What We Made·Jamilton·Zombie AU

Chapter Three·When I Find You

Chapter Three·When I Find You

(Thomas Jefferson POV)

Alexander has been coming to Monticello for about a week now but I've noticed something. He's been a bit jumpy. I'm worried.

He had a journal but wouldn't let anyone look into it. But he was gone and left it behind. I just wanted to see..

I went up to my room which was where Alexander wrote most of the time and there it was. The book I was never allowed to see. I walked over and grabbed it and set it on my bed to read. The first page was a drawing and on the bottom it had the name Peter Jefferson.

This was my fathers journal. Inside was various diagrams of machines that were either finished or unfinished. One caught my eye. It was bookmarked in the book as The Zombie Cure-inator. The Zombie Cure-inator is meant to save lives, those of the zombies, in return for blood. The machine only works on a full moon at midnight. The gas is nontoxic but it doesn't matter.

I noticed that after that the handwriting changed. The code is A113 and to save the zombies they have to be unconscious. This Machine's original design for blood has been changed to three lives. If I want to save the world, I'll have to find people willing to give up their lives to save others.

So Alexander planned on saving everyone. But who would die? Where was the machine located. I turned a few pages and saw the design flaws, design changes, and the types. I finally made it to a map page. It had everything from Monticello and just beyond Alexander's house and the river. And at the very edge was a small drawing. The label was just Machine. If the machine was all the way over there and that's where he's been going..I could tell James and Freddy and they could help me.

"What are you doing?" I heard Alexander ask, his voice full of nervousness and worry. "I-I um..-" "Thomas, that is private-" "Why am I not allowed to know your planning on saving the world-?" "Because it wont work for the whole world!" There was a thick silence between us.

"It will only work for the east coast..." He quietly told me. I closed the book. "So it will won't work for.." "I'm gonna get the shoreline running again before they can resume their lives. I know a few people in Massachusetts willing to help me. Once the east coast is okay, well head to west coast. We can make the world close to normal again-" "Yeah but that means six lives or more." "Thomas, we have to do this not just for me, for everyone." I had hope but...we couldn't just kill of people. "We can do half an half...Get Six people which would make twelve in total and just take away half of their personalities from each of them. Think about it! We start with those with the most personality and they only lose half of it. If we used Peggy she would still be very bubbly. Angelica would still be very serious. Eliza would still be very caring...please don't tell them." He was planning on using the Schuyler sisters for this experiment. The last time he had help, it didn't go well.