Surviving in the deadzone day 3
The day started as normal, (as normal as the apocalypse can be). Both John and daniel stuck around the compound until, John said "you know I think this Compound could work as a permanent hideout", At first Daniel thought he was joking, but he quickly realized he was infact serious. Daniel told John he believed it was a bad idea as they "have no doors, there's junk everywhere, if we're attacked by bandits we'll be target practice, anything above small arms will pierce right through these walls and a lookout won't do much good seeing how there's three ways in and theres only two of us". John counted Daniel's argument with "Bandits? they'd have no reason to attack us, right now this place isn't exactly appealing to look at, and this place is dead in more ways than 1 so if they were around, they'd be already here and lookouts, I pretty sure we could easily take shifts and these zombies wander aimlessly so chances of a large herd finding us are slim to point it doesn't matter" Daniel replied "there's still a chance, I only stayed here yesterday and day before because I was so fed up that I didn't care about the risks and this place is quieter than it usually is, bandits may not know of this place it could be convenient none are here or they don't have interest in this place, but that could change at any moment and do you really think this place was always this quiet? Did you see how is was before ..." John interrupted him "YES I did! I wasn't blind, then suddenly gain eyesight, what, does the apocalypse cure blindness now?" in frustration Daniel told John he's "Not. Staying. Here." John in frustration walked off.
Once Daniel had calmed down he went John and said "we can't go on like this" John replied "I know, look I understand that almost every choice we make could end up saving/killing us. I could do something like you did yesterday get your attention and then one of them come from nowhere and instead of barely avoiding it, half your neck is now in it's stomach. But this place compared to places like Trenton this is brilliant and this compound isn't eye catching so it's hardly likely people will look for it, trust me this place is better than meet the eye" After making his belief clear and surprising Daniel with his argument Daniel asked "You certain this is a good idea?" John paused for a moment "No, not really, I think it's better than most options however." Daniel thought for a moment about what John said, he thought back to the convenience store of how if he hadn't called out to john he would have seen the runner coming and not be caught of guard, he also thought about Ben and how his decision cost his and that the walkers inside likely followed him inside and that neither of them decided to be a lookout as they could've been followed and they wouldn't have noticed and the noise during fight didn't help. After thinking about Daniel told John "Okay, I know you believe this is certainly a better plan than others and I sure can't think of any 'good' ones, so listen if we stay here for 5 more days, that's including today and we don't encounter a horde of any kind then we'll stay, deal?" John replied "it's a deal" so in the end Daniel reluctantly (and partly out of desperation) stayed with John.
To break the serious tone John brought up part of Daniel's diary "I enjoyed the violence 'too much'?" completely caught off guard by his question Daniel quickly said "what?" John explained the question "In your diary you said I was having too much fun right? well the person who wrote that diary goes into some gruesome detail about how he kills those 'walkers' like driving that pocketknife into it's eye, doesn't he and by the way they're still zombies". Daniel first brought that "it's my diary" which John replied with "you never said don't read it" Daniel grudgingly sighed and explained that he doesn't want to sugarcoat what happens and how he strongly believes that people need to know what happens/ed. John then cheekily asks "so you're going to describe how you moved those rotting corpses then? I mean they're stinking up the place right how." Daniel told him he wouldn't which was a lie.
With nothing distracting them and the source of the agonizing smell up close Daniel struggled to breath along with John. John said "alright this isn't going to work, hold on" John went back inside compound and torn pieces of clothing he found so they both could cover their noses while disposing of the corpses. They was a large crater to the south-east which they dumped the bodies inside Daniel commented that "well the bombings were at least some use I guess, seeing how the best they did was nearly kill us". To lighten the tone John poorly attempted being a drill sergeant, "put your back into it you worthless maggot" Daniel stopped, signed and move on while listening to his attempts at humor and simultaneously trying not to hear it .
Once they finished disposing of the corpses, they were stumped at what to do next, John later to break the monotony said "you know what, if we don't improve those beds, eventually I'm going on that building and jumping off", Daniel was thankful he forgot to mention the Lawson he found, the mention of improving the beds reminded Daniel of a hardware store that is just opposite the road of the convenience store. He told John "You know there's a Hardware store close by, maybe we could find the proper tools and improve these beds and also build some barricades should we actually stay here. So it'll not only help without our boredom" Both him and John had a short laugh at mentioning that, Daniel continued "but it'll also be able to help provide something to secure this compound, well for awhile anyway" they both headed towards the store.
While they made their way towards the store they both noticed a walker in distance just wondering aimlessly, Daniel thought about Ben which propped him to ask John "do you ever feel sorry for them?" John in a slightly confused tone said "no, why do you?" Daniel admitted "I do sometimes, I mean look, they just do things without thinking, looking for their next meal, and if not they just wander aimlessly without a goal and or reason, living like that, it's sad." John then proceeded to say his feelings about them "I honestly can't feel sympathy for any of them they're just mindless killers, in fact what you said just made killing them easier for me. A existence like that, that they'll never get out of makes it sound like I'm doing them a favor, like what I'm doing is mercy killing, everyone of them I put down is another misery ended." Daniel replied "I guess you're right" John in an attempt to make Daniel feel better about killing them said "if it helps think of us as doctor ending a person's pain each time you kill one" Daniel tried to take that to heart.
They arrived at the store, only one shelf blocked their view of everything, so they had little risk of being jumped, they quickly saw the undead inside. The undead also quickly spotted the them as well, The two consisting of a runner and walker went immediately after them, as the runner sprinted Daniel kicked it then whacked it across face and once on ground he beat until it stopped moving. John approached the walker and whacked to into counter, it's face hit the counter and John finished it Daniel then proceed to check the right side of the store with what happened yesterday he knew that the small gap between the shelf and wall was too risky to past though. Soon one more walker emerged from behind shelf and went in between gap, john saw it while checking the boxes laying around on the Wall shelfs, once it got between the shelves, John pulled the shelf on wall down, crushing it's neck between them, to be sure he hit it with his pipe. Later noises could be heard coming from the office door and including morning, rather than take the risk they ignored it then barracked the door with the shelf next to it. With the threat dealt with Daniel stood watch while John scavenged. Once John finished they proceeded back. John managed to find a hammer some wooden boards, nails, screws, bolts and some metal polls. Daniel though that could be enough, once they headed back it was close to night. They decided they'd work on the beds tomorrow and they should start having someone on watch Daniel was on first watch he'd check each side, chance every 10ish minutes then every 30 spend 10 writing his diary, thankfully for the pair the night was uneventful. While Daniel was on watch he couldn't help but feel,oncehe finally thinks the compound is safe he'll be proven wrong in the worst way possible hoping that wouldn't be case. He also was thinking that if John read his diaries why didn't john ask about him seeing the Walkers as murderers back at the convenience store? It contradicted his simplify earlier maybe John was saving it for later but still Daniel wasn't sure why he hadn't brought it up. Daniel was thinking he'd have to tell him why eventually, but couldn't think of when the best time would be, if they even is a best time.