It was around 6am when Sam woke up. He groaned from sleeping on the floor. He turned onto his back and felt a hand fall to his chest. He looked up to see Quinn sleeping and her hand was hanging off the couch. Sam got up and pulled her arm back to her so she could be comfy. He then fixed her blanket and headed to the kitchen.
When he got there he opend the fridge and didn't see much. He then open the cabinets and found a box of soup and a loaf of bred. He looked for a pot and filled it with water putting it on the stove. Just as he went to turn it on he spoke to himself.
"Im such an idiot, there is no power." He didnt understand how the girls made so much food last night with no oven. He heard a noise and turned to see Quinn starring at him from the doorway.
"Hey, need any help?" She asked slowly walking towards him.
At first he smiled, she looked really pretty in the morning. In fact, they talked a lot yesterday and he can admit he may have a school crush on her.
"Um, yea. I was gonna cook us some soup with bread but, there's no power, so I don't know how. Also how did you cook the food last night?" He asked squinting at her.
"Oh, well Sans family went camping once and well they needed the best of the best so they bought a burner stove. We usually store it under here." She said grunting a bit, opening a cubbard beside Sam pulling out the burner stove.
Sam quickly bent down to help her pull it up, placing it on the counter. "Wow, wish we could take this with us." Sam said laughing a bit.
"Yea, but I dont wana carry that. It weighs to much." She says laughing.
The room went silent for a few minutes till Quinn spoke up. "Hey did you happend to see Santana this morning. Brett was on the couch and not her." She said
Sam thought about it, and to be honest he didn't even look at anyone besides Quinn this morning. "Uh, no sorry. I didn't even think to check." Sam said as he opend the window and turned on the burner. He took a big inhail and smelt the fresh air while looking out to the skys.
It was cloudy with a little bit of sun, it was around 6 in the morning but it seemed like it was going to rain.
"Okay well im gonna go look for her. I'll be upstairs." She said turning to leave. Sam also turned to look at her.
"Um hey, maybe you guys should change for our trip? pack some warm clothes, we checked the weather the other day and it says this whole week was supposed to be cold. Expecially since its October now, and I'm pretty sure its going to rain." He said pointing outside.
Quinn noded and smiled. "Okay will do." She said turning and leaving the room.
15 minutes later and Sam had the soup done and everything on the table to eat he went into the living room to wake Brett up. He ended up bumping into Quinn.
"Ouf" They both say.
Sam looked at what Quinn was wearing. She had on blue skinny jeans a black hooddie and a nice dark green rain jacket. She had her hair down and a white baseball cap on, with some running shoes.
"Shit sorry." Sam says looking into Quinns eyes. As soon as they made eye contact Sam couldn't look away, he was trapped. He was about to say something when they heard groaning.
They both turned to Brett on the couch. They looked back to eachother both raising an eyebrow. Then the groaning sound happend again.
"Um, you heard that right?" Sam whispered
"Yea, kinda sounded like-" Quinn whisperd back getting interupted by Brett moving.
At first Brett was on his side with his back facing us, he had the blanket pulled up and it looked like he was hugging a pillow. He slowly turned with that Groaning sound. But the sounds didn't belong to Brett. Once he was fully on his back you could see him holding a figure. Sam moved closer to Brett pulling the blanket down a bit. He jumped back screaming when he saw Santana move more into Bretts neck.
"Oh shit!" He yelled loudly stumbling back over Bretts blankets on the floor and falling onto the coffee table. Quinn also jumped back.
Santana flew sitting up pushing Brett off the couch. He landed with a "Ouf"
"I did not expect that." Sam said from the coffee table.
"Expect what?" Santana asked
"Ugh, fuck. Why do I always get hurt." Brett said standing up scratching his head.
"Well you two-" Sam said getting cut off by Quinn.
"Hey we got food ready to eat, its probably almost 7. Sam thinks its gonna rain and its starting to get cold, so San maybe change then come eat. Then we can head out." Quinn said smiling and pulling Sam by the collar of his shirt.
Brett turned to look at the Latina infront of him. "Well you look well rested." He said going to help her up, by giving her a hand.
She quickly swated at his hand and walked past him. up the stairs. Brett sighed and followed her upstairs.
"Hey wait, whats wrong?" He asked jogging up the stairs following her.
"Just go away Brett." She said slamming her door closed. Brett just sighed again walking downstairs. he walked over to his bag putting a hoddie on and walked into the kitchen.
Quinn and Sam were eating while talking about the trip, when Brett sat down beside Sam grabbing some soup and bread.
"So yea. Our parents work at Toronto General Hospital. They were there the day everything went wack. They told us to get our sister and they would meet up with us." Sam said before taking a bite of his bread.
"Where is she? You say she's gone, like did she leave or did someone take her?" Quinn asked looking from Sam to Brett.
"No the day everything went shit, her school had a feild trip. They went to Wonderland for the day, and we called her to see if she was okay. She said they closed it down and their keeping them safe. Our parrents told us to go get her becuase they don't think they will be able to." Brett said before drinking his whole bowl of soup.
"Wait Wonderland?" Quinn asked hopefully
"Yea." Sam says also finishing his food.
"Thats perfect, Mateo was on a camping trip near Wonderland. They were supposed to go in for the day, that was a part of their week long trip. I'm not sure if hes there or at the camp sites but there suposed to be close. We can travel there and get both Isabella and Mateo, then we can find a safe place. No point in comming all the way back here, nothing to come home to." Quinn said with a smiling face slowly turning to a frown.
Just then Santana walked in with black skinny jeans, a grey hoddie with a black and white wind breaker jacket. She had her hair up in a ponytail inside a black baseball cap, and some running shoes. She sat down beside Quinn and started to eat.
The table went silent. None spoke. The boys got another serving while Quinn started to clean up. She then turned to Santana.
"So they say their headed to Wonderland. That's where their sister is, its perfect San. Mateo is either there or at the campsite. We can all travel up there, then find somewhere safe when we're done." Quinn said with a smile.
"Thats great Quinn, Let's hope he's safe." Santana says eating her soup.
Sam just rolls his eyes, knowing Santana doesn't give a shit about their little sister. He wanted Quinn to go with them to the safe house but that meant Santana would have to come to. To be honest he wouldn't mind Mateo joining them. Like a little family.
Sam smiled to himself, if he had to deal with Santana, then he's gonna make it a living hell for her. "So Santana, how was your sleep?" He asked with an evil smirk.
Santana looked up from her bowl first glancing at Brett. She noticed he had his jaw clenched and he looked mad. She felt a little bad for how she treated him this morning. Then she looked to Sam, he had this smirk on his face, and her mood changed back to not giving a fuck.
"Huh?" Sam asked laghing a bit, earning himself a glare from Quinn. Just as Santana was about to say something, Brett abruptly stood up, hitting the table a bit. He looked from Quinn to Sam. giving Sam a warning glare.
"Im sorry about last night." Brett said looking from Sam to the table, not even chancing to look at Santana. "I sleepwalk sometimes and my back was hurting. I should have went to a bedroom instead of joining you on the couch. Its my bad." He finally says leaving the room.
The table went silent again. Santana watched Bretts face the whole time. When he wasnt giving Sam a death glare, he was looking at the table with a sad look. She watched him leave the room.
"Well im gonna go grab a few more things then we should leave." Quinn said getting up and leaving the room.
Sam stood up and just went to the living room while Santana kept eating.
Quinn walked upstairs to her room, she passed a door and saw someone move inside. She walked into the room to see Brett looking at the photos on the wall. She noticed Brett staring at one of Santana and her parrents with Mateo, her parents came back for a weekend out of their 3 month long work trip. It was one of Santanas favorites. Then he looked to a photo of Santana, Mateo, and Quinn.
"I remember that day. Me and San took Mateo to the park, we had a blast. Then we came home and watched a movie. It was a week after I moved in here. Only us three, Santana said we were all she needed." Quinn said smiling.
Brett laughed. "You all look so happy." He said smiling.
"Yea that was before Santana and Brad-. Um when Santana went through something. She can't trust people, its not in her nature. She grew up alone and not able to even trust her parrents. Please don't give up on her." Quinn said. She patted Bretts sholder before leaving to grab her stuff.
Brett followed. "Hey do you mind if I loot up a bit?" He asked pointing to another room. Quinn just noded.
Brett walked to the door opening it. Turns out Santanas dad was a hunter. Brett walked in the room he grabbed 4 different types of pocket knifes. He then saw a nice black cowboy hat. He moved to a desk and was about to open the drawer to a desk when he heard yelling.
"You need to get the fuck away from me!" Santana yelled.
"I just wana know how your night went, you know since you slept with my brother." Sam said.
Brett ran as fast as he could, Quinn right behind him. Just as they got to the living room, they saw Santana ontop of Sam slapping him.
"Hey get off me!" Sam yelled.
"I told you to stay the FUCK away from me!" Santana yelled. Attempting to hit him again.
Brett quickly grabbed Santana by the waist and picking her off of Sam, holding her tightly so she can't escape.
"Get off me! This asshole deserves a nice beating." Santana says.
"Shhh Santana calm down please." Brett said whispering to her, lightly tightening his hold on her.
Quinn went to Sam to see if he was okay. She helped him up and he wiped at his pants.
Brett put Santana down, she tried to walk away but Brett grabbed her sleved and yanked her making her stumble back to the other three. Brett didn't let go.
"Ok, now you listen to me. All of you, My plan is to go get my Little sister. Now thats located about another 10 hours to go. I know you have your brother there to or at least close, so here's what I was thinking. We go check out the camp site first, if hes not there then we'll grab them from wonderland. Now I'm not demanding or trying to come off as bossy, but I'm getting to my sister one way or another." Brett said looking at Quinn and Santana. "And if I have to do it alone I will." Brett said looking at Sam. "You guys either follow the plan or come up with your own. And if we do this, we drop all the drama now." He first looks to Sam. "That means no teasing or getting on people nerves." Then he looks to Santana. "And no being bitchy." Finally he looks to Quinn. "We need to work together. We all want the same things, so were gonna pretend like were a happy family until we get our siblings. Then we can go on our way." Brett finally let go of Santanas arm and went to put his jacket on, then his backpack. "Let's go, we have a long journey ahead of us." Then he walked out of the room.
The three others follow him by getting their backpacks on, Sam grabs his jacket and they follow him.
By the time they left the house it was about 8am. It was cold, the leaves were already turning different colours, you could see your own breath in the air.
Brett walked ahead of everyone with the compass in his left hand and the map in his right. Sam followed behind Brett with the bat in his hands. Quinn and Santana walked side by side behind Sam.
"Fuck its cold as balls out here." Santana said as she hugged herself to keep warm.
"Yea good thing Sam told us it was going to be cold. You would be wearing your shorts right now, being even colder then now." Quinn said also hugging her body.
Brett stopped looked at the map, then put it in his backpack. Sam stopped beside him. "So, whats up? How we doing, where we at?" Sam asked as the girls stopped to the left of Brett.
"Sam we have been walking for only 10 minutes, we still have a 9 hour and 50 minutes to go, thats just straight walking. no stops, and with stops I would say maybe 15 hours. Expecially with our track record." He says looking from Sam to Quinn. "We keep going west. I'd say we are in the beginning of Scarborough, We are about 30 mins from pickering, our next town is Markham." Brett said looking down to his compass and following the road.
So far they haven't encountered any sick people yet, they saw some in the distant but nothing to worry about. They continued to walk all alongside eachother. Brett was in the middle with Sam to his right. On Bretts left Santana was beside him and Quinn beside her. It was quiet for a while, then Sam spoke up.
"So, just curious. We can't keep calling them 'sick people'. Like there dead, so what do we call them?" Sam asked.
"Maybe the infected?" Quinn said. They kept walking.
Santana would look so often to Brett, to see if he would look back, but he never did. Brett just kept looking forward.
"Hmmmm, na. Thats to cliché." Sam says "What about the killers."
"Hey Sam, let's just be quiet for a bit. Okay? Well take a break in an hour or so." Brett said
"Oh, yea sure." Sam said slowing down a bit to let Brett keep going. Quinn slowed down to to walk with him, seeing as Santana has also stayed quiet.
They walked for another 2 hours before deciding to stop.
"My feet are sore." Santana said whinning.
"Yea im hungry." Sam said dragging his feet.
"Lets stop, cus i need to pee." Quinn said
Brett stopped. "Yea i agree, we did good so far. Nothing major happend so a little break will do. I say we have about 8 hours to go. We can take about 30 to an hour break, then we should start up again. Its 10 right now." Brett said looking to his watch.
"How do you know the time is right?" Santana asked.
Brett finally looked to her for the first time that day. "Its an automatic watch, it uses my movement to create its power, so no need for technology or batteries." He says lifting his wrist to show the watch.
Santana just noded her head.
"Well why not go into one of the stores or that resturant? Cus staying in the open won't do us any good. I also saw some sick people back there." Quinn said pointing to behind them, the direction they just came from.
"Sure, well i say The resturant. More in closed and less ways for people to sneak up on you." Sam says pointing towards the resturant.
"But what if we get cornerd? Don't we want open and able to run? Not trapped like animals left to die?" Santana asked.
"Um Brett I say since your the leader its your call." Quinn said. Brett looked around. There was no one in sight, and the sick people were heading in a different direction. So he chose what he thought was best.
"Lets head into the resturant and just relax there. Its pretty dead out here anyways. I think well be fine." He says looking to Santana in the end.
Sam leads the way to the front of the store. The others just followed. Sam had his bat up and ready while Brett had one of the pocket knifes out.
The boys walked into the restaurant first, then the girls followed. Everything was quiet, no one in sight. They sat in a booth in the dine in area that was blocked off from the windows, and you could see if people were comming.
They all sat down, girls on one side and boys on the other. Quinn quickly stood up tapping Sams sholder.
"Im gonna go pee now." She said.
Then Sam stood up. "Ill go with you to be safe." Sam said following her to the bathroom.
It was Brett and Santana all alone at the both, both sitting there just eating away. Not looking to eachother. Brett was about to say something when they heard a scream. They both looked to eachother with wide eyes, then to where the scream came from.
Both Brett and Santana jumped up saying. "Quinn!"