Bitten to Kill

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Bonnie heard panic coming from the room and decided to sneak back downstairs, however she was caught snooping by one of the other guys on the team. "Where do you think you're going? Were you spying on Marc and Kathy?" He went closer and closer to her. Bonnie backed up. "Well doc, let me tell you something, I have a little issue in my pants, think you can fix it?" The man got her pinned to the wall. Bonnie felt weak, this man is a head taller than her and has his entire body pressed against hers. "Well? Can you doc? I think it's a sign of an infection, you should know everything about it right?" Bonnie decided to play along, but not in the way he'd like. "Yeah, I know everything about those things." She says and he backs up. "Take a look, it's all yours." She looks down at his crotch, then looks back up. "Go o-" "I looked." She interrupted him. "I see nothing wrong, I mean when were you infected?" He looks at her annoyed. Annoyed that she doesn't want to play with. "Listen you bitch, I don't know who you think you are, working with that stupid.." He stumbles over his words. "Whatever the fuck that thing did that caused all of this! But you're dead fucking wrong if you think you can just walk in here and expect us to trust you and let you sleep in our beds and eat from our food." 

It turned silent between the two. "I don't expect you to trust me, but Marc does an-" "I don't give a shit! About what Marc thinks, if I was the leader of this group I would've done things to you already!" Bonnie stayed silent. "I'm not fucking stupid." He says as he walks to his room. "I've seen his arm, I know what's going on. I'm waiting for him to turn so I can shoot him, so I can become leader, if I see you give that fucker a cure, I'm shooting both of you." He slams his door shut. Bonnie sighs deeply in relief that he didn't do anything, she doesn't mind the threatening, she doesn't care what nonsense he spits at her. Bonnie walked downstairs and saw one of the biggest guys sitting there. She couldn't find out if he was more muscled or if it was more fat that he was carrying on his body. She didn't dare sit next to him and he noticed that. "I heard what Diego had to say to you upstairs." Bonnie looked at him, his voice was very deep. "I wanted to say that... I'm glad we have a medic on our team, not only that but you know everything about those sick murdering freaks." 

Bonnie collected the guts to go sit in front of him at the dinner table. "How much do you know?" He asks as he's cleaning his gun. "I- uh.. Well, fire away with the questions, we'll see how many I can answer." She says with a smile on her face, it takes some time to think of a question. "When you get bitten, what are the symptoms?" he asks. "I know that, eventually you'll turn, but does anything happen between that?" Bonnie nods her head. "Once bitten it takes four weeks to turn, but you'll notice the symptoms." He didn't look at her but he was listening, and Bonnie knew that. "Well first, week zero, you'll witness itching of the skin, usually around the place where you were bitten. Week one, you'll be more hungry than usual and you'll forget stuff, like if you ask a question to a week one infected, they'll forget the question after seconds. The itching intensifies. Week two, you'll start to notice that the person who's infected has a very short temper, and is quicker to turn to violence. They'll forget information that they've known for a long time, that an infection is happening, their friends' names and their own as well, they'll also constantly say that they want to go home, or that someone is waiting for them. Week three, it's best to stay away from them, they're extremely violent, but they're still able to talk. However, they'll try to kill people whenever they get the chance to. Week 4, they've turned and there's no going back."

After a long ramble about those critters, the man turns to look at her, they both sit in silence. "Damn." He says. "You really are useful." A small smile appears on his face and Bonnie returned the smile. "I'm Mike. If Diego up there ever causes you trouble, just give it a shout. Marc and I will be on your side." She looks up the stairs and sees Diego's door, then looks back at Mike. "Why help me? I'd think that everyone would hate me after I risked everyone's lives." He chuckled. "Well, yeah, that was a shit move but still, I don't like that fucker." They both softly chuckled. "How about Kathy? How's she?" Bonnie asked and a huge sigh came out of Mike's mouth. "Please." He said and looked at her annoyed by Bonnie mentioning Kathy's name. "I'd rather listen to a group of creakers." He says and Bonnie looks confused. 

"Creakers?" She never heard of those before, just the common ones, like the walkers, runners and the crawlers. Walkers are just ones who are newly infected and haven't developed the ability to run yet. Runners have been infected for a week or so, they've learned the ability to run, crawlers, they well, that one's clear, except they are the reason scientists and doctors found out that the blood in their body is extremely thick and sticky. Crawlers can climb up walls because due to crawling, the skin on their knees and arms have been scraped off. But what are creakers? "They're extremely loud, that's their little thing. They make this high pitched noise, that kinda sounds like Kathy screaming for Marc's attention..." That made Bonnie laugh. "So that it knocks you out or give you a blurred vision."