Deadlocked 3 by A. R. Wise

Author:A. R. Wise [Wise, A. R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Horror
Published: 2012-05-28T00:55:37+00:00

CHAPTER NINE - GOODNIGHT MY SON

Mark and Levon were pissed, and they tried to confront Reagan when I finally opened the door. I pleaded with them to leave while the old man stood in their apartment, smoking his mysteriously produced cigarette. He grinned at them as if more than happy to fight if necessary. I finally calmed them down and we left the apartment behind.

Levon and I carried Mark down the stairs, which was a lot harder than I'd expected. I took the top as Levon squatted beneath his brother's chair and labored through each step.

Mark told me that his brother was used to this, and that it was good exercise for him. Levon had been a track star, but life after high school left little time for running. Mark, on the other hand, had found new life as an athlete after high school. He'd joined a Murderball league a year back and had been exercising endlessly since, which explained his massive chest and arms.

Once we were back on the street, and had checked for any military presence, we ran down 13th Avenue. This section of town wasn't abandoned, at least not completely. I spied several cautious faces peering out of windows at us as we went along. Mark saw them too.

"Shouldn't we tell these people to get out of here?" he asked.

Levon panted as he ran behind his brother, pushing the wheelchair. "Fuck that. What're we going to do? Stop at every damn building and yell at them. We don't have that kind of time." I thought about how he'd yelled at Reagan for doing the same sort of thing at the Baylor Projects, but I didn't want to argue the point. Levon was right; we didn't have any time to waste as evening loomed.

The street was littered with debris from the chaos that had enveloped the city during the evacuation. Cars packed the street and garbage was strewn about as if people had dropped what they didn't need as they ran. Then there were the bodies. No one had been here to collect them and they sat bloating amid junk we trampled through.

Catching sight of a corpse on a city street is foreign enough to startle you, but the ever-present concern of those dead bodies standing up and trying to eat you makes it considerably worse.

"Damn," said Levon. "These streets are fucked." He tried to weave his brother in and out of the mess, but it was getting harder the further we went. "I can't make it through this shit."

"They haven't sent any of the teams up here to clear this yet," I said and kicked a briefcase to the side.

"Leave me here," said Mark. "Put me in that market, there on the corner. I'll hang and wait for you guys."

"No way, bro," said Levon. "Sorry, Billy, but I can't leave my brother. You're going to have to go on without us."

"I understand. Why don't you guys head into that store and grab some food, if there's any left.

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