It's Never Too Late

Chapter 19: One After Another

💀Sophie's POV💀
Charley has been asleep for almost 12 hours now. He's breathing but his pulse is extremely low. Doc comes back in to talk to me. "Sophie, I know you don't want to hear this right now but-" "Stop, I know what you're going to say. He's dying slowly." I cut him off. "When he wakes up we can't say a word to him. We'll put him under when he falls back asleep." Just as Doc finishes talking Charley begins to wake up. "I'll give you two some time to talk." Doc says as he leaves the room. "Hey Sophie, so how's my leg doing? Am I dying yet?" He says as he wakes up. "Of course not baby, why do you ask?" I say to him. He starts to sit up and says to me "Because I over-heard you two saying my time is coming." I step back the immediately fall on him crying. "It's true Charley you're gonna die and there's no way I can do this alone. We needed all three of us to get this done. They'll kill me if I try and do anything now." I cry while telling him. "What happened to Miranda?!" He says loudly. "Shhh be quiet, and she tried taking out Molly but failed and was killed by a passerby named Layne." I tell him. "Sophie I-I'm sorry, I'm dying. I can feel it now more then ever. I love you so much. I'll always be here in your heart." He says as he passes out. I sit in there for another 10 minutes and I know for sure he's dead. Paul walks in and notices Charley isn't breathing. "How long has he been like that?" Paul asks nervously. "About ten minutes." I say as he grabs my arm and pulls me away slowly. He walks up with his knife and I grab his arm.

"Let me, he was my boyfriend." He puts the knife in my hand and backs up out of the room. "Charley....I love you. I will complete our mission, I'll do my very best just like you would want me to." I took the knife and put it in his temple quickly. I walked out of the room to find Paul, James, Molly, and Doc all standing. Doc and Paul walk in to get the body and then leave to bury him.

💀Lisa's POV💀
"So, what's your story? How did you find us?" I say to Layne while sitting in the living room. "Is this an interrogation?" She asks me. "It doesn't have to be, but you look fairly clean meaning you could have a group watching us right now and a base that is ready to take everything we have right now." I tell her.

"Very well, you are right to assume I am in a group, well, was in a group. We got attacked by another group and they killed most of my group. They were a group of bandits calling them selves the Garnets. Garnet, as in the color of blood. They kill anyone in their path. They held us hostage for a day before we fought back. My friend, Alex and I were the only two that I know of to escape. We made it only a few miles out and they followed us. They shot at us and we shot back killing all of them. They managed to hit him in the spine which disabled his movement below his waist. He was quickly killed by a walker after he told me to leave him. I wandered for about a days worth along the road when I heard screaming. I ran as fast as I could and ended the problem." Layne explained.

"So these Garnets, they're extremely hostile you say?" I ask her. "Yes and-" "Someone help us out here now!" Doc screams. Layne and I run outside to see Paul and Doc carrying a body with dozens of walkers coming through the field. James, and Molly come from behind and pull out their guns and knives. I see Sophie come out so I go inside to tell Heather what's going on. I run in the room to find heather with Leeanne. "You two stay in here, there's gotta be 30 or more walkers outside."

💀James POV💀
I run outside with Molly and start dispatching walkers. I take out two and run over to Molly who's struggling to kill one. It leans into her so I jump and kick it in the body knocking it to the ground then stab it in the brain. I look over to see Sophie stab one and hold off another. "Sophie look out!" I scream as the one she's holding gets a hold of her arm and takes a chunk out of it. She throws it to the ground and stabs it. I run over to her to help her inside. Molly and I bring her in the room that Charley was in. Doc runs in and Heather runs outside to help Paul. Molly goes back out to help to but I stay right here to help Doc. "Be careful out there Molly." I tell her then kissing her lips. "Stop worrying about me already, I'll be fine." She says to me.
She runs out and Doc pulls out a big cleaver. "Hold her down, if she moves too much it may not go through on the first swing." I hold her down the best I can.

Doc takes the cleaver and slashes it down her arm in one blow. She screams the passes out immediately. I stand there with Doc. While everyone else comes inside. They just have cleared out all the walkers. "Are you okay?" I asked Molly grabbing her and hugging her. "I'm fine. Like I told you silly. I'm never leaving you." She tells me. " Say, didn't Charley die after we did this to him." She asks me. "Doc explained to me that he died because of all the blood he lost along with an infection in the blood clot. We got Sophie here quick so she should live." I reassure Molly.

"And something I just realized, we completely forgot my birthday!" I say to everyone. Everyone looks at me and chuckles a little. We all leave the room and go hang out in the living room for a little bit except for Molly and I. We went upstairs and laid in the bed together.

~2 Hours later~

💀Paul's POV💀
I sit there in the living room when I hear Doc call for everyone. We all rush in to see if everything is okay. I open the door to see Sophie crying. "Sophie I have great news! Doc said your arm was cut off in time before the infection spread! You're going to live." I tell her. "I don't care about living anymore, just kill me please." She says. In shock I scream at her "Now why the hell would you say something so terrible?! We need you here." I reassure her. She miraculously gets up and walks over to me putting her hand on my shoulder.

"No...I'm the reason you all are going to die."

She screams at me. I start to walk back and then ask "What on earth are you talking about? You are the reason we now know about the whole 'no matter how you die you come back' stuff. That's useful information." I tell her. At this point everyone has walked in the room over hearing the yelling from earlier. "I'm part of a bad group. They sent Charley, Miranda, and I here to learn about you and pick off as many of you as we could. But the more I was around you all I realized how good you people are. I never want to go back to them but if you want to kick me out, nows the best time. They should be coming to attack within 2 weeks but only if I reply back. If I don't then the may never come. That's all I can tell you." Sophie admits to everyone. Layne pushes me out of the way and walks up to her "What is the name of your group?!" She asks furiously. Sophie hesitated for a second and then answered.

"The Garnets."

•Authors Note•
Hey guys I have a friend named JulesAR who is also doing a Zombie apocalypse story of his own. Go follow his and read it along with mine and you later on you may find some interesting things. But anyway Chapter 20 coming next!