Airianna opened her eyes to sunlight blasting her in the face. She rolled herself out of her bed and fell onto her floor. From the noise she received in return a slight grunt from her husband as he too cracked open his eyes. She smiled at him, blew a kiss, stood up from her floor, and shuffled into the kitchen to start on breakfast for her small family. As she was cooking she heard slight movement from the master bedroom indicating her husband was getting ready for the day. She turned off the stove and placed the bacon and scrambled eggs onto 3 separate plates for the glass table by the window when a small weight barreled into her legs.

The tired woman glanced down and was greeted with the sight of her unruly toddler, Eren. He gave his mother a large, toothy smile before clambering onto one of the chairs at the table to wait for his food. She placed his small plate in front of him with a fork, kissed the top of his head, and set the remaining plates down. As the little boy began to inhale his food his mother started to brew some coffee for her husband, who by now had shuffled his body all the way into the kitchen and to the table, and steep of tea for herself. As the sleepy father slowly picked at his food his wife gently passed a cup of hot, black coffee into his hands and he gratefully gulped it down.

Airianna then sat herself down with her own cup of Earl Grey tea and began to nibble on her breakfast as she watched her two favorite men do the same. Afterwards she picked up her baby boy, shared a kiss with her husband, fought the child and herself into appropriate clothing for the day, and headed out the door to her job and her son's daycare.

It took an hour for her to drive to the hospital as usual living so far away from the city, but she didn't mind. When she got there she quickly rushed Eren to the daycare on the 2nd floor before heading to her own floor to begin her work day. She entered the ICU only to be greeted by a nurse calling a 'CODE: BLUE' on the intercom, and she sprinted to fix the patient's breathing before it stopped all together. She spent the next 6 hours doing normal rounds, special check ins on patients who were not improving or taking a turn for the worse, and occasionally getting called down to the ED for an emergent cardiac surgery.

While she started to head to the elevator to start her lunch break, and visit her son, an ED nurse came rushing up to her, "Doctor! We need you for surgery ASAP. There was a cop that was shot clean through his left shoulder" The man sounded out of breath as if he had been searching for Airianna for awhile.

"Any veins or arteries nicked?" The nurse nodded as he followed the doctor into the elevator and jammed his hand on the 1st floor button.

"Name?"

"I believe his name is," The nurse quickly glanced at the chart he was holding before he passed it to her, "Rick Grimes, ma'am."

A few weeks passed since the man, Rick Grimes, had surgery and he was recovering well for having nicked 3 veins and 1 artery. The man was lucky to be alive, even if he was in a coma for the time being. While she checked in on him again in the ICU she quickly waved to his partner who visited quite often before continuing on her way to her office with a mound of paperwork. Many people had been coming in recently with scratches and bite marks they claimed came from other human beings. She was lucky that she didn't have to deal with them face to face, she ended up normally reviewing their files and then passing them off to one of the many residents.

Her husband warned her from going into work that day when he noticed the hospital had been featured on the news, but she brushed him off and sent him on his way to enjoy his weekend hunting trip. Her husband did end up making her promise to keep Eren near her that day, and after a few minutes of nagging she caved and agreed. Damnit if she didn't love that man she would strangle him. She adored her son, but he had been crawling around her office all day attempting to shove every little thing into his tiny mouth. When she noticed the clock displayed '5:15' she scooped up Eren, crammed his squirmy body into his papoose, strapped the confusing contraption to her body, and grabbed her backpack to head home for the day.

She had just started to walk down the hall towards the elevators when a loud bang akin to fireworks sounded in the air, but she had spent enough time in the country to know the difference between fireworks and a gunshot.

Airianna quickly hid in a side hallway near the pharmacy doors when she spotting a female nurse crying in a ball on the floor. She rushed over to the sobbing girl and patted her back, "It's alright Mary. It's only me." Mary quickly lessened her crying at the familiar voice. "What's going on? Why is there someone shooting up the hospital?"

Mary shook her head, "It's the military doctor," she whimpered. "The bite victims started attacking people and the government said it's some type of virus."

"Well if it's the military then we will be perfectly safe." At her words Mary began to sob louder than before.

"No! They are shooting anyone who could have been bitten! That means all of us."

Airianna felt her blood run cold, "They aren't letting anyone leave."

She quickly sprinted back to her office with Eren and slammed the door shut. She took off her backpack and threw out all of the files she had planned on taking home and started putting any needed supplies in it: water bottle, notebook, change of clothes, etc. She swung the barely filled bag back onto her shoulders and grabbed her large key ring out of her desk before venturing back outside. She quietly snuck back into the hallway she found Mary in to see the woman had already left, but the pharmacy door she was sitting in from of was still locked. She deftly pulled out her key ring, unlocked the door, slipped inside, and started filling up her bag with high prescription pain meds all the way to the simplest Ibuprofen.

Once her bag was filled and the shelves were all empty she snuck back outside, but froze in her steps when she heard gunshots getting closer to the 6th floor. She crept around the floor until she reached the stairwell leading down to the floor holding the employee parking garage. She hoped beyond luck that the military was only blocking the main exits to the garage and not the small side exit she always used since she was the only one who could slip her tiny ass convertible through it. Eren began to whimper a little as she got all the way down to the 2nd floor stairwell and she held his head while shushing him. She was in the homestretch of her half-assed plan now, and all she had to do was walk across the 2nd floor to the private employee staircase on the other side of the corridor. She cracked the door open and was stunned at the image she was hit with.

The whole corridor looked like something out of a horror movie, and not some shitty B-rated one either. All the lights were either broken or barely flickering, there were hospital beds strewn around the floor, massive stains of blood splattered all over the walls, and the bodies. There were countless bodies littered on the ground from patients to her coworkers. All of them had a matching bullet through their foreheads which made her morbidly hopeful that the military had already check this floor. She slowly stepped her way around the bodies while trying to stay as quiet as possible. As she was going she came across and handful of fully loaded M9 pistols lying on the ground. She picked up a few and unloaded the rest, shoving the cache of spare bullets into her pockets.

She was almost to the double doors which promised the chance of safety when the daycare door caught her attention. It seemed like someone had locked it from the inside and when Airianna peaked in the glass window on the door she noticed the daycare instructor, Erica, was kneeling on the ground and she appeared to be clutching something. Perhaps one of the children were hurt or she was calling for help on her cellphone, but Airianna decided she would not leave the poor woman stuck in there to die.

She unlocked the door from the outside and slowly pushed it open. The sight inside appalled her and almost caused her to throw up.

Many of the children were on the ground with chunks of their flesh missing, either crying of help, or already passed out from blood loss. One of the younger children wailed and Erica's head shot up towards the poor girl's cry. She dropped what she had been holding, which was apparently a bloody infant, and crawled over to the girl. Airianna stood frozen as the sweet, shy woman ripped into the child's neck, successfully silencing the child's crying.

"Oh my fucking God." Airianna's whisper caused the deranged woman to shoot her head up and she got a perfect view of her bloody face and milky gray eyes that used to be bright green. The woman dragged herself towards the doctor and her own child, but before she could reach them Airianna pulled one of the guns and shoot her in the chest.

The usually fatal gunshot wound did not slow down this 'thing' in the slightest, "Oh, fuck!" She quickly shot her in the head before she grabbed onto her own foot and breathed a sigh of relief when she fell to the ground, finally dead.

Airianna then immediately threw up and started to cry. Jesus, she killed someone! But she was eating the children. Oh mercy, the kids. She died her tears and stumbled out of the daycare locking it once more behind herself. She patted Eren's head as they quickly reached the car and she unstrapped her son from her body and placed him into his car seat. She then turned her car on, slipped out of the small exit, and got the hell out of dodge.

A few hours and 2 detours later she and Eren, who had fallen asleep, had gotten back to her house only to find that her husband wasn't there. She started to panic until she saw a note sitting on the counter top that read:

Airi,

I pray to fucking God that you got out of that hospital with Eren. The news said there was a safe zone being set up in Atlanta. I took the truck to go get my dick of a brother and I will meet you there when I track his ass down. I will be about a day behind you if you made it back here. God I hope you did. I even tried to get to the hospital, but the damn army wouldn't let me through. I love you and I love the little man too. I hope you two stay safe.

She breathed a sigh of relief after she finished the note and let a plan form in her head. She had been able to get back to the house in the car, but she was running on fumes now. A drive to Atlanta would have been the easiest thing since sliced bread, but she and Eren would have to settle for a foot powered trip.