The Abyss Above Us 2 by Ryan Notch

Author:Ryan Notch [Notch, Ryan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction, Horror, Mystery; Thriller & Suspense, Thrillers & Suspense, Technothrillers
Amazon: B00B1WPEWU
Published: 2013-01-14T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 30

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What Jack found in the kitchen of his apartment was as depressing as it was expected. The pure water dispenser in the kitchen knocked over, the contents spilled out onto the floor and evaporated or soaked through the cracks. He looked down on it like a man looking down on a grave, completely silent. They’d found his door unlocked just as Terra had found hers, making him suspect someone had the master key from the landlord. Someone who knew what to look for.

Collin.

“There’s still some in the jug,” said Terra from behind him. She held a taser in her hand now, traded from her purse for the mirrored shiv.

“I know,” said Jack absently. He was trying to calculate exactly how much water was left in there. It was too hard to figure in cups, so he thought about it in terms of his morning coffee. He guessed it would cover about one and a half pots. He tried to remember if he had ever heard what the minimum amount of water a human can survive on was, but he couldn’t. He was so thirsty already. And he didn’t have to look in the fridge to know there were exactly two bottles of beer, half a loaf of bread, some borderline bad lunchmeat, and an assortment of condiments. Jack generally ate out for every meal, and didn’t like to make the place too long-term inviting for the women he brought home from the clubs.

Jack opened the fridge and took out a beer. He felt emotionally finished. Tired. He walked over to his couch and sat down painfully, his sore muscles straining even at this. He anger and determination from just a few minutes ago seemed to have dissipated with the adrenaline, leaving him with nothing in its place.

Fuck it, he thought. Fuck-It.

He opened the beer and traded the knife for the remote, putting his feet up and turning on the TV. He was a bit surprised to see it still worked. He flipped it to BBC America, something comforting to remind him of home. It was a rerun of The Office. Not the American one, the original. Jack had seen it, he’d seen all of them. He had the DVDs. It got weird after awhile not to hear people with your same accent. He’d give anything to be in a London pub right now. It all seemed to far away.

Terra stood staring at him, as if waiting for something.

Say something, he thought angrily. Deliberately not looking back at her. Please ask me what we’re supposed to do now. Give me an excuse to tell you how fucked up this all is, and how fucked we are for being in the middle of it.

Jack leaned his head back and closed his eyes. He thought he could hear far off the strange voice of the spider he had dreamt of earlier.

I should have left you, he thought at Terra. It would have been better for both of us. I could have checked on you from outside of here, could have got help.

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