Friendship, in the darkest of places

Every part of my body ached from the shock, my feet were burning from the running, I was pouring sweat and Danny was groaning in my hands whilst staring at his hand which had been torn apart by the dislodged nail, blood was pouring all over his shirt. I ran down the route which I used to take to get me out of the city. I slid Danny on to the floor, propped him up against the wall on my side and yanked out the pistol from my pocket preparing to fend off any of those things. Danny groaned and pointed towards his wound acting a wrapping gesture, I dropped the gun to the floor, went knee down and tore a piece of the white fabric of my shirt with my sweaty blood stained hands. My hands found Danny's arm and squeezed the fabric around his arm tight until I made a knot with my fingers, my eyes darted over to Danny who was wincing from the pain. I fumbled towards the gun on the floor and picked it up, Danny raised his arm up I took it and yanked him on to my back before darting towards the exit of the alleyway.

My heart skipped a beat, we had arrived in the centre of town where I expected to find it deserted but instead found it to be filled with hundreds and hundreds of the things, I propped Danny up against the wall and pulled the gun up to head height, my fingers moved towards the trigger when I felt something move across my back, my head went mad with confusion I spun round in an instant almost stumbling over my own feet when I realised it was just Danny, I was about to turn around again when he opened his mouth and attempted to speak through his gritted teeth "the noise of the pistol will only attract them, we will have to get around them somehow or take them out quietly" There was no way we would be able to take them out quietly so I thought it would be best to sneak around. I put the pistol back in my back pocket and proceeded to pick Danny up, when he grabbed my arm and squeezed I Looked at his sweaty blood stained face, I helped him get off the ground and together, we moved towards the swarm.

The smell of the walkers, as Danny told me to call them was almost enough to make me throw up, but it was the rotten flesh and blood that was almost did it for me I tried my best to hold in my own bile as we moved past the crowd around the side of them. My eyes glanced round towards Danny who was walking through the walkers constantly holding his hand with a look of complete and utter dread on his face. I could feel the hairs on the back off my neck rising as we got closer and closer to the last few of the walkers, I was about to walk through a sport shop to my right when I heard a scream behind me, without a second of doubt I knew it was Danny. I swivelled round and darted towards Danny who was kicking frantically at the walkers trying to claw at his feet, I pushed a few of them off him and tried to grab him by the arm but the walkers had him to tight there was nothing I could do for him, I suddenly realised I was passing a baseball shop when we were near to the end of the swarm, I legged it back to the shop and smashed the dirty glass with my bare fists and grabbed a baseball bat from the display case. As I made my way back to Danny I hit walkers in the legs making sure they couldn't walk over to us and swarm us. The walkers almost had him by the time a got back, Dan was running out of energy and adrenaline to fight the things off I held the baseball bat up high and swung it at the walkers crashing in to one's head, bit's off blood and bone flying everywhere as it fell to the ground, others started to see what was going on and started to make their way towards us, I didn't have much time left. I swung again, the teeth flew out of another walker, Danny kicked the third and last one of them as he got himself up I ran over to its body and smashed it's head with the bat, teeth, blood and bits of bone went all over my shirt, smash I swung a gain its eyes popped out and flew over to the wall. I made one last effort to attack it with the bat when Danny grabbed my arm and groaned "We have to go now" I dropped the bat and legged it through the herd of walkers constantly looking back at Danny to see if he was ok when I saw he was running at full speed seemingly forgotten about his right hand or maybe just fuelled by the adrenaline.

We used to play here, back when the world was normal, when I had friends and was in school, we used to run around this hilltop screaming and shouting from the adrenaline rush of the game, now I stand here 20 years later narrowly avoiding death with a pistol in my pocket and a man in my arms with blood stained all over his shirt, "we'll camp here for a while we can't possibly expect to survive in the city, every now and then I'll have to make runs in to the city for food and water once you get fit again you can come with me" Danny nodded in agreement, I laid him down on the hill and sat down opposite him. A few moments passed in which no one talked and I noticed no sound it was truly surreal. Danny raised my head and grumbled "were you really going to kill me back there in the house" I looked at him for a minute before responding " no I could never have brought myself to kill another human being although when I heard the bang form the gun outside I really thought I had done it, I thought I had actually shot and killed you, my heart skipped a beat until I looked down and saw you still alive, believe it or not I was happy, I realised that whatever had happened to the world at least I knew, I wasn't alone" Danny looked at me and smiled something I never thought I would see him do "whatever we did before in our lives it doesn't matter anymore, this isn't the same world as before those people, there not humans anymore if we have to kill them, we kill them no matter what, we stay together and have each other's backs from now until forever" Danny looked down towards the ground his black mock of hair falling over his forehead covering his blue eyes from sight. The day grew older the sun was setting I put my head on the ground and closed my eyes, "thanks" my eyes threw themselves over to Danny, "for what " my eyes met his for a brief moment "for saving me I don't know how I'll ever repay you, just, thanks" I sank my head back on the ground for a minute before saying "your welcome, remember we're together in this now, forever" I waited for a response and looked over towards Danny, he had fallen asleep I put my head on the grass, closed my eyes and fell, in to and abyss of darkness.