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[34] Affected

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S4 Ep: 3 "Isolation"

Hershel, Dr.S and I were checking on those that we sent to containment to check on them, I squatted down beside the bed checking the pulse of one of the men who had consequently lost most of an arm to the fight yesterday. I looked up at Dr. S and shook my head telling him I found no pulse, he still leaned down and listened to his chest trying to hear anything but when he found the same he looked back to Hershel. Shaking his head Hershel and I walked out of the block him having been our last patient to check on for the morning.

I walked back towards our block when Carol grabbed me saying Rick got into a fight and needed to be looked at. I carefully picked up Rick's right hand examining it and setting it down so I could clean the blood off and get a better look. I wiped around his knuckles so I could see the actual cuts "Well..it's sprained. You won't get much use for at least a week, but on the good side you don't need stitches. Yayy" I cheer softly but when I finally see how tired he is behind his facade it fades.

"You okay?" Rick grumbled at my question and continued to stare at the floor "It hurts." I tilted my head and gave him a pointed look in return "You know I wasn't asking about that. Things are hitting left and right trying to destroy everything we worked to keep out." Rick shook his head and kept his arm steady as I wrapped his wrist and hand "No. It's always there." I finish wrapping and secure it with tape "There's a council meeting tomorrow morning, just so you know." I started to catch him up on what we've been talking about "We lost of our own, we had to kill two more in cold blood and we might be facing an outbreak."

Rick shoot his head "I think I've done enough damage for one day." I shake my head disagreeing with him "The only thing you have done..is work to keep us safe. The reason we have" I gesture around us "All of this. Is because of you. So don't discredit yourself"

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Back in the library Daryl, Carol, Hershel, Michonne, Glenn and I gathered for another meeting minus Sasha "It's spread. Everyone who survived the attack in cell block D. Sasha, Caleb, and now others." Hershel explained, Daryl looked away with a small sigh, "Oh, Jesus." Carol leaned forward with her brows furrowed "So what do we do?"  Hershel tapped the table "First things first. Cell block A is isolation. We keep the sick people there like we tried with Karen and David." Daryl shrugged "What the hell we gonna do about that?"

Carol turned to him giving him a short answer. "Ask Rick to look into it. Try to make a timeline-- whose where when. But what are we gonna do to stop this?" She looked at me beside her, "You don't stop it. You're body has to work through it" From her place against a bookshelf Michonne speaks up "But it just kills you?" Hershel turns to her "The illness doesn't. The symptoms do."

"What we really need is antibiotics that can fight the infection and keep it from reaching that point." I explain but Daryl shakes his head "We've been through every pharmacy nearby. And then some."  Hershel turned back to the table facing forward again "That veterinary college at West Peachtree Tech, that's one place people may not have thought to raid for medication. The drugs for animals there are the same we need." He explained