Chapter 8: The Girl left behind
The room was silent, Cody sat in the same corner near the window continually looking outside of it. Dan looked at the woman beside him, she was shaking uncontrollably with her knees against her chest. Her black hair covered her face as she faced downward, her left hand holding a colt 45, on her waist a kitchen knife was there being held by a belt, and a holster. She was now wearing a tight leather jacket that she got from the backpack. Dan crouched to her level and asked politely.
“.... what’s your name?” She looked up at Dan and looked back down again.
“My name’s Megan…”
“Name’s Dan.. we’ll bring you home. To the best of our abilities.”
The girl was silent, her head simply dug into her knees even more. Dan seeing her action, backed off and walked towards Cody. As he reached him he placed his hands onto Cody’s shoulders, Cody only nodded acknowledging Dan’s presence.
“...I’m sorry to say but we have to be on our way Cody.”
“Just a little longer… we’ll walk when the sun is on it’s way down, write a letter just in case.”
Something shrugged behind them, and Dan looked back. Megan stood up and went into the restroom. Crying could be heard from the restroom and they understood, Dan walked towards a letter that she left on the ground. He hesitantly picked up the letter and before opening the letter he took a glance up towards the restroom until he opened it.
“Megan, when you read this letter… I either died in front of you or left you in the morning. In each situation there is always danger… especially this time of age. As your friend I’ve decided to protect you till the end, until I got bitten by a zombie. I hid this secret from you for a long time. I wanted to find some vaccine that some of the rumors had said. Luckily I found one and managed to stay by your side for awhile. The vaccine can help slow the rate of infection, holding it back by at least one-two weeks. In your backpack I’ve secretly stashed some of those medicine within, these took awhile to find. I found them in a lab of some sort sadly now that place has been overrunned. Consider this as a rarity… sadly the vaccine only works once and that's it. So I decided after I get you somewhere safe I would leave this letter with you. If you read this letter after I got mauled by something… well… I’m sorry I died. I know I should’ve told you, but the sense of security that you had around me would fall. I just couldn’t see you shake with insecurity in every breathing moment. I sincerely loved you… during these last moments that I might be having… I’ll think of you… and you’re never alone. Keep safe, be well, and live.
Good Bye,
Brian
Dan simply set the letter back down, and he whispered to Cody back at the window.
“This woman lost one of her beloved friends… perhaps her last friend.”
“Well Dan…. I suppose we should get going. Seeing how Ivan haven’t come back yet.”
Dan’s eyes realized something and slowly lowered once again.
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Ivan was in the corner of a office building, using the blinds to cover his position as he bandaged himself up. Letting the soothing ointments take over the inflammation that he had on his side.
He checked his backpack and opened up a MRE, that contained Spaghetti alongside with a heat pack, crackers, Cookies, Skittles, Gatorade, and a laxative for the stomach. Ivan threw the laxative away and heated up the spaghetti using the heat pack that he shook up. As he was waiting he looked around, seeing how the desk obstructed his view towards the window he simply waited. He looked at his watch “3:50 PM”.
“I’m not gonna make it…should I just bum rush it? However my sides burn like hell. It took me ages just to find this place as well.”
*GROAN* “Crap… I forgot to close the door. Oh well… these guys are stupid anyways.
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Stolen from Royal Road, this story should be reported if encountered on Amazon.
After Ivan finished eating his MRE, he got up and leaned next to the window and peeked through a blind and saw the zombie simply limping through the office room. He looked both sides and saw nothing unusual. He waited for the zombie to pass into a small room and reached for the door. Opening the door slightly, he walked out of his room while clutching his sides. *Groan!* He looked behind him and found that the zombie was fast walking to him. Ivan started to walk faster while the zombie limped towards him. Ivan immediately calculated that the zombie limping was extremely fast for him. Ivan turned around and took out bowie knife, he braced himself for pain and threw the bowie knife at the zombie’s forehead. Immediately piercing it, however the zombie continued to limp forward. Ivan rushed up and gave a hefty kick onto the zombie’s stomach causing it to fall down onto the ground with a thud. Ivan quickly got around the zombie and landed another kick downwards where the handle of the bowie knife was. THe zombie’s arms flailed for awhile but eventually fell down. Grabbing the bowie knife, Ivan smirked and walked towards the doorway that led to the outside.
He looked both ways out of the doorway, he found an empty street. Slowly advancing he leaned his body towards the wall and clutched his sides again, grinning with pain he pressed forward. As he passed by an alleyway that seemed empty, he heard something collide with a trashcan. He turned his body around and decided to ignore it, he kept a wary eye towards the back while proceeding forward. A head popped out of the alleyway from the corner and looked at him. Ivan immediately gripped his Remington and walked a little faster.
“Hey… don’t run” A man’s voice was heard from the alleyway, Ivan looked back and saw five figures following him. Leading in the front was a man in a black trenchcoat, while behind him three of them were males and one of the was a female. All of them wearing black clothings and on the side of their hands held various types of weapons. Either a pipe, machete, or a crowbar. Ivan immediately turned towards them and pointed his weapon down at their feets, he put up his hands and formed a stop signal.
“Stop! Do not get any closer if you have ill will towards me!” ordered Ivan
“What ill will do we have soldier? We simply want you to meet our group.”
He saw the girl within the group prepared a needle from behind the leader of the group. Ivan quickly thought up a situation, he was either going to be brutally killed, or captured within this scenario. He didn’t have enough speed to run away from them, it was either they backed off silently or it would be a pointless fight. For if he shot the shotgun the zombies will come rushing and will regardlessly end up having him die.
However the needle indicates that they want to capture him for some particular reasons.
“Stop! What’s your purpose in coming towards me! I will shoot!” Ivan yelled.
“Shhh, it’s all going to be fine… injured soldier.”
Ivan immediately aimed towards the group, but suddenly something stabbed into his back. Ivan looked back and found that it was another girl from their group with a needle.
“Shit!” Ivan felt the effects of the medicine and saw that his inner reflexes slow down incredibly. His hands dropped the shotgun, as it happened the people behind the leader of the group ran up towards him, Ivan gripped his fist whipped around and punch out the girl behind him. However he stopped seeing how the girl was only a child, he turned around again and made a heavy swing onto one of the guys holding a crowbar. A bat hit him on the back, making him lose air. Ivan immediately went to grab his bowie knife but it disappeared from his holster.
“Goddamn Girl!” he noticed that it was once again the small girl that took his stuff. Taking a hit from a crowbar onto his helmet, he made an uppercut onto the man. Causing him to crash into a car next to him. Another bat swing flew by, as he dodged to the left and was met by a kick to the face. As he flew down onto the concrete, he tried to move but the effects grew. His vision blurred into darkness he could hear the people walking up towards him.
“He’s out…”
“Did I do well?”
“Yeah, good job Mary.”
“Yayy! Do we get to eat now?”
“Probably… let’s check the products”
Ivan felt the four hands grab his arms as he wavered into the darkness.