Kristie sighed as she rested her cheek back against the stock of her M40A3 and scanned the parking lot. The rain was in a downpour of epic levels. The sounds it made as the rain pounded against the top of her helmet were like a bittersweet melody. Kristie had gotten used to the sound, she often did night time guard duties in Quantico, unfortunately she also hated the sound. It went away after a while, but then you felt empty when it was gone. The brilliant flashes of lightening, the loud rumbles of thunder and the playful laughing Kristie could hear behind her began to resolidify her feelings of isolation. She'd never been good at making friends, it usually took her months to even feel the need to companionship, and she didn't know why.<br/><br/>Military psychologists told her it was the lone wolf style EOD Technicians were trained in, and something to do with abandonment from her parents, a distant childhood. She was used to being alone, and although her heart felt torn her mind was at its peak during these times. Not that making friends in the Marines was at all hard, based on of course the fact you spend most of your year with those Marines, and the massive contribution from comrade respect and bravado adding to the already solid structure of friendship easily achieved. The problem was, all the people she knew or cared about were dead. That left her worse off than before, she rarely got along with civilians, and although she usually had a healthy relationship with the Army she almost always had to get in a fight with 'em first.<br/><br/>Kristie's eyes began to move right, but she caught herself. She didn't really want too look, not only was her mind on the landscape ahead of her, but she didn't want to have fun right now. Right now she had to get her mind on right, recover from the loss and refocus her attention elsewhere.<em>“It’s caught your eye hasn’t it.”</em>Kristie' heard Markus ask, his voice sounded like a base drum but Kristie didn't even flinch. She looked at him dryly, then gazed over towards the hospital as a flash of lightening cast an eerie shadow over the entire visible side of the building. For a brief second, Kristie thought she could see a nurse in one of the windows, and for a second she thought it was real. She almost stood, as another bright flash caused the window to appear empty. Stopped in her tracks, Kristie knew horrible things happened there. She knew the hospital was where all the people they should have found were, Kristie knew horrors beyond comprehention had been set in motion there. "<strong>...yeah, it has.</strong>" Kristie sighed, looking up at Markus with a lost look.<br/><br/>"<strong>...they are in there. The towns people, or at least whats left. They all went to the hospital...they are all still in there.</strong>" Kristie sighed and looked back towards the hospital. "<em><strong>..and I'm going there too.</strong></em>" She thought out loud.