OK folks, this is part 1 of 2 for the chapter. What do I have to say at this point? Not alot of people that said they had infected ideas gave me anything so I'll be going with what I had originally planned. No more new infected in the story. Sorry if anyone is disappointed. Oh yes and before I forget, as for the Cole and Jenny situation, I am not turning this into a romance. Cole is still and zombie and I do NOT endorse nor condone necrophilia. Get your heads out of the gutter... Lets get to it then, shall we? Read, Review, Enjoy!


The sun was high in the sky and for once the sky was blue. It hadn't been possible to see the sky it what felt like an eternity. They all stood outside the boxcar speaking to one another. The human woman, Jenny, who was apparently the mother of Cole's child from before he became an infected, hid behind him, still wary of the two female infected. Even with Cass's reassurance and tenderness and care for her infant, Jen was still afraid.

"Don't worry, you girls will be fine here alone."

"Dammit Cole, don't leave me here with Stephanie. She might pull something."

"Relax Cass, you can handle yourself, besides, Stephanie knows if she kills you she'll be on my bad side."

Stephanie, tired of them speaking like she wasn't there gave out a huff and interjected.

"Fuck man... How about we just come with you?"

"Not an option, too many infected go and they shoot on sight, even at Jenny and the baby. This way they will atleast investigate us first."

"Shit, well you got a point."

Jenny clasped onto Cole's arm, confused because to her their words were mere growls and whimpers. She also was unsure of why they were outside and what was going on. She had some faith, though it was little, in her former love Cole. He had protected her from Stephanie who tried to attack her in order to steal back her baby. Cole brought her to safety and reunited her with the child even. What reason did she have not to place her trust with him? Infected or not, he watched over her.

"Ok we done with goodbyes then?"

"Yeah yeah, me and Cass will be fine. How about a kiss though for luck?"

"Hell no..."

"Buzz kill."

And with that Cole put his arm around Jenny's shoulder and turned her toward the city where he was leading her to safety, true safety, with other humans who could protect her. The walk didn't last long before infected started to crawl out of the wood work and make attempts at Jenny. Cole was more then a match for any commons though. Still their presence did startle the baby enough to wake her and cause her to cry. Cole was agitated in an instant but did nothing about it. Jenny on the other hand started rocking her daughter and humming a sweet melody that made Cole without thinking start to hum along.

"Cole? Do you remember that lullaby?"

Cole paused as he realized what he was doing. He was humming something he didn't even know and yet he matched each note perfectly with Jenny.

"That's the tune you used to sing for Alice."

Cole looked at her and raised a brow.

"Oh yes, I haven't formally introduced you to her yet. Her name is Alice, after your mother. Forgot you didn't remember anything, including her name."

Cole turned and started walking again, Jenny quickly running to him and slowing to match his pace. In his mind the lullaby echoed as he tried to remember more of it. It was driving him mad not being able to think of more. He shook his head and stopped walking and faced Jenny and Alice. He reached to his back pocket and pulled out the photo he had retrieved days ago. He was connected to it somehow, that he knew already but that was it. Maybe Jenny knew more though. He put the photo up to her and tapped on each of the faces then himself.

"You... you don't remember them...and..."

Cole placed his hand on himself and circled the entire group. In response, Jenny placed her finger on the one on the far right. This time she immediately understood his meaning.

"That one is you. The one next to you is your brother Mike."

Mike... Could he be the infected from last night who attacked Cole and was calling him Bro? Cole continued to press her for answers with gestures and the photo. This time he asked "Why do I feel I should protect you?" by guarding himself with his arms then laying his hand on her head.

"You want a hug?"

Cole shook his head a moment but it did give him an idea, maybe it was because of who he was before and how much he must've loved her that made him want to keep them safe. Some small part that wanted her and Alice to be safe was left inside. He dropped his arms and kept walking. Jenny laid her hand on his shoulder and turned him to face her.

"My turn to ask you something, where are we going?"

Cole tried to explain it to her but all the sounds coming from Cole were heard as growls and gurgles to her. Cole had again forgotten he cannot speak any human language, so he pulled out the photo once again, tapped the soldiers, and pointed down the road.

"Your friends are that way?"

Cole shook his head "no".

"A base?"

Cole repeated himself to her.

"The army?"

Cole nodded and slipped the photo back into his pocket and kept walking. Jenny rushed to his side and leaned on his side. Whether she was doing this for protection or because she still loved him, Cole didn't care, but it was comforting for him somehow. He was the one who had to protect her and she was the one comforting him, it was almost enough to make him grin.

"You know Cole, we used to walk down this road just like this all the time before you became..."

Cole showed no sign of paying attention but he listened intently to each syllable. She was speaking of their past again, he had to know more.

"You would always treat me to that ice cream shop there with what little money you had."

Jenny raised her hand and pointed to a small decrepit shop, the sign fallen onto the street and the window smashed open. What used to be a nice store was now a den for disease. Cole remembered eating there once as infected, it was revolting but it was to keep from starving.

"Half the time you couldn't afford ice cream for yourself, so you came up with an idea to kiss me to get a taste of mine... Sly dog."

Jenny's face grew red and she started to sniffle and whimper. It gave Cole reason to stop his march. He moved the hair away from her eyes, only to find tears. It was clear what was making her cry. Cole was gone and she could never have those times back. Even if Cole was to kiss her again, it would likely infect her. With each tear that fell to the ground, Cole felt his no-longer beating heart sink. He wanted the crying to end, so he brushed the hair away again and pressed his lips to her forehead. It might comfort her much but at least this way she would have no chance of infection.

"...Cole?..."

"Even if you don't understand my words accept my apology. Even if I loved you before, I don't know you now and you can never get that back, so instead of crying and feeling sad because of me, smile and feel happy with our are doing her no good crying so easily..."

Cole took his normal hand stroked the cheek of his infant daughter and smiled as best he could without showing his sharpened teeth. Jenny may not have understood his snarling but the meaning she got from him was enough to give her strength.

"I'll be strong Cole, Alice needs me to be, and thank you for being kind despite... everything."

It was clear what she meant by"everything". She meant his infection. After brushing off what felt like an insult to infected, Cole once again started walking, this time Jenny holding onto his arm gently. It was more for her own comfort than his but Cole enjoyed it none the less.

"So Cole, those two infected girls are your harem?..."

"..."

What man would want to be asked that by the mother of his child. Chills went down his spine and the thought of him and those girls just disturbed him. He shook his head and tried to keep from vomiting from the very idea.

"Ok Cole..."

Cole finally found something that scared him, being in a romantic relationship with Cass or Stephanie. From that point on, Cole used all his will to keep that thought out of his mind.

The deeper they marched into the ruined city, the taller the buildings were and the more dead infected there were. Around every corner was another heap of the dead. Some piles even had other infected eating off of it. It was vulgar watching the common eat. They had little to no inhibition left, they were only mindless eating corpses by this time, no chance of becoming a special at this point. A few saw Cole pass by with Jenny but made no move, just watched. After walking by they would rise up and follow but not attack.

"Cole, whats going on? What are they doing?"

Cole raised his arm and stopped Jenny from walking any further as he examined the infected observing them and starting to encircle them. Cole raised his claw to the ones ahead and gave out an aggressive scream. They did not flee nor did they attack, they just watched. Before he could take Jenny by the arm and charge through them he heard a familiar voice.

"Hey ya fuckin runt! Whatcha doing here? And with a tasty lookin girl like dat with ya?"

"For the love of... Not you..."

The crowding infected made way for a large one-armed charger that was riddled with bullets holes in his right arm.

"Thatcher, the hell do you want you over grown puss sore?"

"Dat anyway to greet a old friend?"

"Fuck you!"

"Chill the fuck out or these here infected lunch on that chickety you gots there."

"You want Cass I'm guessing..."

"Not anymore, you probably used the girl up already, I don't take scraps."

Again the thought of being with her was conjured in his mind and he felt ill. He shook it off and stared down Thatcher with his teeth bared.

"You took back your arm and that thing was scrap, by the way what did you do with that useless piece of flesh?"

"Shut yer mouth about my arm!"

Cole pulled his claw arm back behind him and prepared for the charger. Jenny held Alice close and kept back.

"So what do you want?"

"That woman looks tasty as I said, let me have her and we even."

"Try and take her and you're fucked, or did you forget? I'm Cole the bruja and I'm the one that will beat your fat ass! It's a mother... fucking... pleasure!"

"Nough of this crap! Infected! Git em!"

At his bellow of a call, the infected charged at Cole and Jenny. Somehow Thatcher learned to control the infected and make them do his bidding. Never before had a special infected gained complete obedience from the commons. This was no time to celebrate though, now was Cole's time to kill.

Cole pushed Jenny to the ground and swept his claw behind her, killing four off in an instant. Unfortunately this made Cole forget the ones in front that immediately climbed onto his back and started biting him. Even with the dead weight on his back, he kept swinging his claw at any and all that came near. Jenny huddled over to let Cole fight without getting in his way, it was his decision to have her lie down and she obeyed, nestling the small infant girl close to shield her from the blood of the fight.

Cole was already sick of these weaklings trying to fight him. He grabbed the two clasping to his back with their teeth dug in and ripped them from his back, tearing his back up in the process. With these two in his clutches he flung them at Thatcher who bat them away with his massive arm.

"ENOUGH!"

Cole's outburst made the commons all halt in place, even the ones inches from Jenny withdrew.

"ENOUGH YOU FILTHY MAGGOTS!"

The infected began to recede behind Thatcher who looked left and right at the cowardly infected in retreat.

"What're ya doing?! Git em now! I said ATTACK!"

"Looks like I'm a hell of a lot scarier to them than you are fuckhead."

"Grrr... Idiots! Worthless!"

"Take me on yourself big man, I'm itching to see your insides."

"You'll see my insides when I eat ya!"

"Come on then!"

Thatcher could'nt stand Cole's taunts and lost his mind. Without hesitation he began his charge only to have a repeat of his first encounter with the bruja. With a single move Cole latched his claws into the large arm and jumped over his head, as he landed he jerked his arm forward and bringing Thatcher crashing to the pavement.

"Letting you live last time was a mistake, I won't do that twice..."

Cole ripped his claws from Thatcher's arm and placed them into his head. As Cole raised his claws to his face to lap up the blood, he saw Jenny watching his closely. "I can't do that, not with her here..." went through his mind. He moved the hooks away from his face and slung his claw to the side making most of the blood splatter to the ground.

He reached down to Jenny with his left hand and picked her up to her feet where he heard the whining of his daughter in her mother's arms.

"Cole, we need to go now, these things are still watching us..."

Cole looked around at the remaining commons that stared at him. In response to their staring he screamed at them and they all flinched and started stepping back. As the final infected stepped back into the shadows in the alleyways, Cole and Jenny continued walking on with their crying daughter. Cole's patience was being put to the test listening to Alice. He was finally getting a headache from it. In the end he started humming the lullaby from before in hopes of calming her. It settled her barely but was not enough to quell her crying completely.

"She doesn't need sleep Cole, shes hungry... Uh, look the other way a moment."

Without thinking Cole complied with the woman. He didn't turn til he heard rustling coming from behind him where his curiosity took over. As he turned he saw Jenny lifting her shirt up partially.

"C-Cole! Turn around! I need to feed her!"

Cole again complied with her and this time did not turn around to look. He was unsure of why she was so embarrassed, they had a child together so something like that should be nothing. Perhaps it was his current state that was putting her off... highly likely. He just dropped it and shook his head clear of the thought.

"OK Cole, we can keep going now."

Cole turned again to find Jenny's shirt over Alice's head.

"W-what? Not like you can feed her..."

Cole shrugged and started to move yet again. Hopefully this time, there would be no more interruptions. Cole was feeling fatigued from his fighting, but how could such an easy fight wear him down, each step he took exhausted his body further. Then he felt it, the pain in his back where he had been bitten. The bleeding hadn't stopped and he was losing too much blood to go on the way he was, he needed treatment. Without Cass there to patch him up like she usually would, he was out of luck.

"Cole, are you hurting?"

"Yes I'm hurting, these holes in my back aren't hickies, you know."

"..."

"Right, snarls and grunts are all you hear, keep forgetting. Dammit."

Cole reached back as best he could to try and put pressure on his new wounds.

"Let me help, with that hand of yours, you'll just do more damage to yourself."

Cole moved his hands away, putting his trust in Jenny to help him this time. He again heard rustling coming from behind him, this time when he looked, he saw Jenny rummaging through her pockets for something.

"Oh, found it Cole."

The human woman pulled out a small silver ornate lighter with a yawning dog carved on the side.

"I'm going to cauterize this, it'll hurt Cole but it's the only thing we can do."

Cole nodded and turned his head forward. Cauterizing was how he survived being impaled in the Hole by the boxer. Even his lung was shut that way. As the flame came close to Cole, he didn't budge. All he could do was let Jenny do what she could.

While he sat there waiting for it to be over with he could smell the scent of his own skin. Such a smell would normally never bother him but it being his own made him nauseous. By the time Jenny was finished searing shut the lacerations he couldn't handle it this time and leaned forward to let out the contents of his stomach. All that came out was fluid since it'd been some time since he last ate. For once his starving was a good thing, had Jenny seen what he had been eating who knows how she'd react.

"Cole, we can take a break if you want."

Cole shook his head and rose to his feet only to get a headache from getting up to fast.

"Cole, you have to go easy on yourself. If you want to protect me and Alice, you have to be alive. Please don't push yourself too much."

"Go easy on yourself... Sounds like everyone has told me that."

He just glimpsed over to her and faced forward to start walking. Each step he took he nearly collapsed. Before he could fall on his face, Jenny grabbed his arm and threw it over her shoulder.

"...Well lets go then..."

Nothing passed through Cole's mind but he marched on using Jenny as a crutch. Jenny could hardly bare the weight of Cole since both her arms were attending to the small girl she held but she dealt with it. They pushed on because they knew it was almost over and done. They were nearly to the soldier outpost.

As they walked through the city, they spotted a massive fence with barbwire covering it top to bottom. They finally found it, the military base. The front gate slid open for them and five soldiers came rushing out, rifles drawn to meet them.

"Ma'am, step away from the infected!"

"No!"

"Now ma'am! That thing is dangerous!"

"He protected me!"

"I'm sure that's what you think but that thing is a monster!"

"Fuck you!"

With their bickering going on, nobody noticed a man walk through the gates. The man was dressed in a dark green uniform with medals covering his left chest.

"Stand down men. I'll deal with her."

The troops hesitated to lower their weapons with Cole there but eventually obeyed him.

"Jenny, it is good to see you are safe."

"Colonel?!"

"I see Cole is worse for wear. Thought I trained this punk better."

"He saved my life, please don't hurt him!"

"Of course, the Devil can be quite valuable to us."

"Devil?"

"It's a nickname my men gave him. Now, if you comply with us we will not harm him and we will keep you and your child there safe."

"...Do I have your word?"

"For what little a man's word matters in these times, but yes."

"Fine."

While Jenny spoke with this commanding officer, Cole was watching the area, waiting for a moment to run. As Jenny let go of him so the troops could escort them inside, he made a dash in the opposite direction. Just as the soldiers raised their weapons to fire, Jenny and the Colonel made them put their guns down. Jenny was with people who could protect her and Cole was on his way back to be one the infecteds once again.


Whatcha think? Be honest now. The colonel will make another appearance in the last chapter with alot more answers to come. Still confused? Wait til the last chapter! As for the breast feeding part, Alice has to eat sooner or later. Go ahead though and say what you will. I personally find nothing wrong with it, it is natural.