The inside of he house had looked even wore then the outside. Doors were broken down, glass all over the floors, and a few bullet marks in the wall. Tony glanced at Jessica and saw exactly what he had expected to see. Her eyes were full of fear and sadness. Tony quickly turned his head from her so she realize that he knew how sad she felt deep down inside. Jessica looked down to her foot and noticed a rose next to a broken vase on the floor. Slowly she picked up the rose and held it close to her heart. She pain was just to hard for her to hold in and tears started pouring from her eyes.
"I-I'll check upstairs Tony. You search down here. Look everywhere, don't miss not one room. Please."
With that Jessica ran up the stairs. Tony knew the reason Jessica wanted to split up. It had to be a reason that someone would want to split up in a situation like this. Jessica seemed like the tough-girl type and Tony guessed she must have been embarrassed to cry in front of someone. Though he felt sorry for Jessica, Tony discarded the thought and started to look around the house. Tony felt a bit nervous as he looked around. The whole house seemed like a tornado went through it. The darkness didn't help ease his nerves at all. The first room Tony decided to investigate seemed to be a kitchen. Scattered across the floor were small white pills. Each pill seemed close together as if someone had dropped them and left without bothering to pick them up. In the corner of the room was a refrigerator. The handle had blood all over it. Right on the floor near it was a empty pill case that had the words Pain Killer on them,written in marker. At first he thought about opening the refrigerator, but he decided that it would be a bad idea.
Up on the upper floor Jessica wandered the empty hallway. The condition of the top floor was no better than the bottom floor. Only thing different was that a few parts of the walls had holes in them that were the size of a persons head. Jessica suddenly noticed a door that had nothing wrong with it. No blood, nothing broken down, not even a tiny scratch. Deep down in her heart a glimmer of hope shined as she ran towards the door. She was hoping that Karl was hidden in there and survived the obvious destruction of the house. Slowly she opened the door and looked inside the room. It was a bathroom, and it had looked to be in perfect condition. Jessica looked around and noticed the shower curtains were closed. She had hoped Karl was behind the curtain. Her hands trembled as she reached for the shower curtains and quickly snatched it back. Instead of seeing her boyfriend she saw a group of rats scurrying in the tub. In fear she jumped back and fell to the ground holding her mouth gagging.
Back down stairs Tony had began to wander into the living room. There was a big screen T.V in the back of the room, but unfortunately it had a huge hole in it. As if someone was thrown into it. "Damn. Must have been one good rumble in this place." Tony slowly walked over to the television. His curiosity was getting the best of him so he peeked inside the huge hole. Inside of it was a zombies, but it had been all burnt up. Tony figured it must had been electrocuted by the shock. The zombies startled Tony a bit and he moved back from the television. Trying to forget what he had saw, he moved on to a closet. On the floor of the closet was a shirt with a huge rip in it and blood hand prints on it.
Back up on the upper floor Jessica started investigating a bedroom. It had been the only room on the upper floor that Jessica hadn't checked. "If he's not in here...please be in here Karl". If she didn't find Karl in the bedroom, all she could do was hope Tony had found him. The room had seemed to be in order just like the bathroom, but their was blood on the floor. The window was also broken, but the glass fell on the outside meaning someone or something had jumped out. The pillow on the bed had three bullet holes in them and feathers from the pillow were scattered all over the bed. The gun that had shot those bullets sat right near a closet. Jessica slowly picked it up with her eyes swelling over with tears, and pulled the trigger aiming out the window. All that was heard was a faint click sound. "Empty..." Jessica examined the handle and dropped it once she saw blood smeared on it. Her hands trembled as she realized Karl was not in the house. She had lost all hope of ever seeing him again. She figured Tony had probably found a dead body of Karl and cared nothing of it, thinking it was a dead zombie. In despair Jessica sat on the bed crying. Her cries grew louder and louder until she heard a faint sound of someone moving. The sound had came from the closet where the empty gun had been next to.
"Karl?"
No answer came from the closet, but a moving sound continued. After a few seconds the door started to shake back and forth on the hinges. "Not another one of those bastards. What do you want from me!" Jessica slowly took out here Black Tail handgun and aimed it at the door, waiting for the moment it broke off he hinges. It was obvious there was a zombie inside. Nothing else would be stupid enough not to use the door knob. Ready for the moment the zombie broke through, she aimed at the spot she figured it's head would be. With one last hit the door broke swiftly off the hinges and fell onto the floor. Jessica dropped her handgun and gasped. Her hands shook as she began to back away from the closet. Tears swelled up in her eyes, more now than it had did since she had made it to the house. Suddenly she tripped over a chair in the room and hit the ground on her back.
She didn't let thats stop her though and she continued backing away from the advancing zombie. Jessica was speechless and she just mumbled in terror until she hit the corner of the room. As the zombie continued approaching she just screamed and cried out loud. The zombie limped towards her, only about 5 ft. away. Her gun was to far away to grab and no self-defense weapon was in her reach, but it didn't seem like she cared. Jessica was making no attempt to try and escape. Just before the zombie lunged in to bite her, Tony broke into the room firing his TMP bullets into the zombies head. The shots caused the zombie to fall right into Jessica's lap. She gasped in horror at the head of the zombie right on her shoulder. Jessica grabbed the zombies head and pulled it closer to her, crying out loud.
Tony looked towards Jessica confused and walked over to the closet the zombie had broken out of. On the floor lied a piece of paper with scribbling all over it and blood stained some spots on the paper. Tony picked it up and examined it's text.
"Dear Jessy,
Some weird shit's been going on and i might not ever see you again. The house was invaded. I tried holding them back on the first floor,but those damn things take to many shots. They broke the T.V you brought me, I'm sorry. I'm hiding out in the closet. My left arm's a mess. They've bitten me. Only a dirty T-shirt stained with blood is keeping me from dying from blood-loss. But I'm afraid I'm going to die anyway . I don't know how long I can last. Getting itchy...damn my skin itches. I think it tore some of my right arm off. Jessy, I' so sorry...I love you"
The rest of the memo had scribbles and rips in them. Tony looked over to Jessica with pity in his eye's and finally realized who that zombie he had just killed was. Tony frowned and walked over to Jessica. "I think this belongs to you. Sorry,I didn't know..."
Jessica read the note then hugged the head of her dead Karl. Tony watched the scene with sadness and a little bit of disgust. He wasn't sure if he could bear knowing he killed a man. It also reminded him that every zombie out there used to be real people. Everyday people just like himself who had the same thought as he did right now, to try and get out the city. Tony looked down to Jessica and sat next to her wrapping his arm around her to comfort.
The next morning Tony woke up next to Jessica and flinched after seeing the zombie, still in her arms even though she was still sleep. With a sigh Tony stood up and walked to the bathroom. He ran the water and splashed some in his face. Afterwards he stared in the mirror at himself. Only a few seconds of staring passed before he turned from the mirror and ran to the toilet to throw up. The horror of the situation started to get to him and the sickness couldn't be held in any longer. Half an hour later he limped out of the bathroom and into the hallway. As he walked to the room Jessica was in he suddenly collapsed on the floor, unconscious.
About an hour passed before Jessica woke up and noticed Tony was missing. She slowly got to her feet and looked around the room for him. Seeing that he was no where to be found caused her to worry and she quickly left the room only to see Tony collapsed on the floor. Jessica gasped before running to Tony and kneeling down checking for his pulse.
"He's still breathing. O thank god."
When Tony woke he found himself back in the bedroom only this time, on the bed with cover over him. Jessica was also there with a bowl of soup in her hand. "Here eat this. I found tomato soup cans in the cabinets down stairs." Jessica said softly. Her voice still had he sound of someone who had just lost their best friend. Tony took some of the soup and tried hiding the fact that it tasted like it had been at least a year old. As he ate the soup he noticed Jessica staring off, obviously thinking. "So what was he like? Karl that is." Tony asked breaking the silence.
"He...I'm sorry i really don't want to talk about it." Jessica said looking away from Tony.
"I understand. I was an idiot for asking."
Tony put down the disgusting soup showing that he didn't want anymore. Jessica walked over and picked it up. The look in her eye's almost made Tony want to cry himself. "We leave at night. You need your rest. I trust you'll be better by then?"
Tony nodded and Jessica walked out the room with the soup in her hand. Tony managed to get up enough to look out a window. The little bit of the city he could see was an awful sight to see. Raccoon City obviously had no hope.