Apocalypse Love

Contamination

The gray cube is sat down in front of me on my plate and the new people looked confused. "That's all we get, don't be too disappointed" Gallant tells the new girl. "Darling, you don't know what disappointment is until you've slept with Yul Brynner" His Name tells him, causing me to giggle. "I want to die..." Gallant mumbled as he hung his head, only making it funnier.i place my hand on Gallant "Relax, it's funny" I say to him. He playfully tugs my hair before rolling his eyes. "The cube on your plate contains every vitamin our body needs" Dinah explained. Coco picked hers up and inhaled it within seconds. "Or so they tell us..." Dinah added. "I'm still hungry" Coco sighs. "I am so tired of being hungry" she spoke dramatically taking sharp breathes in and out. I take a bite of my cube when coco suddenly shot up from her chairs slamming her fist down on the table. "Fuck this bullshit!" She screams. "With all the thought that went into this place they don't have a single bag of chips in the pantry?!" She shouted. The echo of the cane caused my to sit straighter but coco went on. "For a hundred million fucking dollars a ticket I expected fucking Gordden Ramsey in the kitchen cooking us real food!" She hissed out. My sight stared behind coco where Ms. Venable and Ms.Meads stand, hearing and watching everything. Ms.Venable tapped her cane, getting Coco attention. As she slowly turned around to face Ms.Venable Gallant awkwardly takes a sip of his water. Ms.Venable stared coco down for what felt like forever. Smack! I flinched at the echo it made as it traveled through the room. Coco stumbled onto the new guy before straightening herself up, holding onto her cheek. I knew what exactly those slaps felt like, earning myself one just yesterday when I was goofing off with Gallant. "I'm going to be very clear so there will be no misunderstanding" she spoke. "We have enough nutrition to last us the next 18 months. And if our situation doesn't improve you can count on less and less" she hissed at Coco. Coco didn't say another word. "Situation? What is our situation?" Gallant asked Ms.Venable. she turned to Ms.Meads and nodded before speaking again. "We had a perimeter alert this morning. Something penetrated the grounds" she paused. "It was a carry pigeon with a message from our benefactors" she explained. "Wait? A pigeon! Can we eat it?" Coco asked. I rolled my eyes, how dumb could she be? "It was contaminated by the fallout" Ms.Meads stated. "There are no more governments. Only rotting mountain of corpse, too many to bury" she goes on reading the note in her hands. "Starving children killed for a piece of bread. Three outpost have been overrun. We are the last vestgies of civilized life on the planet. Be vigilant." The words caused my stomach to turn as Ms.Meads then begins to speak. "Everything we know is gone" she informed us. The entire room was overcome with a heavy weight that made me feel like I couldn't breath. "In two weeks? That's all it took?" Andres asked, shaking his head. "It was always fragile. They made you think the system was a rock. It was a water balloon and one tiny prick of the needle and..." She made an explosion effect causing to me look away. "Well will only survive if we follow the rules" Venable then spoke. Suddenly the fist stepped into the room, whispering something to Ms.Meads. She gasped and turned to Venable. "There's a problem, we've detected a spike in the background radiation and it's centered in this room" Ms.Meads stated. "It's them! They just came from outside!" Gallant accused the two new people sitting at our table. "No! No! We were checked when we got here! We're clean!" The young woman spoke. "She's right. We went through decontamination" the young man then spoke. The fist handed Ms.Meads a radar device "Place your hands on the table and don't move" she ordered. We all did as she asked, placing our hands on the table as two other woman joined Ms.Meads in checking everyone. "Radioactive contamination is a grave risk to our entire community " Meads informed everyone. "The clean rule is there to protect all of us" she went on. I felt a hard stare on me, lifting my head to se Ms.Venable giving me yet another death glare. It caused a lump in my throat to form. "A single stray of Gemma particle can cause skin lesions" Meads explained as she scanned the new girl. "Your DNA breaks apart, your body disintegrates. You'll wish you died in the blast" she added. "But someone here decided that their individual needs were more important. Someone went outside and touched something dirty. Makes me sick that this person is selfish enough to risk contaminating us all..." She paused as she waved the thing over my hair. The machine got louder as the two other machines go off. Gallant, Stu and I. "No no no? That's a mistake because the only thing I've touched is Coco hair" Gallant tells the Fist. "She's clean and your dirty" Meads simply says I shot up from my chair "This is complete bullshit!" I shouted. This was Venables retaliation for my words yesterday. Suddenly I was grabbed by roughly by The fist. "This is your doing!" I shouted at Venable. "Get your hands off me!" I screamed at her as she begins pulling me away. "Take them three to the decontamination room!" Ms.Meads shouted. Suddenly I got free from the Fist grip and ran at Ms.Venable. I grabbed a hold of her by the arm but the fist is quick to pull me back, grabbing a hold of my again as she threw me over her shoulder. "I'm gonna kill you! I swear to fucking God! I'm going to end you!" I screamed as my rage settled in every part of my body.
The stripped the three of us down, running the hottest water over our skin as they scrubbed them without mercy. Our screams bounced off the tiled walls as they scrubbed our skin until it began to bleed. They then laid me down in between Gallant and Stu on the floor, scrubbing us down more. My skin felt like it was on fire as sobs escaped my lips from the pain. They finally stopped just as the set of steal double doors opened. I lifted my head to see Ms.Meads and Venable come into the room. My body shook with pain and rage as they walked around us. Ms.Meads takes out her scanner and began scanning Gallant. "Clean." She placed the device just over my skin and began to scan my body. I wanted to kill Venable, I wanted to rip her throat out. "Clean.." Ms.Meads spoke. She began to scan Stu but when the machine gets louder she clicked her tongue. "Dirty..." She announced. "Please no!" Stu cried out. "S-stu...it's going me okay" I stuttered out. "No! I can't go through that spray again! No!" He cried out louder. "You won't have to" Ms.Meads tells him. Bang! Blood splatter hit my face as the gun goes off. "Ahhh!" I screamed in horror. Meads and Venable quickly left the room and I couldn't stop staring at Stu on the cold tile, dead. "Oh...S-Stu..." I sobbed as I crawl closer to him. "Athena, don't touch him" Gallant warned me. "Get dressed..." The fist ordered us both, tossing our clothes into the floor.