PARASITIC: An Apocalyptic-Horror Thriller (MADNESS Chronicles Book 2) by M.L. Banner

Author:M.L. Banner [Banner, M.L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Toes in the Water Publishing, LLC
Published: 2018-06-24T05:00:00+00:00

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David glanced down at Ted and immediately felt sorrow for this man. Ted was cocooned, head cradled in his hands on the table-top. He watched the man quietly sob; small convulsive quivers buffeted Ted’s body every few seconds. The shock phase had passed, and this was the first moment the man had been allowed to mourn. David understood quite well what it was like to lose a loved one to a horrific fate. He’d lost more loved ones than he could count to the evils of this world.

“I’ll get him,” David said. He glanced back at Jessica and Jean Pierre. They were frantically working away at the console. Neither was going to respond.

David had never been on the bridge of a cruise ship, and he suspected the makeup of the bathrooms—didn’t they call them heads on these things?—was probably different than what land-dwellers like him were used to. At first, he wasn’t sure he’d be able to find it, but since there was only one other doorway besides the entrance and the ruined doorway to some room on the other side of the bridge, he assumed this was the bathroom. A small sliver of light stabbing out from the bottom of the door was the exclamation point to his assumption.

David approached the door and tapped on it lightly at first. He waited a few seconds and then put a little more authority into his tapping.

There was no answer.

“Hello, sir. Are you all right?”

Still no answer.

David grabbed the handle and was about to open the door, but then wondered if this was the smartest idea. What if this Agust was one of those things now?

While clutching the door, David turned back and glanced first at the staff captain and then first officer, now working on a different console without lights. Then he glared at Ted. “Hey Ted! Ted, please!” David’s words came out in short puffs of air. He wanted only Ted’s attention, and not the others.

Ted slowly released his head out from under his own clutches. He lifted his face up, his teary eyes meeting David’s.

David put aside his compassion for the man. “Sorry to interrupt, but I may need you to back me up…” These words came out even quieter. “In case… You know.”

Ted nodded and pushed himself up, using the table while holding up his injured ankle. He put some weight on it and immediately pulled it away, his face screwing up. But then he tried it again, as if he were testing it.

Ted nodded again, this time more resolutely.

David nodded back and pivoted back to the bathroom door. He gave one more light tap and then twisted the handle.

He pushed the door open.

A bright splash of light shot out, causing David to squint and hold a hand up to hold back some of its brightness.

Quickly his eyes adjusted, and he saw the officer.

Safety Officer Agust Helguson was lying on the floor in the fetal position.

For just the briefest of moments, David wondered if the man was dead. Then he saw the man’s rapid breaths.

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