Days of Decay

Chapter Fourteen

She was suddenly above herself. Floating, watching, waiting.

Oh, this can't be fucking good.

As she looked down on herself, she noticed a small cloud of blood dispersing in the water around her head. Her entire body was submerged and she wasn't awake. Her body started convulsing as bubbles escaped her mouth and popped on the surface of the water.

She was drowning.

"Wake up! Wake up!" She yelled, attempting to talk to herself but it was no use, it was like she didn't exist anymore, her cries were lost in the world.

The Hunter who had attacked her was still in the room, he had hidden himself behind the door. After what seemed like a lifetime, she heard someone burst in through the bathroom door.

"Oh shit!" Kit blurted, seeing her in the bath.

Asha was desperate to shout for him but no words came out. She wanted to warn him of the Hunter in the room, she wanted to call to him, she wanted to come back to herself, but she couldn't. She was stuck in a halfway world. Seeing her body was only a clue to what was going to happen. She was going to die.

It was her time.

The Hunter pounced on Kit before he could get to her and they struggled with one another. Kit was trying his hardest to swing the Hunter off of him and he was shouting to the group for help.

Asha watched on like it was a film, helpless and slowly slipping away.

She wondered if there were more Hunters downstairs; a full-on ambush. As if to answer her thoughts, she heard frightened yells and screams coming from downstairs, her hope faded.

Kit quickly gathered himself and flipped the Hunter over his shoulder causing him to fall onto the side of the bath; a crunch sounded through the air as his spine snapped against the ceramic. The Hunter screeched in pain as he fell to the floor at a shuddering angle. Kit grabbed the nearest thing to him- a large glass candle - and didn't hesitate in smashing it into the Hunter's head until he stopped moving.

He then hurriedly bent over the bath and wrapped his arms around Asha's limp body, pulling her out with an exasperated grunt. Water sloshed over the side of the bath, flooding the floor.

She wasn't breathing, her skin was pale and her lips looked like they were turning blue. He placed her gently down on the floor and started to give her CPR and mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. His part-time lifeguarding job coming in handy for the first time since Nox began.

Thirty chest compressions followed by two resuscitation breaths, over and over.

Two minutes went by.

"Come on Asha, not now. Fuck, not now!" He yelled between his laboured attempts to bring her back.

It's okay, she thought, don't exhaust yourself to death, pendejo. Her condition didn't look promising, and she didn't feel any closer to her physical body, which could only mean one thing; he was too late.

Finn suddenly rushed into the room; his unsteady footing on the wet floor landed him flat on his face next to hers. He had a fresh cut across his cheek, blood dropped onto her face as he pushed himself up to absorb the situation. She swore she could feel the warm droplets as they raced down her cheek.

"What the-?" He managed to say, his eyes widening at the sight of her, and the Hunter who was beaten to death on his left.

"I can't, she's not," Kit spluttered. "I can't get her to breathe," his hands were still working on pumping her chest in hopes her heart would kick in again. His arms were shaking; he was losing strength.