Ruin Me So You Can Save Yourself (Daryl Dixon X Male OC)

18. Take My Hand

Daryl Dixon

I sip down on whiskey from the bottle while sitting on the floor by my bed when I hear a small click and then no hum of the conditioner sounds anymore. I poke my head out in the hallway and everyone else seems to have the same issue.

"What's going on? Why is everythin' turned off?" I ask ans Jenner passes by snatching my whiskey from my hand.

"Energy use is being prioritized." Jenner says and I follow him down the hallway.

"Air isn't a priority? And lights?" Dale asks.

"It's not up to me. Zone five shutting itself down."

"Hey! Hey, what the hell does that mean?" I ask, walking behind the doc. He ignores me so I jog over. "Hey, man, I'm talkin' to you." I say now getting agitated. Alcohol in my system only spicing things up. "What do you mean it's shuttin' itself down? How can a building do anythin'?"

"You'd be surprised." Jenner answers monotonously.

"Jenner, what's happening?" Rick asks.

"The system is dropping all the nonessential uses of power. It's designed to keep the computers running to the last possible second." Jenner speaks. "That started as we approached the half hour mark. Right on schedule." He says pointing at the clock where only thirty minutes left.

Couldn't he say that to me? I asked him the same damn thing. What's it with all them fancy people treating me like I'm some dweeb? I ain't stupid.

Ain't that stupid at least.

Jenner takes a swing from my bottle of whiskey before holding it out to me and I snatch it from him, spilling some as I stare daggers at him. Fucking prick. I take a swing myself.

"It was the French." Jenner says, turning to Andrea.

"What?"

"They were the last ones to hold out as far as I know. While our people where bolting out the doors and committing suicide in the hallways, they stayed in the labs till the end. They thought they were close to a solution."

"What happened?"

"The same thing that's happening here. The power grit. Ran out of juice. The world runs on fossil fuel. I mean, how stupid is that?" Jenner says and walks out to some computer.

"Lori, grab our things. Everybody, get your stuff. We're getting out of here now!" Rick commanded and hell I'm not even gonna fight him on that one.

I don't like whatever is going on here either. I turn to go back to my room. I gotta grab my crossbow, the rest can be left but I need my damn crossbow. But the siren turns on and the red light starts to blink. Screen turns on and the clock appears there too.

"Thirty minutes to decontamination." Vi says.

"Doc, what's going on here, damn it?" I call out but Jenner doesn't respond he's just does something by one of the computers.

"Everybody get your stuff and let's go!" Rick tells and everyone runs away to their rooms.

Suddenly in the door we first came from raises a metal panel, sealing the escape closed.

"Did you just lock us in?" Glenn asks, turning to Jenner. "He just locked us in!"

I feel anger babbling inside me more than ever. I ain't letting some doc decide how my life goes, I ain't staying in this metal and cement box either. I want out and I'm going out. I ran towards Jenner.

"You son of a bitch!" I yell and I hear Rick screaming something on the background but I don't fucking listen. "You locked us in here!" I just run up to the fuck and grab him by his lab coat pulling him out of his chair.