Life Will End/Chapter 3

This is a preview of Chapter 3 of Life Will End. The full Chapter is expected to be out in December after Christmas.

Chapter 3 (Preview)
                 Chapter 3

 

                                 Mick came running into the front of the building, huffing and puffing as he placed Melanie down on the ground. She was conscious now, but was in a lot of pain.

Mick was calming down from the run, but then he looked at Vlad’s face. It was a worried look, mixed in with the despair of the scene. He couldn’t believe it.

Vlad immediately went to help the others with Melanie as Mick was in the same state that he felt back at the construction site. He almost died there, and if he hadn’t mustered enough strength to pull himself up, he would have failed his family’s wish.

“Come on, stay with us.” Angie said as she held pressure on Melanie’s stump. Zach tried to help but was stopped by Jeff.

“Just stand back, we’ve got this.” He said as Zach slumped back. This was only proving more of his point that he was just a mess up of a person by now.

“You, asswipe, could you help here?” Jeff said harshly to Mick. Mick then walked over to the rest of the group, ignoring Jeff’s mean remark.

Angie went to get a cloth and water from the supplies upstairs while Vlad kept pressure on   the stump. Angie came back down and tried to clean the stump and bind it up. This took a while, but soon Melanie was in a deep sleep again. Everyone lied back, tired from the panic of the night. They still didn’t know if Melanie would survive, due to her sweating and having a pretty high fever. She would have to fight this battle on her own.

When everyone was about to go to sleep, Vlad came up to Mick with an angry look on his face.

“What the hell man…Y-You said…” Vlad said, but he struggled to finish. Mick sighed.

“I’m sorry, Vlad. We were surrounded, I couldn’t do anything to stop her from being bit.” Mick replied sadly. Vlad wanted to say more, but he decided to keep it bottled up for now.

Angie was on duty for some of the night to keep an eye on Melanie while everyone else tried to get some sleep in. It had be a very rough day and night.

                 The next morning, things were a little bit calmer. Melanie was still sick, but not as much as the previous night, although there was still big risks for her.

Mick felt bad about what happened to her, but in a way he also didn’t. He tried, but he had to survive too. He did what was necessary to get himself out of there alive.

Mick was later told by Angie that Daisy was a mute, and he only thought of everything worse after that.

<p class="MsoNoSpacing">“So…What now?” Zach asked as they all sat around eating breakfast. Vlad was slowly giving Melanie water and food.

<p class="MsoNoSpacing">“Well, this place is going to be open to any fucking bandits that roll around here.” Jeff said and sighed.

<p class="MsoNoSpacing">“Yeah, we’re going to have to move at some point if we want to keep going. Supplies will eventually run low.” Mick stated.

<p class="MsoNoSpacing">“But where would we go? And in Melanie’s state, it would be nearly impossible to travel.” Angie said worriedly.

<p class="MsoNoSpacing">“We’ll think about it.” Mick said as Zach looked out the window. He couldn’t see anything but slow infected moving around on the ground. Nothing but very boring stuff. Then that’s when he looked farther, and he saw something bad.

<p class="MsoNoSpacing">“Fuck.” He said.

<p class="MsoNoSpacing">“What is it?” Mick asked as he stood next to Zach. Then he saw it.

<p class="MsoNoSpacing">About eight or nine bandits, all men, walking slowly towards the building, looking for supplies and a place to stay.

<p class="MsoNoSpacing">That’s when they spotted the building, so they got ready to storm in and kill anything or anyone that was inside.