Dead Tide Surge by North Stephen A

Author:North, Stephen A. [North, Stephen A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Horror, St. Petersburg, Fiction, Zombies, Military, Apocalypse, FL
Publisher: Permuted Press
Published: 2014-06-01T04:00:00+00:00

48. Julie

Her thoughts drifted far from the gloomy darkness that surrounded them. She remembered happier days, images that spooled out like a roll of film, most of them back in college, before the White House days. She and Burt Foster had met in a British Literature class. One night he’d read Marvell's To His Coy Mistress to her; she’d been anything but coy in her response. The memory was so good...

George was finishing on the toilet when Julie heard the helicopter engine’s tempo increase. She knew that couldn't be good. “Hurry, George, they're going to leave us!”

She pulled him out of the stall despite his protests, yanked his pants up, and hefted him onto her hip. She ran blindly out of the bathroom, struggling to hold him and steer with the flashlight. The engine noise drowned out any other sound as they burst back into the hangar. The crack of gunshots almost made her stumble, and when the helicopter lifted, she saw the colonel's body sprawled on the ground. Julie ran, heart in her mouth, knowing it was too late, and emerged back into the sunlight. She saw the long, straggling line of walking dead people coming across the grassy field from the direction of the terminal, and then heard more firing. Booth was shooting at the helicopter as it flew away, taking careful, deliberate shots. She wondered whether he could hit it since it was moving pretty fast. Then, there was a gout of flame, and oily smoke trailed behind it. She was shocked to see such a little gun do damage to such a large machine. George slid almost unnoticed down her hip and landed on his feet. He clung to Julie’s leg, and she held him tight with her right hand.

“First Lady!” Booth shouted, and she looked up. He was running toward her, followed by Lassiter and Hicks.

The meaning of what had just happened was sinking in. There wasn't going to be any reunion with Burt. This nightmare world was real, and a hardscrabble struggle to survive was beginning for them.

Julie turned away from the approaching men and watched the helicopter crash. Pieces of the rotor splintered and flew everywhere, while fuel spewed out from the wreckage and the flame bloomed. A moment after, she spied the figures of the two pilots stagger free, one of them burning. His companion, probably Duncan, knocked him to the ground and made him roll in an effort to extinguish the flames. Both were oblivious to the living dead that were closing in.

Booth and the others stopped next to her. Lassiter raised his rifle, and Hicks knocked it down. “Leave them be. Save your bullets for something more worthy than those two fuck-ups. They just stranded us here.”

Julie didn't even look up. She was too busy focusing on the drama unfolding in front of her. She'd never hated anyone so much in her life, and she was glad they were about to die.

“Let's go,” Booth said. “They'll be coming for us too.

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