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Shannon aka Indianprincess28

Chapter 2

Luck was on our side for once. When we arrived mayhem erupted all around the docks. People looking for anyway on any of the ships. I watched a tall blond man open a brief case to a man just to have it thrown back in his face, large amounts of cash flying away. The infected ran the streets and although I was scared for not only myself but Riley as well I knew that more of the undead would be here before we were off the harbor. The infected were behind us in the shopping mall across the street and I knew it was a matter of time before they came our way. They chased my car through most of the streets while we were driving here. We needed to be in the water and fast. I turned to the back seat pulling down the entrance to the trunk from inside. I grabbed a tire iron and a crow bar and shoved them in my bag while I tried to think of anything else I may have that could help us. I couldn't find anything else so as I zipped up my duffle I turned to Riley and looked him in the eye.

"Riley we have to run now."

"Where are we going to go Bella? Those things are everywhere!"

Riley's eyes were big and round showing so much fear and innocence along with unshed tears. I knew I had to do something to get him out of this car and on to that boat. We were sitting ducks here and we didn't have much time. Hell we had no time to waste! This was a matter of life and death.

"We're going to run to my company's big boat; then I will tell you okay? Now put your backpack on and hold my hand as we run. If we get separated then yell my name or either one of us could get hurt and we don't want that so don't let go of my hand and hold on tight. I know that the infected are coming this way right now and there may even be a few already here, so I will take care of those things if they get too close to either of us ok? You don't have to be scared. Now climb over to my seat. We will leave out my door. On three. One. Two. Three!"

I left the car running and I pushed my door open. I had my gym bag thrown over my neck and over my left shoulder and held Riley's hand in my left hand and my baseball bat in my right. I started running dragging Riley along. I told Riley to run faster as a zombie came running after us. I swung the bat hard connecting to the old man's head after pushing Riley behind me. I hit him again in the head for good measure as Riley stared in shock. I had to pull even harder to get the kid to run with me after what I just did. I took out three more zombies before we got to the boat. I could see Chase arguing with a lady with light brown hair holding a small child.

"Look lady I would love to help you out, but this isn't my boat. Maybe you could check with someone else?"

"Please I'm begging you! There is no one else! I'm pregnant, my son is two, and my husband is trying to buy our way out of here. I will give you everything in my bank account if you will just get us off this island!"

Chase looked relieved as I came running up with Riley in tow. I shook my head and knew deep down if I didn't help these people that they would die too. I knew that my gran would want me to help as many people survive that I could so as I pushed Riley up the platform and tossed Chase my bag. I turned to speak to the lady.

"Are you or anyone with you bitten?"

"No."

"Do you have any bags?"

"Yes, erm… well the diaper bag and this luggage."

There were three suitcases and a large designer diaper bag sitting at her feet. I nodded in understanding and waved my hand trying to speed this conversation along. We didn't have much time left before more infected came our way and I wasn't planning on being anyone's lunch any time soon.

"Where's your husband?"

"Right there!"

She pointed to a tall blond man I had seen with the brief case when we first arrived. He was two boats away from the ship named 'Arcadia' that we were all to board. I told her to get him fast as she ran over to him. I called out behind her.

"Call him over now because we leave dock in two minutes with or without you!"

Chase started to argue with me, but I wasn't having it! We didn't have time for this shit!

"Bella you don't know this woman or her family. You don't know if you can trust her. What in the hell is going on out there? I've had over ten different people offer to buy their way on to this ship. That woman wants me to take her to California. I'm not taking her to California Miss. Swan. I'm not authorized to leave these waters."

"Shut the hell up Chase and do as I say! We're not going to California you're taking us to Washington. We don't have time to sit around and argue about this. If we don't help them then they will die seeing as nobody else have helped them yet and I doubt anyone will. I don't want that shit on my conscience do you? It doesn't matter if you are authorized or not anymore Chase. Fact is Zombies are what is happening and if you don't get us the hell out of here were all dead! Where the hell is that lady and her husband?"

I looked around to see the man treating a bite on some fisherman. I wasn't waiting around to get eaten or bit myself. I ran down the ramp and screamed at the guy and woman who was pulling on her husband's arms pleading for him to leave the guy and get on the boat.

"Listen up and listen well! Those things are coming this way. If you want to play doctor you can stay here and try and treat them" I pointed to the infected coming our way. "While they eat your family. Don't expect me to stick around waiting for you guys. My ass is pushing off the dock in less than a minute. If you want on this boat and off this island then you will follow me! If not good luck with the infected guy you're treating when he turns!"

The woman screamed at the man and pulled him and her son to the boat. Chase was loading up their luggage and shaking his head at me. I knew I was doing the right thing even if Chase didn't agree with me or see it yet.

"Carlisle we need this ride! This was the only person who even offered to help us. She doesn't want anything from us, any money or jewelry. If she leaves without us we are all as good as dead! Now come on!"

"How does she know what this is? Does she know how they were infected? I took an oath god dammit and I was just doing what any normal doctor would do. Now don't get pissy with me Esmeralda Cullen. Give me Christian so we can get on this woman's boat and off this island!"

As they got on the boat I pulled off the remaining ropes and pulled in the ramp. I turned to the guy and woman answering his questions. After I was done here I was going to go to the kitchen and see if there was anything we could eat. It was almost lunchtime and Riley had to be hungry seeing as he was hiding from his cannibal of a mother during breakfast.

"Look I don't mean to be a bitch. You can figure out for yourself that they are zombies if you have ever watched a horror movie. I don't know what they are infected with or why? I am just going based off of what I have seen in movies here. It travels through bites, that's all I know. Well at least in the movies it works that way. That or scratches, but I don't know anything for fact other than what I have seen. Bites kill them, bites bring them back! Hit them in the head with something solid if you need to kill them. It seems that is the only way to put them down for good. We're going to Washington State. If you want a lift that's where were going. You can buy or steal a car from there if you have your heart set on going to California, but we won't be dropping you off there!"

The woman cried out a little and started begging for us to take them to California. I shook my head at her. We weren't going to be making any detours any time soon unless it was an emergency and unavoidable.

"Look I don't know why you want to go to California so damn bad, but I can tell you now that I am sure it is just as screwed up as back there." I pointed to the island that was behind us as Chase started up the ship pulling away from the dock and into open waters. "My conscience is the only thing that saved you back there! I didn't have to let you on this boat, but I knew without my help you would have died. I am just trying to do the right thing here. This isn't even my ship. It belongs to the company I worked for. You are welcome to come with us if you want when we dock. That's the best I can do. Think it over and let me know. I'll be making lunch below deck."

The woman stopped me before I could leave. She was telling me that she saw someone in the water trying to get our attention as she pointed at a man with blond hair on a surf board waving his arms at us. I told Chase to pull alongside of him before we let him on.

"Please take me with you. I only escaped back there because of my surf board. I don't have anything else other than my friend over there."

My breath whooshed out fast and hard. I knew that if either one was bitten though that I would have to be a bitch and leave them here.

"Look my name is Bella; before we let you on are you or your friend bit anywhere?"

"No I wasn't bit, but Gary was. What does that mean?"

"Ok look before you wave him over here just know one thing. We will take you along with us, but he stays behind. He's infected and we have two children on this boat and a pregnant woman. I won't risk their lives or my own when he turns. So do you want on? Or do you want to stay with your friend?"

"Are…are you sure? He was bit about two days ago by a dog and he hasn't turned into anything like what we saw back there."

"A dog?"

"Yeah, um some dog in our neighborhood. It was a stray I think? We live on the beach in my uncle's beach house. We were coming in from surfing and some dog bit Gary's arm. He's really going to turn into one of those things?"

I started to think hard. I didn't know if this man was lying or telling the truth. He could just be blowing smoke up my ass to save his friends life. I didn't think we could risk it. In the resident evil movies dogs were zombies too, but I had never seen a zombie movie other than resident evil where dogs were infected. The man named Carlisle touched my arm. I jumped in shock and whirled around. I looked to him and waited for him to say something.

"Bella is it?"

I shook my head yes.

"My name is Carlisle Cullen. I am a Doctor for the emergency room at Saint Rose Hospital in Hayward California. I can take a look at the bite before they get on and tell you if it was a dog bite or from a human."

"Thanks Carlisle, call your friend over and we'll let Doc Cullen take a look."

Just as the man on the surf board waved to his friend yelling at him to come over the man was being pulled under. Looking at the beach I noticed the undead walking into the water. I had Carlisle help me pull the man out of the water and on to the boat. Carlisle checked him over while I went to get him a towel and robe. After handing the robe and towel off to the surfer whose name I still had yet to get I went to the wheel house. After checking in with Chase and making sure he had us on the right path to Washington I headed down to the kitchen to fix some lunch. I found Riley sitting at the table with all of the new strangers, the people I had saved. I asked if anybody was hungry and Esmeralda jumped up to help. I passed out water bottles and looked through the fridge for something to make.

"Hey guys sorry if a lot of the food is fancy. This ship is mainly used by the company I guess I used to work for. They used it for parties and family gathering along with trying to impress clients. It mainly has caviar, cheeses, fruit, veggie trays and cold cuts. I am sure that there are chicken and crab legs and shrimp and stuff for dinners in the main freezer. I hope you don't mind? I am sure there is crackers somewhere here too."

"As long as we have enough food and water I am sure we will be fine. Thanks by the way, you know for saving us back there."

Esme as she told me to call her said as she helped me make sandwiches for everyone. I had babysat Riley a few times along with his sister if his mom had a meeting or his parents wanted to go out. So I cut his crusts off of the sandwich of ham and Swiss cheese. I added some grapes, pineapple and cut up oranges to his plate along with some strawberries. I knew he wouldn't touch the guava or passion fruit so I left those for the others. I poured him a glass of milk even though I knew he hated it. When he went to protest I held up my hand to him.

"Riley you need the milk right now. We don't have any vitamins for you and it is now my job to take care of you. So please drink the milk. We can't take it with us and if we don't drink it then it will go bad. Please."

Lunch was quiet; I think everyone was still processing everything from this morning. Esme offered to do the dishes and I agreed to let her. It seemed to me that she needed something to keep her busy and seeing as Christian's dad was tending to him and getting him cleaned up she needed something else to do. After lunch I made Riley take a shower and had him throw on some clean clothes that were in his backpack. I picked up what he was wearing and took it to the washer to start it along with the clothes I was wearing. As I looked to my clothes I noticed splatters of blood from the killings of the few zombies we crossed at the docks. I asked if anyone else had any clothes to add and then started our clothes up. When I returned Riley and Esme and Carlisle's son Christian had both fallen asleep in one of the bedrooms so we headed to the living room down the hall from the bedrooms. I noticed that the guy we pulled out of the water was now wearing a t-shirt and a pair of jeans along with a pair of tennis shoes. I am sure that he had gotten them from Chase or Carlisle. I was leaning more to Chase though. They seemed to be more of the same size. At least he would be warm. I thought that we should all get to know each other since we were going to be spending some time together, even if it was only for a couple of days.

"Okay, so I guess we can start getting to know each other. I'll go first. My name is Bella Swan. I worked for the Inline corp. in Hawaii working in the alternative energy division until the Zombie attacks. I am twenty two years old. The little boy with me is Riley Hunter, he turned eleven two months ago. He was my next door neighbor. His mother Victoria, father James and little sister Bree all became infected over the course of three days I think. I believe that his little sister was infected after getting bitten just before returning to Hawaii from visiting their grandparents in Texas. I killed his mother this morning when she attacked me in my kitchen. I found Riley hiding between my house and his in the bushes. The guy running the ship is Chase Sandstrum. He has worked on this ship since they bought the thing two years ago. I met him six months ago when I started this job. I don't know much more about him then he is twenty eight and gay."

I pointed to the Cullen's next because they were to my left and we needed to get these introductions out of the way as fast as we could.

"Oh I guess it is our turn?"

Carlisle shrugged his shoulders and took his wife's hand.

"My name is Doctor Carlisle Cullen and this is my wife Esme. As I have said before I am or was a Doctor in the emergency room at Saint Rose Hospital in Hayward California. I am thirty three years old and we have a two year old son named Christian and a daughter on the way. Esme is twenty seven and a stay at home mother with a doctorate in early childhood education. She is five months pregnant."

Carlisle shook his head nodding to himself as his wife Esme leaned into him. The guy we pulled out of the water shifted his eyes and started in on who he is.

"I guess I'm up? My name is Jasper Isaac Whitlock. I grew up on a ranch in Houston Texas. I came to Hawaii for the summer to stay at my Uncle's beach house with my best friend Gary Anderson before I started collage in the fall at Columbia. I'm nineteen years old."

With the introductions out of the way I knew we needed to discuss what to do next. I also needed to phone my dad again while the phones still worked. I would offer everyone with me a place to stay if they wished to venture with us to Salvation House, but for now I really wanted to find out what was so important that they needed to go to California for.