When I'm with you

chapter three

Shane was trying to pull him away, and everyone was yelling only drawing attention of walkers. "YOUR KILLING US! YOUR KILLING US!" he yells and just as he yelled that the shutters opened and just like a movie smoke and a white light showed from behind. We all stood frozen for a second stunned that someone was actually inside.

We all slowly walked in, weapons raised, we looked around and just ahead we noticed a man, one single man with a gun pointed at us.

Rick lowered his weapon, us following suit as he raised his handing to signal us to lower them. "Anyone infected?" The man asks us. "One of our group was, he didn't make it!" Rick says. "What do you want?" He asks. "A chance!" Rick says. "Thats asking an awful lot these days." The man says. "I know!" He says. "Whats your name?" He says lowering his weapon. "Rick Grimes." He nods. "Dr. Edwin Jenner!" It was silent after that then he spoke again. "You all submit to a blood test, thats the price of admission!" He says. Rick looks back at me. I nod once and he nods turning back to look at Jenner. "Okay, we can do that!" He says. "Go get your things, once these doors close they don't open again!" He says giving me a wierd feeling in my gut. What a wierd thing to say.

Everyone ran out and grabbed their stuff. "VI, shut the front doors, turn of the lights!" He says into a little box before we all follow him to an elevator. A big elevator we all somehow fit into.

"So, do all doctors go round packing heat like that?" Daryl asks. "No, there were plenty laying around, so I familiarized myself." He says. He glances back at us. "But you all seem harmless enough!" Looks can be deceiving. I thought. "Except you, im gonna have to keep my eyes on you!" He says to carl making him smile. Something about this guy was off. My gut doesn't lie. I needed to let Rick know.

He led us to a room it looked like a cafeteria of some sorts. We all took turns sitting in a chair and getting our blood drawn. "Whats the point of getting our blood drawn, if we had it we would all have a fever by now!" Andrea says. "I've already broken every rule in the book letting you guys in here, at least let me be thorough!" He says.

When Andrea goes to stand she almost loses her balance. "Is she okay?" He asks. "None of us have eaten in days!" Jaquie says. He looks at all of us.

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Everyone sat around the table, laughing and having a good time. The good old doctor made us food and gave us some alcohol. The adults were having a blast. As Dale poured wine into everyone's empty glasses he started talking to Lori. "You know, in France children are allowed to have a glass of wine with dinner." He says. "Well when he's in the France he can have some." She says. "Oh come on!" Rick says with a smile. "I wanna try!" Carl says. She sighs, but agrees, "Alright just a sip!" She says smiling. Dale pours a small amount in a cup and he takes a sip. He makes a disgusted face. "Eww!" He lets out. Everyone laughs at his reaction as his mom pours it into her cup. "Thats my boy." She says.

"I don't think we've properly thanked our guest." Rick says standing and lifting his glass. "To Jenner!" He says. "Booyah!" Me and my brother yell lifting our cups. "BOOYAH!" everyone else cheered as we all laughed. It was a happy moment until it wasn't. Shane, who didn't want to be here in the first place, had spoken up. "So, when are you gonna tell us whats going on here?" He asks. "Shane we don't have to do this now!" Rick says. "No hold on man, thats what we came here for isn't it?" He says. I shake my head in dissapointment. The moment being ruined.

We can never just have a moment.
"When everything had started, mostly everyone left to be with their families. Some stayed for awhile but eventually just tried it out on their own." He started. "Everyone left, you didn't why?" I ask. "No most couldn't take what was happening and ... opted out. There was a rash of suicides. Bad time. I stayed to see if I could do anything. There wasn't much else for me to do." He says. "So its just you!" He asks. "Yeah, im sorry!" He says. "God, your such a buzzkill man!" Glenn says to Shane, downing his wine. Daryl was gonna drink the poor kid to death. We all grabbed our things, and our drinks following the Doctor down a long hallway. "The housing areas were closed off, so these will have to do. Most have couches and there are extra cots in the storage. There is a wreckroom down the hall the kids would like, just don't plug in any of the electronics. Same goes for the showers, go easy on the hot water!" He says walking away. "Hot water?" Glenn asks.  "Thats what the man said" T says walking off to find a room. I find a small office and notice a door leading to a bathroom. There was a desk off to the left in a corner and to the right there was a couch and a table with pen and paper on it. I set my things down and book it to the shower.

The warm water was amazing. I moaned at the feeling. Amy would have loved this. I still couldnt shake my gut feeling about the Doctor. I still felt like something was wrong. My gut was never wrong. After I washed my body and my hair I got out and dried off, I brushed my hair, it was almost to the middle of my back now, then brushed my teeth and pulled on some clothes, 

After changing I walked out of the room and walked to the wreckroom and noticed a huge wall of books, games, movies, a huge TV. Nice, wish I could watch a movie, jeez the apocalypse just makes me realize how much I took certain things for granted.

Food, water, our nice neighbors who used to help me and Daryl when we were getting beat by our dad. I always hated my father, his death didn't have an affect on me like I thought it would. He was a miserable person, and made those around him feel just as bad.

I still had scars covering my body from when he'd used the belt to my back, with the buckel side. Not fun. I'd never tell Daryl but I'd planned on killing myself before everything happened.

"What you thinking about?" I hear next to me and look up to see Lori. "Oh sorry just, everything I guess. Amy mostly." I some what lied. "Yeah, we all miss her too!" I smile. "She was one of the good ones." I say. I then browsed the book shelf and came across a book called Hush Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick. Interesting I grabbed all four books and left to my room with one last goodnight. I placed the other three books in my bag, yes I'm stealing them, leave me alone. Then went to the couch and lay down reading it till I fell asleep. I woke up with a small pounding in my head. Great. I sat up, putting my book on my bag standing up and stretching. My bones popped and cracked as I yawned.

"Jesus you still in one piece?" I hear from the floor. I look down confused at my brother laying on the floor half asleep, hair a mess. I laughed, "damn bro. You look rough. God I can smell you from here, please go shower." I say. He just groans. Getting up I walked out of the room, well hopped as I struggled to put my boots on.

I walked into the Cantene and sat down in the open seat next to Glenn. "Mornin" I mumble sipping some coffee. God I missed coffee. A plate of food is set in front of me by Lori as she smiles at me. I smile. "Thanks!" She nods and goes and sits down next to Carl just as Rick walks in.

I ate my eggs, toast and bacon silently. I missed Amy, I couldn't help but think about her, she was beautiful, and good. She didn't deserve to die. I sigh and drank the last of my coffee. That's when I noticed Shane was sitting at the table with three scratch marks on his neck.

"Damn dude, what the fuck happened?" I ask. "Says he did it in his sleep!" Rick says. I laugh. "Having a hot dream or sum?" I ask making everyone laugh. "Non ill tell you about!" He says laughing. We all laugh again as Jenner walks in getting coffee. Thats when I'm reminded of the bad feeling I've had since yesterday. The feeling washed over me and thats when I knew something was seriously not right. Shane noticed. "Whats wrong kid?" He asks. I turn my head to him. "Huh? Oh nothing, I'm fine." I say. He didn't seem convinced but dropped it anyways. I should tell him.