(Adam's POV)

Jay wakes me up with a nudge to my ribs, I saw a concerned look on his face " what's wrong Jay? You look worried, is there something bothering you?" He only just patted my head and held me tight. I had no clue what was going on with him. I put my head on his chest, I could hear his irregular breathing patterns. I broke free of his hug, I walked towards the window, I could see both of our reflection in the partially bloodied window. I thought about running off and get myself killed, I can't have Jay worry about me, I don't want stress killing him. But I can't help but wonder, if I had turned into an infected besides him. I think that he would try to distract the hunters and make him become his next meal.

I decided to get some from fresh air, I told Jay that he doesn't need to worry about a thing, I'll be just outside the door so if I need you I'll call you. He nodded and went to his sleeping spot and just plopped down, out like a light he was,while I can't get sleep when I truly need it. I stare out into the woods, after about an hour, I headed back inside to get some food in my system. I really should stop relying on Jay for everything. I know what I must do, I'm going to leave Jay if he can still read at all. I know Jay is trying not to harm me, due to the hunter instincts inside of him. Looks like I'm going to have to put him to the test. I have seen how he reacts when blood is drawn, when he was cleaning my wounds and liking the blood off, I could feel all the salvation forming in his mouth. He was trying to take my arm, and have a quick snack with my arm.

My plan for him is, I'll purposely cut my arm and cover my blood all over his hoodie, if I can take it off him. Then when he goes to sleep again, I'll head into the forest with bloodied belongings I own. Even though this is not the best plan I can think of, I'll put part of me in every step of this plan. After I get the blood on his hoodie I'll put more blood onto my pack and hang it into a tree. Once I take everything out of my pack, I'll cover everything with blood. Hopefully I don't run out of blood before he finds me. I'll perch into a tree with a huge gash in my arm, half way done with that part. Just re-open my wound and let it bleed. Jay does hate it when I was cutting myself, so he'll definitely hate it when he sees me in the trees.

I woke Jay up with a pounce I imitated from him. I heard him growl as his claw met my face. I tasted blood coming from my right side of the face. I coughed and spat out blood on his face. He sat up and to his horror he covered his mouth with his blood stained hand. " I now know not to be like yo for fun now." I said with a faint feeling. I collapsed on the cold hard ground, I was but barely awake when he tried to stop the bleeding. Instead of licking it up he took me into the bathroom and turned the water on. He let the water warm up before putting my head into the water. As the water touched my opened up bleeding face , I let out a scream of pain. I tried to squirm out of his death grip. For a split second I could understand him, it was like I could understand every grunt, and growl that came out of his mouth. What I got was, "quit squirming you little bastard." Jay said in frustration. " Well I wouldn't if you didn't tore up half my face Jay!" " Oh so it's my fault Adam, your the one who pounced on me, so in a responce I took that as a threat." After getting the wound cleaned, Jay wrapped my face with the remaining bandages. " I must be hallucinating or something because I can understand you perfectly, like you weren't a hunter anymore. But you are cause I have the claw marks to prove it. Whatever you did to me, I can understand everything coming out of your mouth. But I guess that's due to the saliva left from you licking my wounds." I removed his hood and stared in his now milky eyes. " I did want to see how you would do to my test." "What test"? Jay questioned. "The test was to see if you were still part human. I would've lost about all my blood doing so." " Why would you do such a thing?" "Because whenever you cleaned up any of my wounds, you would lick it up, and I saw the amount of salivation coming out of your mouth at the time, so I thought you truly were going to kill me at one point." I showed my concern with the examples of when I got injured. Jay replied by holding me tight, " I would never hurt you on purpose, do you remember that after our parents died, we both agreed that; span style="font-style: italic;"until death kills us, cause hell to the ones we love in remembrance of the others./span I nodded my head in agreement, Jay was right when our parents died, he was there to guide me, through all the shit that we both went through, I looked up to Jay of making it farther than me. /p
p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; text-indent: 36pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"For shits and giggles, I took his hoodie off his pale body, and my bloodied, tattered UMD sweatshirt off as well. we both were shirtless until I took his sweatshirt and pulled over my body. " I think might keep this Jay, it's so comfortable and, bloody." I said with a smile on my face. "Can I have it back now Adam?" Jay asked while covering up with a blanket to block out the coldness. I took his sweatshirt off and grabbed my off the counter . In unison, we both put our sweatshirts on and went back to our daily routine. I went off looking for more food, while Jay kept look out. As I grabbed the last source of food I found I watched Jay collapse near the front window of the store.

(Jay's POV)

I wake up gasping for air, I thought about the dream I had a couple days ago. The sight of Adam's blood on my hands were very unsettling. As I slowly calmed down I looked over to Adam, who was shivering under the one blanket on him. I picked him up without waking him and placed him on the bathroom where the walls had no windows to begin with. As I placed him in there I kissed his forehead and said goodnight. I then placed my blanket on top of his body, so he wouldn't get cold. I closed the door behind me and went for a walk, or in my case a run. I put my hood over my head and tightened up the duct tape around my arms with a new roll, I found in the store. What was I looking for? I didn't know at the time, I was too busy with figuring out a running course for later. As I felt the cold air hit my lungs, I realized I forgot about Adam, before I left for this run I remember seeing a couple of common infected roaming and moaning looking for their next meal, or in this case Adam. I doubled back to the store to the common infected inside wandering around. I quietly took out Jay katana, and thought to myself, do I even know how to use this? I guess I'll find out right now. I held it up how Adam always did. I tensed up, and I tried replaying how Adam used this thing, during our battles with the walking, biohazardous, rotting corpses that get into everything. After seeing how Adam used this sharp stick thing, I tightened my grasp, so it wouldn't go flying of course, and like a baseball bat I swang it to the left side of the closest common near me. With ease its head came toppling down. With its dying screech, it had alerted the other to come at me. In mere seconds the rest fell like their first brother. After their bodies fell and littered the place, I went to check on Adam to see how he was doing. Just as I left him, sleeping without a care, after placing his sword where he left it, I grabbed the dead commons and through them out back behind the building. After the last one was placed out of view, I went to go grab Adam and put him back where he was laying originally. To my surprise he hasn't woken up, so I got worried. I nudged his ribs, and with a sigh of relief he woke up and looked at me. Unaware of my facial expressions, he asked " what's wrong Jay? You look worried, is there something bothering you?" to respond back I just patted his head , and gave him a hug, I held as tight as I could without killing him. I let him go, and watched him walk over the the blood stain glass.

He stepped outside for bit, I went to g follow him, but he said that he'll be fine, he's just going right outside in front of the door. I knew if he needed me, he'll call me. Once he woke up, he can't fall back asleep, I went back to my sleeping spot and without any problems, I was out like a light. The next half hour was a blur, I was in between sleeping and waking up. I did hear the door open and close, so I thought that Adam finally came in for a while. Out of nowhere something pounced on me, in that split second I got up, not knowing what it was and took my claws and slashed it in its face. It wasn't until I took my hood off. My undead heart stopped. Adam's right side of his had five gash marks across his face. I quickly grabbed the med pack and rushed him into the bathroom, luckily the sink was working. I waited until it got warm enough and put his face into the sink. He was screaming and squirming. I shouted " quit squirming you little bastard" I yelled in frustration. Adam said by elbowing my gut "Well I wouldn't if you didn't tore up half my face Jay!" I tightened my grip on his neck and arm " Oh so it's my fault Adam, your the one who pounced on me, so in a responce I took that as a threat." Adam looked at me in awe, " I must be hallucinating or something because I can understand you perfectly, like you weren't a hunter anymore. But you are cause I have the claw marks to prove it. Whatever you did to me, I can understand everything coming out of your mouth. But I guess that's due to the saliva left from you licking my wounds." He took off my hood and stared deeply into my eyes. I didn't even notice that we both were shirtless. He took my sweatshirt and put it on his body, even though it was pretty baggy. The other half of his face showed only innocence. Adam said with a smile,"I think might keep this Jay, it's so comfortable and, bloody."

"Can I have it back now Adam?" I said while I covered up my pale infected skin with his blanket, and just like that we both had our sweatshirts on. After a bit we went back to our daily routines, Adam was collecting food and I went to go see if there were any infected nearby. I looked out the front window and saw a couple shadowy figures outside but couldn't see if they were commons or not. All of a sudden a sharp pain in my stomach, the wind was knocked out of me. Crimson colored blood started to come out of my body. Was I shot? I don't know, the only thing I remember before collapsing was Adam's voice screaming my name.