The Dead Series (Book 3): Dead Weight by Schafer Jon

Author:Schafer, Jon [Schafer, Jon]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: zombies
Publisher: Self
Published: 2013-07-13T04:00:00+00:00

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Staff Sergeant Fagan walked out of the trailer housing Major Cage’s office as his mind reeled. Seeing Jimmy sitting on the steps, he said, “Come on, PFC.”

Jimmy asked, “We going to report to the farmhouse now, Sarge?”

“Not yet. I think we just got reassigned. Give me a minute to think about this.”

Wondering how this would affect his plans to desert, Jimmy asked, “What now, Sarge?”

He thought over what Major Cage had told him about there being a possible cure for the HWNW virus, along with the Malectron that Doctor Hawkins was working on. Abruptly he responded, “You don’t question orders PFC, you follow them. When it’s time to let you know where we’re going and what we’re doing, I’ll let you know. Until then, be quiet.”

Jimmy fell silent as Fagan considered what he had learned in his talk with Cage. The uses for the Malectron were endless, but so were the abuses. Having grown up in the nuclear age, he didn’t like the idea of anyone having an ultimate weapon.

On the other hand, there was Doctor Connors and her research, but that seemed like a long shot. She needed someone who was immune to the virus and those were few and far between. Thinking about this, he realized that a lot of the people who’d been bitten had been shot in the head before they turned. He himself had taken out fellow soldiers and civilians that he thought were infected. He wondered if he might have inadvertently killed someone who wouldn’t have turned into a Z. He shuddered at the thought, not just from the fact that he could’ve possibly killed someone he didn’t need to, but also because they might have held the cure.

His mind drifted to one Corporal in particular who’d held up his bleeding hand as he pleaded for his life after being bitten. He’d assured the other men on his team that he would be fine. He swore that if he turned, he wouldn’t come after them.

They shot him in the head anyway.

A fairly simple man, Fagan weighed his options. The Major had asked him to do everything in his power, and use all the contacts he’d made in his seventeen years of service, to reach out and help him find someone who was immune to the HWNW virus. Cage had told him that he knew he couldn’t order him to do this but was calling in a favor.

And what a favor, Fagan thought. But when a man saves your life, you owe him big time.

He’d also given him another option. Fagan could report to the farmhouse and go about the business of bringing in the dead for the doctors to study and nothing more would be said to him on the subject of finding a cure. Doctor Hawkins would perfect his Malectron and put it to whatever use the Joint Chiefs decided.

Telling the Major he needed to think about it, Cage replied that he should take his time. He wasn’t due to report to the farmhouse until the following morning, so he could even sleep on it if he wanted to.

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