Chapter Three
~From the perfect start~
The next morning, Nick woke just after the sun rose.
He could feel a heavy weight on his chest that he found he really didn't mind.
He looked down and saw the top of Ellis's head and smiled a smile even he didn't know he had in him.
His eyes were shining with a tenderness that was never seen before in his hardened eyes.
He tried to gently remove the younger man to the side so that he could go and make sure that they were both ready to move out, but Ellis clung to him with a small, barely heard whimper.
He decided a tougher approach was necessary.
"Ellis! Zombies are breaching the home! Wake up! AAHHH!" Nick screamed.
Ellis sat bolt-upright in the bed and looked frantically around the room.
When his eyes landed on Nick, whom was lying safely in the bed beside him, mind you, he got an angrily, hurt look on his face.
"Nick ya' asshole! What'd ya' do that for?!" He asked.
"What did I do what for?" Nick asked with an innocently, mischievous look on his face.
"Not cool man. Not cool at all." Ellis responded.
Nick got up out of the bed and turned to Ellis.
"C'mon Ellis. We need to check our stuff so we can leave soon. Hopefully we can make it to the place today and they have room for us." Nick said to him.
Ellis was still tired looking, but he perked up at hearing that.
"Ok! Just give me a minute to get ready. K?" Ellis said.
Nick nodded his head.
"Ok, but only 10. We can't afford to take any longer than that." He replied and left the room.
Ellis stood up from the bed and rubbed his face.
He knew it was going to be a mighty long day.
~I am a time skip and I just don't care~
"C'mon Ellis! We're almost there!" Nick yelled over the sound of screaming zombies.
They had made it to the fire-station across from the road they were to take.
They were in the middle of trying to fight off the zombies in the fire-fighting suits.
Those were harder than they thought it would be to take down.
Almost as hard as the riot cops in the Parish.
"Yeah? Well tell that to whoever invented zombies. These things just keep coming!" Ellis shouted back.
It had been a long day.
Turns out, there were more zombies in this town than they thought was a capacity for people to be.
All the damn way they had been fighting for their lives.
And it didn't seem to be letting up any time soon.
Couldn't they catch a break sometimes?
They needed to get up that road.
NOW!
"Just push through Nick! We're almost there! Only a block more to go, I think." Ellis tried to encourage the older man.
Then he moved to the exit of the building with a determined look on his face and just pushed through the horde of infected and knew that Nick was right behind him.
Finally, after much trouble and fighting on energy they didn't have, they made it out into the fading light of twilight.
"Hurry your overalls wearing ass up Ellis. We have to make it there tonight." Nick said, and they both raced as fast as they could across the main road and onto the gravel lined drive leading to the place they had to make their way to.
They made their way down the gravel road until they came upon a gated drive-way that had the name FRYBERGERS on a plaque hanging on the fence.
They saw a small camera on the fence-post and it was pointing towards them.
"Hey. Person on the other side. Can you let us in please? We came a very long way to get here. Please let us in and we can introduce our-selves or somethin'. K?" Ellis asked into the camera to whoever was on the other side.
They saw the door on the porch open slowly and a figure slowly came out of the enormous house that was sitting on the property.
Well.
They certainly hadn't expected this.
~To the finish line~
End of Chapter Three
