lillian woke up that morning to her daughter shaking her and jumping on the couch "get up!" she said while dragging her mom off of the couch with the help of carl; she groaned as she fell but got up anyways, getting ready for the day. she walked into the cafeteria where her daughter sat next to carl.
"hello." rick said with a yawn. "are you hungover? mom said you'd be." carl said making lillian chuckle "mom is right." rick replied "mom has that annoying habit." lori said, lillian watched her daughter as she interact with carl, stella had a light coating of blush over her cheeks which made lillian smile as t-dog said something.
"you okay, glenn?" lillian said as he groaned, t-dog handed out the eggs "don't ever ever ever let me drink again." glenn said making lillian laugh lightly at her friend "hey." shane said while walking in "hey." rick replied "feel as bad as i do?" rick asked "worse." shane said shortly. "the hell happened to you?" t-dog asked making lillian look up. "your neck?" t-dog clarified "i must've done it in my sleep." shane said, looking over to lori.
"doctor, i don't mean to slam you with questions first thing-" dale said as doctor jenner walked in "but you will anyway." jenner interrupted. "we didn't come here for the eggs." andrea said as daryl walked in and smiled at lillian who smiled back. the doctor led them to a room filled with computers.
"give me a playback of TS-19." jenner said while typing on a keyboard. they watched as a large screen started filling with information "few people ever got a chance to see this." jenner said as lillian stood next to daryl, stella standing with carl. "is that a brain?" carl asked "obviously." stella replied "an extraordinary one." jenner said "not that it matters in the end. take us in for E. I. V." jenner continued.
everyone watched the screen carefully, not knowing what could happen next. "what are those lights?" shane asked. "it's a persons 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." jenner replied "you don't make sense ever?" daryl said making lillian chuckle once again.
"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." jenner said once again "death? that's what this is, a vigil?" rick said. "yes." jenner said while lillian slightly leaned closer into daryl's side as she watched the screen, daryl looked at her and slightly smiled at the thought of her not knowing she was leaning into him.
"or rather the playback of the vigil." jenner continued "this person died?" andrea asked "who?" she asked again. "test subject nineteen. someone who was bitten and infected.. and volunteered to have us record the process. vi, scan forward to the first event." jenner said "what is that?" glenn asked, everyone keeping their eyes on the screen.
"it invades the brain like meningitis. the andermal glands hemorrhage, the brain goes into shutdown, then the major organs. then death." jenner replied, daryl contemplated putting his arm around lillian as she leaned closer once again, and he did, she looked at him and smiled causing him to do the same.
"everything you ever were or ever will be.. gone." jenner continued "is that what happened to jim?" sophia asked as her mother replied to her, they talked for a brief moment about amy before jenner told the system to scan to the second event in the process.
"the resurrection times vary wildly. we had reports of it happening as little as three minutes. the longest we heard was eight hours. in the case of this patient, it was two hours, one minute, seven seconds." jenner said as they watched the lights come back "wait, so the brain just restarts?" lillian asked at the same time as lori asked a similar question "no, just the brain stem." jenner replied to the two.
"basically, it gets them up and moving." jenner continued "but they're not alive?" rick asked "you tell me." jenner said "it's nothing like before. most of that brain is dark." rick replied. "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." jenner said as they watched a flash go over the screen.
"you have no idea what it is, do you?" andrea asked "it could be microbial, vital, parasitic, fungal." jenner replied "or the wrath of god." jacqui said with tears in her eyes. she zoned out as everyone spoke about not knowing anything, she was scared "man, i'm gonna get shit faced drunk again." daryl said while removing his arm from lillian.
"dr. jenner, i know this has been taxing for you and i hate to ask one more question, but that clock.. its counting down. what happens at zero?" dale asked making the worry set in once again. "the basement generators.. they run out of fuel." jenner said quickly "and then?" rick asked while stella walked closer to her mother and daryl. "VI, what happens when the power runs out?" rick asked loudly.
"when the power runs out, facility-wide decontamination will occur." the robotic voice said.
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no time to die | daryl dixon
Fanfictionin which lillian everly is a single mother, when the evacuation starts to happen she meets a woman with her son, recently losing her husband and her sons father. or in which lillian meets daryl and they slowly fall for one another. twd fanfiction...
