"K-Mart, be fucking careful in there." Claire had her hands on my shoulders, "I know, Carlos is coming too, did you forget?" Claire shook her head, "Doesn't matter, he can't protect you all the time, I would be in there with you." I shrugged her hands off and I put my hands on her shoulders now, "I've got to learn, I'll be fine." Claire nodded and motioned for Carlos, he came over, strapped up with his gear. "You ready K-Mart?" I nodded, and began to walk to the abandoned hotel. "She just cares about you, you know?" Carlos spoke. "Yea, I know."
I saw him smile, "Aim for the head, don't let it bite you, or overwhelm you." I cut him off, "I just heard this from Claire, it's pretty clear." Carlos nodded, we made it to the front office door, I heard Claire in my earpiece, "Stay sharp K-Mart." I just smiled a smirk and leaned through the door, I had my gun drawn of course, just a pistol. Carlos leaned out with his UMP and scanned the room, "Looks quiet in here." I nodded and moved up through the door, Carlos took one side of the rooms, I took the other.
Carlos was a good friend of all of us here at the convoy, he was a big brother to me. I quietly walked down the hallway checking all rooms, carefully planting my foot steps, I came to one room at the end of my hall and it reeked of something dead. I whispered into my headset, "Got one." I heard Claire take a breath, then Carlos fuzzed in, "Clear here, on my way." As soon as he fuzzed out a zombie burst through the door, it rammed into me throwing me on the ground, I kicked it's stomach as hard as I could flinging it back through the door. "Motherfucker!" I yelled and smiled, I jumped on it's back and got my hands around it's head and twisted, I heard a crack and the zombie from hell fell down.
I guess Carlos had seen all of that go down, "You are too much like Claire." I got up from the zombie and got disgusted from what was on my hands and shirt, but I wiped most of it off. "Hotel is secure Claire, K-Mart got her first kill." I could feel her smile through the earpiece.