You're still feeling pretty tired, decline Annabelle's offer

From Create Your Own Story

You yawn. "No, I think I'll get straight to bed."

"I understand. Have a good sleep, Rina." Annabelle picks up her tray and heads off.

You get a good night's sleep, then get back to work the next day. And the next, and the next. Weeks pass by, then months. Finally, one day, Ryan runs up to you excitedly. "We did it! We came up with a formula that turns zombies back into humans!"

"Oh my God! That's wonderful!" You embrace him in a tight hug.

"I don't mean to brag, but they said they couldn't have done it without my help," Ryan continues. "Which means that if you hadn't broken protocol and jumped in to save my life..."

You shake a little as you think about how close everyone came to missing this opportunity, but get control of yourself. "It was just the right thing to do," you say simply. Ryan gives you a soft kiss on the lips. You smile as you kiss him back.

You exchange your submachine gun for a dart gun, joining the other soldiers in sending the formula into the zombies surrounding the base. Ryan says that the science team eventually hopes to develop an airborne version of the formula to speed up the process. Helicopters are already delivering boxes of the formula to other military bases.

As you look at the growing stream of ex-zombies, now human, trickling into the fort, you smile. Humanity has found a way to defeat the zombies, and you feel proud to have played a part in it. It will be a long struggle, probably many years until the world can be cured, and even more years before the world can be rebuilt. The tunnel is still long and dark, but a faint light is visible at the end of it, growing a little stronger each day.

THE END