Miles of Death-7

Logan and I have made a temporary home in a high rise apartment building in Dallas. We made our way back the way Raya and I had come because it was the only way to get out of the storm. It had ended here already, flooding most of the city and causing all kinds of damage. I had been here two days and I was already going out of my mind. During the day we keep to buildings, mostly looking for anything useful but with the flooding there isn't much I can use. The stench some how has heightened with the water pooled and full of bodies. Its receding slowly, but its doing nothing for the smell or the heat. We hadn't seen anyone driving or walking around and although I tried to duck out on Logan while he was asleep a few times, I just keep coming back. What if he isn't lying and I leave him here with no vehicle in this hell of a city. I couldn't live with myself. I didn't trust him at all, there were still things that didn't add up for me. How can he stay at a farm with the people who murdered his wife like their family. How did he go from being drugged to being one of them? How had Raya become so dark and deadly all the sudden when not but two days before she could barley summon the strength to live any longer? I was beginning to feel crazy. Why was I listening to these people, why did I care? I just knew one thing for certain, I was going to find out the truth and then I am going to split. I need to know who im really dealing with.

Logan takes off sometimes on his own, like this morning when he slipped out when he thought I was still asleep. I follow him as much as I can without being detected. He is not looking for supply's, he is going into buildings that make no sense for supply's. I guess maybe he thinks there is food or something in there but I doubt it. What is he looking for? I was giving it one more day before I was getting out, even if I had to leave the car, im going. This is all starting to feel like one big game of cat and mouse, and I don't think im the Cat.
I wait for him to come out of the building he is in, noting he is in there a good half hour, longer than any other building he went in. He didn't come out carrying anything that  indicated he found some supplies, unless they were in his pack. I wait for him to round the corner before crossing the street and entering the building he had just exited. It was dark and trashed like most of the main floors of buildings. I take my flash light out and start looking around. It was some kind of office building. I search the first floor as carefully as I can so I don't miss anything, but there is nothing. I find the stair case and go up to the second floor and stop dead in my tracks. The lights are on. How are the lights on? I hear talking somewhere up the hall and I duck in a cubical. Did they find us, were they here? I had to get closer and see. Slowly I ease out a bit to peak. No one is in the hall but I hear laughter coming from the last room on the left. Deciding to take the risk, I come out in the open hall and quietly make my way to the door. I hear a female and a male voice but
 I don't recognize them. I'm pretty good with voices. Risking it all I peak around the door as carefully as I can. I see a women with a head set on sitting at a computer. She has a working computer? The man had his back to me and was sitting in a chair watching monitors.
"Todd, have you seen her on any of the cam's?
Todd yawns. "She must in a busy somewhere looking for stuff. She left right after Logan. Maybe she is trying to run again?"
I back up slowly when the man gets up to pour himself some coffee. What the hell was going on here. Who were they and how did they know who we are?
The women stretches. "Logan said she is suspicious and doesn't trust him, she is out avoiding him that's all. But we better track her down just in case. We cant loose her again."
Deciding enough was enough and I was going to get some damn answers if it killed me. I take the gun I had taken with me from the farm. I didn't have any bullets but they didn't know that. I stand in the door way, still both unaware that I am there.
"Looking for me?"
They both turn around. I point the gun at the man. "If one of you move an inch I will shoot you first, then you. I'm going to ask you some questions, if I think your lying, I will shoot you. Do you understand me?"
They both raise their hands in the air and shake their head yes. I step a little closer to the man.
"Who are you?"
He swallows nervously. "I'm..I'm a camera man. My name is Todd, I'm just here to film lady.."
I step closer and be backs up falling into his chair. "Cameraman for what? What are you filming here?"
He looks at the women and I hit him with the gun and he sinks to the floor. "Don't look over at her, you talk. Right now!"
He eases himself up and touches his head. "Were filming you, watching what your doing."
I look at the cameras on his monitor. There seems to be every inch of where they had been staying covered. What the fuck was going on.
Changing tactics I turn to the women, I point the gun right at her forehead.
"You have thirty seconds to explain it or your going to die."
She shuts her eyes. "listen, we just work here, all we know is the CDC is very interested in you and has assigned one of their best officers to keep you safe. Your the cure Aria."
I punch her again. "The cure for what?"
The women cries and starts to beg. "Please, I'm just trying to survive to."
I kick the man when he tries to help her up. "Get over in your chair and sit down, you move and your dead. Who do you work for?"
The man sits in the chair nervously. "Ben Walsh and Sarah Reeves, their the last of the doctors and their running the show now, on all of us. If you want to survive, you need them. Were not immune Aria, we can still get it, except for you. You are the only one who is immune."
I sit in the chair across from them. "How many people are working for them?"
The man rubs his face. "They have people every where. Its not as isolate as you believe it is out there, you were protected and kept in isolated places. They have their ways of getting you where they want you. Raya was the first time we tested out how you would respond to outsiders. Then Ben and Sarah wanted to bring you to the farm where they could study you and keep you safe."
I laugh and set my gun down. "You mean kill me and study my body? I'm not going to let any of you study me. I hope you all get it and die. Here is what is going to happen. Your going to give me your car keys and all the food and water you have up here and your coming with me. Lets go, get up."
I point the gun as they empty everything onto a cart. They take me down in a staff elevator to the garage. I make them load the car and then get in. I make Todd drive out of the building. The gun to his head the whole time.
"Where do you get your fuel?"
The women tears up. "Please, wont you just let us go. We cant go out there and be exposed."
"Shut up, I could care less if you rot, where do you get your fuel?"
Todd sighs. "I will take you."
"You better keep it quite and not raise any alarms or you know what will happen before they even get to this car. Move it, now!"
He drives two blocks to a fuel station. I make them fill up all the gas cans I could find and the car.
"Are there any trackers on this car or cameras Todd, and Id be careful with your answer."
He shakes his head. "No were not back to that status yet, were lucky to have computers at this point."
I smile. "Good. Get in the car, both of you."
Carefully I drive out of the city, stopping a mile out. "Get the fuck out."
They both jump out of the car and I speed away. I didn't have a map, I didn't know where I was going to do, but I was not sticking around to become everyone's salvation. I no longer wanted any people around.

As I drove I tried to process what they had said. I was the cure? How was I the cure and how do they know that? I know when I took my family to the hospital they had tested me to see if I was positive for the virus and I was put in a holding room which I left because everyone was dead. Maybe they discovered it then, but why would they just leave me in there? Why would they be doing all this stuff to keep me safe from everyone else when they could have just killed me and took my body? Nothing made any sense. I had no idea what was going on, I just had a few puzzle pieces to a giant puzzle, it was enough for me to never speak to another human again. I needed to find some actual bullets. I wouldn't be able to fool them all like that. What was I going to do? Where was I going to go? Where could I hide from these people?

At dark, I pull the car into the woods a little bit, enough to hide the car. I would be spending the night in the car but I didn't mind. No one else was here, I had made it out and I was never going back. Not ever.
After eating some food and sneaking out to go to the bathroom. I decide to go right to sleep. It had been a long time since I slept soundly. I might not be safe but being alone felt safe. I went right to sleep and slept soundly till morning. After a quick breakfast and change I hit the road. I no longer cared for a map or a plan.  The best thing to do was just to stick to the out skirts and find a place I can function without notice for awhile. It was going to be a quite life from this point on but, I can live with that. I would never trust anyone ever again. All I had to do was out live them, if they can get sick then they will eventually. I hoped anyway. It would make things a lot easier if there was no one out searching for me. For the first time since all this began, I had drew a line in who I was and who I once was. From now on, I'm shoot first and ask later. Everyone was a threat, everyone is the enemy.