Cold air licked my skin and cold winds rippled the fabric of my clothes making my body shiver slightly. As I walked the noises that filled the air were: cars screeching around at speeds, and dogs barking at passers by, people chattering loudly, wind that whistled through nearby and planes flying at break neck speeds overhead.

While walking home I received a message on my phone, the message was from Shadow and it said 'Alexis, please can you come to The Bunker, Both I and Sean need to see you. - Shadow.'

Without a second thought I changed direction to head to The Bunker and to Sean's aid.

The walk was short as I had an uncanny spring in my step not due to excitement or a deep need to help Sean, but the reason I had a 'spring' in my step was due to the shuffling in the bushes.

As I walked I could not shake the uncanny feeling that someone was following me, or it could have been the mess of things happening to me (the discovery of my mother's suicide for one example or Patricia's hobby of kidnapping strangers).

I walked faster to try and shake the uneasy feeling emanating from within my core.

But as my speed increased so did my internal worry and paranoia. I decided the best way to combat the paranoia was to find a way to remove it. So unlike the usual route to The Bunker I made slight detours and wrong turns each time double backing on myself.

Eventually, after I was finally satisfied that I was alone I headed directly toward The Bunker sure that there was no one following me.

The warehouse where The Bunker was located seemed lonely, somehow without the addition of Philip's expensive car it seemed more empty. Nonetheless I pressed forward and through the door that led into The Bunker.

Inside I found Shadow stood next to the clues board he and I made from the clues gathered from the PTD. Meanwhile Sean sat quietly on a stool next to Shadow looking attentively at the same board that transfixed Shadow's attention.

"Hello and what are you both doing?" I questioned Shadow and Sean nervously.

"Hello Alexis I believe that I could be close to solving the clues" Shadow responded with not a lot of confidence.

"Oh" I responded not very enthusiastically, mainly due to Shadow's lack of confidence.

"Well he thinks he has something" Sean added giving a more realistic expectation of what Shadow had found about the clues.

"Hmph I don't see you helping mister Anderson" Shadow retaliated clearly annoyed by Sean's statement.

"Now now calm down we don't need the blame game!" I retorted angrily at both Shadow and Sean.

"Alright" Sean replied unfazed by my snappy statement.

"Fine" Shadow also agreed also annoyed but keeping most of his aggression to himself and not visible to me.

"Now that that's sorted can you show me what you've found?" I pursued in hopes of shinning some light on Shadow's yet illusive findings.

"Well Alexis do you remember the first clue from the PTD?" Shadow questioned me.

"Yeah" I replied giving a slight nod.

"Nineteen seventy eight, on its own that doesn't make sense but it did lead to building materials!" Shadow stated seemingly waiting for me and Sean to understand what he meant by 'building materials'.

"You are going to need to explain" Sean finally stated as he folded his arms.

"Well I had a friend of mine find all purchases made using the town funds and with this information I used the old foundation building information and the fund reduction to determine in what year each building was built and then use that information to determine the location of the deactivation button" Shadow explained.

I looked at Sean to she a clear look of confusion on his face. "Are you confused?" I asked Sean tauntingly as retaliation for his rudeness toward Shadow earlier.

"Well using that method I found that the first clue led too the Pine Wood Valley fire station" Shadow explained as he placed a thumb tac on a map of the town attached to the board.

"So that's one location, anything else?" Sean asked seemingly intrigued.

"Well since the second clue was nineteen seventy six and that led to the photo Alexis found in Kara Kincaid's office. That photo showed the town sign which using the building fund information shows that the sign was indeed built in the year nineteen seventy six meaning it's a second location!" Shadow explained as he grabbed another thumb tac seemingly out I nowhere and jabbed it into another place on the map.

"But two places isn't enough to find a single point! isn't it?" I asked tumidly hoping I had learned anything from any map reading experience (which was very limited).

"Correct but when exactly did you get those two clues?" Shadow asked me waiting for my answer.

"Well when a part-" I started but stopped when I realised that the first clue was awarded when Tom Anderson was 'disposed' of and the second clue was awarded when Michael Bishop was placed into a coma.

"You get it now, don't you why we needed you here!" Shadow pursued clearly knowing my conclusion. "So Alexis have you checked your PTD after the woman at Flower and Flora and Elliot's elimination?" Shadow questioned as I pulled out the PTD from my messenger bag.

On the PTD was two new clues, the first clue said 'Hello Alexis, we seem to have received new information that you are working with a vigilante, now we know this is not an infringement of The end of days rules but it is certainly is an unfair advantage over the other participants.'

The message ended abruptly but the second seemed to continue the first's message directed toward me. The second message read 'Now we have come up with a solution for this predicament, and that is no longer award any more clues and we hope this will teach you a lesson Alexis! We sincerely hope meeting Shadow was worth it Alexis because it certainly didn't lessen the effect of the truth about your mother...did it?'

Tears poured from my eyes due to the mocking of my deceased mother and the clear indication that my decisions had meant I was further away from finding the deactivation button I had ever been. I threw the PTD to the ground in frustration.

Shadow walked over to me and held his arms out to comfort me but I flailed my arms to get him away, meanwhile Sean moved to pick up the PTD that I threw and started to read the screen.

"Wh- what assholes!" Sean exclaimed angrily.

"Show me!" Shadow commanded toward Sean and in response Sean handed Shadow the PTD. Shadow then looked at the PTD and read the messages then he looked up at me while tears in my eyes then he placed the PTD on the table and slammed his fist into the wall cracking it slightly.

We all stood there in The Bunker all of us consumed in the silence.

"I- I- am sorry I have to go!" I stuttered nervously as I slowly rose to my feet dropping my bag and then stumbled out the door leaving Shadow while Sean followed after me.

"Wait" Sean exclaimed as he tried to catch up to me.

I walked faster and faster gaining speed until my walk evolved from a walk to a run, with purpose and unknown urgency until finally...my legs could no longer stand and they collapsed dropping me to the ground.

Ten minutes after my collapse Sean caught up to me his breath escaping me as he rasped desperately and uncontrollably.

"Wow holy cr- I re- rea- really ha- hate b- being dis- di- disabled!" Sean panted as he bent his back and reseted his palms on his knees to gather his breath back.

"It's all my fault" I whispered as tears continued to pour from my reddened eyes.

"N- n- no you are not!" Sean tried to reassure me but failing too.

"Yes I am it's all my fault that we will never find the deactivation button and it's also my fault that we'll all be killed by some participant!" I rambled barely aware of the words flowing from my mouth.

"No your really not" Sean stated solemnly as he rummaged through his pocket and retrieved his own PTD and booted it up. Sean handed me the PTD and I read the message on the screen 'Hello Sean, we regret to inform you that due to your association with the vigilante known as Shadow you will no longer be sent any clues, we hope this information is useful to you and your brothers (although a coma or a 'dirt nap' could deprive anyone of new information).'

The words shook me to see how much whoever sent the message knew about each of our predicaments and how much that they liked to toy with our emotion by using my mother or Sean's brothers.

"I'm sorry" I apologised to Sean.

"Don't say sorry just come back with me to The Bunker and let's face this predicament together!" Sean replied. His words made me happy as I grabbed his hand and he helped me up and we walked side by side back to The Bunker.