Don't Dream It's Over // Glenn Rhee

Chapter 8

"You know, in Italy, children have a little bit of wine with their dinner."

Kira

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"Daryl, cover the back." Shane points as we all slowly enter through the doors. 

"Hello? Hello?" Rick calls.

"Close those doors. Watch for walkers." Daryl and Glenn remain standing by the doors. We hear a sudden voice and we all cock our guns, aiming at the man who stood off to the side, holding a rifle in his arms.

"Anybody infected?" He questions.

"One of our group was. He didn't make it." Rick answers. 

"Why are you here? What do you want?" The man asks.

"A chance." Rick answers.

"That's asking an awful lot these days." The man claims. Rick nods his head.

"I know." He agrees. The man takes a single look at all of us. He's quiet for a moment before announcing his demands.

"You all submit to a blood test. That's the price of admission." He says.

"We can do that." Rick agrees. The man finally lowers his weapon.

"You got stuff to bring in, you do it now. Once this door closes, it stays closed." He points. Daryl, Shane, and Glenn rush from the doors and quickly bring in everything we all wanted in. They soon return and the man shuts the door, uses a keycard to close the shutters again.

"VI, seal the main entrance." He speaks into the control box. "Kill the power up here. The control box beeps and turns red as the shutters shut and we were now officially locked in.

"Rick Grimes." Rick introduces himself.

"Dr. Edwin Jenner." He introduces. Jenner guides us to an elevator and we all squeeze in. It was a tight fit, but it was only temporary. It was silent for the ride, the only noise created was the humming of the elevator, descending down.

"Doctors always go around packing heat like that?" Daryl asks Jenner, referring to his rifle.

"There were plenty left lying around. I familiarized myself." Jenner explains. "But you look harmless enough." His eyes drop down to Carl. "Except you. I'll have to keep my eye on you." Carl's mouth forms into a smile.

Eventually, the elevator comes to a stop and the doors open up. Jenner walks off first and we continue to follow him down a wide, bright lit up hallway. On both sides of us, there are doors. They're all formed as dormitories for the workers who might've worked here and needed to stay for the night, maybe for ones who had no families to go home to and lived here on a daily basis.

"Are we underground?" Carol asks from behind me.

"Are you claustrophobic?" Jenner asks her.

"A little."

"Try not to think about it." You can tell we were underground. The pressure had heightened so we could feel how stuffy it felt. Our ears popped, the atmosphere felt different. There's a difference now that we've gotten off the elevator.

Jenner guides down a ramp and into a large, wide open room. In the middle of this room are computers set up in a circle. Blake walls, lights high up on the ceiling.

"VI, bring up the lights in the big room." Jenner demands. The computers beep as each one turns on and the large circle light above the computers brighten the room ten times more. "Welcome to Zone 5." Jenner simply says and continues walking down the ramp.