"Phew . . ." Michael breathed as he slung his rifle behind his back. He had taken out all of the charging infected. It was hard to focus on aiming with that cloud of acid that the Bloater kept throwing at him. But the rigged bomb took care of the Bloater.
"Now to go meet up with Naomi.." He said to himself as he jumped down from his cover.
"Bill, why?" Naomi asked.
"Just give me the fucking gallon of water, Naomi. I don't want to hurt you." He said.
"If you wanted it, you could've just asked, Bill. This is your town after all." Naomi sighed as she held out the gallon of water to Bill.
"R-Really? You're just going to give it to me?" Bill asked, completely caught off guard by the unexpected response.
"Well yeah," she smiled.
"Wow . . . " Bill began to laugh uncontrollably. "I think I owe you an apology . . . " He said, trying to breathe. "I thought you wouldn't be cooperative and I was afraid that I would have to shoot you." Bill said, catching his breath and taking the gallon from Naomi.
She sighed, "still the same as always, do you mind if Michael and I leave with you?"
"Originally, I was going to kill both of you . . . yeah whatever. I'll drop you off where you want me to go and then I'm taking off." Bill said.
Naomi giggled as she left the store with Bill. Michael caught up to them.
"What's Bill doing here?" He asked.
"He saved me from a Clicker inside the store, right Bill?" She said.
"Yep, the fucking Clicker almost bit your head off. You gotta be more careful next time." Bill played along.
"Huh, yeah you should be more careful." Michael winked.
"Alright, give the ignition a turn." Bill said to Michael after pouring the water inside the battery.
Michael, the eager car geek, turned the key and the engine turned over. He reveled in the strong and powerful engine that purred as he tapped the gas pedal.
"Now that's power right there." He laughed. Naomi rolled her eyes as she got into the back seat of the Camaro.
Bill closed the hood of the car and stepped into the driver's seat after opening the garage door. "Now let's get the hell out of here before the infected start converging on us."
Michael shut the door after sliding into the passenger seat. Bill shifted the Camaro into first gear and drove off out of his God-Forsaken-Town.
"Sorry guys, I can't go any further than this." Bill said, stopping the Camaro in front of a line of cars on the freeway.
"Thanks anyways, Bill. You got us closer than you think." Naomi said, getting her gear from the car and stretching.
"Looks like we're going to have to cut through the city to get to where we need to go." Michael said.
"Yeah it's our only option." She said.
"Oh! I almost forgot." Bill said as he popped the trunk open, "Joel asked me to give this to you if I ever met up with you."
Naomi smiled as she saw a bow and quiver with four arrows in Bill's hands. She gladly took the items from Bill, "thanks Bill~" She said.
"Thank Joel, he's the one who found the damn things." He said as he shifted the car into gear. "Oh, and if you do see Joel, tell that girl that I know she took one of the fucking comics from the shelf." Then drove off, the roar of the engine fading as Bill disappeared.
Naomi strapped the quiver on behind her and slung the bow across her body diagonally, the string resting on shoulder and waist. They walked down the ramp of the freeway and into the deserted city.
"You hear that?" Naomi stopped Michael ten minutes into the city. They both stood still and even held their breaths as they fine tuned their hearing. It sounded like a truck engine. "Hide." She said before they ran for cover inside an abandoned building and ducked behind a wall.
The military Humvee sped by their position and up the ramp and screeched to a stop at the top.
"Alright, let's go." Naomi said, taking point.
"What do you think those hunters are here for?" Michael asked.
"They probably heard the Camaro. A Clicker could hear that engine a mile away."
He chuckled, "that's probably true-" Then all of a sudden the air rang loudly with gunshots.
"Joel and Ellie?"
"I wouldn't be surprised," he said before they both took off in the direction of the source of the gunshots.
Sorry this is short, I got really lazy. But I promise to make the next chapters better. You all could probably tell that I got lazy in this chapter hahaha!
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