Till The End Of The Line

Days Gone Bye Part 3

Zayne's POV-

"Well deputy Rick Grimes, what do you think is happening?" Rick shook his head "No idea, but we should get out of here. Saw some... things out there, when we get out there in the halls... try to stay calm." I nodded and we got up going out into the hall I gasped "Holy shit... it's like a bomb hit..." We walked down the hall then Rick spoke "I haven't been beyond those doors but uh... don't look in 'em." Nodding we continued, I completely didn't listen to Rick and looked through the doors, seeing a half-eaten corpse of a nurse. I gaged and continued following Rick.

No POV-

Rick and Zayne walk unsteadily back down the hall. This hall is littered but in addition they see bullet holes and blood splatters on the walls and a puddle of blood on the floor. They would hear the clinking of chains as they walk through a ruined set of doors. Electrical wiring hangs from holes in the ceiling and glass covers the floor. They approach double doors that are locked and chained. A 2×4 has been inserted through the door handles. A spray painted sign that Zayne reads "don't open, dead inside." They could hear the sounds of groaning and moaning confused and scared Rick backs away from the doors but Zayne moves closer trying to get a better look. Fingers come through the cracks and the moaning, groaning and sighing get louder. Rick bangs through another set of doors to his left Zayne following. Rick tries the elevator but it doesn't work. Zayne goes through the stairwell door calling for Rick to follow and slams it shut. In complete darkness Rick lights match. Rick and Zayne cough and retch at the smell in the stairwell. The flame gets close to Ricks fingers making him yelp slightly. He lights another and stumbles down the stairs till it goes out. He lights a third and with it they find the exit. Zayne opens the door to blinding daylight. They continue down the back stairs of a loading dock. They have to walk past dozens of shrouded corpses that have been lined up in rows across the parking area. Many show gunshot wounds to the head. Flies are buzzing all around them. Rick still horrified stumbles through to the grass where he and Zayne climb to another parking area. Humvees are parked among military tents. Several ammo cans and barrels still lie in place near a 7th Cavalry helicopter, crates and shrouded heaps of even more supplies. But even here they can't escape death. Shrouded bodies lie nearby. Behind the camp and back down the hill, the front of the hospital show fire damage. Zayne speaks "What the hell is going on? Why is all of this left here..?" Rick shakes his head and they both continue. They made it to a neighborhood street. We walk on the side of the road in a park. In the grass nearby is what's left of a rotted corpse. Its tail bone and entrails hang down where its legs should be as they continue on the corpse takes a breath. Hissing it turns over and begins crawling towards them. Rick scared cusses "Ah. Ah. Oh Shit-" Rick falls to the ground losing his balance, scared and startled. It reaches for him but only inches along. Zayne helped him back up and walk off. After a time they get to Ricks house, Rick and Zayne stumble up the front steps and through the open front door of his house. Rick calls out "Lori, LORI! Carl, Carl! Shoot. Lori! Carl!" Zayne waits by the door while Rick passes through every room but when he doesn't find anyone, he falls to the floor in the living room Zayne not knowing what to do just stood there. Rick started crying and calling out "Lori! Carl. No..!" In the living room Rick lies on the floor and breaks down crying. He can't control his tears. He looks around again. He looks at his hand, the floor, pats the floor. He starts asking questions "Is this real? Am I here?" Not knowing if he should talk Zayne goes over to him and pats his back "we're here Rick, this is real." Rick slaps his head over and over. Zayne knew he was just going through something "Wake – Wake up." Rick says quietly to himself. Then they here shuffling outside. They walk out the front door and sit on sidewalk steps. They see the figure of a man walking down the street toward them but their eyes are blurry and Rick doesn't recognize him. Behind them a figure creeps up. Zayne hears a snap behind him and quickly look seeing a young black boy with a shovel, the boy tried hitting him but he was quick and grabbed the shovel, standing up and throwing it to the side. The boy screams "Daddy, Daddy!" Rick started feeling faint and fell onto his back talking "Carl. Carl. I found you." Zayne seeing another man probably the kid's father walks up to the first one they saw. With a small pistol he shoots the first man in the head and quickly walks to them and talks "Get away from my kid. He say something? I thought I heard him say something." I backed off a bit and the boy spoke "He called me Carl." Man "Son, you know they don't talk." He tries talking to Rick "Hey, mister. What's the bandage for?" The man aims his gun at Rick. Rick dazed talks "W –what?" Man "What kind of wound? You answer me, damn you. What's your wound? You tell me or I will kill you." He cocks the gun. Rick's eyes roll back in his head as he passes out. Then the man pointed his gun at Zayne and spoke "Wound?" Zayne "Shot maybe? He helped me at the hospital... look neither of us are going to hurt you or your boy." The man puts his gun down and gets Zayne to help carry Rick to his 'camp'.

Zayne's POV-

After we got Rick onto the bed the man saw the cuffs and put them on me then uses some rope and ties him to the bed. The man spoke up "It's only until I can figure out if you two were bit or not." I replied "I don't know what that means..." "You saw the dead yeah?" "Saw lots dead... people all lined up with sheets on them-" he interrupted "Nah, not the ones they put down. The ones still moving." I told him the truth "Saw one..." He looked confused "You seriously have no idea what's going on?" I shook my head "Just woke up from coma, I'm guessing the same for Rick." He nodded "That's his name? Rick?" I nodded back to him "my name is Zayne." He nodded then got up going to a table with medical supplies on it, going to Rick and started cleaning his wound. He was doing a good job so I questioned him "You're doing a good job. How do you know how to clean a wound so well?" He looked to me "I just do, and in this world you need to know how." I nodded "I'll clean yours in a minute." I sat back in the chair, my eyes started feeling heavy as soon as I closed them I passed out.