Chapter 5: Running and Learning

"I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you."

-- Roy Croft

As soon as my eyes closed, I awoke. I sat straight up and found that there was light coming through the torn curtains. The door was shut and I couldn't hear anything besides screams and gunshots coming from the outside world. I looked back down but it was blurry. It was absolutely no use for my eyes up close. I sighed lightly and decided to go find the others so I got up but stumbled towards the door. i wasn't used to being dead and not having the daily needs of eating and such. I walked slowly through the hallway and almost tripped on my own feet. I wasn't very graceful in life and certainly not death, if anything I was worse. As I regained my stability, I found myself looking at Cornelius, Dustin and Alex, who seemed to be staring at me, as far as I could tell that is. It was sort of silent up until Alex spoke.

"Lucretia, we need to talk."

"About what?" I questioned quietly.

"They're going to bomb the city." He responded seriously. I stared at him, unsure of what I just heard. I looked towards the other two but I couldn't tell what they were thinking. I cleared my throat and asked

"Well, what are we going to do?"

"Navigate our way out of the city, of course." Cornelius responded in that irritated tone.

"The city is huge though, not only that, most of the short cuts are blocked." I heard Dustin throw in.

"Well, we better get moving then, shouldn't we?" Cornelius hissed back.

"We must also keep a look out for that Tank Lucretia messed with last night. And the survivors as well." Alex said as he made his way towards the door. I sighed lightly and followed closely behind him. I could hear many different sounds as we made it out the doorway. For instance, I could hear Dustin and Cornelius argue about the quicker route. The soft sounds of gunshots in the distance and other infected running around in the streets. I had to admit, I never thought anything like this would ever happen. Well, maybe once, just once. I closed my already blind eyes and thought back to it. I remember zoning out in History class as my teacher Mr. Brown went on about World War and two and what would have happened if any of those succeeded. The world would go into complete chaos and horror. Then i thought, "What about a zombie outbreak?" I chuckled at that thought now. I would have never have guessed that I would have joined the legions of the walking dead and still be sane. I looked towards Alex and stared at him for a few moments until he gave in and questioned. Like a cat and a string, he took the bait and questioned

"What's wrong Lucretia?"

"Oh, I was thinking, why did I become a "Special infected" How come I never became like one of them?" and I pointed to one of the other infected who seemed to be crouched in the corner. He stared at it as we walked by and as soon as he looked forward, he replied

"Quite simple actually. As you know, this originated as a common flu-virus and infected almost ninety percent of the human population."

"Oh great, it's like being in Science class..." i heard Cornelius sarcastically say but only shushed by an eager Dustin. I stayed silent and let him continue

"Well, that first strain caused that ninety percent to lose their mind almost completely but keep their organs and body functioning for some reason. Later on, that last ten percent divided into the survivors and what we are today."

"So you're saying there was another strain?" I questioned

"Well, I guess you can say that. More or less, it was transferred almost completely different than it should have been. Coughing or breathing on a normal person when you had the sickness would have turned you into a lesser infected. Now if you recall, we were all bitten by one." he smiled and looked at me. i looked at him and thought back to that night. I did kinda remember feel something bite into me and I decided to look. I looked to my skirt and lifted it up to reveal my right thigh and found a mouth shaped imprint. I stared at it as we continued to walked and looked a little gimp. I heard Dustin laugh slightly and I looked towards them. He revealed his wrist to me and I saw the same markings. On Dustin, it was around his tummy area and Cornelius didn't want to show anything and insisted that we continue to walk. I sighed, I guess he was right. i didn't want to be blown up because of something so silly. But something drew me out of my thoughts, all of us actually. We stopped suddenly as we heard large planes flying above us and slow down over a certain area behind us. We stopped and watched as they flew behind us and began dropping something. This city was huge but it wouldn't take long before everything went to hell. We had the night before everything would be in ruins and chaos. I looked towards Alex for guidance and he looked towards me. I honestly couldn't tell what he was thinking but he grabbed my hand. I thought he smiled, and I was sure of it, and we began to walk more. If I still had a beating heart, it would be beating a million times a second only because of Alex holding my hand and fearing for our safety. I sighed, I only hoped we'd get out of the city in time. I only hoped.

Side note: Sorry for not publishing for this story, I've just been so obsessed with Dragon Ages and Left 4 Dead 2 xD

and sorry it's so short Dx