I will head out early morning it will take at least 12 hours to get there and 12 hours to get back, these things don’t even really bother me anymore, my most concern, is all that graffiti it could be any one and for all I know can be a big risk for all of us.
Jason wants to predict that his daughters will be fine, he almost wants to be sure of it since nothing ever passed the barricades over such a long period of time, it’s only reasonable to believe that 24 hours won’t make a difference in that.
Jason goes to his bedroom, his official working room, this is where Jason has an entire setup from spades, broomsticks, knives, machetes anything he could find to make a weapon out of is stored in this room, including all the materials needed to put something special together, this also include tools like screwdrivers, ratchets and bits and much more. Sooner or later another room will be needed to store these items, if only there were more people to use them then it would have been perfect besides there is enough to clear out blocks and keep them cleared from these monstrosities.
The day passes by slowly, early the next morning Jason is on his feet ready to move out, knowing that Jacky and Maggie knows exactly what’s going on and why he has to go, they know all the safety precautions to take while their dad is out on runs.
Jason starts walking with the idea of maybe taking a car and ditch it half way then take it back, but Jason doesn't like taking risks, he hates risky conditions, he keeps on walking simply ignoring the idea there is many vehicle’s in the area and if one is needed Jason knows exactly where his stashes are hidden.
Thinking about it, it might be best to keep one vehicle ready to leave close to the house but that will have to wait for another next time, Jason doesn’t find it very important and doesn’t write it down in his little notebook, the pages are nearly full and a new one will be needed pretty soon.
The day is still young and its extremely hot in the sun, not many of these things have been spotted its very strange that they are so inactive today, at normal rates my encounters is several at a time, so far I have only spotted three and they pretty much look like they are dying or so it seems.
Jason carries on, trying to catch as much shade as possible, the bag is pretty heavy loaded with food, water, fuel and some homemade weapons, everything is not too heavy but combine it with the walking and it can get heavy very fast, at least the good sleep last night helped a little.
These things are only getting more and more as Jason goes forward to his destination, it might take a little longer as he knows he will have to hide, move slowly through the following streets, there is still some smoke in a distance, it’s not much but that smoke trail is pretty much Jason’s target, there are a few shops in that area and there should be loads of goods, that’s if it’s still there.
It's 3 pm Maggie needs to prepare food for her and her sister but like any teenage girl they both feel lazy and would hate to get up to do so, Maggie gets up from her bed and goes to the kitchen starting food simple enough it’s just bacon and toast, not the right meal for this time of the day but its fast and at least it’s something.
Finishing the toast and frying the last piece of bacon she runs upstairs and knocks on her sisters door intensely, pretty much screaming foods ready, with no answer after multiple times of knocking Maggie opens her door fast almost like she was busting in, with shock Jacky is nowhere to be seen. Maggie checks under the bed just to make sure it’s not one of her stupid pranks and tricks but there is really no one, Maggie runs down to the door and the locks is broken with a small space between the blockage of furniture, enough space for even Jacky to fit through.
Maggie knows this isn’t good especially if she left the house, stressing that something might have happened while she was taking a nap or something, even though she heard nothing, nothing at all, what if she decided to follow our dad, so many thoughts is going through Maggie’s mind with so much stress that she can’t think straight.
She drinks a glass of water trying to calm herself down, she walks fast through the house looking for her sister but there is no one, entering her dad’s storage room she grabs a knife and goes outside to the front of the house. She knows she isn’t supposed to yell or scream but it’s the fastest logical way to call someone, she yells out Jacky multiple times, knowing it's wrong and also knowing her dad will go nuts if she lost her sister.
She goes further down her street calling but there is no response from her sister and nothing in the area, she checks over a few walls into other yards and through the windows of other homes and sees absolute nothing, not even the slightest clue to where she might have gone to, stressing all over again, Maggie continues searching for her sister Jacky.
“What a good day don’t you think?” The strange man asked in the dark room, Jacky can see the clothing but nothing else.
“I asked you a damn question!” The man yelled out to her.
“It is,” Jacky stutters as she responds with fear.
“To slaughter little fat kids like you, it sure is a great day.” As the man in the dark room scratches against something not very clear yet.
“Maybe we can have some fun first?” The man asked with a high pitched evil giggle.
“Please don’t hurt me,” Jacky said screaming, as she starts crying.
The man moves quickly slapping her hard through the face.
“Scream on more time, and you will die here!” The man’s voice sounds extremely angry now, still shortly after he started to giggle, the same evil giggle as before.
“Please let me go, please let me go,” Jacky asked crying softly, stuttering out her words silently, trying hard to avoid angering this man.
“Ok, I will let you go no worries this is just a game,” the man said calmly.
“Really, I can really go?” Jacky asked with excitement, the man start giggling and scream out to her.
“No I was just joking!” He continues giggling loudly as he starts to laugh.
Jacky clearly knowing this man is sick and unstable, mentally ill and psychotic and no one will know how far he will go to harm someone. Jacky knows she must remain silent and just be calm until an opportunity present itself, it’s hard but she knows she can look past the fear and do this the right way also knowing there might not even be a right way.
It’s been hours, why is no one trying to find me, where is my sister, Jacky still trying extremely hard not to cry, she doesn’t understand why this have to happen to her, why is he so quiet? Why isn’t he saying something, might it be that he is sleeping? I might give it a try and move around a little and maybe if he is sleeping then make my way to the door, I have to try, now or never.
Jacky starts to move around roughly trying to make extra noise just to see if he will respond, she continues to move around and then it was clear that this man was sleeping, he has to be. It’s extremely hard to tell since its way to dark to see in this room, she prepares herself fast and starts moving closer to the door, she is half way and happy that she is almost there, it’s very silent in this room making the stress even more. Being fat she slightly falls forward she can almost touch the door and her hopes is sky rocketing that she can do this.
Jacky hear footsteps moving fast towards her and before she can say anything she feels this hard painful kick to the ribs, knocking out some of her breath in the process as well, it’s a crushing blow, she can feel that one or several ribs might be broken, it is pounding with pain.
The man laughs out loud before he starts talking to her.
“Did you really think it will be that easy? Do you think I am stupid? You are the stupid one to think I won’t see you!” The man said screaming.
“Stop, please stop!” Jacky yells, the man moves her top up and before he could do anything else his walkie-talkie goes off.
“Are you done, do you have both girls?” The man asked over the walkie-talkie.
“No not yet.” Sighing as he replies to him.
“You better hurry up then, he is here and we will need them to nego
tiate for their supplies” As the man replies angrily on the other end.
“Yes ok I will do it now damn it” The man in the room starts getting sarcastic and angry with himself, Jacky isn’t up for moving around it hurts way too much for her to even sit up straight, she fears this man even more, as she knows they are talking about her sister and her father, they are raiders they only want the supplies.
“Roy show me some respect damn it!” The man said, shouting.
Roy is his name he doesn’t respond, he ties down Jacky securely, feet, hands and rope around her body holding her arms down, he gets ups and starts walking to the door, he stands there staring at the door for a minute or two before he replies softly to Jacky, that he will deal with her later, he stares at her with for at least another minute before he take his leave.
Roy takes in the fresh air, he hates to hide when he can simply just do it, walking down the steps leading to the front yard, he removes his one cigarettes and lights it with a match also hating the fact that his on something that feels like an Easter hunt for one more bunny or at least that’s the way he thinks of it.
“You better keep your mouth shut while I am gone” the man shouting at the closed door, scaring Jacky even more, he opens the small gate and starts walking down the street to Jason’s house that’s only two block from where Roy is now.
Maggie was watching Roy and how he talked to someone in the house; it could be Jacky or someone else either way he said to keep your mouth shut that must mean the person in there must be in trouble. Maggie hides between trash and trash cans as Roy passes her by, she figures it will be best to go around and enter the house from the back, just to make sure to avoid any unwanted contact and play it safe the person in there might not even be her sister it might as well be some deranged lunatic.
She gets up half way and starts moving down the hallway, trying to do it as fast as possible as well as trying to avoid all the broken glass and bottles laying around, she walk slowly, under a black bag she steps on a large piece of glass it breaks and she gets a freight knocking a few bottles around, she thinks to herself how pathetic you have to be the get a scare from something you do yourself.
Roy heard the bottles but didn’t pay much attention to it, it might as well be those damn creatures no one knows, he continues walking but thinks to himself, since this area have been cleared for the last three days, he has been watching them it couldn’t be one of them, he turns around and starts heading back its too high of a chance that its someone trying to mess with his hostages.
Maggie opens a window from the back and climbs through into the kitchen of the house it reeks in this house, it stinks so much that she feels like puking every step she takes, behind the flipped over table she find a body it’s hard to look at but this person has been dead for several hours. Her cloths has been torn off and it’s sad for Maggie to think about it but she knows that this girl has been raped it’s kind of obvious as there is no bite wound or anything indicating except for nudity and torn clothes with a hole in the middle of her forehead, Maggie can’t think much of this and continues searching. On her way she found more bodies all girls and its much worse, that man is clearly worse than everything out there, some of them have literally been butchered.
Most of them expose way too much to be just a murder or simply been attacked by those infected, all of these must be the victims of a serial rapist, killer included, she reaches the lounge the cleanest room of them all, it even smells slightly better, she whispers out Jacky but get no response by the fire place she is shocked, happy and excited at the same time to find Jacky, she is still breathing and everything seems fine she doesn’t seem harmed except the fact that she is unconscious.
Maggie hear the front gate opening, she moves fast down the hall and into a room where there is multiple dead bodies, she hear the door opening and the man screaming “I know you are here, you better show your sweet little body or your sister dies” Maggie knows and highly want to believe it’s a bluff how could he know it’s me, he possibly heard to bottles shift around earlier.
Maggie gets down and crawl over a body in order for her to get under the bed where there is another body, she pulls hard trying to hide herself on both sides, some blood leaks out on her, it reeks and she hates this, trying hard to keep her mouth shut as she can hear him walking around the house, he busts open the door and looks around.
Everything seems to be fine everything is exactly where I left it; he slams the door shut feeling stupid as it’s probably no one, fast out the front door he is practically jogging towards Jason’s house to go find the last sister so that they can negotiate for all their supplies.
Barely out of the door Maggie crawled out and whipped of the blood with the corner piece of the bed sheets, she needs to hurry; it won’t be long before he discovers I’m not at home. She runs down the hall and into the lounge where she cuts the rope a few times before snapping of the last few strings, she tries to wake up her sister, hard to do so she uses a half empty bottle of water and poured it out on her face.
Jacky finally woke up, she feels feverish, Jacky lifts her top slightly just in order for Maggie to see she is injured, it's swollen and is blue almost blackish of color Maggie knows this is a serious injury, she grabs Jacky by the arm and pull her up, assisting her to the front door, she opens the door slowly and sneaks out with her sister, only happy they got out with minor injuries.
They cripple down the streets as close to the houses as possible to avoid clear detection, reaching the cars their father stacked, they pass it knowing that they shouldn’t but this will confuse that idiot as he won’t expect us to leave the safe area.
“Just leave me and go find dad,” Jacky said, softly.
“There is no way I can leave you here, you might be a brat, but you are still my sister,” Maggie said slightly out of breath, Jacky smiles it’s kind of her and it’s also good to see she actually does care.
They reach an old apartment building there are a lot of rooms, Maggie is sure he won’t find them there it's three blocks away from the barricades it's perfect even if she could have gone further, she knows the further they go the more dangerous it will be with only a knife to protect them, she is also really out of breath from carrying this much weight.
Roy arrives at the house busting open the door he smells the food and sees the bacon and toast instead of looking for Maggie, Roy digs in and he is loving it, bacon and toast he haven’t had anything as good as this since the outbreak and even when something good was found his dad will always get it.
Roy finishes both meals and calls out to the girl, unaware that Maggie already gave him the slip and by doing so freed her sister in the process. Roy walks through the rooms starting to get angry until he reached Jason’s special room he is impressed of all the junk he collects, spades and shovels, pick axes and other useless objects except for the knives, there is some really neat ones.
Roy runs outside and starts to push a car closer to Jason’s house, Roy returns and started loading everything in the trunk and back seats, Roy is only interested in the fuel, generator, food and any medical supplies the other junk you can pretty much find anywhere.
“Better go get that fatty and go home,” Roy said, laughing until he starts to think silently for a few seconds
“Hell, what about the other one? I should find her,” Roy said out loud.
“Ugh dad will be happy I pretty much raided everything in their house,” Roy said out loud.
He freely let the car run down the road to the house where he was hiding, surprised as he recalls the front door was closed he stops the car immediately, getting out and rushing into the house just to find that she is gone, he starts getting red and rapidly slaps his front head screaming a bunch of nonsense how stupid he was. Out of anger he goes to the master bedroom a very large room and in the master bathroom he stares at three more girls, he leads them with a piece of rope all the way to the middle of the road and starts yelling hoping that they are close.
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bsp; “You better get out here; I will only count to three,” Roy said, yelling out each word.
Maggie staring through a gap in the dirty curtains, as still as possible just to make sure he don’t see any movement even though it’s pretty distant and he possibly won’t see that far, she stares at the three girls all of them seem pretty young around the ages of twenty maybe highest twenty-five it’s hard to say from this distance, Maggie has thick tears as she already decided that she will do absolutely nothing to compromise their location.
Roy removes the tape from one girl’s mouth letting her scream as much as she wants leaving her for a minute or two; she starts to cry holding her hands in front of her face covering the tears.
Roy laughs out loud with his little new plan for a countdown.
“You see this countdown will be a little different!” catching his breath fast.
“With each countdown, I will shoot one in the freaking head!” Roy breaths fast and realize he needs to stop smoking.
Maggie is horrified, thinking twice of her decision she sits down against the wall knowing that there really isn’t much she could do, her sister is injured badly and helping them surly there might be something she can do, but there might be no escape afterwards not with her sister in such a bad condition, she gets up and looks at the girl.
“One,” As Roy shouts it out while pulling the trigger.
It was so fast a little bit of blood rushing down her face while she drops down to the ground with some small movements more like twitching a few seconds. Maggie knows she is dead and that’s just muscle spasms, Maggie feels incredibly bad and starts to cry, she sits against the wall next to the window.
Roy removes the tape from the next girl, she is crying out for help even louder.
“Help me please!” The girl cried.
“Please help me!” as she cries relentlessly.
“Please, please don’t do this I will do anything you want me to” Begging out to Roy even though she already noticed the smile through the dirt on his face that he won’t spare her no matter what she does.
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