"What's my name?" Hunter asked.
"Hunter." Shawn said.
"You feeling okay?" Hunter asked.
"Yeah... just.... where the hell are we?" Shawn tried to make out his surroundings. They were in a large room with a lot of tables and chairs all pushed to the far side of the room. The far wall had three largish windows.
"We're in a school."
"Okay." Shawn went to sit up a little but Hunter gently pushed him back down to the make shift bed.
"Don't worry about anything. Just get some rest." he watched as Shawn closed his eyes again, moved so he was closer to Hunter.
"You said that before."
"I said it a lot. And I'll say it again in another hour." Hunter gently placed a kiss on Shawn's forehead.
"Not in public." Shawn mumbled.
Hunter smiled to himself. He pulled the cover up a little higher to make sure Shawn would stay as warm as possible. He stayed sat with Shawn for almost 10 minutes before he got up. He walked over to one of the windows and looked out. This window looked out onto what would have been the kids playground, but it gave him a good view and he could see that the area was clear for quite a way.
Checking on Shawn again, he made his way back across the room and left the Texan to sleep while he went and found the others.
They were in another room a way down the hall. They were all staying together in one room, but had let Shawn and Hunter have a private room for the quiet more than anything. The halls echoed as he walked down them and as he knocked on the door, it seemed to bounce down the hall. He was waved in.
"Everything okay?" Margaret asked.
"Yeah, thanks. He's just resting."
"Did you want anything?" David asked.
"Yeah, actually. I kinda wondered where everyone else was."
"Everyone else?" George asked.
"Yeah, well outside there were children here and you, George, even mentioned your family. Where are they?"
"These people are my family." George said.
"And the kids?"
"I lied about them. I just wanted to get some help. I was scared you're friend was infected."
"So it's just the three of you?"
"Yeah."
"Okay."
"Why don't you sit in here with us for a little while. We could get to know one another a little better."
"Sure." Hunter said. There was an empty chair and he sat down on it.
"So what do you do?" Margaret asked. She seemed to be the main talker of the group.
"I'm retired, actually. I was a professional wrestler."
"Oh. That's... nice. You have a family of your own?"
"I do have two young daughters actually."
"Oh, how lovely. Where are they then?"
"They live with their Mother."
"Excuse me, I'm just going to the bathroom." David said, getting up and leaving the room.
"So, your children? What are their names?"
"Aurora and Murphy."
"Murphy? For a girl?" George said.
"We get that a lot."
"I should think so, it's a boys name."
"George!" Margaret scolded. "I'm sorry for him."
"It's okay." Hunter said. "You know, I actually kinda need the bathroom myself. Where is it?"
Margaret and George exchanged glances. "Oh, you just go out of here and turn left."
"Left? Okay, thanks." Hunter came out of the room and went to the left. But outside the door, he stopped and listened.
"Well what could I say, no you can't use the bathroom?"
"You could have said something. What's he gonna say when he comes back and sees that David's not in there?"
"We'll tell him that there's another bathroom and he's gone to use that one."
Hunter lowered himself down so he could make his way back down the hall to his and Shawn's room without alerting the other two.
Once past the door, he stood up straight and walked down towards the room. The door was open when he'd left it closed. Carefully, he looked round the doorway and looked inside.
David was crouched down near Shawn, a bottle of water in front of him. He was carefully opening some capsules and pouring the contents into the water. But not in a nice doctor way, more like a doctor who was trying to bump of his patients.
Hunter's gut reaction was to run in there and pull the man away, but he knew it wasn't the right time. He backed away. He knew David wasn't about to wake Shawn up and force him to drink.
He was waiting for Hunter to do it.
