Chapter 11
A/N: Thank you guys for the wonderful reviews and all of your support. I have to admit I started another story, which is not on this site, and so I've been a little busy. Plus, I recently got sick and have been doing a bunch of make-up work.
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Third Person P.O.V.
Beca leads the girls into the storage room, finding no sign of the undead residing there. The young brunette turns to face the girls, and pulls Stacie, Chloe, and Lilly away from Aubrey, Fat Amy, and Cynthia Rose. The four girls go to the left side of the double doors leading into the store while the three girls head to the right side. Beca peeks her head up the see through the round window, and takes a look of her surroundings.
Out of the window, Beca sees about seven of the infected, because let's face it 'deadies' sounds almost cute, in her line of sight, so there could be more. The small leader ducks her head back down and holds up seven fingers to show that she sees seven infected out there. Beca points to herself, Stacie, Chloe, and Lilly, and makes a sign of walking, then points towards the store. She then makes a signal for the other three girls to stay, and watch the first team through the windows. The older blonde nods, and tightens her grip on her pots. Beca turns towards her team and lifts her eyebrows, asking if they are ready. The senior, and the two freshmen nod, and out the door they go.
Beca goes through first, hurling her small knives at her targets, instantly taking out three of the infected. Stacie is through the door next and she sinks one of her cleavers through a discolored skull that belonged to an infected advancing on Beca's left while the shorter brunette threw her small knives.
Beca takes a split second to look around, surveying the store noticing that there are at least eight more infected than she originally thought. Beca turns to look at Chloe, who had just hit an infected in the side of its head with the edge of her pan, just like Beca had shown her before. The red head easily cracked its skull and doing fatal brain damage. Chloe looks in awe at her pan, and then at the damage the pan had done. She smiles triumphantly with a new fire in her eyes as she advances onto her next target.
Aubrey, Fat Amy, and Cynthia Rose bust through the door, "Beca!" Aubrey yells as the blonde points behind the DJ.
Beca turns swiftly around and an infected is only two feet away. Before she can even react to defend herself, the previously mentioned infected collapses forward, almost toppling Beca. She looks at the still infected and sees an arrow sticking out of the back of its head. Hesitantly, the short girl looks up at the direction from where the arrow came from. She wasn't prepared for what greeted her, in fact, it shocks her motionless.
"Benji?" the young leader stutters out.
"Shut up and help!" Benji snaps as he loads and shoots another arrow from his seemingly homemade long bow.
Beca looks around the chaos that is the store to see how the Bellas are holding up. The flaming haired senior is taking out yet another infected. Beca surveys the trail of dead undead behind Chloe and counts at least three bodies that have obviously been taken out by Chloe. Stacie is going fucking crazy with her cleavers, not letting an infected within four feet of her. Fat Amy is, well, Fat Amy-ing. Cynthia Rose is using her crutches to push down the infected and then she stabs them in the eye when they are down. Lilly is snapping an infected's neck as if it's no big deal, and Beca decided to push down the twist of a knot in her stomach at the sight. Finally, the brunette's eyes land on a cowering Aubrey. The blonde is crouching in a corner taking baby shots at the advancing infected.
Beca rolls her eyes slightly before chucking a knife at the back of the infected's head, watching it fall to the ground only a short distance away from Aubrey. "Get behind me, now." Beca says to Aubrey. The blonde scrambles toward Beca, and stays behind her as the DJ continues to hurl knives until she finds that she's run out of throwing knives.
The short girl wields her larger knife as she takes it out of her holster. She starts to go through the dead infected that she's killed, pulling out her knives as she does so. She's pulling out a knife from one's head when she hears a growl behind her. She whips around and she only has a second before she throws the knife that's in her hand, just barely missing Aubrey and striking the infected behind her. Aubrey whimpers as the infected falls to the floor. Beca walks over and tugs the knife out. She's about to say something to Aubrey, when she notices an absence of sound. She scans her surroundings and sees that the Bellas are making their way out front to regroup.
She follows everyone outside, with Aubrey still cowering behind her. She goes outside to look for Benji, and she finds that Benji isn't the only Treble that has made it. Unicycle, or Uni, and Donald were also with Benji. Uni was holding a sturdy-looking metal pipe, and Donald was holding a knife or more like a mini-machete because it was so big.
"I can't believe you guys are here." Beca, being the unnamed leader, commented.
"Well, we were walking down the main road back there after we had managed to escape from the hotel we had seen your bus at the bottom of the hill." Benji paused before saying the next few words. "Then we saw Jessica, so we decided to go down for a closer look. You guys weren't in the bus, so we knew you had to be alive somewhere. Uni pulled out a mad we brought along from the trip and we saw that there was a town nearby." Benji gestured to the town around them, then to the two bodies that were almost unrecognizable. "Then we found what looked like Denise, so we looked in here, and I saved your ass." Benji finished with a small smile.
"Wow, I can't believe you came looking for us. Thank you so much." Beca stuttered out.
"Of course, I'm glad you are all safe."
"Where are all of the other Trebles?" Beca asked, not sure if she wanted to know the answer.
"They didn't make it out of the hotel." Benji said darkly. "Where's Jesse?"
"He didn't make it. He was the first to go."
Benji eye got wide, as they started shining with unshed tears. He angrily wiped at his cheeks before any could fall. As he looked away from Beca, he thought he knew how Jesse had died. "Did he try to be a hero?"
Chloe rolled her eyes at the mention of Jesse being a hero. He wasn't being a hero he was checking for a fucking animal carcass! Beca noticed the change in her girlfriend's demeanor. She slightly winced at how the redhead must feel about Jesse, but she swallowed the lump in her throat. The young boy would want to remember his best friend being a hero, so she muttered out a 'yes', not getting any complaints from the Bellas; except Chloe. Her glare pierced through Beca, the brunette looked back with pleading eyes. A conflict flashed through Chloe's eyes. After a few seconds, Chloe nodded and looked away from her girlfriend, still scowling.
Benji nods, swallowing his tears. He puts a stolid face on; unfeeling, uncaring. He knows he lost his best friend. He doesn't want to blame Beca, but he knows that if it weren't for her, Jesse would still be alive. His best friend would still be with him, fighting along his side. The young boy turns away from Beca, unable to look at her without having anger bubble up inside of him.
As Benji starts to walk away, the short leader looks at Uni and Donald, receiving sympathetic looks. She smiles and turns toward Chloe. Beca starts to walk over toward Chloe to see what's wrong, but she stops abruptly when realization struck her. They don't know about us. Her eyes widen, and she starts walking toward the freezer they had been hiding in. "Uh, let's go collect the food and water. We should start moving." Beca mutters.
"Want some help?" Beca turns around to see Donald stepping forward, and Beca hesitantly nods. The girls start walking towards the storage freezer with Donald and Uni close behind. Beca looks over at her girlfriend and see's the hurt expression on her face. Fuck.
Everyone grabs a cart and puts the necessities in. In the carts were a couple packs of water, and lots of food. Beca and Stacie decided to get more knives and tenderizers as weapons, just in case.
As each person left the store, they held their respective weapon as they pushed their cart so they were ready for anything.
Fat Amy's cart held the least amount of items, but only because everyone else thought it was a good idea to have Cynthia Rose ride inside. Cynthia Rose had agreed with a huff and climbed in.
When everyone was outside, Stacie was the first to speak up. "Well, where do you suppose we go?"
"It's completely over-run from where we came, so maybe we should start heading west." Donald replied.
"I don't know, we want to be away from the more populated cities. What if we took the back roads, heading south, then west along the coast?" Beca interjected with her own idea.
"But there are fewer buildings, what if we need to hide, or where will we sleep?" Stacie asks.
Beca looked around, "Well, we have this forest. What if we climbed trees and tied ourselves to them do we don't fall while we sleep?"
Cynthia Rose waved from where she was seated, inside the cart. "Hello-o? Broken leg here." Beca grimaced in response. Cynthia Rose turned to Chloe, "How long until my leg heals?"
Chloe looked up, removing herself from her thoughts at the mention of Cynthia Rose's broken leg. "How long since we crashed?"
"It's been a week and a half." Lilly mutters just above a whisper.
"You still need about five to six weeks." Chloe says, returning her attention to Cynthia Rose.
"Seriously?!" Cynthia Rose yelled.
"Yes! You're lucky I was able to reset it or you would never be able to walk again! You could be dead!" The anger started rising up in Chloe, building up from what Beca had done, and now that Cynthia Rose was yelling at her.
"Guys calm down; we don't need a repeat of what happened earlier." Beca stepped between her girlfriend and the broken girl.
The redhead huffed and rolled her eyes before stepping back, and turning around. As she turned, she noticed a small car parked outside of a small house. "Does anyone know how to hotwire a car?"
Beca, Stacie, and Fat Amy spoke simultaneously, "Yeah." Chloe lifted her brow. She expected Fat Amy to say yes, maybe even Stacie, but she was surprised her girlfriend knew how to do it. She reminded herself to ask about it later when she wasn't so upset with the brunette.
"Okay, well there's a car over there." Chloe hitched a thumb over her shoulder, causing everyone to look behind her.
They all spotted a little black 1967 Chevy Impala. "It's so pretty." Beca mumbled dazedly as she started to walk towards it, but Stacie grabs her arm and pulls her back.
"What if something is in there?" Stacie whispers.
Beca grabs her knife from her holster, "I got this."
"Let me go with you." Stacie said pulling one of her cleavers out.
"Fine," Beca says, "but I'm going first." Stacie nodded and the two started towards the car.
Chloe looked on at the two best friends as they made their way to the car. She looked over at Benji, noting the fact that he looks everywhere but Beca. She furrows her brow, wondering why he has been silent and colder towards Beca after he found out about Jesse. Did he blame her? Chloe thought for a few seconds, realizing that if Beca hadn't kissed Jesse, he would have been with Benji and the rest of the Trebles, not with the Bellas that night. Yeah, well if Beca hadn't kissed Jesse, a lot of things would have been different. Chloe looks away from Benji and back at Beca. She had definitely noticed that Beca had changed her course when she had headed to the freezer. She knew that her girlfriend was going to walk to her, but then she changed her direction, which of course pissed Chloe off. She didn't know what to think. Is she ashamed of me? Chloe looked down, forcing the tears not to fall. The red head felt a hand on her back and she looked up to see Aubrey was looking at her with worried eyes. Chloe mouthed 'later' and Aubrey had just nodded when she heard a scream from the direction of the car.
Beca and Stacie had arrived at the car and Beca had turned around to see that her girlfriend had her head down and Aubrey was trying to see if she's okay. All of the sudden, Stacie screamed, and Beca heard the definite sound of something slicing through something. She looked over at Stacie who had back up, trying to remove a severed hand from her leg. The short girl looked dumbstruck as she moved her gaze to the other end of the blood trail. She jumped away as she saw an infected trying to slither out from under the Impala. Under impulse, she threw a knife at his head, killing it instantly and then going to help Stacie get its hand off of her leg. "Are you okay? Did it bite you?"
"N-No, I'm fine." Stacie muttered out. Just then Stacie felt an impact on her side and then Beca saw a head of blonde hair fly through the air.
Beca looked down and saw Stacie stumble back a few steps as she tried to regain her balance from Aubrey practically tackling her. Beca's mouth dropped open as Aubrey pulled Stacie into a searing kiss. The DJ looked from Aubrey and Stacie to the rest of the group and everyone save for Fat Amy, Cynthia Rose, and Lilly had their mouths on the ground.
"When did that happen?" Donald asks.
"About the same time Beca and Chloe happened." Fat Amy answered.
Benji whipped his head towards Chloe, glaring at her before he moved towards the red head. "You!? She went to you?!"
"B-Benji, calm down." Chloe said in a small voice.
"You stole her from my best friend!" Benji screamed in her face, backing her into the nearest wall. He grabbed her arms forcing her to stay in the same spot. "This is how you react to his death?! You steal his girlfriend?!"
"Hey!" Beca walked over to Benji, pushing him away. "Get your hands off of her!"
Benji quickly advanced on Beca. "And you! You just moved on, so quickly didn't you!?"
"It's not like that! I love her! I always have!" Beca screamed back with equal anger.
"Oh, so you played him! How dare you! You're such a whore!"
At those words, Beca snapped. She raised her right fist and sent it flying through the air, connecting with Benji's jaw with a loud THUNK! "Don't ever call me that again!" Beca screamed before raised her fist to go for his nose, but someone gripped her arm from behind.
"Beca, stop!" Beca whipped around, ready to punch the person who stopped her, but all of her anger quickly dissipated when she realized it was Chloe who stopped her.
Beca stood there for a few moments, and when Chloe pulled her in for a hug, the dam broke loose, and tears just flooded out of Beca's eyes.
Donald and Uni were standing there with their mouths agape. Uni was the first to recover. "Dude, Benji, that was too far, man."
Benji quickly got up and turned to face them. "No it wasn't! If it wasn't for that whore, Jesse wouldn't be dead!" This time, Benji felt a hand out his shoulder; he turned around and was met with a fist in the nose. He stumbled back and fell to the ground, his nose bleeding pretty bad.
Stacie bent down to Benji so she could look him in the eyes. "If you ever call my best friend a whore ever again, I will end you." She got up and walked back to her best friend, rubbing her back for comfort.
Donald and Uni helped Benji up. "Benji, you have to control yourself. We need them on our side."
Benji ripped his arms away from his friends and huffed. "I'm not finished with them." With that, Benji took Donald's mini-machete and headed towards the car. He ripped the open and grabbed something, pulling it out of the car. When everyone saw what it was, their mouths opened as Benji began wailing into the infected and kept thrusting the knife long after it was dead. He ripped open the piece that protected the wires and focused on the wires. After a few minutes, the vehicle roared to life. He walked back towards the group thrusting the machete into Donald's hands. "Get the supplies in there. We take turns driving Cynthia Rose. We go along the back roads, and we head south, then west,"
Everyone nodded and started to walk towards the car, loading Cynthia Rose into the back seat carefully. Beca saw that if they all arranged themselves carefully, they might all be able to sleep in the car, although it would be cramped, it was better than sleeping on the outside, at least until they could find another car.
Everyone helped to load the water crates and food into the trunk, and then all of the extra knives and meat tenderizers. "For now we can roll the car, and when there's a hill, we will start it up again and drive it. We need to conserve gas." Beca said.
After Cynthia Rose had settled, and the car had been set to neutral, it barely took one person to push the car as another steered it. With the rest of the Bellas and Trebles walked ahead, they were off.
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