Surviving in the Deadzone day 2

The day started with Daniel being awakened by John asking him if he was "enjoying the pavement" to Daniel's surprise he hadn't even got in bed and slept on the concrete the whole time. John asked with a smile Daniel "you going to scream at me again?" Daniel chuckled and told him "I won't" and apologized for losing it yesterday. John was fine with it saying "it's okay, 300,000 people dieing would drive anyone nuts eventually" Daniel paused for a moment wishing that was the reason he snapped the other day, he didn't deny it he told John "that wasn't why I became a lunatic" John wasn't surprised but he didn't explain why. John asked Daniel if they could stick together John explained "I've been alone for so Long that quite frankly, even if you're a psychopath I'll stick around, simply for the company" Daniel didn't say but he felt the same way and said he could.

While John got his backpack Daniel managed to get a good look at him he looked early 20s, had an average build, had surprisingly short hair and short beard but subtle small scars showed a previous attempt at shaving, he wore a shirt covered with a mix of colours red, black etc. that it was impossible to know it's original colour he had jeans clearly wore out and had trainers that looked recent, likey found by him.

John emptied his backpack of all the food and water inside and for both of them it was only enough for half a day John asked Daniel where his food and water was, Daniel explained that before they meet yesterday Daniel was being chased and that his backpack was slowing him down and in desperation he threw it away John asked if his situation was "that bad?", Daniel nodded. John said "well then, unless you enjoy slow painful starvation we'll need to raid someplace and that I'd like my pipe back, thank you" Daniel realized he still had it and gave it back, he then realized that he left the Pocket Knife inside the Walker's head, however when attempting to remove it from the walker's skull it snapped, John criticized Daniel for attempting to get it "You were going back for the pocket knife? There's tons of crap inside that'll be better than that". Daniel realized that was obvious and searched the junk piles and managed to find a rusty tire Iron, John said in response to finding Daniel finding it said "see already you've found something better than goddamn pocket knife". Daniel getting increasingly annoyed over John basically saying it was useless despite the fact it helped the other day bluntly told John to "drop it" John replied "just trying to add some humor" Daniel simply replied "whatever" the two started to plan where they'd go.

Because Food and water were the priority they both agreed that the convenience store down the road was the best choice. John told Daniel that he was there the other day scavenging and that they were 10 of them there and he killed 2 of them before realizing the other 8 hence why he was chased by them the other day that meant at best the ones they dealt with that night were those 8 and none were there. They leave the compound and headed toward the store.

The streets were quite, randomly place cars and corpses littered the streets while the smell was intense those who survived this long have gotten somewhat use to it.

During the short walk for the sake of conversation John asked what Daniel did for a living before "everything went to hell". Daniel told him how he use to be a TV reporter and at first believed that he'd be spreading truth to the public which called "pretty naive" Daniel agree and how he now believes he was "merely adding fuel for someone's agenda" Daniel changed the subject and told him how he was responsible with giving advice to the public, John noted that he didn't recognize Daniel at all, Daniel told him that he was new to the job (to be exact 6 months in) and the woman who was supposed to do so was missing, presumably killed and in haste they quickly gave him the role. John joked that "So the one time you report something important, it's the end of the world" Daniel laughed and replied "yep" he also explain he took the job because he has an "Impressive memory" and that it landed him in trouble multiple times with his mother whenever he pointed out her contradictions or brought up stuff she taught him whenever she did the opposite John laughed and said "typical parents huh? tell you, and others not to swear around you, yet they swear all the time" "'don't swear around my kid' 1 minute later 'will shut the £$%& up I'm talking" Daniel replied "sounds about right". Suddenly Daniel burst into laughter John was nervous at first until Daniel said "here we are in 'hell on earth' and we're having a casual conversation" John simply smiled and told him to "get use to it, you're with me now" he smiled back, then they noticed they had just walked past the store.

They looked inside and couldn't see any walkers or runners so they proceed inside. John said "Seems I was right but look carefully, we didn't bump into one along the way so chances are 1 is definitely here I doubt just 10 were here". The two split up they thought due to store's small size they could easily help each other. Daniel went left while John went right, once Daniel got to left side he immediately spotted two walkers, he called out to inform John but during that brief moment a runner jumped out and surprised him Daniel seeing john in danger he changed, he became angry and immediately attacked the two walkers he smacked one across face knocking it into shelf next to it, he then grabbed and threw the other forwards, before one next to shelf got up he repeatedly kicked it's face breaking it's jaw, once it stopped moving he paused to determine whether it was dead or not before he could he heard the other getting back up, he grabbed it's neck and shirt, told it to "piss off" and threw it to same shelf knocking it down to ground he then bashed it's skull. Meanwhile John was having trouble with the runner the runner quickly recovered from whatever blow he gave it he managed to knock it into counter but it quickly got back to trying to get him during that moment Daniel managed to shove the tire iron into it's neck and force it over counter while he gathered his breath John grabbed the cash register and dropped it on the runner's head. John remarked that the other day they fought 8 together yet the fight with the 3 in store got "much messer".

Because John had the Backpack Daniel said he should gather food and water and quickly as the noise made could have attracted more. While John gathered supplies Daniel searched around, not willing to risk another surprise. Once he got to back he found one but it was like the others it appeared to be someone else who was surviving who had turned for some times. It's legs were mostly eaten up to point it's bones were mostly exposed and some of it's organs were exposed including it's stomach, it's face was missing some of it's flesh, it's lower right jaw was exposed. Despite the Fact Daniel hated them in contrast to his behaviour to the other 3 he couldn't help but feel sympathy for it, it tried to bite him however it couldn't pull itself to him only grab his leg. John called "Anything back there? I'm done here" Daniel replied "one moment" Daniel noticed it's backpack and saw a name on it 'Ben' he assume that was the walker and said "Sorry Ben" before putting it out of it's misery. He checked the backpack and found 3 cans, a bottled water and kitchen knife, he also noticed a gun in it's somewhat skeleton hand it was a old Lawson, which looked to barely work. he grabbed the backpack and told John he found it and they headed back.

Daniel concerned over his past behaviour asked John what he thought of him. John puzzled by question answered "well … other than your a maniac who'll go berserk if I interrupt his beauty sleep? you're okay" Daniel chuckled and asked "anything else?" "well you handle yourself better than I thought and … wait why are you asking anyway?" Daniel avoided the question said "nothing, it doesn't really matter anyway" while they walked back John said "Oh and you'll need to brush up your sense of humor as well if you're going to be around me" Daniel laughed and said "well I'll try"

Once the two returned they split the food and water between them and tried to improve their makeshift beds with little success john then asked What do you think, once everything is cleared up, the media will say about it" Daniel replied "I don't know" he later continued "they could make anything up 'a terrorist group did it, nature, god's wrath, who knows". Daniels mind started to wonder he thought to himself 'anyone charismatic enough could make up whatever story they want' he immediately looked in Ben's backpack grabbed a pen and notebook inside and started writing John curious asked what he was doing asked Daniel explained "The media won't truly know what happened right? So If write this and bring it to public (or the public find it) they'll known what the facts are. Hell maybe the military or HERC had something to do with it and we could document the facts or have evidence to prove their innocence and that they simply tried to help, or this could be just anyone world/national disaster in history. the walkers, runners they could be the biggest test of our humanity who knows?" John looked at Daniel puzzled which Danial dismissed as him not understanding the importance of history. While John went to sleep Daniel continued writing like it was compulsive and important he did it he wrote most of the night.