Hearing the news of what happened to Erin's father, Elizabeth felt the color draining from her face.  Checking to see the girl's reaction, the full reality of it hadn't sunk in just yet.  “No,” the little girl said, her voice wavering as it started to sink in.  

When Dallen addressed her, cruelly giving her a little bit of false hope, Elizabeth shot a glare in his direction.  “What are you doing?” she hissed, but Erin had taken to his side, believing that her father might really have been hiding in the cafeteria just as she'd been hiding in the lobby.  He'd gotten a little girl's hopes up just so she would join him in his pointless cause—and she was furious.  When Erin wasn't looking, Elizabeth balled her hand into a fist and punched Dallen without restraint in the shoulder.  He should have known better than that.

The only reason she went along with it was for Erin—because she wanted to know.  She deserved that much, but Elizabeth felt the need to awkwardly remind her that they might not find what they expected when they opened the doors.  Even though told her that she understood, the way she excitedly waited by the door gave the impression otherwise.  

When they met up at the cafeteria she didn't have anything to say to Dallen.  When he pulled her aside to talk to her, she scoffed at what he had to say.  After what he just pulled with Erin, she didn't trust him one bit and he had some nerve trying to use her again in an attempt to make her go along with it.  “Because a bus full of high school students and a court house full of people who wanted to let her die is her best chance?” she hissed keeping her voice low so no one else could hear her.  “Fuck you.”  She considered the conversation over when Ethan walked past them to open the doors and stepped away from Dallen.

Everything seemed to be running smoothly until Erin noticed something.  “Wait!” Elizabeth called out, but failing to catch her in time as she ran ahead.  Dropping the contents in her arms as she went after her, the girl suddenly stopped and called out to one of them.  Horror flashing in Elizabeth's eyes as Erin called to what was once her father, she slowly edged forward closer to her trying not to make any sudden movement that might make it attack.  After unleashing a piercing scream that hurt her ears and getting the attention of the entire horde on them, they had to move quickly.

“Erin!” she yelled.  The girl turned to run towards her, tears steaming down her face.  Taking off as fast as they could, their feet pounded on the pavement as Elizabeth was practically dragging the girl along with her to escape.

“Lizzy,” Erin yelled so she could be heard over the loud choir of the dead.  “The bus-”

“We're not getting on the bus,” she told her.  Rounding the building of the school where the manhole cover was they'd crawled out from, she urged the girl to go first.  Reluctant to do so after seeing the way that Ava passed and not wanting the same to happen to Elizabeth, Erin still did as she was told only to be followed behind shortly after.  The noise of the buses kept the attention of the dead just long enough for them to make their escape.