Zombereri (ERERI fanfic)

Chapter Eleven

(Levi's POV)

It's been almost two weeks since the incident at the resort which ended with three people dying. I still have Eren's necklace and I wear it everyday. We found another car that we were able to start up and took that to someplace in Washington, and because of that we didn't have to worry about zombies. If we ever encountered them the car would be going too fast for them to keep up or we would just run them down. At least I would; Marco would always try to avoid hitting them. The car ran out of gas after getting about a day's drive out of it. Marco and Jean decided that they wanted to go somewhere else and we split up two days ago.

Since then I did a little bit of walking. I am now in Ellensburg, Washington. I found a pretty decent house around the outside of the city and I plan on staying there for a while; I know that it was originally my plan to meet Eren's friends and tell them about what happened but every day I can feel myself giving up more and more. Not that I don't think I can make it to Canada. I know I can make it, it's just getting hard to keep on traveling when I have no one. Eren was the only reason I left that house in Boulder City, and after he was gone Marco and Jean were the only ones keeping me from giving up but they left too.

Screech!

The sound of a car's wheels screeching took me away from my thoughts. I went over to the small front window of the house. Though the window is small I get a good view of the whole neighborhood which comes in handy when I am going to be going outside. When I looked outside I saw a car that had crashed into one of the trees on the other side of the road. The car hit it hard enough that the tree had actually been tilted a little bit. I started to go grab my gun that I had left on the night stand in the room I have been sleeping in so I could go and check on whoever it was that was stupid enough to crash their car when I heard a car door close. Someone has gotten out of the car. Quickly I turned around to see if I could see the person that had gotten out of the car. When I got a good look at who had gotten out of the car I could see that the driver of the car was a woman with brown hair. She didn't seem like she was hurt at all though; she was running to the back of the car and opening the trunk even though she was covered in blood and didn't look perfectly fine.

I went and grabbed my gun so I could help her before she got herself killed. When I made it outside she was still going through the trunk of her car for whatever it was she had in there; she was completely oblivious to a zombie that was running up behind her. It was only a few feet behind her. I shot at it mainly so she might finally look away from whatever was so interesting in her trunk but also to just get rid of one more zombie. When she heard the gunshot she jumped and looked around but looked half as surprised as I thought she should. She was just in a car accident and she is acting as though nothing happened.

"Oh thank you! Do you think you could help me? I can't find my briefcase." She said while waving at me. What the hell is wrong with this woman?

"What the hell is so special about your briefcase?" Shouldn't she be more worried about the flesh eating zombies around here.

"It has my notes and some samples I need." She was still looking through her trunk. I was finally close enough now that I could see the inside of her car and I found the briefcase on the back seat of the car. How could she have forgotten where she put that? I opened the back door and took out the briefcase.

"Is this what you are looking for."

"AHH! Yes thank you so much!" Her face lit up and she ran up to me and grabbed the case from my hands. Once she had the briefcase in her hands her face became curious and she finally started checking her surroundings. "Do you maybe know a way I could get a car?" Why didn't that thought occur to her before? She started to move her hand as though she was pushing up some invisible glasses. "Oh, Can you help me find my glasses?... Oh wait, never mind I remember now I broke them. Haha it's actually a very funny story. You see I was out studying the behaviors of the zombies and a-"

"You study zombies?" I didn't know there was anyone left that did that. I had just assumed that all of the scientists were dead already, and I never would have expected one to crash a car. If she's so smart shouldn't she know how to drive a car properly?

"Yeah, I work at the IDRI. The zombie virus is the most complex virus I have ever seen! It's amazing!! Somehow it completely shuts down that frontal lobe." Her facial expression kept on changing while she was talking. She looked excited at first but the last part she looked like she was concentrating. "So do you know where a car is? I really need to get back to my lab as soon as possible."

"I might, but you should clean up first, you are covered in blood. It's disgusting."

"Oh come on! It's just a little blood." She said and then rubbed her filthy hand across my face smearing her blood onto my face. "I'm fine! Just tell me where there is a car I can use."

"If you do that again you won't be fine."

"Huh?"

"There's a car that looks like it would work about six blocks away from here. Just go straight three blocks and turn right then it's about three more blocks away. It's the only car in a driveway." I started walking back to the house I have been staying in; I have had enough of her already.

"THANKS!" I could hear her running the way I had pointed just a few seconds ago. When I saw her out of the corner of my eye I noticed that there were some zombies that were running towards her from behind the houses, and she doesn't have anything that she could use to protect herself from them. There is no way she is going to make it to the car. So I made the dumbest decision of my life. I start shooting at the zombies closest to her and run to catch up with her. If she is a better scientist than she is a driver then maybe she will find a way to end this.

"How do you plan on making it to the car like that? If I weren't here you would be dead already."

"I have made it a month without you. I can make it by myself; You just have to swerve whenever they get too close to you and don't stop running! HAHA!" Just when I got close to her she started running even faster. She's absolutely crazy. We were able to make it two blocks without any of them catching up to us, and we were getting close to our turn when a zombie started running towards us from the street in front of us. I was able to kill it before it got to close, but I have no idea how many could be around the corner. I haven't been here long so I can not say for sure how many are still here. "What way were we supposed to turn again?"

"Tsk Right."

"Oh yeah!" She turned at the next street and kept on running. When I made it to the turn I took it as an opportunity to look behind me and see if there were any zombies following us. What I saw behind me made me realize how big of a mistake I have made. There were over ten of them almost right behind us and I am running out of bullets. If only we had gone inside the house. I could have gotten my supplies and the machete, but now if we don't make it to the car before I run out of bullets we are done for. I'm really regretting following her now. As I turn my attention to in front of us I am thankful that there are none of them in front of us, for now. We finally made it too our destination. By the time I was getting into the car the mad scientist was already starting up the car thankfully. I was amazed on how fast she got the car started; it took Jean almost two minutes to hot-wire a car. Once she had started up the car she took off, and I realized my second mistake of the day. I let her drive.

"So what's you name shorty?" That last word felt like a kick to the gut. Eren was the only one who had ever called me shorty before.

"My name's Levi, and don't you ever call me shorty again." My voice was harsh so I could get across that I really didn't want her calling me that without having to explain myself.

"Oh. Okay, well I'm Hanji!"