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WARNING: This chapter is why it is rated M so If you see TWDTWDTWD skip it if you are under 18 or if you don't want to read that part ok, I show where it starts and ends ok it is not that graphic but fair warning none the less.

CHAPTER EIGHT

When the blinding, white light shuts off, I can see that the metal grate is no longer covering the front entrance. We all run through the doors and stand there huddled together as the men start sweeping the area inside.

None of us know what is in there, but at the moment it is a lot safer then outside. I turn to see that Daryl and T-dog are keeping an eye on outside, to make sure that if need be, we can run back to the cars. I pull Gracie closer to me, while Anna is attached to the back of my shirt and Jack is holding Haylee close to him.

We all stand near entrance and look around the big open lobby of the CDC, it would have been beautiful before, with the sky high windows, but now seeing it completely empty and the carnage outside it is dreadfully clear how far gone the world is now.

When I hear a gun cocking, I turn to see a man holding a gun and pointing it towards us. I turn so Gracie is away from him, pushing Anna farther back with Jack and Haylee behind her and away from the man with a gun.

"Anybody infected?" The man yells still pointing his gun at us. "One of our group was. He didn't make it." Rick replies as he lowers his own gun. I try humming softly as I rub Gracie's back when she starts crying.

"Why are you here? What do you want?" The man asks as he walks a little closer to us, still pointing his gun at us. "A chance." Rick said simply and the man looks at him for a moment before he starts looking at all of our frightened faces. I try to listen to Rick and the other man, but it is a little difficult with Gracie crying, which triggered Haylee to start as well. I catch some of it as the man says that the price for admission, is a blood test, I could do that.

"You got stuff to bring in, you do it now. Once this door closes, it stays closed." He tells us as he lowers his gun and walks over to a key pad on the wall near the front door.

After Jack passes Haylee over to Jacqui, he goes with Rick, Shane, Glenn and Daryl, since he knows which bags of ours to grab. Dale and T-dog stay behind, keeping an eye on the guys from the door waiting for them to get back. I keep an eye on the new guy with my hand on my gun just in case.

Dale and T-dog open the doors as the guys get close and shut the doors after them, as they run in. I check Jack over thoroughly before grabbing one of the three bags that he brought and I throw it over my shoulder. I turn around to see the metal door sliding down and covering our view from outside and before any of the walkers could get too close.

After it is locked, the man and Rick exchanged their names, Jenner then leds all of us to a huge elevator. The kids and I are in the back with Daryl who is leaning against the wall next to me. I grab his wrist when the elevator starts going down, I had always hated elevators. I roll my eyes and look away from him when I see the smirk on his face.

"Doctors always go around packing heat like that?" Daryl asks eyeing the gun Jenner is holding. "There were a lot lying around, I familiarized myself." He said then looks around to all of us. "But you all look harmless enough. Except you, I'll have to keep my eye on you." He said looking to Carl, which makes him smile.

When the elevator stop, we walk out and follow Jenner down a couple of hallways. some of the lights are flickering as we follow him. "Are we underground?" Carol asks, she is looking a bit pale. "Are you claustrophobic?" Jenner asks as he walks. "A little." Carol said softly. "Yes." I said without hesitation, which make some of them laugh.

"Try not to think about it." He said as he showed us to a room, a big room with a platform with computers. I brush Haylee's hair as she curls into Jack's shoulder, as he holds her, after Daryl took the big duffle bag from him.

"Welcome to zone five." Jenner said as he walks over to all the computers. "Where is everybody? The other doctors, the staff?" Rick asks as he follow after Jenner. I look around wondering the same thing. "I'm it." Jenner said almost remorseful. "it's just me here." He said looking away from us.

"What about the person you were speaking with? VI?" Lori asks him and the look on his face makes me realize that not only is he alone but he probably has been for a while now. "VI say hello to our guest. Tell them…welcome." He said only looking at Rick. "Hello guest, welcome." A computerized voice said to us.

"I'm all that's left… I'm sorry." Jenner said before walking off, we follow close behind. I shake my head, I can't believe Jenner is the only one here. What happened here?We walk into some lecture hall of some sort, while Jenner leave to gather the things he needs to take our blood, all of us sit our bags down and take a seat in the many chairs.

Jack sets down Haylee, who comes over and tries to climb up onto the chair next to me. "No, I wan ta be a big girl." She said huffing when I try to help her, which gets a smile out of some of us. When Jenner comes back and we all take our turn, letting him take our blood.

I sit back trying to get Gracie to stop crying after her turn, Anna is trying to find her binky, as Andrea sits down for her turn. "Here it is." She said softly, handing me the binky, before putting everything back in the bag.

"You ok?" Jenner asks when Andrea stands up, Jacqui had to steady her when she almost fell over. "She hasn't eating in days. None of us have." She tells Jenner, which isn't really true, at least about the kids. All of us were hardly eating, so the kids could.

Jenner led us to the cafeteria and we all are very thankful. I help T-dog and Carol make us some pasta and a few other things, for us to eat. We all sit down eating, drinking wine or soda, laughing just having a good time. We all needed this, this small moment of peace.

I have a sleepy Gracie on one leg as I feed her, when I feel a hand on my other thigh. I look over at Daryl, who doesn't look to me, he just keeps on eating. He squeezes his hand tighter, it makes me gasp, which just makes him get that smirk of his.

After everyone is pretty much done eating, Daryl and a staggering Glenn go and get a couple more bottles of wine, none of us can stop laughing when Glenn trips and almost falls to the ground. It has been so long since I felt anything close to feeling safe, like I did right then.

Dale stands up to pour more wine into some of our glasses. "You know in Italy, children would have some wine with dinner and in France." Dale said filling up Lori's glass. "And when Carl's in Italy or France, he can have some then." Lori said with her hand covering Carl's cup.

"What's it going to hurt, come on?" Rick said to her. After she nod, Dale grabs Carl's cup pouring a little wine in it, then handing it back to him. All of us get quite waiting for his reaction. "Eww!" Carl said his face scrunching up, shaking his head and we all start laughing.

"Why don't you stick to soda pop, there bud." Shane said crossing his hands, looking away, he didn't look as happy as the rest of us. "Not you Glenn." Daryl said pouring more wine into his own glass. "What?" Glenn asks looking up drunkenly from his seat on one of the counters. "Keep drinking little man. I want to see how red your face can get." Daryl jokes while pouring me some more wine.

Laughing, I rearrange a heavy-eyed Gracie, she can't stop yawning. I look away from Anna, who is giggling with Sophia, up to Rick who stands up while tapping his glass. "It seems we haven't thanked are host properly." He said holding his glass up to Jenner. "Oh he is more than our host." T-dog said and I feel the same, he saved us, gave us a safe place even though he didn't have to. We all applaud, saying our thanks. "Booya!" Daryl yells and most of us saying booya as well, even Haylee who high fives Daryl when she shouts it.

"So when the hell are you gonna tell us what happened here, doc?" Shane said ruining the blissful moment."All the… the other doctors that were supposed to be figuring out what happened, where are they?" Shane said almost too calmly.

"We're celebrating, Shane." Rick says to him, very upset that he would ask that right now. I understand why Shane asked, I do but he didn't have to right then, not when my kids finally have smiles on their faces after so long.

"No then when. Instead we found him. Found one man. Why?" Shane asks Jenner nearly glaring at him. "Well. When things got bad, a lot of people just left, went off to be with their families. And when things got worse, when the military cordon got overrun, the rest bolted." Jenner told us gradually. I can tell he is reliving those moments in his mind.

"Every last one?" Shane says sarcastically. I look away as Jenner tells us how they opted out, it must have been horrifying. When Andrea asks him why he didn't leave and He said just kept working, I could see the sadness in his eyes. "Man, you are such a buzz kill." Glenn tells Shane as he rolls his eyes, all of us are thinking the same thing. After that none of us were in the mood anymore.

After Carol, Jacqui and Lori picked up some of the mess, Jenner leads us to show us where we would be staying since the housing is powered down. Haylee is skipping along next to Anna, Sophia and Carl. He tells the kids about the REC room, making all of them very happy.

"Same goes for all of you, if you shower, go easy on the hot water." He said before walking off somewhere. "Hot water?" Glenn said turning around with a goofy look on his face. "That's what the man said." T-dog said grinning as we all start going off to find a room.

Jack is going to be staying with Glenn since they have become good friends, Anna and Haylee walk into the room that I have picked since it has two big couches in it. Daryl walks in behind me and sets down my duffle bag, before he leaves to claim the room across from us.

"Ok let's get you girls a nice hot shower." I said grinning like crazy, picking up Gracie with Haylee following right behind me, to the attached bathroom in the room. They had a great time playing in the water and after they are done Anna starts her shower.

After I get the girls dry and dressed, I lay them down and both are out like a light before their heads hit the pillow. Anna and Haylee will be sharing one couch, while Gracie and I share the other. After Anna is finished, she goes with Carol and Sophia to the REC room, Carl following not far behind.

Grabbing a clean pair of clothes I walk in to the bathroom and set them down on the counter. Looking into the mirror I pull my hair over my shoulder and tried to unbraid my very tangled hair.

Giving up on trying brushing it, I walk back into the room and I start looking in the desk quietly and when I finally find scissors, I walk back to the bathroom. My hair is almost to my lower back and since this whole walker thing all started, I always had it up in some way so it became a tangled mess. Lifting up the scissors I take a deep breath, before taking a big chunk out of my hair, well I can't go back now.

After cutting my hair, so that it is just a little pass my shoulders, so that I can still put it up and after making sure that it is as even as I can possible get it, I clean up all the hair and throw it away.

I start on my shower, god the hot water feels amazing and I can actually wash my hair. After washing and shaving, I stand under the water for a moment, just enjoying the feeling of the hot water. I turn the water off and walk to the sink and I brushed my teeth as I air dried.

After recovering up Haylee, I walk down the hallway to the REC room. "Oh wow, you cut your hair, it looks amazing." Carol said while she runs her fingers threw my new clean, short hair after I sit down next to her. "Thank you, it was so tangled that I couldn't even brush it." I tell her while watching the kids play a board game, I smile when Carl starts winning.

I look to the door to see Lori walk in holding a glass of wine. "Any good books?" She asks walking further into the room. "Uh huh. Enough to keep busy for years." Carol said back. When she says that, I start looking around seeing a lot of books and board games, smiling we have a chance to be happy now.

"Emily, can I sleep over with Sophia and Mrs. Carol?" Anna asks getting up from the floor and walks over to us. I look to Carol who is smiling, when she nods at Anna. "Sure Annabel that's fine, but don't stay up too late." I said joking a little. I stand up and hug her and kiss her forehead, while we all walked out, all but Lori who is staying for a little while.

"This is the first night we might actually get some real sleep. It's a miracle, isn't it? Carol said as she pokes Sophia nose before we all leave the REC room.

After making sure Carl gets to the right room, I start to walk back to mine, when Daryl comes walking around the corner holding a full bottle of wine. "Hey." I say nervously, he looks real good, all cleaned up. "You cut your hair. It looks good." He said before taking a swig of the wine, I blush and look down, when he said that, then roll my eyes, I feel like a little girl with her first crush.

"Come on, I don't want to drink this all by myself." He said walking into his room. Taking a deep breath trying to calm down my nerves, I check on the still sleeping girls before walking into his room.

TWDTWD (Rated M, skip ahead if you want.) TWDTWD

I barely closed the door, when he pushes me up against it. Kissing me hard on the lips, taking my breath away and I kiss him back just as fiercely. I run my hand up his chest to the back of his neck and tug on his hair, pulling him closer to me, I need him closer.

My other hand is grazing down his back, as he gripes my hips tightly. He pulls away so that we can breathe, before he starts kissing and biting lightly down my neck, his facial hair scratching against me, I cann't help but moan.

Caressing each other roughly and pulling each other closer like we cann't get enough of each other, I know that I couldn't. He starts walking backwards, dragging me with him, he graspes my waist and lifts me up and sets me down on top of the desk.

I wrap my legs around him and I can feel what I am doing to him and I stare into his eyes as I pull him closer and started to rock my hips slowly. Breathing become difficult when he starts to groan against neck. I can feel him tugging at my shirt impatiently, so I lift my arms up so that he can pull it off. He just throws it somewhere behind him before he starts running his hands down my sides, caressing me softly as I bit his lower lip lightly.

His hand came to a stop at my scar, his thumb brushing over the stiches gently. I look away from him as he leans his head against mine. "It's ok. It ain't that bad, trust me." He whispers in my ear before leaning back and lifting his shirt off. I look him in the eyes before I start to look down.

I could see his scars more clearly now and there were a lot of them. I try not to think about what he had to go through. I lean forward and kiss the long raised scar that is near his shoulder, before I put both my hands on each side of his face and lift it up. He is trying not to look at me so I kissed him gently before pulling away. "Its ok. It ain't that bad, trust me." I whisper back not caring about his scars.

Those scars are what made him the man that he is today and I think I'm well on my way to falling in love with this man. He picks me up and I wrap my arms and legs around him as he carries me over to his couch. He sits down with me on his lap and my arms around his neck.

We sit there just kissing slowly, gently, just taking our time. I can taste the wine on his lips as I slowly start to rock my hips again. He almost starts growling as he pulls me harder against him, making me whimper as I feel just how hard he is.

I push away and stand up suddenly, he looks up at me confused then a little sad as I turn and walk to the door. But that changes when I lock the door and as I walk back and stand back in front of him. That smirk of his, back on his face, as I unbutton my pants. I slowly push them down and watch as his eyes grow darker.

I step out of them and I bite my bottom lip as I climb back onto his lap. I gasp in shock, but then start laughing when he turns us suddenly, laying me down on the couch. He starts caressing my neck, my sides and my legs, anywhere that he could reach.

My heart is beating erratically and breathing is getting harder. I run my hands down his chest, lightly grazing him, as I go lower and with shaky hands, I unfasten his belt and slowly bringing the zipper down. I cry out in shock and pleasure as he bites my neck harder and I arch my back and cling to his shoulders.

Panting, grunting, thrusting, how mind numbingly perfect it is and trying anything that I can not to scream his name. Biting my lip, the pillow, his neck but hearing him grunt as I bite a little harder, it is very difficult not to scream out.

I scratch my fingers down his back, as he gripes my hips harder to pull me closer to him. Gasping as he brings me closer, closer than ever before. As he thrust harder and harder and grunting into my neck, I dig my fingers into his back and cried out.

We are standing under the warm water and he is slowly moving his hands up and down my back, as I run the wash cloth over his shoulders to his chest and I start to go down lower. He groans leaning his head on mine. "Bet ta stop that. Don't start somethin you ain't gonna finish." He moaned his voice deeper, huskier. "Who says, I'm not gonna finish." I whisper into his ear before I start slowly kissing down his neck and down his chest.

I get down on my knees and bite his hip sharply and lick it better. I hear him moan, when I reached that spot so I look up at him too see that his eyes are closed and his head is leaning against the shower wall and all I could do is smile.

TWDTWDTWD (END its ok to look now.) TWDTWDTWD

With a towel wrapped around me, I walk around the room trying to find my shirt. I finally find it and I put it on, then go to put on my underware. "You leaving?" He asks and I turn to look to him, he is dressed and siting on the couch. I get little sad as he said that.

"Do you want me to?" I ask him, I was kind of afraid of his answer, until he laid down on his side and reached his hand out to me, I really like that answer. Smiling I tug my underware on and then go and turn off the light and lay down next to him, his arms wrapping around me so I won't fall off. I fall asleep soon after, his heartbeat like a lullaby.

I gently un-wrap my arms from him before I slowly get off the couch, trying not to wake him up. I had to fall to the floor before I can stand up. He looks very peaceful laying there, not scowling for once. I pull the blanket up to cover him up more before I pull up my pants. Hoping he won't get the wrong idea as I leave the room.

Opening my door I see Gracie wiggling around, wide awake. I pick up the girls bag and pull out her diaper and a change of clothes and I sit down next to her. "And how did you sleep, baby bear." I laugh when she just giggles.

After changing her, I turn to see that Haylee is looking at me and sucking on her thumb, smiling. I get up and pick up Gracie and a book and sit on the other couch next to Haylee. She snuggles up to my side before I open the book.

We sat there as I read to them, one of their princess books. As I read, I can see some of the others walking towards the cafeteria. I look up to the doorway when I hear Daryl's door open. Thankfully he doesn't look mad as he comes into my room and sits down on the opposite couch. He just stares at us as he runs his thumb over his bottom lip, I wonder what he is thinking about.

"I'm hungry." Haylee said after I finish the book. "Well hi hungry, I'm Emily." I said looking down at her. Huffing she shakes her head and gets off the couch and goes to the bathroom. "Well I guess were not playing that again, huh." I said to Gracie who gives some sort of shriek of baby words.

I set her down on the floor and grab the bag, picking out some of Haylee's clothes. I leaning over him with my hands on the back of the couch and I kiss him softly before walking to the bathroom after Haylee.

After changing Haylee, we walk out and I stop when I see him holding Gracie on his lap. He is telling her about a deer he caught when he was younger and she is just staring at him, her eyes so big, so captivated by him. Smiling, I sit down and pull Haylee up on my lap, as we listen to his story.

We all walk to the cafeteria as I carry Gracie, Haylee is skipping behind us. Until she hears the others,then she runs pass us to the cafeteria. We sit there eating T-dogs powered eggs and bacon, while drinking coffee or orange juice. I look up to the door way when I hear soft moaning, fearing the waorst until I see that Jack is carrying a very hung-over Glenn.

Snickering, I pull out the chair next to me, so that he can sit. Jacqui comes in after them and starts rubbing his back, it is very hard trying not to laugh at him. When Rick comes staggering in, Carl looks up at him. "Are you hungover? Mom said you would be." He asks grinning beafore taking a bite of his bacon.

"Mom is right." Rick said as he sits down trying not to show how much he is really hurting. I shake my head grinning, I take another bite of bacon and watch as Gracie just shovels eggs into her mouth, while making a mess.

"Protein helps the hangover." T-dog said as he scoops eggs onto Glenn's plate. I smile at Rick when he can't open the child proof aspirin. "Don't ever, ever, ever let me drink again." Glenn groans looking down at his plate as Jacqui rubs his back. Shane then comes in to the room and goes straight for the coffee.

"What the hell happened to you, your neck?" T asks Shane and I look up to see that he had scratch marks on his neck. I watch Shane tell us he probably scratched himself in his sleep. "Not like me at all." He said looking at Lori, who look away, ok then that's a little strange.

Most of us say hello to Jenner when he comes in. "Doc, I don't want to slam you with question first thing." Dale said when he turns and looks at him. "But you will any way." Jenner said pouring himself some coffee. "We didn't come here for the eggs." Andrea said looking to him.

He turns and looks at her before nodding his head. Jenner looks around to all of us before walking out of the cafeteria, all of us get up to follow after him. With Gracie on my hip and the girls and Jack in front of me and with Daryl at my side, we follow him somewhere, hoping to finally get some answers.

We walk to the big room with all those computers in it. I stand near Daryl with Haylee at my side, Jack and Anna are in between Dale and me. "Give me playback of TS-19." Jenner said aloud. "Play back of TS-19." VI said and we look up to the big screen to see an MRI of a person's torso.

"Few people ever get the chance to see this. Take us in for EIV." Jenner tells us before looking back at the screen. "Enhanced internal view." VI said and we watch as it zooms in on the brain and the image we are seeing is amazing. All these beautiful blue lights looking like electricity sparking, it is breath taking.

"What are those lights?" Shane asks Jenner not taking his eyes away from the screen."It's a person's life… experiences, memories. It's everything." He replies looking around to all of us. "Somewhere in all that organic wiring, all those ripples of light… is you… the thing that makes you unique. And human." He explaines and I understan some of it as I look at those beautiful blue lights.

"You don't make sense ever?" Daryl said looking at him weird. Jenner goes on to explain that those lights are everything we did, say, were and was until our death. "This person died. Who?" Andrea asks as she looks at the screen, I know she doesn't see that person as TS-19, she saw it as Amy. It is the same for me, seeing Gwen, but I had the time to grieve those loses, she hasn't.

"Test Subject 19." Jenner said almost regretfully. "Someone who was bitten and infected… and volunteered to have us record the process. Vi, scan forward to the first event." He told us, I think he cared a lot for this person. "Scanning to first event." VI said and I watch as the person starts to die and its brain starts to go black, I close my eyes and kiss Gracie's head and pull Haylee closer to my side, trying not to think about everyone that I have lost.

I look away when VI fast forward to the second event, after seeing the red lights start to flicker, knowing that's what happened to Gwen, Robert, Karen, Amy and Jim. "It restarts the brain?" Lori asks unsure of what she is seeing, like most of us are.

"No, just the brain stem. Basically, it gets them up and moving." Jenner tells us and I have to turn away I don't need to know any more. Nothing we are seeing right now makes a difference, none at all. I wipe my eyes as VI turns off the screen as Anna steps closer to me and hugs Haylee and me closer to her.

"You have no idea what it is, do you?" Andrea asks him but the look on his face already gives me his answer. "It could be microbial, viral, parasitic... fungal." Jenner said he really doesn't know what it is."Or the wrath of god?" Jacqui said simply trying to stop herself from crying. I sit down in a chair when my knees start to shake. I look up at Andrea and Carol when they ask him about any others, other facilities.

"Man I'm gonna get shit face drunk." Daryl said to me after Jenner said he hasn't talk to any body in a month. "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?" Dale asked as he walked by us and I turn to see the clock on the wall to see that it is at fifty nine minutes and counting down.

"The… basement generators… they run out of fuel." Jenner said before walking off. "And then?" Rick asks but he just keeps walking off. "VI, what happens when the power runs out?" Rick asked.

"When the power runs out, facility-wide decontamination will occur." When VI said that I pull Gracie tighter, not liking at all what it said. We all then make our way back to our rooms. After setting Gracie down, I grab my flash light from my bag and hand it to Glenn as he, T-dog, Rick and Shane go to the basement to see if they can fix the generators.

"Pack up your bags. I don't like the sound of what that computer said." Daryl said looking to me and the girls before he walks into his room, I just nod my head, not liking it at all either. While Anna and I pack the bags, putting everything away and put the bags by the door, Jack goes to grab his and Glenn bags.

Daryl comes back to my room with his bag, crossbow and the bottle of wine. We all sit there waiting for the guys to get back, when the air suddenly shuts off and the lights begin to flicker. Daryl gets up and goes to the door leaning out, Jenner comes walking by and grabs the wine from his hand.

Getting up, I pick up Gracie as Jack picks up Haylee and we make our way after the others. The only thing that I can catch is Jenner telling us that zone five is shutting it self-down. We make our way back to the big room, Daryl is getting irritated with Jenner, who is barely giving us any straight answers, when we get there Rick and the others come running in.

I try to calm down Gracie but she can feel how scared and upset everyone is as Jenner tells us about the French. How they stayed until the end but died anyway, because they ran out of fuel. "Everyone grab your things, were getting out of here NOW!" Rick yells and we all start for the door, when this loud, blaring alarm starts going off. I cover Gracie ears when she starts crying and we all start running for the exit. When this metal door comes sliding up from the floor and blocks us from getting out.

"He just locked us in!" Glenn yells and we turn to look at Jenner. I pull Anna to my side and Jack gets closer to my back and holds onto my arm, all of us looking at him in shock and horror.

I just watch as Daryl tries to attack Jenner, Shane and T-dog drag him away just in time. When he finally calms down, I inhaled sharply just realizing that I was holding my breath. It is hard trying to get the kids to stop being scared, when that's all you are feeling at the moment. "It's better this way." Jenner said after he tells Rick that all the doors to outside are locked down, that he doesn't control it, the computers did.

"What is? What happens in twenty eight minutes?" Rick asks Jenner but he just ignors him and goes back to typing on his computer. I hug my kids closer, when Jenner starts yelling about what the CDC had, like small pox and Ebola, I can't believe I brought my kids into this place. This place is like death trap, like some kind of witch's ginger bread house, all nice at first but deadly the next.

He then explains that if something were too happened like a terrorist attack, HITs would go off so that none of those diseases would get out. "HITs- high-impulse thermo baric fuel-air explosives consist of a two-stage aerosol ignition…"

I didn't need to listen any farther as VI explains what HITs are, I just start to cry. Jack, Anna and I wrap our arms around each other and the girls, trying to give each other some comfort at the realization that in less than a half hour, we will all be dead. "It sets the air on fire" Jenner said sounding almost too relieved. I glare at him from over Jack's shoulder with tears falling from my eyes.

Jack and I are sitting away from the others, I didn't want my kids anywhere near Jenner. I look to Daryl, who is pacing and watch as he runs to the door throws the bottle at the door and watch as it shatters.

"OPEN THE DAMN DOOR!" He shouts angrily to Jenner, who is just sitting in his chair like this just happens every day. "Out of my way!" Shane yells as he comes running up with an axe and he starts hitting the door. T-dog tosses Daryl another axe and he and Shane take turns hitting the door. They weren't even making a scratch.

"Those doors are designed to with stand a rocket launcher." Jenner tells us when Shane said they can't even make a dent. "Well your head ain't!" Daryl yells trying to take a swing of the axe at him, the guys pull him away just in time and take the axe away from him. He starts pacing near us, catching my eyes every time he passes us.

I rock Haylee and Gracie while Jack has an arm around Anna and me. Shane comes walking passed panting, when I saw him grab his shot gun, Jack and I quickly move the girls farther away. Carol and Sophia come over to us to get away from Shane. Carol, Jack and I turn so that the girls are pointed away from them.

I covered Gracie's ears and make sure Haylee's ears are covered, when Shane starts shooting at random computers. I watch from over Carol's shoulder as Rick knocks Shane to the ground and hands T-dog Shane shot gun and gets Shane to calm down.

We try to calm the girls down as Rick asks Jenner why he stayed, why he kept going. Jenner tells him that TS-19 was his wife. I look over to see Daryl watching us as I rock Gracie trying to stop her from crying, I can see that he is getting furious.

He picks up the other axe and starts hitting the door again. I watch as he hits it over and over again, then hearing a whirling sound as the door falls. "Come on!" Daryl yells before grabbing Anna's hand and we take off running down the hall to our rooms. Setting Gracie down, I put a backpack on quickly, Jack doing the same. Daryl picks up the duffle bag, after throwing his bag and crossbow over his shoulder.

I throw Glenn his bag, as we all run to the stairs. We all start running up them trying not to trip. T-dog's hand on my backpack so that Gracie and I won't fall back as we run up the stairs.

When we get top side Daryl sets everything down and he and Shane start hitting the window with the axes, it won't break. Daryl come back over to us, as Shane take a shot at it with his shot gun. I started crying when it still won't break.

"Rick I have something that might help." Carol said and I watch as Carol digs into her bag and hands a grenade to Rick. "Oh god." Lori said and we pull the kids down behind the stairs and make sure that all their ears are covered.

Daryl covers Gracie and me while Jack and Glenn cover Haylee and Anna on the other side of him, as the grenade goes off. He helps us get up and we make our way to the now broken window. Shane and Rick help all of us get down and then we start running towards the cars.

The guys are killing walkers on the way, to make us a path to the cars. I throw open the back door and help Anna climb into the way back, Jack following with Haylee. After he puts Haylee in the back with Anna, I hand Gracie to him.

"Get down and cover your ears." I yell before slamming the door before making my way around the back. Daryl grabs me when someone starts honking a horn and pulls us down to the ground and covers me.

Feeling nothing but burning heat and it was so loud it is almost like there is no noise at all. All I can feel is the blazing warmth of the fire as Daryl pulls me close.

As it starts to go away, he lifts me up and drags me to the driver door and helps me inside after I toss my backpack in the passenger seat. He shuts the door and makes his way to his truck.

I sit there breathing hard, trying to stop my hands from shaking so that I can start the car. I follow T-dog's van as we all make a U-turn and drive away from the destroyed CDC.

"What are we going to do now?" Jack asks and I look in the review mirror to see all of them sitting up and looking at me, looking so terrified. "I don't know Jack. I don't know." I whisper not taking my eyes away from the long dangerous stretch of road that lays ahead of us.

"I don't know."