Infected

Chapter 4

"What. The. Fuck." Ivy says as she stares at Mia, her eyes wide in stunned horror and confusion as Ethan takes deep, painful breaths as he pours the first aid medicine onto his wounded hand, and Ivy spins around to stare down at him, too freaked out to notice how he stares at his hand in shock. "What the absolute FUCK just happened?! I shot her, Ethan! TWICE! And she still got up! What the actual FUCK just happened?!"

Before Ethan could answer her, though he has the same question running wild through his own mind, Mia suddenly stands back up as if she hadn't been injured at all. In fact, her wounds have completely disappeared, and she looks like she had when she attacked her husband.

Ethan barely gets his sister's name out before Mia grabs Ivy, who shouts in stunned panic as Mia spins her around and grabs her by the throat. Ivy chocks on the air she's trying to breath as she's lifted up and violently thrown through the wall next to her, making her cry out as pieces of wood cut her skin before she hits the floor harshly.

"FUCK!" Ivy shouts as she feels something pierce her wrist, blinding pain flaring up her arm as if it's trying to consume her, and she looks down to see a piece of wood stabbed straight through the bones in her wrist. "What the FUCK, Mia?! We're family!"

"Not you!" Mia shouts as she stalks towards Ivy, who is trying to crawl back with her uninjured arm towards the gun in the hall, but before she could get even close, Mia grabs her legs and drags her back towards her, raising a piece of wood like a stake. "You're not our family!"

Ivy screams as she turns her head to the right, just barely missing the piece of wood that had been about to stab her in the head, and she tries to get away from Mia, who is looking more deranged by the second. However, she can't get away as she keeps turning left and right to avoid getting killed by whatever or whoever the hell is attacking her because this isn't Mia, who has always been the most cheerful and happy of the three family members.

"Leave my baby sister alone!" Ethan shouts protectively, coming up behind Mia and swinging an axe as hard as he can, the blade driving right in between his wife's neck and shoulder.

Mia's skin quickly turns back to normal as she looks like herself once more, and she looks down at a bloodied Ivy under her, tears pooling in her eyes at the sight. "Ivy...I'm so sorry..."

Ivy stares at her in stunned horror and confused shock, watching as Mia falls to the side next to her, and she continues to stare at Mia as Ethan helps her up to her feet. Ivy doesn't say anything aside from gritting her teeth against the pain as Ethan pulls the wood out of her wrist, but it soon goes away as he pours the second first aid medicine bottle on the wound, making Ivy stare at it in shock as the wound slowly starts to heal closed as if it had never been there before.

"Now," Ethan says as he grabs the gun and puts it in Ivy's hands before grabbing the bat off the floor, "please tell me you have more ammo for that gun."

"Yeah, I do, but it's all back in the car." Ivy says as she shakes her head, clearing it of all thoughts of Mia's deranged state and harsh words since there's still the original murderer stalking around. "I only have what's left in the clip and an extra clip in my boot, but we need to get the rest from the car."

"We have to get out of here first." Ethan tells his sister, only for the phone to ring from down the hall, and the two siblings look at each other before heading towards it, Ivy picking it up as she reaches it first.

"You really shouldn't have come here." A voice instantly says as Ivy holds the phone between her and Ethan so they both can hear the other person.

"Yeah, no shit. My sister-in-law just tried to fucking kill me and her husband, my brother." Ivy snaps as she scowls at the phone, the memory forever going to be a black stain in her mind. "What the absolute fuck is going on, and who the hell are you?"