Humanity Gone: After the Plague by Derek Deremer

Author:Derek Deremer
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Science Fiction, Action & Adventure, Fiction
ISBN: 9781481046619
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2012-12-11T08:00:00+00:00

Chapter 21: Sara

I think I like Carter after this past month. Jon says that Carter almost killed Caitlyn when he gave her the wrong medicine at first, but she looks a lot better now. Before Carter came, she’d been getting worse and worse for more than a week.

Besides, Carter’s been spending a lot of time with Caitlyn making sure she is getting better as fast as she can. I like sitting with them and talking; he has a lot of good stories from when he was an EMT. He said he’d often get called to this house owned by an old man who had frequent health problems, and no matter how bad the man was when he got there, he’d have a candy bar on the shelf for each member of the attending team.

“The first two times, we didn’t accept anything,” he said. “Then, about the third or fourth time, he had these caramel peanut bars, and was really insistent. How can you say no to an old man that’s on your gurney still wearing an ear-to-ear smile under an oxygen mask? After that, it became habit for us.”

He has lots of stories like that. I think the only person that likes them more than Caitlyn and me is Jo, but she won’t admit it. I see her looking over her shoulder and smiling as she pretends to read her books while Carter talks. Once she even giggled at a funny part about a story when he stayed at this campground.

“And just then, while we were sitting around the fire arguing over who would take the last strips of bacon from the cooling rack, a raccoon runs up, grabs the two pieces, stands up on its hind legs and gives us a look like this:” Carter held out two clenched fists as if he was holding bacon, tipped his head, shook it, and rolled his eyes. His impersonation of a raccoon was ridiculous.

Jo couldn’t help herself. I knew she had been listening, and she giggled with Caitlyn and me. But when Carter turned around, she pointed, “I'm laughing at you, not with you.”

She’s out hunting again right now. She still hasn’t brought anything back, but that won’t slow her down. She’s said the same thing all week, “I’ll get one tomorrow.” Then the next day, each time she left, Jon would remind her to be careful, and Carter would glance up at her a few times as she walked into the woods. He has spent some time helping her handle the guns properly. Carter has a little experience.

Jon has been working on basically two things: radishes and archery. He’s set up a really make-shift target behind the house just next to his fields. His “target” is more of a tall pile of dirt, and he aims for empty cans that he’s jammed into the side after taking out both the bottom and top parts of the cans. He doesn’t get the arrows in them very often, but even from far away he hits the mound.

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