Dead Weight/Issue 21

Issue 21 - Titled - Closer To Death Than We Think

"Abreham! Stay with us!" Katie shouts, stripping his armour off and tossing it to the side, pulling off her own armour and her tank top, revealing a blue lacey bra. She replaces her naked chest with her armour, it hurt as the cold metalic feeling touched her body, she wrapped her tanktop into a ball and held it around his arm, stopping the bleeding.

He had landed in a pile of bushes, unable to see his full body, she struggles to turn him over, very slowly. Flake leans down. He gasps as he slips away suddenly. "Roll him out of there!" He commands, Katie does as he says, not knowing what was wrong until he rolls over, revealing one leg had be completly blown off from his body...

"ABE!" She shreiks, taking the tankop from around his arm and looking to see it blood soaked.

"Oh god no!" Robbie shouts, pulling off his armour and top, wrapping it up before holding it against his fataly bleeding leg.

Abrehams eyes flutter Katie crawling up, trying to keep him awake. "Abreham listen to me, you're okay you -"

Before she can finish her sentance his eyes shut, she gasps, trying to shake him awake again.

"ABREHAM!"

Flake looks up, relizing that she wasn't all musle, she still had a soft spot inside of her for others. She wasn't all kill or be killed.

"We just gotta hope that someone rolls around with a truck" He says, taking his belt and tying Abrehams wrist to a tree. Securly so if he did re-animate they would hear the twig snap or he wouldn't move at all.

Katie collapses to the ground, holding her blooded hands,

"What is Lexy gonna think when I don't come back, god sakes, We got' stay with him"

"We are staying with him,"

"What if she comes looking for me..."

"Shut up Katie!" Flake growls, ripping the sleeve from his top and wrapping it mostly around Abreham's leg. "All we can do is wait!"

Katie looks up suddenly, the horses! where had they got to!

She soon finds out as she walks a few meters to the right, a horse lies crushed under a motercycle, the other could be seen running off into the trees,

"There goes Carzer and Zam..." She sighs, walking back to the others.

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"Why aren;t they back yet!" Lexy cries to a younger man, around the age of 15. He shrugs.

"You're useless!" She growls, walking towards the vehicals stored at the main enterance, selecting the car and hopping inside.

"Where the f--k are you going?" the young man asks, keeping the door from being shut and her driving away.

"Saul! I need to find Katie, the others! What if they are stranded...DEAD?" She cries, taking her foot out and kicking Saul away, leaving him gasping for breath on the floor, by the time he gets up, she is gone.

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"Better start a fire" Flake says, Walking off and collecting moss, rocks and small pieces of wood. Katie drags a giant piece of meat over, dropping it on the ground.

"What the hell is that?" Robbie asks, keeping his hand firmly on Abrehams stomach, feeliung if he was breathing.

"A Horse leg" She says, taking a knife out and cleaning it in a nearby puddle. She starts carving it and cutting it into sections, pulling berries out of her pouch and crushing them onto the meat.

"My mother used to cook this, she said it was tasty, never beilived her, wish I had...This would of been easier" She says, looking up at the sunset.

"This leads me to a really weird question, but where the heck did Abrehams leg go?"

"No idea"

Fflake returns with a handful of moss and small rocks and in the other hand sticks and pieces of wood. He arranges them into a fire before trying to light it. Katie shivers suddenly, dropping her knife and rubbing her arms. Goosebumps start showing as a cold wind blows in. "I would offer you a coat but I'm very limited"

"You don't have one" Katie growls, picking up her knife again and watching as sparks fly onto the wood, causing a fire to be born.

"Cook these things...Quickly..."

Katie takes one slab of the horse and sticks a small skwewer type thing and holds it over the small fire. It takes around 2 minutes to cook before she passes it to Flake.

"Feed Robbie" He says, taking the horse meat slathered with berries and doing the same.

Soon they are all fed, and around 15 minutes later they are all lying beside the fire, Katie breaths heavily as one tear trickles down her face. Landing in her hair.

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-15 minutes later-

Lexy drives down the road, looking left and right every two seconds. She spots a small fire in the distances, heading towards it. She sees three, four figures! She beeps her horn.

Katie darts up quickly "Thank god!" She grins, unsure who it was, she raises her knife, just to be sure.

The lights from the truck blind who was behind the wheel, the figure steps out. "Missed you babe"

"LEXY!" Katie grins,

"No time for sexy talk you two, we got wounded!" Robbie says. Lexy gasps at the sight of Abreham.

Flake unties the belt, and they all lift him into the back of the truck.

Flake and Robbie climb in the back with Abe as Katie and Lexy go in the front.

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They pull up outside the gates, Lexy opening the door and running around, pushing the gates open as Robbie, Flake and Katie haul Abe into the camp, rushing towards the nurse office. A nurse and doctor spots them and rushes out, wheeling a bed.

"What the hell happened?" She asks, pulling the bed inside the doctors room and grabbing a first aid kit. "Gernade..or..something, exploded, took us all by surprise" Robbie eplains, The doctor orders them all the be looked at, Flake and Katie disagree and just walk out, Robbie stays as he is in a bad condition as it is.

The doctor puts him ontop a table, inspecting every inch of his body.

"You have a small cut on your ankle, not deep or anything, I'll treat it, your friends wont be happy if they get an infection of some sort" He grins, taking out some ointment and rubbing it gently on the wound.

Flake and Katie sit on the bed together, Flake cleaning his blade while Katie strips off her boots and trousers, slipping under the covers in just her knickers and a tank-top.

"Shame you're gay. Would of slipped right in with you" Flake grins, looking at Katie.

"I meant what I said, when we first met, I shall cut you like an orange if you touch me like that"

"Only joking" He laughs, getting up off the bed

and heading towards the door.

"Hey, stay, come 'ere"

Flake raises his eyesbrows, sitting on the basket at the end of the bed.

"You said you had your own camp, back in...'the day' What was that like?"

"That was a long...long time ago...We had a civilization, only 2 weeks in, it was incredible...But then, something happened, we got attacked and well...that was the end of that..."

"By people?" Katie asks,sitting up, her eyes wide.

"No, why do you ask?"

"Oooh, long story, back in the day we where prone to hunting down camps and stealing their supplies...That was a long time ago, we changed..."

Flake smirks.

"You single?" Katie asks, burrying herself deeper under the covers of her bed.

"What a question, yes, I am!"

"Before this?"

Flake hesitates, "Yes, but not -"

"YOUR HAND DOESN'T COUNT!"

He grabs a pillow and throws it over her head, he grins, opening the door and waving, "Good night" He grins, closing the door behind him. Katie groans, snuggling down into the covers as Lexy walks in, grinning as she crawls into bed.

- Sorry this issue was so short 3:-

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