The Dead World/Issue 108

Walking down the corridors with Jamie at his side, Will sighed as he fiddled with his crossbow which was currently in his arms. He cursed himself for leaving one of his two last arrows behind but it didn't matter. He rarely used his crossbow anymore anyway.

"h-hey Will?" Jamie spoke up quietly drawing Will's attention away from his crossbow as he strapped the weapon back to his back while looking to Jamie who was currently still looking down to the floor. Still upset about having to put Ricky down.

"c-can we not tell A-Annie that I-I put down R-R-Ricky like I did?" Jamie asked him making Will raise an eyebrow confused but soon enough Will just shrugged and muttered a "sure" but Jamie continued speaking and Will soon realized the kid just needed to get all of this off his chest.

"I-I....just d-don't want h-her to hate m-me" Jamie admitted sadly as he took a deep breath and Will couldn't help but feel sorry for the kid. Well he couldn't even call Jamie a kid any more, Jamie had faced as much as every one else had and stood up for when bad things happened, he'd grown from a kid to an adult just by what he had gone through.

Most of them had....

"she wont hate you but I do think we can keep the details of what happened to ourselves" Will said and Jamie nodded giving a small smile as they reached the lobby of the hospital, happy for Will making him feel better. However before he could say anything Will spoke up in a whisper.

"oh shit" Will exclaimed quietly and turning to the doors Jamie instantly got nervous as he saw what Will had seen. A load of zombies had somehow managed to reach the building and were now bashing against the hospital doors trying to get in.

"they must've been attracted by all the noise coming from them machine guns firing" Will stated as he began looking around and quickly headed over to the map they had been looking at earlier to find another way out while Jamie kept his eyes on all the zombies who seemed to look straight back at him.

"w-what we g-g-going to do?" Jamie asked nervously turning to look at Will who remained silent for a few minutes until he finally spoke up pointing to a place on the map which Jamie came over to have a look at.

"we can take the back way through the garage, might as well pick up a vehicle while we're there, maybe an ambulance?" Will suggested and Jamie nodded in agreement. They both knew that with an ambulance Annie would be able to do her medical things a lot easier.

"w-what if w-w-we need keys to g-get in?" Jamie asked and Will thought about it for a moment before sighing and un holstering his gun before handing it to Jamie and pointing to a place on the map.

"there's an office here, I want you to go in there and find a load of keys that were hanging up on the wall, I'm going to go back to that supply room and get all the medical supplies I can carry, if we're taking an ambulance we might as well fill it up with supplies" Will stated but when he looked to Jamie he could see the teen didn't like the idea of splitting up.

"hey, you can do this ok?" Will asked and this time Jamie looked up to Will with determination on his face before giving Will a nod causing him to smile and pat the kid's shoulders.

"I'll see y-you t-there" Jamie stated and after the two of them shared a quick "see you later", they went their different ways, Will to get more supplies and Jamie to get the keys. Both determined to make sure no one else dies on this run.

Sitting on some chair she had found, Karen kept her guard up as she held a rifle in her lap, keeping an eye out for any living or dead people that would pose a threat to her group. Although despite her guard being up nothing could defend her from Anthony sneaking up behind her and grabbing her.

"rawr" Anthony said playfully as he wrapped his arms around her suddenly making her literally scream before she realized it was him and joined in on his laughing while Angelica who had come running to the scream sighing and shook her head in amusement as she walked off again.

"you know I nearly shot your head off" Karen commented with a smile but he shook his head and just buried his head in her neck for a laugh as he began gently biting down on it making her let out a few giggles like she was a school girl.

"nah you had no chance, I would've been biting into your neck before you could say my name" he whispered beginning to nibble further up her neck making her blush brightly before she quickly pushed him away gently due to Maria and Emily walking past.

"you two really need to get a room" Emily commented with a smile while the couple just looked at each other before both simultaneously turned back to Emily and stuck their tongues out at her making Emily laugh at them.

"so what you doing over here, thought you was drawing?" Karen asked Maria softly as she looked down to the little girl while Maria herself pouted and lifted up her "bad" finger for Karen to see.

"I cut my finger a little" Maria said in such a pouty child like voice that both Karen and Anthony had to resist chuckling as they looked at the girl sympathetically with Karen giving a small smile.

"did you Emily kiss it better for you?" Karen teased causing Maria to pout even more as she glared down at her finger and this caused all three of the adults to burst out laughing and Maria to be confused.

"it isn't funny!" Maria protested stomping her foot on the ground while Anthony chuckled and ruffled up her hair making the little girl sigh in annoyance as she began trying to put it back into its place and the four of them continued on like this for the next few moments.

Making them not notice two people sneak out of the woods and began heading towards the RV where Annie was, looking for the supplies the group had....

Speed walking through the corridors, Jamie kept his eyes peeled for any trouble both living and dead as he went. His hands tightly holding the gun Will had given him but Jamie didn't really like the thought of firing it in such close space.

Reaching the next corner which Jamie recognized as the one that led to the office he was walking to, he soon stopped dead in his tracks when he heard a low growling causing him to shake slightly as he held his gun tighter than before.

Eventually after taking a deep breath, Jamie peeked around the corner and thankfully only saw one zombie down the whole corridor and that one was currently laying on the floor reaching out for nothing while its two legs had completely got eaten off.

Resisting the urge to be sick, Jamie took another deep breath before beginning to walk over to the zombie. However when he got close he came to a shocking realization. The zombie was in fact the same doctor who had kidnapped him and Ricky.

Feeling a lot on anger go through him, Jamie noticed one of Will's two arrows was still in her chest once she had turned to see him, trying to reach up and get him but he just stayed out of her reach as he put the pistol into his pocket before quickly leaning down and taking the arrow out of her chest.

After he had done this, Jamie put the arrow in one of his pockets and grabbed the pistol again before shooting Kate straight through the face, ending her Zombified life once and for all....

Taking a couple of deep breaths, Jamie started to walk down the corridor again leaving the broken arrow buried deep in Kate's eye while he kept a poker face as he kept his eyes peeled for any other trouble.

However after he got the keys from the office and reached the garage, Jamie found the whole hospital corridors mostly empty, only finding a couple of zombies in the rooms which surprised him, where had they all gone?

Using the key's, Jamie cursed a little as he fiddled around with them trying to find he right one before he heard chuckling from behind him and turned to see Will grinning as he held out his hand for the keys and eventually with a sigh, Jamie handed them over.

"any trouble getting here?" Will asked but Jamie just simply nodded silently keeping the fact he had to put down Kate's Zombified form to himself while Will noted that something seemed off with the kid but just shrugged it off as he managed to open the door and grinned turning to look at Jamie.

"looks like we're in" Will claimed before turning on his flashlight and doing a quick look around of the garage but thankfully there was no zombies in the area so he handed the keys back to Jamie and pointed to the ambulance in the room.

"b-by the way I-I got your a-arrow" Jamie stated taking his formally lost arrow out of his pockets and handed it to Will who gave the kid a thankful nod before slipping the arrow back in its place in the front of his crossbow.

"go see if that's working, I'll open the garage doors" Will stated and Jamie nodded before running off to do as Will said leaving Will himself to wall through the garage before shining his flashlight around trying to find a switch to open the garage doors.

"I w-wonder what the s-situation b-back at c-camp is?" Jamie asked as he got into the ambulance but Will just shrugged as he kept silent and focused trying to find the button, biting his lip as he hoped it would still work.

Jamie hoped himself as he tried the key in the ignition resulting in the engine starting and the teenager to grin as he looked out the window to Will.

"l-looks like it w-works" Jamie commented and Will chuckled as he finally found the button to open the garage doors and preyed that it would work as he pressed it. Fortunately the garage door opened revealing a clear way for them to drive away causing Will to grin as he turned to look at Jamie before speaking.

"and it looks like we have our way home"

Laying down on the sofa in the RV, Annie had her eyes closed and a smile on her face as she was having a nice dream. In the dream it was her and her brother Ricky before the apocalypse and everything was perfect.

Annie had a job as head nurse in some hospital in the city of Charleston. Ricky was running his own garage and it was one of the most popular businesses in the city and even the whole group was there, each with their own jobs which they deserved in one way or another. She had to laugh at the fact Will was sheriff, sheriff?!!

However just as the dream was getting better, she heard the RV door open making her sigh out loud despite not wanting to. She was always ok with talking to people but this must've been the third time she had tried to sleep.

"who is it this time then?" Annie asked jokingly with her trademark joking smile on her face. However this smile soon disappeared from her face when she heard the click of her gun causing her to open her eyes and see a revolver pointed straight to her head.

"don't move we're stealing your supplies" the man pointing the gun at her stated coldly while she just looked shocked as she raised her hands in defense while behind the man she saw a woman going through the cub board and packing the food and water into a large bag.

"we're leaving the paper, books and shit because we're only taking your water and food" the woman said in a voice more softly than the man but Annie could quickly tell the woman was still going to steal the supplies either way.

"yeah be happy we're leaving everything else to you people" the man said with a smirk as he moved his finger further against the trigger to prove the point he was willing to kill her if he needed to.

"maybe we should leave them a few supplies, there is only two of us we don't need that many...." the woman said quietly and a little shakily as if she was afraid of the man. This statement was proven to be true because as soon as the man turned to glare at her she shut up and cowered down before giving one last sympathetic look to Annie and going back to packing.

"these people cost us our home, they don't deserve food or water" the man stated and at first Annie was totally confused until she came to a realization and recognized the couple that was currently stealing her supplies.

"your Richard and Jackie!" Annie exclaimed and the man Richard scoffed while Jackie bit her lip as she sniffled and wiped a couple of tears away trying not to let her husband see but he had just turned to look down at Annie with a disgusted look on his face.

"yeah that's us, and you remember our boy Jack?" Richard asked and Annie nodded slowly not liking where this was going. Richard however just shrugged this off as he leaned down so he was face to face with Annie.

"he died from blood loss but that isn't even the worse of it, the worse of it is he could've been saved....if the "doctor" in camp hadn't ran off to save her own skin!" the man spat angrily aiming his gun against Annie's throat who just bit her lip and looked at Richard sadly.

"Jack used to call you a hero for working on your patients every day but you were quick to leave your patients to die and save your own skin....your a pathetic excuse for a doctor" Richard said with so much venom in his voice it made Annie plead she wasn't guilty inside while a couple of tears went down her face.

"I-I-I'm sorry..." Annie whispered but Richard just shook his head as he stood up before he suddenly wacked Annie around the face with his revolver causing her to grip her nose as blood began to fall while Jackie just covered her mouth with her hands as she tried not to shriek in shock.

"I should kill you now" Richard stated with no more emotion in his voice as he aimed his revolver at Annie who just stared back completely scared and actually shaking as she thought about how she was going to die and her life literally flashed before her eyes.

She saw all the great moments she spent with her brother. She saw the time when Frank sneaked up on her and stabbed her. She saw the moments she shared with people like Jamie and Maria and more importantly, she saw the day of the attack....the day she left all her patients to die.

"please don't, can we just take the food and water and go, please?!" Jackie begged of Richard, tears in her eyes causing him to sigh as he lowered his gun before gesturing for Jackie to leave the vehicle which she did after picking up the bag of supplies and giving Annie one last sad look as if to say goodbye.

"looks like its your lucky day, bitch" Richard said as he holstered his gun again and began leaving the RV but before he exited the door he heard Annie say something causing him to turn back at her with a cold expression.

"I'm sorry...." Annie said again in a soft barely hearable whisper but he just shook his head, ignoring her statement and exited the RV to catch up with his wife and leave the ruined camp.

Leaving Annie alone to curl up and cry....

Standing on guard, Angelica took a drag of her cigarette as she let out a long breath before she squinted as she saw something coming towards the camp and eventually she could see it was an ambulance causing her to be confused.

"Hey guys there's an ambulance coming!!" Angelica exclaimed but there was no need to as soon enough the sound of sirens filled the air which was obviously coming from the ambulance itself making the group come running excluding Annie, she noticed to see what was happening.

"what the hell?!!" Karen exclaimed while Anthony done the complete opposite and grinned like a child was about to get a present when he saw the vehicle that was currently heading towards them.

"that is so cool, its an ambulance which sirens still work!!" Anthony exclaimed excitably but soon went silent when he got the scolding glare from Karen who gave a smirk at her success to be quiet.

"you think its Will and Jamie?" Emily asked turning to Angelica but the woman stayed quiet in response and just aimed her machine gun to the incoming vehicle which soon stopped in front of them revealing Will and Jamie to be the ones driving it when they stepped out and causing Angelica to sigh.

"do you know how much damn noise your making with that thing?!!" Angelica scolded them before practically shoving past Jamie and entering the vehicle to turn off the sirens although the teen was just grinning the same amount Anthony had been.

"I-its s-still cool it h-has plenty of room t-to carry supplies w-which we p-picked up and....." Jamie started but trailed off when he saw Annie approaching, wiping her face of blood and tears and when Jamie stopped everyone turned to look at Annie as well, becoming very confused as to why she had a bloody nose and was crying.

"someone....someone came to steal our supplies...." Annie said quietly and Angelica quickly cursed and ran off to the RV with Karen while Emily and Anthony tried to comfort Annie but she just pushed them away gently and looked to Will and Jamie, having observed Ricky wasn't with them.

"he's dead isn't he?" Annie asked with no emotion in her voice at all which shocked everyone in the area while Jamie just nodded slightly and Will bowed his head in respect but Annie just nodded herself and walked off leaving the group of them in silence.

A couple of hours later, Will was packing the last few boxes of whatever they could find into the back of his truck before Bella came up to him and wrapped her arms around his back, hugging him from behind which he accepted.

"turns out while you were gone Annie got sneaked up on by two former residents of this camp, they stole all the food and water before leaving" Bella told him and he nodded sighing as he closed the back of the truck before turning towards her and embracing her fully.

"how is Annie?" Will asked and Bella bit her lip looking down to the ground before sighing and looking up to Will with a sad expression as she shook her head.

"sad, upset....depressed, I don't know, she's going to ride in the ambulance with Jamie and Maria, we hope that will make her feel better" Bella stated and Will nodded agreeing that would be the best idea before the two of them heard Angelica calling them.

"alright, we're leaving now, still heading to that Charleston yeah?" Angelica asked everyone and they all nodded as they began getting in their vehicles excluding the motorbike which they had decided to leave behind due to the noise and not really needing it anymore.

"everyone, radio if you need anything" Will told them and they nodded muttering that they would before getting into their vehicles and getting the engines ready to go. While Will and Jamie had been gone, Angelica had worked with Anthony to put small radios in the vehicles so they could stay in contact.

After this, Will and Bella got in Will's truck and took the lead in the line of vehicles while Angelica and Emily drove up front in the ambulance with Jamie, Maria and Annie in the back and finally Karen and Anthony were taking the RV just so the group would have somewhere to sleep, eat etc and it made less noise than the motorbike.

All of them heading towards the city of Charleston in hopes of a safe haven, although they still had a long way to go....