no time to die | daryl dixon

013 | more time.

lillian didn't know what to do, she was worried. again. she wanted to stop worrying, she just wanted herself and her daughter to be as safe as they could be. stella didn't know what was happening while the power started to turn off. she walked into daryl's room with stella, neither of them knowing what was going on.

"what's goin' on? whys everythin' turned off?" daryl said while sticking half his body out into the hallway while the doctor walked by, grabbing the bottle of daryl's alcohol. "energy use is being prioritized." jenner said while walking quickly down the hallway. "air isn't a priority? and lights?" dale asked "it's not up to me. zone five is shutting itself down." jenner said.

"hey! hey, what the hell does that mean?" daryl asked while following the man quickly "hey, man, im talkin' to you. what do you mean it's shutting itself down? how can a building do anything?" daryl continued. everyone followed the doctor, they were going to die, she wanted more time. she wanted a lot, more time being the main thing.

jenner talked about what was happening as she stared down at the ground, only being pulled out of her dream like state when a loud alarm started to happen making everyone freak out more. they were all going to get there stuff as soon as the door shut.

"did you just lock us in?" glenn asked as stella ran towards daryl and stood next to him, while lillian stayed in place next to glenn. "he just locked us in!" glenn yelled. daryl left stella and went to go and attack jenner which lillian full heartedly agreed with but everyone stopped him. "hey, jenner, open that door now." rick said "there's no point. everything's topside is locked down. the emergency exists are sealed." jenner said.

"well, open the damn things." dale said angrily "that's mot something i control. the computers do." jenner said "i told you once that front door closed, it wouldn't open again. you heard me say that." jenner continued "we didn't think you actually meant it!" lillian yelled, she was stressed out, everyone was. "it's better this way." jenner said making lillian roll her eyes.

"what is? what happens in twenty eight minutes." rick asked getting into the doctors face, jenner turned around and started typing on his computer "what happens in twenty eight minutes?!" rick yelled "come on." daryl said "you know what this place is?! we protected the public from very nasty stuff! weaponized smallpox! ebola strains that could wipe out half the country! stuff you don't want getting out! ever!" jenner yelled before sitting back in his chair.

"in the event of a catastrophic power failure in a terrorist attack, for example.. H. I. T. s. are deployed to prevent any organisms from getting out." jenner said calmly. "H. I. T. s.?" rick said in question "VI, define." jenner said out loud "H. I. T. s. high-impulse thermobaric fuel-air explosives consist of a two-stage aerosol ignition that produces a blast wave of significantly greater power and duration than any other known explosive expect nuclear. the vacuum-pressure effect ignites the oxygen between 5,000° and 6,000° and is useful when the greatest loss of life and damage to structures is desired." VI said.

"you're telling me you've trapped us in here when the building is about to explode?!" lillian yelled at the doctor. "jenner, you may want to die but a lot of us don't, let us out of here. please." lillian continued, being calmer than before. "it sets the air on fire. no pain. an end to sorrow, grief, regret. everything." jenner said calmly while stella cried into lillian's chest.

she noticed daryl throw a glass at the emergency exit door angrily "open the damn door!" daryl yelled "out of my way!" shame yelled with an axe in hand and another being thrown to daryl so they could smash open the door. lillian sat in shock across from her daughter who sat with carl, she wasn't ready to die. maybe living in an apocalypse wasn't the best way to live, maybe death would be better but she knew she couldn't do it, she had ti live.

"you should've left well enough alone. it would've been so much easier." jenner said "shut the fuck up." lillian snarled "easier for who?" lori said "all of you. you know what's out there a short, brutal life and an agonizing death. your- your sister- what was her name?" jenner said, the question being directed at andrea. "amy." andrea replied.

"amy. you know what this does. you've seen it. is that really what you want for your wife and son?" jenner asked, the question directed at rick this time. "i don't want this." rick said "can't make a dent." shane said "those doors are designed to withstand a rocket launcher." jenner said daryl picked up the axe to swing it at the doctors head "well your head aint!" daryl yelled but being held back by majority of the group.

"if we weren't about to die, i'd let daryl drive that axe into your skull, better yet id do it myself." lillian whispered in the doctors ear, causing him to shiver. "you do want this. last night you said you knew it was just a matter of time before everybody you loved was dead." jenner said standing up, looking at rick.

"what? you really said that?" shane said "after all your big talk?" shane continued while everybody stared at rick "i had to keep hope alive, didn't i?" rick said looking at his wife. "there is no hope. there never was." jenner said "jenner, shut up." lillian said "there's always hope. maybe it won't be you, maybe not here, but somebody somewhere.." rick said, trying to make a point.

"what part of 'everything is gone' do you not understand?" andrea said looking up at rick. "listen to your friend. she gets it. this is what takes us down this is our extinction event." jenner said "this isn't right." carol cried. "you can't just keep us here."

"one tiny moment, a millisecond. no pain." jenner said "maybe we just don't wanna die." lillian said "my daughter doesn't deserve to die like this." carol cried. "wouldn't it be kinder, more compassionate to hold your loved ones and wait for the clock to run down?" jenner asked. shane walked closer with a gun in hand while rick, t-dog, and dale went to hold him back but failed.

shane held the gun to jenner's face "open that door or i'm gonna blow your head off. do you hear me?!" shane yelled "brother, brother, this is not the way you do this. we will never get out of here." rick said "shane, you listen to him." lori said. shane started yelling, not words just yelling, shane started shooting at random things making lillian cover her daughters ears, trying to block off the noise.

"i think you're lying." rick said "what?" jenner said "you're lying. about no hope. if that were true, you'd have bolted with the rest or taken the easy way out. you didn't. you chose the hard path. why?" rick said "it doesn't matter." jenner said "it does matter. it always matters. you stayed when the others ran. why?" rick said looking at the doctor "not because i wanted to. i made a promise.. to her. my wife." jenner said standing up. "you had a wife?" lillian said just as lori said "test subject nineteen was your wife?"

"she begged me to keep going as long as i could. how could i say no?" jenner said while daryl continued to pound the axe against the door. "she was dying. it should've been me on that table. i wouldnt have mattered to anybody. she was a loss to the world." jenner said "hell, she ran this place. i just worked here. in our field, she was an einstein. me? im just edwin jenner.. she could've done something about this. not me." jenner continued.

lillian got up and walked towards the angry daryl who continued to swing the axe at the door. "don't over exert yourself." lillian said coming up beside him so she didn't get hit with the axe. "shut up, everly." he said with a small smile before the door opened up "come on!" daryl said dropping the axe, stella ran up to her mom, everyone deciding to run to the door quickly and leaving.