Regression to the Mean 3: Apocalypse

TS-19

We all stood there staring into the light revealed by the newly opened shutters. Okay this is it, no going back, there's only forward. So many questions with so few answers. It's the C.D.C and with them you get blood tests, especially for those who have been exposed to viruses. We've been around this thing for a while now, especially at the massacre, we're blood splattered at the shot of every bullet, spraying our skin with the disease from the dead. What happens when we go in there? What will they find? Will they kill us? Experiment on us? Who would care really? It's the end of the world.

When the white light shuts off so does my train of thought and now I'm back into my little solider mode, keeping an eye out on the dead behind us as we move inside the main entrance.

"Hello? HELLO?" Rick calls as we get further in.

"Close those doors, watch for walkers" A man's voice echoes through the room. Behind us, Merle and Daryl, the last ones inside shut the doors, keeping an eye on outside.

"Hello?" Rick calls again, the only sound that follows it the sound of a Gun being cocked at the side of us. Immediately we are all on edge at the new threat, turning in that direction, I flash my eyes to see the mid forties men standing near a set of stairs with his weapons pointed to us.

"Anybody infected?" He unnecessarily shouts.

"One of our group was, he didn't make it" Rick informs the man as he shakes slightly.

"Why are you here? What do you want?" the C.D.C. man asks taking a couple of steps towards us allowing us all to see him more clearly.

"A chance"

"That's asking an awful lot these days" the man says to Rick as he continues to walk forward, his gun never lowering.

"I know" Rick replies and the man takes a moment too look around at each of us, his face masked with slight fear as he looks at each of us more closely.

"You all submit to a blood test, that's the price of admission" the man says finally.

"We can do that" Rick replies, I hear Liam and Allison's hearts begin to beat faster as they come to realise what this could mean for two of us. Feeling their eyes shifting to me, I nod subtly never looking away from the man in front of us.

Dropping his gun the man begins to speak so fast that if I had not have been keeping my attention fully on him, I would have missed half of his words. "You got stuff to bring in, you do it now. Once this door closes, it stays closed"

Immediately we all begin to move back to the doors. Liam is about to move to the exit the building but I grab onto his arm pulling him back in. "You stay here, I'll get the stuff from the car" I inform him as I follow the others out along with Allison.

"I'll go with Rick, help him with Carol's stuff" Allison says as we make our way back through the sea of bodies. Nodding I split off from her and head to my car, keeping my bat tight in my hand.

Once I'm clear enough, I sprint to my baby, unlocking it in my advance and yanking the truck open, pulling out the most important bags. I am about to slip mine and Liam's backpacks onto my shoulders when a shuffle of feet coming from my left I drop the bags and swing the bat around only for it to be caught in the grip of Merle Dixon.

"What the hell Merle!"

"Careful now princess, you don't want to make it a habit of killing to locals now, do you?" he laughs and I feel the sting in my chest at the thought of what I had did early today.

"That was different Merle and you know it." I reply, yanking the bat out of his grip and bending down to pick up the bags, only for them to be taken straight ways from me.