A/N Any positive or negative input is welcome.(Ideas included) Thank you and ENJOY! Go Disney! One of the best DCOMS EVER!
Thank you to all my reviewers. MUCH APPRECIATED! ALSO just a fair warning Addison is not herself in this chapter and if I'm being honest she and a few of the others attitudes are going to start changing.
Someday
Chapter Five
Waking up today should have been like any other but no, people try putting road blocks in my way and now I have to burst through them headfirst and by myself. At least for today anyways. I was definitely not happy Addison today and my dad will just have to deal with it. Sighing I got up and heading downstairs to grab something to eat. Walking into the kitchen, both my parents stopped talking. "You need to wear black clothes for today Addison." He finished his coffee and set it in the sink. He kissed mom and folded the newspaper back up. "You have 10 minutes. Oh and put your wig on." He then walked away and I didnt say anything as I headed upstairs to get dressed.
Rummaging through my closet I found black dress pants and a white silk tank top. Opening a garment bag I pulled out my black dress jacket, slipping it on and doing up the single button. I despised having to wear something that wasn't me. Even though I had to wear this stupid wig. I loved my long white hair. It was me in every aspect. Sighing I wrapped my hair up and put my wig on. "Time to get the show on the road Addison." Dad yelled up the stairs to me. Rolling my eyes I grabbed my heels and left the room. He nodded at me. "Looks good." Not saying a word I slipped on my heels and out the door we walked.
Zombie confinement was a prison on the other side of Seabrook away from the zombie housing area. After you leave the sweet little colorful community we have, it opens up into a large field. Once entering the field there are guard booths on either side of the road. Dad showed his badge. "Mr. Donnelly and this is my daughter. I'm showing her around today." The guards scanned his badge and wrote something down on a clipboard. "Go on ahead sir." He nodded and took off driving down the 3 mile road. After seeing many guard vehicles patrolling the grounds we actually pulled up to a giant barbed wire fence. The men waved us through after checking dads badge again. A tower sat on each side of the road, heavily armed and busy. I crossed my arms. 'This is like a secluded prison. I cant believe what I'm seeing.'
A giant brick building was inside this barbed wire compound. A tower stuck up way above it and you could see guns of sorts and many emergency lights on it. "Wow." "Very impressive I know." Dad said smiling. Not even turning to look at him I said, "No. This is very inhumane." A 20 foot door or so opened and a few guards walked out as we drove in. Dad parked the car. "This is prison." "Actually this is the workers garage." He climbed out of the car and I was flabbergasted. Seriously did they think we were going to be overrun by zombies...again.
Climbing out I followed dad into the building. A woman officer had to frisk me after my dad told her to make sure I had no contraband on my body. I was appalled but I could understand why he did it. If I knew I could get away with it, I would probably help these zombies out of here. She handed me back my shoes and I slipped them on glaring at my dad. He ushered me through a door and in front of me was a huge room with wall to wall desks. At each desk was a person or two and they had four screens each.
I glanced at one and realized they were monitoring one zombie in a room from four different angles. He was going crazy, like he was a full 100% zombie. "What is this?" The person sitting at the desk glanced at me, then behind me. He nodded and then looked back to me. "That zombie's z band malfunctioned and we are trying to fix it." "How long has he been in here?" The guy looked back at his desk and flipped open a chart. "Eh about 2 months now." My eyes widened. "And you still haven't fixed his z band? Sounds like you're just making excuses. Give him a new one and let him go back to his family." He closed the chart and went back to looking at his screen.
A hand touched my shoulder. "Don't give anyone a hard time. That is what a zombie does when he doesn't have a z band. We are trying to fix it, but it takes time." I shrugged his hand off my shoulder and turned around. "This all you going to show me?" My dad laughed. "No. This is only the beginning. We are going down 3 more floors. The worst of the worst." I looked back at the screen and my heart broke for the guy. His family was probably missing him like crazy while my father and these people in this room kept him here.
I was beyond missing Zed right now and I haven't even been here an hour. Today was truly going to be a long day and with tomorrow being Saturday I would have to sneak out and go see him. I didnt care though a hug would make me feel better after seeing this. Unfortunately I knew the worst has yet to come.
We had three guards with us as we walked down a hallway towards a yellow door. "These zombies are going to be released soon. Minor malfunction with their attitudes is what caused them to be here. A female guard opened the door and we walked in. Five rooms were on one side of the wall and the entire wall was see-through. A few guards lingered around a giant desk talking about something. As we passed each room I looked inside and saw the girl from yesterday that Zed and I were looking for. "Why is she in here? I doubt she did anything wrong. She was the one being bullied. I demand she goes home to her little brother and family." Dad stopped talking and looked at me. "Excuse me young lady. Do not disrespect me and tell these men and women how to do their jobs. That zombie gave a guard issues yesterday after she ran out of school."
He knew she was the girl I had saved and yet they still threw her in here. "I saved her from being bullied. Her name is Zandra, not zombie. If I had run out of the school and a guard stopped me, yea I would through a fit too and stand up for myself which I'm assuming she did."A guard or two looked away as I looked at everyone. Dad grabbed my arm and pulled me away from everyone. "Do not undermine my authority here. I am still your father and still deserve respect." I just stared at him. I could not believe what I was hearing and seeing and this was only the first floor of the building. Dad led me to the elevators and two guards put keys in and hit the button for G2. The doors closed and down we went.
"The orange floor is for zombies who have threatened a human in some sort of way." A guard spoke as she unlocked the door. Two guards were on the exact opposite side of the door with some weird looking weapon. "What are those?" "Those give off high doses of electricity to calm a zombie down. Usually helps us turn full monsters into calmer monsters." A man spoke before walking behind another door.
"So wait...if a human threatens a zombie then what happens? I have seen that first hand with someone I go to school with and nothing happened to him." My anger was through the roof and my heart went out to these zombies trapped here like caged animals. No one answered me and no one looked at me. Dad was talking on his phone to someone and I walked into the room more. This one had eight rooms with bars across the see-through glass. 'Just like prison, except they probably didnt do anything except defend themselves.' Walking through the room I looked in each room. They looked sad and miserable. A couple of them looked paler than normal like they weren't given anything to eat or drink.
We stayed in this room for awhile as dad talked with the guards about certain zombies in the room. He wanted me to hear what they had done to end up on this floor. A beeping sound came from dad and he picked up his left wrist. Touching a finger to his watch it turned off. "Lunch time Addison." We all started walking out of the room and I glanced back to see a male at the window looking at me for help. I wanted to cry so bad so instead I held my hand to my heart and waved to him. He just nodded and kept staring at me as I turned back around and a door was slammed and locked behind me.
The cafeteria here was colorful and happy like. I wasn't happy but everyone in the room seemed to be enjoying themselves. I picked at the food dad brought over to me on a tray and finally just decided to push it away. "Not hungry Addy?" Shaking my head I looked at my father. "My stomach is in knots." "I'm sorry you had to see these monsters but its only going to get worse." "You're in charge here. Stop referring to them as monsters. They are just like us. They came from a family of humans years ago. To me they are human with a twist...just like me." I touched my hair and dad threw his fork down.
"They will always be monsters Addison and the sooner you see that the sooner we can be a happy family again like before." He stood up. "Now if you don't have anything nice to say just don't talk." He picked up our trays and brought them over to a counter and he walked back over to me. "Let's go. It's time you see the real them." He pulled me up and we walked out a pair of double doors. 'Doesn't matter what you say dad. You are the ones treating them inhumanely.' My thoughts turned to anger at my father, the people working here and most of all the community. 'They will see the good in zombies, if it's the last thing I do.'
wont update again till weekend or so. Havent had time to write much at all.
A/N you go Addy! I know she's way out of character but this needs to be done. I hope you like the way she is. Any questions or comments, just ask!