36: Alexa
I'm dreaming. Well, I have to be! Weird thing is that I don't remember falling asleep. One moment I was talking to Maddy, the next moment I was watching Logan get surrounded by walkers. As the first one bit him, he attacked. Walkers lunged for his arm, and many of them reached their target.
I wanted to look away, but something was forcing me to watch. Logan continued to fight the walkers, and the last few fell. Logan started bolting into the woods. Something forced me to follow, and my footsteps were in sync with his as we ran through the woods. Logan gasped for breath. He raised Jarrett's sword… Hey! He stole that! Make a mental note. He swung it at his arm, as if he wanted to cut it off. In mid swing, he collapsed onto the ground.
No, no, no Logan. Don't you do that. Don't you turn.
It was silent. The sun set faster, Logan stayed still. It was minutes before anything happened. He sat up, but his eyes were dead. He seemed to reach for his backpack, but he ended up just throwing it. He stood up, and let out a low moan. He started shuffling in a random direction.
Or at least I thought it was random.
I trekked after Logan, being forced to keep the same pace as him. Unlike dreams, where you can run forever and feel great, in this my legs ached from walking. That only happens in my visions… I shuddered, and passed the thought to the back of my mind. Although I know in real life it was just a moment, this dream lasted days, and Logan never changed direction. Although the new fallen snow slowed him down, and his pace as a walker was slow, he never stopped. The more he seemed 'determined' to get to his destination, the more the other walkers noticed. First a few started following, and then a few more, and then even more. They all followed him. I felt like one of the walkers, being forced to follow, and I shuddered. I didn't shudder because I was so close to the walkers, but because I finally knew what Logan was trying to do. Right ahead of us, through the falling snow, I saw the hospital. I heard a voice, my voice, yelling from inside.
"Look out! I told you they were coming! I saw it in my vision!" A chill went up my spine, and my mind kicked into overdrive. Was this real? Will this actually happen?
I saw Maddy and, well, me? They ran outside, holding weapons. Without Logan, the group looked less menacing, and they would be easier to overpower. Megan ran out behind them, gripping her makeshift gun, with a blade duct-taped to the front. Then Kate ran out, and then Renee and Matisse. When Kate saw Logan, her eyes filled with tears. She took a step forwards, and with a choked sob, she lifted her gun. With one hand, she pointed the gun to Logan, who was now only twenty-or-so feet away. There was a loud crack, and I realized that Kate had pulled the trigger.
Logan crumpled to the ground. Blood poured out of his head, and he was still. At this moment, I could move freely again. I ran through a zombie (literally) and reached Logan. I tried to reach into his mind, maybe read it to see what he remembered, and then I was zapped into his memory.
It was like a dream within a dream, but this dream was just as scary as the last. All I could see this time was what Logan had seen. It started with him running. He tried to cut off his arm, just like before, but once again he collapsed. This time though, he was up in moments, and he thought he was still alive for a few seconds, but then his mind was gone. The scene went fuzzy and black, but it came back into focus right as he was shot. The dream ended, and my mind went back to the first spot, next to Logan's corpse. I watched the scene, and I saw more people pile out of the hospital. Carl, Chandler, Katie, Mitch. They all had guns, and they started firing.
I heard a scream, and I saw that Katie was being taken down. The walkers piled onto her body, and started feeding. Mitch tried to help, but they took him down too. Maddy screamed, "NO!" And she shot the walkers eating him. Mitch was already dead, and so was Katie. Maddy let out a sob, and then shot both of them so they wouldn't turn. Next it was Matisse who I heard scream. Her aim with the gun was terrible, and she repeatedly missed a walker. It bit her neck, and she passed out. The walkers started piling on top of her. Renee and Kate both ran to Matisse and started firing at the walkers on Matisse, but then one grabbed Renee. She grabbed onto Kate's arm, and Kate flipped. She started firing at the walker that had Renee, but it already had bitten Renee. Kate picked her up and sprinted to the doors. Without hesitation, Kate chopped off Renee's foot. Kate ran back out to the fight, but by then it was too late. The walkers piled around the hospital. I watched myself scream, "Maddy! I told you! I watched this all before in a vision! I was standing right there!" She pointed at where I was standing. She-I started yelling again. "Right about now is where we run inside! The battle is lost! We have to go!" Maddy looked at the doors to the hospital, and started sprinting to them. "Everyone inside!" Maddy screamed. I watched myself run in, and Kate ran in too. We were the only ones alive in the end of the battle. I followed them, and Maddy shut the doors. Kate and Maddy helped Renee up, but she was bleeding out. They all ran upstairs. Kate placed Renee on the ground. "Help her!" She screamed to Alexa #2. She shook her head. "Kate, I'm sorry, but I know what happens next. Renee is going to turn."
"No!" Kate screamed. She let out a sob. "That won't happen!" Renee stirred next to Kate. "Renee?! RENEE!" Kate screamed. She reached forwards to give her sister a hug, but something wasn't right. "NO!" Alexa #2 and I screamed in unison.
Renee was a walker.
She bit Kate in the neck. Kate screamed, and stumbled back. Maddy ran over and hit Renee with the back of her sword. Renee fell back, not being able to keep her balance with one foot, and she fell. Me #2 ran over and stabbed Renee in the brain. Maddy directed her attention to Kate. "Shit…" She whispered. Her eyes filled with tears. Everything that had happened in the fight made her snap. She started sobbing, and she whispered through her sobs, "I don't know what to do." Kate's eyes started to lose focus. She was dead. Maddy pulled out her knife and then stabbed Kate in the head.
So that was it. Only Maddy and I survive this. Just when I thought it was over, me #2 started crying. "Alexa, what's wrong with you? You've only ever cried once, and it was when your boyfriend died." "Maddy, there's something I never told you." "What is it?!" "It's about what happens next." At this moment, something banged on the door to the upstairs area we were staying in. The walkers broke through the first set of doors, and now they were breaking down the second. Maddy and Alexa #2 stood up. They nodded to each other, and then the walkers piled in.