A Little Word Called Love

Part 12: It Will Either Get Better or Worse From Here

*Log July 16th, 2021* (2 days after the last part.)

"Out of all the things that could have happened...why this? Only me, Jorge, and Crystal are trapped in a dark room surrounded by Saviors. I'm not sure how far I'm gonna live after this, but just know I pushed on as far as I can and I hope I didn't fail them...all the ones we lost."

The door to the dark small room slammed open with The Savior pointing his flashlight inside seeing Lilith with the camera in her hands with Jorge aiming his gun at them.

"Oh look you already have it recording," he said "I would suggest you drop your weapons." As he said that three other men came flooding in behind him with M16 assault rifles. They lowered their guns and surrendered.

"What are you going to do with us?" Jorge asked.

"I will show you."

The three soldiers used bags to cover their heads and afterwards escorting them out of the room. As Lilith passed The Savior he took the camera and began to speak to it "Oh hello there to whom ever may be watching this in the future. I am who is known as The Savior. Ms. Ashburn may have described me previously in her other logs since I killed her friend Emily and Tiffany which turns out to be very ironic. You will see in just a moment," the recording stopped and started back up again with the camera pointed at him in a crowd of around 100 people "Hello once again this is The Savior coming to introduce the very first show for my group today. Now it seems we have traitors to our cause and which we know by our laws is punishable by death," he paused to let the crowd cheer then it returned to silence "Over here we have the Jorge Jackson, although the whole family isn't here we shall still proceed, followed by our sweet innocent Lilith Ashburn, with an outcast named..." he held the camera closer so she could answer "Crystal Pines..." he continued to speak "and a traitor within us."

A specific soldier was trying to leave the area when The Savior said "Our very own William Hewitt." As he pointed down at the soldier trying to leave. The surrounding soldiers dragged him back to the middle of the arena and took his gear off.

"Apparently since we encountered this group William has been aiding them via private radio transmissions. It also turns out that William and Lilith know each other...haha small world aye? Anyways..lets get this show started!"

The Savior waved his pistol around with one hand with a most unique one handed weapon, a crescent shaped blade.

"Put them on their knees."

The group was forced down to their knees in a line. The Savior made his way behind Lilith and gently raised the blade to her neck.

"Bring William here."

One of the soldiers brought him up face to face with each other. While still having the blade near Lilith's neck he raised and aimed the gun at Williams head. A trigger was pulled and a gunshot was heard.

*2 Days Earlier*

"Okay so the plan is to just walk..." Jorge said to the others on the boat.

The group looked around confused when Lilith said "Wait...no strategy? no what ifs? we just...walk?"

"That is correct," Jorge quickly responded "Look we have no idea where we are compared to Miami so why not just walk. We defend each others backs and we can get there. Hopefully the way there would be abandoned considering everyone flushed to Miami for protection...that obviously didn't work out so well."

"What if The Savior finds us?" Tiffany asked.

"Then we kill him of course."

Lilith responded "That's not a good idea. He must have a big following and they all will probably be around him. Hell they were all probably hidden in the buildings when he was right there," she pointed to the dock "and its recorded what happens when you just decide to kill the leader." She held up the camera to refer to Zargo's death.

BB jumped in "We need strategy and planning; not this winging it bullshit."

Jorge went over to the anchor as he then proceeded to say "First off we don't have a map, second those maps aren't accurate to the actual geography of post apocalyptic Florida, and lastly we have no purpose of going anywhere so why not just walk and see where that takes us."

Lilith thought for a moment "He is right...since when has a plan of ours gone smoothly?"

John countered with "Jorge got us to the boat."

"And look where that got us. 3 people fucking died!" Lilith got angry "For once lets just see where walking takes us."

The rest remained silent after that and the boat was being pulled into the dock.

"Everyone load up and get ready," John commanded and he reloaded his rifle bullet after bullet and sheathed his knife as the rest did the same. Everyone grabbed some food and water as well as other supplies.

Lilith saw Damien's body and looked back at Tiffany, her face looked like she was about to cry "Wait...we should do something first."

"And what would that be?" Jorge said.

"Do you think this boat has lived though its life because we need to burn the bodies..."

John stepped up to agree "Yeah man, This boat has already been through some shit and there is no way we are getting that engine repaired."

Jorge sighed "Fine let me just get the radios. There is only two so one for John and I each."

Once he did Jorge told him "Turn it on and turn it to channel search for now. We don't need to be wasting the batteries on them, but keep them on in case we pick up anything." 

They carefully moved the bodies on to the boat while Tiffany sat on the dock, sitting down with her knees at her chest just staring at them paralyzed. After the bodies were placed on the deck parallel to each other Jorge took the gasoline and poured it all over the bodies and up to the wheel then back around going inside the cabin, drenching the beds

"I'm going to take the boat out to where it was, light it, and swim back here. Hold my shit," Jorge said while taking off his equipment. He pushed the boat off the dock to a safe distance then lit the match to have descend off his hand when he immediately jumped off the boat. The boat was lit aflame as soon as Jorge's head hit the water. He went up for air to see the giant bonfire of his father's boat flourish in the sky. He easily swam back to the dock, the others helped him up and the stood watching the boat be completely incinerated. John saluted the flame and he stood there respecting the lost and forgotten; the others began saluting in their own way as well. Tiffany was the last to stand up and do it too while tears ran down her eyes "This is obviously the start of something new and it will either get better or worse from here."

A static on both of the radios appeared. Jorge grabbed it and tried to clear it up; a voice became more clear.

"Hey...you.." said the voice. He cleared it up to hear "Can you hear me now?" the voice sounded high pitch, but you can still tell it was a male.

Jorge pressed the talk button and spoke "Who is this?"

"You don't need to worry about that now. What you need to worry about is getting the fuck out of there."