No Rest For the Wicked ~ A Walking Dead Fan Fiction

Chapter 39 Kiss me Goodnight

Chapter 39 Kiss me Goodnight

Third Person~

Elsie reached a T intersection in the tunnels, aware there were walkers very close by from their loud, echoing growls. Indeed, there was a large pack of them, most just passed the intersection. Close range gunshots let her know that pack was after someone living.

She caught a glimpse of Lori leaning heavily on Maggie between walker bodies, her face scrunched in pain. They weren't gonna make it anywhere with Lori being injured. Elsie's heart hammered as she drew her knife, giving it an extra polish on her shirt, took a shuddering breath and sliced open her palm. Rich red liquid instantly oozed from the cut, knotting her stomach.

Bad idea. Bad idea. Bad idea.

The self-preservationist in her repeated that over and over again. This was close to suicide, but she had a chance and in doing so she was also giving the others one. She drew her gun and shot down a walker, the noise instantly getting the pack's attention.

"Hey! Come on! This way!" She hollered. Her voice cracked but that didn't matter to that walkers, they'd come for her all the same. A few more shots were fired before she turned, slapping her bloodied hand across the wall as she ran away.

"Elsie?" Carl's shout reached her ears.

"Run!" She screamed back louder, checking over her shoulder to make sure she was still being followed. A few walkers had stopped to lick the blood on the walls. She left it to bate them but seeing them licking at it felt strangely violating. The others were chasing after her so she switched into a full-on sprint, running for her life now instead of for the others. Naturally she was fast and with the terror propelling her she was able to get a few turns ahead of the pack before looping back and trying to find the exit door. But she'd only ever been this far in the prison once to retrieve medical supplies with Carl and it was dark and confusing back here, making finding the way out a difficult task. She slowed when she rounded a corner and saw walkers licking the walls. She'd made a full loop. It was satisfying to shoot them as she jogged by.

"Elsie?" Carl's voice carried around the corner and she slowed, wondering why the hell they hadn't gotten out when she gave them their chance. She rounded another corner to find Carl in the hall, gun in hand.

"Carl, what are you still doing in here?!" She hissed.

He swallowed and she noticed how pale and sweaty he was, how terrified he looked. "Mom's having the baby."

First Person~ Kate

I led Eric down a corridor at a jog, knife ready in hand. "Check the rooms." I ordered when we rounded a corner to find the hall now lined with doors. We worked fast and efficiently, combing our way through the halls. There was no sign of the others but we were making quite a dent in the walker population in this area. As I yanked my knife out of the head of a walker and stepped over its collapsed body, I realized I was lost. We'd reached a T intersection yet again and I couldn't remember whether left or right would keep us from making circles anymore.

"Where are we?" Eric panted, stepping over the body behind me to look both ways down the abandoned hall. We were both blood splattered from the multitude of up close kills and when I brushed a hand across my sweaty forehead it came away smeared in someone's red other than my own.

"No idea, I've never been down this way before."

"Then I guess it doesn't matter which way we go." He took half a step forward before suddenly screaming. It happened so fast I didn't have time to process anything. Eric dropped to his knees with a walker still clinging to his shoulder by the teeth. I watched myself stab the walker through the forehead and pull it off him by the hair. Then I was looking behind us for anymore but that seemed to be the only one we missed. My eyes turned back to Eric who was still kneeling on the floor, hyperventilating and clutching his shoulder with both hands. My knees gave and I dropped beside him, pulling his hands back to see it.