A Little Word Called Love

Part 4: Dying At Any Cost

"I expected this place to fall, but this fucking early!" Jorge yelled "What the hell happened?"

Tiffany stepped up and said "There was too many of them Justin suggested we use a rocket."

"Did you use it?"

"No I told him not to and he just did it anyways."

"FUCK! I never liked him."

"He aimed right at the fence and I couldn't do anything."

Jorge grumbled to himself and paced quickly back and forth. Everyone else fell silent until he punched the wall in anger "I didn't expect it to happen so fucking soon!" In frustration he slammed his head against the wall and slid down to where he sat an leaned up against the wall.

John then said "This is a great chance to catch our breath and prepare for what's out there. Tiffany do you have the USB?"

She patted herself down and realized "It must be at my place."

Damien looked over at Lilith's bag "Is it in there?"

Lilith double checked what was in there to make sure "It's not in here. It should be under your bed then Tiffany."

Damien stood up and said "I'll go. John should come along and give me sniper support."

"That's stupid..I won't let you," Tiffany demanded. 

"We have loads of ammo here. We simply have two people to go for the flash drive and two to cover the entrance to the main building and one to keep this hatch secure," Jorge planned "No one is going at this alone. We work as a team."

Lilith thought it out and said "Damien and I should go get the USB while you and John protect the entrance and Tiffany secures the hatch."

Jorge agreed "She is too valuable to go out and risk her life. She knows more about how to assemble the cure than any of us; she is priority."

A few hours passed and it fell silent. No gunshots, no screaming, not a single sound.

Jorge said "Alright sounds like everything has calmed down. I will poke my head out to see if there is any at the hatch door. You come up when I give the signal."

They climbed up the ladder one by one. Jorge cracked open the hatch door to look around from what he could see. Two infectors looked like they were roaming the hall, so Jorge got out of the hole and stood against the wall leading to the hall. He knocked on the wall to get their attention. With his knife drawn and ready to strike. As soon as the infector walked through he stabbed it in the back of the head. Following was the other one which he, at the same time, stood up and stabbed the other in the head. Jorge gave the signal for the others to come up.

After everyone was up he whispered "Alright so Tiffany you stay here with John while I guard the entrance while Lilith and Damien go get the drive. Watch each other's back and don't stray away. That drive is our only hope of saving the world. Does everyone understand?"

They all nodded their heads and Jorge continued to speak "Let's go."

Lilith was armed with a hunting rifle and a pistol on her side while Damien was equipped with a shotgun and a knife on his waist. Tiffany with an assault rifle, John with his signature sniper, and Jorge with his signature magnum and knife. They sprang into action flushing out the door to assume positions. Lilith and Damien rushed out the door to sprint towards their shack. A couple infectors were spread apart from each other. One lunged at Damien so he quickly aimed his shotgun under its chin and fired. More infectors were alerted by the blast and started to come closer to the two of them. Gunshots could be heard from the entrance.

They could hear Jorge yell "HURRY IT UP!" another gunshot erupted from him "NO PRESSURE!" and another one was heard "ABSOLUTELY NONE!"

Damien slammed open the door to their shack as Lilith held the door only shooting one infector outside which fell on her. Damien quickly picked it up off her "I've got it! Let's go!" As he ran out she quickly picked up her rifle and ran out as well. Rushing past each infector they both successfully dodged everyone only firing one bullet at one's shoulder. Jorge made sure they got inside before he closed the doors.

"The door can only be sealed for so long, lets go!" Jorge commanded.

Running down the hall they could hear the door breaking open to the flood of infectors swarming inside. John was standing right before the door to the hatch aiming his sniper down the hall. He had his sights between two of them. He fired the shot and it whizzed past Damien, grazing his shoulder, and shot one infector in between the eyes. Damien didn't react to the shot because of the adrenaline running through his veins. The infector fell in front of the crowd horizontally causing the following ones to trip over it. Jorge, Damien, and Lilith ran in following John shutting the door behind him. They all rushed quickly in the hatch. Tiffany was already inside as he helped Damien, Lilith, and John in. The infectors had already reached the door as Jorge was the last down, as they broke inside Jorge closed the hatch door sealing it tight. Faint thumps were banging against the thick metal door. 

Jorge finally got down and said "Is everyone okay?"

"Damien is shot," Tiffany said attending to Damien.

"It's just a graze," he responded.

"We can patch that up," John said while pointing to an object on the table "hand me those gauze."

Jorge reached over to grab them and hand them to John "You could have shot him," Lilith said.

"Well I didn't did I?" John frantically said.

Jorge put his hand on her shoulder "He knows what he was doing."

Lilith sighed and sat down "We got the hard drive..thank god."

She sat down to take a breath "Luckily he had several beds in here for an small group of people."

"I hope our group doesn't get smaller," she commented.

"It will if you keep talking like that. We can stick together, no one comes in and we must prevent each other from dying at any cost."

She chuckled "Sounds like something Zargo would say."

He smirked "I'll make the plan to move out once I get up and running. Which will be before you four, probably. Get some sleep Lilith, you need it."