Outpost 2: Terminus by Adam Baker

Author:Adam Baker
Language: eng
Format: azw3, mobi
Tags: Horror, Thriller, Fiction
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Published: 2013-06-20T07:00:00+00:00

">‘Double check.’

Cloke shone his flashlight round the carriage. The fibreglass seats had been removed. Boxes and ammo crates stacked on the floor, piled against the carriage wall. The walls had been lagged with opaque polythene: a crude attempt at insulation.

‘Must have frozen their asses off down here.’

He kicked through garbage. Empty water bottles. Foil MRE wrappers. He tipped a box. Dozens of shampoo bottles tumbled across the floor.

‘They brought some pretty random shit,’ said Tombes.

‘Looks like they raided a Duane Reade. Snatched whatever they found.’

‘Must have been miserable. No daylight. Dwindling rations. Surprised they didn’t go nuts.’

‘Looks like they did.’

Tombes walked between the bodies. He pulled on gloves.

Tombes plucked a crumpled sheet of paper from a dead hand.

‘They wrote suicide notes.’

‘Bag them up. That’s what we came for. Any written account of their time down here. Anything that might describe their research.’

Tombes took a bandana from his pocket, shook it open and masked his face. He knelt in front of a corpse and tried to push a rigor-stiff arm aside so he could reach a pant pocket. The cadaver toppled forwards, threatened to fall on him. He pushed it back in its seat. He pulled out a leather wallet.

‘This guy was a limo driver.’

‘Guess they picked up a few civilians along the way. Pretty ragtag bunch.’

Cloke shone his flashlight round the carriage. Grotesque, gaping mouths. Eyes sunk and rolled back. Some of the corpses leaned, like they were sleeping on each other’s shoulders.

He took a Geiger reading. He held the handset in front of an emaciated, shattered face. Fierce crackle.

‘They were dying and they knew it.’

‘This is how we’ll end up, isn’t it?’ said Tombes. ‘Sitting in the dark. For ever.’

‘Donahue is checking the charts. Maybe we’ll be okay.’

Donahue searched through the trauma bag. She found a box of Codeine. She pressed tablets from a foil strip and dry-swallowed.

Galloway sat on the entrance steps. He watched her and smiled.

‘A little something to take the edge?’

‘Mind your own damned business.’

‘Hey. So you need a little de-stress. I don’t blame you. No one would blame you. Nariko got us in this mess. She wanted to die a hero. Dragged us down here and got herself killed. You didn’t create this situation.’

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