Okay guys, well here it is, a longer chapter for you all, I hope you like the idea of me putting little 'sneak peaks' on my old story 'Unpredictable'for this story! Anyway Hope you enjoy!~ Ella xx

Dan coughed hard, breathing in the harsh taste of the sweaty air, he could smell the scent of the dead, or was this a dream? Dan realised he was in the hospital, why the hell was he in a hospital?. Dan looked next to him, at the bedside table, he saw flowers, for someone who was in the bed before him. Dan gently touched the dead flowers, dead, just like everything else in this world. Zoe popped into his mind and he sat up immediately forgetting about his sore headache, he felt dizzy and tried to move, he leaned to far to the side and fell off the bed.

"Ahh" Dan mumbled and swore under his breath.

Dan got up and walked towards the door, limping. He tried to push it but it wouldn't open, there must have been something on the other side. With great force, he pushed to door open with his shoulder as hard as he could. The lights were flashing on and off. Dan saw a door halfway through the corridor and walked to it. Before he entered, he looked through the small square windows on the door.

"Oh my God" said Dan.

He saw the body of one of the nurses, all of her body was bloody and missing, with only her pale face to show, with open eyes. Dan started hyperventilating, he had no idea the plague would be this bad. He needed his girlfriend, he needed her to be in his arms, why couldn't he be where she was? Where was Chase? Where were the creatures?. Dan needed to get out of that hospital, he started running towards the end of the corridor, towards the exit sign. Dan ran out and gasped at the cool air, only to see a herd a flies surrounding him, there were wrapped up bodies everywhere, A variety of different size.

"These poor people" Dan sighed, still breathing rapidly.

Luckily the hospital was in a village, maybe Dan could find someone. Tripping as he went, he ran into the neighbourhood, until he saw a bike. Dan ran to it but stopped in his tracks when he saw one of the creatures lying on the floor, with half a body, reaching its arms to him. Dan tried to get away from it but it grabbed his leg and went in for a bite when suddenly everything blanked out.

Dan opened his eyes trying to figure out where he's ended up this time. He looked around him, he was strapped to a bed, he had blood running down his nose and his clothes were replaced with a gown. He heard footsteps and was beginning to feel worried.

"Dad! Dad! He's come around, what if he's one of them?" A boy asked.

"He' s not son, It's fine" said a man.

"W-who are you? What do you want with me?" Dan asked weakly.

"I'm Mark, this is my son Kyle" said Mark, he was dark skinned, with brown eyes and so was his son.

"We saw you struggling with one of those things, but at first I thought you were one of them. So I smacked you in the face with a shovel, I'm sorry" said Kyle.

Dan nodded in response, the boy's name was Kyle, similar to Carl, Dan thought about it and his face dropped into sadness.

"I-I need to get out of here, I need to find my girlfriend and a little boy, and my friends" said Dan.

"Calm down, take it easy, you're not going until you're ready"said Mark.

"I'm ready now" said Dan.

"You need clothes. You need to eat and wash, it won't take long, come down when you're ready then I have to show you something" said Mark.

"Okay" said Dan hesitantly.

They both left after Mark untied him.

Dan wrapped the duvet around him and followed shortly after they left. Dan saw them sitting at a table eating fruit out of a can, when they noticed Dan they signalled him to sit with them, and Kyle passed him a can of peaches.

"What were you doing all alone out there" Mark finally asked.

"Me and my friend we were..." Dan trailed off, his job didn't even matter any more, it's not like he was going back to it, but it still wouldn't come out of his mouth. ".. we were visiting someone, then all hell broke loose, I was caught in the middle of it and somehow woke up in a hospital bed" said Dan.

Mark gave him a confused look, with a hint of concern.

"What?"Dan asked, shoving peaches into his mouth.

"Boy, you know the hospital isn't far from here, right?"asked Mark.

"Yeah" said Dan.

"Well we've been keeping an eye on it and the last time all hell broke loose was almost two months ago" said Mark.

"What?" Dan asked , stunned.

"I was in a hospital bed for almost two months from a hit on the head by a gun?" Dan said astonished.

"Well your here now and that's what's important" said Mark.

"No, I don't even remember where my friends went, where Zoe went" said Dan.

"Who's Zoe" asked Mark.

"She's my girlfriend" said Dan, his clothes were on the table so he took a picture out if the pocket and gave it to Mark. It was taken a while back when Zoe first came to Saint Hearts and they were leaning on each other's shoulders with Aneisha in the middle, with her arms crossed.

"Which one?" asked Mark.

"The redhead" replied Dan.

"She's pretty" said Mark.

Dan looked at him with hope, like he was telepathically asking him if he knew where they were.

"If they got out alive then they'll be at a refugee camp in Edinburgh" said Mark.

"Why there?" asked Dan.

"I don't know food, water, shelter, safety" said Mark.

"Edinburgh sounds like a good deal" said Dan, hopeful.

"There's just one thing, one at a time those things are manageable, but when there are loads of them in groups all hungry...well you know what happens then" said Mark.

"Shall we show him dad?" asked Kyle.

"Show me what?" asked Dan.

"You'll see" said Kyle.

Kyle and Mark led Dan through a dark basement, the only light being a small rip in the wall with an outside view.

"Look through here" instructed Kyle.

"This is what you're up against" said Mark.

Dan looked through the small rip and noticed it was night time, the bigger thing he noticed was that there were about twenty of those dead creatures lurking about the place.

"You'll have to leave in the morning" said Mark simply as he led Dan to the showers.

"Take as long as you need" said Mark kindly before leaving.

Dan thought about these people and how they had helped him, Mark reminded him of Frank, always knowing what to say, the perfect leader. He would leave in the morning, determined to find her and nothing is stopping him now. Well apart from the lurking dead.

Please review ~Ella xx