The Zombie Whisperer (Living With the Dead) by Petersen Jesse

Author:Petersen, Jesse [Petersen, Jesse]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Jesse Petersen, Horror, Humor, Living with the Dead Series, Zombies
Publisher: IGLA
Published: 2013-01-13T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

The Happiest Zombie on the Block

Test results. Want to talk. Now.

Nicole’s words rang in broken fragments in my ears as I staggered down the hall and up the stairs, Dave at my side. He was holding my arm, talking to me, but my ears were ringing and I couldn’t fully understand him. Or maybe I just wasn’t listening, what with everything else in my head.

All I could think about was that my baby was a zombie and they were going to rip him or her out of me. And that I didn’t want that.

I mean, I didn’t want him to eat me from the inside out, either, but the other thing sucked, too.

“I’ll-right-back-” Nicole’s fragmented voice said and she stepped into a room.

As soon as she was gone, Dave swung me around to face him and shook me. Hard.

“Hey!” His voice pierced my fog and I blinked. “Hey, you need to snap out of this weird little fugue state you’re in and get it together.”

I stared at him, still a little iffy on what he was saying even though all the words made sense.

“Listen to me,” he snapped, his time closer to my ear. “They could want to take you, to hurt you, if this meeting doesn’t go well. I need you alert because I won’t be able to fight them off alone. They aren’t zombies.”

I blinked at that. Dave needed my help. LZ could need my help. And the fog cleared because this was about my family.

“Yes, I will. I’m okay.”

I wasn’t. He wasn’t either. We both knew it. But that was another story entirely.

Nicole opened the door and motioned us into the room. “We’re ready.”

I found myself reaching for Dave’s hand and we walked into the room together, us against the world… the way it was supposed to be. The group before me was very familiar, in fact it was virtually identical to the one we’d met with after my bombshell that I was pregnant. Robbie, the Colonel, Lisa (with a smirk) and Nicole sat before us. But they were joined by Josh, Drea (who I assumed was there for moral support based on her sympathetic expression) and the almost nurse/almost veterinarian who had done my ultrasound, Nadia.

“Seems like the gang’s all here,” I said, lifting my chin in defiance. Dave squeezed my hand, but in a supportive way rather than a shut up way.

“It’s important,” the Colonel said with a thin smile.

I shifted with his cool tone and the way he looked at me. Like a shark. Empty and merciless. To him, we were just another job to deal with, a part of his checklist to destroy the zombies.

“Stop stalling and being dramatic and tell us what the deal is with the… baby,” Dave said.

I smiled that was the first time he’d called him or her a baby rather than a thing. Apparently he was developing his own parental instincts. Faint, but there.

Robbie motioned to Josh and the two of them got up. I braced myself

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