Subject: Drew
Drew felt a glimmer of light hit his eyelids as he started to rise from his resting place. He realized the cafeteria was now active with worried students. "Where's my Teddy bear?" Mandy asked around. Obviously referring to her boyfriend Ted. "Where's your Teddy bear? Where is mine?" Pinky asked angrily. Drew sought an opportunity to talk to Pinky as he approached her slowly. "Oh, you're still here. I expected you to be shot last night, or gone before anyone came back." Pinky stated. "I always keep a promise."
"There's a difference between a promise and a deal. Promises can be broken, even if you manage to keep one, eventually it will be broken. Deals are what people make when their life, reputation, money, or anything else is at stake. Deals risk lives, promises don't." Pinky explained trying to sound intelligent; Drew chuckled at her failed attempt at philosophy. "So I assume you have done a bit of both then correct?" Drew asked her. "Sort of. I was promised something once. They promised they would marry me when our families agreed on it, then he shows up late for a date, so I cancelled it. Instead I went on a date with a true romantic. He dumped me for that greasy girl Lola. I hope she's dead. It wouldn't surprise me if she were, being in New Coventry hiding out and all. That boy played everyone in the market and ended up with the worst one. She's like him in every way though. So now I am back to square one, either marry Derby, or get cut off from the money." Pinky explained.
"I don't think social classes or money will be worth anything now. Even the clothes you wear will go out of style, since they're really isn't any. People are either dead or undead, social issues don't count anymore. I personally believed they never did. Besides do you actually love Derby? Because in this new era your parents are probably gone, his too. Marriage? Forget about it. You can get socially married, but not approved by the state since it's pretty much wiped out by now. If you really love someone, you'll push past the boundaries, go further than the limit, to love that person, hold them, forever be their mate. So whomever you love, look past the flaws and see them for who they are." Drew finished. Pinky looked down to the ground at her flattop shoes.
"I guess so. I need time to think. Some time alone." Pinky finally said in a low voice. "I'm here if you need help, or just someone to talk to. Deal?" Drew asked. "No. A promise." Pinky replied. "Promise." Drew said back. She smiled and walked away with her hands in her skirt pockets. Drew heard a door open in the distance but thought it was one of the kids going into a room. "Cavalry's here!" Someone yelled. Soon Drew saw Jimmy, Pete, Zoe, and many others walk into the cafeteria with weapons and other things. He soon saw Bif with a tattered boy on his shoulder, he saw people lay the weapons on the table, and the next sight he saw shocked every survivor in the cafeteria. "MONSTER!" Mandy yelled.
"No don't worry Mandy. It's our principal Dr. Crabblesnitch!" Jimmy told everyone. Drew was in shock to see the giant slimy monster at first. But soon he recognized what he was looking at. "Damn. You've gone through a dramatic transformation haven't you?" Drew asked the beast. "To… Say… The least…" The monster managed to say. "I guess you do speak." Jimmy stated. Drew noticed Crabblesnitch was carrying two boys in his large hands as he threw them into the back room of the kitchen and locked the doors. "Who are the prisoners?" Drew asked. "Your scientific experiments gone awry." Jimmy stated jokingly. "I guess you're off the hook. For now, you managed to help us get a bunch of our people back so that's a plus. Now we have huge backup. Literally." Jimmy said as Crabblesnitch chuckled in a deep demonic voice. "Seriously who are the two idiots you've managed to handle?" Drew asked again.
"Gary and one of his old buddies I guess. They weren't as hard to handle with our principal wielding his rod of iron. Not to be taken sexually obviously." Jimmy joked. Drew still wasn't satisfied with Gary being here. "I think we need to hold a meeting about those two." Drew stated seriously. "Why? They aren't as tough as you said they would be, the hippie didn't shoot when he said and Gary had gotten a lot thinner due to the crappy asylum diet he was on." Jimmy stated. "We need to determine their fate. We keep them here as our own or we send them out into the world that we've just come to know. If we keep them here we are taking a big risk and endangering countless lives. No offense doctor but if they grab a gun and kill you, you know they can sure as hell kill all of us if given the chance. I'm not doubting your ability or anything, but guns can do damage, even to a beast like you. Hell someone could even break your jaw with a 2X4." Jimmy chuckled at the thought as Crabblesnitch rubbed his jaw.
"My point exactly. We've got to hold a meeting Jimmy." Drew stated. Jimmy thought about it and agreed with him. They gathered up the clique leaders, right hands, some faculty, and few of the people to decide their fate. They met in the English classroom where there wasn't much space but it was the best they could do. Russell stood in the corner of the room. Derby, Johnny, Edgar, Earnest, and Ted all sat in the front. Bif, Peanut, Omar, Melvin, and Damon sat behind them. The various people in the other seats were, Mandy, Christy, Pinky, Kirby, Lucky, Algernon, and Mr. Galloway. Crabblesnitch stood guarding the door with Edna by his side. Drew stood at the front of the room with Zoe, and Jimmy standing to the right of him leaning against the wall. Ms. Phillips, Davis, Const, Gurney, and Mr. Slawter the biology teacher were on various walls.
"We all know why we are here. We've got some prisoners. I don't know what your belief systems in punishments were as far as breaking the law, but we are in a new world now. Those laws don't apply anymore; it is now a battle for survival. This isn't a game people. This is what is going on right now; Gary and his buddy are putting us in danger just being cooped up in the cooler. We don't know what we are truly facing behind those doors. Which is why I've called on various people to join me in this meeting. Some of you believe the punishment should be swift and severe, others say they should go off on their own. Which is why I leave the floor open for discussion. Of course I've brought all of you leaders and right hands here, I've brought your school leader, called on some of the staff, and of course some of the neutral party. Here is the topic right now: Gary Smith, what should happen to him?" Drew asked.
People remained silent until Ms. Phillips spoke up. "I have something to ask. What has he done wrong at this point? He seemed to have come quietly, sure he's had some rough edges with all of us, but this is nothing more than a case of teenage angst. He did save Derby!"
"I could have handled myself." Derby snapped. "Not in the condition you must have been in. Your helicopter plan worked out for the better too huh?" Jimmy asked. Derby waved it off knowing he was wrong. "The kid shouldn't even be here, should have just stolen his stuff and left him on the road." Omar said. Edgar agreed with him. Jimmy liked the idea and never realized he could have done that instead. "I agree with Ms. Phillips. He isn't a bad kid at all. He just has his moments, everyone does." Pinky stated. "However, do you really think turning the whole school against each other creating a massive fight is just an episode?"
"Or burning down a public school he rarely attended?" Drew added. Pinky sat back. "He shouldn't be killed or let go, I say we lash him and show him what it's like to be tortured." Bif stated firmly. "Yes. Teach the pauper a lesson in humility and watch him suffer." Derby added. "So lashing isn't a problem for you? Right old friend?" Drew spoke up angrily. Everyone looked at him like he was crazy, except for Edna who knew what was coming. "What you don't remember me? All the crazy scars I have all over me just for even talking to one of you?" Drew pulled up his shirt and showed Derby his huge lash he had given him a long time ago.
"That is what you did to me. You scarred me for a lifetime and made me fear worse things than death. Which is why I toughened up and stood my ground in the face of death and Hell. All of that shit out there in the world is nothing to me. So truly I should be thanking you, because if it weren't for you I wouldn't be here doing what I'm doing. Helping these kind people who tried to help you." He got in Derby's face now.
"Maybe you should also be a part of the duo stuck in the fridge. However… I forgive you now. I've become a better man now. I was taught a lesson on account of you. Sometimes you are either too weak or not strong enough. Now I have become much stronger than you may think Harrington. Sometimes the biggest strength someone can have is maturity, which is why I thank you, and also apologize to you. If only you had the strength to do the same. You don't. I know you don't because I can see it in your eyes. You're dead behind the eyes Harrington. I don't like you at all, but for some reason I respect you." Drew backed away into his original spot and stood there looking over the room as Derby looked down for once in shame of what he was. He had never been so insulted in his life. He would take lashings from his father 24/7 over this. He had never felt real emotional pain because of the truth Drew had just given him. Nobody had thanked him for anything, nor had they respected him, he realized that he was now his father.
He felt so much like his father, which is what he feared most in the world. The whole room was dead silent as everyone looked down in some form of regret, sorrow, fear, but enlightenment at the same time. Pinky was staring up at Drew in a mix of emotions and realization. She realized who he was, it was the boy who wanted to talk to her all the time but she avoided constantly because he was weird. He was the biggest outcast she had ever met, even after attending Bullworth; she felt more regret and sorrow than anyone in the room. Yet she also felt an odd and lonely sense of arousal for him standing up to Derby like that. "So, what should we do with the idiots?" Earnest asked. "That's up to you people. Let's put suggestions out on the table and see what we think. The first one I'm putting out is drive them out of here." Drew stated. "Let's just kill them." Ted said. Damon chuckled at the thought.
"We can't just kill them Ted. It's inhumane, sure we hate them, but we at least need a decent sense of humanity in their punishment, if there is anything to punish them for." Zoe stated. Pete walked in the room at that moment. "Did the meeting already start?" He asked. Drew shook his head. "Sorry. I vote we keep them here, if that means anything right now." He chuckled nervously. "So we've got a vote to let go, vote to kill, and a vote to keep; are the options clear?" Drew asked. "We are not going to put the kill option on the board!" Zoe yelled.
"Fair enough. What would you rather happen to them?" Drew asked. "We should put them to work and see what they can do. After all that's the Bullworth way of punishing someone right?" Zoe asked. "So I guess the alternative to kill is the Bullworth code of conduct right?" Jimmy asked her. She nodded sure of what she was doing. "Alright, so here are our options: We let them go and fend for themselves, keep them and adopt as one of our own, or we punish them the Bullworth way and see if they can earn their way in. Everybody ready to cast your votes?" Everyone nodded.
Subject: Gary Smith
"Did you hear that Gary?" Tony asked. "Who cares they'll probably kill us. I don't care what happens now, the world will still suck even if we don't live in it." Gary retorted. "This isn't the Gary I know. The Gary I knew would have a plan now wouldn't he?" Tony asked. Gary shrugged his shoulders not caring about Tony much anymore. It all went downhill when they picked up Derby. They really should have just run through the barrier at New Coventry. "We had a ton of plans Tony. None of them worked out. Taking the school was foiled by the outbreak, the helicopter was destroyed, and we've probably been locked into Bullworth. Blocked off from the outside world in an attempt to cage the beasts within these walls. Did you even see Crabblesnitch? He was twice the size as before, like he wasn't tall enough to begin with. Now he really does have full control of his school, he could take it from Jimmy if he wanted to. Even I can't manipulate him this time, he already hates my guts for tying him up and all the shit from last year. Funny, Hopkins can get away with tagging city hall, tagging public buildings, destroying Spencer shipping's warehouse full of goodies, destroy our math and gym teachers careers, bring that stupid townie girl back to Bullworth, and various other crap that has happened. Great now I sound as negative as he was!" Gary yelled.
"Relax man. If they are thinking of killing us we have to play it cool. If they do it some other way we have to earn their trust, no matter what it is. We may have to get that guy on our side. I've never seen him around before, but if we can convince him to like us, we could do some good damage." Tony explained his plan. "Stop trying to plan shit out Tony. I've seen him before too, he's nothing but a bastard, he's worthless at this point in the game of chess. He's nothing but a captured pawn; sitting on the sidelines, and waiting for the game to be over. He can't even be traded for a queen, can't protect the king, nothing but a white noise. He's stupid, ignorant, and is as much of a moron, if not even more of a moron than jimmy." Gary finished rambling.
"Am I sensing a bit of jealousy in your voice? Never have I ever seen Mr. Smith so fumed and angry about something, or someone. What did he do steal your girlfriend or something?" Tony asked taunting Gary. "I don't need girls." He snapped back. "Or maybe he is smarter than you? He's got the brains of a CIA agent and you only have enough in you to be a police officer." Gary was fuming with hatred now. "Nobody is smarter than me!" He yelled at Tony. "Oh, I know. He did something even worse than being smarter, faster, stronger, and higher up than you. Was it because he… Beat you?" He walked up to Gary and whispered the last two words, which sent Gary into a fury. Just then the locks were jingling as the fridge door started to open. Gary had Tony by the collar and a fist raised when the door was open. Standing in the middle of the crowd most noticeably Crabblesnitch, which by then Gary released Tony and smoothened out his own shirt. Jimmy and Drew came forward.
"Voting is closed bitch." Jimmy said with a smile. They brought Gary and Tony out into the cafeteria in front of everyone to see their faces. Gary and Tony could hear the jeering of the people and they could feel things pattering against them as they were brought to the steps of the cafeteria. "Everyone that's enough. As you all know, these two aren't necessarily our favorite people. However, the leaders, and various other people got together to sort out what to do with them. Before we reveal what we intend to do with them, what do you think their fate should be?" Drew finished with that question. The entire cafeteria excluding the voters all chanted for death to them both. "Death huh? Fortunately for these two, death wasn't an option to vote on." Everyone calmed down. Yeah right, Gary thought. "Instead we had three options, and it was a two to one vote on one of our options. We had the option of kicking them out to fend for themselves, keeping them with us, or punishing them the old Bullworth Academy way. What do you boys want to do?" Drew asked them. "I'd rather take death than any of those choices!" Tony yelled while spitting in Jimmy's general direction. "Suit yourself. Edna, want to do the honors? Take him outside and aim for the head." Drew told her.
"Yeah! Come on Gary, let's just die man!" Tony yelled as Edna held him in place past the doorway. "Nope." It was all Gary could say without looking at his friend. "What? What the hell man, I thought we were doing this together!" He yelled fading out as Edna took him out of the building. Gary broke into a small smirk. "So what do you want Gary?" Drew asked. "Give me my punishment. I don't care." He said. "Well Tony has officially taken a turn for the worst ladies and gentlemen. Which leaves our choice of punishment to just Gary. What all of us in the room have decided on for his fate is…" Everyone heard a gunshot, everyone stood silent for a moment, they heard the door open and footsteps approach, Drew looked back and saw Edna with blood all over her, not hers of course.
"Like I was saying, his fate that our leaders have decided; is the old Bullworth Punishment! He shall be our little errand boy, under close surveillance of course. He will run with the big dogs under close supervision until we can fully trust our little friend here. Until that day comes, he will be staying locked inside the library for the time being. Don't worry nerds, we will have security there, not like you need to do homework anyway though." Fool. Gary thought to himself. The library is chockfull of information, the computers may not work but the books are just enough for me. Gary chuckled at Drew and his foolish choice of lockup. "Something funny Gary? Oh right. Forgot to tell you, the library doesn't have any informational books, all of them were burned last year by the jocks, and never replaced. So all you've got is some lame old Shakespeare and poetry to read. Basically you're learning nothing good." Jimmy chuckled as he patted Gary's back with force. Gary grumbled and muttered a curse under his breath.
"That concludes today's judgment. You may all return to your dorms, hangouts, or you may remain wherever you believe is safe." Drew announced. A few people carried Gary away as he was being dragged through the halls. They purposely hit his head on a few walls to make him mad; he was fuming, but wasn't showing it. Jimmy Hopkins you're a dead man. He thought. Then your new little friend, he thought again. They then threw Gary into the library and left four people guarding him while and they locked the doors behind the retreating people. Gary stood and looked at all four of the fierce looking jocks and preps. Gary started walking toward the library books and tried looking for a good book left behind. The other boys followed closely behind him. "Can I get some fucking privacy you vultures?" Gary finally requested. The two preps went in separate directions with a jock by their side; two went upstairs and the others downstairs watching Gary. Gary looked around the library curious if Jimmy actually meant it.
"He wasn't being an ass after all." He mumbled to himself. "What was that?" Damon yelled. "Mind your damn business." Gary told him back. At this point he didn't care about compromising friendships, he didn't care about gaining the respect at all, he kind of wished he chose death. Then again hearing Tony get splattered all over the pavement was in a way amusing. He liked hearing other peoples pain, not his own. Finally Gary looked down at the floor and resting there was a bible. "Not interested. That stuff is for the weak." He fumed to himself. He didn't believe in God anymore, in fact he never really cared about religion. Even though he remembered praying for some miracle back at the barrier. However, his miracles are yet to come, bad luck is all that had happened to him. "I didn't believe then, I shouldn't now." He walked away and sat at a computer. Somehow he turned it on and tried getting on the Internet. Of course it isn't working, the Internet in the area sucks. He decided to play solitaire on the computer, which he didn't care, much about, but he played anyway since it was all he could do.
A/N So here is the next episode of Z-day! Well maybe not episode, but you get what I'm saying. Okay so I'm kinda making Monday more or less the official day for parts of this to come out, so if you're watching the Walking Dead on Sundays, then you can read this on Mondays! Or whenever you read them. Figure its convenient to start the week like this. Also to my fellow WD fans that episode was crazy right? It was bound to happen but jeez! Anyways I've also decided to make this a bit more fun and let you guys ask questions to the characters themselves, and they'll answer back about the current situation at hand. Literally any question you'll ask will be responded with by a character. So if you ask Gary a question, I'll let him respond come next upload. So questions for the characters, we'll do an "As the story progresses Q&A" type thing. Figured it'd be fun. Anyways like I always say stay sweet readers! Have a good week, and Happy St. Paddy's day!