Chapter 2: OutBreak!
Payne spat the remains of vomit out of his mouth and stood up. The nurse he hadn't only minutes ago been flirting with him was dead on the floor. Her once pretty face ruined the area where her nose was, was just a bloody stump and the throat and been ripped to pieces by the crazed patient.
He looked to the nurses standing outside the room one was in floods of tears and the other two were standing with their mouths so wide open they could have easily caught a bug in them. It was then Payne realized what he'd done.
"Shit!" he uttered.
He glanced at the dead man and back up the nurses. "I hope you'll all stand as witnesses for me?" he asked the two who were shocked by the whole event.
One said yes the other merely nodded.
He decided to leave the room before he could contemplate the affair, he'd tell one of the nurses to call the cops then he'd await his fate in his office.
He stepped over the man's body then walked past the nurse when her hand suddenly shot forward and grabbed his leg.
He scattered to the floor through the door and almost knocked over one of the other nurses. He managed to roll on his side before the once dead nurse was on top of him screaming and snapping her teeth at his skin. He avoided the teeth as he tried to push her back.
"Whoa! It's okay calm down" He said trying to calm her down "he's dead he wont attack you". It was then he realized, who was he saying that to? She had been dead he'd seen it no one could have survived a bite like that to the throat her jugular vein had been ripped in half by the teeth she was dead. She had to be dead.
It was then he realized what he was fighting. He'd seen them in enough movies even in one or two books he'd read as a teenager he was currently grappling with a zombie.
He then threw a punch straight at the zombie's jaw a punch he knew would knock any normal person out. It was a final test next to her being dead and her changing from the moment she got bitten. The punch flew and landing on target smashing the jaw back to knock it into the nerve that would put any one out cold. He was pretty sure he heard the jaw snap as well but the nurse merely flinched at the strike and continued her assault.
"Someone help me," he screamed.
Suddenly an object flew in and stuck her in the side of the head making a dull thud. The object which hit her was metal, a metal pipe unless he was mistaken. The nurse's skull had been shattered and the bits of skull had flown into the brain killing the nurse for a second time. Payne quickly stood up and brushed himself down and he looked up to see his savior. It was the janitor Steven he was standing their holding a pipe from somewhere. Steven was in his forties now and had quiet a stern look in his eyes. Payne was sure he'd served with the military at some point well he certainly had that look about him.
"Thank you." Payne said taking his hand and shaking it.
"s'alright, was just fixing the shower room where I heard all the commotion so I though I'd see what it was all about" Steven replied.
"Well thank you none the less."
"Ben?" Payne heard a voice from behind the janitor.
Steven stepped aside and Rebecca was behind him holding a clipboard her glasses had been shifted on top of her head and she had a puzzled look on her face.
"What's happening?" she asked.
"People are going crazy and attacking people." Payne replied, he didn't dare suggest that he thought they were zombies.
She spied the nurses body and looked up and Steven and then looked to Payne.
"What do you want Rebecca any way?" Payne asked.
"The err- police have just called apparently there's been a riot downtown and there are some nasty injuries and they're bringing them here" she said.
"No! They can't" Payne burst out.
"Sorry?" Rebecca asked
"We have to close this hospital down we've got an outbreak of a new virus"
"What do you mean doc?" Steven asked.
"Phone the police back and let me speak to them" Payne said. He then turned to the nurses. "I want all three of you to go round and lock all people who have been admitted with bite wounds into rooms by themselves"
"Is this necessary?" Rebecca asked.
"Yes! now do it."
The two none crying nurses scurried off dragging the third with them. "Steven can you go with them just to make sure they're alright?"
"Sure thing doc" Steven said slinging the pipe over his shoulder.
"Right get the police on the phone for me Rebecca"