The Evil Inside Us

By Elizthewiz

Chapter 19

"You know," Madge starts talking to Annie and I as we all hang out at the park. "Have you noticed anything strange?"

"What do you mean?" I ask her. Madge sometimes asks these weird questions that don't make sense until she answers it herself.

She sighs. "Lately, I've been getting this feeling. I feel like this world has gone...silent,"

"Silent?" I ask her, confused at this new angle she's taking.

"Nothing big has been happening for a while. It's strange, even deadly."

"Care to explain with more depth?" Annie asks her.

"Has anything scandalous happened around here? It's been a while. I mean, all they play on the news is stuff about animal shelters because nothing happens." Madge stops to sit on the bench

"You have a good point," Annie says as she sits next to her

And she did have a good point. She was the first to notice something strange was going on. She was aware when others weren't. Madge was always the smart one, but who knew that being smart would lead to all the trouble that was bound to happen?

As I recall, the words that Johanna spoke a week ago, they somehow send a chill down throughout my body. She's probably right, something is indeed going on around here. It's not a normal to not spot a walker, usually they are pounding on the doors in the mornings, then move on to another place. I can't decide if this is a good thing or a worse thing, that is about to occur.

The walkers could be gone, or at least I would like to think that. They could've suddenly dropped down and shriveled up in the dirt, being nothing no more but dead forms of people that we used to love.

Used to, is the key word in this. The walkers may have been our loved ones, but they turned. I can't love something that's been turned to kill me. It's life or death, and in this case death is not going to win. Hence why you kill your loved one when they are bit, before they turn, or you won't be able to comprehend that death has taken over.

Or another possible outcome? They could still be out there, but something else could've caused a disturbance. Snow could've done more than we know, but we can't just point fingers. It could be a massive herd coming, and we might need to prepare, but I highly doubt that. This feels like something worse.

It's either a good or worse thing that's gonna happen, and it's time to move.

I've been out of my wheelchair for a while. I've gotten tired of being in a chair for so long, that I just got up and walked. I honestly feel fine, and this is better for the group. They need me to be a strong leader, and who can be a leader in a wheelchair? So my first act back in the game? Get everyone from the farm.

"Slow down Katniss," Johanna calls to me as I walk up the stairs of the CDC. I continue towards my destination, not stopping one time to look back or anything. I just got back on my feet, so I'm going to put myself to good use. "Katniss, for fucks sakes! Can you stop and think for a second?"

I don't turn around but I do reply. "I did think, and I have things to do."

I reach the door to the weapons room, and shut the door on her and lock it. I need to get everyone from the farm back here. I don't know what is going to happen, but's it's just best if we all stay together. The more the merrier.

I load a few guns in my bag and place a few knives in my front pockets. I walk up back to the door, but don't exit there. Johanna is still waiting outside the door, probably hoping to convince me not do anything "dumb" in her eyes.

I look up at the vents and decide that's gonna be my way out. I grab a chair from the side and place it in the middle of the floor. I unscrew the vent open and throw my stuff up there. Then, I silently unlock the door to the room, since I won't be wandering through the vents again anytime soon. Quickly, I hoist myself up into the vents, and move on to my destination.

The vents are completely dusty and should be cleaned, but then again, who goes into vents often? I crawl my way down the vents slowly with my bags. It's kind of a hard task to do, since the bag is filled with heavy weaponry. Soon I reach the end of the hallway, and I slowly fall out of the vent after dropping the bad down. I walk down the stairs and grab one of the walkie talkies on the counter in the front desk. I then exit the building and get into one of the big trucks that we have.

I start the car and continue on my way to the farm. For some reason, I have the worst feeling and it thickens as I get closer and closer to the farm. I spot no walkers anywhere on the road. Usually I see a few eating some lost soul then take a glance at me, but I've seen none so far. The roads are quiet, but the woods look erie. The closer I get, the silenter it is and we all know silence is deadly.

As I turn into the trail that leads to the farm, I still see nothing around. I see the farm, but don't see any walkers. Why hasn't Mags, told me anything about this? I pull into the driveway and exit the car. I put some guns into my gun sling, and hold one in my hand. I leave the rest in the back seat of the truck.

The silence is overbearing me. Something is not right, and I'm about to walk into it. I enter the house quietly, not wanting to have anyone notice that I'm in the house. I walk into the living room and smell an foul oder coming from it. I don't see anything in the room but I know something is in here.

By the side of the couch, I see an empty needle, that looks like it was just freshly used. I look behind the couch and notice two bodies on top of each other. Dead. I, carefully, walk up to the bodies and push them aside. The first one is Mags, she's been dead for a while, but not too long. She looks like a dead body, a normal dead body. Usually the walkers decay quickly before they take their time to turn. I scan her body and find the syringe mark on her right arm. I move her body to the couch and then move on to inspect the other.

Gloss looks the same as Mags. No signs of decaying, freshly dead, syringe mark on his right arm. I am utterly confused at what this connects to. Where is Cashmere? She came back yesterday and was supposed to stay for a while. I don't see Cashmere doing this, so she is either dead, or looking for us.

I refuse to shot Mags, and Gloss. I'd rather do a proper burial and bring their bodies back to the CDC, instead of finishing them off myself. I may have my beliefs, but this is Cashmere's family. I drag their bodies back to the truck and place them in the trunk of the car. I don't need to take any chances, I still don't know if they are going to turn into walkers yet.

I decide to go back to the CDC, seeing as nothing else is left of the farm, and it's giving me chills being here. I go back into the car and head back, hoping that Cashmere is still alive.

"Is Cashmere here?" I ask Clove when I reenter the building. She nods her head. "She's in the lounge or something."

I rush upstairs to the lounge and see Cashmere sitting down on the couch. No one else is upstairs but her. She sits in silence, but turns around when she hears me sit next to her.

"I already know Katniss," Cashmere sighs and rubs her head. "I came to tell you what I overheard them saying."

"I have the bodies."

She looks up and leans back into the seat. "Apparently, it's worn off. No more walkers for now, until they come up with something greater. As of now, they kill by using the syringes. Drives you crazy and then you just.." She stops for a second. "The east coast has only been the ones infected by this craze. I heard them talking about the plans to take over the rest of the U.S. Don't know how though, since we have the CDC.."

"Oh shit."

If they are in need of the CDC, the possibility of the coming back here is greater. I don't know how big their group is, I just know that they are deadly, but we can be greater. All I have to say to Snow:

Bring it on.

Finally, She returns! And this time, I should be returning to writing weekly again. So I hope you enjoy this chapter that I legit no idea what I've written, it was more of a spur of the moment kind of writing. Make sure to review to let me know that this chapter isn't BAD or something XD. Hope you enjoy and see you all later :D