Zombies! by Roberts David K

Author:Roberts, David K. [Roberts, David K.]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Zombie Apocalypse
Publisher: David K Roberts
Published: 2016-12-20T05:00:00+00:00

10 - Once More Unto The Breach

Looking out of the window in the stairwell we could see that the zombie herd had moved away, probably inflicting misery and terror wherever they went.

“Now’s our time to leave this terrible place,” Pius suggested.

“Where are you going?” Vlad asked.

“He has to get to his family in Woolwich,” Becky piped up. “We’re going with him.”

“Can you even do that? Wouldn’t it be safer to stay indoors until all this is over?” Indre asked, her voice quavering with fright at the thought.

“Over, seriously, over?” I replied. “You’re having a laugh, aren’t you? Pretty sure it’s already over, my dear. The world we all knew that is. Anyway, you saw how quickly they got into this building. If there hadn’t been a loft walkway we would have been trapped in your bloody café with them and, well, I think you and I both know what would have happened judging by how that piece of shit came back to life. I think there’s bugger all to wait around for apart from a fucking painful death, which I for one do not have on my bucket list.”

“At least we can outrun them,” Becky agreed, frowning at me. I guess she didn’t like me saying it as I saw it. I guess I was a little harsh with Indre. “We have already done that - more than once.”

Indre whimpered self-pityingly.

“Come on, girl,” Matt, her colleague interjected, putting an arm around her shoulders. “I’ll keep you safe.”

Indre’s withering look as she freed herself from his clutches said everything about their relationship.

“You two had better keep it together once we’re out there,” I told them. “I won’t have your personal problems getting one of us killed. We may be able to outrun them but it won’t be a walk in the park, not by any means.”

“I will not be a problem,” Indre said firmly, through gritted teeth.

“Don’t worry about me, mate. I’ll step up,” Matt retorted arrogantly. Strange, I thought, I hadn’t seen much evidence of that up to now.

“You’d better do so. We won’t wait and I won’t risk one of our lives for yours so we have to stick together. If any of you want to come with Pius, Becky and me then you are welcome but the only decisions that count, at least until we get to his family, are ours.”

Pius raised himself to full height as if affirming my little speech.

“Let us go before we meet anyone else who could pose a threat,” Pius suggested.

“Righto,” I agreed. “You ready, Becks?”

“As ready as I’ll ever be.”

With a look of steely determination she began to descend the stairs, Pius leading the way, gun at the ready. The rest of us followed and I wondered whether seven of us would make it in one piece across the ravaged city.

As we arrived alongside Sneaky Bastard in the stairwell I peered at the man. The squaddie’s neck was broken, the head resting unnaturally close to his shoulders. In spite of all this damage his face writhed as it spotted us coming nearer.

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