Plague Town by Dana Fredsti

Author:Dana Fredsti [Fredsti, Dana]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Speculative Fiction Suspense, (¯`'•.¸//(*_*)\\¸.•'´¯)
ISBN: 9780857686381
Publisher: Titan
Published: 2012-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE

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I wasn’t hung-over the next day, unless you count an emotional hangover, in which case I had a doozy. No time to nurse it, though, either physically or emotionally. There was work to do.

We spent two days clearing the buildings on the Redwood Grove campus, one by one. After the zombies were eliminated in each building, hazmat-suited teams would come in and take away the corpses for disposal. Any survivors were taken to Patterson Hall.

The entire time I was luring zombies out of buildings, killing them, sweeping the buildings for the ghouls too clueless to answer the dinner bell, and locating survivors too terrified to answer our calls, I was going through my own personal hell.

I was doing it all under orders from the guy who had humiliated me.

Worse, there wasn’t anyone I could talk to about it.

I’m here to tell you, it sucked.

But I did it all. I can’t say I had a smile on my face, but I gritted my teeth, determined to do my job and kick ass. Though I wished it was Gabriel’s.

“Yo, Tofu!” Kai hollered from the front door of the Poly Sci building, mid-afternoon on the second day. “You’ve got zoms on their way out the front door.”

“Roger that, Lando.”

“Ashley,” he added, “You’ll be on the front door after we dispatch the zoms.” He used nicknames for Kai and Lily, but for me it was all formal.

Whatever.

I hated the fact that he made me feel like a high school kid with a crush. Somehow he managed to tap into every insecurity still lurking in my psyche.

Faint moans grew louder as Kai—“Lando,” that is—dashed through the doors, clearing the stairs in one jump. He whirled around and opened fire as the hungry zombies staggered outside, looking for food.

At least thirty of them poured out and down the stairs, most of them looking to be former students with maybe a couple of teachers thrown in for good measure. I didn’t recognize any of them, for which I was thankful. Anonymity made it easier to put bullets in their heads. Something in those flat, freaky pale irises and bloody corneas made it easy to forget these things had once been human.

Kai, Lil, and I did pretty damned well, without wasting time or ammo on body shots unless totally necessary. I couldn’t help but be proud, though, that out of the three of us, I was the best shot.

Once we had taken care of the crowd that had followed Kai outside, he, Gabriel, and Lil went inside to finish the job while I kept an eye out for stragglers. As I waited I thought about Lily... Lil, that is. She insisted on being called that now. I suspected it was more than an affectation to her, more than Tony’s geeky need for movie-type labels.

For Lil, the new name was a way to differentiate between the girl she’d been and who she’d become. She’d seen more horror in a very short time than most people see

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