PRESENT
Jack walked back into his apartment, it reeked of dead flesh and rotten food, Jack opened the window to let fresh air in. He walked into his room took his backpack and emptied it on the floor he then took clothes from his drawers and stuff them in along with some products from the bathroom.
The place was eerie, quiet with no life, like something from a horror movie. Jack searched the kitchen for food, it was robbed, all the canned food was gone
"Fucking bastards" he cursed as he kicked the floor, then suddenly the was a noise "Who's there?" He said as he picked up the metal spatula, he looked under the table, no one, then he checked the lower cabinets "Listen I know you're here, so please show your self, I'm not mad about the stolen food" there was only one place left…the closet Jack slowly opened it hoping it wasn't a some punk kid with a gun, as he opened he immediately recognized who was inside "Daisy" her face was wet with tears, her eyes frightened, she then hugged Jack tightly sobbing, Jack embraced her "It's alright Daisy, I'm here, no one's going to hurt you"
"Mommy and Daddy won't wake up, they're sleeping and won't wake up" She cried
"They're not sleeping" He couldn't bare to tell her the truth, he then picked her up out of the closet her little arms around his neck
"Have you seen Stevie?"
Jack couldn't answer…
PRE-VIRUS
It's been an hour now that's Jack has been alone in the hospital room. He's been spending it trying to break out, unfortunately the windows were plastic
The door opened "Jack Kelly"
Jack turned
"Why am I here? Let me go!"
"I can't let you go"
"Why?!"
"Just stay calm"
"Tell me why I'm here!"
"I'm asking you again, stay calm"
"Don't tell me to stay calm, tell me what the hell is going on!" The man is silent "Fine, be that way, I guess I have to find out myself" he says heading to the door another man stands in his way, Jack tries to fight him but a second one comes with a needle, they hold Jack down as he struggles to break loose, the men inject the serum into him and as the do Jack slowly stops struggling and becomes unconscious. They put him on the bed and exit the room locking the door.
Jack awoke hours later, sprawled on the cold tile floor. He sat up, his head was throbbing from the injection. He slowly stood up, supporting himself with the bed. On the bed he saw folded clothes, a pair of baggy teal drawstring pants and a gray long sleeved shirt. He quietly put them on.
He then got the TV remote from the drawer, he looked up to find that they have taken the TV away and replaced it with a camera. Jack threw the remote at the camera with frustration.
Suddenly there was a knocking, Jack turned his head, it was coming from the far wall, he walked to it, and knocked back
"Hello? Who is this?"
"Jack is that you?"
Steve?!"
"You're still alive"
"Well of course I am"
"I'm not so good"
"Don't say that"
"Listen, I know what's happening, or I have an idea of it, people are dying Jack! You remember Dennis, he was on our team"
"Dennis Mitchell, I remember, what about him?"
"He's dead, him, Cory Lambert, Harvey Dunn---"
"No…it can't be"
"Many others, I'm next"
"No…there must be-"
"Listen! I don't have much time!"
"What do you mean, you'll be alright, you'll make it through, this thing will blow over, it has to"
"No Jack, this is something…something that has taken over and soon it'll take me"
"You're on medication, that's it, you're not talking strait"
"Damn it Jack! Listen! You have do something for me"
"Sure anything"
"If you make it out of here, take care of Daisy for me, she's all alone, she doesn't know how to" He coughs "she's just" He coughs again this time louder "She knows you, you're like another brother to her, she's trusts you"
There's silence
"Steve" Still silent "Steve, are you there?"
He's is answered by a thump…
PRESENT
"Do I really have to sit in the back seat" Daisy asks Jack who's loading up the trunk
"You have to, you're too small, the air bag will break you neck if we get into an accident"
"Stevie lets me ride up front"
"Answer me this Daisy, is it really necessary to bring twenty stuffed animals"
"There my babies, they can't be all by themselves"
"Whatever" He say as he closes the trunk and gets into the car, as he looks into the rearview mirror he rolls his eyes "Daisy, what the hell is that?" he turns and points the Barbie Dream House
"What? My Barbies can't live without it"
"But they're not living"
"Well no but-"
"Put the house back, now. The stuff animals I'll allow but the house is going too far, only stuff that YOU can't live without, that'll you'll-"
"Jack!!" Someone yelled his name, Jack turned to see Les running to him
"Les, Oh my God! You're alive"
Les stops panting "Jack, it's actually you"
"Where's your brother, your sister?"
"There back at the house, they thought you were dead, when they took you from the others" Les looks at the packed car "Where are you going?"
"I'm heading to the city"
"You are, can we come, I hate being in this fucking ghost town"
"Hey watch your language, I have Daisy in the back seat"
"What does fuck mean?" Daisy asks, Les busts up laughing
"Great, you see what you started" Jack teases
David sits on the couch looking through his parents photo album, he can't believe it, it can't be true, they must be somewhere, they can't be…dead
"Don't tell me you're still looking through that" Sarah says as she takes it out of his hands "They're dead, David, they're never coming back! Move on!"
"I have to study" He gets up
"Study? Study! Study for what, school is closed, there's no adults, there's nobody! THERE'S NOBODY!!"
The door opens "Hello?"
"Jack…" David whispers in disbelief
"Jack!" Sarah screams
"You're not dead"
"No Davy, I'm not"
"Hello Sarah"
"Hello yourself" Sarah smiles
"Where were you? We thought you were dead, all the people they took out of the line…what happened?"
"Miraculously I never caught it and so they let me go" Jack lied "What happened after I left?"
"They rounded us up and stuck us all together in the cafeteria, and we all camped out there for the rest of the time, but then the men all disappeared and we all went our different ways"
"It was the same for the girls, we stayed in the children's part of the hospital" Sarah added
"Jack's going to the city" Les interrupted "I'm going with him"
"There might be adults there" David said to himself
"What the hell, I'll go, there's nothing but memories here"
"I'm leaving in five minutes, pack light" Jack looks at Sarah
"No problem" Sarah smiles
Fifty minutes later…
Jack, David, Les, and little Daisy are waiting in the car
"I'm hungry" Daisy whines
"Can't we just leave without her?"
"She's your sister Les"
"That and a bitch"
"What did I tell you about your language"
"What's a bitch?"
"A female dog" David answers
"Sarah's not a dog"
"No but she sure looks like one"
"That's enough Les"
Sarah then comes out struggling to carry her four suitcases
"Sarah when I say pack light I mean ONE bag and when I say five minutes, I mean five minutes, I did not put a zero at the end of five"
"I'm a girl, and girls can't NOT just live with one suitcase" she tries to cram her suit cases in the trunk and gives up and puts them in the back seat "Besides Jack, this is a Durango, it can fit all of my bags"
"Just get into the car" Les whined
"Wait, I want to see what exactly is so important that you can't leave behind" Jack opens on of her suitcases "What the hell is this"
"It's my curling iron, blow drier, straitener, diffuser, and volumizer"
"Sarah, if theses things suddenly dissapeared from the earth would you still be breathing?"
"Uh"
"You would still be breathing" He says as he throws three suitcases out of the car
Sarah is enraged and then digs her nails into Jack's arm, Jack is on the verge of tears ass her nails deepen drawling blood "Listen Jacky boy, unlike you, I'm a girl, I have long hair, I need to take care of it"
David is reminded of the time Sarah burnt him with the curling iron because he used the bathroom before she did
"Listen Sarah, this is my car, and whatever I say goes"
"Correction, It's your daddy's car, what are you going to do if I refuse…hit me"
"Stop it Sarah" David pleaded
"No, you'll never hit me, you can't even hit your father back"
"Get in the car" Jack said calmly holding back his anger
Sarah smiled as put her suitcase back and stepped into the car, she had him right where she wanted.
Jack started the car and they were finally on their way
AN: Movies and Shows that are the origin of the plot: Tribe, The Stand, Equilibrium, Reign of Fire, Night of the Comet, Newsies, Les Miserables, Fist Full of Dollars, and Taps
So if you want a sneak peek to what's in store rent and watch these movies
Sorry if my writing is sort of blunt, I usually write screenplays which are more direct and have less emotion in descriptions, but I'll try my best to add feeling and depth to it, if not then I'll either put it in screenplay format or just do POVs like in my last fics
Third Chapter coming really soon, OI've been doing alot of writing
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