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"ANYONE INFECTED?"
Rick nodded. The man became uneasy, glancing between everyone. Rick sighed, "Someone in the group was, but he didn't make it." Rick explained.
The man stepped down the stairs as he was eyeing everyone carefully, seeming like he was trying to search for something on everyone. He probably didn't believe Jim had been the only one bitten, but it was the truth.
If there was someone else who was bitten then they would've gone through the day long process Jim went through, and they would've left two people behind instead of one person.
"Why are you here?" the man questioned. "What do you want?"
Rick gripped his gun tighter. "A chance."
The man lowered his own gun. "That's asking an awful lot these days."
"I know." Rick nodded in agreement.
The man scanned his eye's over the entirety of what was left of the Atlanta group. Ella stared at the man, praying he wouldn't send them back out there in the wild danger zone that was unpredictable to all living things.
"You all submit to a blood test. That's the price of submission." The man demanded of everyone.
Rick nodded. "We can do that."
Ella groaned. She didn't like needles, they stung, they were extremely long, and they sometimes went deep in your skin. Since this was a blood test it was going to go far inside the skin tissue.
The man dropped his hands to his side and pointed his finger at the door. "You got stuff to bring in, you do it now. Once this door closes, it stays closed."
Immediately, the men rushed outside to grab whatever they really needed while the women stayed inside, mostly because the men had weapons and some of the women didn't have a weapon.
Ella glanced at the stranger. She was glad he was accepting them into the building to stay for a little bit and to get some much needed answers about this virus or whatever it was.
The moment T-Dog and Daryl shut the doors to the CDC building, the man told someone to seal shut the main entrance and to kill the power in the room they stood in.
The man did tell the truth about there being no way out once he shut the doors.
Rick extended his hand to the man. "Rick Grimes."
The man didn't take his hand, he only looked at everyone else. "Dr. Edwin Jenner."
He led the group to an elevator. He pressed open the doors and everyone stepped inside the small compartment, everyone squished.
Ella was pushed up against Glenn, her back to his front. She felt the heat rushed to her cheeks, but Ella pretended to not be fazed by it. Glenn on the other hand made it a tad obvious he was freaking out.
