Heaven in Hell
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Chapter 10- What was and what will be
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At times like this a man looks back on his past with a certain amount of distain, I suppose that is goes without saying when you could be struck down at any moment by something that may already be inside you, you start to wonder about your choices in life.
As I looked out the window of the hospital silently, my empty eyes looking into their reflections in the glass, I found myself thinking about the person I once was, before I was David King.
I of course had to change the direction of my thoughts, thinking about my past always put me in a foul mood, which always made me want a drink, which was a damn shame now since my favorite bar was over run by zombies, and my Bartender of choice was probably chewing on some poor sap's brains right now.
They say that a man has the power to influence the path his life will take by thinking about it, by visualizing a better life for himself.
But to that I say bull shit, it might work for some people, but my entire life has been nothing but a game of chess with the devil, though I don't believe in such mythical figures, the metaphor stands, my entire life feels like everything was just a forced move, constantly in check, always being pushed right where they want me to be.
This led me to where I was standing, in front of that Window with the army of the undead outside, moaning for the hot warm flesh of the living, for the red blood that was running though our veins.
Even tonight, every move has been forced, we had to climb the stairs in the bar, we had to descend the other building, and we only had one path to move down when we got outside because zombies blocked the other path.
We had to jump into the water because we would be blown to bits if we hadn't; we had to fight off the zombies because the damn cop had to clear the roadblocks to get by.
We had to ride the truck to the hospital because walking would have been suicide; we had to go in because we're under attack from all sides outside.
And we had to come to this room, because it's a high floor, less likely to be zombies up here.
Every move of the night has been like constantly moving the king out of check.
I laughed softly at this thought, moving the king…my last name now after all.
"Moving David King out of check." I mumbled to myself, running a hand though my dark hair and chuckling again.
I looked back into the window again, my eyes again looking at themselves in the reflection, and as always when I see myself, the first thing I noticed was how empty my eyes seemed even to me, it was depressing, but people adapt, and I had long grown used to my eyes, and the story inside of them.
I started to focus on the night, how many lives had I snuffed out with my knife this time? Sure, it's kill or be killed, and more than ever, zombies one shouldn't feel guilty about killing.
But when a man has a spare moment he starts to wonder about things, things that were yet to come, I knew we weren't out of the woods yet, though I hoped that we'd earned ourselves a little time at least.
He looked away from the window at the others, George was leaning against the wall, looking around the room scanning it slowly, if I remembered right, this was the hospital where he worked, so he'd likely know his way around.
Mark, ever vigilant was mostly focused on the door for the most part, not giving heed to his company.
Kevin had stretched out on the floor to rest since the four beds were taken, I thought it lazy of him, and in all truth it was probably wise, rest while you can and all.
Yoke, Jim, Alyssa and Cindy were all lying down, resting their bodies for the next part of the journey.
I sighed and turned back towards the window, it'd been a long night, and it was bound to get longer, I wanted to enjoy the peace as long as I could, of course, peace rarely lasts, and my peace was going to be short lived as well.
The door handle behind me started to turn, and several people moved at once, I turned on my heel and drew my knife, Kevin Drew his empty gun and aimed it at the door out of reflex, Mark also pointed his piece at the door, the others all looked at it with bated breath.
The door opened and in walked a doctor, not a very attractive man, but then, men weren't really my taste anyway.
"Oh, I'm sorry if I startled you." The man started, "I thought everyone had already evacuated this place…the truth is it's no more safe here than anywhere else in the city, I'm trying to get the power back on, I was looking for a fuse."
I reached into the tool kit and tossed him one, he managed to catch it with ease, "T-Thank you sir, I should have the power back on soon…in the meantime, I might suggest you get out of here as soon as you can, it's really not safe here after all."
He turned and left, Mark sighed, "Figuas." He said, "Not a moment of peace to be had here in this town."
Alyssa sighed, "Let me rest…" She mumbled, the other people on the beds said variations of the same thing, I walked towards the door, "I'm going to look around a little, see if the doc needs my help." I said as I opened the door.
"Be careful." I looked back and it was Alyssa to say it, "We have enough problem's fighting these zombies off as it is, you can't die."
I nod slowly and walk through the door, I look up to see a vent shaft, big enough for someone to squeeze though, my past experiences had taught me to be wary of Vent's, to be wary of anything that could be used as an entrance to a room, I made a note of the fact the room The others were in had no vents.
After my inner monologue about the pro's and con's of man sized vents I continued down the hall, having no idea where I was, I walked by the first door I came to, down the hall were some stairs, barred over by a security gate, I looked to the left and saw a doorway, to the right in that hallway on a nearby shelf was a green herb, I smiled a little and picked it up.
"Must be for the herbal med freaks in town, but then, they have a strong argument with these things." I said softly, I walked to the door and opened it, walking in I looked up; there was another vent above me, and the uncomfortable feeling I had returned. I walked farther into the room to find a Diary, I picked it up and flipped though it, though I saw nothing interesting in it's pages, I found a key under it, and slipped it in my pocket.
I turned and opened the locker, inside on the floor was a gun, standard issue officer model Beretta, I picked it up and nearly shit myself when I heard the vent grate fall to the floor, my head and newly found gun, both snapped up to the vent to see a…
I squinted, it was a squirming mass of…something…leaches? In the shape of a human body, my finger curled around the trigger and I thought about ammo conservation, I didn't know how tough this thing was, nor did I know if this gun was even loaded, I quickly dropped it in my tool tray.
My eyes darted around the room and a nearby church caught my eye, my hand shot out and grabbed it, pulling it close to my body as I stood up, I held it out in front of me in a protective gesture, which turned out fortunate, the monster tossed it's arm out at me, and it extended several times the length of the arm usually was, and the blow was mostly blocked by the church, knocking me back a couple of steps.
I considered grabbing the gun and emptying whatever was in into the monster, but the thought of there being nothing deterred me. I instead opted to jump up on the bed; letting the monster work it's way towards me, safe from the trail of leeches it was leaving behind, I then jumped to the other bed just as the monster reeled back to strike out at me again.
I juked out the door and back into the hallway, expecting the creature to come through the door, I turned, and was surprised when it didn't.
I ran towards the "Safe" Room, my intent to tell the others, but skidded to a stop as I got there, the vent I had passed under before now acting as the entrance to the room for the creature.
It drops to the floor and I back up a little, it pulls it's arm back and I quickly duck, the arm passing over me, one leech coming off and dropping onto my coat, I knock it off before it can do any damage and duck into the room that I'd skipped past before, closing the door behind me, breathing hard, I step into the messy room, a notepad lie on the table but I ignore it, not really in the mood for such things.
Two nurses lie on the floor, they look dead and not undead, but the be sure I stomp both their heads, crushing them inwards with the force of my steel toed shoes.
I look past the wall of junk to see the doctor fellow, fiddling with something, he looks towards me and sees me, "Oh hello, you're just in time, I've almost restored power to this place." He smiles a little and makes one more connection. "There." He says as the lights flicker on.
But then as things always do, things took a turn for the worse as the sound of a vent being forced out and pushed to the floor was made, I could see the leech monster on the Doctor's side of the barrier, and he could too, as his face contorted to a look of horror, his scrambled to his feet and ran towards the barrier, trying to get up the high stack of junk to safety, unfortunately for him, he tried to climb to fast and the printer on top of the stack falls as he does, landing on his foot and pinning him to the floor.
I start towards him, but realize there is no way I can make it to him in time, the leech monster grabs onto him and picks him up, the sound leech's sucking his warm blood can be heard from where I stand and I suddenly feel a little sick, I'd had run ins with leech's before, the sound that they made sickened me for a moment as the monster shoved him into the vent shaft, for eating at it's leisure no doubt.
I sighed and climbed over the barrier, much shorter without the printer on top of it, I looked around and found the man's ID card, slipped it into my pocket, I also fount in a freezer like thing, Some blood packs, I featured them as useful, but not for the moment, they needed to be kept cold, I closed the freezer thing and climbed back over the barrier, and then out the door, I glanced around the hallway and then walked to the safe room.
"What was has been killing, and what will be is even more of it" I thought to myself as I walked into the room.---------------
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