Chapter Twelve: Unfinished Business
Matt woke up with a terrible headache and blood running down the side of his head. He tried to move but for some reason he couldn't move his arms or legs. He started to panic when he realized his mouth was tape shut and he was tied up along with Kristine, Garret and the girl, Marcie hit with the gun a while back.
(How the hell did this happened) he thought as he tried to move, but only send him falling to the floor with the others falling on top of him.
All he remembered that they came to a town called Gallup, New Mexico when Marcie started yawning since she hasn't slept all night long. Kristine fell asleep and Garret looked like he was about to past out and then everything went black.
The ceiling door opened up, nearly blinded him from the suddenly light of the morning and Marcie climbed in with some food and soda. She noticed Matt was awake and smiled.
"Hello sleepy head, I thought I hit you hard enough to be out for a couple of days not for a couple of hours"
Matt started cursing her, but it was muffled by the duck tape. "Oh, shut up, Matt" she said and kicked him right in the chest. "I only did so I can sleep and take a break for a while. I'm just glad Boss kept some rope in one of these. And it was easy tying up the others when they were asleep" she laughed.
Matt tried to cough but it was still muffle by the tape. Marcie laughed and sat down to eat the food "see what happens when you follow Bianca around, Matt, you just end up in a lot of trouble, but not to worry I'm not going to kill you since Garret is your friend and won't drive unless you are all safe"
After finishing her meal, Marcie yawned and walked over to one of the beds again and fell asleep.
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I slowly opened my eyes to adjust to the light shining from the small attic window and groan. Sleeping on a hard floor with a deep wound on your stomach wasn't the best feeling in the world when you're waking up.
I looked around and spotted a first aid kit next to me, opened and used, and noticed my shirt was rolled up a little with fresh bandages wrapped around my stomach. I blushed a little when I started remembering what happened last night.
I was talking and Jimmy kissed me to shut me up, but when he pulled away I was so stunned I couldn't speak and I guess he took the hint and walked over to a corner. It was another ten minutes when I fell asleep again.
I turned my head to the left to take a closet look at the attic and nearly jumped out of my skin when I saw something at the far left corner. Apparently a family did live here when I saw the remains of three people, huddled together, who probably starved to death. I frowned, thinking that can be me and Jimmy if we stay here any longer.
I felt a cold breeze hitting the top of my head and while biting my lip, I turned to my side and spotted a large window with the cloudy light hitting my eyes. I rolled onto my stomach, a bolt of pain flew up my body as I picked myself up off the floor and onto my knees. I let out a big sigh and lifted myself up onto my feet, feeling something in my wounds tearing and the pain.
I slowly walked over to the open windows, already hearing the moans of the dead, and walked out of it and onto the roof. It was another cloudy, cold day with a slight breeze, god it made me sicker then I ever felt before. I spotted Jimmy sitting at the corner of the roof, staring at the dead which kinda remind me of the time when Matt and I did that when we were trapped in Wal-Mart.
I walked over to him and took a deep breath "hey" I said
Jimmy jumped a little when he heard my voice and turned his head to face me. "Hey" He said, sounding a little nervous. "How are you feeling?"
"Sick" I said, plained and simple. "But that nothing compares to what could have happened if you didn't rescue me"
"I just gave you a second chance to live" Jimmy asked, feeling proud of himself
"Third chance actually, the second chance is a messy story that I really don't want to talk about" I said
Jimmy nodded "want to sit down with me"
I nodded and sat down next to him, too prideful to look at him in the eye. I just stared at one to the zombies, a man that had a crush skull and an eye hanging just by a vein and missing the bottom jaw.
I wasn't sure I like Jimmy that way, hell, I only knew the guy for four days now and the only crush I ever had was on Marc, who is dead now and rotting somewhere in Phoenix. I looked at Jimmy at my corner eye, he seems to be lost in deep thought about something, but I had a good feeling what it was.
(Might as well get this over with) I thought. "Jimmy?"
"Yes" He asked, looking at me.
I curse my height for a minute, even sitting down, Jimmy as about a foot and a half taller then me. Out of my team I was the second shortest person, Marcie was the shortest maybe that is why she so angry about life. "Jimmy, look, about last night and the whole saving me and stuff"
"Yeah" he said, leaning forward a bit to my face.
"Well, I just want to thank you and well, I don't know if I feel that way about you, you seriously caught me off guard" I said
Jimmy frowned a little but quickly smiled "I understand" he said
"So, how are we going to get out of here" I asked
"Beats me, if we had a chance to get down to the ground, we can hot wire one of those cars" He pointed at the cars that were left in the neighborhood. "We can drive out of here and try to find the others again"
I looked around and noticed the house were connected four at a time "we can walk over to the end the house and run as fast as we can to one of the cars"
"I don't think I can do that" Jimmy said
"You ran all the way back here without any problems" I said
"Well, this is different, there weren't more than three dozens zombies at one place" He said
I stared at him and he caves in "ok, do you even know how to hot wire a car"
"Just because Garret does it all the time doesn't mean I can't" I said and, walking to the end of the houses.
When I got to the last house I smashed the attic window and walked inside.
"What are you doing" Jimmy asked
I looked around at the boxes that were up here and started opening them "out of all this junk, these people have in here, there's got be one box that has some clothes in it" I said
"Since when are you so worried about clothes" he asked
"I'm don't, but even I don't want to wear a torn up, blood-soaked T-shirt" I said
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Boss drove into the dead town of Winslow, he didn't even need a tracker to track down those bastards and bitches who stole his Death Machine, the weight of the vehicle left tire tracks an inch deep in the street. He was tired from driving all night but the determination kept him awake and alert to make sure no dead comes near him.
He found it odd, it was a town but there were no zombies in sight, he just shrugged and drove into the town. He had the radio on at a low volume and he couldn't stop smiling as he daydreams about how he was going to kill each one of those kids in a slow, no mercy death. He looked around, he hasn't been out this far from town and no doubt he would go back until the little tomboy was dead even if it means driving all the way to Texas.
He stopped when he saw a few zombies heading into a neighborhood, which again, he found it odd and decided to follow with one hand clutch tight on the loaded gun on his lap.
(Why would those fucken things be surrounding those houses) he thought?
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Jimmy tried so hard not to laugh as I walked out with a new shirt on. Out of all the houses we had to hide out in, the family had to have a couple of girly-girls because the only shirts I found were bright pink, yellow and sky blue. I wore a bright blue shirt that had the words "cutie" on it in pink glitter.
"If you laugh I will push you off this roof"
"What's wrong "cutie" you're mad because they didn't have anything black" he said
I playfully pushed him but that only made him laughed even more "will you stop laughing!" I shouted and pushed him, a little bit harder, again.
When I pushed him again, he caught my arm and pulled me to him. I hissed in pain from my wounds but he ended it by kissing me again with his arms wrapped around my back.
I pushed him away and cleared my throat "if you do that again, next time I will hit you" I said
Jimmy nodded and smiled "maybe you'll like it next time and won't"
"Don't be so sure" I said
I smiled at him but noticed something odd about the zombies. I ran over to the edge and saw them walking away. "What's going on" I asked
"Maybe they got tired of waiting for us" Jimmy thought
"Don't be stupid, they don't know how to think" I said
"Well, let's not stand here and ask questions this is our chance to get out of here"
I nodded "can you run with that wound" he asked
"It will hurt like hell, but I can run" I said
"I did bandaged them up pretty thick so it won't bleed too much" he said
Since we couldn't get out the way we got in, Jimmy found some rope and wires and tied them together for us to slid down the house. Jimmy slid down first and got his gun ready in case a zombie would just pop out of nowhere.
I looked at my wound, a small blood stain started to appear, I just hope finding the others would be easy or my wound is never going to close. I tucked my gun half way in my pants when I heard Jimmy screaming then a low thump.
"Jimmy?" I ran over the edge and didn't see Jimmy anywhere.
"Jimmy!" I shouted but still didn't get an answer.
I slid down the rope and landed a little roughly and looked around, hoping he was just playing around again. "Jimmy, where are you, this isn't funny"
I walked around the house, but as soon as I turned the corner a large hand grabbed me by the throat and lifted me up and slammed be against the wall. I started to gag as a pair of brown, veiny eyes stared at me as the grip on my throat tighten.
"Well, look who we have here"
I couldn't believe it, it was Boss, how the hell did he got all the way out here. I tried to say something but all that came out was gagging noises.
"It's a small world after all if I found you so easily" Boss said smiling "you made a bid mistake, taking my vehicle, burning down the station, and killing my mother"
Blood started to drip out of my nose as I kicked him right in stomach as hard as I can in order for him to let me go. It works, he dropped me as he fell over a little and I started to crawl away. I started to cough and gag as air started to come back into my lungs but from that it only slowed me down and soon a foot connected with my back and I was pushed to the ground.
"Where do you think you're going, you, me and that bitch Marcie have some unfinished business to take care up?"
"Where's Jimmy" I coughed, my throat felt like it was on fire.
"Oh, don't worry about your boyfriend, he'll live if you tell me where my vehicle is" he asked
I looked around and noticed the dead were coming back "I'll tell you if you just take us away from this town" I said
I could hear Boss sighing angrily and grab me by the arm and force me to get up. I was dragged like a rag doll behind the house where a jeep was parked and was tossed in the back. There next to me was Jimmy, with blood running down his forehead form where Boss must've hit him. I slowly got up and sat down as Boss took off, running over the dead with the radio full blast.
The loud volume made my head hurt and sicker "Tell me where is my Vehicle" he asked again
"I don't know, Marcie has it now, she could be in New Mexico as we speak" I said. I didn't want to fight him or do anything to would make him angrier, this was my only chance to get back to the others not to mention that he had his hand on the gun on his lap, ready to fire if I made a sudden move.
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Night fell and Matt and the others were still tied up, but this time Matt had some company when Garret woke up. They sat there on the ground, listening to the music that Marcie was playing and singing to.
(Make her stop, she's like William Hung from American Idol) Matt thought as he groans from the suffering as Marcie was singing, "Pieces of Me"
Marcie kicked him in the stomach again "you're just jealous because I can sing better than you"
Matt tried to say something, but it was muffle by the tape. Marcie bent down and torn the tape off in one swipe. Matt screamed from the pain "your singing is just likes' Ashlee Simpson, it's stupid and fake"
"Shut up, you piece of shit" she screamed and kicked him again.
"You're just saying that because you're still upset about Bianca dying and that other bastard killed himself" Marcie yelled.
While Matt and Marcie were arguing, Garret looked at the t.v. screens in the front and noticed something coming up in a jeep. The Jeep parked right in front of the door and Garret's eyes widened when he was who it was.
Garret started bouncing around trying to get Marcie's attention, not knowing it was waking up Kristine and the other girl Lindsey.
"Garret, what's a matter" Matt asked
Garret was literally tearing up from who was out there, knowing very well what the punishment was for stealing the vehicle. He swung his neck at the direction of the T.V. screen, but Marcie and Matt didn't know what he was trying to say.
"Marcie, will you take the tape off his mouth" Matt asked
"I don't have to listen to you" Marcie said
With the loud music on, Marcie didn't hear the door opening since her back was facing it. Matt's eyes widened when he saw Boss stepping inside and walked over to Marcie with a smirk on his face.
"Matt? Garret? What the hell is wrong with you" Marcie asked, "don't tell me you're finally going to admit that you're scared."
A hand grabbed hold of Marcie by her shoulder, she could feel her collar bone snapping from the harsh grasp as she was turned around to face Boss. Before she could say anything or react, Boss punched her right in the face so hard the sound could be heard louder then the music. Marcie fell the floor and before she had time to get up, he kicked her repeatedly in the stomach, ribs and back til she stopped moving.
Boss looked at Matt and Garret and the girls that were still a bit daze to know what was going on. He just smirked and walked back outside then came back a minute later with Jimmy on his shoulder. He dropped Jimmy as if he was trash to the floor then went back outside again.
Matt's jaw dropped when Boss came back in, holding Bianca by her neck again, and shut the door behind him.
"Bianca!" Matt shouted from shocked
"Yes, boy, your friend is alive and well" He said, tightening his grip on her neck "but not for long"
Bianca led out a gasp of air as he continues to choke her even more. She had blood smeared around her nose and mouth from the nose bleed.
"Put her down!" Matt shouted.
"If you insist" Boss said and dropped her.
Bianca fell to the floor hard and started taking deep breaths but she blacked out. "Bianca, Bianca, wake up" Matt shouted
Boss walked over to Lindsey and tore off the tape from her mouth "you can't even do a simple job, can you" he yelled
"I'm sorry Boss, but Marcie stole the remote from Jacob and-"
"I don't need your excuses, now where is Jacob" he asked
"I don't know, I was knocked out when Marcie hit me with the gun" she explained
"She shot the boy" Matt said
Boss growled and stormed over to Marcie again and gave her another hard kick.
"Can you untie me" Lindsey asked
"If I do that then I have to untie the others, beside that's what you get for not doing a simple fucken job" he said
The music was turned off and Boss got behind the wheel and put it into drive "no need to shout, Boy, just be happy I brought your friend back"
Garret and Matt looked at each other. Garret was scared shit and turned awfully pale. They started moving again and didn't have a clue where Boss was taking them. Matt stayed wide awake with Garret the whole trip while watching Bianca, making sure she was still breathing. He still couldn't believe she was alive but looked awfully sick and pale.
"Boss, where we going" Lindsey asked, nervously
Boss didn't answer or even looked at his teammate all he did was drive faster.
"I'm going to be killed" Lindsey said
"What was your first clue" Matt asked
Lindsey glared at him "he might just shoot me in the head but you, that girl, and Marcie, he's going to beat you til you're dead" she said
Matt and Garret frowned and Kristine started to cry.
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It was early the next morning when Matt saw Boss stopping near an outpost and turned on the BC radio. "I like permission to enter the gate" he said
"Where are you from and how many are in your party?"
"Flagstaff, Arizona and I have seven and me in the party" he said
"What is your reason for being here" the guy on the radio asked
"Just traveling and I heard this is the place where they have great fighting games"
The gate opens and Boss drove in while the guy on the radio said "Welcome to Albuquerque, New Mexico, home of the bloodiest death games of the state"
Matt didn't like the sound of that as Boss park the vehicle and walked over to the four that were tied up, Matt's eyes widened as a fist flew straight to his face, there was a great deal of pain then all went black.
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I awoke from the sound of stomping feet and the ground vibrating. My throat was very sore and I knew my neck was bruised by Boss's grip. I looked around and noticed I was in a different place and in a cage?
I looked around the giant cage and saw Jimmy, Matt, Garret, Kristine and another girl in here as well. I crawled over to Matt and started to untie him and the others then smack him lightly on his cheek to wake up.
"Matt, Matt, wake up" I said
Matt opened one of his eyes, the other one was swollen and had a smiley shape cut under it. The first thing he did was jumped up and hugged with really tight which was very painful for my wound on my stomach. " I thought you were dead" he said, shaking and hugging me tighter.
"Matt, this really hurts"
He pulled away "sorry"
"It's ok, but where are we" I asked
"We're in Albuquerque, New Mexico" he said "After Boss drove over here he knocked me out so I have no idea where we're at"
We stood up and walked over to the bars and looked around. We were in some building that looked like the one back at home; it had an arena surrounded by a cage, bleachers that were pack with people stomping their feet in a rhythm.
"What's going on" Kristine asked, getting up and rubbing her arms to get blood back in after being tied up for a whole day.
"We don't know" Matt asked
"I know one thing though, a fight is about to happen and look whose going to be in it" I said
We watched as Boss walked inside the cage and waited for his victim to step forward.
"Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome all to "The Battle of the Death" We like to thank this man who would like to be called Boss for letting us see the punishment he is about to inflict on his victims" A Guy on the intercom shouted and the crowd roared in excitement.
A teenager came up to us and smiled "what did you guys do to piss of that guy" she asked
"That's none of your business, now get us out of here" I shouted
"Can't do" she said laughing "you, him, and that other boy are next to be punished while the others are going to be use for bait in the next game" she said, pointing to me, Matt and Jimmy then walked away.
"Bianca, there is no way I'm going to be zombie food, you gotta do something" Kristine said
"I will Kristine, but I don't have any ideas right now" I said
"Guys, look" Matt pointed
I turned to see the arena and spotted two men dragging Marcie over to the arena while she struggled to get away "NO, PLEASE, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, DON'T LOCK ME UP WITH HIM." She screamed, clawed and kicked wildly "HE'S GOING TO KILL ME, PLEASE, LET ME GO!"
The cage door opened and she was literally tossed inside with the cage door shut and locked. Marcie quickly got up and tried to open the cage door "PLEASE, SOMEBODY HELP ME! PLEASE"
Boss smiled and crack his cut up knuckles "she's a goner" Kristine whispered.
I nodded and I knew Marcie's death isn't going to be pretty . . .
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Chapter Thirteen: The Punishment: Marcie's bloody end: Bianca watched in horror as Marcie receive her punishment and must think of a plan fast knowing she next to be punished.