Running Away and Hiding With You
Raven Heights: 5 miles.
"We're almost there," Tatiana whispered to Natasha, who sat next her in the back of the truck. They were surrounded by the bags of food, cardboad boxes filled with food from Maria's house, duffel bags of ammuntion and guns, and the canisters of gas. It was fairly cramped and their skinny legs were knocking together, but they didn't mind that much. Natasha Griffen, the youngest member of Maria's group, was only two years younger than her. Tatiana somehow felt close to her because of that and also because somehow, they seemed alike.
"I can't wait to take a shower," Natasha said, smiling a bit. At first the scared 17 year old had seemed hopeless and utterly freightened. But after getting back on the road and talking to Tatiana, she had calmed down. The freight that distorted her face had disapeared into an almost serene smiling face.
"Oh, me too. And I really need a change of clothes," Tatiana said, giggling. It was true. Her teal sweatshirt was stained with dried, deep red blood and sweat and brain matter clung to her jeans and shoes. Natasha was wearing shorts and she knew that she wasn't too comfortable with her legs out in the open, unprotected and easy targets for zombies to get at.
It seemed so werid, talking about clothes and what they were going to do once they got to the hotel, like this wasn't an emergency and they were actually going on vacation in the lovely, sight-filled town.
Lleyton was driving the SUV down the highway and in the passenger seat next to him was Maria. She kept her eyes on the vehicles that were haphazardly parked on the road, looking at the zombies trapped inside. Old zombies, young zombies, even children zombies. It was just all apart of their new world. Once in a while, Maria would glance in the backseat, where Brandon, Antoinette, and Alex sat and then to her and Natasha.
No zombies had broken out of their vehicle prisons, which gave them not much of a reason to worry. It made easy traveling to their destination.
Many billboards advertising many water-parks, resturants, and shows in the town were comming up and it was almost a sign of hope to them. It showed them they were that much closer to getting with other survivors, that much closer to getting to a, for the moment, sanctuary.
"Will we...be safe, Tati?" Natasha questioned her softly, "At the hotel?"
"Yes. Most definately." Tatiana reassured her.
Hell, she didn't know. From the way the many Jeff explained it, there was just a crowd of zombies outside the hotel. There was a fire escape that he and some other people in his group would be waiting for them on and they just had to get up there, unscathed from the zombies. It wasn't that hard. They shouldn't have any trouble. Shouldn't.
"We'll be okay, Natasha. Don't worry about it," Tatiana said, putting her arm around her shoulder. She never had siblings. She was the spoiled only child of the city's DA. And really, none of her friends had siblings. A few did, but they were much older than them and had jobs and families or were getting out of college. Natasha felt like her long lost little sister to her and she was her older sister. It was her job to protect her little sister and she'd do it.
Lleyton pulled off at the upcomming exit and everyone tensed. The exit led onto a more barren road, surrounded by large pine trees and little houses. But as they kept going down the road, more large billboards could be seen.
Raven's Eye Casino - 1/2 mile!
Pizza Palace - Next to The Wild Wolf Resort!
Tatiana turned from her spot in the back, facing the hatch and stood up on her knees to look out of the windsheild. The pretty, earthy scenery faded out into a few car dealerships, which were utterly empty from where they could see. Then a few resturants crowded together came into few and the large Raven's Eye Casino did too. There were many cars parked in the casino parking lot, but no zombies could be spotted. The resturants had a few cars parked in their lots, but none were too full.
"The casino is going to be a hot spot for zombies," Antoinette thought outloud. She held her face in her hands and was gazing out the window at the buildings and she had a very thoughtful look on her face.
"They're probally all locked up in there," Brandon said, "They were minding their own buisness, playing slots and what not, and well...a zombie just happened to stumble in. End of story."
"Let's just stay away from there for a long time," Maria said, her voice hinted with laughter and fear, "Well, at least until we have an army of our own and like flamethrowers and bazookas."
Tatiana smiled at that, until she saw a zombie beating on the glass of a resturant called Pizza Pub. It was a large woman, and she could spot about three little kids behind her, trying to get past her girth to pound on the windows themselves. Oh god please. Just stay the fuck in there Tatiana thought, her eyes widening.
But luck didn't seem to be on their side.
The window smashed and right at first, the large woman was pushed down to her face by the children and the children began to chase after the car. There were two little girls and maybe a pre-teen boy. They looked very decayed, but that didn't slow them down a bit.
"Holy fuck! Holy fuck!" Natasha screamed, her voice fairly high pitched. Eveyrone's head was turned round to the hatch besides Lleyton, who had sweat dripping down his forehead at a rapid rate and as trying as best as he could to concentrate on the road, despite the zombies who were chasing after the SUV. The large woman was getting up now, revealing a large rip in her once pink blouse. The leftovers of her intestines flopped out and she began running, her fat not slowing her down too bad.
"Tatiana. You have to shoot out the hatch. Now!" Brandon screamed at her, panic taking over his entire face, distorting it. Tatiana's eyes widened fearfully as he pushed his hunting rifle in her hands. She was shaking, but she knew she had to do it. A layer of sweat covered her face and arms as Lleyton opened the window of the hatch for her to lean out of. She was scared.
"Hold on to me!" She said fearfully as she rested her arms on the tailgate and got ready to aim. Natasha wrapped an arm around her waist and braced a foot against the tailgate, thinking smart even during the panic.
The three children and large woman were close behind and 3 more zombies had come out of their hiding places to chase after them for just a little bite out of them. The world seemed to slow down a bit for her. This was important. Her entire group was counting on her. She couldn't fail and let the zombies get to them.
She aimed for the large woman's fat, flabby head and squeezed the trigger. The woman fell flat on her face, the second time of the day, as blood splattered the pavement and the zombies behind her trampled her now dead body. She aimed again, this time at a little girl who was chasing and she aimed and fired.
She dropped like a fly, the other zombies trampling over her as well.
Aimed. And fired.
Aimed. And fired.
It wasn't all that hard. After the head of a african-american man exploded and he dropped to his knees on the pavement, there were none of them left chasing the SUV. Tatiana sighed and leaned on the rifle with the butt digging into the carpet. Natasha took her arm from her waist and pulled the hatch shut, letting the last gust of almost bittersweet smelling wind into the truck.
Tatiana handed Brandon back his rifle and leaned against the back of the seats, closing her eyes and just breathing. She wiped her forehead with her sweatshirt sleeve and she heard Maria say, "You did good."
She was dead tired, she just realized. She felt utterly smelly, sweaty, and disgusting. She wanted a shower, new clothes, a nice hot meal, and a normal bed to sleep in.
"Is that the hotel?" Lleyton asked, slowing the SUV down to a crawl. Tatiana sat up, her shoulder colliding with Natasha's as they both looked out the windsheild in unision once again.
The hotel in front of them was a large white building and some areas red brick was decoratively placed. It would have been a lovely hotel to stay in if there wasn't a hoard of blood thirsty zombies outside, bashing at the windows with their bloody fists and trying to break down the large front door the same way. Tatiana saw three people standing on the fire escape- two men and a woman. They were waving their arms franticly, as if waving down a plane. Maybe their keeping the zombies concentrated on them.
"We have to take this chance! Use the sunroof to shoot some of the zombies down and we can just drive up to the fire escape and climb onto the ladder," Tatiana said, her voice strong and thoughtful. The woman held the ladder for the fire escape up in her hands. If they let it down now, the zombies would bum rush her and either pull it down or well...figure out how to climb it, but that wouldn't happen.
Alex scrambled to get his rifle that had slid under the seat during the zombie chase and Lleyton was holding the button the opened the sunroof down while Antoinette and Brandon checked their own guns. Once the sun roof was open, the three of them somehow squeezed themselves into the opening and took aim.
Through the sound of hungry, moaning zombies, the gunshots blasted through the air and Tatiana could see three zombies go down. The hoard the of zombies turned to them and seen. They ran to the SUV, surrounding it and the zombies that were in front of the hoard were smashing on the windows, smearing the glass with blood. More shots were heard and more in back were falling down.
There were maybe 25 zombies surrounding the SUV. It was scary, even thou Antoinette, Alex, and Brandon were shooting them down slowly. Tatiana could see more zombies trickling out from buildings and she could hear her heart going faster. The guns kept going off but the zombies seemed to just keep comming.
When blood was dripping from the windows and Lleyton had to use the windsheild wipers to keep the windsheild clean, Maria said, "We can't keep sitting here. Just run those fuckers over!" and she waved her hand animatedly towards the 3 zombies trying to crawl onto the hood of the car. There were only maybe 10 or so zombies around.
"Okay..." Lleyton said nervously, putting the SUV into drive. He pressed his foot on the accelerator and sped forword. The three shooters quickly pulled themselves from the sunroof as one zombie flew sideways after being hit from the bumper and two zombies went flying over the car. They fell back into the remaining zombies and Lleyton sped up to were the three people were waiting at the fire escape. The women slowly dropped the ladder and it landed near the sunroof.
Maria pulled out her rifle and climbed into the backseat, taking her role as their leader. She climbed out of the sun roof with no difficulty, her years of work at the gym paying off now. She stood up and looked around the SUV and at the zombies reaching up at her, moaning for her.
"Bring up some of the backpacks. We can't just leave the supplies in here," She said into the sunroof. Natasha pulled two of the backpacks filled with foods and medical items and pushed them through the sunroof. Maria put one on her back and used the other one's strap and tossed it around her shoulder. She got onto the ladder and started climbing up, the moans and groans of the zombies getting more louder and frustrated.
Once Maria made it onto the fire escape, the woman took one of the backpacks from her and put it on her back and she ushered Maria into the window that led onto the fire escape. Antoinette grabbed the last two backpacks and started climbing up herself.
When everyone went up, they each took some of the items. Brandon took one of the duffel bags, Alex did too. They shoved the blankets, extra water, and canned food into the duffel bags. Lleyton went up and then Natasha did.
Tatiana pulled herself up through the sunroof as Natasha made it onto the fire escape. Tatiana stood up on the roof of the SUV and glanced around her. The zombies were going insane around her, desperate to eat her flesh. Tatiana grapsed onto the cold metal ladder rung and slowly pulled herself up.
She climbed the ladder and when to the top she grabbed onto the fire escape and the woman who stood up there with the two men took her hand to help pull her up. Just as she was going to pull herself up onto the fire escape, her foot slipped on the rung.
Her whole body dropped from the ladder and the woman holding her hand now was holding her life in her hands and if she let go, Tatiana would drop into the hoard of zombies below. She began to scream wildly and she pulled her feet back onto the rungs but couldn't pull herself up just by herself. The woman tried pulling her up, but she was too weak.
"Help!" The woman screamed, her accent spanish. The two men who once stood on the fire escape had gone in with the others. Alex poked his head out from the window and once he saw Tatiana hanging there, he rushed out and ran to the woman. and took Tatiana's other hand in his.
"It's okay, Tati. We got you," He said to her softly. Tatiana began to feel tears in her eyes as the woman and Alex heaved her up onto the fire escape. As she got to her knees on the metal fire escape, Alex placed his hands on her shoulders.
"Are you okay? Are you hurt?" He said, his voice sounding absolutely shaken. Tatiana looked up, wiping the stray tears in her eyes and laughed at him.
"Wow, you do care about me!" She said, getting up and going to the window, "But I'm fine. Thanks. Thank you for saving me."
"No problem," Alex said, smiling at her lightly. He pulled the ladder up and set it next to the window and followed Tatiana in through the window.
Too close. Too close.
Author's Note: I just feel unhappy with this story right now?
Do you guys REALLY like it?
yeah. its just me being werid.
I felt inspired to write a little bit after reading a few chapters from a Resident Evil book. I love the RE book series. GAAAH!!! lol. Read and Review please!
ANY IDEAS ARE GLADLY TAKEN. tehe.