Infectious

Wednesday

Rachel's point of view-
It happened on a Wednesday. Good bye hump day hello apocalypse. Anyway I was working the night shift, I'm a nurse at the River bank county hospital, and I was talking to my friend James at the front desk when some well, um people came in. The first was a punk looking girl with a My Chemical Romance shirt, black ripped jeans, and an arm full of tattoos. The next was a beautiful girl with blonde hair and a pink dress. Two guys followed in (twins?).

They marched in and the punk girl demanded "I need to see a doctor!"

James tried to reason with them "We have some paper work-"

"We NEED to see a doctor" she was nearly yelling now.

"Please calm down and tell us what's wrong" I stepped in so James didn't flip.

They all turned on me "you have no idea what's going on, do you?" The pretty girl spoke up, she had a beautiful voice too.

"You need to tell us so we can help you" I said trying to calm them down.

They all groaned and one of the twins spoke up,"the apocalypse."

"AND ITS ALL YOUR FAULT!!! DONT YOU KNOW?!? THE HOSPITALS STARTED IT!! YOU GAVE THEM THE BLOOD!!! YOU ARE MURDERERS!!! " the punk girl screamed

"Look we have no clue what your talking about but, PLEASE SIT DOWN" James yelled

"Hold on, what apocalypse?" I questioned, kind of curious

"It's in the blood" informed the other twin

"The hospitals give it out" the pretty girl said.

"What is?"

"The infection!" They all screamed. By now everyone was starring.

"What does it do?" I asked trying to see what disease it was.

I heard screams from down the hall.

"Your about to find out" said the punk. The ripped a gun out of her black backpack,,handed the pretty girl a knife, and the two guys a jar of pickles.
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Before I could ask the doors flew open doctors, nurses, and patients ran out some clutching wounds. The next thing that happened will haunt my nightmares forever. Out of the doorway came a creature. Human like and bloody.

It's eyes were white with dilated pupils.  It's mouth bloody and in a nasty snarl demented it's ghost like features. It's hospital gown was tattered and blood speckled. The strangest part was that it crawled. Not like a dog but like an insect, contorting it's body with every step. People screamed, the punk shot and in that moment my mind had time to reflect on life. It said you know Rachel, you've had a good life, you'll probably go to heaven when this thing kills you!

The creature let out a vile scream before collapsing on the floor with a gun wound in it's head.

"Come on we have to get out of here. The others will turn soon." Said the pretty girl.

"Wait, can someone explain what's happening?" James demanded.

"We'll explain when we get to the base" the first twin informed him.

"What base!" He yelled back.

"Our base and if you don't follow us then you'll end up like them" the punk girl snapped. Then stormed out the door.

I had no choice but to follow so I grabbed James's hand and ran with the rest of the group. The punk led us in to an alley way, looked around, then darted inside a hidden door way. The space inside looked prepared for anything. There was tents, caned food, electronic devices, and maps. The punk sat down in a chair and put her head in her hands as the rest of the group filed in.

I turned to the blonde girl "um... I don't think we properly introduced ourselves."

"Oh, of course!" She said brightly, too bright for the situation,"that's Roxanne" she pointed to the punk girl, "that's Samuel" she pointed to the first twin, "that's Jacob" she pointed to the second twin, "and I'm Angelina" she finished.

"Oh, um great I'm Rachel and that's James"

James looked amazed at his surroundings.

He turned to Roxanne and asked "ok well, now that we have names someone tell me WHAT THE HECK IS GOING ON!"

She looked at him lazily "you know, I knew this was going to happen hehe. Anyway, it's the government. They gave out infected blood to every hospital and threatened to kill their families if they didn't infect one person. They gave them an immunity shot to bribe them into silence."

"But why?" I questioned

"They want to stop overpopulation" explained Angelina.

"And when they save us, have punishment and something to keep us in line." Chimed in Samuel.

"But what does that solve?" Asked James

"Nothing, the government has its ways so we will never know until the plan is done" said Roxanne.

"What a horribly flawed plan..." James remarked.

"So what do we do?" I asked, more like begging.

"You are welcome to stay with us, We're in the business of saving people." Jacob chimed in. He was relatively quiet.

"Yes..." Said Roxanne uneasily "but you worked at the hospital so you might be with them"

"Oh come on take pity!" Angelina rolled her eyes.

"Alright, but any suspicious behavior and your out" Roxanne compromised.

My shoulders sagged with relief and I Sat down on a near by sofa. Apocalypse day one, complete.

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