"Oh man, oh man , oh man. What do we do?" Theo asked pacing back and forth.
"Try to calm down." Blake said patting his friends shoulder.
"Fuck Calm Blake! I'm stuck on a Roof with Two old guys with guns and down there are dead people and mutants with long lickers!" Theo screamed.
"If it helps any..." Coal said flashing his badge. "Atlanta police. Sergeant Joshua Coal." Coal said, for a brief moment Theo seemed to calm. Blake looked at Ethan who had just lit a cigarette. "Where is his badge?" Blake asked. Ethan smirked at the boy with his cigarette dangling in between his lips, smoke pouring out his nostrils as he mimed jerking himself off.
"That's my badge kid. Call me Ethan. Ethan Rayne. I'm in contracting. Now look someplace else I'm sick of you glaring at me like i took your toy away." Ethan muttered taking a drag.
"Asshole" Blake muttered turning away. Ethan stopped dead in his tracks and flicked his cigarette off the roof and spun around.
"Excuse me? What did you just say?" Ethan grumbled walking up to the young man.
"Nothing" Blake said nervously.
"My officer friend and I just risked our lives to save you. So again he repeats himself when he should just hit the cunt. What did you say?!" Ethan almost shouted. "I said you are an asshole." Blake said not so calmly. Ethan chuckled a moment before he backhanded Blake so hard he fell on his ass with a busted lip.
"Ethan!" Coal snapped. "Ungrateful little shit, Fuckin' yanky. Nice pre-ripped jeans, that started in England by the way and you ripped them yourselves. It was meant to upset the status quo at the time, now it's a joke. graah! children I hate them. Now I have to play kindergarten watch dog. Rule one: Don't touch me. Rule two: do not talk to me unless it is important. Rule three: Do not touch me, I swear if any of you primitive screw-AHHHHHHHH" Ethan growled drawing his gun and pointing it at them and fired it. Coal drew his glock.
"Drop the weapon!" He shouted loudly before turning to see what Ethan had shot. The licker presumed dead was bloody and near broken, It had scaled the buildings wall and just made it onto the roof top before Ethan nailed it in the middle of the forehead with a bullet. Silently the creature fell back down the side of the building.
"Drop my gun coal? That's cute you giving me an order." Ethan said holstering his weapon and looking back at Theo and Blake.
"Where was I? Oh yeah. please don't touch me. Don't ask for a gun, I assure you we will not give either of you one. " Ethan explained with a calmer tone. Ethan extended a hand to help up Blake. After the boy was upright. Theo raised his hand.
"What?" Ethan asked. "Has anyone ever mentioned you look like Kevin spacey? I mean really....you look just like him." He asked. Ethan's right hand brushed against the whalter ppk pistol on his hip.
"Oooohh ho ho ho, kids." Ethan said slightly disgruntled before walking away towards the roof's door letting out a quiet
"EEERAH!!" out of frustration. Ethan kicked open the door to reveal a dark stairwell. He listened and didn't hear moaning. "Let's go boy scouts" Ethan sighed before making a noise like a trumpet alarm at a summer camp. Coal took point.
The group decided to take a two hour break, they had held up in one of the many apartments in the apartment building. Coal brewed coffee, Theo and Blake had spent most of the time microwaving popcorn and passing it around.
"Eat up, kiddies. One thing I learned in Havana is that carbs are rare....Fuckin' Havana." Ethan said quietly before sitting against the apartments door and falling asleep, after all he hadn't slept in almost four days. as he slumbered quietly he dreamed.
Ethan stood in a black void. He was sweaty his forehead covered in a bandanna. He was wearing a tan jumpsuit with a tactical equipment vest. In his right hand was a m-16 with a grenade launcher attachment. His hands and face covered in gunpowder residue, it appeared he had been in a long term scale of combat. Ever so slowly the black around Ethan formed into a small room. A hut actually, the walls made of bamboo. It had come back to him, Ethan knew where he was now. It was 1994, He was in the middle of one of Cuba's jungles. In one of the huts, of one of the many illegal umbrella field labs. For the last three weeks Cuban military had been getting closer to the field labs location. Ethan had been fighting hard, his guess was that he had killed at least one hundred men in the last three days. At least that was what his ego was telling him. He stood before a sickly looking black woman who was laying on a cot with an I.V. in her arm. "Tabby, baby it's going to be ok. The Humvee is coming to take you out of here soon." Saul said with tears in his eyes, The lanky black man was on his knees gripping her hand tightly, his assault rifle on the ground next to him. "What's wrong with her Saul?" Ethan asked quietly behind his partner. "Cobra bite." Was the only thing Saul could whimper past his lips.
"Damn it...I bloody told her to stay out of the tall grass around the camp." Ethan grumbled to himself. Machine guns were going off a football field away.
"Saul, we need to go now!" Ethan said cocking his gun.
"I am not leaving her." Saul said sternly.
"Hey, look at me." Ethan said loudly. Saul ignored him.
"She is already put in a coma, her ankle is so swollen the skin is torn. Anti venom is a thousand miles away and it's already too late for it to be effective. she is gone, let your wife go,Saul. When they find her they will take her to a hospital and she will die in her sleep. As you and I will be racked and water boarded for eight months until Castro comes down, and personally puts bullets in our heads." Ethan ranted to his partner.
"We need to get out of here, now!" Ethan nearly screamed kicking open the door and firing at an oncoming infantry unit. Saul cried as he stood and held his gun.
" I always liked the end of butch cassidy and the sundance kid." Ethan shouted as the two ran outside firing forward at the half a dozen troops invading the camp.
" Tank!" Saul screamed tackling Ethan to the jungle floor, the tank fired a shell that went right over them, destroying the building they had just come out of.
"NOO!" Saul screamed. Ethan kept firing ignoring his friends pain before eventually grabbing Saul by the collar and dragging him into a sprint as they dashed into the lush green jungle. Saul sobbed as they ran. " You owe me! Ethan Rayne you owe me. I SAVED YOU. YOU...AN OVERPRICED KILLER. AND MY WIFE DIED FOR IT."Saul screamed as they ran. Ethan not wanting to argue while they made an escape didn't answer.
Ethan went back into the black void of his dream. Floating in the dark. " YOU OWE ME ETHAN! YOU OWE ME FOR CUBA! DON'T YOU DARE CLOSE THAT DOOR COWAR-" Saul's voice cried. The words stung Ethan, ringing in his ears. Suddenly from the darkness Saul lept out at Ethan, his places were nearly eaten to the bone on several parts of his body, his face half ripped off. His eye sockets filled with maggots.
"COWARD!" Saul cried strangling him wildly.
"Ethan." Coal said shaking the man on the shoulder to wake him. Ethan jumped only to find Coal extending him a cup.
"You have been asleep for almost two hours, we should keep moving. Your coffee got cold, but you should drink it anyhow." coal said. Ethan simply chugged the contents of the cup and stood. "We have about three fourths of the ammo we had when we started. We will be OK for another day or two." Coal said opening the door and listening, no moans. Quickly He slung the blue duffel bag over his shoulder.
"You take point." Coal said. Ethan raised his mp5 and started walking.
"You two stand in between us." Coal ordered the boys. They did so quietly. Coal was last to start walking. After a half an hour of searching Ethan had led them to the back of the first floor, Figuring the exit was near. Ethan listened and herd no moaning. He rounded the nearest corner, his flashlight brightly lighting the path before him for a split second revealing the backs of at least twenty zombies. Ethan gasped and cupped his flashlight with his hand. Theo almost shouted, Coal covered his mouth. panicking Theo ripped off Coals hand and shouted " I can't breathe!". Ethan sighed and uncupped his flashlight to see the first undead sprint at him wildly. Ethan shot him in the head. The other Undead slowly turned and shuffled towards them. "Run,Run, way go,go,go!" Coal shouted. The boys ran as Ethan and Coal fired wildly while backing away, Ethan stopped and grabbed a door wedge and as he walked backwards nearing a a doorway and shutting the door as he passed it and put the door wedge between the door and the floor. The undead pounded on the wooden frame, it wouldn't last. The group of men ran wildly down the other section of hallway until they came up to what was assumed the front door. It was locked, Coal and Ethan's combined weight couldn't break It. Coal cursed as he went up to the nearest apartment door and kicked it open.
"Get in, we hide again for now." Coal sighed as they all went into The similar apartment. After shutting the door Coal and Ethan started throwing all needless heavy objects up against the door. Blake went to the kitchen with Theo and sat at the kitchen table as the men did the work. Blake took a small kitchen knife out from a drawer, it gave him what little security a simple kitchen knife could.
"It'll hold, but i doubt they will find us if we keep quiet. worst case were on the first floor we can get out a window. Ethan take a few more winks, you look like shit." Coal said as he and Ethan went into the kitchen. Ethan smiled, he wanted to sleep but knew he couldn't. He was being hunted in his dreams. Saul wanted revenge, and if Ethan went to sleep he would surely claim it. "Saul...i-i am s" Ethan began to say to himself but stopped knowing it would do no good. He could use Saul right about now. Saul had the brains to Ethan's brawn. Ethan sat on the floor and placed his head against a cupboard, he shut his eyes and struggled to pretend to sleep.