The door creaks as we enter the building silently. It's already dark outside and all we have for light is our flashlights.
"We'll go in groups of two." I announce.
"Lina and Eve you check out the kitchen. Logan and Mason take the first, second, and third floors." I look around and continue. "Rose and Bennett, try the basement. Kelly and Josh go to the fourth, fifth and sixth. And Phooka and Phooko go to the seventh, eighth, and ninth." I look around making sure everyone understood. "Felix and I will check the room number that the key is inscripted with, and the floors above and below it. Meet back here in three hours."
The groups head off in said directions as the lobby becomes silent.
"Just couldn't get enough of me, could you?" Of course the idiot next to me had to interrupt that silence.
"No, I don't trust you." I say going to the elevator. We wait as the sound of the elevator gets louder and louder.
"That's weird." I say at the same time Felix says "That's odd."
"The elevator is moving even thought he power is out." I say.
"Perhaps someone..."
"Shut off all the lights to make it look like a loss of power?" I question. He nods as the doors slide open and we step inside.
"Shall we check the room first?" He asks.
"Sure." I press the button for the fourteenth floor. "The people who managed this hotel were superstitious."
"Why would you assume that?" He asks.
"The thirteenth floor is missing. So instead of going to room 1495, we'll be in room 1395." I explain. Felix's skin turns a little pale. "You aren't scared of ghosts, are you?" I ask, a little shocked.
"I've heard a lot of things about this hotel." Is all he says as we exit the elevator.
Buzz bzzz
I grab my phone out of my pocket and see a text message from Kelly.
Nothing on four but a few unwanted zombies. Heading to five now.
I put the phone away without replying and look up to see Felix staring at me.
"What?" I ask.
"Through all of this and you still keep your phone? Looks like someone had an interesting life." He sighs.
"I keep it so I can contact the others when I need to. And just because I liked my phone doesn't mean I was boring!" I hiss.
He shrugs, "Doesn't matter to me who you used to be."
I sigh feeling a migraine forming. Either Felix is really getting on my nerves or something bad is about to happen.
We walk as the light from the moon outside and our flashlights guide our way. I stop as a shadow passes the light.
"Uhm... Did you see that?" I ask Felix.
"Don't try to scare me, Lumina. It won't work." He says. I stick my tongue when he uses my full name.
"I'm not I just saw... Never mind." I sigh. We continue down the hall and come upon 1495. It was the only door that had an actual key hole on it. Felix sticks the key in and...

Third person
The Place Hotel: Basement
11:24 pm

"What is that awful stench?" Rose asks Bennett as the two scour the basement together.
"Couldn't tell you." He shrugs. Rose looks around, her hair had started to grow after all the time that's passed since the world had been under distraction. Hard to find a good salon these days.
"Wait..." Rose pauses. "I know that smell..."
Bennett raises an eyebrow at her. Rose continues to walk forward without saying anything else and runs her hand along a vault door.
"The only way to get through that door is explosives." Bennett grins seeming very excited at the idea of blowing something up.
"Or I could open it for us." She says leaning her ear against the metal door. The stench was definitely coming from inside.

The Place Hotel: Kitchen
11:34 pm

Lina dives under a counter as four zombies moan on the other side. Eve has already shot six of them down.
Lina turns and shoots one in the neck, it falls to the ground and she wipes the beads of sweat off her forehead.
Eve hops onto the counter opposite the one Lina was hiding under and sits on it casually as she shoots down the rest.
"Nice work." Eve says. She turns on the sink next to her and splashes water onto her face.
"If there were anyone in here, we would have found them by now. Let's go meet up with the others." Lina suggests.

The Place Hotel: The Sixth Floor
11:56 pm

Kelly drags her gun against the wall, intentionally trying to make noise that will call out any hidden zombies.
Josh sighs and takes the gun away from her.
"Give it back!" She cries. Josh holds it above his head to where she can no longer reach it.
"Stop making so much damn noise." He says.
"Excuse me for trying to help." She crosses her arms.
"That's not helping. That's only making it worse."
Kelly huffs, "The more we kill, the safer we are."
Josh gives back her gun and starts walking away.
"Hey! Where are you going?" Kelly yells impatiently. "You can't just abandon me here!"
Josh returns and comes face to face with her. "Do you realize that each one of those zombies we kill is someone who could have come back when we find the cure?"
"Yeah but..."
"Just because you want to be extra careful is to selfish of a reason for you to go ending those possible futures." Josh says. This was probably the most serious he's ever been about this.
Kelly takes a step back. "L-look I didn't mean-" Josh raises his gun and shoots just past her head. There's a thump as the undead falls behind her.
"Try looking out for someone other than yourself sometime."

The Place Hotel: The Seventh Floor
12:06 am

Phooka giggles as Phooko scans the area with some device he probably created.
"Silence, Phooka." He hisses.
"Do you really think there are ghosts here?" She asks totally ignoring him.
"Yes. Why else would I be doing this?" Phooko sighs as if his sister were a heavier burden on him then he was to her.
"I really don't think all this is necessary." Phooka smiles as she looks around. The halls had already been filled with night vision cameras, motion detectors, enhanced audio recorders, and thermal cameras.
"Research is always necessary." Phooko says.
"Well okay..." Phooka says.
"I think it's safe to head to the next floor now. If anything happens down here I'll be notified on this." Phooko points to his radar. Phooka nods happily in agreement as the interesting pair take the elevator upstairs.

The Place Hotel: The Second Floor
12:55 am

Silence. It was as if there had never been any life on the past two floors. Mason and Logan walk along side each other in the darkness of the hotel. A clock ticks somewhere nearby. A shadow crosses the path of their flashlights' shine as Logan's light begins to flicker.
"What the hell?" He asks as he hits the flashlight with the palm of his hand.
"When has hitting something when a battery dies ever worked for America?" Mason asks.
"We're not in America, Mason. We're in England."
Mason sighs heavily. The clock chimes one o'clock making both men jump. The clock was much closer then they had anticipated.
There's a creaking noise, then the sound of a door shutting.
"You heard that... Right?" Mason asks slowly.
"Yes." Logan says shakily.
There are two very high pitched screams that seems of get closer and closer and...
Thump.
Something knocks Logan to the ground as the screaming ends.
"Oh hi, Mason. How are you?" Lina says smiling.
"I'm so sorry." Eve says to Logan with a rush of embarrassment. She had fallen on top of Logan when she ran into him.
"It's okay." He says standing up and helping Eve onto her feet as well.
"That's very sweet and all but why were you ladies screaming?" Mason asks.
"There were moans coming from the doors and what sounded like chains rattling against the floor." Eve rubs her head.
"Then something crashed behind us and we heard a scream. And that's when we found you guys." Lina sighs.
"We'll go check it out with you." Logan's as to Eve. She smiles and leads the way.

Lumina's POV
The Place Hotel: The Rooftop
1:23 am

"We have a little while before the others get back to the lobby." I say sitting on the edge of the roof.
"I'm almost positive there's something more progressive we could be doing right now." Felix says sitting next to me.
"Sometimes it's nice to just take a break." I sigh. The city (or what was left of it) was lit up but not to it's full potential. This would be an amazing view if it weren't for everything else going on.
"I suppose you could be right." Felix nods.
"I'm always right." I look at him very seriously. "Always."
"You're entitled to your own wrong opinion." He chuckles.
"Where do you think they are?" I ask.
"Hmm?"
"Your friends." I add.
"If I knew I would have found them and have left you by now." Felix says quite bluntly.
"Well that was insensitive." I glare at him.
He laughs again, "Only if you care."
"What's that supposed to mean?" I ask.
"If you didn't care about me, that comment wouldn't have bothered you." He says fixing his glasses.
"I care about everything." I say quietly.
"That's a lie." He says. Another insensitive remark by Felix.
"How so?" I say through clenched teeth.
"It's not humanly possible." He says. "You're brain would be overwhelmed. You wouldn't be able to handle it. You would be so over stressed that you're entire body would shut down and you would be unstable."
"Alright fine... Maybe I don't care about what happens to me. I don't know." I say grumpily.
"Also a lie." Felix mutters.
"I have to protect everyone else. So long as I do that, it doesn't matter what happens to me."
Felix stands up suddenly and raises his right hand, "Then I promise that I will protect you until this apocalypse is over."
I think about this for a second.
"No you don't." It was my turn to be laconic.
"What?" He asks looking a little hurt.
"People don't keep promises. Especially big promises like those." I say with dull expression.
"Well then..." He says sitting back down. "I guess you can be a bitch about it if you want to."
"Who the hell are you calling a bitch?!" I cry. "So what you saved my life a couple of times? Doesn't mean you can call me names."
Felix laughs and you can actually see the smile behind his eyes. I sigh and stick my tongue out at him.
"Maybe I'll just push you off this ledge." I threaten.
"You won't as I will not push you off." He says.
"Uh huh..."
"I, Felix Bell, promise I will never push you off this ledge." He says.
"It's a start." I laugh. "So... Felix Bell, huh?"
"Yes, that is the name I was born with."
"Has kind of a ring to it, doesn't it?" I suppress a smile.
He bursts into laughter and wipes a fake tear from his eyes, "That was bad."
"I know." I smile.

The Place Hotel: Second Elevator
2:02 am

The elevator suddenly stops as Phooko and Phooka press against the corner, cowering.
"Who could have stopped it?" Phooko cries.
"Shhh... It'll be okay." Phooka says.
The doors slide open to reveal Josh and Kelly.
"Oh god." They say at the same time.
"Josh?" Phooka looks up at them.
"Kelly!" Phooko jumps away from his sister to hug Kelly. Kelly tases him and he falls to the floor.
"Oh-oh what are you two doing here?" Phooka asks.
"Ow..." Phooko moans as the doors close.
"We got Rose's text." Josh shrugs. Phooka stand up and straightens herself.
"We were so scared... This hotel really creeps me out." Phooka laughs nervously.
"But then we found you." Phooko says dreamily.
"That's... Gross." Kelly takes a step away from him.
The doors open again and Phooka and Kelly step out.
"Come on, kid." Josh lifts Phooko from the ground by his shirt and drags him out of the elevator.
"Oh, Josh." Phooko says still in his dream state. Josh drops him and continues on without him.
"Wait! Don't leave me! I'm sorry!" Phooko calls after them.

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