Run for your life

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506 days into the apocalypse.

Cody and Olivier were running for their life. They had been running for several minutes, at high speed. It was tiring, but they couldnt stop now, not now when they were so close. They had been out on a suply run with two other people, Sarah and Elijah. They had lost eachother inside a mall due to a huge herd of the dead storming it. Olivier and Cody could only hope they stuck together and were on their way back. «Open the gates!» Olivier yelled outside their community, the guards looked down at them. «identify your selves!» they shouted back. «Olivier Allen!» «Cody Allen» the two guys outside the gate yelled stressed. The three guards looked at eachother with a concerned look and shook their head. «we cannot open the gates for you» «what?!» Olivier shouted, looking at his husband. «we cannot let you in, your names are not in our files» one of the guards said. Olivier seemed to freeze, he didnt blink, he held his breath. Cody had to grab his shoulders and shake him to snap him back to reality. The herd of the dead had caught up to them. Cody grabbed Olivier's hand and started running towards the woods again, his knife in his other hand. Tears pricked in his eyes, but he didnt have time to stop and cry now.

They had found shelter in an abandoned hut in the woods, they coveed the door with whatever they could find and closed the curtains so the lights didn't attract the dead.

«Ollie.. this is way to dangerous this place is filled with sickos» Cody whispered worriedly.

«I know, but theres no other place we can stay..." Olivier replied in the same worried tone Cody had.

"Do you think Elijah and Sarah made it out in one piece?" Cody asked as he sat down, his back pressed against the wall.

"We can only hope... Sarah's strong and smart, but Elijah... hes just a kid" Olivier sat down next to Cody, taking his hand in his. Cody nodded and rested his head on Oliviers shoulder, resting his eyes a little. "You know what I miss the most about the old world?" Cody said, his voice tired and quiet. "I don't, no, I think you have to tell me" Oliver replied, his voice wasn't tired, he tried to stay optimistic.

"music" "Really? Music? I thought it was gonna be like, showering daily, your bed or the food" Olivier said a little surprised that music was what Cody missed the most. "Not just any music, only one band, I can't stop thinking about the album they were about to release" Cody complained. "What band?" Olivier asked, he seemed rather interested now. "The Crane Wives" "oh my god yes. That is ine of the many reasons I married you" Olivier let out a quiet laugh.

They sat in silence for a while until they heard a window break, they both got up and grabbed their knives, ready to attack whatever had broken the window. They heard a few lazy steps; it sounded like a leg was being dragged after the other. Cody looked over at Olivier wispering "a sicko?" oliver nodded and they slowly made their way to whereever the noise came from. They heard a loudt thud and a pained groan, it wasn't one of the dead ones, this was a person.

"Hello?" oliver said. "Olivier? Thank God it's you" Elijah. Cody and Oliver hurried over to him and got down inn their knees to help him. "S-Sarah got bit. She turned, right infront of me, I had to take her out" Elijah cried. "it's okay, it's okay" Cody assured him. "Your leg, what happened?" Oliver asked Elijah "I got shot, by one of the guards at the gate" He winced in pain as Oliver rolled up his pant leg to take a look at the wound. "Why did they shoot at you?" Cody asked and pulled out a bandage from his bag. "I have no idea; they wouldn't let me in either" "They didn't let us in either" Olivier said and inspected Elijahs bullet wound. "Theres and exit wound, the bullet went straight through, you can put on the bandage" Cody did exactly that, wrapping the bandage around Elijahs leg. "They said our names werent in their files" Olivier continued. "They said the same to me" Elijah groaned a little in pain as Cody tightened the bandage. Olvier looked Cody in the eyes with a serious look. "Carlson. This is Carlsons work" he muttered in annoyance. "hes actually satan, im going to kill him" Cody insisted. "no killing him yet, were not even sure if this is him" Olivier paused for a few moments. "And I am not getting executed, yet" Elijah stared at him with a surprised look on his face "executed?!"