12

It was half an hour before the coms crackled and Jack told them to move to the school. They had swept the first streets and fond no humans or Zs, seemed the action would be in the middle of town where he and Ianto were heading, they could pillage carefully. Rhys and Billy had already left to get a truck of possible to help transport things from the school to the train station. Something was happening in the township, faint gunfire could be heard and Dean stepped towards it then turned to Hope who shook her head and said softly "If they need us they will call."

Dean nodded, knowing she was right and the last thing their Parentals needed was to worry about was them so they did their job, moving people from the train to the school in Wolfling Form, Dean feeling powerful as he knew he matched his sister in size and strength.

The school was fortified and they spent time checking it was abandoned before they took their places at the front and rear entrances letting their group pillage at will. They knew once Billy and Liam were done they would spell them for their own searching and they were right, eagerly moving through classrooms to find books and supplies, the supply cupboard in the office the best of all with all the pencils and coloured crayons thy could want.

Chalk.

They had never seen chalk before and Owen showed them how it worked, telling them there was a tin of blackboard paint in the corner of the supply room, they could have a wall downstairs in the Stronghold for drawing on like cavemen making their markings on the wall.

This ticked them no end, boxes of records dumped so they could fill them with goodies that might last them a while. They all knew this was a do or die, this recon might be the only one they all come on with Tommy as the tracks were worse than first thought and they knew the further out they travelled the…. Gunshots. Close.

"Let's move some stuff to Tommy" Boomer commented and Hope turned to him with her eyes glowing as she shook her head. It was to close. Those in her group at the back of the school immediately settled to watch the two huge Wolfing as they listened to the bond, their Parentals obviously angry about something and they took a moment to agree then turn to those waiting.

"Dean and I are going out, we need to help clear as they are too close" Hope explained "Zs and Survivors are too strong and we want to push them back for a clear run at Tommy, OK? Don't tell the other teams, they might stop pillaging and we have to get as much as we can. Keep it quiet and keep going. We will not join our Parentals, they have told is to stay in this area, we will just sweep then we can move"

"Do your fathers know you are doing this?" Kev asked.

"Yes, they agree" she replied, pulling her grab bag over "Dean … we need to change into our night clothing. Those people out there will shoot at children too. Best in human form in case there are humans out there … Wolfling are best kept hidden right now so they show themselves if they are waiting to ambush us."

"I agree" Dean shifted into boy form, not caring that he was naked but his sister was now aware of her body so she carried her bag to another room before transforming to human form, changing quickly and returning to find Dean waiting.

"You head along that road, I will head straight in, we will meet at those traffic lights in the distance" she said and Dean frowned, she realised he didn't know what traffic lights were and she made a mental note, sending it to her Tad to say there needed more movie nights with cars and stuff.

Ianto's imagery of Fast and Furious had her eyes widening and she wondered where you might find a car like that. A speed demon like her Dad that one.

She checked where Dean was in the bond then she moved forward more swiftly, her Tadda calling to her internally that he needed the ammo for Dadda in the bag she was carrying. She knew Dean was not far away sniffing around where he could smell humans and he would catch up.

She could see images her Parentals were sending one another, unable to take the time to shield her or Dean from them and she knew it was bad, worse that they would tell the others for now and she felt such sorrow in knowing tht they had found Survivalists who has survived by doing atrocities that made them worse monsters than the Zs they had kept as pet attack dogs.

She sent soothing thoughts as she looked for her brother, knowing their Parentals wanted them to mop up any that moved towards the group, keeping them safe. That was their task now, leave their Parentals to clean house.

There would be time for comfort later, they definitely needed that.

And this was the first stop. Damn, if it was like this, what were they going to find at this institute place if this was one little town. Hope now saw what her Parentals were trying to tell her about the outside world.

It was hell.

Just like they said.

She couldn't wait to get home.