The End (2 page)

Jason removes a small notebook from his back
pocket to write down the lack of medical supplies, he writes it
under the high priority category; Jason commits himself to this
page he normally rushes to get everything on this page.

He rushes back down to the kitchen filling up
four bottles of water 500ml each and packs everything in his
backpack ready to go do what needs to be done. He calls out loudly
to the girls and wait a few seconds before calling again, Maggie
arrives first with no signs of Jacky even coming. With sleepy eyes
she asks him what's wrong, Maggie was really enjoying her sleep
better than any other night it was amazing because it was in a
clean room on a clean bed and best part her own bed.

Jason couldn't wait any longer and asked
Maggie to look after her sister while he goes out, he explains to
Maggie the entire plan making her understand how important it is to
do it, sooner than later, nothing less expected but she understands
and couldn't agree more, Maggie trusts her father to full, even
though there are secrets hidden in the deepest of graves.

As soon as Jason leaves, Maggie nails the
door shut and put everything back in place just praying for her dad
to be safe, even if she looks scary and evil she still believes in
the better good. She couldn't believe that she fell asleep for a
second time, even if it was good she will regret it later, when
night comes with too much energy left, it will be horrible.

She goes to the kitchen and lights the gas
stove, slams the pan on it, she starts chopping onions and removes
canned beef and mix everything together while waiting, she is busy
spreading bread for her and her sister as she knows the smell might
wake Jacky up and if none was made for her then there will be more
problems all over again.

She dished up all the food equally before
grabbing her plate sitting on her dad's bed only to realize the day
would be boring, no one went to put on the generator and her dad
already left feeling very aggravated she calmed herself and ate her
food peacefully.

Starting in the middle of the street, Jason
opens a car door wondering how it can be so quiet with only one
infected in sight, distant and impossible to see Jason from where
he was standing he starts looking through the car finding a lighter
and cigarettes. He opens the back and slowly goes to have a look
shocked and angry at the same time he finds full bags of meat from
the butchery all rotten, the smell was horrible, steak and pork
chops covered in flies and maggots, with red-yellowish juices
leaking from the bags.

Closing the trunk before he pukes he sits
down knowing that could have been a great score if he didn't lock
himself up in his own home, he leans to the right just to get a
small peek at the infected person just standing there slightly
closer just staring at the car, where Jason was sitting not making
a move it was freaky how he was looking at the car.

Nearby Jason heard something fall, Jason gets
up to see two more infected wondering what's going on, he looks
down to the car still smelling the foul stench of rotten meat, that
must be what's attracting them.

He wasn't sure and knew he had to test it so
he opens up the back of the car again and makes a small cut in the
bag now the smell was truly horrifying and very strong he removes a
few of the chops and kneels down again just to hide some of the
movements. He throws some into the direction of the infected person
who is just standing there and more where another one was walking
slowly.

With one crawling behind him, the rotten meat
smell defiantly got their attention but not much, they seem
interested but without the movement it seems they know its dead
pray, the response was slow, but the one crawling still dug his
yellowish and black rotten teeth into the bad meat.

Jason didn't know what to make of this, he
releases the handbrake and starts to push the car slowly towards
the infected person within enough reach, he takes his customized
broom stick and stabs it in the chest it did nothing but with the
fast movements it surely had its attention on Jason with the other
two showing increase speed of walking almost like jogging.
Struggling to fend off the one he stabbed with the stick that’s
still jammed into his chest, Jason hits it extremely hard over the
head with the tire iron with only a few drops of blood and mass
thick blackish red blood blobbing out of the head wound.

With stress as it still was coming for more
Jason release rapid blows to the head it tries to scream making
horrible sounds Jason knew at that point that he clearly did
something to hurt it he removes the broomstick and uses it again to
push the infected person down, within seconds Jason took his stand
and push both knives into the skull of the infected person.

He feels the knives getting slightly stuck
and if he had to wiggle them too much the knives will loosen and
detach from the broom stick, he leans slightly forward thrusting it
deeper into its cracking skull with more thick blood pouring out
the wounds, it shakes aggressively, with no time to spare, Jason
stares down at the dying infected, Jason rips it back out with one
knife left behind, he swings to his right cutting open one of the
other's throat, still coming as fast as it was before.

Jason unleashed more blows to the head until
it fell down, Jason kept on pounding until there was a nice big
cracked open hole in its head the smell was even worse than the
rotten meat.

He removes the kitchen knife from the broom
and slowly pushes it into the infected girl crawling towards him
this time around it was a lot easier, it was like a knife cutting
through butter, though this one didn't bleed at all giving Jason
the idea she was infected for much longer than the other two he
just killed, he drags her to the pavement before he goes to fetch
the other two.

Jason uses some water to clean of the blood
in hopes it will smell better, but it didn't really help, he
returns to push the car to the end of the street returning killing
a few along the way, worried and stressed, he now knew that these
infected people are a lot more dangerous than expected and
extremely tough to kill, fearing the safety of his daughters and
himself he is encouraged to work faster so that he can keep his
loved ones safe and alive.

Maggie had enough of this boredom and went up
to Jacky without waking her up, there was no point in waking her
up, Maggie starts to clean the room like requested from her father
using some spray to finish off and leaving the room smelling fresh,
though this was only an hour or so and it wasn't enough to keep her
busy.

She wakes Jacky and explains to her that she
wants to go and turn on the generator in order to watch some movies
and listen to some music on the DVD player Jacky happily agrees
that it was a great idea. She gets up and both walk to the
barricaded door, removing the planks Jacky takes guard just outside
the door, wide awake while Maggie runs to the back.

She struggles to get over the wall that
divides the house behind them, she manages to get on the wall
slipping falling over it, injuring her knee slightly, but it was
nothing, she got up fast, crippling to the generator, she starts it
up, as she walks back to the wall she pauses and look behind
her.

She looks at the door, knowing that no one
will be inside and that she could have a fast look to see what they
have with some guilt of invading another one's home she walks over
and opens the door crouching as she moves into the house. The first
thing she does is grab a black bag in the kitchen searching each
cupboard and each drawer, she finds many useful items 20 packs of
noodles and others pastas she also takes some rice and grab some of
the tin food stored away.

She leaves the bag in the kitchen and move
toward the lounge as there is really something she wants, some new
movies to watch, she find an entire collection of movies and grabs
all of them and behind the TV stand there is few more she looks at
the cover disgusted as these was obviously someone's secret porn
stash. She packs it nicely on the floor and go straight upstairs,
she opens the first door it reeks of death she can see from where
she is standing there is people under the blanket she approaches
and makes some soft sounds to see if there is any response but
there was none.

She pulls the blanket staring down at the bed
with heavy tears in her eyes, both the mother and father was in bed
with their baby in the middle, the father had a revolver in his
hand, it looked like he shot his wife then his baby daughter and
then himself they probably couldn't handle the fact that their
child will grow up in a messed up world like the one they are
living in today. Without looking further she takes the gun and
pulls the blanket over them and returns downstairs grabbing the
movies placing that with the food in the black bag before
leaving.

Arriving at her home Jacky was angry and
tired of waiting but cheered up real fast when she saw all the new
movies to watch she takes the bag and look through the wide range
of movies While Maggie is barricading the door wondering where her
dad is.

Jason sitting under a tree taking a fast
break he is covered in sweat and blood, he stares up to the sky the
sun will go down soon better finish up here, his backpack is full
of gathered supplies and a lot of fuel that was scavenged from all
the cars, filled in buckets and bottles all along the pavement,
Jason grabs what he can carry and heads back home extremely
exhausted he walks slowly with a crooked kitchen knife.

Arriving home he calls out to Maggie she
starts to remove the barricades happy to see her father but also
shocked in the condition he was in, his throat sounds dry, she
rushes to fetch him a glass of water while he was sitting down on
the floor staring at the new movies and things they went to go find
he was angry and upset but was way too tired and couldn't waste
more energy he just wanted to relax. He takes the water from Maggie
and in one sip it was all done, he walks up the stairs leaning on
the railing, closing the bathroom door he runs some bath water and
he sits in cold water, the cold water making his muscles, even more
sore than what it is, he lays down trying to relax.

Maggie starts food and boils water to take up
to her dad, while the water boils she scouts the house to make sure
everything is in decent shape and everything is well barricaded.
She knocks on the door and closes her eyes as she enters reaching
out with the warm water, until she feels her father take it she
turns around and closes the door behind her.

Jason appreciated the hot boiled water it
felt really good, he hadn't worked like this in a long time, but he
was very sure that it was worth it, every second of it, he dries
himself and gets dressed in clean fresh clothes, feeling much
better he goes downstairs and sits down on his bed with a warm
plate of food.

He tell both girls that they can sleep next
to him for the one night though candles and other lights must be
out before dark, with so little time left until dark they all
forgot to switch off the generator and leaving it overnight to run,
wasting a lot of fuel, it could also lead to unwanted
confrontation.

Jason pulls out one of his pistols tired and
angry that he has to go do this now, and then he gets up completely
putting on his sandals and removes the barricade to go to the back
of the house he jumps over the wall with ease and stops the
generator.

While he returns still on the wall he hears a
woman scream, he feels terrible for not going to help them, at that
moment he even wished it was during the time he was still busy but
for now, he can only hope she will be ok, it's too late for a
search and rescue he jumps down and return to his home listening to
this person as he barricades the door once more he can hear her
screaming until the final nail, the screams faded away, Jason knew
that person was lost and will only be seen dead or infected.

Jason relaxes himself on the bed hiding his
gun, his head firmly planted on his pillow he think of all the
people he killed today, so much for new beginnings he thoughts to
himself he turns staring at his daughters. Twenty one the amount of
infected he killed just for the day, he reach to his pocket and
writes it down and mark down 4 streets covered it's not the best
but it will defiantly slow them down.

He also writes down under the high priority
page to find a wheelbarrow to fetch fuel faster and find more wood
or planks anything to improve the messy road barricades, he draws a
smiley face, an indication of a long day but the requirements were
met and everyone was happy before he closes his little book and
goes to bed for a good night's sleep.

With a bright new day Jason wakes up way too
late feeling immense pain in his shoulders barely able to lift his
arms higher than his head clearly an indication of tissue damage
and with an injury like this it can last at least a week if not
longer.

Jason tries to stretch out a little but the
pain is relentless, he knows in his condition barricading the
remaining gaps and maintaining the roads will be slow and tiring
job, knowing for a fact he won't even be able to defend himself if
something was to happen.

He walks to the kitchen to get a glass of
water, opening the tap he realizes the water is running a lot
slower, it won't be long until there is no more water at all, at
least the weather looks good it might rain a river is a few miles
from where they stay and, of course, the first option before
adventuring out to far is simply to get water from the
supermarkets. Jason quickly writes down, water will soon be needed
probably sooner than estimated.

He drinks his glass of water and walks back
to his bed without following his daily routine, he didn't even
think to check anything or if everything was ok, he figured to
himself that everything was really quite last night after the
screaming and that his lazy plan of a barricade helped to some
point. He stares down to both of the girls still sleeping before he
gets back into bed knowing when they wake up the generator will
need to be refueled and started, Jason can only hope they sleep a
few hours longer, remembering the few pain killers he packed away
in his backpack he unzips the front and takes two, he lays down
completely closing his eyes, not able to fall asleep for a while,
eventually the painkillers knocked him out.