The Mini Badass

Chapter 10

Daryl's pissed. 

He throws his bottle of wine at the closed door screaming for Jenner to open it. Shane has found an axe and has taken to repeatedly hitting the door with it.

Daryl gets an axe too and the men start beating the door while Lori and Carol huddle us kids in a corner.

"You should've left well enough alone, it would've been so much easier." Jenner says as my friends cry.

"Easier for who?" Lori asks, also very pissed off.

"All of you, you know what's out there." The doctor answers turning away from his computer. "A short brutal life and an agonizing death."

"You- your sister, what was her name?" Jenner asks Andrea who's sitting across from us, her knees to her chest.

"Amy."

"You know what this does." Jenner tells her before turning his attention to me. "You've seen what it does."

"Is that really what you want for these people?" He asks me, motioning to the group that took me in.

"I don't want them to die."

"Axe can't make a dent." Shane says, dropping said axe.

"Those door were made to withstand rocket launchers." Jenner tells the group, not helping Daryl's rage.

"Well your head ain't!" He shouts, going to smash his axe into Jenner's skull. Lori covers our eyes as Rick and Shane try to stop Daryl.

The manage to somewhat calm him down making Jenner stand up. "You do want this."

"Last night you said you knew it was only a matter of time before everybody you loved was dead." Jenner tells Rick, leaving the rest of us confused.

"You really said that?" Shane asks his best friend. "After all your big talk?"

"I had to keep hope alive didn't I?" Rick says, looking over to his wife.

"There is no hope." Jenner tells us . "There never was."

 "There's always hope." Rick counters, stepping closer to the doctor. "Maybe it won't be you, maybe not here, but somebody somewhere--"

"What part of everything's gone do you not understand." Andrea asks, raising her head from her knees.

"Listen to your friend, she gets it." Jenner says pointing to Andrea. "This is what takes us down."

"This is our extinction event."

"This isn't right." Carol sobs out while holding her daughter close. "You can't just keep us here."

"One tiny moment-- a millisecond. No pain." Jenner tries to convince her, as Sophia cries. 

"My daughter doesn't deserve to die like this!" Carol shrieks, standing up and pulling Sophia away from the doctor. 

"Wouldn't it be kinder, more compassionate to just hold your loved ones and wait for the time to run out?"

None of us get a chance to answer as Shane has found a shotgun, cocking it and rushing towards Jenner despite the rest of the group trying to stop him.

"Open that door." Shane tells Jenner, pushing the barrel of his gun into the doctors cheek. Dale takes my elbow pulling me away from the two as Lori does the same with Carl. "Or I'm gonna blow your head off."

"You hear me?" Shane shouts as I run to Sophia, hugging her and her mom.

"Brother, this is not the way you do this." Rick states, trying to calm his friend down. "You do this and we will never get out of here."

"Shane you listen to him." Lori tells the man, holding her son to her side.