. He tensed and hugged her back. "No, thank you." He said as he looked to Sally and Kamau with a look of pure disgust.

"Evie was…" Quinn couldn't finish it.

"Patient Zero." Sally supplied without missing a beat. "Yes, the disease we were working with was extremely unlike anything we had ever seen. That the world had ever seen. It could mutate within a day." Sally shook her head in disbelief. "We had the only known sample. Some archeologists in Antarctica dug it up and we retrieved it from their bodies. It killed them within six hours which is unrealistic." She looked to Kamau. "We should have destroyed it."

He nodded. "But the government traveled with us." Kamau looked at Quinn again. "Sally and I had discussed of disposing of it until Russel sent his own private army with us. He said that "The higher-ups want it. It could be a weapon." He didn't care if it killed people, he just wanted money or…something."

"When we landed it was worse than we thought. It had spread to a small village of around thirty people. And only one had the signs and precursors of…well us." She motioned at what they were now. "So we collected our samples and –" Sally looked down.

Kamau approached her. "It is okay, my love." He smiled softly when he looked to Quinn. "They killed everyone, burned their bodies and that was it. We were on a flight back to the lab that same day."

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"Russel, you can't expect us to use this one!" Sally argued back as Kamau watched on. "It's sick Russel! She has no chance!"

"And that's new?" He chuckled to himself. "Listen, you're going to inject her there'll be a guard there now since you are so against it." He sighed and got into Sally's personal space. Kamau stepped forward and Russel raised a hand. Kamau and Sally could both hear and feel the presence of the armed guards behind them. "Now," He tucked a piece of Sally's hair behind her ear, a loose strand from her bun. "you're gonna go ahead and do what the fuck you're paid to do." His smile gone and replaced with coldness. "I'd hate for there to be an accident." He scrunched his face up and placed a hand onto her stomach. He looked at her with a smile "It would really be a shame." He stepped back and smiled at Kamau. "Now, if you'll excuse me I have a flight to catch." He retrieved his jacket from the back of a chair. "It was nice working with both of you." He smiled and walked out of the door, a guard behind him.

Sally glanced towards the guard and then back to Kamau "I can't." Is all she could muster. He smiled sadly at her.

"Why don't you go rest? I can do this alone." Before she could protest he kissed her with such a strong passion she almost thought he was saying goodbye. "Pack our things, we leave tonight." He whispered in her ear.

She smiled at him and kissed him again. "Okay, my love."

She motioned to the guard that she wished to leave and he scanned his card and followed her as she exited.

Kamau looked to the only guard left in the room. "Thank you again, Jerry."

The large man with dark long hair smiled at him. "Russel's a dick. He won't know anything, I cut the feed and in about," Jerry glanced down at his watch, "ten minutes, he'll have finished signing the paperwork with the girl and we can get her out and go."

Kamau laughed slightly and fidgeted with his hands for a moment. "I have to ask," Jerry looked up at him "why are you helping us?"

"Honestly?" Jerry questioned to which Kamau nodded. "This place fucking sucks." Kamau laughed heartily at this. "Seriously! The food sucks, the company is worse and, look man this is no place to raise a kid. You've seen the other kids. Bland. Weird. I don't want that for you guys." Jerry walked towards Kamau and bumped him with his elbow. "Just name your kid after me and we're square."

Kamau laughed once more and placed a firm but kind hand on Jerry's shoulder. "Thank you. Really."

Jerry simply nodded. "Well, lets get going. Now or never, right?"

Sally waited impatiently at the edge of the bed that she and Kamau shared. It was a quarter past six and there still was no word. Then, a bright red light-bulb surrounded by steel lit up and an alarm began to blare.

"No…" She whispered under her breath as she stood. She rushed to the door and it slid open. She scanned the halls as others exited their rooms and those wandering looked around for an answer. The whole area filled with loud converstaions as people tried to understand what was going on. Sally began to push through people as a general panic set in. She went to leave the level but a guard stopped her then.

"This area is off-limits." He spoke loudly over the clamoring group of confused people.

Sally dug into her pocket and showed him her ID. He snatched it and stared at her. "I need to lock up specimens if this is something. Things could go missing and everyone here could die." She lied.

He sighed and rolled his eyes. "Take point." He called at the other guard as Sally rushed forward with him following. She knew the way, she had walked it every day for the past ten years. The guard didn't.

"Hey! Slow down!" He called out.

As she rounded a corner she sprinted, trying to stay out of his view. She could hear him calling to more guards for backup but she didn't care. She needed to keep her family safe.

She skipped their lab and instead, headed to the holding cell of Evie. She knew that's where he would be, she could feel it in her soul.

"KAMAU!" She screamed as a shot fired and he fell to the ground clutching his stomach.

"Ahh, just in time!" Russel laughed. Sally was frozen and she felt a body connect with hers and slammed her into the ground. She stared forward as Kamau sunk onto the floor, staring at her as blood pooled around him. "I love you." He mouthed to her.

Russel then kicked him and he let out a short grunt. "Stand her up." He barked at the guards. Once he had stepped forward she glanced behind him and noticed Jerry's body on the ground. He was dead. "You and your man are sneaky, sneaky people." He ran the muzzle of the pistol along her jaw line. "I've given you everything and this is how you repay me?" He chuckled. "I had to inject that girl, get my hands…dirty." He made a face of disgust.

"They're already dirty." Sally spat at him.

Russel chuckled. "Maybe, still." He looked around "I'm not going to die here. Like I said, I have a flight to catch."

"I don't understand why you're doing this!" Sally screamed at his retreating form.

He stopped and turned around. "You don't really think that they'd just send me here out of nowhere and then want me to return as soon as you gave the injection? No see, this infection is going to spread like wildfire. And my men and I are going to leave, but with the doors open. And people will wander and spread this horrid killing virus and the government will swoop in and protect them. There won't be any more protest against the government or how awful they are. No, they're going to be saviors and I'm going to be rich."

Sally stared at him, nothing to say. She looked again at Kamau who now had his eyes closed and she realized that she could not protect her family.

Russel huffed and walked towards the exit leading to the roof.

"You think you can just run from me and not have any punishment?" The guard threw Sally to the floor. "I don't give a shit if you're a woman." He drew his pistol from its holster. She stared deeply at him and as she closed her eyes and waited for the shot she heard an inhuman scream rip from his throat. She pried her eyes open and watched as the guards around them drew their guns.

Sally dove on top of Kamau, shielding his body with her own. Bullets sprayed as they shot at the unknown cause. Sally heard more screaming and shots being fired and then it went silent. She pried herself off of Kamau and forced her eyes open. She gasped as Evie smiled devilishly back at her, blood coating her entire body.

Evie picked Sally up by the throat with super human strength. "Hello Dr., nice to see you again." She purred as she slammed Sally against the wall.

"Please!" She rasped out against Evie's hand. "Help…him…" Sally managed to raise a shaky hand, pointing to Kamau on the ground.

Evie looked in his direction and let go of Sally, sending her dropping flat to the floor. Evie approached him and smiled, looking back at Sally when she did. "He's still alive," She whispered and laughed sickly. She sighed and knelt down next to him. "Lovebirds, eh?" She looked to Sally. "You know he wouldn't do it. He came with his security buddy and told me of this wonderful plan that he had concocted with you. I was so confused but…grateful. Then Russel showed up." She rolled her eyes. "Don't trust men, huh?" She laughed again. "Come on Sally! Laugh!" She screamed. "No?" She smiled again. "I'm going to help him." She reached down and pulled his neck close. Looking directly into Sally, she plunged her teeth into his neck but didn't appear to suck but to push against it.

"NO! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!" Sally dove forward and Evie dropped Kamau and tore into Sally's neck.

She did the same as she had to him and Sally only felt like acid was ripping through her. She didn't know if she was screaming but she knew her insides were.

"When I awoke, Kamau was alive and healed and…" Sally stopped.

Kamau spoke up, "For the first week it's a blur. The things we did, how we all ended up where we are. But we're here. The past is the past." He looked to Sally at this. "Quinn, we all want to do good now. I know that you want that to. But you needed to know the truth before we continued.

Quinn nodded. "What happened to him? My father."

"Evie killed him. She didn't say how but many times she would bring it up." Kamau said.

"And she hunted me, didn't she?" Quinn asked.

"I'm afraid so." He returned.

Quinn nodded and stood. "The girl in the woods today," Quinn moved to the front of their makeshift structure. "who is she?" She glanced back at her two companions.

Sally withdrew a picture and presented it to Quinn. Quinn took it and studied it. She saw herself, well who she was before all of this. She was smiling at a brunette girl. "How do I know her? I have these images of her but…" She looked once more at the beautiful brunette and felt the darkness creep into her vision. She felt the need for blood. She could feel it tearing at her. "Can I keep this?" Sally nodded in response to her question.

"Quinn, about what happened in the woods?" Kamau cleared his throat. "These people, your Rachel, they don't seem very well prepared. Or…safe. Does that make sense?"

Quinn frowned and faced him. "Yeah. She would've…if I wasn't there."

Kamau sat next to Sally and looked up at Quinn. "Which is why we want to find their camp and offer our help."

Quinn raised her eyebrow. When neither said anything she chuckled. "You're joking." She still saw no sign of humor from either of them. "No!" She shook her head. "No! They'll kill us! You're…" She sighed and placed her hands on her face, rubbing at her eyes. "No. I…I can't! they won't let us. They don't want us."

Quinn rolled her eyes and walked towards the small pond. She could feel their presence. "It's a bad idea."

"We're going to offer our help. You can come or stay, Quinn." Sally spoke.

Quinn spun around and stomped towards Sally. "They. Will. Kill. You."

"And?" Sally snapped back. "What is our purpose?" She chuckled dryly. "To eat animals and avoid people and Evie and her little clan? We can help them, Quinn."

"You don't know that! What if someone gets cut or bleeds or… I don't know, something! Will you be able to stop yourselves?" Quinn ground out. "Because I won't, I can't!"

Quinn stared at the dirt between her toes and felt Sally's soft hand on her back, rubbing comforting circles. "You don't give yourself enough credit, Quinn. That girl tonight, if you were incapable of stopping yourself, she wouldn't be alive."

Quinn looked into Sally's kind eyes and then back to the ground. "When are we going?"

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Rachel made the journey back to camp slowly and silently, listening to every noise intently and hoping that she wouldn't run into any vampires on the way. Because she had no bullets left in her pistol, a very un-Rachel Berry thing to do which she was beating herself up for, she was feeling more and more like prey with each step she took. She was unaware of the set of eyes following her, guarding her and making sure that nothing was to come to her. Kamau had practiced his technique of stealth for as long as he had been turned. Once she made it safely within the camp Kamau backed off and returned to Sally and Quinn.

Rachel headed towards the building that Joel was always in and she prayed that he had finally returned from his trip. She nodded at the people that she passed in an effort to stay calm and hide her emotions. She burst through the doors to the building and almost screamed in joy that Joel was sitting at a desk going what appeared to be a large stash of ammo.

He looked up at the intrusion and flung his seat back, almost running to hug Rachel. She felt more and more like his own daughter every day. "Where the hell were you, kid?

"Me?" Rachel asked in disbelief. "You had a trip that was ram late by days!" She stepped away from him and pointed at the box? "Where did you find that?"

He smiled at her, "Finnept isn't as bad as I thought I guess." Rachel raised her eyebrow at the term. "Yeah…too much time with Santana."

Rachel immediately felt her stomach drop and felt dizzy. "Woah! Easy there." He grabbed her by the arm and led her to his chair. He backed up slightly, "You alright?" He asked in concern.

"No." Rachel let out a bubbly cry. "Joel," She looked to him with tears in his eyes and his heart broke slightly. "Someone killed Sam."

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"Well, she made it back to her camp safely." Kamau said as Sally looked at the young dead man that was leaning against the tire of a covered vehicle. "Any idea what happened here?"

"Well, he was stabbed by a hunting knife and…" Sally moved his face over, "Shot in the head once. It looks like the knife perforated his lung. He wouldn't have survived this anyways." Sally stepped back with a puzzled look.

"What?" Quinn chimed in.

Sally shook her head and stepped turned to face both awaiting sets of eyes. "It doesn't make sense. Why shoot him?"

"To keep him quiet." Kamau answered. "The place they're holed up in isn't too far from here. He may not have been aware that the knife was going to be enough. Maybe he wanted to be certain?"

"I suppose so, it's still odd. This seems more like overkill than anything else." Sally glanced to Quinn who was staring at the boy. "What is it?" She asked out of concern.

"I-I think I know him." Quinn drew her brows together. "There are flashes of him. I knew him. He was kind." Quinn looked at both of them. "We need to find who did this."

Sally raised a hand. "We're going there to offer them assistance and aid. We aren't there on some witch hunt."

"But we're there to protect them. So if someone will kill one of their own, others could be in danger too." Quinn offered.

Kamau juggled both ideas and nodded. "Let's take this one step at a time, alright?"

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"Not to complain but this wall isn't going to hold much longer!" Puck shouted at Rachel as he and Tina shot at each vampire that threw its body against the structure.

"I know, Puck! Thank you for your wisdom!" Rachel screamed back.

"Anytime, baby!" He chuckled and Tina stopped for a second to shoot him an angry look. He chuckled and yelled, "You're the only girl I want." And Rachel could see a deep blush crawl onto Tina's face.

"Enough flirting!" Rachel yelled. Both Tina and Puck gave her the bird.

Rachel spun around and ran to where workers were pinning supports. A tall man walked up to her. "Kara is our best engineer," He supplied as they walked closer. "She thinks if she can just get these supports into the ground a little more solid that this wall will hold."

Rachel nodded. "Thanks…" She searched for a name.

"Paul." He smiled and offered his hand. "I helped put the wall up, we won't watch it go down." He said with confidence.

"Thank you, Paul!" She yelled over the gunfire and took his hand.

"GET BACK!" She heard Puck scream as the wall in front of them cracked and split apart.

Paul grabbed Rachel and pulled her with him as they went away from the wall. They ducked behind the steps leading up to where Tina and Puck were standing guard. She pulled out her Glock, full clip inside. "Ready?" She asked Paul. He nodded and they took aim behind their cover. A few vampires entered the complex and she heard firing as footsteps approached. Joel ran towards the fallen wall, shooting as he went. Rachel noticed that Kara was under a portion of the fallen wall.

As she stood Paul grabbed her arm. "What are you doing?

"It's Kara!" She pointed towards the unconscious woman. She shook his grip and ran towards her, Joel giving her suppressing fire. But he stopped and she turned back as he ran to her.

"There aren't any more coming in!" He yelled as he got to her. They ran to Kara and Joel lifted a portion of the wall as Rachel drug Kara out. She looked back to where people gathered.

"Help us!" She shouted, which seemed to shake everyone from their shock. More were injured under the wall and the crowd worked together while others formed a line of security around and outside of the wall.

"Why aren't there any?" Rachel called up to Puck.

He shrugged "Maybe that was all of them?"

"No way, they wouldn't work this hard and just quit! We've spent nights out here with an onslaught of them." She walked over to the edge to look down at Rachel. "They wouldn't stop like this!"

Rachel turned back to the wall. "What the hell are they planning?" She whispered.

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Quinn was tackled as she ripped the head from one vampire, sending her stumbling almost into their line of sight. "Quinn!" Sally reprimanded.

"I know!" Quinn was irritated. "Where are all of them coming from?" She called back.

Sally ran towards her as a break in their waves came. "I'm not sure but they aren't normal, you're noticing this too, right?"

Quinn agreed and they watched Kamau approach. "Did you notice their behavior?"

"Yes," Sally answered "what's happening?"

Kamau turned around to make sure there weren't any wanderers. "I'm not sure. They seem…empty. They have no thought process. They're just…violent."

"Well, whatever it is none of the people in the structure are safe." Quinn stated the obvious.

They turned around as they heard more approaching. "Great" Sally let out.

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"We're gonna go out there." Joel said as he pushed past a crowd of people that were tending to the clean up and helping the injured.

Rachel followed him. "What? Why?" she asked, matching his pace as they jogged to the armory.

"Because this is abnormal and abnormal behavior is a recipe for disaster." Joel nodded to the guard at the armory who disappeared inside. Joel turned to Rachel, "You don't have to come with me." The guard returned with two AR-15's.

Rachel gladly took hers and put on her three-point sling. "I know." She said as she locked and loaded, sending a round into the chamber. "We have to find out what's going on." She began walking ahead of Joel. "I won't lose another one of my friends."

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Sally chucked a vampire through the air and into three more that were rushing towards Kamau. He finished them off as more poured forward.

"Loving how much help we're providing!" Quinn called out.

"You don't always have to be known in order to help people. Sometimes a role in the dark is the best." Sally answered the frustrated Quinn.

"I didn't really think you were going to do things so literally!" She motioned to the darkness of the night.

Sally groaned as Quinn slammed into, having been thrown by a rush of vampires. Kamau grabbed two while Sally grabbed one that was on top of Quinn. She looked to her left and saw one that snuck by, "Quinn!"

Quinn looked at its direction of movement and ran after it. She had to admit, this vampire was on a mission. She managed to snag its shirt but stumbled when it ripped. The vampire didn't even register it, instead, it continued to head towards the heart beats, the problem being that about five heartbeats had decided to venture further than the rest that she could hear.

Quinn picked up her pace, pushing herself to run faster. This time she was ready. She dove on top of the vampire as it advanced closer. However, this one was stronger and it looked at her unlike the others. It smiled and grabbed her, flipping her onto her back and making her disoriented.

Quinn fought back its blows to her body and it snapped at her many times. "Get off!" She screamed as she kicked it back. She could hear the heart beats even closer now. They had heard her voice. It was up and trying to run again. Quinn snagged its foot, making it fall.

She wrestled with it and shoved it hard into a tree. The vampire stared at her, this woman probably once had a life and was happy, is what Quinn thought. It threw her off her game which it took advantage of. She crawled on top of Quinn, pinning her and getting her face closer as Quinn resisted.

The woman managed to get her face a few inches from Quinn's. Quinn turned her face in disgust, the smell of rotting was all this woman was. Quinn wondered why she wasn't healing. "What are you?" Quinn groaned as she fought against her.

"Hungry." Is all she got back from her.

As the struggle continued and Quinn willed her body to fight back, exhausted from all of the fighting so far, she felt the body go limp after a shot rang out. The vampire's lifeless body fell onto her and Quinn was so glad to be free she threw her off and stood, forgetting that a gun was responsible for the death.

Quinn looked up at five individuals all with their guns drawn. "Don't shoot!" She heard the familiar voice call out. The small body rushed forward with her hands out, facing towards the other four bodies.

"What the hell, Rachel! Move your ass!" A gruff voice with a slight twang yelled.

"Quinn?" Came a voice she couldn't place.

"What the fuck?" Another said.

The lights attached to their rifles were bright but her vision was strong, it had changed when she was…changed. She could see a boy with a mowhawk and an Asian girl. She saw a man with a rough beard and flannel and blue jeans. He was holding his gun with confidence and certainty. She thought he must be a professional.

Finally her eyes landed on the short brunette in front of her. Rachel was shaking her head. "Are you- are you fighting them off?" She asked as she stepped back slightly, keeping her finger on the trigger of her gun.

Quinn glanced at this action and back at Rachel. For a moment she thought she saw something flash through the chocolate eyes in front of her. Guilt? Sadness? She couldn't be certain.

Quinn stepped forward and the others stepped, drawing their momentarily forgotten weapons, except for Joel who hadn't let his down for even a second. Quinn looked away and down, "We're not here to hurt you."

"We?" Joel pushed forward and in front of Rachel.

"Joel-" Rachel argued.

"Get back." He demanded, Rachel moved back.

Quinn took the opportunity to look Joel directly in his eyes. At this, she could hear his heart increase and smell his fear. "Joel is it?"

"Shut your fucking mouth. You better give me a goddamned good reason that you're still alive…or whatever the fuck you are." He commanded. She could hear the pressure of his finger on the trigger increase.

"I'm here two others who both left the same group as I did. That group are searching for camps like this. They would've killed all of you." Quinn heard the hearts pounding the fingers so close to pulling the triggers. "When your wall fell, we decided to take action."

"What, out of the kindness of your…dead hearts?" Joel spat. "Where the fuck are the other two!?"

Quinn raised her hands and took a step back. "They're here, but you all need to calm down before they can come out."

At this Joel walked closer and dropped his AR in favor of his Glock. He stepped dangerously close to Quinn and pressed the muzzle to her forehead. "I can blow your fucking brains out right now!" He screamed.

Quinn lowered her voice so that only Joel could hear. "If I wanted to, I'd have already killed you." She could hear him swallow at this. "I'm simply putting up with your charade so that we can conduct the business we came here to do."

"We don't do business with your kind." He shot back.

"Maybe you should." Came a soft voice from the dark woods behind Quinn.

Joel backed up "Show your face!" He yelled out to where Sally was approaching from.

Sally approached softly, she had clearly fixed her hair and was using a gentle, almost angelic voice. "Please, we don't wish you any harm. In fact, quite the opposite."

Joel chuckled at this. "What, you want us to join your club? No thanks."

"Who are you?" Rachel spoke up.

Sally looked over to Rachel and smiled. "My name is Sally, before all of this I was a doctor. Eventually I was recruited for research." She stepped forward and Quinn was beyond nervous. She knew that Sally could tell that the smallest thing would set this group off. The trio could die tonight.

Sally extended her hand for Rachel who stared in disbelief. "I heard that you had a run in with Quinn tonight, she hasn't remembered much since…" Sally trailed off.

"A run in?" Puck asked, his nerves were there but he dropped his weapon once more. "You didn't tell us."

"Tell you that I saw Quinn?" Rachel asked, staring at the girl. "How would I ever explain it?"

Rachel looked back to Sally's hand and slowly took it. Sally smile happily at this action and gently placed her other hand on top of the clasped hands. She gently retracted her hand after a few moments.

"This is fucking crazy." Tina mumbled. "Am I high?" She turned to Puck who only blinked in response.

"Kamau, my love." Sally called. She looked to the five sets of eyes. Kamau is my partner, we were together long before this…outbreak."

Kamau walked slowly towards the group, everyone stared at the large, muscular man. He was intimidating judging by their heartbeats and scents. "Hello, it is nice to finally put a face to this group."

"We are a tiny portion of the group." Joel defended in fear that the trio were up to something. "And we don't need your help."

"But Quinn-" Tina spoke.

"That's not Quinn." Puck answered. He stepped forward. "Do you know who I am Quinn?"

She stared at him and stepped forward. "You're Puck." She answered and frowned. She didn't realize how that came out of her mouth.

She watched as his lower chin began to quiver and he smiled. "It's you. But what…what happened?"

For some reason she found herself looking to Rachel who looked broken now, and then back to Puck. "I don't remember."

Puck rushed forward and wrapped his arms around Quinn. She froze, unsure of what to do. He was mumbling and crying and she didn't know how to react. She could feel the blood rushing through his veins and the smell of it. She was fighting against herself and she knew that both Sally and Kamau knew it too.

Puck must have come to his senses because he drew away like Quinn was on fire. "Sorry! Sorry-I…sorry." He wiped at his face. "It must be…hard."

"Jesus Christ," Joel said with an eye roll. "look, you guys are either playing one hell of an act or you're serious. Either way, no one will ever allow you to help us."

"She's a doctor, Joel. People need help!" Rachel turned to Sally, "The wall fell and people were working on it. They got hurt."

"I can help them." Sally motioned to Kamau as well. "He was a doctor as well. And clearly some of you know Quinn. We can all help…"

Joel began to roll up his sleeve which made Sally stop in question. Joel let out a dry laugh. "We're really doing this then?" He asked as he pulled a knife from its sheath on his belt. "Fine, if you're still a doctor then fix this." Joel took the knife and cut deeply against his arm.

Sally cocked her head to the side. "Are you trying to prove something?"

Rachel watched Quinn because for the slightest moment she saw Quinn twitch and then her hands became white knuckled fists.

Sally walked to Joel while the other person with them raised his gun. Sally turned to him and smiled, "I'm going to tear a piece of my shirt unless someone has a cloth. Then I'm going to apply pressure." Rachel tore her shirt and walked right to Sally, pushing the guard's gun down once she arrived. Sally applied pressure until Joel winced. She looked him in his eyes. "You're going to need stitches, if you have a first aid kit then it will contain the necessary tools."

"We do it's back at camp." Rachel offered. Joel eyed her carefully.

"They aren't coming back to camp." He stated.

"Joel, I have no interest in your blood. We make do with animals and have done so for quite some time now." Sally answered.

"And her." He nodded in the direction of Quinn. "You look a little..hungry."

Quinn looked to Joel "Remember what I said earlier." Quinn smiled. "You all need help," she stared looked over the group. "you're all tired and undernourished." She stared at Rachel, "You need help." Quinn smiled at her brightly, seeing the brunette not as afraid or shooting her was nice.

Rachel walked to Quinn and held out her hand. "It's…I can't tell you how happy I am that you're here." Rachel had tears in her eyes.

Quinn smiled. "I'm going to hug you now." And Rachel laughed at the reversed statement.

As Quinn stepped to hug her a shot rang out and Quinn stumbled with it. A bullet grazed her face.

"STOP!" Rachel, Puck and Tina all screamed, morphing together in a flurry of words.

Two more shots fired as Finn ran towards them. Sally took a stray bullet next that would have hit Joel, sending her flying backwards.

"FINN!" Joel screamed running up to the boy in question and grabbing him tightly by the front of his shirt. "What the hell is wrong with you?!" He screamed in his face, throwing Finn to the ground.

Finn hadn't meant for that bullet to wind up so close to Joel, he had shot at Quinn and was trying to get a better aim when he accidently pulled the trigger. He was trying to protect himself and Rachel. Besides, Quinn was dead so he knew that it could only mean one thing.

"I was just…she…" Finn attempted.

Joel looked down at the boy and grabbed his gun, tossing it to the guard. He slammed his fist into the boy's face which earned him a crunching sound followed by screaming pain from Finn. He watched as the blood soaked the front of his shirt.

"Go back to camp. Now!" Joel commanded, leaving no room for argument.

Finn shuffled backwards in fear, he stood and walked solemnly towards camp.

Joel returned to where Sally was, who was now in the arms of Kamau. He walked carefully towards the two, observing the interaction between them. It was almost…human…

"Is she…is she gonna be alright?" Joel asked timidly. He never thought that his mind would be changed, he saw them for what they were. Killers. But would a killer take a bullet for a human? And why him? He was protesting their help.

Kamau looked up at him with a smile and stood, Sally carefully being held in his arms. "She will be fine." He comforted Joel. "She simply needs to have blood and she will heal."

Joel tensed at this which made Sally chuckle. "We hunt animals, Joel." She said weakly.

Quinn approached them, the bullet wound that had cut her head was no where to be seen.

"You should go," Quinn said to the pair. She then looked at Joel. "I'll stay here for the night and make sure that no others return." She offered.

Joel nodded but was still unnerved by the whole situation.

"I'll stay too." Rachel called out, walking towards Quinn.

Quinn looked away for a moment. She was tired and hungry and she really wasn't up for a conversation. Not right now anyways. Sensing her discomfort, Joel looked to Rachel.

"Rachel, we need you at camp. To sort…this" He motioned at the trio, "and to let everyone know the possibilities that this could potentially offer." Joel was hoping she wouldn't argue with him and he was silently granted his wish.

"I really should prepare some information about the events and present how beneficial this is to us." Rachel looked to Quinn. "I…I missed you, Quinn."

Quinn smiled at the shorter woman. "Me too, Rach."

As the group collected themselves and murmured among each other, Quinn swore that she heard a whisper. A small and sweet four worded sentence. "I love you, Quinn."

Quinn didn't react, she simply turned her back and resumed her watchdog duties. The group didn't say anything as they trekked back to their camp. Quinn knew they were in shock from the events that had happened. Hell, she was shocked Sally and Kamau had first proposed helping them. But maybe, just maybe, this group would give them a chance.