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On the note of Tyler turning in Troy decided it was time to turn in as he was too tired from fighting and he laid on the bed, took one look at Nicole about to lay in her bed, then looked on the other survivors as things were finally settling down.

Once he got comfortable on the bed, Tyler felt as if he was about to melt into a puddle when Ellie touched him. "Jeez, you're good at that," he remarked. "Since we've got a quiet moment, would now be a good time to get to know each other a little better? Anybody wanna swap stories?" He gestured to the other survivors. "Oh, and sorry about barking at you guys earlier," he said to the newcomers Russ had sent to them.

Ellie smiled a bit at the comment as she continued to rub his shoulders. When he asked if they wanted to swap stories, she jumped in after a moment of silence. "I guess I could start." Jumping off the bed, she sat on the floor in front of Tyler, leaning her head on his knee. "I guess it all started when I was four years old. Back then, I was actually named Eleanor Wolf. But my birth parents got killed by an evil vampire. Before I could join then, another vampire - my adoptive mother - chased him away. She saw how scared I was and decided to turn me into a vampire like her. That's how I got renamed Eleanor Cromwell. I honestly like my last name now better than my last name then. It fits more properly." She paused in her story to giggle a bit at her own comment. "Anyway, not much else to say; we lived, we fed off human blood, my mother protected me from a horde of zombies when the plague hit us and died... Now here I am."

"Well, I was a military researcher right before WW3. When the world's chemical weapons started turning our vampires into the first zombies, I was one of the guys who studies the effects of the virus. I had plenty of blood samples and mutilated corpses to look at, but I refused to study live humans or vampires. I actually was court-martialed for releasing a group of test subjects, when I was sure they weren't infected. I thought things would be alright, but then my neighborhood was hit by the Plague. I was immediately extracted and sealed away, but I was forced to leave my daughter, Sarah. She was bitten as I was dragged away." Tyler's eyes flashed with a sheen of tears, and then darkened grimly. "I'm still not over that...but she and my wife were great lovers of people. I think I might have the power to restore the Earth, with a little help. It's what they would have wanted, so I use their memory to keep me going."

"That would be nice." Tyler smiled darkly. "I always used to promise Sarah that I would one day start seeing women again, once her mother died. Though I don't know if we can call this dating, per se." He smiled mischeiviously to match Ellie's smile. "What did you have in mind?"

Tyler grinned widely and offered her his wrist, winking. He then looked about to see if the group would take the hint and leave for the adjacent car. After some swift hand motions, they finally did, after the train came to rest in the Edgefield station.