She was holding her arm as a guy with brown hair walked out "who are you?" Kenzie looked at her arm, she was losing a lot of blood "hey...I need help...I…" Kenzie didn't get to finish her sentence as she fell to the ground. Before, she faints all she heard was the guy saying "Ah, shit…"

Kenzie's Point of View

Kenzie was starting to open her eyes and saw people standing over her. An old man in green, a big black man, a woman who looks to be pregnant, and a guy in a red hat, holding a rifle. The rifle was close to her head and she could hear them talking.

"Don't you tell me that! Not with what fuckin' happened."

"Would someone mind telling me what the FUCK is going on here?"

"We don't know this girl…"

"Now hold on, Rebecca."

Rebecca? That must be the name of the pregnant woman.

"We got this, don't worry."

"Like hell you do. Did anyone even think to ask where she came from?"

"Luke said, she was asking for help before she fainted…"

Luke? He must be the guy with brown hair that I saw.

"For all we know she could be working with Carver!"

Carver? Who's that?

Kenzie started to lift her head and decided to start talking. She needed to tell them that she was bitten by a dog and that she needs help.

"I…"

The rifle goes off and the bullet misses her head by an inch. The guy in the red hat that was holding the rifle, looks at her, shocked. Kenzie looks back at him with wide eyes. The old man takes the rifle away from the guy in the red hat.

"Keep your finger off the trigger, boy!"

Someone came out of the cabin door, it was the guy with brown hair, Luke I think his name was.

"Whoa! Whoa! What the fuck!?"

"You idiot! Every lurker for five miles probably heard that!"

"You're the one tellin' me to fuckin' shoot her!"

"Everybody just calm down for a second!"

The guy with brown hair, Luke ran towards Kenzie, he had a worried look.

"Hey, you okay...?"

"I...my name is Kenzie...I was bitten by a dog, I just need help, that's it…"

The pregnant woman, Rebecca looked at her with an angry look.

"Dog bite my ass!"

Before Kenzie could say anything, Luke beat her to it.

"We got a doctor right here, okay. He'll have a look."

Luke turned to the group "Now what the hell is wrong with you people?! Okay, she's just scared!"

"We're all scared, Luke. Don't act like we're the one's being irrational cause we don't buy this bullshit story."

"No way she's survived out here on her own! Why are we even arguing about this!?"

"Let me take a look."

"It's okay, go ahead, he's a doctor."

Kenzie let go of her arm and showed it to the doctor.

"Damn, that must've hurt."

The doctor started to look at her arm "Hmm...whatever it was, it got you good."

"This isn't how we do things, man. When you're bit, you get put down. End of story. I'm not going through this again."

"No one's suggestin' that."

"We could take her arm off. I know that worked for a cousin down in Ainsworth. We could try that."

"It won't do any good. You'll just be makin' it worse for the girl."

"It's crazy. No one's gonna volunteer to do that."

"I would. If it means saving her life."

"Then what? How would we know it worked?"

"Just let Carlos have a look first!"

Carlos? That must be the doctor's name.

I have to talk to someone, maybe I could talk to that guy in the red hat. He almost shot me but, that doesn't make him a bad person.

Kenzie turned to the guy "I am telling the truth...I am not lying…you shouldn't cut it off without knowing…"

"This is bullshit."

Kenzie saw the cabin door opening so, she looked up. A girl with raven hair appeared at the door and looked at her "Who's she?"

"Sarah? What'd I say? Stay inside."

The girl had a hurt look on her face and closed the door. The doctor, Carlos went back to checking Kenzie's arm. Kenzie looked at him "I don't mean to be any trouble. I just want to stop the bleeding and then I will go. You'll never see me again, I promise."

"And where exactly would you go?"

"I can take care of myself."

Rebecca turned to her "Clearly."

"Look, I dunno what the hell took a bite outta her, worst case she turns and we can deal with it."

Carlos walked towards the group.

"So? What do you think?"

"Was it a lurker?"

"A bite like that...could be anything. Only one way to find out."

"How?"

"We wait."

"What?!"

"By tomorrow morning, if the fever's set in, we'll know if she's gonna turn. In the meantime we can lock her in the shed."

Kenzie looked at her arm and then, the group. "What about my arm…? It needs to get cleaned, and stitched, and bandaged…"

"The girl is in bad shape, Carlos."

"We have all that stuff inside the cabin, we could probably get by with…"

"ALVIN, please…"

"But yeah, we can't do nothing."

"I'm not wasting supplies on a lurker bite. If it turns out you're telling the truth, I'II clean it and stitch it up for you in the morning."

"But…"

Carlos walked off and Luke looked at her "I'm sorry, It's the best we're gonna get."

Kenzie's face looked sad and she saw the guy with the red hat grabbed his rifle from the old man in green.

"Finger off the trigger, son."

"I ain't your son."

"Don't be like that, man."

"It's alright. Boy's got his mom's temper."

Kenzie smiled a little bit to that and saw the guy turned to her "Come on."

"This is just a waste of time. You'll see. And when she turns, I ain't gonna be the one cleanin' up the shed."

Kenzie followed Luke and the guy in the red hat was behind them. She didn't want to talk to Luke so, she just looked at the other guy's rifle. When they got to the shed, she went in, and Luke closed the doors. She could still hear them talking.

"Why are we doing this? It's so fucking dumb."

"Because it's safer this way. And I'd rather be sure."

"Yeah, but safer for who?"

Kenzie couldn't hear them anymore after that. She looked down at her arm, it was still bleeding. She started to hold her arm and moved some of her hair out of her face, she sat down on the floor.

"Niki…"