Rick's Daughter, Daryl's Lover

Chapter 4: Hope

The doors had opened and just like that I had hope in life again, it was this strange feeling that I was safe, something that I hadn't felt in a while. But while some part of us all felt safe, we also knew to expect the unexpected, everyone had their weapons up and ready for anything that came our way. After all, we were in an unfamiliar place and you really can't be too careful these days. 

"Hello" my dad said out loud

That's when we heard a gun cock and just like that everyone had their weapons pointed in the direction of the noise, there was a man standing there "Is anybody infected?" he yelled out to us 

"One in our group was" my dad announced "He didn't make it" 

"Why are you here? What do you want?" 

"A chance" dad said his voice wavy.

"That's asking a lot these days" 

We all looked at the man, he told us that we all have to submit to a blood test and that is what we had to do if we wanted to be admitted into the facility. Dad agreed. 

"If you have stuff to bring in you need to do it now, once those doors are closed they wont be opened again" 

"Rick Grimes" my dad said to the man holding out his hand

"Dr. Edwin Jenner" 

We all rode in an elevator to a floor underground where Carol admitted that she was claustrophobic.

"Welcome to zone 5" he said as we walked into a lit up room 

"where is everybody? The doctors the staff?" dad asked

"I'm it, it's just me here, well and VI, say hello to our guests VI" Jenner said 

"Hello guests, welcome" said the loud voice on the speaker. 

Creepy.

we all sat in a room while he took all our blood. 

"Whats the point, if we were all infected we would be running a fever" Andrea said as her blood was sucked into a tube. 

"I've already broken every rule in the book by letting you in here, at least let me be thorough" 

As Andrea stood up she seemed a little light headed, Jackie caught her and told Jenner that we haven't eaten in days. 

*****

Everyone was laughing while sitting around this large table and its like for a second everyone forgot about what was going on outside of the building in everywhere that we could imagine. Everyone was drinking wine and maybe a little bit of liquor. Honestly I haven't had a good taste of alcohol in lord knows how long, which is pretty funny considering my dad was a cop, but he would of rather me do it where he knew that I was safe than for me to do it at some party full of people I didn't know because he knew that I was going to do it anyways. Honestly I was starting to feel a little bit tipsy but I didn't let anyone see it. 

"You know in Italy and France" Dale said laughing "Children have a little bit of wine at the dinner table" 

"Well when Carl is in Italy or France then he can have some then" Mom said being overprotective as always

"Whats it gonna hurt?" Dad asked her while smiling and holding back a laugh "Come on" 

She gave in, oh peer pressure is a hell of a thing. 

"There you are young lad" Dale said hanging him the glass 

"EWWW" Carl said putting the glass down in disgust while everyone laughed.