Skeptics and Snipers (10k)

Full Metal Zombie

"What are you wearing?" Addy asks with a slight laughter to her tone.

"What you don't like it?" I ask looking down at my clothes to see the issue.

"It's definitly different" she giggles as she walks away.

I shrug rolling my eyes as I turn back to watch 10k sligshot the z's in the field. I chose to keep the shirt I got from the cannibals but I put a skin tight long sleve green shirt under it looping my fingrs through the thumb holes on the sleve. I paired it with some ripped up carco pants I pulled off a Z and some lightweight boots so it's still easy to move. I kept the same belt I had since pre-z the buckle becoming a knife when pulled off the belt.

"Amish zombies" Addy says in disbelife "really? Really?"

"They tried qurentine themselves from the rest of society. Keep the z's from spreading the infection" Garnett explains.

"That was before we knew Romero had it right. We were all carrying the viruse. Didn't matter who you were or how you died" Mack says from under the hood of the truck.

"Night of the living dead. Great movie, sucky reality" Addy says swinging her bat around "you know what I don't get, if the z's didn't spread the virus, how did we all get infected?"

"Best guess I heard, it was spread by birds. Some kind of parasite piggybacked on the bird flu."

"Probably was being tested in a lab and they didn't take the propper mesures for it not to be realeased" I say shrugging and throwing in my two cents.

"You know take it from sombody who knows first hand" Murphy starts. "Other than the fact that they find brains delicious, when it comes to zombies nobody knows nothin'."

"I tell ya there ain't nothing there no thoughts, no memories, no soul, nothin'." Doc says continueing on the conversation with 10k, Cassandra and I.

"Well they're not dead" Cassandra says "they want something."

"Yeah, brains."

"You can't want something if you're not consious, if you don't have a soul."

"When my pa was wounded" I snap my head in 10k's direction "he told me to tie him up before he turned. Made me promise to show him mercy when he died. Kill the brain, you know? I couldn't do it, I couldn't hurt my pa, no matter what he'd become. I stared into his eyes for the longest time, just looking for some sign he was still in there."

"Did you see anything?"

10k shakes his head no "what did you do?"

"I killed it."

"Damn kid, you had to put down your own dad?"

"Didn't kill him, I killed it."

"But if it's not alive how did you kill it?" Cassandra asks trying to prove her point.

"Piked it" he brings his knife up to his head tapping it "right here, my first kill. I always wish he knew, you know? Somehow knew that I kept my promise."

Everyone stays silent as the truck takes back off before Doc speaks up again "Rory what about you? I don't know a whole lot about you, besides you being a phsycology major."

I shrug my shoulders "Mom died when I was eight, cancer, Dad died when I was twelve, suicide. I had five older brothers Henry and Jack, the oldest twins died in a car crash when is was fifteen. Will died right at the start of all of this he was shot by someone, Ian went on a run, never came back. Simon, he might honestly still be alive I'm not sure he was deployed out with the NSA, I haven't seen or heard anything from him in years. I started black summer by myself that's when I met Sketchy and Skeezy, and they led me to you guys not much to tell after that."