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CHAPTER NINE. a love that never was
( tw! contains mentions of attempted suicide )
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VIENNA WINDSOR, quite frankly, did not know what to expect when she walked into the large house belonging to the men who lived there.
From how Joel and Ezra described it, it was just them keeping the town safe and secluded from the rest of the world. Bill wasn't the type to keep the place tidy, but Frank was, which begs the question as to why, when they walked in, why was it covered in dust, like the home hadn't been touched in weeks? Why were there rotten food spread across the dining table? And why was it so quiet that you could simply hear a pin drop when there was not one, but two occupants living in what should've been a loving home?
With all of those questions in mind, Vienna stood by the dining room table with a weary look burning bright in her electric, green eyes. While Joel and Ezra searched for the two men, Vienna and Ellie were left to wonder with a long string of endless possibilities crossing their minds about the whereabouts of the couple. The woman scanned her eyes of her unfamiliar surroundings, watching briefly as Ellie disappeared into the next room, before her gaze travelled back to the decor that surrounded her, pacing quietly around the room in the process.
Vienna then looked down at the dusty mantelpiece, wiping her finger across to see it was thick with dust, more than she had originally seen with her own two eyes. The woman felt this strange, foreboding feeling bubbling in the pit of her stomach. If what Joel and Ezra had told her about the two men were true, then it was safe to say they were probably long gone. If raiders didn't get them, or the Infected, then surely it was something else. Vienna had done this dance one too many times before to know that something out of the ordinary, especially in a world ravaged by death, meant one thing and one thing only.
Bill and Frank were gone.
The woman's questions and suspicions were soon answered when, from the corner of her eye, she saw Ellie walk back into the room with a letter in one hand and a key in the other. Vienna turned her full attention to the young girl, watching as she took a seat at the dining room table before she opened up the envelope and pulled out a letter. The woman looked down at the envelope torn at the seams that Ellie had placed carelessly onto the table, seeing that the letter was addressed to Joel, or at least, the letter was intended to be found by him.
