AN: I own all characters except Edward; he belongs to the very talented S Meyer. I also own the plot of this story, though Zombies isn't something that's new. I hope ya'll enjoy the story as much as I enjoy writing it.
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Chapter 1 (Jammie's POV)
It's been a year since the spread of the disease. The plague has infected only half of the world.
That half contains North, South, and Central America. It started when a Brazilian cobra developed a rare peculiar disease. When a zoologist was bitten, all hell broke loose. He went on a cannibalistic rampage and infected every other person in Rio Di Janaro. Guess I'm lucky. Every person in my rural Chicago neighborhood had been infected, except me.
It's mid-March 2010 and every other person is gone. Well…their not technically gone, their somewhat like Zombies, but their no really mindless, their actually pretty smart. They can also talk their very cunning. They lure their prey in and then they feast. You'll never really find them in large groups. Their mostly on their own. I learned very quickly, the only way to kill them is a double tap. (Shoot them once in the heart and once in the head.)
I've been traveling all over these zombie infested countries with two people I met a month after the spread of the disease. Delancy Matthews, and her boyfriend Jason Tanner, I met them in Indianapolis, Indiana. They, like me, were the only one's left in their town. We've been traveling all over North America, South America, and Central America looking for any humans that haven't been infected with the disease. Thus far, we have been unsuccessful. So now we're going to try and make our way to one of the countries that hasn't been infected. We're aiming to go to Great Britain once we get across the ocean.
"Would you two stop making-out back there?" I said looking in my rear-view mirror.
"Sorry." Delancy wiped her mouth off after pushing Jason away.
"Awe. Come on! You're such a buzz kill." Jason whined.
"Oh stop it. She'll give you some later." I retorted.
"Hey! I'll have you know that I am still a virgin!" Delancy put in.
"Not for long." Jason mumbled. Delancy slapped his arm and said, "Ha Ha, you think you're funny!"
"I know I am." Jason said in a cocky tone. Rolling my eyes I turned my attention away from Delancy and Jason. I saw an airport come into view, and maybe there was human life there. I pulled into the parking lot and parked the jeep.
"Hey, look." Delancy pointed out the windshield. Looking I saw a young man and a little girl who looked like she could be no more than five. "Wonder who they are?" I nodded in agreement, while contemplating my thoughts. What if this guy is a cannibalistic zombie? Could this finally be the end of the Western Hemisphere? I shook my head trying not to think about it.
Jason threw his door open and made his way towards the two strangers. I glanced at Delancy, who looked horrified.
"Jason! What the hell are you doing?! They could be cannibalistic zombies!" I yelled after him. When he wouldn't listen, I grabbed my double barrel shotgun out of the passenger seat next to me. Just in case I needed it, I cocked the gun to make sure I had bullets. If this jerk was a flesh eating zombie he was going to be double tapped. "Delancy I swear to god if Jason gets us killed then I'll find some way to kill him." I said in an angry voice. Delancy looked at me, then at Jason who was walking back towards us with the two strangers.
I gripped the shotgun tighter as they drew nearer. "Hey, Jammie! Delancy!" Jason said. Finally reaching us, "This is Edward and Vanessa Mason." I curtly nodded at them.
"It's nice to meet someone who's not trying to eat me and my little Vanessa here." When I looked down at the little girl I knew somehow that they were not cannibalistic zombies. I quickly loosened my grip on the gun.
"I'm glad your not Flesh eaters either." I said with a sigh of relief.
"Do you guy's know a way out of this god forsaken country?" He asked with an angelic voice.
"We're headed up to Quebec if ya'll want to join us. We're hoping to take a ship across the ocean."
"Yeah, that would be amazing! Thank you so ever so much!" To my surprise it was the little voice of Vanessa. I've met some pretty smart five year olds in my day, but she broke the scale. She spoke with such fluidity and confidence, it was hard to believe it came from her mouth.
"All right, then let's hit the road people!" Delancy smiled and pulled Jason along. I lingered behind with Edward and Vanessa. Before long it was just Edward and I because Vanessa ran off after Delancy and Jason to make sure she had a good seat. Either that or she took a liking to Jason. Sad day for Delancy. No one can resist the charm of that little girl.
"Hey, thanks. We've been praying for a break and I guess god finally heard us. He is still up there ya know, despite the living hell this place has become." Edward said glancing at me.
"No problem. We've been looking for more humans to join our little clan. Searching for survivors from South America to North America. So far it's just been Jason, Delancy, and I." I replied.
"And you would be?" He asked.
"Huh? Oh! I'm Jammie Frost. Nice to meet you." I answered shaking his massive callused hand.
"You know, Vanessa doesn't usually take a liking to many people like that. Of course she's usually scared to death when anyone comes within a hundred yards of us, what with the 'zombies' taking over." He told me.
"Guess that's true for everyone." I said, my mind wandering back to the day my family changed.
~~~Flashback~~~ *Sound effect Whoosh!*
"Mom?!" I yelled as I walked into our two story home. The TV was on in the living room, but no one was home. I walked into the kitchen. Empty. The office. Empty. Almost every room in the house was empty. Finally I made my way up to my Mom's bedroom that was upstairs. The door was slightly ajar. I peeked through the crack; I had to cover my mouth from screaming. My mom was covered in blood and she had my three month old baby brother cradled in her arms. One minute she was silently rocking him and the next she was feasting on his flesh. I screamed and ran out of the house.
~~~End flashback~~~
"Jammie?" Came Edward's voice. I hadn't realized that I had stopped, tears running slowly down my face. "You okay?"
"Yeah. Sorry." I wiped away the tears and continued walking. "You were saying?"
"Oh! Umm…" Edward hesitated, "I don't really tell anyone this but Vanessa's mother, my wife, was a 'zombie'!" I glanced at him, and then looked away, "And, I killed her."
"Oh my gosh! That must have been horrible for you." I said sympathetically.
Edward and I slowly made our way back to the jet black 2008 jeep Cherokee. I climbed into the driver's side and Edward climbed into the passenger side. I looked in my rear-view mirror and seen that sweet little Vanessa had settled in between Delancy and Jason. Bless her little heart! At least I don't have to worry about Delancy and Jason making-out every five seconds. Man this was going to be a long ride… Quebec is at least a week's drive away.
"So… where you from?" I heard Edward ask.
"I'm from Chicago, you?"
"Washington."
I put the car in drive and headed north, for Canada.
"Hey Daddy?" Vanessa asked from the backseat.
"Yes Nessa?" When Edward spoke to that little girl his voice filled with so much love and compassion.
"I'm hungry." I looked in the mirror and she was rubbing her little tummy.
"Jason why don't you reach over the seat and grab her something to eat…in fact why don't you grab us all something to snack on?" I asked him politely.
"Sure." He replied reaching behind the seat and retrieving some brownie cakes for us to eat. I know totally not healthy, but hey, what can I say, you get what you can find at the gas stations.