The pack chapter4
Cat's point of view
I bashed through the house's window and entered. I landed in the living room, a nice little place that would have seemed nice to live in, if it wasn't the sight of a future murder. I could smell her, she was hiding somewhere, but she smelled like she had a weapon with her. I walked through the house checking the first floor with no success. When I walked up the stairs the smell was stronger, I was getting close. I searched the master bedroom, and the two rooms next to it, but I couldn't find her. I then realized I didn't check the bathroom. I walked in and saw her with a crowbar.
"GET BACK!" she yelled using the crowbar to block her face. I just gave her a sadistic smirk, showing off my bloody teeth. She looked at me, and just stared at me. She lowered her weapon and put her hands on my hoodie. I didn't attack, and I didn't know why. She read some sticking on my sleeve. "Create freely, oh you couldn't be..." I tackled her and raised my hand as a threat. "WAIT WAIT, before you kill me Catherine..." she pointed to the bathtub, and my backpack was in it. "Take it, just take it and let me live" I got off of her and picked it up. I put it on my back when I saw her running away. I quickly caught up to her and tackled her again. "I THOUGHT WE HAD A DEAL!" I smirked again and snapped her neck. She stopped moving, she was dead. I then twisted her head until it broke off, the spine was still attached to the skull. "Hey, a trophy" I said to myself. I dragged the body outside with me where dad and Davy were.
Carlos' point of view
I saw cat walking toward us with the body. I was so...proud. The girl had solved her problem all by herself. Her hoodie was covered in blood, so were her hands. I also noticed she had a backpack on her. I didn't care, all I cared about was her accomplishment. She laid the body on the ground and hugged me."Cat, you font have any idea how proud I am." She just kept hugging, not letting go. "Okay cat, lets go back home and tell mom." As we walked home I saw David had a sad look on his face. "Hey David, whats wrong?" "Nothing" he said keeping his head down. Something had been up with David since he was infected. He didn't sleep in our huddle at night, and he always stayed outside He seemed the most depressed when cat was around. Maybe since she was BFF'S with his daughter, maria, she reminded him of her. But I didn't know for sure. We arrived at the the house and Jess almost had a fucking heart attack when cat told her about what she did. Jess was split weather to be super proud of her, or super disgusted because her sweet little girl had become a killer. In the end it didn't matter in the end because she still loved her. The sun had started to set at 5:00 as usual, so we decided to have dinner. Since the kill was cat's she got the first bite. She eat without any table manners, not like we ever abide by them anyway, but she just biting through and splattering blood all over her. After that we were all full and decided to got to sleep. But this time David said he was going outside.
"Why are you going outside man?" I said to him
"No reason" then he left.
"Jess I'm going after him, you two get some rest." I climbed through the window and couldn't find him. After searching for about 5 minuets I smelled him. It was coming from an office building a block away. I wondered how he got there so fast. I made my way over there and entered. In the lobby I saw David, sitting on a couch and smoking.
"Looks like you found my little hiding place" he said putting out the cigarette.
"You come here often" I said searching the place.
"Every night while you guys sleep."
"Why?"
"Its a nice place for me to just relax and smoke."
"Bullshit David, there's another reason you come here, and where did you get those smokes, and I want to know." David sat up and his tone of voice.
"Well if you must know, I come here to be alone. I have time to feel sorry for myself here and cry. And I found these smokes in my jacket."
"When did you turn emo all of a sudden."
"When I realized that my life took a turn for the worse."
"What do you mean by that?"
"I mean this fucking infection. You guys may be having fun with with it but I'm sure as hell not."
"I can kind of see why you feel that way, but why did you leave in front of us today?"
"Well after seeing you being proud of your daughter, and since you have a big bond with her..." David lifted his face, looking directly at me and yelled "I WANT MY DAUGHTER BACK GODDAMMIT!" David fell to his knees in sobs. I squatted down and tried to calm him down.
"Calm down David, maybe she's still alive."
"tell me something then, how would a 10 year old girl survive by herself. Christina left 5 years ago, so she was all by herself when we turned. SO HOW THE FUCK COULD SHE BE ALIVE?!"
"You never know, and if she isn't, maybe she's turned."
"Yeah, having a brainless daughter is the hopes for all single fathers. Just leave me alone man, I'll be back by morning." I left him there and went home. Jessica and cat were fast asleep, so I just laid down next to Jess instead of cat like normal. I barley had any sleep, I was thinking about David, and if he would be alright. I was worried for the man. We had been best friends since the second grade, we had graduated together, we started a business together, I even saw maria grow up as our business grew. I had never seen him this.
6 days later
When David said he would be back, he lied. He said that he would continue to be in the pack, but live in that office building. David had officially hit rock bottom, but that day his wishes came true. I was visiting David at his den when survivors entered the building.
"Shit, get up stairs David!" I said running up the staircase. He didn't listen, he stayed in the lobby when 5 survivors entered. One was an old army veteran, a biker, a black office worker, and a college girl, and a 10 year old girl. The biker spotted David and was about to shoot him when the girl stopped him.
"DONT SHOOT HIM!" she yelled. David looked at the girl, and I did as well and to both of our massive surprises, that girl was maria. She was alive and knew that it was David that the biker was about to shoot. "Maria what are you doing?" the college girl said. "All of you just wait outside, I know what I'm doing." The 4, for one reason or another, listened to a 10 year old girl to get out where there's a zombie. I don't why they listened, but they left. She walked toward David, keeping one hand on her pistol. "Dad? Can you understand me?" David gave a light nod. "Do you want to eat me?" David shook his head, then she ran up to him and hugged him. David had tears coming down his eyes, being reunited with his only daughter. Maria pulled away where she tried to communicate with him.
"Dad, I just want to say I love you, and I'm okay, wait is that..." Maria then looked around the corner where she saw me. "Mr. Carlos?" I gave a nod where she ran up to me and hugged me like she did to David. Then David walked behind her and stroked her braided hair. She let him do it for a little bit when I saw cat dangling from the ceiling. "MARIA?!" she screamed as she let go from the ceiling, landing on her legs. She jumped on maria like she would for a kill, but instead it was a big hug. She got up from maria where maria got up and normally hugged cat. (God there's a lot of hugging)
"Catherine, you're alive!" She screamed. It was a reunion of epic proportions, at least until the war vet came rushing in, thinking cat had attacked her. He saw cat, and as an instinct cat got in front of maria to protect her, but she grabbed cat's hoodie and pulled her away. "Cat, calm down" I said to her. She eased
up and got behind me. "Don't worry bill, she's just exited to see me." "That girl's your friend?" the army vet bill said. "Yeah, before the infection, and the bigger guy in the hoddie is her dad Carlos." "An infected family? And I thought I had seen it all. Well lets go maria." "Well, I kinda don't want to go with you guys." "What, why?" "They may be zombies, but they're my friends and dad, and they're not going to eat me, it was nice being with you guys." "Well I hope you have a good life maria, goodbye." Bill left and so did his buddies. "Well, where do guys live? Maria said. Cat signaled maria to follow her and she did. Soon enough we were at the house. All of us went through the window but maria just used the door. I'm ashamed to admit it, but none of us know how to open doors. The infection took away our fine motor skills, well except for David because he's able to smoke. We all entered the rain room where Jess was.
"Christ where have you guys been?" Jessica said to us.
"Well if you must know..." David moved to the side to unveil maria.
"Mrs. Jessica? Its me, maria" Jess just stood there, eyeballing her. I knew that Jess was holding back herself from attacking maria. Me, David, and cat didn't have a problem with maria, but why does Jess. It doesn't matter, Jess hugged maria and was okay. By now it was night, and all of us were tired. The days seem to go by so fast. I always wonder that. We huddled up in the group. David still didn't sleep with us, but maria sleep next to him. This must have been the first time David sleep in the house.
