Survivors: A Walking Dead Story
Chapter 21: Story Time
Flash Back (5 years before the apocalypse).
Bo walked into his shared apartment. It was a small two-bedroom apartment on the second floor. Bo shared this apartment with his older brother, Abraham. Their parents named his big brother after the president, they believed he was gonna do great things. They were right, too bad they would never live to see it. They were killed by a drunk driver one night when going out for a movie, a date night, they hadn't had one of those in a while. The older brother was currently in the process of becoming a lawyer, Bo was just a young 19-year-old boy. He worked a part-time job to help support them both while his older brother had just passed his tests to become a lawyer. It was a happy Tuesday morning, they had pancakes for breakfast. They both had to be at work soon, so they left their apartment just after 8 in the morning.
They both walked together for a while, then they would split up to go to work. Bo worked on the edge of town, in a little lumber mill, he always had a passion for hunting, being out in the woods for hours at a time, helped him think and wonder what he would do with his life.
However, this day would be one Bo would remember for the rest of his life. The two brothers laughed while walking down an alleyway, they normally didn't go this way, but they were running late and needed to speed things up. They turned the corner to see a nasty sight. A young man, who clearly looked like a druggy was being beaten by two older men. One in a black jacket, the other in a brown jacket. A third man stood behind them he had a bandana on covering the lower part of his face, he was watching them beat the smaller man. The two of them hadn't been seen yet. They were about to speak up when they saw the third man standing back pull out a pocket knife. They started to back away. The third man stepped towards the heavily beaten man on the floor and quickly plunged the knife into his gut.
"oh shit" shouted Bo.
The three men quickly spun round and saw the two brothers.
"get them" shouted the man in the bandana.
The two other men in jackets charged at them.
"run" shouted Abraham pushing Bo to run away in the opposite direction.
They ran out of the alley; it was still early in the morning, so no-one was out in the streets yet. Behind them Bo could see the two men gaining on them.
"we have to split up" said Abraham.
"okay I'll meet you by the police station" said Bo.
Abraham nodded and the two brothers ran in different directions. Bo went left Abraham went right. The one in the black jacket went after Bo. Bo could see him behind him, maybe 6 or 7 feet. Bo saw an alley way and run down it, the alley hit a dead end.
"shit" said Bo.
He ran towards the wall at full speed. As he got closer, he leaped at the wall and attempted to reach the top of it. His finger tips just managed to get a hold of the top. He used all his strength to pull himself up the man in the black jacket managed to grab his left foot and tried to pull him down. Bo managed to kick his hand off and dropped down off the wall on the other side.
Bo's feet stung from the fall, but he didn't stop to relax. He took off quickly, trying to find the police station and hoped that Abraham had gotten there as well. As Bo exited the alley, he turned to his left to see the man in the black jacket turn the corner.
"Shit" said Bo. He turned and ran again.
The man had saw him and continued to chase him. He was quickly closing the gap and Bo was running out of time. He looked around for anywhere to hide but there was nothing. Just as he tried to turn a corner, he felt two powerful arms grab a hold of him. A massive weight came on his back forcing him to the floor. Bo tried to get up only to see a boot fly into his face and then darkness.
Bo awoke in the back of a van. His hands or feet weren't bound, and his mouth wasn't bagged either. Bo tried to open the back of the van, after a few seconds he managed to push it open, he looked out the back of the van to see they were in the middle of the woods. He looked towards the road it would be a rough landing. Bo braced himself and leapt out the back of the van. His body hit the road and he was sent rolling, his body was grazed and cut by the concrete, but he suffered no major injuries. Just as he was standing up, he saw a vehicle brake in front of him. The door opened and the third man climbed out followed by the man in the brown jacket.
"I think we've gone far enough" said the man in the bandana.
The man in the brown jacket approached Bo and grabbed his shoulder's forcing him down onto the road.
"please, don't kill me" said Bo.
"take him into the woods" said the bandana man.
The man in the brown jacket obliged dragging him towards the trees. The man in the black jacket stepped out of the van and helped the other man drag Bo into the woods. The third man followed behind them.
They walked for nearly 10 minutes until the road was nowhere to be seen and all around them were tall thick trees. Bo was thrown to the dirt.
"do you know who I am" said the man in a bandana.
"no, I don't" said Bo.
"do you know what I look like" said the bandana man.
"no, I don't" said Bo.
"and it's gonna stay that way, I recognised your brother, he's supposed to be some new lawyer right, I know everyone in this town, you speak one word of what you saw, I'll come for you and your brother and hurt you both" said the bandana man.
"yes, I won't say a word just please don't kill me" said Bo.
"that's good but you need a little incentive to not speak, so why don't we stop that tongue, so it doesn't slither" said the bandana man.
He stepped away from Bo and pulled out his pocket knife.
"hold him down and hold his mouth open" said the bandana man.
The one in the black jacket pinned Bo down while the one in the brown jacket grabbed his mouth and forced his mouth open.
"no, get off" Bo tried to speak.
The bandana man carefully reached into Bo's mouth with his left hand pulling on his tongue and readying the pocket knife with his right hand.
"say argh" said the bandana man.
He brought the knife to Bo's tongue and started to slice; Bo's screams of pain would make even the strongest willed person grimace. Blood poured from Bo's mouth as the man continued to cut. The job was slow and incredibly painful. Bit by bit the knife slowly cut through Bo's tongue, after nearly an agonising minute the blade cut through his tongue, carving out a nice piece. The man ripped the front half of his tongue out, the two other men let him fall to the floor, Bo's hands went to his mouth, his hands were quickly coated in blood. The bandana man had dropped the pocket knife on the floor. They were all too distracted trying to wipe the blood off them to see Bo's eyes flare up, he wanted blood. Bo grabbed the pocket knife and ran at the bandana man, blood soaked his face. Bo thrusted the knife into the bandana man's chest stabbing him and knocking him to the floor he stabbed him again, and again. Bo stopped climbed to his feet and ran for the road.
The two men were too busy trying to stop the bandana man from bleeding to death to go after him. Bo soon found the road and began to slowly walk back to town, his mouth hurt, he could no longer speak. Bo was picked up by a police car and taken to the hospital. But from that day on he could never speak again, and the events of that day would be in his dreams forever.
Back to the present.
"what happened to your brother?" asked Connor putting the piece of paper down.
"I lost him on the first days, the things attacked him us when we went out hunting, not long before I met you" signed Bo.
"I'm sorry, I take it the bandana man died from his wounds" said Connor.
"yes" signed Bo.
"that was horrible, I truly am sorry for you" said Connor.
"thank you, please don't say anything to the others" signed Bo.
"it's okay. I won't say a word" said Connor.
"thank you, by the way your nothing like him" signed Bo.
Bo smiled, stood up from his seat and left the room.
Connor smiled as he left, what a poor individual, his life scarred forever from one bad day.
End of chapter 21