Infection Z by Ryan Casey

Author:Ryan Casey [Casey, Ryan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Higher Bank Books
Published: 2015-03-24T04:00:00+00:00

Twenty-Two

Hayden watched the person in the black Special Forces uniform fire a blast of bullets into Frank’s body.

Frank shook on the spot. Blood splattered out of his chest, his legs, his arms, and eventually his head. At first, Hayden couldn’t quite understand what he was seeing. He couldn’t understand why the army was shooting at Frank. This couldn’t be possible. This couldn’t be real. The army were supposed to help.

And yet, here they were, blasting Frank into fleshy, bloody pieces.

“Run!” Hayden shouted.

He spun around and threw himself back onto the wall at the back of the terraced house he’d come through. As he pulled himself over, he heard shots whoosh past his head, the heat of them stinging the side of his face. He dropped down onto the concrete at the other side of the wall, Newbie and Sarah following shortly afterwards.

He heard the people from the armoured vehicle running too, heard the vehicle rumbling closer towards the back wall …

“Get inside,” Hayden said.

“But Frank,” Sarah said.

“Frank’s gone.” The words still felt alien to Hayden. He hadn’t known Frank long, but he liked him. He seemed like a genuinely good person. He’d been there right from the start. The very first person to help Hayden wrap his head around the chaos of the new world.

But he didn’t have time to dwell on Frank’s death.

He sprinted towards the back door of the terraced house. As he reached the door, he heard more bullets fire from behind. They cracked the concrete at the sides of his feet as he threw himself into the kitchen, swung around the door.

“Quick!” he shouted.

Newbie and Sarah ran too. Behind them, one of the black-suited military people fired at them, the bullets narrowly missing them as they zigzagged across the concrete. Hayden hoped they wouldn’t be called on to defend the nation anytime soon with their skew-whiff shooting. But no—that’s exactly what they were doing right now. Defending the nation against a threat.

Only Hayden was, the others, they were part of that threat.

Newbie and Sarah rushed inside. Hayden slammed the kitchen door shut. Bullets peppered against the wooden kitchen door, pieces of it crumbling away under the force of the bullets.

“We don’t have long,” Hayden said. “They … they’re going to come through here any moment.”

“Then what do we do?” Sarah asked.

“We have to go through the front,” Hayden said.

Newbie shook his head. “Not a chance. The road out there is filled with infected.”

“Then we fight them,” Hayden said.

He wrapped his fingers around the long butcher’s knife in his hand.

“We don’t have a choice here,” he said, sweat pouring down his cheeks. “We fight our way out the front and hide somewhere other than this fucking house, or we wait here to be shot dead.”

Sarah’s eyes were wide, stunned. “They … they shot Frank. Maybe they thought he was one of them—”

“They knew exactly what he was,” Hayden said.

He was about to elaborate when he heard boots hit the concrete and the military personnel running across the yard.

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