Age of the Dead

No more death

I look at everyone. Julie walks up to me and says almost silently

"What now, Steph?" She stares at me for few seconds.

"Why are you asking me?" I take a shallow breath in. Julie shrugs. I breathe out.

"Where is your grandfather, Brandon?" I cant risk someone in this group getting bit. I have to find him and kill him, if he is still here. Brandon's face rids of all emotion. The he says

"We can look upstairs." He walks out of the room and toward a stair case against the wall.

"You can go, just in-case, ya know. I dont wanna see any more death, if I dont have to."

I still have the knife in my hand. I nod at Brandon and walk up the stairs with Julia walking close behind me and Brandon behind her. He is holding a pain of scissors I am guessing he got from the kitchen. I get to the top of the stairs and I see multiple doors of of a long narrow hall. I go to the left stopping at the first door I see. Julia going to the right followed by Brandon. I stand next to the door way with my back against the wall. I listen for rotters. Nothing. I slowly look around he edge of the door frame into the room. It is empty. Empty of rotters that is. There is boxes stacked and cracked picture frames. I stop and put my knife into my belt. I pick up a picture and look at it. Brandons grandparents standing in-front of a pond, laughing having fun. I smile as my eyes fill with tears. Thinking of how Brandon's grandfather will have to live with out his wife. When all of the sudden i feel a hand grab my arm and the side of my head. I reach for my knife and turn around seeing a rotter stumbling back. It takes nothing but one second for it to regain its balance and begin to come back a me. I realize it is Brandons grandfather. At that moment I see a hand grab its neck and scissors stab into its skull. Brandon pushes the thing onto the ground repeatedly stabbing it in its head. Brandon stabs the thing about 28 times before collapsing onto the ground sobbing. I look up to the door way. Julia, Mason and Luke are watching in horror. Luke walks away pulling Mason and Julia with him. I look back down to Brandon and he is covered in blood. I walk over and take the scissors out of his hand and wipe the blood off them and slide them into my back pocket. I pull Brandon up and walk him to the bathroom to clean his face and arms off. After we are done we walk back downstairs in silence.

"What the heck was that about?" says Mason. I shoot him a look telling him to be quiet. Brandon goes into the living room and sits down on the couch. He just stares off into a place no one else can see.

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