The Next World
Chapter Four
Third Person
Erin held Hannah up as she struggled to walk from the condition of her leg trying to make good time as it got later knowing that the two of them didn’t want to be out after dark. There was silence outside of Hannah’s whimpers feeling the pain sink in more of her leg and into her hip. The two stumbled upon a small suburb, bodies covered the yard, bits and pieces of guts and body parts were skewed about leaving blood trails across the lawn and streets.
“Well would you like a side of brains with that leg?” Erin joked making Hannah bust out into laughter, she hunched over from the pain of her leg as she tried to contain her laughter but immediately both girls were stopped by the feral groans of walkers that walked the streets. Their heads shot up and E set Hannah against a tree bringing her gun up brushing her finger against the trigger ready to fire if needed. Hannah covered E’s back as she made her way towards the noise but E made a quick exit hearing the same truck that the mysterious men stole come up the street, the tires screeching.
“Bastards..” E whispered and quietly and stealthily made her way back to Hannah lifting her.
“Whoa hey there what the fuck is going on?!” Hannah asked a bit of panic laced in her tone at the way her friend was acting, E made her way with Hannah on her arm behind all the other houses away from the walkers and the men finding a house slowly clearing it moving room to room with Hannah.
“Those assholes from before just came into the neighborhood, they are about a block and a half away taking on walkers and distracted” E says grabbing her bag trying to see what supplies are left for Hannah.
“We need to get that truck! Then we could make our way somewhere better!” Hannah replies with anger towards the man that shot her trying to move but wincing in pain as E comes to her sitting her down on the bed that was in the master bedroom.
“You need to rest… I need to go to check some other houses.. see if I can find some meds to ease the pain, please… for me just stay here, you have all the other weapons, you’ve got this” E says quietly making sure her best friend was comfortable before peeking out the window.
“E… be careful… come back to me.. or I swear I will beat your ass” Hannah says to E as she heads to the bedroom door shoving her gun in the back of her jeans and she stops turning back to Hannah.
“You know I will be back… stay safe hun, I won’t be long” E states in a heartfelt manner walking out the door and making her way down the street hiding as best as she can from not only the dead but the men that already had screwed them once…
Erins P.O.V
I kept to the side of the roads where there were fences and other objects to block my from site sneaking into a few houses shoving things into my bag moving to the next one as quick as possible. Three houses later and I had finally hit the jackpot, a doctor must have lived here because there were medical supplies and bags full of medicines, I put two bags on me and head out the back looking around trying to avoid the voices that I heard nearing in my area.
“Shadows shut the fuck up for a moment… just shut up” I heard one of them say and I threw the bags over the fence that I saw hiding around the corner trying to be as quiet as possible.
“What? Talk to me, whatcha hearing ZV?” The deep voice man questioned him and I sat down holding my gun taking in a deep breath just really trying to contain all sound.
“I just thought I heard something” He stated and I rolled my eyes. Duh you heard something..
“There are walkers and crawlers everywhere, c’mon we really gotta get moving we were supposed to be back like an hour ago!” The man snapped and I heard a gun cock and I pushed my back into the house holding the wall.
“Well if we hadn’t fucking picked a truck that was so fucking low on gas we could have been back!” The man… ‘ZV’ snapped back at him hard and I heard his gun cock and heard him go silent again, I closed my eyes and kept so still trying to just think to myself.
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Flashback
I had just finished talking to the nurse that was at the front desk in the emergency room so done with the nonsense that she was spewing due to the mass amount of ‘accidents’ that had been happening and come through just in the past day. The halls of the hospital were starting to get a bit packed right now and I heard screaming from the other room and then Hannah appear from the area and I rushed over to her putting my hand on her shoulder.
“What the hell is going on? In all my years in the field this has been the most insane thing I have ever seen…” I stated, Hannah let out a long and exasperated sigh from the weight of her job and I hugged her for a moment.
“Oh E… this is all getting out of hand… I don’t even know wh-” Hannah was quickly cut off by a high pitched scream and medical tools that clattered as they fell to the ground, people running from the halls paying no mind to what or who they bumped into. I immediately raised my gun from its holster.
“That’s the direction your father went… E.. I..” Hannah said in a bit of a panic as her pager went off and I started walking quickly.
“I got this just go do what you do best, save lives!!!” I say quickly heading further into the hospital getting people out of the way as I searched for my father and tried to find the source of the screaming. I pushed through so many hallways and blood prints were on the wall only the color was off… it was dark and it was thick..
“DAD!!! DAD ARE YOU HERE!!!???” I shouted as things went quiet as I went to the basement towards the morgue. I walked around aimlessly before I heard strong groans from the room and my dad lying on the ground running over to him turning him over listening to make sure he was still breathing.
“Dad! Come back to me, please!” I whined into his chest and he sat up a bit hugging me still groaning, I held him on me and felt the blood that was soaking his shoulder pulling off my jacket placing it on the wound trying to help him up, I only got halfway before the doors to the morgue flew open, a person with maybe 8 or 9 bite marks growled and started stumbling towards us in a frenzy, my dad used whatever strength he had to get us up and towards the stairs, I pulled my gun up and let a few shots out seeing it barely affect the person, two more bodies followed behind them, one looked as if it was already decaying, my dad pushed open the doors to stairs and tied my jacket around the handle.
“It won’t hold for long… we h..have to go.. we have to warn everyone” He said softly.
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Present time, Zacks P.O.V
I was sure someone was lurking around the area, I had heard small but noticeable footsteps, I was always keen on that stuff, always had my ears open, I was silent but deadly, that was how I learned to be since the world went to shit… Matt was following closely behind me and we stopped but only briefly as we heard the sound of a scream from down the street, but I sprinted forward seeing that girl from the store earlier hop a fence and make a run for it.
“WHERE YA GOIN HONEY!!!??” I yelled as I ran as fast as I could chasing after her, cutting through the front of one of the yards and running towards the back tackling her and taking her to the ground trying to pin her down but she… was definitely strong, she kicked me roughly in the gut and tried leaving again but I grabbed her foot making her fall again fighting down her arms.
“LET GO!!” She screamed at my still trying to raise her fists.
“Shut the fuck up!” I yelled back covering her mouth as I heard more growls come towards us, Matt coming over to us as the walkers started flooding the area.
“Fuck! She had so much good stuff! But dude for real time to go before we become dinner!” Matt got a bit frantic grabbing the bags and the girl started freaking out as she looked to the side and I slapped her hard as she bit at my arm trying to leave my grip and I gave her a hard slap knocking her completely unconscious.
“ZACK WE HAVE TO FUCKING GO JUST BRING HER AND DEAL WITH HER LATER!!!!” Matt booms at me and I throw her over my shoulder, her hands dangling behind my back, I run back to the truck getting into the back of the truck keeping her on my lap as we head off seeing the hoard of zombies start to overcome the small housing district.
Erins P.O.V
My hands wiggled and I tilted my head back groaning from the sharp pain in my jaw opening my eyes looking up at the inside of a tent, my eyes taking a moment to adjust, I faintly heard the sound of an unknown man chatting outside, the other person I could barely hear. Before everything black I had seen Hannah being shoved into what looked like a large semi truck and the man I fought at the store pinning me down…. where was she now… where was I? She and I had never been away during this timeframe..
Was she alright… was she even alive?
Erin held Hannah up as she struggled to walk from the condition of her leg trying to make good time as it got later knowing that the two of them didn’t want to be out after dark. There was silence outside of Hannah’s whimpers feeling the pain sink in more of her leg and into her hip. The two stumbled upon a small suburb, bodies covered the yard, bits and pieces of guts and body parts were skewed about leaving blood trails across the lawn and streets.
“Well would you like a side of brains with that leg?” Erin joked making Hannah bust out into laughter, she hunched over from the pain of her leg as she tried to contain her laughter but immediately both girls were stopped by the feral groans of walkers that walked the streets. Their heads shot up and E set Hannah against a tree bringing her gun up brushing her finger against the trigger ready to fire if needed. Hannah covered E’s back as she made her way towards the noise but E made a quick exit hearing the same truck that the mysterious men stole come up the street, the tires screeching.
“Bastards..” E whispered and quietly and stealthily made her way back to Hannah lifting her.
“Whoa hey there what the fuck is going on?!” Hannah asked a bit of panic laced in her tone at the way her friend was acting, E made her way with Hannah on her arm behind all the other houses away from the walkers and the men finding a house slowly clearing it moving room to room with Hannah.
“Those assholes from before just came into the neighborhood, they are about a block and a half away taking on walkers and distracted” E says grabbing her bag trying to see what supplies are left for Hannah.
“We need to get that truck! Then we could make our way somewhere better!” Hannah replies with anger towards the man that shot her trying to move but wincing in pain as E comes to her sitting her down on the bed that was in the master bedroom.
“You need to rest… I need to go to check some other houses.. see if I can find some meds to ease the pain, please… for me just stay here, you have all the other weapons, you’ve got this” E says quietly making sure her best friend was comfortable before peeking out the window.
“E… be careful… come back to me.. or I swear I will beat your ass” Hannah says to E as she heads to the bedroom door shoving her gun in the back of her jeans and she stops turning back to Hannah.
“You know I will be back… stay safe hun, I won’t be long” E states in a heartfelt manner walking out the door and making her way down the street hiding as best as she can from not only the dead but the men that already had screwed them once…
Erins P.O.V
I kept to the side of the roads where there were fences and other objects to block my from site sneaking into a few houses shoving things into my bag moving to the next one as quick as possible. Three houses later and I had finally hit the jackpot, a doctor must have lived here because there were medical supplies and bags full of medicines, I put two bags on me and head out the back looking around trying to avoid the voices that I heard nearing in my area.
“Shadows shut the fuck up for a moment… just shut up” I heard one of them say and I threw the bags over the fence that I saw hiding around the corner trying to be as quiet as possible.
“What? Talk to me, whatcha hearing ZV?” The deep voice man questioned him and I sat down holding my gun taking in a deep breath just really trying to contain all sound.
“I just thought I heard something” He stated and I rolled my eyes. Duh you heard something..
“There are walkers and crawlers everywhere, c’mon we really gotta get moving we were supposed to be back like an hour ago!” The man snapped and I heard a gun cock and I pushed my back into the house holding the wall.
“Well if we hadn’t fucking picked a truck that was so fucking low on gas we could have been back!” The man… ‘ZV’ snapped back at him hard and I heard his gun cock and heard him go silent again, I closed my eyes and kept so still trying to just think to myself.
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Flashback
I had just finished talking to the nurse that was at the front desk in the emergency room so done with the nonsense that she was spewing due to the mass amount of ‘accidents’ that had been happening and come through just in the past day. The halls of the hospital were starting to get a bit packed right now and I heard screaming from the other room and then Hannah appear from the area and I rushed over to her putting my hand on her shoulder.
“What the hell is going on? In all my years in the field this has been the most insane thing I have ever seen…” I stated, Hannah let out a long and exasperated sigh from the weight of her job and I hugged her for a moment.
“Oh E… this is all getting out of hand… I don’t even know wh-” Hannah was quickly cut off by a high pitched scream and medical tools that clattered as they fell to the ground, people running from the halls paying no mind to what or who they bumped into. I immediately raised my gun from its holster.
“That’s the direction your father went… E.. I..” Hannah said in a bit of a panic as her pager went off and I started walking quickly.
“I got this just go do what you do best, save lives!!!” I say quickly heading further into the hospital getting people out of the way as I searched for my father and tried to find the source of the screaming. I pushed through so many hallways and blood prints were on the wall only the color was off… it was dark and it was thick..
“DAD!!! DAD ARE YOU HERE!!!???” I shouted as things went quiet as I went to the basement towards the morgue. I walked around aimlessly before I heard strong groans from the room and my dad lying on the ground running over to him turning him over listening to make sure he was still breathing.
“Dad! Come back to me, please!” I whined into his chest and he sat up a bit hugging me still groaning, I held him on me and felt the blood that was soaking his shoulder pulling off my jacket placing it on the wound trying to help him up, I only got halfway before the doors to the morgue flew open, a person with maybe 8 or 9 bite marks growled and started stumbling towards us in a frenzy, my dad used whatever strength he had to get us up and towards the stairs, I pulled my gun up and let a few shots out seeing it barely affect the person, two more bodies followed behind them, one looked as if it was already decaying, my dad pushed open the doors to stairs and tied my jacket around the handle.
“It won’t hold for long… we h..have to go.. we have to warn everyone” He said softly.
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Present time, Zacks P.O.V
I was sure someone was lurking around the area, I had heard small but noticeable footsteps, I was always keen on that stuff, always had my ears open, I was silent but deadly, that was how I learned to be since the world went to shit… Matt was following closely behind me and we stopped but only briefly as we heard the sound of a scream from down the street, but I sprinted forward seeing that girl from the store earlier hop a fence and make a run for it.
“WHERE YA GOIN HONEY!!!??” I yelled as I ran as fast as I could chasing after her, cutting through the front of one of the yards and running towards the back tackling her and taking her to the ground trying to pin her down but she… was definitely strong, she kicked me roughly in the gut and tried leaving again but I grabbed her foot making her fall again fighting down her arms.
“LET GO!!” She screamed at my still trying to raise her fists.
“Shut the fuck up!” I yelled back covering her mouth as I heard more growls come towards us, Matt coming over to us as the walkers started flooding the area.
“Fuck! She had so much good stuff! But dude for real time to go before we become dinner!” Matt got a bit frantic grabbing the bags and the girl started freaking out as she looked to the side and I slapped her hard as she bit at my arm trying to leave my grip and I gave her a hard slap knocking her completely unconscious.
“ZACK WE HAVE TO FUCKING GO JUST BRING HER AND DEAL WITH HER LATER!!!!” Matt booms at me and I throw her over my shoulder, her hands dangling behind my back, I run back to the truck getting into the back of the truck keeping her on my lap as we head off seeing the hoard of zombies start to overcome the small housing district.
Erins P.O.V
My hands wiggled and I tilted my head back groaning from the sharp pain in my jaw opening my eyes looking up at the inside of a tent, my eyes taking a moment to adjust, I faintly heard the sound of an unknown man chatting outside, the other person I could barely hear. Before everything black I had seen Hannah being shoved into what looked like a large semi truck and the man I fought at the store pinning me down…. where was she now… where was I? She and I had never been away during this timeframe..
Was she alright… was she even alive?
Notes
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