The trio waited in the elevator. The child, her head pressed against Chuck's shoulder, the father, holding her tightly, and the woman, who couldn't keep her eyes away from the blood stains on the ceiling. How did they get there, she thought to herself. They stood there impatiently, secretly terrified, they were stuck in a building infested by the living dead, and there by choice. The older Katie was angered by this, why couldn't I have just stayed in the car, I owe this man but I don't know him, she thought. She instantly regretted feeling so angry, remembering her friends she was just glad to be alive.

Suddenly a strange banging sound came from above them. The three survivors looked up in confusion as it seemed something was knocking against the roof of the lift. Chuck was about to investigate when a tile fell from the top and a hand forced its way in, grey and sickly, with bits of dead flesh hanging off and missing fingers. The head of a carnivorous zombie appeared out of the hole and growled at its prey. Katie screamed, Katey screamed, Chuck swore, they backed against the walls of the small confines of the elevator as the creature fell in to the box. Chuck put Katey down as the zombie reared its head back up and snared at Chuck. They launched at each other, the zombie gnashing its teeth hoping for that lethal bite while chuck grabbed its shoulders and tried to keep it at arm's length. Katie panicked and started hitting buttons randomly. The little girl cowered against a corner of the elevator while her father tried to subdue the monster. It tried to claw at his face, scratching his cheek; Chuck, in response, punched it on the face. It tried to regain its composure as Chuck repeatedly pounded its face with his fist. He stopped for a moment and chuckled as he realised, he had broken its front teeth, before continuing his assault. Finally the doors opened and Katie spilled out of the doors-she saw they had just entered another layer of this nightmare: patients tearing apart doctors, doctors devouring nurses, nurses chasing patients, it was hell. Chuck got up and the zombie tried to grab him again, he dominantly dropped his knee onto its face before grabbing his daughter and running out of the doors. They looked around in terror as Chuck tried to think were his wife might be.

"Sir, what do we do? Where do we go!" Katie said, her voice trembling in fear.

Chuck hesitated before finally saying "the chemist, my wife had a friend who was a chemist, c'mon follow me."

She did what he said, scared and wanting direction, although Chuck was just grasping at straws, the place had gone crazy, just like at the fairground. Why had I brought them here, he thought, I'm gonna get them killed, and Sarah might even be dead. Despite these doubts in his mind he led the small group through the hellish hallways, bobbing and weaving between the living dead. It was disgusting; the walls weren't just stained with blood, but actual gore. Katie thought she might break down, but every time she thought of falling to the floor and crying, another zombie clambered out of a room, or broke through a window.

Chuck kicked a door in leading to some stairs, thanking God that the stairwell was empty. Not for long however as a horde was swiftly approaching behind them. Katie rushed in behind them and he forced the door shut. He put his daughter Katey down for a minute before he picked up a fire extinguisher and used the tube to forcefully lock the door.

"Chuck that's not going to do shit!" Katie shouted, she had finally had enough.

"It'll hold them off for now, let's go." He picked up Katey and sped up the stairs, the young woman grunted in frustration before following him up the stairs. They ascended three flights of stairs before Chuck stopped. "I think we're here."

"You think!" Katie said angrily.

"I can't be too sure, just please calm down," Chuck slowly inched open the door and looked around.

"I can't calm down" she whispered. She was quiet but still clearly angry. "You take me along to find your wife, who's trapped in a hospital full of zombies, just because you want her to be alive. Why couldn't you have just left us in the car Chuck? For fuck sake she's a kid!"

Chuck's blood boiled at her statement, he was about to yell at her when he saw the chemist... he was banging on his own door. Growling and trying to force his way in. "Look, I'm sorry alright, but I can see the chemists from here, and I can only see one of them. We go in, take a different elevator down and make a run for my truck okay," she wanted to argue but her energy was spent. They nodded in agreement to each other and slowly made their way out of the door. Sneaking towards the chemists, Chuck gave his daughter over to the young woman and picked up an IV stand; he looked around for any other dangers before bashing the IV stand over the undead chemist's head. He repeatedly struck the chemist until the bottom of the stand impaled his head. The young woman gagged as she saw this, the little girl kept her eyes shut tight, just like her father had told her earlier.

"You okay?" Chuck asked.

"I'm... fine."

Suddenly Chuck's phone went off, the little chime from a text message. He looked down to his pocket in shock before another freak burst out of the chemist's door. Chuck tried to fight it off, he couldn't see as she had blindsided him. He elbowed her repeatedly before she finally relented.

And then he saw her.

The woman he married.

The woman he had a child with.

The woman he had planned to spend the rest of his life with, looking up at him with the hunger of a lion before it kills a gazelle.

"S...Sarah?" Chuck was in shock. His wife rose to her feet and lunged at him again. On instinct he pushed her off before pinning her to a wall. "Sarah no..." his body stayed strong on that survival instinct but his words became soft and vacant of emotion.

Katey looked up from the other woman's shoulder "Mommy..."

Silence.

"MOMMY!" Katey screamed. She jumped down from the older woman's arms and ran to her mother's side. "Mommy! MOMMY!" The only words she could manage were of her mother's. Chuck help her in place with his strength but he was in another place. Katey was in another place. The young woman Katie however, was still in that hospital, and though she was shocked that this innocent little girl was witnessing firsthand what it's like to see a loved one become a zombie, the abominations enjoying their meal just one room over were already too interested in the girl in the pink dress they could see through a gap in the curtain. They lunged at her from behind. She wasn't expecting it and she was pinned face down against the ground. Chuck turned to see her forced to the floor.

"Katie!" he yelled. In that one second, his wife broke free and fell to the floor.

"Mommy" Katey yelled as she walked towards her mother.

"NO!" Chuck screamed as Sarah sank her teeth into Katey's arm. His daughter screamed in pain as her mother had turned against her in the worst possible way. Chuck forced his wife off of his daughter with his hands but the damage was done. Katey held her arm in pain and cried, attracting even more of the demonic creatures. Chuck looked over to the older Katie, who had long stopped screaming. Her eyes look up at him, fixed in place as the zombies ate her neck. She was gone, her pink dress now crimson and her blond hair now streaked in a vile red. Chuck panicked, he froze. Everything had gone to hell in a manner of seconds. As his wife stood up one last time to throw herself at him he noticed a small poster next to her on the wall. "ZOMBREX" it read, "take one every 12 hours". He suddenly had an objective; he grabbed his daughter and took her into the chemist. Barely barricading the door he searched frantically before picking up some medical dressing and rubbing alcohol, he first cleaned the wound before wrapping her wrist up to the best of his ability-she cried the whole time. No words, just tears. He broke into a cabinet to find a few boxes of zombrex. Tearing one open he injected his daughter. She cried even more. "Don't worry Katey everything's gonna be... we're gonna get out of here okay". She wasn't reassured, she never stopped crying. A million thoughts ran through his head: could he take them all on? Could he force through a few and make it to an elevator? Maybe the window? That would make more sense, he had been there a million times before, he knew there was a wide ledge he could make it down to, maybe he and Katey could escape to another floor or just try to scale down the building. That was when they broke through. Their growls were enough to haunt the nightmares of even the most toughened war veteran, but Chuck... Chuck was a father, needing to protect his cub. He hid Katey behind a counter before picking up a scalpel dropped from a medical tray... and he let his rage loose.

"I just kept stabbing them. Even my wife. More and more kept coming and I just kept picking random things up and killing them."

Stacey tried to hide her tears. Fortune City wasn't even this grim, or maybe it was and she was just safe away in that little security hole. "I'm so sorry Chuck, I've never... I mean I've heard stories but no one's ever..." She had no words to comfort him. "Chuck I'm so sorry."

He was silent now. She knew his story wasn't finished but she wasn't sure if she wanted to hear anymore. He sat there still, stoic motionless. She shook with emotion.

"You don't have to continue-"

"Yes I do... we're so close to the end. I need to finish." He was adamant. She respected that. Tearfully she nodded and let him continue.

WELL FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK THAT WAS A LONG BREAK. You know I finally understand why writers on this site sometimes take a whole fucking year just to update a chapter, and that is because writers block is a horrific plague. Seriously I had nothing, literally no idea and it pisses me off that its so bloody simple and predictable anyway, I just hope I did a good writing job. I am gonna finish this, we're close I'd say, a couple more chapters. I should probably add more to this and do some more editing, but I just finished and I fell bad y'all had to wait for so long so please enjoy. Oh and also Chuck's wife is named Pam apparently, but I already ran this far with Sarah, so fuck it lol. Another thing, I thought DR3 would be about Chuck and Frank, I was totally wrong. New character, new city, awesome, but now I look the fool. Oh and naming the other girl Katie was stupid, it was a dumb joke and it made it too complicated when writing and reading, so sorry. Thanks for waiting folks.