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"There's even a boat!" Danni yelled as she ran to the end of the pier to look into it "Hey… it's in working order!"
Kathy ignored everyone who was wandering about, heading for the larges cabin where she entered and stopped, looking around with surprise. Bunk beds in a back room but the entire front of the place was one big open plan room that had toys and clearly children's things in it. Like it had been a place Peter Pan and his Lost Boys had stopped at. She was confused, walking through the place then exiting as everyone else entered now.
She walked around the back to find a generator shed, the generator inside it looked in working order as well. Then she walked around the side to find the remains of a second shed that seemed to have burnt down. Wow. They had been here for a while?
She was walking around the fence line while Douglas had the baby when she discovered that it was made of car bonnets all welded together to form a large metal wall. Clever. Then she saw it.
OWEN HARPER WAZ HERE
She stared for the longest time. Owen Harper. Doctor Owen Harper? She then noted something scratched into the paintwork and she felt it with her fingertips as her heart stopped. It was a T. Someone had carved a T under the name.
Torchwood.
She sat back and laughed softly to herself as somehow, believe it or not… she had found the trail of Torchwood themselves. Still looking after her.
She returned to the house to find that some other evidence had been found in the form of a…. yeah. A notebook.
"Oh my god" she gasped, snatching it with glee. She opened it to familiar writing.
To whoever finds this, please take this place we leave behind and be safe. There are maps and some suggestions for nearby a food source and a few places to avoid.
Good luck
She read it twice and laughed softly, leaning back to let herself really laugh for the first time in ages before she managed to choke out "Torchwood."
"You are shitting me!" Dwight said as he grabbed the book "You mean … the ones who told you to run, led us to that phone box and the notebook that took us to the house before we moved onto the B&B … are you seriously telling me we just missed them?"
"Unbelievable!" she smiled "After a year… after a year they are still guiding us whether they know it or not."
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"Right. So, what we think .." Ghost shifted in the seat and then continued "There has been some sort of fight here… another nearby in a field. Deaths, someone came and attacked them, they fought back and won. They moved on, I don't think because of this but because they maybe grew in size? Wanted somewhere more remote?"
"Seems plausible" Danni had the book "There was another colony nearby that didn't listen and seems they tried to …tame?... keep Biters as pets or something. It talks of where the bodies were burned and warns not to eat or drink anything near that creek. Jesus… so … the water can be contaminated?"
"Shit" Dean held his hand out for the book.
"One day… one day I will see them again and when I do … I know wherever, whenever… I will finally be in a place where nothing can touch us" Kathy said softly to herself as she watched everyone looking over the notebook and it's different chapters.
Look at this.
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The group that had gone to check out the other colony warned about included Kathy. Douglas did not even try to stop her and she felt some gratitude there that he recognized her need to regain some control. The baby had somehow made her feel less than the boss and this made her take the reins again.
They exited the SWAT vehicle to look around and the burned down buildings, graves and weird things scattered about made them all feel like they were walking over their own graves. Ghost knelt and picked up a brochure reading it out loud "And so said the lord, when there is no more room in hell the dead shall walk the earth"
"Great. They thought God would save them" Derrick said as he took the brochure off Ghost to look at it too.
"God. There is no room for him here, not in this place of doom" Ghost shook his head, "clearly… clearly any god would have left us to our own destruction by now."
"But still ... someone buried everyone they could, burned what they couldn't" Mark pointed out "There is still humanity, even in the middle of hell on earth."
"Yeah .. but whoever did that is probably the one who killed them!" Ghost threw his arms out as Kathy looked around, then knew deep down the truth.
"They were all infected. Their pet Biters got loose… we are standing on a cleaning site" she turned to look around some more "They all turned. Someone had to put them down and clear them away."
"Torchwood?"
"Well … who else could do this so clinically? Yeah. I think so. Why they said not to come here. Come on let's leave before we touch something or do something that might put us at risk here" she headed towards the vehicle without looking back, now angry that she hadn't taken the time to read the notebook better.
It did say to stay away.
Do not wake the dead.
They Bite!