Giving Mercy • 10 K

Chapter 5

We had been walking along side the river bank for a day now. We ate crawdads and fish from the river that 10 k caught. I boiled water to make sure it was safe to drink.
We had come up onto a town, with a pharmacy, grocery store, and a small service station.
We walked in to the pharmacy first since it was the closes. About a dozen Z's came out when we knocked on the door to make sure. I grabbed my dagger and stabbed one in the left temple. 10 k took out his pistol and started to shoot. One came from behind and attacked me. I struggled to get it off. I fell and it fell on top of me.
" Get off me, asshole!" I yelled at it as if it could understand me.
" Oh shit, hold on!" 10 k yelled as he shot it off of me.
" You ok?" He asked me worriedly.
" Yeah, I'm good." I said pulling my gun out of the holster and pointing it at him.
" WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!" He yelled at me.
I pulled the trigger, just along his check, cutting it open as I shot a Z who was coming for him.
" There was a Z," I said, " let's go and get you cleaned up."
Shocked, 10 k said, " Thanks! I didn't know that Z was behind me!"
" No problem." I winked at him.
We walked into the pharmacy and grabbed bandages and antibiotics to clean his wound.
" This is going to hurt." I told him dabbing alcohol on the cut.
" Oww!" He said staring into my eyes.
I put the medicine on his check and then the bandage.
" There, you're all fixed." I said to him.
" No, I'm not." He answered. Leaning forward he kissed me.
" Now I'm fixed." He smiled and stood up, then helped me up. I grabbed medicine, bandages, tampons, and a pregnancy test.
" I'll be right back." I told 10 k.
I walked in to the bathroom, pistol in had and checked for Z's. Surprisingly there was not a single one. I sat down on the toilet and opened the package. I pulled out the test stick. I put it under me and peed on it. I had to wait two minutes. That was the longest and hardest two minutes of my life. I looked at the stick. It was negative. Joy flooded through my body and I ran out of the bathroom, leaving the testing stick on the sink. I saw that 10 k had something in his hand. I couldn't tell what it was but when he looked up and saw me he put it back on the shelf.
" I need to go to the bathroom, too. " he told me.
" Ok." I said back to him. I walked away to look for more stuff.
" BANDIT!! WHAT IS THIS?!" He had the pregnancy stick in his hand as he walk over to me.
" I... I was just was making sure I wasn't." I told him.
" Oh, ok. Well, what does it say?" He asked pulling me closer to him and hugging me.
" It's negative, so I'm not pregnant. " I answered. He sighed a relieved sigh and look down at me.
" You're short." He said with a grin on his face. He let go of me and walked over to the shelf he had set something down on. He grabbed it and picked it up. It was a box of rubbers. He smiled at me and pulled them out of the box. He put then in his pants pocket.
" Do we got everything?" I asked him.
" Yeah. Let's get out of here." He answered. We left the pharmacy and worked our way over to the service station.
10 k banged on on the metal door of the service station. A single Z came out. I grabbed my dagger and stabbed it in its right temple holding the knife with blade facing the out of my hand. I pulled the blade out and splattered blood everywhere.
" His name was Frank." I said reading the mans name tag.
" I'm sorry Frank that this happened to you. " 10 k said. 10 k walked into the service station. I followed. I grabbed food and bottles of water. Of course 10 k grabbed another box of rubbers and put the condoms in his pant's pocket.
" Are we good here?" I asked 10 k.
" Yeah. To the grocery store then." 10 k answered.
I knocked on the doors of the grocery store and about 2 dozen Z flooded out. I ran to the nearest car and grabbed my sniper. I stated sniping Z left and right. 10 k ran to the next car and did the same. One after another we were killing them. Finally we had killed them all. I stood up and walked I tithe store. I picked up a wagon and started to fill it up with food and water. 10 k filled his pant's pockets with more and more rubbers.
" How many do you need?" I asked him.
" As many as I need to give you pleasure, baby girl," He answered walking over to me and giving me a kiss, " let's get out of here."
" Alright I'm ready." I responded.
Leaving the store I asked him, " How old are you really?"
"19," he replied, " What about you?"
" 14." I replied.
" Shit," he said, " that slipped my mind, you seemed older."
" It's ok," I said," what do you want to do now?"
" Well the sun is starting to go down, so let's go find a safe place so you can get some rest."
" Ok. Well, let's look at some houses."
We walked over to the richy- rich- heights neighborhood and found the biggest house there was.
" This one looks good." I suggested pointing over to the house.
" It looks like it has a tree house in the back." 10 k pointed out.
" Let's stay in there!" I ran over to the tree house, gun in holster, ready when I needed it, and I started to climb the tree up to the tree house.
"I'm going to check the house out." 10 k called out to me.
" Ok, I'll be in here."
I opened the door to the tree house and walked in. There was noting in there.
I laid the blacker out on the floor as 10 k walked in. I laid down, and he spooned with me. Drifting off in to sleep. Never wanting this to end.