Enclave by Robert Morganbesser

Author:Robert Morganbesser
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Lang:en, Zombies
Published: 2012-06-17T05:03:56+00:00

15 November 2032

Mother of Mercy Hospital

Outside the barricade

Chicago, Ill

Jones stood over Jameson's corpse. It wasn't a pretty sight. A pool of blood had gathered where her head had been and stained her white lab coat. Small tendrils of flesh hung off the leaking stump. Behind him, blocked from the view was Helen Feeney, the chief nurse. She hadn't liked Jameson, but she understood the way the woman had thought. Jameson wasn’t the first person, intelligent or not, who couldn’t deal with the reality of the dead. Now she was gone and so were the last of the patients. Had this been the right thing to do?

Jones glanced down at the letter opener. Almost ten inches long, shaped like an ancient broadsword, it could have done some damage to an unarmored trooper, but Vincent was in full armor except for his gasmask. He could have put her down without shooting her. Sighing, Jones was beginning to think that he was going to have to deal with the sergeant. Perhaps in the same way. It wouldn’t be the first time a trooper cracked under the pressure and became more dangerous to his own than the enemy.

"Sergeant."

Vincent appeared in the doorway, his usual calm look on his face. Jones felt an urge for one moment to slap that look off his face, but resisted. "There was no other way for you to subdue her?"

Vincent's face remained innocent. "I was caught off guard sir. If she hadn't been so close, I might have butt stroked her and restrained her.”

“Off guard?”

“I'm tired, Captain. We all are. I feel shot."

Feeney snorted at this. "You’re tired? Please, Sergeant. You stalk around here like a cat! When I came to see what happened, you spun so fast, I was afraid I'd get shot."

Vincent stared at her and then shrugged. "Believe what you want, Nurse Feeney. I say I'm tired."

Jones ushered both of them out of the office and closed the door. "We're going to be stuck here at least another two days before the birds can come back. I don't want you people at each other’s throats. Miss Feeney, I'd like you to make sure your people are ready to go at a moment's notice, the equipment that's being salvaged is already in cargo nets on the roof. That'll be gone tonight. Two Skycranes are coming for it. I can get four people out with them. Anybody you'd like. The rest of us stay until final evac."

Feeney nodded. "I'll let you know in an hour captain." Turning she walked away, Vincent and Jones eyes following her. She was an attractive woman. Petite, but strong, it was obvious she worked out. It was also obvious that she didn't believe Vincent's story.

Neither did Jones.

"Tell me the truth Roger, what happened here?"

Vincent knew better than to lie now. He'd seen Jones in action. On a prior mission, while in the middle of a battle with the dead, one man had gone unhinged and endangered them all. Without a moment’s hesitation, Jones had put his own weapon against the eyepiece of the man's gasmask and blown his brains out.

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