For the first time ever, he was purely terrified.
You sigh and look out of the boarded up window of the motel room. Night was falling fast. You turn to your brother, nodding slightly at him. He nodded back and picked up two of the eight different duffel bags and quickly leaving outside. You soon feel two arms wrap around you. You look down and see Jade looking up at you.
"Dave. I know that this battle is never gonna end between us and the Eaters, but we both know that we aren't going to win." You look at her, knowing that this is going to be another fight with her.
"Jade, I understand this, but Bro's death will be avenged" "When? How? Will it be when YOU die? Dave, that's...thats fucking STUPID!" She shoved you away. "Dave, I know our past was sort of great until these three years. But I don't want me to see you die. So its over between us." You go to say something, when Dirk ran in. "We have to go. Now. Grab all of your shit and get to the fucking van. We got company." You look out the window to see a mob of Zombies coming towards the Motel. You turn and instruct everyone to grab their shit and get to the van. You have to make a run for it this time.
By the time you got the last bag and both Rose and Roxy inside of the van, the swarm was already surrounding the rest of you. You grabbed your Katana and started slashing zombies. you hear gun shots and turn to see Jake and Jade shooting the zombies. You quickly got in the van and into the front drivers seat. You turn and start the van, that way you can take off once they got in. You soon heard clicking but no gunshots and you turn to look through the hoard, soon the van door shuts. You look at Jake, who was shaking.
"T-T-They got Jade! The Eaters got Jade!" His English accent was strained and cracked, you move John back and look out the window as you start to back off. You soon see a large pool of blood and Jades hair in her hand, her gun close by. She was still moving though, thrashing around. Even with the windows rolled up you could hear her blood curdling screams, which soon turned into gargling. You sit there in shock while it goes to a silence except for all of the zombies moaning and the motor going. You soon drive off, heading onto the highway. Trying to block out the sounds of her screaming.
"Dave, are you alright?" You look over at John, who seemed really worried about you. "I'm fine. It doesn't even matter anymore. We broke up before she died." "Didn't you love her though?" You freeze, still driving. "I had somewhat of regard for her. I guess." "Dave, you and her were the only people that knew how this outbreak started. I got to ask, what happened? How did this start?" "I...I'll tell you when we find a place to stay besides in here or a broken down motel." "Alright." You try not to be bothered by anyone, soon you hear jingling of metal against metal. You look and see a locket, dog tags, and a dogs collar.
"I...I managed to grab these from Jade before th...the Eaters got her" You grab them, slipping the locket and dog collar into the ash tray and slipping the dog tags on. You close the ash tray, continuing to drive.
The bad thing about war isn't that you can die at any moment, its that it always takes away every single person you love and every piece of you until there's nothing left.
I regret nothing.