Goodbye, Anne.
He thinks about the people he has known since the epidemic began. Most of them are dead and gone forever. Anne. Paul and Ethan. Ducky. Cruz and Noel, Marcus and Evan and Ramona and Gary. Ray Young.
Erin.
They did not die for nothing, he believes. They died for something. All of them died to ensure Ray Young would end up here, today, and give his body and blood for a chance to save the world. They all played their part.
That makes them all heroes, in a way. A sappy thought, but accurate.
The Bradley starts its engine and sits idling in the dead town. The Stryker is already rolling across the parking lot, executing a U-turn until it points east.
East, and then north. To Fort Detrick.
We’re going to do this, Todd understands. Perhaps there we can end this nightmare.
Goodbye, heroes.
There is still a chance we can win this war, and we will fight for that chance. We will never give up. We will win, or we will all go down together.
