Chapter 8: Peace at Last

Gwen sat down next to Hazel and Greg, she had agreed to take care of them, while Lindsay and Cody went out to scavenge, and with Courtney taking care of Duncan, she had no other choice, and she wasn't about to let Heather take care of them.

"Why is your hair blue?" asked Hazel.

"It's pretty obvious," said Greg, "she dyed it."

"Whoa," said Hazel in amazement, "can I touch it?"

"Go right ahead," said Gwen, smiling.

As Hazel touched her blue hair, she accidentally took off a single hair.

"I'm...I'm sorry!" shouted Hazel in horror.

"It's okay," said Gwen, as she patted Hazel on the head.

Hazel smiled.

"Let's play monsters again," said Greg.

"We played that already, can't we play queens?" asked Hazel.

"Fine," said Greg very unenthusiastic, "go get the make-up."

"Yay!" shouted Hazel with joy, as she ran over to her backpack and grabbed her toy make-up box.

"Women," said Greg and rolled his eyes.

While Hazel was rummaging through her backpack, she noticed a small stuffed animal on the floor, she picked it up, and started to hug it.

As Hazel ran back to Gwen and Greg she yelled, "look what I found!"

"Uh, Hazel," said Gwen, "maybe you should put that back."

"But, I love it," said Hazel, a bit sad.

"But so does someone else, you don't want them to miss it do you?" asked Gwen, with a very sincere tone.

"No...," said Hazel, very disappointed.

"Let her have it," said Heather from behind them.

"Is...this yours?" asked Hazel.

"Not anymore, it's all your now," said Heather as she smiled at Hazel.

Hazel hugged the bunny and said, "I'm gonna name her, Mrs. Bunny."

Greg rolled his eyes at her sisters lack of originality, then again Greg rolled his eyes for everything.

"Are you ready to play queens?" asked Hazel as she turned around and looked at Greg.

"I will be once you get my pink skirt," said Greg as he got out a plastic crown.

"Here it is!" said Hazel with joy as she pulled out a pink skirt out of her backpack.

When both Hazel and Greg put on their skirts and crowns, they climbed on the front desk and stood up.

"You slaves," said Greg as he pointed at Gwen and Heather, "fix us some dinner."

"Yes, your majesty," said Gwen as she bowed down to Greg.

"And make it quick, ruling over this giant kingdom sure does give us an appetite," said Hazel, proudly.

"Anything for you my queen," said Heather as she bowed down as well.

"Off to work then," said Greg as he shooed off Heather and Gwen, "we have queen like stuff to do."

Courtney kept checking Duncan's temperate, it always seemed hotter than before, and it looked as if he kept getting pale. Courtney only had so much medicine, and most of it was cough syrup, but before Courtney could give him more cough syrup, Duncan started to cough, he was waking up.

"Duncan?!" shouted Courtney as she rushed over to Duncan.

Duncan coughed some more and slowly said, "hey princess."

"Duncan you're awake!" shouted Courtney with joy.

"You seem happy I didn't die," said Duncan, weakly.

"No...," said Courtney, "I'm just glad we didn't have to go through someone dying."

"Sure," said Duncan and coughed some more, "princess."

"Gwen!" yelled Courtney.

As Gwen rushed over to Courtney, she saw that Duncan was awake, and breathing.

"Duncan!" yelled Gwen, with joy as well.

"Why is everyone happy I didn't die?" asked Duncan, barely being able to breath.

"What happened?" asked Gwen.

"I...don't remember," said Duncan.

"Who did this to you?" asked Gwen.

"All...I remember," said Duncan, before he was interrupted by his coughs, "is me waking up, and getting a really bad pain in my back."

Duncan then started to cough for a couple of seconds.

"You should get some rest," said Courtney, very worried.

"I have plenty of rest," said Duncan as he tried to get up, but ultimately couldn't.

"See, you're still very weak," said Courtney as she fed Duncan some peaches from a can.

"Okay," said Duncan as he chewed on the peaches, "you've got a point."

"I should leave you alone," said Gwen as she started to leave, "get some rest."

"Will do past-," said Duncan before coughing out all the peaches in his mouth.

As Cody and Lindsay put all the supplies they found while scavenging in the front desk, Gwen stood amazed.

"So as you see, we found a lot of stuff," said Cody, smiling.

They had found cans of food, medical supplies, even some jackets for the winter.

"Where did you find all these things?" asked Gwen, amazed.

"There was as store down the road from here full of supplies," said Cody, "we tried to get everything, but after a while the place got infested by those corpses."

"Well this is great," said Gwen, "you know, I'm really not regretting saving you guys."

"Uh, thanks?" said Cody.

"Hey Heather!" shouted Gwen.

Heather who was reading a magazine shouted, "What?"

"Come see what Cody and Lindsay brought," said Gwen, smiling.

Heather walked over to the front desk and saw the desk full of supplies, she remained speechless.

"And you said I was a bambi," said Lindsay with pride.

The whole gang sat around a lantern, all talking and having conversations, like old friends, everything finally seemed peaceful, Duncan had even manage to get up and join them.

"College is such bullshit," said Heather as she munched on some cookies, "what was the point in even going?"

"Well, you did have a whole school to bang again," said Courtney, then everybody chuckled.

"Well at least I won't be a virgin until I'm 57," said Heather smirking, everyone then started to laugh, except the kids, they didn't know what was going on.

"I'm not a virgin!" yelled Courtney.

"Oh really? Name the person you did," said Heather.

Before Courtney could answer, the library door began to bang loudly, after a while glass breaking was heard, and zombies came flooding in.

"Run!" yelled Gwen as she got up and got out her pistol.

Courtney then helped up Duncan and ran over to the back of the library. Lindsay ran with both Greg and Hazel in her hands, and Gwen ran with Heather, and Cody. Lindsay was then grabbed from behind and yanked down by one of the zombies, she let go of both Hazel and Greg's hands, and got surrounded by zombies. Hazel and Greg both stood in horror as they saw their mother get eaten by zombies, each scream only made them shake faster.

"RUN!" yelled Gwen as she ran towards the emergency exit.

Greg then started to run towards them, but before Hazel could move, her leg was grabbed by one of the zombies.

Just as Greg heard Hazel's scream, he turned around and was about to run towards her, but Heather stopped him and yelled, "go, I'll protect her!"

Greg then ran towards the other, who were now opening the emergency exit. As Heather reached Hazel the emergency bell started to ring, alerting more zombies. Heather then grabbed the zombie's arm and forced it to let go of Hazel. Hazel, now free from the zombie's clutch, ran towards the exit. Heather then stabbed the zombie in the head with her knife, and started to run. Hazel then made it safe and sound out of the exit, with everyone else. While everyone else was gone, Gwen awaited for Heather inside the library.

"HURRY!" yelled Gwen.

Before Heather could reach the exit, a zombie grabbed her hair and started biting it. Heather tried to free herself, but more of them came and took her down.

Gwen then started to shoot the zombies, but it was hopeless, there were just too many.

With Heather's last breath she yelled, "leave!"

Gwen then quickly got through the exit, but before she closed the door, she saw as Heather started to get eaten, her scalp was nearly torn off, her guts spilled all over the floor, but not once did she scream. Gwen then quickly closed the door, and ran off with the group.