It's Never Too Late

Chapter 13: All's Well That Ends Well.

💀Doc's POV💀
Okay so Josh is awake and alive, Molly and James are helping Paul support the windows, "Doc?" Leeanne looks at me and says. "I'm scared, what do I do?" "Why don't you go ask your daddy?" I say,

"He told me to come to you, he says he trusts you with me more than anyone else right now." She says, I'll take note of that. "Stay put" I tell her in the kitchen. I run over to the living room where they are holding down the door. I take the sofa and tell Josh to move away from the door. It holds them back but they're slowly breaking in. The sides are blocked off by fences and Heather is getting a RV from the back. Luckily it looks like it can hold all of us. I see Josh an his family get in while Paul and I are holding the door with the sofa still pushed against it. "We can't stay ere much longer!" I scream. I look over at the wall....it starts to crack. "The wall is breaking! There's too much force being pushed!" I scream, "We gotta go!" He says. We both run for the back door, only to discover that the RV is gone!

"Did they ditch is?! Are you freaking kidding me?!" I scream. "No they wouldn't do that, there had to have been a reason-" just as he was finishing his sentence, we found the reason they left. There were walkers up the road following them, about three of them. "Why didn't they just kill them?" Paul asks me. "Beats me." I reply. I go up to the first one and stab it through the skull. Paul takes his machete and slices the heads off the other two. "We have to follow them" he says to me. "Right behind you." I say.

And we did. We walked that road for about an hour. "What do you reckon happened to them?" I ask Paul. "I don't know, I just hope my baby girl is alright." He tells me. We keep on walking... "So what did you do before all of this went down?" I ask. "Does it matter?" "It does" I say. "I was a cop. It was always something I loved doing but it was hard work, but you know someone's gotta do it. And you were a doctor right? The title Doc could be very misleading you know." He says. "Haha well yes I was but I haven't treated a patient in over four years. So I've been retired for about that long, but don't let my age get to you cuz I'm in the best shape of my life." I tell him.

"Well that's good, we need good and strong people like you." He says. I look up the road and see someone. "Hey get down" I whisper to him. "Look!" He looks down the road and sees someone. We start walking towards them on the side of the road in the concealed woods, once we got a closer look we realized it was James on the road with his gun out. "Be careful before you shoot your eye out, buddy." He looks over at us, "Dad!" "Son are you okay?" Paul asks him. "I'm okay, but...-" he starts to say." "Is Leeanne alright?! For God's sake please tell me she is okay." He says with me trying to hold him back incase she is.

"No dad, Leeanne is alright." He says reassuringly, "Well than who?" I ask, just than I here Molly crying. "Oh no" we walk over to look at Molly and her mom crying.....Josh was bit in the shoulder. Lisa looks over at me. "You! You're a doctor! Your medical supplies are in the car. Please just save his life!" "Ma'am I'm sorry about your husband. He was a good man and will be greatly missed but there isn't anything I can do about this. I'm sorry."

💀Paul's POV💀
It's obvious everyone is upset. Heck, I'm upset. But what can we do? What can I do? I walk over to him. "Are you okay Josh?" I ask. "My bones....they feel like glass, and my....sk...my skin it f-feels like paper. I'm not gonna make it an-another ten minutes. Now you look at me Paul. You take good care of my family do you hear me?" He points at me. "Of course Joshua. I'll keep them both safe. I'll give you time to talk to your family." I start to walk away when he grabs my hand. "You are a good leader Paul. You helped us out of the school and protected me and my family. Keep doing that for everyone who joins this group......and I better not see you in heaven or I will kill you." He says with a smile on his face. "I won't die for you Josh. I won't." I leave him and his family.

About a half an hour passes Lisa comes up to me with his gun. I walk over to his dead corpse. We strapped him down for when he turned, sadly he did. As he tries to reach up for me and I put the barrel of my gun to his forehead....."I'm sorry brother" and than before I know it....he's dead.