When Death Starts To Crawl

(Chapter Eight)

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I awoke to a scream. again. I was getting really sick of waking up to that. I sat up the same time as Lucas. "What's wrong now?" i asked almost annoyed. I looked over at Milly, Danny was on the floor, beside her, having some sort of seizure.

"What's happening to him?" Milly whimpered. We all crowded around Danny. Blood was spilling from his mouth.

I leapt off the mattress and grabbed paper towels and some anti-seizure pills from Anne' medicine cabinet. I crouched down beside the convulsing Danny, and popped the pills into his blood covered mouth. i held his nose so he would swallow them. The seizures finally stopped. Danny awoke dazed and confused.

"Why are all you surrounding me?" He mumbled. Milly explained to him about the seizure. We were all clueless as to why it occurred.

"We need to get him to a hospital" Milly ordered.

"I have an Idea-" Anne stated. "How about, Milly and Shay and Trixie take Danny to the hospital in on of my cars, surely there would be somebody there to treat him. Then Lauren, Lucas and I take the Toyota, go to the school and prepare everything there, so we have food water, places to sleep, and protection from the Undead. Once Danny is well enough to walk, Milly drives to the school." Anne proposed.

Everybody was pitching their idea's, but Anne's sounded the most suitable for the situation. I had another plan

"Anne, your plan is good, but, i remember my dad keeping a researchers diary of all his discoveries and cures. I was thinking that maybe i could go back to my house in one of the other cars of Anne's, get it and maybe cure the Undead." I said.

Lucas shook his head. "What, whats wrong?" I asked.

"You are not going alone" He said abruptly. The room went silent.

"I have to. Milly needs Shay to protect her with the rifle and she needs Trixie to help carry Danny into the hospital, and Anne cant set up the hideout in the school by herself." I stated.

"Lauren-" Lucas out his hand on my shoulder "I am not gonna let you go alone, it's too dangerous. Let me come with you" He said, his voice trembling.

"Or I can drive you and Lucas to your house, you get your dads' journal thingy, then we drive to the school while the others take Danny to the hospital." We all agreed to Anne's new plan.

"Can i have a gun?" Asked Trixie. Anne went to the shed just outside her house and gave Trixie a pistol. "We have that one for emergencies, the rifles are usually for hunting" She explained.

We were all ready to put another plan in action.

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"See you at the school, call once Danny is better" Anne's called to Milly who was driving the other car. Our were cars side by side. Lilly drove off first. Followed by Anne, Lucas and I. I was driving, because Anne had started feeling sick again. Rain started to pour, I turned the windscreen wipers.

"I don't know how good i am at driving in rain" I said as i turned the vehicle cautiously around the sharp corners of Anne's road.

"You'll be fine" Lucas said from the passengers seat.

Once we were off the dirt road and onto the main road. I began to relax. The sensation of being in control of a vehicle was nice. It was the calm of a storm. Knowing that i could maybe cure this apocalypse, helped enormously.

Milly's car was about three meters in front of us, then we would turn off down my road. Milly's car screeched to an abrupt halt. I saw Milly stumble out the car and disappear at the front of it. We all got out of the Toyota. The roads were deserted.

"What is she doing?" I murmured to myself as we edged to the front of the other car, not knowing what to find.

I could hear Milly crying, louder and louder, then it changed to shrieking. we all gasped in synchronization at the horrific sight that lay before us.

Milly was hunched on her knees over a mangled, fleshy, tiny body.

"No, no, no...." she whimpered helplessly.

"Who is that?" i whispered to Anne.

"That's her youngest brother Liam" She answered quietly.

Seeing the tiny distorted body of Liam made us all cry.

"We need to stop them, they are ruthless assholes! why would they do this to him?" Milly ordered.

I thought bout his for a moment.

"Hang on, these Undead are smart, they always found us. what if they are playing 'follow the leader'? if they are, we could lure the leader into a trap at the school. why didn't i think of that before, you can't cure people who are already dead" Milly burst into tears again at the last part.

I looked away, I didn't wanna see Milly like this, or the dead mangled figure in her arms....

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