Day 2. 0800 hours. Lima Police Dept.
Detective Leroy Berry sat at his desk with his phone pressed to his ear. He was talking to his husband who was trying to get in touch with their daughter. His husbands worried voice came through the line. "There's no cell signal Roy, what if somethings happened to her and we can't leave this damn town to go help her?" The detective sat back in his chair and ran his hand over his face. "Hiram, listen okay? Rachel is fine. She's out of town so she's safe. Just stop worrying and help the people here who need you." He heard his husband let out a shaky breath on the other end of the line. "I'm scared Leroy, there are so many people coming into the hospital with all kinds of symptoms and I don't know which ones I'm supposed to be looking out for any more. What if I misdiagnose somebody and let them go and they end up changing and infecting or killing someone else? I can't do this." Leroy turned in his chair, his back to the other people who were in the office. "Sweetheart listen, I promise everything is going to be okay. They have this thing contained to the school and the hospital. We haven't heard from any other city's or towns yet so we're going to figure out what this is and we're going to help these people and hopefully stop this thing from spreading. I just really need you to stay calm and be as careful as possible. I don't like the fact that you have to work in the same place this all started from." Hiram let out a shaky breath. "I'm fine hon. I just hate that this is happening and our baby girl is out there not knowing what's going on. I just want her home so I know she's safe" " I know, I do too. I want us all home and safe and watching those ridiculous musicals you two enjoy so much." Hiram scoffed and chuckled a little. "Oh come on, you enjoy them too." The detective grinned and rolled his eyes playfully, even though his husband couldn't see him, "Yeah yeah. I have to go. But I'll call you as soon as I have a minute. I think we should both keep trying Rachel to see if we can get through. I'll keep you updated and please be safe." "I will. You too, I hate thinking of you out there and not knowing you're okay. I love you and I'll see you at lunch?" Leroy stood up and stretched his back. "I know but I have a gun. Lunch sounds wonderful. I love you too. I'll see you in a few hours." He ended the call and looked up at his partner, who was standing waiting at the front of the desk. "We have a problem. The kid who infected the school? His dad works in the hospital pharmacy and we think he's our carrier. They're talking about closing the hospital to stop future spreading, no one else gets in and no one is allowed to leave. We have a search going to find a Jonah Ben Israel, he left the hospital yesterday morning because he wasn't feeling well. He hasn't been seen since." Detective Berry grabbed his jacket and re-dialed his husbands number on his way out of the precinct. Things had just taken a turn for the worse.
Day two. 08:47 hours. WMHS.
Sue, Emma and Becky sat huddled in Sue's office. They'd been there all night. Sue moved Becky's head from her lap and put her track jacket on the floor and gently lowered the girls head, trying not to wake her. She stood up an peered out of the blinds into the dark, silent hallway. She tried not to look at the body's and the blood. But there was just so much.
After they had escaped the auditorium, the three had ran to Sue's office. Sue had said she had a master key for all the doors in the school there and that they'd be safe and wait out whatever craziness had befallen their school and their lifes. Not long after they had settled in and Sue made them all protein shakes, a flurry of activity was suddenly happening out in the hallway. Sue and Emma snuck over to the window and peeked through the closed blinds. What they saw would no doubt haunt them forever. Police and Soldiers were firing off rounds into hundreds of students and staff, they even shot some of their own. There were people dragging themselves across the floor, grabbing at peoples legs and trying to bite into them. Becky stood in the middle of the room with her hands over her ears and her eyes squeezed shut. She was rocking and repeating the same thing over and over. " Not real, not real, not real, not real." Emma turned away from the gruesome and frightening things that were happening just outside and slowly wrapped Becky in her arms. "It's okay Becky, everything's going to be just fine. We'll wait right here until someone finds us and then we can all go home okay?" Becky leaned into Emma and whispered. "If I close my eyes and cover my ears then they'll go away. Monsters aren't real, I can make them go away if I tell myself they aren't real. It's what my daddy used to tell me when I was little and afraid of the dark.
Sue closed the blinds again and turned when she heard Emma waking up. " It's about time you woke up Esther. We need to find away to get us out of here without running into any zombies or trigger happy cops." Emma rubbed at her eyes and looked at Sue questiongly. "Zombies? Sue you do realize zombies aren't real right? I'm sure I gave Noah Puckerman a pamphlet on this very subject once." Sue went to sit behind her desk and started rumaging through the drawers as she spoke. "Of course zombies are real. I used to hunt nazi zombies with Presidents Reagan and Nixon. I remember Kino der Toten as if it were yesterday" Emma sat in confusion and asked what Kino der Toten was. "Well Enzio. It's only for us nazi zombie hunters to know. And you quite obviously aren't one of us, so could you not press me for info and pass me the samurai sword that's on the wall behind you please".
They made it outside without incident. The three of them stood in silence and fear-not that Sue would show or admit she was scared- dead bodies littered the ground, most of them students and faculty. Sue sheilded Becky from the carnage as much as she could, knowing it wouldn't matter, the girl had seen more than enough to haunt her for the rest of her life. "We need to leave. We'll take Figgins car. I have a copy of his keys." They made it to the car and started to leave the school. Ignoring the gruesome scenes that were happening just outside.
