Love Beats All

Chapter 6 The Hospital, The Entrapment

"This place is so quiet." Leon said as they walked down one of the long halls.

"Yeah. Where are all the workers and the patients?" Sherry asked. Claire stayed quiet. She stopped and looked in one of the rooms and peeked in.

"I think that something bad is going on." Claire said.

"What do you mean?" Sherry asked.

"This is all too strange. I don't think we are safe in this building." Claire said.

"Calm down babe. We don't want Sherry to get scared, now do we?" Leon said as he rubbed Claire's shoulder.

"You're right. Sorry Sherry. There is nothing to be scared of. Everything is ok. Lets find that switch so we can feel a little safer." Claire said. They started to walk again and after 20 minutes of silence, and Sherry humming to herself, Claire was at her wits end. She didn't feel safe at all.

"Leon, I think we should radio the others." Claire said. Before Leon could respond glass broke in one of the rooms they were standing in front of. Claire's eyes got big. She looked at Leon and started to walk slowly to the room where the glass sound came from.

"Claire. Uh.....Honey, get back here. Now!" Leon said. But Claire kept going. She reached the door of the room and flicked the light on. Her scream echoed through the halls and Leon and Sherry ran to the room that Claire went into.

Claire was standing in shock in the room. Looking over at the hospital bed. There was a little girl and a zombie was eating her. The zombie moved and looked at Claire when she screamed. Claire was in shock she started to hyperventilate. The zombie looked at them and started to go over to them. Leon and Sherry were backing up and Leon took Claire's hand and then he took Sherry's hand and pulled them out the room and they started to run down the hall. They heard the zombie moaning and groaning. Claire was still in a state of shock. After more running and more halls, Leon felt that they lost the zombie.

"Claire. Claire!" Leon called. Claire looked at him and started to realize what was going on.

"I want out of here." Claire said. She grabbed her walkie-talkie and turned it on.

"Units. Meet us ......" Claire was cut off by more glass breaking.

"We have to get to an elevator!" Leon yelled.

They all ran till they spotted an elevator. Leon pressed the button and Sherry stood next to Claire. Sherry taped her foot against the floor and Claire was looking nervously around while Leon kept pressing the button.

All of a sudden the glass near Claire broke and zombies started to come after her. Claire screamed and grabbed a magnum from her bag but she was knocked of balance. She was on the floor. She screamed and pointed the gun at the zombie's head. She kicked it off of her and stood up. She pulled the trigger, and the zombie's head blew clear off its shoulders.

Sherry screamed and Claire looked and seen that the other zombies went after Sherry and Leon. Two were on Leon and one was trying to bite Sherry. Claire ran to Sherry and kicked the zombie. He flew into the wall and started to come back for more. Claire pushed Sherry behind her and shot one good shot at the zombie's head, taking off its head. Claire then went over to Leon and shot the other two zombies.

The elevator came then and Claire pushed Sherry in it and helped Leon up. They both got in and started to push the 3rd floor button when a zombie came in view. Sherry screamed and held onto Claire's leg. Claire kept hitting the button and then the zombie threw itself into the elevator. Claire and Leon started to kick it and move it out and then the doors started to close and it severed the zombie in two. From its head to its belly button was in the elevator with them.

The elevator was going up and the zombie started to move and squirm. It grabbed Sherry's leg and Claire kicked it and it grabbed hers. Then it bit her. Claire screamed and Sherry screamed too. Leon took the gun from Claire and blew the zombie's head off. Claire screamed again and Leon held her. The doors opened and they sat Claire down on the floor against the wall. Leon opened his bag and started to take out his first aid kit.

"Claire are you ok?" Sherry asked.

"Sherry, I'll be fine. Do me a favor. Take my walkie-talkie, and call the group. Tell them to meet us on the 3rd floor section 8 ok?" Claire said to Sherry.

"Yeah. I can do that." Sherry said as she took the walkie.

"Hello? This is Sherry. Everyone report to the 3rd floor, section 8."

"Sherry? Where are Claire and Leon?" Came Rebecca's voice.

"Claire's hurt and Leon is helping her. A zombie came after us. We were attacked."

"Is she ok?" Chris said alarmed.

"She's fine. Just please hurry." Sherry said.

"We're coming hold on." Carlos said.

Leon wrapped a bandage around Claire's lower calf and then leaned over her.

"You are something else. You feel better?" Leon asked.

"Yeah. I'm fine I guess." Claire said. Leon smiled and kissed her and Claire kissed him back.

"Oh get a room." Sherry said with a smile on her face.

Claire smiled and hugged the little girl. She loved Sherry so much.

"Hey guys." Said Jill. She, Chris and Barry stepped out of the elevator.

"Did we just interrupt a touching moment?" Barry said with a smile.

"Claire you ok?" Chris asked. He went over to his sister and she nodded her head.

"So I'm guessing that that bloody mess in the elevator were your work." Jill smiled.

"Guys. What's up with the dead guy in the elevator?" Rebecca asked as she stepped out the elevator. With her was Ada and Carlos.

"Ok. Zombies are breaking into the bottom floor. We all know that the switch is most likely downstairs, but we can't go down there. We will be bombarded with zombies. We have to get out this building. We are better in the open space of outside then cooped up in this building with zombies around waiting in the shadows. We have to get out of here." Leon said.

"Well, it's not like we could actually jump out the window or something." Ada said.

Jill and Claire looked at each other. "We could!!!" They yelled out.

"What?" Ada asked.

"There is a small lake under a window on the second floor. They use it for the kids. We could easily jump down from the window and fall into the lake." Jill explained.

"Jump out the window!" Rebecca exclaimed. "What if we miss the water and hit the ground? What then? We'll be dead and then the zombies will eat our dead bodies and then....."

"Rebecca! Calm down, we won't miss the water. It's ok. We have to go down to the second floor." Carlos said.

"But if there are zombies down there?" Ada asked.

"I'm sorry to say, but I think there are zombies all in this building. I mean, where is everybody? Zombies must have invaded here before we spotted them. So everyone in this hospital is most likely dead." Claire said.

"Lets just get to the elevator and go down to the second floor." Jill said.