Luke tried explaining this to his dad, why else would he want a person to eat, Bradley wanted none of it, he didn’t think or even try to think about it, even this behavior is unusual, just a month ago he was holding a gun to Roy’s head for messing up his mission, normally if my dad found it to be a lost cause he will stop it there immediately and finish what he started and move on, this time around its entirely different.
“We could use him to our advantage, if we ever were to keep him in control,” Bradley said.
“Impossible and you know that,” Luke said fast and sarcastically.
“Well, when an opportunity comes knocking on your door, then you might as well try,” Bradley said with a deep itch in his throat.
“You are going nuts just like him, are you even listening to yourself?” Luke asked, followed with silence.
“Exactly how would this benefit us, if you do manage?” Luke asked.
“If you don’t like the way I run things then feel free to leave, either that or shut your damn mouth,” Bradley said angrily.
From Gordon they travel all the way to Madison, entering this area they can tell it’s a mess just like most of the other areas, rotting bodies everywhere, with a thick stench wandering around the air here, as they want to give up and just take the car and leave as far as possible, they see an injured woman with a little boy maybe in the ages of around fourteen.
“Stop the car, we can walk from here,” Bradley said almost whispering.
“You don’t have to whisper, we are too far from them to hear, that’s if they can even see us,” Luke said.
“Oh ok sure, the old all mighty wise guy,” Bradley said.
“There are a lot of them,” Bradley said.
“With so many, following her will be hard unless we stick to the fence and walls, if any approach us we can jump the walls and that will give us time to get away,” Luke said.
“That sounds like a plan, let’s go then,” Bradley said in a hurry.
“Wait,” Luke said grabbing Bradley by the shirt.
“What, What do you want?” Bradley asked.
“We don’t have to take them, it’s just a kid and a girl,” Luke said.
“Shut it, I can raise that kid as one of my own, his aunt or mother in the other hand, is simply dead meat, now let’s go,” Bradley said.
“Look if you hurt that kid, then I will end you personally, do you understand,” Luke said, holding his knife to his dad’s throat.
“Understood, take it easy and put the knife down,” Bradley said, followed with a second of silence Luke lowers the knife.
“Now we can go,” Luke said.
They entered that house over there, so many of them followed, with them being surrounded, there is no way we can reach them it’s impossible, unless you have a death wish. Even if we use our guns they will still outnumber us, Luke try to explain why they should just leave, however his dad is extremely grumpy over the situation.
It’s starting to get dark and many of them has started to spread out, they sneak closer and closer as these monsters make way, it’s a back and forth situations, these things are really unpredictable to where the will be moving, one moment they can be going left and suddenly turn and go right. This unpredictable behaviors has scared all of us more than once, thinking that they have spotted us, or just know we are there, we got used to it as they simply do this at random like a broken compass.
They reach the door and they can hear more than two people talking, going around to the back Luke can see clearly there is two adult males, a young boy, and the girl over there must be family, she looks like she could be the mother, not sure no one can make perfect assumptions.
Before Luke can go back to the front, his dad busts into the house gun ready, he tries not to make much noise as this seems to attract them faster now, movements to, it’s dangerous, especially now that you have to keep both in mind when sneaking past so many of them.
This small group was silenced before they could even try and explain, my father wanted none of it and tied each one down, leaving them to helplessly stare and wait, hours went by, all part of Bradley’s plan, in this time he remained silent, flashing his gun every now and then when one of them got uncomfortable.
The wait continued until early morning, when most of them were scattered distantly, there was still a few roaming around the house outside in the garden, nothing that Bradley couldn’t handle, he took care of them fast and easily by using only his knife, it only took a few minutes before he returned and explained to the family what will happen next.
“You see, we have a problem, a very serious problem,” Bradley said with a few seconds of silence.
“This will require one of you to come with me; you have no reason to ask me anything,” Bradley smiles with evil.
“Oh, one more thing, before you decide who it will be, be warned, that this person will die and most likely be horribly, “Bradley said laughing.
The people mutter and speak to each other mostly the two guys, it was clear to Luke that they sure aren’t family or relatives, they are clearly talking about the girl and the boy, not much time was given, Bradley wanted to know and he wanted to know now.
“Have you decided who it will be? One of you guys? This little boy or this girl that can hardly stand, pick now,” Bradley asked, both men looking at the girl and the boy.
“Luke, I think they have decided will you be so kind to bring the car over?” Bradley asked.
“On my way,” Luke said as he knew they would pick the weakest one.
“Don’t take my son, take me instead, he is all I have left,” The girl crying and begging.
“Shut the hell up,” Bradley said angrily
“Please I will go with you, you won’t have any problems with me, I promise I will do anything you ask me,” The girl said softly.
“For starters, I wasn’t going to take your son, I was just going to take you,” Bradley said, laughing,
“Well, that’s what you get for being a stupid bitch,” Bradley said laughing, holding the gun up to the kids head.
“Bang, bang!” Bradley making gunshot sounds.
“Stop it, just take her and go, you don’t have to torment her!” The man said, looking down to the floor.
“And who are you to tell me what to do?” Bradley asked.
“It seems like you two are a little bunch of wimps, voting out a little boy and his poor mother like that,” Bradley said, now pointing the gun toward the man that spoke out of place.
“Why did you decide on them? Why not chose this guy next to you?” Bradley asked curiously.
“He is my brother, I could never do that to him, just like he would never have done that to me,” The man said in a high tone.
“That seems very selfish of you two, I mean after all he is still just a young little boy,” Bradley said, quickly aiming the gun to his brother pulling the trigger, shooting him in the shoulder.
“Ah shit, I didn’t mean to do that, I was just playing!” Bradley said, shouting over the man screaming in pain.
“It will teach you two a lesson, not to talk unless your spoken to,” Bradley said calmly.
“Stop whining you remind me of a little girl!” Bradley said furiously, shooting the man again.
“You motherfucker, I will kill you, I swear if that’s the last thing I do,” The man said angrily.
“Oh is that so, you shouldn’t talk to people that way,” Bradley said, shooting the man in the head.
“Let’s go, let’s just leave,” The girl said crying.
“Why on earth are you defending them? They just voted you out to die!” Bradley said, shouting almost screaming, shooting the other one in the head to.
“Because they were just looking out for each other,” The girl said, staring at the blood running from their heads.
“I see, well since you didn’t learn from their mistakes I will just kill your kid, maybe then you will learn to shut your damn mouth,” Bradley said, laughing as he grabs the
kid by his hair, dragging him over to stand in the middle of the lounge.
“Stop it! Don’t hurt him, he did nothing to deserve this,” The girl said, crying even louder.
“Oh, so now you are begging me? Why should I listen to a bitch like you,” Bradley said softly.
“Damn it, you see what you make me do, I hate bad language,” Bradley said angrily, removing his knife, slitting the boy’s throat in a seconds flash.
The mother screams out and cries intensely, it was only for a mere second before Bradley knocks her out and dragged her outside, just in time as Luke arrive with the car, he opens the trunk, pick her up and drops her, pushing her neatly into place, before slamming the trunk shut, applying his own body weight just to make sure its closed properly before he got in.
“What was all that about? She said she will co-operate, didn’t she?” Luke asked.
“Well she didn’t, now get us out of here, can’t you see they are starting to gather up again,” Bradley said.
“What about the others?” Luke asked.
“They will be fine, they will have themselves untied any moment now, so we better get going,” Bradley said.
“Fine, I’m going,” Luke said as he drives through the infected people, hitting a few along the way.
it's late but we made it, I am sure Roy will be happy about this, Bradley only opens the trunk, but leaves the girl there, calling Roy to go do what he needs to do, once Roy arrived outside, Luke knew that this was insane, he was looking even better than earlier, knowing he will have to find a way to lock him up, whether his dad agrees or not.
At least, the girl went fast, she was still out when we got here and Roy didn’t hesitate to do it fast and get it over with, it’s harsh to think what will happen to that kid, at least, he is with two guys that seems very capable of handling themselves, yet again they did offer up the girl.
Once Roy finished his meal he started tripping over his own feat, no balance and seemed incredibly weak, this was the moment Luke were waiting for it, he rushes over to grab a shovel and with one hit Roy was down on the ground and the next thing he could see was steel bars, locked up in the basement with a rotting dead body.
“Roy is locked up, see if you can manage but when he hurt you don’t come to me for help,” Luke said
“I will never cry, you little snot head,” Bradley said.
“I have things to do, so I need to go get some rest,” Luke said.
“I am tired too, now bug off,” Bradley said.
The night went by good, none of them got to close and, of course, no noises from the basement, that must mean Roy is probably still out, or patiently waiting to kill the first one to enter the basement. Luke didn’t care and he knew he had to go take a look, it's early morning, the sun isn’t even shining yet, he opened the basement door only to take a peek, hating the horrible smell.
He enters when he thought the coast was clear, he stood there in fear, shocked, the bars is bent open and worse of all a piece of skin is left over in the cage Roy was locked up in, its only bits and pieces of skin, Luke doesn’t know what to think, but he instantly rushes up to his room and starts packing his bags.
Luke doesn’t want to run away just yet, he still need to take his vengeance, no monster will scare him away until he does, Jason must die and that’s exactly what he is going to do, kill Jason.
Bradley woke up much later that day only to see Roy escaped, yelling and shouting around the building for Luke to come, only to realize that he too is gone, Bradley has no idea what’s going on, Roy could have taken Luke and killed him, for all he knew.
Luke could have taken Roy and killed him or Luke was scared and ran away when he saw Roy is missing from his cage, angry at himself, hating the fact that both left him, considering that they might come back if he gives them some time, or, at least, one will come back.
Later that afternoon, Bradley had enough, he found this paper in Luke’s bedroom with tips that he will be going to Fort Jefferson. Bradley decided that he will pursue his son and if it’s not some type of trick to make him believe he was going there, then he will find him and beat him real good until he realizes he needs to go back home.
Chapter 7: The Hunger Part 2
It has started again, its back and worse than ever before, Danny doesn’t know what to do about the feeling, the pain, and the hunger.
Danny can’t stand this feeling he needs to talk to someone soon, anyone will do but figuring its only right to talk to William first, besides he has always cared about Danny’s health, there is no reason for him not to care.
Still there is always days that he just doesn’t care, times where he is too busy to listen, if that had to be the case then Emma is defiantly secondly on the list, he will probably just recommend me to go to her straight away.
Danny feels every second of every hour passing by, sweating and burning up with stomach pains, it’s barely bearable, a few hours passed, the pain was relieved over this time and he fell asleep.
Waking up again with intense pain, crawling against the wall all the way to Emma’s room, only to discover that she isn’t there, realizing that the sun is up and shining bright, meaning she must be outside working.
Danny leans against the rough walls and makes his way out where he faints, Emma rushes over with a few other people, all curious to what’s going on.
“Please leave, there is nothing to see here,” Emma said shouting.
“Get back to work,” Emma said shouting angrily.
Danny woke up during the next night, happy to see William was there next to him, sitting in an old wooden chair, it’s a big relieve even some of the pain is gone, Danny can easily handle this.
Danny can only pray that nothing serious is wrong with him, he turns around and tries to rest as he still feels drowsy maybe from medication, shortly after he turned to his side, he fell into a deep sleep.
“Rise and shine, I am sure there is work you need to do,” Emma said with a wide smile.
“Morning, work will have to wait, people can take care of them self for a while,” William said yawning.
“So, have you figured out what’s wrong with him,” William said.
“Not yet, it really can be anything, you know I gave him the strongest painkillers we have,” Emma said, staring.
“Will he be ok?” William asks concerned.
“He should be fine for now, only time will tell if he is going to get any better,” Emma said.
“No worries, I will take good care of him, you should really go talk to them and make sure they are calm,” Emma said.
“Yes, I should before they believe he is infected,” William said.
“Well, you better not waste any time, there are a lot of rumors running around, its best you deal with it now,” Emma said.
“Trust me, go now, Danny will be fine, I won’t let him out of my sight,” Emma said with a smile.
“Very well, I trust you, I will talk to them later today, still have something else to do, that’s just as important,” William said.
William walks out hastily towards his office, on his way he asks Susan to tell Martin and Markus to meet him as soon as possible in his office for a new job.
Arriving at Williams so-called office, they sit down and wait for William to get back from where ever he is, only a few minutes went by and they can hear footsteps approaching, that must be William, Martin thought.
“We have a very important job to do,” William said.
“What job would this be?” Martin Asked.
“We need to go and see if anyone else made it to Key West, The Fort,” William answered.
“Beside from that, we should also go take equipment from the hospital, we need them for more serious injuries and disease, this way we would be able to properly diagnose the patients that visit Emma,” William said.
“Sounds easy enough,” Martin said, staring at William.
“We also need to collect samples from those things, least a few samples from a variety
of infected, just so that Emma know what to look for,” William said.
“Sure, that won’t be a problem either; will you be joining us again?” Martin asked.
“Of course, i need to make sure we get the right equipment,” William said.
“The more we are the more we can get done, we will also stock up on other supplies, though the main goal is to secure medical equipment, once that is secured, we can only then continue to search for any other supplies,” William said, followed with complete silence.
“No questions?” William asked.
“How long will this trip be?” Markus asked.
“I will be setting it for at least 5 days, 3 days to secure the equipment and 2 more days for any other supplies, food and fuel. William said.
“You all should go get some rest, this time, we will be doing it a little different, we will be going tonight at dark, the few hours of rest, will be good for both of you,” William said as they walked away.
Both of them walk fast, they still need to fetch food and prepare their gear before they can even think of resting; it sucks as it’s already late, if William could have only mentioned this earlier.
“I don’t know anymore, it’s getting harder for me to trust William,” Markus said.
“Why is that?” Martin asked.
“Think about it, Danny and William obvious has something going on,” Markus answered.
“What’s your point?” Martin asked.
“Think about it, this morning Danny collapsed looking awful, high fever, sweating and moaning in pain, now all of a sudden he wants us to gather samples, don’t you find that slightly out of the ordinary,” Markus explained.
“That will explain why they want better equipment to get better diagnostics,” Martin said, thinking.
“Exactly, this all seem wrong, for all we know this place is compromised, just because of Danny, he might be infected, you know it takes time for them to go all nuts,” Markus said.
“I know, you don’t have to tell me, just get your stuff ready, let’s get this done and see what happens after we get everything, there is no need to rush to conclusions,” Martin said.
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