Infection

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I step into the shop, carefully avoiding the broken glass. Beau follows close behind. There's a shuffling sound coming from behind the front counter. I lean over it and peer towards the sound. A clawed hand flashes in front of my face and I stumble backward, knocking over a shelf. When I look up I see another shelf falling towards me. It hits, and I groan with the impact. My sword is trapped under my body and my hand gun is across the room.

Beau is nowhere to be seen. The shuffling gets louder and I feel something crawling on top of the shelf. I look up and I'm face to face with a zombie. I scream and it grabs my hair and pulls me towards it, sinking it's teeth into my neck. I thrash under the shelf as the zombie chews on my neck.

"Beau," I cry blood gurgling in my mouth. I try to move my legs and succeed, kneeing the zombie in the groan once before I feel the weight being pulled off of me.

"You're bit," Beau says, pulling the shelf off of me with a grunt.

"I'll live," I say, "O negative right?"

"I don't care, I should have been next to you."

"Don't trip, just get me a band-aid or something," I say, slurring a little.

"Right. And Katie," he pauses, "None of those bitches is ever gonna touch you again."

I grab his arm and lean into him, "Just get me the damn band-aid Mr. Hero."

"Katie, this is probably a bad time, but uh..." He scratches his neck and hands me an ace bandage. The blush on his cheeks makes me giggle.

"Shh," I step over a piece of glass and tug on his shirt, pulling him close. "I know."

I bite my lip and watch as he half smiles at me. He leans down and his face is inches away. I close the distance between us and kiss him lightly on the lips. 

The moment is broken as I collapse from blood loss, my knees buckling underneath me.

"Katie!"