The Red X Chronicles (Book 1): Emergent by Sullivan Robert Patrick

Author:Sullivan, Robert Patrick [Sullivan, Robert Patrick]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Zombie Apocalypse
Published: 2017-09-29T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

Half the day had passed when I got a chance to talk to Dennis in the kitchen. “Hey, I heard you were short on ammo back at the mall will these help?” I revealed the small red box from my pants and handed it to him.

He took it from me and looked it over. “.357 magnum huh? Sorry Mark this won’t work for either of my or John’s guns. Hold on.” He flipped open the side and pulled the bullets out. “Hmm, six rounds are missing.” He was more talking to himself than me at that moment. “Where did you find this?”

“It was in the master bedroom, in the dresser? Why, what’s up?”

“Chances are there’s a revolver around here somewhere. Let’s go take a look.” He got up from the kitchen table, and I followed him down the hall.

I pointed out the dresser where I found the box. “It was in there, on the top shelf.”

“Good, let’s have a look.” He pulled it open and began rummaging through the contents.

I was just standing there, feeling like a useless idiot, so I felt inclined to talk. “So… How’s your family holding up?”

He took his time to answer. “Not well… Helena is scared shitless, but she’s tough. Don’t take me wrong though, it doesn’t mean things have been easy the past few days.”

“It’s rough… to say the least.”

“Yeah.” He had finished with the top drawer and moved onto the next one down. “Hey check the nightstand. Tons of people keep guns in their nightstands.”

“Ok.” I walked over to it and pulled open the drawer. There wasn’t a lot in there, so it made searching simple enough. “What about Jill?”

“Jill? I think she’s too young to really understand what’s going on. I’m not sure any of us really get it come to think of it, but to her, they’re just monsters. Hell, maybe that’s really all there is to it. Kind of a scary thought, the whole world reduced to a childish nightmare… I really wish she didn’t have to see this shit.”

“Me either… It’s not in here by the way.”

“No luck over here.” He closed the dresser and turned around. “Let’s take a look in the closet.” A brief search revealed nothing once again. “Well, it was probably whoever lived here’s carry gun. It’s really not all that surprising, especially with what’s happened.” He shook his head. “It’s just odd though…”

“Why?” I cocked one eyebrow higher than the other.

“If you knew what was happening, why wouldn’t you take the box of ammo too?”

I was a little smarmy in my reply. “Well why didn’t you take your box with you when this all started?”

“I was already out when this whole mess got started…” It took him a second to catch on. “Ok, I see your point, whoever owned it probably was too.” He pointed toward the door to the hall. “Let’s get back out there.”

“Hey?” I asked following behind him.

“Yes?”

“What made you think it was a revolver?”

“Two things really. The first was the fact that you found a box of .

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