The Death Zone by Jordan Brunswick (free books to read .TXT) 📕

Helping Liam

They started tending to Liam’s injuries and Bob was making sure Lily was not going to come through the door, by now Bob managed to still the knife out of Lily's hand, Foster was trying to stop all the blood, he was trying his best to stop it, Maddy was helping Foster trying to keep up with what he was saying and trying to help in any way she could, Sal was just sitting there shocked of what just happened and Liam was still unconscious.

 

“Hey Sal, come help”! says Foster, annoyed that she was just sitting there

“Ok, im coming” she said

she was about to walk over when…

BANG!

“What the hell was that”! yells Foster

“She stupid, what was that” say Bob

“Duno”

“Well whatever it was lets hope it doesn't happen aga…”

Foster was interrupted again by an extremely loud scream, it pierced their eardrums, Liam moaned with the agony of moving. Sal stopped him from moving, she finally got to his bed, Liam flinched it was like he was drowning in the Titanic again.

 

“What’s that, it’s like a kid about 10 years old”? said Bob

“What”? say foster

He walked over to Bob and saw what Bob was pointing at, he got Bob inside and shut the door quietly and locked it. Foster and Bob walked over to Liam and started to finish or fix up the job Foster did, Sal suddenly felt dizzy and went to sit down, Maddy noticed what she was doing and walked over to her.

 

“Are you ok”? Maddy whispered, hoping that Foster or Bob couldn’t hear them.

“Yes, just a bit dizzy, it might be a time lapse” said Sal, she now had a pounding headache, “A big one”

Seeing that Sal had just gone very pale stepped out in front of her so Foster couldn’t see Sal, and said “You should lay down, don’t worry I’ll make sure Foster or Bob don’t see you”

“Ok...thanks” Sal said quietly

 

While Foster and Bob were working on Liam, Maddy was busy trying to make sure they didn’t see what she was doing, Sal was leaning on the wall, palled faced and very dizzy, she didn’t close her eyes.

“Maddy, come over here and help please” Foster said, need help with what he was doing

“Ok, coming” she responded

“Bob you can go sit with Sal”

 

He nodded and walked over, when Sal heard her name she instantly put her head down, and twiddled her thumbs. Maddy walked over regrettingly, and new what Foster was going to say which didn’t turn out to be correct.

“Do you think this is done”?

She nodded, as she looked down at the fresh bandages that were on were Liam got stabbed, they already had lots of blood on them.

“Lets hope thats not that much blood” Foster said seeing the concern on her face, but he did believe what he said was true.

He got up and Maddy tried to stop him and failed, he walked over to Bob and left her standing over Liam. She turned and expected to see Foster and Bob all over Sal like bugs, but they weren't, they were sitting on the bed like she didn’t exist. Maddy walked over and sat next to Sal, Foster looked over and seemed concerned, Mandy sighed and stared over at Liam pretending that everything was ok, Foster seemed to notice.

 

“Hey Madeline, what’s wrong”

“First don’t call me that and nothing's wrong” she snapped

“Ok, Maddy, are you ok then” he said so kindly, like she didn’t say it that meanly

she ran her hand through her hair and said

“...Fine, I'm just thinking… by the way you said that ‘way’ too kindly”

“You're right, what are you thinking about, or is that none of my business”?

“Nothing, it’s none of your business”

“Ok” he replied, disappointedly

 

An hour or so later Liam awoke, hed been lying awake for hours now. Sal was with Maddy in the room, Foster and Bob were getting them a drink and none of them new he was awake. Sal looked over at him, she was as pale as a ghost, and realized he was awake. Madeline was staring into space and didn’t notice.

 

Foster and Bob came back in, they didn’t realize that he was awake either until Maddy noticed that he was and said “Hey Foster, Liam’s awake, slightly”

Foster walked over and said softly

“Liam can you hear me and are you awake”?

“Do I have to answer” he replied, which was barely heard

“No you don’t, are you week”?

“What do you reckon, Foster”

 

That put a grin on the old man's aged face, he pulled up a chair next to the bed. Maddy, Sal and Bob did the same. Liam had a pounding headache, he was dizzy and just as pale as Sal.

“Thanks, Foster”he said

“What...oh...um...thats ok” he was distracted by how pale Liam was

“Were glad you and Sal are ok, by the where's Lilly”? asked Maddy

“Duno, she ran off after she stabbed Liam” said Bob’s cold voie

 

Liam shuddered at the memory, Foster was still had a concern look written across his face, Liam was very dizzy now, he put his head in his hands. Bob had gone to look for Lilly, Sal was daydreaming about how if things were easy again and Maddy well she’d noticed how pale Liam had got and whispered in his ear “You look like you're about to throw up, are you ok or do you need to sit up”?

“Um...I..” he said, Foster had heard this and looked over without saying anything he got up and motioned to Maddy to help him to move Liam.

 

The next seconds were very painful, they just managed to position him leaning against the wall, while they were moving him he tried as much as he could. He felt the world sliping away through his fingers, but struggled against it. His hands and forehead were very hot and his throat was killing him, it was like he was getting throat cancer or tonsil lighters or something like that.

*

The room

Sal was facing Liam, she was day dreaming, this was very boring just sitting here. Sal was just about to say something when Foster said “Well...Sal do you like it here”.

“What, oh...um...yes it’s nice”

Bob just walked in tearing that ‘insanely’ boring conversation up, he had scratches all over his arms and face, then he said sarcastically “Well that was fun”

“Where the hell have you been” said Foster, looking him up and down

“I’ve been trying to find where Lily was”

“Oh…sorry”

 

Sal decided to say something before she got interrupted again. “So...um…this...is...well boring, I mean just sitting here in this room” she blurted out the last few words. The truth was she was a bit claustrophobic, any way this was boring. She looked around and shook her head and looked at the ground, Foster was look dazed and bemused, he had noticed where she was looking and said “I know this is boring, and that you are a bit…, any way we should stay in here so we don’t get stabbed or end up…”.

 

“Ok”she said

“Hey, don’t be scared, just please stay here, please” Liam said weekly

“Shhh…don’t talk you will waste your energy” Foster implied

“Fine”

*

The night was agonising Maddy and Foster watched the others fall asleep one by one. Although Mady was tired she didn’t go to sleep, Foster was looking tired and probably wanted to go to sleep to.

 

“You should get some sleep” he said to Maddy

“You should to, and no thanks”

“Why”?

“Im just thinking about…” she said

“About what”?

“Don’t worry”

“I will, so you should just tell me”

She was too tired to argue “Fine, I…just...well…”

“Well” he said, interrupting her

“I...know this might sound silly but I just can’t do this anymore, I didn’t mean this job, I meant this” she gestured to the others sleeping “I mean I can’t sleep because I…”

“Woah, calm down there, I get it, I know I still can’t sleep”.

“I know you can’t sleep because of stress, I can tell”

“Well, I’m guessing you can’t sleep for an entirely different reason”

she nodded

“Well”

“It’s because of, well I still think I'm in the plane and It’s much worse than it was”

“So, like a nightmare”?

“Yep, exactly like a nightmare”

 

Silence, that conversation was abandoned.

A long time of silence, Maddy didn’t know when she finally fell asleep but she did and she was guessing that Foster did to because she woke up and heard Foster’s breathing then she went back to sleep again.

 

*

It was morning, how did they know, because Bob was in the room, he’d said it was clear out there. Sal was up and was brushing her hair, Madeline was up she was absentmindedly cleaning her glasses, and Liam was talking to Bob.

“Ok...well I guess we spend another two or three days in here and then go outside”. nobody looked happy about it.

“But why that long, Foster” said Sal and Mady together

“Because I said so”

 

Liam slid to the edge of the bed just so he could just rest his feet on the ground but not stand up because it was obviously to painful. ”Liam, just don’t fall off the bed” Foster laughed and then smiled, it was a long since he smiled or had ever smiled.

 

Foster walked out of the room with Bob to get them all supplies. They reached the kitchen/landroom they gather up all the supplies they needed and walked when they were almost there they ran into Lilly and she said “Come on please let me come with you, there are ‘things’ out there, they tried to kill me before just because I dropped my knife and I haven’t got it anymore, I had three”!. They decided to let her come with them.

Near escape

*

As they walked back they heard a ghostly moan, Bob, Lilly and Foster walked faster to get away from whatever it was and to get to the room. At the end of the hallway they saw the room where Sal and Liam were. They got there and tried to turn the power on and it worked, the power was on…, That was probably a bad idea to turn the power on. thought Foster.

 

Foster saw some type of creature or thing up ahead, it was wearing something like a black clock, you couldn't see it’s face, it had skeleton like hands, the area around it was very cold. Lilly was shaking next to him and whispering ‘that thing