Regina turned the knob and pushed the door open, but only a few seconds after that did an alarm go off. Everyone flinched and covered their ears at the blaring sound.
"SHIT!" Mulan crouched and covered her ears.
"TAKE THEM TO TRUCKS! HURRY! YOU THREE! LET'S GO! GRAB EVERYTHING YOU CAN!" Regina shouted and rushed out, pushing through the door taking down a biter as she rushed to the back.
"Come on you heard her, move!" Mulan quickly grabbed Ava's arm.
"We can't just leave them!" Nicholas shook his head.
"We won't! Now let's go!"
Pushing them forward and quickly running towards the back of the store, Mulan and the kids ducked and dodged the hands of a few biters.
"Keep going!" Mulan shouted as she ran in front of them to take down two biters.
In the pharmacy, Regina, Graham, Philip and Kristoff were all shoving bottles of prescriptions and drugs into the giant sack the found. They were all wincing as their ears were ringing, their rifles strapped to their backs. Philip grunted and filled his arms with bottles, shoving them into giant bag. He looked back at the door and grunted as he saw biters limping the light the door.
Bringing his rifle around and taking the safety off, Philip took a stance and shot each biter through the skull.
"WE HAVE TO HURRY!" Philip yelled back over his shoulder.
Regina ran through the sections of the pharmacy, hoping over a dead body that had a white lab coat on, picking up anything and everything she saw. The white shelves were empty and they could look through them, seeing Philip crouched shooting down the biters, Regina ran back to the entrance Kristoff holding the sack and Graham right behind her.
"THAT'S EVERYTHING! LET'S GO!" Graham shouted.
Philip pushed forward and shot another one down, running out of the room followed by the three others Regina saw that more biters had come in through wherever the breach was the blaring noise luring them in from the outside. It wasn't too many for them to handle, but that alarm would definitely draw more of them to the building.
"LET'S GET TO THE TRUCKS!" Regina yelled.
They were out of breath but still they ran, dodging biters as they ran to the back loading area. There were almost there until Philip slipped on some blood and fell to the ground.
"PHIL!" Graham stopped and helped to pick him up. "Are you alright?!"
"My knee! Fuck! Ow!" Philip winced.
Regina and Kristoff stopped running too, and looked back.
"Go! Keep running! I'll help them!" Regina told Kristoff.
Rushing back and hooking her arm around Philip's waist, Regina pulled out her hand gun and quickly shot at two biters coming at them from the aisles. She and Graham got a firm grip on him, quickly running forward basically picking him up as they stepped.
Kristoff ran into the truck and slowed down as he got to the back. Panting quickly and bending over to catch his breath on his knees, he looked out seeing the trucks parked right by the truck from earlier. Ruby Mulan and Jefferson were shooting out of biters, Jefferson turned and saw him up there.
"Kris! Where are the others?! Where is Graham?" Jefferson he looked behind the tall man.
"They were right behind me!" Kristoff let go of the sack and climbed down from the truck, quickly grabbing it again.
"We can't stay here much longer!" Mulan yelled.
"They're coming!" Kristoff huffed putting the sack into the back seat of the truck with the kids.
Ruby stopped shooting and turned looking into the back of the empty truck.
"There they are!" Ruby saw their shadows.
"Start the trucks!" Graham shouted as they were being trailed by a few biters they dodged.
Regina and Graham were breathing heavy, supporting Philip's weight. Finally they made it to the back of the truck and Mulan's eyes got big as she saw Philip being helped as his front was covered in blood.
Regina let go and got down from the back of the truck at a section where the fallen bodies weren't, as Graham lowered Philip into a sitting position with his arm over his shoulders.
"Ok. Alright. Easy. Easy." Graham helped him sit.
Philip scooted as best he could, and Regina placed her hands at his side as they lowered him down. Graham's ears were still ringing from the alarm and he didn't hear the biter getting closer.
"GRAHAM BEHIND YOU!" Ruby shouted.
The man turned and as he did the biter threw itself at him, and Graham fell back off of the truck onto the pile of bodies. It was like everyone around was watching him fall in slow motion until he hit the pile.
"NO!" Jefferson yelled. "GRAHAM!"
The tall biter weighed him down onto the bodies and Graham frantically pushed back at the demon. He felt the lumpy feel of a stomach at his back his limbs colliding with the ones under him. In the pile there was still some live biters and one of them was snapping its jaws right by his leg. Regina moved quickly and climbed onto the pile, trying to climb over bodies and a hand grabbed onto her ankle.
"AGH! GET ME OUT! HELP ME!" Graham was panicking, he couldn't grab anything.
Shaking off the boney hand, Regina took out her hand gun and balanced herself as she pulled the biters head back shooting it through skull and pushing it off of Graham. Graham was crying out and pushing away from the mouth snapping at his leg and the fingers touching his shoulders, he couldn't push himself up.
"Get me out! Get me out! Please!"
"Hands! Graham give me your hands!" Regina yelled. Jefferson had rushed over shooting the biters that were still moving under the man.
Quickly doing as he was told, Graham whimpered loudly and let her pull him out of the pile of bodies and they stumbled down but didn't fall over, pulling him into their arms. Regina had a grip on his shirt and wrapped her arm over his shoulders, while Jefferson had his left arm wrapped around his side and his right hand gripping the back of his head. Graham was still panicking, his arm wrapped under Regina's shoulder one and the other arm out gripping Jefferson's shirt.
"Are you hurt?! Let me see!" Regina rushed out.
"Are you bit?!" Jefferson worried.
They pulled back and Regina went about checking his chest and shoulders and back, and so did Jefferson patting his hands down Graham's legs.
Graham just whimpered again and threw himself out at Regina, she caught him just fine. He must be in a bit of shock.
"Is he alright?!" Ruby rushed over.
"We have to get out of here!" Kristoff yelled as he got Philip into the truck with the kids.
"Come on Graham we're going to get you home." Regina squeezed his shoulders and forced his legs to move.
Biters were throwing themselves out the back of the truck into the pile, but the moved getting into the safety of the trucks.
Kristoff was in the drivers seat of his truck, Philip in the passenger with his rifle in between his legs and Ava and Nic in the back with supplies all around them and the big bag of medicines. Ruby hopped into the drivers seat of Regina's truck, Mulan in the passenger as Regina helped Graham into the backseat and climbed in. Jefferson didn't even ask as he ran around and climbed in on the other side, Graham sandwiched between them.
Kristoff sped off and Ruby followed right behind him, both trucks had 12 boxes each in the beds so they were taking on more than usual. Speeding around the building and out of the parking lot there were more and more biters in the lot now, that loud alarm still booming. They didn't slow down until they were over the tracks again a few minutes later.
"I-I'm gonna puke." Graham said his head on Regina's shoulder.
"Pull over Ruby." Regina instructed, Graham started retching "Now! Pull over now! Stop the truck!"
Ruby did as she was told, honking at Kristoff up ahead. Pulling over Regina opened the door as fast as she could and Graham leaned over her and puked out the door. He tried to hold it, he really did.
Emptying all the contents from his stomach and out into road while hovering over Regina on his knees. His puke splattered onto the ground and some drops splattered on the back tire and the door. Finally it eased up and his shoulders sagged, he felt Regina rubbing his back.
"M'so sorry, Gina." Graham sniffled.
"Shhh dear, it's alright." Regina leaned forward and ran her hand through his hair and pulled him closer.
He welcomed the comfort, it was nothing like the dirty and disgusting feeling he got when those demons were touching him. Mulan handed him a canteen and allowed him to rinse his mouth out, while Regina went about wiping the black blood from his face that dripped down from the demon that was onto of him. He couldn't get the stench of them out of his nose. Eventually they got back in the truck and got back on the road, Graham didn't let go of Regina not once.
Jefferson wanted to comfort him but didn't want to push Graham. But he sat closely to him, looking out of the window. Watching Graham fall was like everything was moving in slow motion. His best friend almost died today and he nearly witnessed it. As the truck rumbled and moved against the pavement, Jefferson felt a hand fall on his lap.
Looking down he saw that Graham was reaching out for him from where he was cuddled up against Regina. Jefferson moved his rifle from between his legs and switched it to lean against the door before put his hand into Graham's. When he did Graham squeezed his hand twice and turned his head and looked at him. Jefferson put his other hand on top of their conjoined ones and brought them up to his lips and kissed them.
When they pulled back up to the prisons gate it was a little after sun down, but it was already starting to get dark which meant the temperature was dropping. The person on watch quickly raced over to open the two gates while someone others held the biters back. Ruby and Kristoff quickly parked the trucks, and Kristoff got out ordering a young teenager to go get some more men to help with the boxes.
Mulan got out and helped Philip in to go see Doc with Ruby's help. Kristoff helped the kids out, careful not to hurt Nicholas and told them to follow Mulan and Ruby as they supported Philip's weight. Jefferson got out of the truck and rushed over to the other side to help Regina get Graham out.
"Graham you should go see Doc too." Regina helped him out.
"I'm fine, I-I just feel really dirty." Graham shook his head.
"Even so, you will go to Doc and have him look you over. If not him them Victor." Regina said sternly, "And I want you to start speaking with Archie. I will inform him of what happened and I want you to check in with him."
"Ok." Graham sighed and shook his head.
"I just want to make sure you are alright."
Graham shivered and shook his head again and started to walk off towards the medical wing.
"Jefferson go with him." Regina nodded her head, "We've got everything covered out here."
Jefferson nodded quickly and raced to catch up with Graham. When he did the scruffy bearded man looked at him and gave him a smile that was barely there.
"I'm coming with you alright?" Jefferson breathed out.
"Alright." Graham whispered.
Regina, Kristoff and the other men quickly worked to get the clothes unloaded out of the backseat of Kristoff's truck and all the boxes into the prison kitchen.
Emma was wrapped up good in her jacket, racing out to meet Regina when she heard they were back. She passed Philip, Ruby, Mulan, Jefferson and Graham in the hall of the medical wing and saw how distressed they looked. She saw two kids she hadn't seen before standing behind them.
"Are you all alright?" Emma quickly asked. "Oh my god." She saw all the blood covering Philip.
"It was just a really stressful run, Philip busted his knee." Mulan started and they carried on taking him into the room when Doc finally walked around the corner. The kids followed them in too.
Emma saw Graham and the haunted look he had on his face, he hand blood on him too, more black than red.
"Graham?" Emma called to him as he was leaning on Jefferson.
Graham looked up slowly and sighed, "Hey Em... Yeah, I'm fine."
"He's still in a bit of shock." Jefferson shook his head.
"What happened?" Emma felt a little pang of fear, because she didn't see Regina usually she was with them when they returned. "Where's Regina?"
"He fell off a truck into a pile of biters, Regina saved him and pulled him out before he got bit." Jefferson told her.
"But where is she now?" Emma asked again.
"Outside unloading the stuff we fou-." Jefferson started but Emma started walking away.
"I'm really happy you're ok Graham! I'll be back!" Emma rushed off.
Emma ran down the hall and around the corner, making her way down and outside the building. The cold breeze blew in her eyes as she passed some people holding clothes and boxes. Regina closed the door to the truck and handed Kristoff her rifle to put up, taking a deep breath she looked up and saw Emma waiting there for her near the door of the building.
A bright smile spread across Emma's face and Regina returned it, taking wide steps to get to her. She wrapped Emma up into her arms tight hug and Emma hugged her back just as tight. God's she was so warm.
Emma shivered against the cold air and pulled Regina inside the hallway so that they could close the door. When it was closed she wrapped herself right back up in the older woman's arms. Regina relaxed against the embrace and just took it all in, this was great to come back too. All the craziness they endured today, this was nice.
"Are you okay?" Emma asked her face buried into Regina's neck. She could smell the sweat and the smell of outdoors all over the woman.
Regina responded with a deep hum, "Mm I'm good. Great now that I'm back and I have you with me right now."
Regina would always get hugs and hi's from Emma when she returned from hunts or runs, it felt different now after what they did last night. Emma pulled her head back and looked up at her, looking her face over then she pulled all the way back and started lifting Regina's arms up, looking her whole body over.
"Emma I'm fine." Regina laughed and pulled her back in.
Emma relented and leaned in, kissing her jaw, "Good...I'm glad you listened to me."
Regina chuckled and wrapped her up in a tight hold, before she kissed her hair and then pulled back and kissed her cheek. Emma smiled as she pulled back, looking from her eyes to lips. Emma reached up again and softly kissed Regina on the lips.
Emma went to pull back but Regina kept her hold on around her waist, bringing one hand up she cupped the side of Emma's neck and brought their lips together again. Kissing Emma gently she sighed against her lips and started to peck them over and over, walking back.
Walking from the medical wing, down the hall and around the corner, Ruby and Mulan stopped in their tracks as they saw Emma and Regina kissing slowly. Regina had pressed against the wall and Emma's hands were at Regina's sides.
"Well I guess that answers who she was with last night." Ruby murmured and turned to look at Mulan.
She had a tired and defeated look on her face, swallowing some spit, and blinking away some tears she turned and walked away. Ruby watched her and sighed sadly, walking after her.
Needing to come up for air, Regina kissed along Emma's face, making the blonde giggle when she kissed along her cheeks and stopped at the tip of her nose.
"You need a shower." Emma giggled.
"Are you trying to tell me I stink?" Regina smirked.
"No. Simply that...You've had a long day and need to wash the remainder of it away." Emma grinned.
"Mmm nice save..." Regina chuckled.
They pulled away from the wall and Regina took her hand, leading them down hall towards C Block.
"How was the run? I saw everyone else upstairs. You brought children back with you?" Emma asked.
"It was very good..." Regina nodded her head slowly. "We ventured down that new path I mentioned to you. Found an abandoned store, it was crawling with the dead but we still managed to get in." Regina went about telling her everything that happened as they strolled.
"We should have enough to last us a number of weeks before we have to go back out." Regina finished.
Emma listened intently and nodded her head along, gripping Regina's hand tighter as she mentioned the pile of dead bodies Graham fell into.
"Do you think he'll be alright?" Emma asked.
"...I think the experience with stay with him for while. So I've told him it is important that he speaks with Archie." Regina sighed.
They made it to Regina's cell and Emma went about helping her remove her bloody and sweaty top layers. Regina placed her hand gun in the bin under her bed and then took out things she would need for a quick shower.
"Where is Henry?" Regina asked.
"With August. Mrs. Potts is holding a story time up in the library before dinner. I was in the kitchens with Granny trying to convince her on serving dessert tonight." Emma rolled her eyes.
Regina chuckled, "And my guess is she told you no?" At Emma's pout she received her answer and chuckled further.
Dressed in only her black tank top and her pants, which were unzipped and hanging loosely around her hips. Regina threw her towel over her shoulder and grabbed her clothes and shower kit.
Regina straightened out and released a deep breath, walking up to Emma and smirking.
"You should come join me." Regina smirked.
"If I go into those showers with you we may very well miss dinner and go to bed hungry." Emma chuckled.
Regina snickered and leaned in to kiss her cheek. "I will see you at dinner then."
Emma turned her head and nodded looking from her eyes to her lips, quickly kissing the brunette. Regina smiled and went to walk around her but Emma stopped her with her hand on her stomach. Arching her brow Regina looked at her hand and back at her.
The younger woman kept her gaze as her hand inched down and gripped at her pants. Regina pushed her brow up more and Emma arched hers up in a challenging way with a smirk on her lips. Quickly bringing her other hand over Emma buttoned the loose pants back up and dragged her hand down to rub Regina's dick before she quickly zipped them up.
"Better." Emma chuckled and turned pulling the sheet back and walking out of the cell.
Regina tsked and quickly walked out of the cell after the blonde.