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seemed to work. They were not the only ones using the place, and it seemed they’d worked out a set of guards below. Chase looked down at the sheets, obviously used by many, and wondered if the virus was the only thing they had to fear. He looked at Jayda, but she sat on a blanket that Frank had provided for her on the same bed.
    “I hear there is a cure there, so if we can all just make it without getting bit, then we’ll be in good shape,” Frank added.
    “I wish Richard could have held on until we found a cure,” Jayda mumbled.
    “We all do,” Chase said back.
    He wondered about her thinking. It had been well over a month since he’d died, almost two. Maybe she just hadn’t thought her comment out. He was sure she still missed him. She’d had nothing but time to think on it. Of course, time seemed to stand still for all of them recently.
    “Wait till I tell you about the research that Chase and I have done toward finding a cure,” Lucas said to Frank.
    “Lucas,” Chase exclaimed, and then caught himself.
    “What’s wrong?” Frank asked. “Is there a reason you don’t want me to know?”
    “No, it’s just that it’s not quiet done and we lost all the results when we had to flee the lab we were working out of.”
    “I’m interested to hear more, though. I mean, what you can remember of it. I don’t know exactly what they have where we are going, but what you’ve done could help, I’m sure,” Frank went on.
    Chase nodded to Lucas and let the boy go on enthusiastically about their work from the stem cell research to the special mouse to the latest zombies. He didn’t need to even chime in to help as Lucas rambled on about stopping the cell decomposition of the virus. He knew the kid had a mind like a steel trap.
    After, Frank told them to all get some sleep as they’d leave early in the morning. Chase tossed and turned as he counted off each of the others falling asleep. Lucas and Sherri must have done the same, because about an hour later, they snuck out of the room. He didn’t worry about them with the guards. He knew the boy to be smart enough to find an empty room. There had been quite a few of them when they’d entered.
    What did bother him, however, was Frank sneaking out shortly after them. He crept to the door once he heard it close, and then moved to the window to see where Frank had headed too. Before he moved the curtain, he heard Frank’s voice. Peeking out, he saw the guy on the phone. Chase crouched there barely breathing as Frank related, near verbatim, what Lucas had told him about their research. 

Chapter Nineteen
    Chase, along with Lucas and Dax, loaded their meager supplies from the van into the Humvee. Chase asked him where exactly they are going, just to make conversation, but Frank avoided the question by telling him he had a friend to pick up in the city first.
    “I’m not sure that’s a good idea,” Chase said. “Daniel had told us to stay out of the cities at all costs.”
    “We don’t have a choice. The guy is stranded and needs our help,” Frank said shortly.
    “I don’t know,” Dax added. “Sounds really dangerous even in this ride.”
    Frank got in Dax’s face in seconds. “I stuck my neck out for you!”
    Frank walked Dax up against the Humvee as he added, “What makes you think that you are better than him?”
    Chase moved in as he saw Frank’s hands ball into fists.
    “Hold up,” Chase said. “He was just voicing a concern out loud. We are all grateful that you came for us.”
    “Sorry,” Frank spat and moved away.
    After exchanging a few looks and shrugs, the gang all followed Frank’s cue and climbed into the vehicle. Chase helped Jayda in, who seemed too tired today to even complain about his help. He couldn’t help but to watch her out of the corner of his eye as they drove in silence. He just hoped that he hadn’t put them all in harm’s way. Of course, military guys were known to have short fuses at times. And a zombie apocalypse