Left 4 Dead: Gemini Strain.

Chapter XII: Dip is best served Scared – Robert

Robert laid back as Adam finished stitching up his wounds; he had used a double cross stitch. "Thanks Adam...." he looked around the room, Latvia was lying down on the other couch, hold her shotgun to her chest, "...Russ still in the shower?"
He watched as Adam nodded, "Try not to move too much, those won't hold if you keep moving" his voice was a bit shaky but firm.
Robert nodded and closed his eyes, visions of the last week and a half went through his mind.
Zombies, the sounds of gun fire, the unsettling moans of the undead, Rosaline, death.
Robert pushed those thoughts from his scarred mind; "What about the others..." he hoped it was more than just them here in this makeshift safe room.

"Well..." He could hear Adam walking around, "Russ says Ray is with the army..." Robert opened his eyes, they were blood shot from little sleep, he watched as Adam looked through his backpack, pulling out a black phone, "This is Theo's phone....found it on the street....so we can't even try to call him"

Robert gave a slight wave of his hand, "You don't want a phone to go off..."
Robert saw Adam give him a confused look, he hadn't told them about Rosaline, "It's just best if you don't, trust me".
Robert turned his head as Russell opened the bathroom door, his black hair dripping wet, "I feel better now....." Russell said as he sit down in a nearby chair, drying off his feet. Robert watched them for a minute, Adam checking on Russ' wounds.
It oddly felt comforting, it reminded him of being back in Russ basement, everybody happy, laughing and joking around, not worrying about zombies busting through the door at any given time, well normally.
Robert had this question running through his mind for days, though he didn't want to ask it, it had to be done, "Do....Do you think this has gotten out of the city" Adam and Russ both looked up at him, "Could it have reached Tennessee by now....." Robert slowed down, "Or anywhere else?"
Adam looked puzzled, "I haven't really thought too much about that...." He placed his chin between his thumb and finger, thinking, "It's possible......" Adam went from puzzled to worried.
"What other places really matter other than our home?" Russ looked a little mad, Robert just shook his head, "No where....just thinking where is safe" He lied, his mind went to Alyssa, he started to picture her screaming for help as a horde of zombies started to eat her alive, he quickly pushed the thought from his mind, "We need a plan".
"I agree....." Adam said, he looked less worried, his mind surely back to our troubles at hand, "Latvia and I were heading for a evac location-" Russ quickly cut Adam off, "We need to find the army" Russ stood up, "They've been telling everybody there isn't any more safe evac left in the city.....we need to find them".
Robert watched as Adam shook his head, "Russ...." Adam's voice was more firm and deeper, a sign of anger "The army you want to get back too, so bad....they are the ones that WERE running those evac.....they left their post.....they are leaving the city and whoever is left alive....." Adam looked angered by this, Russ looked a little shocked, "But....they said the evac was useless, to follow them....they even said they were ordered-" Russell looked even more shocked, maybe even sickened, "They were ordered to leave the city at any cost" Russ place his head in his hands, "I can't believe I trusted them....".
Robert slowly sat up, "Adam.....how far away is your evac?" he knew he had to get them from fighting, "Where is it?"
Adam looked at Robert and reached into his backpack, "It's at the Regale, on the roof"
He pulled out a map of the inner city, "It looks to be a few blocks away, towards the north...." Adam looked up from the map at Robert and Russ, "It's the closet and our best bet at this point".
Russell and Robert both nodded "Agreed" they said in unison.
Robert watched as Adam woke up Latvia, "It's time that we get-" There was suddenly an explosion from outside, shaking the whole building, Latvia jumped up, aiming her shotgun at the barred metal door, "What in the hell was that?" she was shaking a little bit, Adam started to move closer to her when we all heard it. A roar.
It was nothing like anything any of them had ever heard before, fear had a new meaning with that one sound, it sounded big, it sounded loud and to top of everything else happening to them, it sounded mad.
Russ turned and walked towards the couch, "You know....that hotel is sound better by the minute" Russell helped Robert up, "I want as much space between myself and that thing as soon as possible" everybody nodded in agreement.
Latvia moved in front of everybody and next to the exit door, she looked back at us and cocked her shotgun, "Then let's dip"