Dead Weight/Issue 22

Issue 22 - titled - Cracked

A young boy, only around 8 years old, runs through the forest, holding a knife in one hand and a rock in the other. Blood dripping from it. On his back he carries a bagpack. A grin shows on his face as he rushes into a small house. A woman grins as she sees the young boy enter but her jaw drops as the little boy throws a dead rabbit ontop of the kitchen counter. She screams as a man comes in through an arc. "GET OUT!" He screams, holding up and belt and chasing the young boy outside, he drops the knife and darts outside.

He jumps and falls over a rock, scraping his knees and looking around, the mans shadow lurches over and grabs the young boy by his brown hair, throwing him to the side. Before he can even react, he throws the rock at the man, he screams as the little boy backs away, tears appearing in his eyes as the woman holds up stones, chucking them at the boy before he limps away, his knees cut and bruised badly with blood.

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Flake sits on the bed, taking off his jeans and looking at his legs, cut and bruised. His arms, cut and bruised. He stares at his knees, the mess they where in and how badly they where effected, he didn't know how he could run.

He reaches over, his hand touching the bump on thr bed, he gasps suddenly and pulls his hand away, standing up and sitting on the chair opposite the bed. Turning on the lamp.

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The little boy runs through the trees and out of the forest, he jumps into the dumpster at the stip club and burries himself down in the beer cans and paper. Three hours had passed when he is woken up with a loud bang, a policeman opens up the dumpster and before he knew it he had lifted the little boy out of the dumpster and got down on one knee. Looking at the boy with the clump of hair missing and the bleeding shins and knees.

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The next morning, Flake woke up with the sound of grunting, he is awoken to find a dog licking his shoes and Lexy standing above him. "Sorry, he likes you"

"er, Yeah"

"You alright?" Lexy asks, looking over at Mel in the bed before sitting on it.

"Just, nightmares, thats all"

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A young man around the age of 14 sits in a chair, sitting at a large metal desk with a police man at either side of him. The chief police man sits opposite him, His hands clasped. His badge read Chief Kao

"Why did you do it?" He asks, pulling out a large bread knife and sitting it on the desk, inspecting the dried in blood, belonging to the boy's mother.

"She had it coming, Dad helped me" The boy whispers, staring the man straight in the face. "I could kill you right now"

"If you had the guts" Kao grins, standing up, placing the knife on the table and sending his men out the room.

"If you knew you would get away with it, you would, but you're in a police station, son, nobody will be a fool"

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Flake stares at his fingernails, blood was marked inside them. Dried.

"You should go take a shower" Lexy says, interupting Flake's daydream.

"I need to go for a walk" He growls, getting up and taking his sword with him.

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A slash could be heard as the police came running into the room, the young boy stood there, grinning slightly as the police man lay on the floor and a gash through his shoulder down to his nipple.

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"The asylum was rough?" Sally's voice echos through Flake's head as he walks, gripping his sword tightly as he walks further and further away from the camp, so far that all you could see was the walls, tiny as an ant in the distance.

He keeps walking, up the streets and avoiding the undead, slashing through others. He walks to the highway, the cars where still stacked, the way they had left them. He climbs over a yellow car before jumping up onto the lorry, looking down.

He could see a small cluster of the undead bellow him. One was awfully similar.

"Hi, Carlos" He grins, taking his sword and slashing one of the undeads head, it falls to the ground with a thud.

"You're pathetic" A voice rings inside his head, a voice we had never heard before.

His eyes flickered as he took a big leap, he hadn't even thought about it, over the undead. He lands with a thump, rolling over and crawling to his feet, holding his sword up and slashing through them all as they came at him.

He remembered the people he had lost.

Sally,

Leo,

Amy,

Mel,

Had he lost Mel, all these thoughts ran through his mind,he was soon to loose her.

Drake,

Tayna,

Annie,

Annie?

"ANNIE!" He screams, kicking back a undead and stabbing it several times, he had been pushed, too far. He slices through Carlos's head. When the last one was down he sunk to his knees. Thr flicker in his eye still there. He was going to return.

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It was nightfall when he finally made it back, his legs ached for a lie down but as soon as he got through the gates Katie ran upto him, shouting at him. The words rang through his mind.

Mel was in labour

Trivia

 * Alternative Titles
 * Flake's Past
 * The past Is Weak
 * This issue is mainly focused around Flake