deadheads by jade swiler (superbooks4u TXT) 📕

I stood there in fear while he laughed and something came over me. The big picture had finally hit me hard, these maniacs had cut the gate locks and let in hundreds of deadheads so they could come and get me. Since the living room was dark, I knew I had the advantage, he didn’t know my sword was near the couch. I had to keep him busy so I could get it.

“what do you want asshole.” I said as I stepped closer to the couch.

“ why you of course. Harris will give me whatever I want if I bring you back alive.” Jeff smiled evilly when he said it to me.

I had to shiver but held my ground. Jeff took a step closer to me and I lunged for my sword.

“stop!” he yelled but it was too late. I grabbed the sword and swung it at his head. It connected with a jerk and Jeff’s head was rolling across the carpet. I was out the door before the body fell. Deadheads were everywhere. In the loud rain and storm sounds, I could make out screaming all around me.

Jess and the kids house was next door to me and I hurried there. As I rounded the corner of the house, I found Seth just getting done with killing a soldier. Jess and sam and rain stood on the porch with marcus.

“common, I know of a safe place, we have to get out of here.” I yelled to be heard over the rain and moans of the dead.

We went off the porch and headed for the broken gates that laid open. Doc willis was there and I grabbed his arm.

“come with us, I know of a safe place. This is done for.” I yelled in his ear.

Doc willis nodded and we hurried in to the woods.

As we hurried away, we could still hear the screams of the people we knew, part of us wanted to rush back and fight but I knew by now we would be out numbered. We kept going south away from the community.

We took a break at the farm house because the kids were tired. We went in to the barn to get out of the rain. I noticed marcus had a large bag filled with guns and ammo.

“you were prepared.” I stated.

“I grabbed them out of Harris’s jeep before I went to find Seth.” marcus explained.

“harris was there?” I asked fearfully.

“yes but didn’t plan on fighting so many deadheads.”

I nodded but then had to ask. “where did all the deadheads come from?”

It was seth who answered me.

“harris brought 6 jeeps full of men with him to take over the community, he made too much noise and brought the deadheads right in to the gates after he cut them. They tried to fight them but the rain made it hard to see them and they were attacked, our people saw what was happening and some took off. Most stayed to fight and were killed.”

(6)

It was almost dawn when I lead the weary travelers through the steel gates. I made sure to lock them tight and headed for the doors to the buildings. I could see everyone looking around in awe. Just wait until they see the lights. And the hot water showers.

I was just about to unlock the front doors when one of them swung open and in the doorway stood the biggest man I had ever seen. Long grey hair was pulled into a braid down his back, his face was covered in a grey beard that reached mid chest. His eyes were kind though, and his mouth was smiling.

He was wearing deer skin coat and boots.

“come in, welcome back Jade.”

I lifted my sword at him and stood my ground.

“how do you know my name?” I asked in a firm voice.

“My dear, I know everything about you. Your fathers name is walt, your mothers name is Jane. Your best friend was Emily and you are immune to the RT-84 Virus. Did I miss anything else?”

I didn’t know what to say or do. But seth decided for me, he stepped around the man and brought everyone in to the building. I stepped in after the bear of a guy and shut and locked the door behind me.

“my name is Grizzly, I set up beds and stuff to make this a home for now. I broke in to the bed bath and beyond place plus the art van down the road about 20 miles. Hope this is all okay for you guys.” the man named Grizzly stated.

The living room area had been changed, the desk was now gone and a large tv with a few popular game consols were in place.

The bedrooms now had full sized beds in them with dressers. Along the hall wall, there were plastic tubs with sizes of the cloths inside. He lead us to the kitchen where a pot of spagetti was waiting for us to eat. The table was set with plates and drinking glasses.

“lets get you all fed and I’ll explain things after you eeat and take a shower okay?”

Everyone nodded but I could tell they were still in shock because of the food, electricity and the guy himself. Shit I was in shock that this huge man knew my mom and dad.

We all ate hungerly and finshed in no time. He had us find fresh clothes from the tubs and go take a shower. I could hear the sighs of satisfaction as we washed. We all showered at the same time, the guys faced the right wall and us girls faced the left. There wasn’t any modesty anymore in the world. You did what you had to do to make it in the world as it was.

When we were finished, we all gathered in the living room area. Grizzly had taken off his deer skin coat to reveal broad shoulders wearing a black tee shirt and heavy black jeans. He really was built like a mac truck.

“ ok exactly 5 months ago, a government lab lost a virus named RT-84. Jades father and mother were the lead scientists on that project. A vascination was made to protect people from the virus but was never allowed to be administered to the public. But it didn‘t matter anyway, the virus changed and now there isn‘t any protection from a bite, but there is a shot I have to give you that will keep you healthier now that food is scarce.. When things went to shit in a hand basket, we all took to the base under ground. Our family’s were left behind. Now this LT. Harris is one of many that took the virus and released it in the first place. They want to take over the world. What better way then to kill off everyone and anything in their way, bad thing was, they didn’t know the virus would turn people into the walking dead I can’t stay with you all. I have other survivors to help. But I got you started here. The electric is from a wind turbine not to far from here. Everything is electric. The switch on the wall right here, is to electrify those fences from deadheads and assholes alike.” grizzly said as he pointed to a switch panel I didn’t notice before near the tv.

We all nodded and he began the shots for everyone else. We all knew we could still die from deadheads, they could eat us alive. but with the high vitamin shot, we would be strong enough to fight them off better. Afterwards we all picked out bedrooms and headed off to bed except me. I had more to ask.

“Grizzly, what happened to my mom and dad?” I asked him

“as far as I know, they are in a bunker under ground. Sorry jade that I don’t have any more info then that. Just stay safe until we can find a way to kill these things. Okay?”

I nodded. There was more then just deadheads to worry about, the LT harris and his wacko army was still at large somewhere.

It also was strange that I found this place, a place this grizzly had set up for us to protect us. But I wasn’t going to worry about that right now. It was time to take charge. Grizzly told the others that he was leaving me and seth in charge until he got back.

I went to sleep that night with hope in my heart for the first time.

It was easy to loose track of days and even weeks when you lived like we had to. Our first snow fall was heavy, 6 inches the first day. The station had a heating system that we couldn’t see, it was all electric but was warm and comfy in there. We found out that our water supply came from deep under ground and was safe to drink. Jess took over the kitchen duties and cooked all the meals for the group. Rain and Sammy still had school and jess taught them while she did the cooking. Marcus and the Doc made a trip to a town and found drugs and medical supplies we could use so now we had a make shift clinic in the storage room.

I had taken off this morning in the light rain that was falling to search my old hometown. I don’t know why I had to do this but seth didn’t argue, he found a truck with fuel in it and drove me to my house. Nothing in town had changed, there still was dead bodies, blood and gore, still nothingness. It was heartbreaking but no different then the other towns or citys I had been to.

At my house, a deadhead was on the porch and seth quickly took it out. Emily’s body was gone and so was Mr. Rogers. That kind of freaked me out. I hurried up the stairs with seth right behind me. I went to my parents room first. I had never knew the true story behind my parents always going away. I needed, no I wanted to see if there was anything in their room to tell me more. But after searching, I found nothing of use.

My room held a lot of things that meant something to me, I know it was stupid to worry about it now but I wanted my pictures, my special things that my parents got me for my new room. I needed to have something that would always remind me of who I was before the virus, not who I am now. Seth seemed to understand that. We gathered up stuff and took it out to the truck. It was only a few boxes and some bags of my own clothes but it was a piece of me that I needed to have.

When we got back. I stayed in my room for the rest of the night, seth brought me a tray of food and left me alone. I unpacked my boxes and put away my clothes. It was a vase that was my favorite that held a place of honor on my dresser, that made me feel finally at home. It was red, green and black blown glass. My mom had brought it back from Russia when I was 10. Tho now that I knew what really she and dad had been up too, maybe they never had left the country.

Being in my room let me decide what I wanted to do. I really do love Seth but until I can find out what really happened, I didn’t want to stay here. I needed to find out what happened to my parents, were they still alive? Were they really underground at a base somewhere south of us? I needed to know.

It was time to call a meeting.

“No!!!!” Jessy’s voice rang above the others protests in the living room.

“this is