I heard a voice ringing inside my head, but it seemed to far away to make out any of the words. My thoughts began drifting towards my son Matthew, my pride and joy. I wasn't able to warn them, I thought I had the advantage, but a walker bite on my neck had proven me wrong. And as the tears of a former colleague dripped onto my chest I had realized the threat that loomed over me like a dark cloud, proved that any human that would attempt to justify this new dark era would end up just like any other lab rat. This is just some sick, twisted game.
"My son, my only child please take care of yourself… Please for your father, I love you my boy." My thoughts started to fade away, replacing it with a memory of my son and I when he was just a boy.
"Dad?" Matthew said while licking his ice cream and swatting mosquitos away.
"Huh?" I replied after I came back to reality from drifting in my thoughts.
"Why do people fight?" He asked curiously while eyeing a brute of a man screaming at his girlfriend and insulting her numerous times.
I was actually was surprised my 6 year old son came up with an intelligent question for once. "That's a good question." I replied giving it some thought. "I suppose it's when people's hearts get filled with greed and they begin to occupy themselves with alcohol and money that couldn't buy them real happiness in this world." I noticed my Matthew barely understood a word I had said.
"What's acahole?" he asked with his curious mind.
"Well I'll tell you when you start to get around that age." I said as I chuckled. "And it's called alcohol." I laughed while I patted his hair. "Oh my god!" I said playfully.
"A monster is going to eat you and he is standing right in front of you!" I added.
Matthew giggled and began to run away from me. "Gotta catch me first you monster!" he yelled to me as he tore his way through the park.
"I am coming to get you!" I said roughly, doing my best monster impression.
I could hear him laughing all the way down the street. I began to worry a bit as he began to pick up the pace. "Matthew don't go to far!" I yelled dropping the monster act.
He didn't hear me. "Matthew!" I yelled a bit louder, now running at full speed.
Matthew turned a corner and I followed him, as fast as I could. "Matty, stop!"
I heard him laughing as he ran inside a barn. Out of breath I caught up to him and he started laughing again. I gave him the look to let him know that I wasn't happy. "Matthew." I said in a deep tone.
His eyes shifted eyes to the floor and kicked up the dust and hay that was on the ground. "I'm sorry." he whimpered trying to hide his tears.
"Hey, no need for those tears Matty, I just don't want you disappear on me, okay?" I said unable to stay mad at him.
He nodded wiping the tears out of his eyes.
"Boo-hoo" a voice rang out.
A man stepped out of the shadows, but it was to hard to make out what he looked like, since the sun had set. "Hey, is that you Pete?" he asked sounding astonished.
"It's me Dave!" he laughed.
"Church Dave?" I asked.
"Yeah, brother! Hershal, you and I always sit pretty close together, right?"
"I barely know Hershal, he only talks to you, for some reason." I replied trying not to sound jealous.
"Yeah, that's a bummer." he replied wiping the sweat of his forehead.
Just then I heard an ear-piercing bang and pain surged all through my left leg.
"What the fu-" I stopped myself part way as I screamed because I didn't want Matthew to learn of foul language at the age of 6.
"Daddy you're bleeding!" Matthew said sounding surprised, as if was the first time he saw blood.
"I said not to shoot them Tony!" Dave yelled furiously.
"It had to be done." Said a voice that also emerged from the darkness.
"Hi my name's Tony!" he smirked while extending his arm as if he wanted a handshake. "And I'm Peter! I'm a piece of shit!" Tony said a bit on the crazy side.
Tony seemed to keep on laughing at his horrible me expression.
But I didn't care, there was a child that was with us, but they didn't seem to have a care in the world. Enraged, I gathered the last bit of my strength and stood up, shifting all my weight into my right leg, but my left leg still numb with pain, didn't let me forget about it. With all my power I pulled out my phone and taunted them with it. "I've got the cops on speed-dial all I need to do is press this button." I snickered at the thought.
Tony seemed rather scared, but Dave on the other hand was furious. "Give me that gun!" He barked at Tony.
My eyes opened wide as I pressed the button on my cellphone, Tony had the gun ripped out of his hands by Dave.
"I'll never forget this, you faggot!" he shrieked.
And with that he shot two bullets, one hitting my stomach and the other skimmed my neck, but still cutting it open. I stood there dazed and everything in the room seemed blurry to me as I fell to the floor and closed my eyes. The last thing I heard was Matthew's sweet voice, but I couldn't make out what he said.
Back to the present day and time I felt the same way I had back then, but this was slightly different, it felt like my body was being torn to shreds. "Matthew, I hope in this new world may you find true happiness and not die like me, please do it for your loving father, because I love you." Those were the last words I could muster.
And then I saw a bright light while it was pure blackness outside shining directly into my eyes and then I closed my eyes for the last time and I breathed my last breath of air. It seemed as though my college began to cry harder, but I wasn't able to ask him to not live him to live with regret, because I knew he was thinking that he was to blame for this, but I was in the middle of experiencing death and had no control.