Red Handed (A Warm Bodies FanFiction)

Chapter 6: Hello I'm DEAD

I decided to head back to the hospital to tell Autumn about Doug. I plan on telling her then going back to see him at midnight. I walk back and once again pass the big red target store. I shrug and change my direction towards it. Autumn can wait, I came to explore. When I finally reach the entrance I break the glass on the automatic glass doors. Because without power I couldn't get it. I look left then right. I don't smell humans so it must be safe. I explore the different sections of the store. To bad there was tossed merchandise and sideways carts everywhere. It might of make it easier to move around. I look at toys, Cd's, and books. A certain book catches my eye though. The titles was...D-O-O, but then what? It made me thing of Doug. It has a picture of a explosion on the cover. I'm pretty sure it said 'Doom'. I set it back down and keep exploring. As I'm walking down aisles I see a shiny watch in a case. What? It's still ticking? How? I open the case and take it out. I decide to find new batteries for it before these one leak out and ruin it. I hold on to it and head to the tool section. I find a small Flathead screw driver and open up the watch. I then proceed to the check out area. That's where they keep the batteries. I find the small circular grey batteries that match the previous ones. I change them and... "Tick tick tick.." It worked! I screw the back of the watch back on and go to the gift section and found a small red and blue box. I put the watch inside the box and leave. I think I'll give it to Doug.

As I get closer to the hospital I see 2 humans fighting off zombies. Nether of the two humans were back a the light green house with the bay window. I'm not really hungry and I don't want to interfere. But they are in my way. Just then a zombie tackles one of them and take them down. The other human starts to run. In my direction. I'm not afraid of her I just don't want to get shot. I see the human getting closer and closer I slide behind a burned SUV and hide. The human runs past me, taking the horde of corpses behind her as well. I continue walking to the hospital. As I arrive Autumn is still up in the room where I left her. It's been a few days. We have to eat a least every week. She must be starved. I open the door on approach her. She looks at me and I say, "I... Maade... A friend." She continues to listen. "A hummAan, nammed... Dou--- g." I add. "A hu-u-umm-man?" She asks. "Yes." I say. "He does...n't waaan--nnt to kill mme." Anymore that is. I add in my mind. I continue to tell her about the time I spent with him, the weird feelings, and how I want to go see him again. Autumn tells me to be careful and I leave to go see him after we finished talking.

When I get to the little green house around midnight I see Doug and another boy sitting on the roof. The new boy is wearing a salmon pick dress shirt with a tie, completed with matching black pants. I hope the new boy is expecting me. Because I did tell Doug not to tell. I walk up in front of the bay window and back up about 4 feet. I look up. "Doug!" I whisper-yell. "Dooug!" I repeat once more. The other boy looks frightened and taps Doug shoulder then points at me. "Cassie..." I hear him whisper. "Wait there!" Doug whisper-yells to me. Doug and the other boy sneak out the front of the house in the follow 20 seconds I waited. "Let's go over there." Doug says pointing to a house will a big tree in the backyard. We run over there and sit under the tree. "Okay. Now that we can talk louder, Daniel this is Cassie." Doug tells us. "Hi.." Daniel says cringing. "And Cassie this is Daniel." Doug informs me. I look at Daniel and let out my hand. "Nice...to meet... You." I say waiting for him to shake my hand. Doug nudges Daniel's shoulder. "Same." Daniel says finally shaking my hand. I pull my hand away and give the blue and red box to Doug. "For...you." I say as he takes the box from me. He opens it and has a weird mixture of grateful, surprise, and confusion on his face. "Wow... Ummm... Thank-you so much I.... Where did you get this.... It works..." Doug says still confused "St-ore." I reply. I tell them about the big red target store, the way its one the way to the hospital, and how I got here. Doug puts on the watch and Daniel grabs Doug's wrist. "Wait it works?" Daniel says just as confused as Doug. Finally Daniel breaks the silence by saying, "Can we tell Grace now?"