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Benny walked towards a perimeter fence with a patrol of other men and women as they all held up their clearance ID's and flashed them at the guards. He watched as the chain link fence began to open as two snipers walked around in the water towers connecting to each side. He and the patrol boarded a military jeep as the driver started the jeep before resuming out of the clearance gates. Benny looked behind them as the perimeter gate closed and sealed itself shut before looking back to the front of the jeep to see London Bridge getting closer. Benny looked over at a overturned bus, bloody hand prints marking the sides as trash seemed to aimlessly blow around in the breeze. He still couldn't wrap his mind around all of the devastation and carnage as they went across London Bridge. Benny looked up at the sight of a new plane coming in for a landing at the nearby airport, the wheels already beginning to extend.
"Alright troops, we are heading into what is soon to be District Two. It's made up entirely of future housing zones and shops. We need to clear out the houses left behind that our initial sweep didn't get to, and we also need to designate a building to become headquarters of District Two." a commander from up front said as he looked around at all the men and women accompanying him. Benny watched as the commander signaled for everyone to put on their masks before he put his biological hazard mask on before the jeep came to a stop in front of a street sign.
"St Thomas Road, this is where we will be beginning today ladies and gentleman! Let's move out!" the commander said as he disembarked from the jeep with everyone else, everyone turning the safety on their weapons off.
Three Hours Later
Benny walked up to a house in one of the many neighborhoods, it's grass heavily overgrown and some windows broken as well as some missing paneling. Benny looked behind him at the female soldier paired with him as he pressed a finger to his lips before carefully turning the doorknob and opening the front door. Benny looked around as he turned the flashlight attached to his gun on and began to move into the home. He signaled for his fellow soldiger to check the downstairs as he moved his way up a nearby stairwell. The stairs creaked ever so slightly with each step he took, making him wince before he finally made it to the top. Benny stopped as he looked at the wall at the top of the stairs, pictures covered in dust still adorning the wall. He reached a hand up as he took one of the pictures and blew off the dust, noticing it was a picture of two young men smiling at the camera. One of them was a tall blonde haired man with a goofy grin while the other was a shorter male with short brown hair and oak brown eyes. The other male was more presentable, with a beautiful smile to add onto it as he smiled at the camera. Benny heard a slight rustling to his right side before pricking his head up and seeing somebody standing there, their body silhouetted against a very dim light coming in from a hallway window. Benny dropped the picture as it fell to the ground, shattering the glass as his eyes locked with two brown ones which were looking him up and down rapidly. Benny slowly reached into his pocket with one hand as he kept the other hand steadied on the trigger of his rifle as he grabbed onto a flashlight and took it out. Turning it on, he slowly flashed the person in front of him. He could tell it was the man from the picture, dirt being smeared onto his face and his hair all messed up and untamed. Benny could feel his pulse beginning to beat rapidly as he stared into those brown eyes which were staring back just as intensely before the other man rushed him and wrapped his arms around him. Benny stumbled back in shock as he felt the man whimpering and sobbing into the crook of his arm as he heard approaching footsteps. Benny turned to see his fellow soldier running up the stairs as her flashlight bounced around everywhere.
"Weir, are you oka-" the soldier said before witnessing the survivor holding onto Benny as she stumbled back and grabbed for her radio. "CODE BLUE! WE HAVE A CODE BLUE!" the woman said as Benny felt the other man back away from both of them, fear evident in his eyes as Benny heard the other soldiers yelling outside as he looked down at himself. Benny turned to step towards his fellow soldier before she aimed her rifle at him and held her finger over the trigger.
"Stay back Benny...I don't want to hurt you. You've been touched...you know the protocol." the woman said as Benny backed up slowly as he dropped his gun and backed up against the wall, his body beginning to burn up as he began to sweat from all the immense anxiety and fear rising up within him. He took one last glance at the other man who had retreated back to where he was originally standing as Benny listened to a whole patrol of guards storm the house with their weapons raised and at the ready.
Later That Night
Benny felt himself pressed up against a glass wall as a Hazmat crew sprayed him down with disinfectant and water, the pressure of the spray stinging his skin as tears made their way out of his eyes and down his cheeks.
"I'm not infected!" he screamed as he shielded his face from the pounding spray and backed away into a corner as he screamed at the bio hazard crew. He knew this was protocol for anyone that came in contact with the infected, but that had not happened yet since they came back to Britain. Two men came into the box as they began to scrub at his skin with abrasive sponges, making Benny cringe in pain. He could feel himself crying from the pain of everything as a tried to fight their grasp and yell at them. He felt two pairs of arms grab hold of him as they lifted him up and dragged him out of the glass box before drying him off with sterile white towels before they handed him a pair of gray sweatpants and a gray sweatshirt before forcing him to change in front of them. Benny was thankful all of the scrubbing was over with as he looked at the red blotches on his skin before two of the bio hazard team directed him into another room with a reflective window. There was a single steel table with two chairs around it, a female nurse dressed in a NATO uniform sat at one of the chairs with a face mask on. Benny took his seat as the two men dressed in Hazmat suits stood behind him, the nurse looking at him with worry in her eyes.
"Can you give me your arm sir?" the woman asked as Benny complied, stifling back from sniffling at his skin still stung from the disinfectant and scrubbing. He watched as she took out a needle with a capsule attached to it before she tied a tourniquet around his forearm. She thumped his arm for veins before finding a suitable one and cleansing it with a alcohol wipe before sticking the syringe in began to extract blood.
"I couldn't have been infected, he touched me for almost five seconds and that's it! I've tried telling you all this!" Benny pleaded, the woman looking at him briefly before looking away and writing something down onto a clipboard.
"I know sir, but this is standard procedure in the event any soldier or crew is subjugated to the potential threat of infection." the woman said before taking the needle out and putting a sticker onto the blood capsule and labeling it. Benny rolled his eyes before squeezing his fist angrily before he watched her take a scanner and hold it up to his eye as a green light flashed through his cornea. She retracted her arm as she marked some more things down into her clipboard before looking at him.
"You'll be joining the other male in a quarantined room until further notice." the nurse said before the two other men came up and grabbed Benny's arms and forced him up before walking him out of the room and into another. Benny felt as he was thrust into another room with two plain beds and a small desk with a lamp on it. He turned around swiftly as the door came to a sudden close and locked with a audible click. Benny pounded onto the door for a few seconds before noticing something out of the corner of his eye. He turned his head to see the other male in the room, crying in the corner as he watched his back heave slowly yet surely. Benny looked around for a quick second, seeing as three security camera's followed their every move. He turned and made his way over to the other male as he knelt down and pressed his hand onto the other males shoulder. He watched as the guy lifted his head, tear stained eyes looking at him as he wiped his eyes off with the sleeve of his gray sweatshirt.
"What's your name?" Benny asked the stranger, knowing they would be stuck in this room together for awhile. He watched as the strangers eyes just stared at him for a long while, as if looking for some sense or form of truth or reality.
"I'm Ethan Morgan." the man said, lowering his head back onto his knee's which were curled up against his chest as he cried. Benny still couldn't believe that after seven months of being alone, there was even a survivor at all. He couldn't begin to imagine what this man must have been through in that house for seven months by himself. Benny decided to take a ounce of pity and sympathize as he shifted his body so he was sitting next to the man, hesitantly reaching out his hand as he tried to rub soothing circles into the man's back, something his grandmother use to do for him when he was upset as a kid.
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