You don't control me, Dixon

➊ 24: Fire Fire, The Building Will Be on Fire

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I nod and inspect the brain more as the others murmur. I ignore them until a little Sofia asked meekly "Is that what happened to, Jim?".

I hop down and crouched to her level and answered as gently as I can in this situation "Sofia, honey. Yes, but he wanted to be left, so we wouldn't see him in pain."

She nods and goes to her mother who hugs her like her life depends on it.

I stare a moment longer, wistfully thinking of my own mother. "Vi, scan to the second event" Jenner demands.

I look back and see Daryl and Alec talking softly, I smile at the two.

I feel as they will be good friends. Well, Alec is doing most of the talking but Daryl isn't blowing him off. They are cute.

They would hate me but I would love it, I want this to happen. Wait, is Daryl even into that. Oh, damn it!

Back to the potentially life-saving info! Jenner looks sadly at the screen showing the head and explained what on earth was going on "The resurrection times vary wildly. We had reports of it happening in as little as three minutes. The longest we heard of was eight hours. In the case of this patient, it was two hours, one minute... Seven seconds.".

I tilt my head and ask questions as if they will earn me a million dollars "It restarts the brain but it only seems to start just the brain stem. So basically, it gets them up and moving. But they're not alive or have any cognitive thinking?"

Jenner looks almost impressed as he nods at me, I look down and smile to myself as the others sit restlessly and watch the vigil.

I observe as everything but the front part of the brain lights up with a blood red.

I've had just enough of that color in my lifetime, however, I seek the answer to if I'm right "The frontal lobe, the neocortex, the human part... The you part. Just a shell is driven by mindless instinct, ".

Janner looks at me and nods. I look away horrified. I'm not going to die that way, but will my friends, the people I'm close to? Daryl, Alec, Dale, Rick, the kids?

I look up just in time to catch a white thing drive through the brain and make the walker dead. He shot his wife.

Oh, no wonder why he's so depressed, the question is, will he bring us with him? "What happened?" One of the girls half yelled.

I cringe and stiffly answer for him "He shot her."

The others look around worried as Janner shut down the screens and workstations.

Andrea, who looks sick to her stomach asks horrific "You have no idea what it is, do you?".

I shake my head and exclaimed "It has to do with the blood, it has to! "

Jenner looked past me and at Alec who shrugged, Shane who was now stomping over to where I stood and asked, quite angerly "What do you mean, it has to do with the blood?"

I furrow my brows and stare at him defiantly, he gets angrier and asks, seething "Do. You. Know. Something.".

Let me just say one thing, even if we had the other side of the vaccine so we could administer it, I wouldn't be giving it to him.

I lift my chin and stare him down as Alec and Daryl step forward but look at one another.

I scoff at the petty man's face and turn away from him but he grabs my wrist, leaving me immobile.

Suddenly he's gone and as I look back, he's being dragged by a livid Alec. I pull my wrist to my chest and Alec leaves Shane on the floor and stand behind me with a harsh glare.