Empty Bodies (Book 2): Adaptation by Bohannon Zach

Author:Bohannon, Zach [Bohannon, Zach]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Zombie Apocalypse
Publisher: Zellwood Press
Published: 2015-05-19T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

David

The hallway was empty when David emerged from his room. He was hungry and would eventually go eat, but he wanted to check on something else first. He was barefoot, which allowed him to walk on the tile floor without making enough noise to attract anyone.

He stepped all the way out of the doorway and shut the door behind him, then turned down the hallway, away from the break room. Kristen, one of the nurses, came out of a nearby room, and he smiled at her.

“You going to go eat?” she asked him.

“Yeah, yeah. Just stretching my legs.”

“Alright,” she replied with a smile. “I’ll see you in there.”

David reached the end of the hallway. In one direction were the elevators, and to the other were the double doors that led back to the wing of the hospital where only the survivors who worked at the hospital, apparently, were allowed to go.

He looked behind him to make sure that the hallway was clear. When he saw it was, he turned and headed through the double doors, once again ignoring the “Employees Only” sign.

***

The hallways in this wing were still dark. David moved more quickly this time, having already navigated this part of the hospital before. He only slowed down when he came closer to her.

Like before, the hallway was dark except for the light coming out of the room that housed the creature. As he reached the corner that led around to the room, he could see the light shining out of the large window. He stepped around the corner and heard the snarls.

David looked into the room, and there was Joanne. Their experiment. It was still lying on the bed, restrained with all the machinery still attached.

As he approached the window, it looked up at him. Its growling became more intense and it tried to fight its way out of the restraints. David looked down at them and noticed that they’d used leather straps, which were locked in tight. Joanne wasn’t going anywhere.

He looked around inside the room and noticed a scalpel sitting on a small table. The urge to kill was crawling inside of him again. There was no reason for this creature to be here. They’d already found out that the disease wasn’t viral and, as far as he knew, hadn’t discovered anything else. If they had, why wouldn’t they share it with the other survivors? Joanne… this thing, had served its purpose. He could eliminate it, thus satisfying his hunger to destroy.

David took two steps to his right, never letting his eyes leave those of the creature’s. He reached down to open the door, but it was locked. Frustrated, he pulled harder, but it wouldn’t open. He slammed his hand against the glass and watched as the Empty tried to raise up, almost as if it were toying with him. David let his forehead rest against the glass and he could feel the sweat drip down his brow.

“So, we meet here once again, Mr. Ellis?”

Startled, David looked over to Lawrence and sighed.

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