Day-254

"You stare out that window long enough. Your gonna start seeing shit." Jess quipped and I turned around from the window. "There's jus nothing there, even after a few days, I'm still not used to it. I want trees or more buildings that aren't made of all metal, something other than endless snow." I complained as I sat down. We pulled two of the beds together, it's not any better, still better than just the one bed. "Right and I've been all but stuck in here. I want to see this market you've been going to." Jess told me and I glanced back at her. "What about Harriet?" I asked her, "I need to get out baby. Jacob can watch Harriet and the kids for a couple of hours." She determined. "I'm totally okay with it, that place stinks worse than in here anyways." Jacob answered quickly, I miss walls so much. I shrugged. I guess I don't mind, I would want some fresh air too.

I stood back off the bed. Jess made a impromptu crib out of the pillows from the top and our bunk. "Really, I did have siblings growing up." Jacob stated and I chuckled. "yea an hopefully they turned out nothing like you." Jess spat as she set Harriet up in the bed. "Oooo that hurt. Right here." Jacob pointed to the middle of his chest. I took hold of Jess's waist then spun her around in my arms. "Get outta here before I change my mind." He said. Jess took me by the hand and we left the room.

The hallway was darker than usual. We wouldn't have been able to tell from the inside our room. Then the lights flickered on. Then right back off, continuously flickering on and off. A guard walked by. I looked down the hall behind us to see more guards. More than usual, "wait here a second." I told Jess and I left her standing by our door. I ran and caught up with the last guard that walked by. "Hey what's going on?" I asked him as I grabbed his arm. He turned to me. "I don't know, but they got everybody up for it. Lights do this all the time at night. Don't worry about its probably nothing." He said then turned to walk back in the direction that he was going. I jogged back to Jess. "he said it's nothing to worry about. The lights do this." I explained and took under my arm. We walked together down the hall.

I took her in the back way. We walked down a few flights of stairs. I found it by accident, I got lost a few times. A lot of the guards for this place we just around. Normally there would just be one or two here or there but there everywhere. "there's something going on babe." Jess whispered, "I can feel it too. Let jus get to the hanger." I told her as looked over my shoulder and saw a group of guards coming up the hall. I took the left we needed to and headed right for the hanger at the other end of the hall.

I opened the door to the very end of the make shift hanger settlement. At the backend, there are these three big tents which makes it hard to see some it. It's as loud as usual but when glanced up I noticed the guards had been doubled. Plus they were armed. I pulled jess closer to me as we walked. "smell that." She asked me. "they don't have regular access to showers down here." I explained. Jess couldn't stop looking around. I tried to focus and make sure I knew what was going on around me. There's new comers. A lot of them.

The place was crowded and very active. We walked up between the new tents. Just on the other side you can tell what was inside. They were medical tents but there were empty. Jess looked inside the tents as we walked. "Where's all the patients and doctors?" Jess asked, all the equipment was left there. Most of it a mess. A few things were turned over, might have been a riot or fight or worse. There's some blood but not a lot. We kept walking into the crowded tent filled area.

Where we entered is where people lived, the tents were all different sizes. Bunches of them put up here and there some in circles, others in straight lines making walkways. We walked through the small paths between the tents for a while before we got to the wide main stretch that led to the market area. Jess's lit up with a smile when she spotted it and I couldn't help fall in love all over again. The crowd sort of thinned out as the path widened. Huts and tables filled with all sorts of stuff to trade were still out in full force. I saw the original medical tents first. Jess walked off a little and over to a table with trinkets. I walked up to the Med tent. A couple of guards we taking someone away. The doctors stood off to the side but when he saw me standing there he closed a curtain to the back half of the tent. All the patients were back there. I turned to see where Jess went. She was a few tables down but not far. I walked over. There were guards walking around in the crowd. They stopped people and checked them with the same test guns they used in Ashville.

I don't know how jess didn't notice them. They don't normally check for the flare out in the open. Last few days' way too many refugees came through the flattrans and they were ready for it. I came to stand next to Jess. She glanced up and looked at me but didn't say anything. She just went back to looking at the handmade jewelry pieces. I turned to the man standing next to me also watching wat was going on. "What happened?" I asked him, he was tall and had his arms crossed. He turned slightly to me, the wore a scruffy beard jet black hair. "A military base that was turned into a refugee camp was overrun. They said this was only half of them. They had a flattrans, the survivors pulled back to that building. They came here Just like everyone else." He explained, "what overran them?" I asked curious. "the cranks." The man said and walked away.

"babe.." Jess said in my ear and I jumped. What the hell are the cranks. "Yea, what's up?" I asked her. "Look at this…it's so pretty." she said handling a small necklace with a dolphin charm. There was a little blue tone in the middle. I took the necklace and walked over to the old lady sitting in her chair behind the table. "How much for this…or what do want for it?" I asked the lady and she smiled. "Is she with you?" she asked. "She with me." I told her. I looked over my shoulder at jess. She grinned. "For you nothing…You better hold onto this one." The old lady said as turned back to jess. Jess laughed and took the necklace out of my hand. She put it in her pocket. "I don't want to get robbed." Jess claimed. "you're not going to get robbed." I determined as I walked away from the table.

Jess caught up with me and I immediately wished she hadn't. There was a gap in the crowd but a few feet away was someone being tested and I'm sure that they just tested positive. Two other guards made their way to the area and I felt arms wrap around my side and under my arms. I instinctively returned the gesture and pulled her to the side. "No…" He yelled and guards grabbed him by his arms quickly. "I have a family." He yelled and the crowd sort of jus parted they carted him off. We were standing close to him. How close can you be to them now. How much has the virus changed. That guy looked completely normal at least I didn't notice anything. They dragged the man away right in front of everybody. They made a path as they took the man away.

"C'mon jess we should go." I told her, she saw the same thing I saw. I glanced at her as she starting picking out the guards who were checking people as well. There was a bunch of em. "think it's that bad." Jess said. "any one of these people can be infected. Close quarters." I told her and placed my arm over her shoulder. I turned us both around I wanted out now. I took us back the way we came stay towards the outskirts of the crowd. "Amy?" Jess asked. Then I heard a shot and a lot of people screamed. "run." I said as we both started weaving and jogging through the tents. I helped Jess run. Others were running to their tents for shelter. Then we heard them, a barrage of bullets and people running and screaming. People started to run over tents in the panic trying to get away. Jess and I just made it to the outside when we made a md dash for the door we came in. I kept my arm around her waist helping her run. Jess kept up the pace.

We made it to the door and pushed on it. But it didn't budge, it's locked. "is this really happening?" I asked and yanked on the door. I backed up from the door and gawked up at the walk ways above. Fence doors were being closed and locked. I turned back to jess who had her back turned to the Frey.

A door burst open on the far left side of the settlement. Something spilled through moving in a way I had never seen a person move before. They grabbed onto the first few people and pulled them to the ground began tearing them apart. The small crowd of creatures moved through the panicked crowed taking down anyone they touched. The doors were left wide open.

I watched as everything started to fall apart. I grabbed jess's arm and started pullng her towards the door. We moved staying on the outskirts of the tent village massacre. The screams were the worst but I didn't look back I didn't want to see anymore.

We made it to the door unnoticed. I immediately regretted it. The hallway was so bloody, a few feet down the hall was a guard that had been split in half. Guts spilled out onto the floor. I grabbed onto the wall and puked. "Baby, I don't want go down here." Jess said as she went to turn out of the hallway. "I don't have any other way out." I told her grabbing her face and kissing her. "We're getting out of this." I tried to motivate her. I took another look the guard and choked down another round what I had left in my stomach. There was a key card. These cards were only given to the roving guards. I grabbed it and stood back upright. "Were getting out of here." I repeated and held up the bloody card in-between us.

I took Jess hand this time and turned and walked through the hall. More guards laid in pieces. There wasn't that many of them so I thought this must have been where they were bringing the infected. Did this base had a kill floor too. I mean it makes sense but I never told Jess about the one in Ashville. I didn't say anything as I continued to walk. The lights flickered on and off. These guards didn't stand a chance. As I walked past a door I caught a glimpse. It was just like Ashville.

I tried not to react but the smell was apparent. Jess knew it as well as I did. Before I could stop her she turned for a door and looked inside. There were a few bodies that fell where they were shot. A few gaps in the line and pile of bodies in the far corner. They were executed by firing line. "what is this place?" jess asked, "Were these people infected…what is this Amy?" Jess asked as she held onto both of my arms. "Amy…gunshots, the rooms are full of bodies." She repeated. "Was there one of these places in Ashville?" she questioned and I froze. Should I answer her? She was piecing things together weather I was about to answer her questions or not. "they just Kill them." Amy told me and I could only nod my head. Jess's hand flew up to her mouth as I could see tears well up in her eyes. "I never actually saw the body. We were only there for a few days before everything went to shit. She might have gotten out." I tried to calm her. "we have to move." I continued as she took a dep breath. We could hear more screams of people being attacked. Gunshots.

I pulled her along the hall way to the stairwell at the other end where all the doors were left open but one, an exit door. We ran past the open doors to the exit door. I took the card out of my pocket and scanned the card. The door unlocked and opened we stepped through to the bottom of a stairwell. This was supposed to be the simple part. Only when I looked up the stairwell I heard more of those cranks. This whole side of the base was filled with infected. They got out.

"wait" I told jess and we both stood at the base of the stairwell and stared up the middle. "you think infected really got out." Jess asked not daring to step past me. They were piled up at the top and I don't think we could make it past them. We must find another way up.

Thank you for reading. I hope you've enjoyed the story so far. Look out for more chapters, got another one in the works. Shout out felyD for leaving the last review. Again thank you for reading, leave a review. Get a shout out.

Much Love- Ray