Club Z

Eric - act 2

"Harry?  Wait! Who is this and WHERE is Harry"

These were the last words I said before the other end hung up. We really have to find Harry, damn what the fuck is going on?

I look around me; Charles and Rick are discussing some stuff over. "Hey, what's up?" I asked. Both of them looked at me, then Charles said, "Okay, so we don't know exactly where Harry is, let's all assume that he's somehow surviving like us. On the mean time, we need a way to get out of here." Rick continued, "We tried calling the authorities, the phone lines were busy and after a few minutes the hotline won't even work anymore. Carol won't answer her phone, I'm really worried."

I checked my phone, "Wait! Dad could bring a chopper to us!" I opened my contacts and called dad. Ring....ring...ring....The operator must be busy right now, please try again later... No, this can't be. I tried again a few more times, and then I called the office. It doesn't work either.

"Okay, we need to check out the place. We'll use the fire escape to go to the rooftop to see the stuff that's happening on the ground level.” Charles told us.

We packed up our things and I checked outside the window and looked up, the rooftop isn't that far. It seems like three floors ahead, we were on the fourth floor so the whole building must be seven floors high.

We were all set, I was about to step out when my phone started ringing, I opened it. It was the office calling, I answered it. "Hello?” a familiar woman's voice replied, "Hello sir!? Is this really you? Things started happening outside the building, people started...” she started crying, "sir, your dad..." Oh god, please don't do this to me. No please no, "President Bryce tried to help one of the security guards who was bitten— the phone WS dropped and I could her banging somewhere. I shouted, "Hello! Maria are you there?" She dropped the phone and I heard some shouting in the room. "Hello sir! They already breached the building; our janitors are now barricading the stairwell. Sir... We had to do it, we just had to" I could feel the fear and sadness in her voice, "the president was bitten by one of them and soon after he started vomiting and coughing, please understand— "It's alright I understand, when they bite you. You become one of them; I've seen it here as well. Moving on, can you send the chopper? Its in the rooftop, the keys are under my desk. You went to training with me; I know you could fly it." She paused for a moment, and then I heard her go to my office and open my drawers. I heard her take the keys, "Sir, I have the keys I'm going up right now." I heard her go out and she started running, then I heard a voice in the background, "What are you doing? You can't go out, they've breeched the floor." Then Maria replied the person, "There's a small chopper in the roof, I'll use it to escape and pick up the president's son." I heard her open the door, the. It was shut back, "I told you, the whole floor's been breeched, and they’re outside the office right now. Were the only ones here still not bitten. “Here, she handed the phone to the person, "Hello, this is Eric Bryce. Who am I speaking with?", "Sir, this is Liam Spencer, I'm one of your fathers attorneys. I was supposed to discuss something with him today when the whole thing happened." I had to make him go to the chopper, "Well, Liam. I need you to go help Maria to go get the chopper, she could take you here and I could get a bigger one that my father owns at the air base. It’s the only way for us to find somewhere else to stay. Trust me; no one will be coming there to help you." I had to sound confident and I need to sound like I know what I was doing. I mean, it’s our lives counting on our conversation.

He opened the door again, then I heard him pick something from the floor, "Maria, this better work, okay let's do this." He hasn't hung up yet so I could hear then slowly creep away. My office was at the top floor so the rooftop is just a staircase away. After a few second I could hear them slowly open the stairwell door. Everything was so quiet; I had to put my earphones to hear even the tiniest detail. Then I heard Maria softly screech; I heard a familiar tune, a moan. This is bad, I heard Liam grunt, then there were noises everywhere; bodies clashing against the walls, something metallic hitting the rails, things were going so loud. Then I heard a sigh, "Okay, let's continue." They continued going up when I heard a faint sound, they must have heard it to. I hear what seems to be thunder? Wait, that's not thunder, I hear them to start running up the steps. They burst the door open and I heard shouting. The next thing I heard was the helicopter being prepped while at the background I hear banging on the door. I heard more shouting, and then the phone went off.

I looked at my friends, I don't want to ruin out only hope, their hope. I smiled at them, "Okay, the helicopter's coming. Now, let's go find Harry." I needed them to have a reason to keep on fighting.

So we went on with our plan, we want outside and we quietly climbed up the fire escape. We had already climbed a floor when I looked on the window next to us, I see a woman trying to hold down her door from the bitten trying to go in.

I punched the window and went inside to help her hold the door. Rick and Charles came in and bashed the door, their combined force made the door close and some hands got cut-off from it. 

We were putting their weight on the door to keep it from opening, and then I said, "I'm going to go get the sofa to barricade the door." I ran to get the sofa, but when I get there I see a little angel sleeping. The girl from the door shouted, "Just wake her up, her names Adeline." I tapped her shoulder, "Adeline, I need the sofa for a moment. Would you be a dear and just move for a moment?" She sat up and scratched her eyes then said okay while yawning. Adeline stood up and I pushed the sofa to the door. We found more furniture to barricade the door and then we sat on the floor.

"Thanks for the save, my name's Camilla and this sweet little girl is Adeline.” the woman said. "My name is Eric, this is Charles and Richard. Were on our way to the rooftop where, hopefully, we'll be picked up by a helicopter I sent for." We all agreed that the door won't hold them much longer so we took as much stuff as we could from the room and we brought it with us to the rooftop.

At the rooftop we could see everything that's going on below us; everybody there is one of them. There's so much of them below, we need to be carefu— "Mommy look over there! There's someone waving, hi there!" Adeline was waving to a direction, and then I looked closely. It was Harry! He is on another rooftop a few blocks from us. I waved at him, he wasn't waving at us; he was warning us!

I looked to where he was pointing. There on the fires cape where we came from are a lot of them rushing up towards us...

AN:

Liam, Adeline, and Cam? Hmmm... where have I heard these names before?

Special dedication to dbookjunkie for this one. Her book His Mistakes were one of the first books on my library. :D