The infected

17. Safe house

JENNA

They drove for hours through roads they have never gone down before till they finally reached where the GPS was taking them. Jason was passed out for a long time and soon Tylers eyes grew heavy his body growing weak amd he passed out aswell. They tried to wake him up but he must have been holding on to consciousness for as long as he could.

They drive up through a small tar road in the mountains surrounded by thick trees. There seems to be no other buildings besides a small garage and supermarket. They move further up the mountain up to a house mostly hidden by the trees.

They park in front of it and Jenna leaves the others in the car while she goes to check it out. On the door is a small keypad, taking a quess Jenna enters 7791 the safes code. The door clicks open.

Jenna runs back to the car to help Jarred carry Tyler into the house. She picks him up by the legs while Jarred grabs him by the shoulders. Tyler stumbles out of the car and grabs his head. He must have woken up without them noticing.  He squints in pain and Jenna half expects him to fall over.

"Tyler." She calls out. "you doing okay over there?"

Tyler nods his eyes still closed. Jenna decides to focus on helping Jarred. They carry Jason into the house and set him down on a very comfy sofa. The house has 5 bedrooms and two bathrooms on either side of it. It's very plainly decorated with it's blend of white and black furniture and paint.

Jarred throws himself on a sofa and sighs. His fall must have cut him because his arm is bleeding so much that it's staining the armrest. There's a crash behind Jenna that makes her jump out of her skin. When she turns around she finds Tyler laying on the floor in front of the doorway. Jenna sighs and turns to Jarred who's also staring at him.

"I call dibs on carrying the legs this time" he says.

It takes them a while to carry both Jason and Tyler into one of the bedrooms. They lay them down next to each other. Neither one of them gives any other sign of life beside the occasional rising and falling of a breathing chest. Jenna and Jarred walk back into the living room and sit in silence.

Jennas body is tired and all she can think about is Knight Manor going up in flames.

"The psychopaths blew up our house." Jarred says reading her thoughts.

"What were they after anyway?" She asks no one in particular.

"Jason our superpowered brother."

Jenna replays everything that happened in her head.

"I think there's more to it than just that." She says.

Jarred lays his head against the sofa and looks at her.

"What do you mean?" He asks.

"Think about it. Those guys had every opportunity to grab Jason and take him away and yet they didn't even try. All they did was terrorise us and destroy the manor."

"Maybe they were amateurs?"

"No. I think this was a personal attack and not on Jason or us...but on mom and dad." Jenna thinks back to what Siya said to her that day in the library.

"Even if that is the case. What did mom and dad do to piss someone off this much?"

Jenna looks at the floor conflicted. She's been holding on to everything Siya told her. She would have told Jason the moment Siya left but the whole infected being at the old brewery thing got in the way. But now she can tell Jarred and maybe he can tell her whether she should tell Jason or not.

"I think I know." She says.

Jarred looks at the wall and laughs.

"What you know some dark secret about mom and dad or something?" He asks.