Mushi-SanBan: Here's chapter 5! Yay! Please R&R! Oh, in Hoagie's dream he's older and married. I just wanted to tell ya'll that so you wouldn't be confused.
Chapter 5: Hoagie's dream
Hoagie was sitting in a control booth looking out at his house, which was right beside the factory. He hated his job here at this cruddy place, and all he wanted to do was go home. No, not only go home, but leave this town. Besides, he was putting his wife and daughter in danger.
His thoughts were interrupted by a loud alarm going off and his bosses face appearing on the screen. His boss said, " Gilligan! Gilligan! You have to shut the gates! There's been a major cantainment leak! We're dropping like flies in here!"
Nervously, Hoagie said, " O...okay."
Oh no! he thought. I can't do this!
Instead of shutting the gates he ran out of there to his house. " Honey! We have to go!"
His wife looked at him and said, " What's wrong?! What's happening?!"
" I'll explain later! Grab the baby! We've got to get out of here now!" His wife grabbed his baby daughter and the diaper bag before running out to the car behind Hoagie. They quickly hopped in, Jennifer, his wife, holding onto the baby for dear life.
Hoagie started the car and drove at least 100 miles per hour down the street, his wife yelling, " Hoagie! Slow down! Please!"
The front gate of the city was shutting, as it did in all emergencies. Hoagie drove extremely fast trying to beat it. His wife was screaming as they neared it and was hugging the baby tightly.
SREECH!!!!!!!
Sparks flew everywhere as the sides of the car brushed past the metal of the gate. Hoagie let out a sigh of relief. The disease wouldn't get them now... or would it.
After days of driving Hoagie noticed that Jennifer and his baby were showing signs of the disease, and not to shortly after, he did too.
A couple of men were sitting in a gas station talking and laughing loudly as they joked around with each other. The man closest to the doorway suddenly started freaking out. He was yelling, " Hey! Turn the pumps off! Hurry!"
One of the men jumped up to turn the pumps off as the others jumped to look out the windows at what was happening outside. A silverish- blue car was about to collide with the pumps. Thankfully, the one man had them turned off before the car could crash into them. Everyone ran out to the car. Stu Redman, the one who had first noticed the car, ran over to the driver's side and found a man laying out on the concrete. He had apparently climbed out of the car.
But when Redman neared him, he saw that his face was terribly pale and his blood veins were very visible.
" Would you look at him? There's no way a crash could've done that to him." Redman said as he went over to the man and pulled him up to where he could lay his head in his lap. The man looked up at him, pushing his wet bangs out of his eyes so he could see better. The rain and night time just made this whole scene creepier. An eery chill was sent up Redman's spine as he saw the guy's face up close.
Some of the other men, Hap, Tommynot his brother, and Norm, were over at the passenger's side. Hap opened the door.
" Ughh!" Norm shouted. He turned away, clutching his stomach like he was about to puke. On the passenger's side was a young woman, leaning against her was a little girl, about three. It wasn't the site that made Norm sick, it was the smell. It was nasty!
The man started talking to Redman. " Where's... this? " he asked.
" Arnette." Redman said. The man grabbed his arm and said, " My wife... my little girl..."
" They're... fine." redman lied. " Who are you?"
" Hoagie.. Gilligan. Seems I'm awful sick, and they were sick. Iguess we didn't move quick enough after all."
The last thing Hoagie heard was the sound of ambulance sirens before he died.
Mushi-SanBan: Okay. This chapter REALLY sucked, right? It was from Stephen Kings The Stand. I'm glad this is a dream that he's having or I ouldn't be able to write it. I was going to make Hoagie's dream about Stephen King's Thinner at first, but I've never seen the movie or read the book.