The man known as Jimmy lived a simple life as a car mechanic in Ohio. He had an ex-wife who is a nurse and a daughter who he spent every moment with, that is until the dead started walking.
It began as most Tuesdays do, Jimmy was hard at work on a vehicle when he heard his coworker Tom say "The news says to stay inside, I guess there's some virus that's making people crazy. Jimmy scoffed at the report from his coworker and said "Right like any of us have the luxury to stay behind closed doors, we have livings to make and cars to repair."
Suddenly the office door banged open with the garage owner Mr. Negan, turning blue and clutching his throat. "Damn Jimmy, he's choking" his coworker Tom said. Neither Jimmy nor Tom knew the Heimlich maneuver, so Jimmy pounded on Mr. Negan's back to try to dislodge the food while Tom called for help.
As Jimmy continued to beat Mr. Negan's back Tom ran back towards them. "No one is answering when I called 911! what the hell is going on?" Mr. Negan suddenly collapsed in front of Tom and Jimmy. "Oh man, is he dead? "Tom asked. "I'm not sure" Jimmy said as he took a step backwards. Tom knelt by Mr. Negan to check if he was breathing, as Tom was shaking his head at Jimmy, Mr. Negan suddenly shot up and grabbed Tom biting him on his neck. Tom began thrashing around trying to dislodge Mr. Negan. "Help me Jimmy" Tom yelled. Jimmy rushed over and tried to pry the two apart. Finally after what felt like hours Jimmy was able to separate Mr. Negan and Tom
As Mr. Negan lurched to his feet his eyes fell on Jimmy, eyes that no longer looked human. With blood dripping down his chin Mr. Negan took slow lurching steps towards Jimmy, as Mr. Negan came closer Jimmy said "Mr. Negan don't do this, you're sick this isn't you." The usually friendly and jovial Mr. Negan did not respond. Jimmy backed up until he ran into a toolbox. Still Mr. Negan kept coming towards Jimmy. "C'mon Mr. Negan, I don't want to hurt you" Jimmy pleaded. As Mr. Negan grew even closer Jimmy put his hands out to try to keep him back. After a few seconds of trying to fight Mr. Negan off Jimmy came to the understanding that Mr. Negan was going to kill him if he did not kill Mr. Negan first. Jimmy reached behind himself on the top of the toolbox searching for something to use as a weapon. As he was blindly groping around his hand fell on a socket wrench, with a great heave he brought the socket wrench down onto the top of Mr. Negan's head. With a loud crunch the skull gave way, and with the force of the blow Mr. Negan crumpled onto the ground and didn't get up again. Jimmy realized he had been holding his breath and he let it out in one long breath. Pushing himself to his feet Jimmy went to where Tom was sitting.
"The crazy bastard bit me!"Tom yelled. "I know let me take a look to see how bad it is" Jimmy answered. Tom moved his hand away from his neck and craned his head to the left, as he moved blood spurted out of Tom's neck in long red sprays. "Shit Tom, this is bad" Jimmy said as he examined the injury. "How bad?" Jimmy nervously asked. "Well it's certainly worse than a hickey" Jimmy sarcastically answered. Jimmy ran to the woefully under stocked first aid kit to find something to stop the flow of blood until he could get Tom to a hospital. When Jimmy returned to where Tom was slumped against the wall Jimmy realized that Tom was dead. Looking down Jimmy saw he was still clutching the socket wrench in his hand, the head of which was coated in Mr. Negan's hair, blood and bone fragments. Before Jimmy had a chance to drop the socket wrench or toss it away from himself in disgust, Tom lurched to his feet. "Oh man, I thought you were dead" Jimmy said relieved. Rather than answering Jimmy, Tom looked up with the same look in his eyes that Mr. Negan had, and took a lurching step towards Jimmy. Before he was attacked by someone else Jimmy swung the socket wrench with all his might into the side of Tom's head, crushing his skull as well.
As Jimmy slowly came to terms with what had just happened, the realization struck him that he had just killed two people. With his mind in a panic he ran to the office, grabbed the phone and dialed his ex-wife's number from memory. He just wanted to hear his little girl's voice one more time. The phone kept ringing with no answer, so the next call he made was to the police. A woman answered who sounded either very hurried or very afraid "Ohio State Police, What is the nature of your emergency?" Jimmy answered, "I just killed two people that were attacking me." The voice on the other end of phone said "we have more important matters right now, stay where you are and an officer will be by as soon as we have one free. Then the line went dead. Unsure of what to do Jimmy locked all of the doors in the garage, and went into the front office waiting area.