Infection Z

virus" one of the doctors tells me.
All the blood leaves my face and my stomach drops, I’ve had the cure inside me all along, my mother, Sam and Amaya they all died, they all died and I could have saved them.
“We’ll need to run a few more tests and take some more samples while we create the vaccine, we ask that for now you keep this news to yourself until we have created the vaccine, this is a great step forward but until the vaccine has been created, we want to keep this quiet" one of the doctors asks, I nod slowly with a sigh.
They take me to their lab and tell me of all the tests they conduct and trials they must run to create the vaccine; all of their medical jargon goes over my head while I try to process the people I’ve lost that could have been saved.
“We’ve collected some of the infected to conduct our trials" one of the doctors announces pointing to the caged zombies groaning and reaching out to grab us, my eyes stop on one of the subjects causing my eyes to widen in surprise, “mum?” I breathe.