The Dead World/Issue 106

''Sighing as she sat at her desk, Kate Polge looked down at the research she had been doing for the past week but still couldn't find the answers she was looking for. About a week ago, some kind of infection had spread throughout the world putting over billions of people in hospital.''

''She hadn't been assigned to work out what was happening but she wanted to. The pay she would get as well as the reputation for sorting this all out would be amazing. Yes this made her sound cold but she couldn't help but want all the riches that would come with this. However she quickly hid all her research when their was a knock on the door....frantic nodding.''

"Doctor Polge we need you NOW" a nurse told her urgently before running out of the room and down the corridor where Kate could see a load of doctors and nurses running about going in and out of rooms and she could also see every light was going off in all the rooms which only meant one thing....all the patients were suddenly dying.

''"what the hell is going on?!!" Kate demanded as she grabbed the nearest nurse but he just shook his head shrugging before following the doctor he was meant to be with leaving Kate to sigh and run down the corridor after the nurse who had come to get her.''

''"in here doctor" the nurse said, a pretty young woman but Kate hadn't bothered to learn her name, she didn't need to anyway. She quickly led Kate down to a patient which was currently not being attended to and was having a major fit, shaking and thrashing around the bed before he suddenly went limp and his pulse disappeared.''

''"get working on bringing him back, NOW!!" Kate demanded of the nurse and she nodded before practically sprinting the distance between her and the bed and began pumping up and down on the dead man's chest hoping to get a pulse back while Kate frantically starting going through the iv bags to help.''

However she suddenly stopped when she looked up to see the nurse had stopped trying to save the patient and was instead looking towards the TV like many of the other doctors and nurses was causing her to turn and see for herself what was going on, however she couldn't believe her ears and eyes as she listened to the news reporter speaking....''

"we have a emergency news report and we do apologize about interrupting your program but we really have to get this out. Not to alarm anyone but every patient in every hospital is suddenly dying, all around the world in every city and town this is happening and never mind what the staff do all patients die, we are afraid to report this and we have the most specialist people on the job to discover what this is.

Hearing this news report all the doctors and the nurses in the room stepped away from their dead patients and stared at them in shock while Kate just rushed off without a word and headed towards her office but soon enough the nurse began following her.

''"doctor Polge, where are you going?" the young nurse said causing Kate to sigh as she turned to face the much younger woman with a blank look while the young nurse herself just stood their biting her lip, hoping she hadn't stepped out of line.''

"I'm going to my office" Kate bluntly stated but just as Kate turned to continue walking the nurse spoke up again while getting in Kate's way making her raise an eyebrow at the nurse.

''"but what about all our patients?" she asked causing Kate to take a deep breath as she glanced down to the nurse's name tag to see who she was speaking to before looking her in the eyes and holding her shoulders as if the nurse was a child.''

Jessica why don't you go to the others and see what you can do for them, ok?" Kate said putting a fake warming voice in her tone but Jessica couldn't tell and instead bit her lip and nodded her head before rushing off leaving Kate to continue walking to her office.

She had to get to the bottom of this infection, she had to work out what was going on....never mind the cost.

"yeah, I know it sounds silly I know but I'm finally getting somewhere and just need a few more tests, although as I said....I could do with help" Kate said noticing Will's shocked silence but the man soon shook himself out of this as he looked to Kate again.

"what makes you so sure your near to a cure?" Will asked curiously as he strapped his crossbow over his back while she just grinned and was about to hand him over the clip board before she realized he wouldn't understand a word of her research so she decided to explain herself.

"I've been working on creating an antidote if you like that counter attacks the infection inside an infected body and hopefully it will return them to normal" Kate said but Will shook his head as he leaned against the wall making her confused.

"impossible" Will stated making her scoff as she put her clip board down and leaned against her table, returning his blank look with one of her own as they both knew neither of them were going to give away any personal feelings.

"well it doesn't matter whether you believe me or not because I cant prove it, I am missing one thing to make this cure and funnily enough its where you want to go, the medicine room so maybe we can work together?" Kate suggested.

Hearing this, Will took in a breath as he thought about it. He did need them medicines and he could use with the help to get them but could he trust her? was all this a trap? although Will knew he couldn't let an opportunity like this pass up.

"I'm listening" Will stated and she nodded before getting up from her leaning position and walking over to a set of lockers which she opened revealing their too be two machine guns inside, one which she handed to Will who took it and on instinct checked the ammo.

"I can power this hospital enough to make that whole sector light so we can see where we are going and we can easily go in gun's blazing" Kate stated and Will sighed but she just held up her hand to stop him from talking before she continued.

"you made the mistake of trying to sneak through the hospital but you cant do that in such close space which is impossible, however if we go in gun's blazing we can take any in our path down before they get to us" Kate stated and after thinking about it for a few moments, Will nodded as he stood up, making sure his crowbar and crossbow were tightly strapped to his back.

"alright I'm in but first thing's first, do you know where my friends are?" Will asked knowing if she had cameras she could probably tell where Jamie and Ricky were but when Kate stopped what she was doing suddenly and slowly turned to face him he knew the news couldn't be good, and he turned out to be correct.

"I'm sorry, they got killed by a load of zombies like you did, unfortunately I didn't manage to save them in time...." Kate said softly while Will just couldn't believe what he was hearing, two of his friends had just died, out of nowhere?, this thought caused one question to run through his head.

How was he going to tell the others?

Smiling as she watched Anthony chasing Maria around, Karen couldn't help but think about how lucky they were to have made it this far but she soon tried to stop thinking about that as every time she thought about it the more she thought about her nightmare.

She didn't know why she couldn't stop thinking about it, it was only a nightmare and that's what she had been telling herself this whole time but for some reason the thoughts wouldn't just go away.

"hey Karen" Annie said suddenly making Karen jump a little and Annie to apologize with a little bit of laughter as she sat down next to Karen while Karen got over her little heart attack.

"hey Annie, what can I do for you?" Karen asked giving the woman a small smile but this soon disappeared when Annie began shifting on her feet a little making Karen instantly be able to tell something was up or Annie wanted to talk about something serious.

"well Bella mentioned a little while ago about you having nightmares and I wanted to check and make sure you were ok, Bella sounded worried about you" Annie said turning to look Karen in the eyes and the doctor could instantly tell something was up despite how much Karen tried to hide it.

"its just a nightmare seriously, I think I'm just feeling a little bit ill and that's why I'm getting so worked up about it" Karen said not bothering to hide the fact she had a nightmare knowing Annie would be able to see right through her lies because she was the type of person who could do that.