Zombiestuck- Not Okay

Chapter 49

A/N: Prepare yourselves.

Dirk

"Ok, we can do this," I told Jane, "We only have fifteen minutes left, but we're already here. It won't take that long to grab Dave and give him the cure. We'll be in and out of there in no time."

"I know Dirk. I have complete faith that we're going to save him, you don't have to keep trying to convince me," she said.

"I'm not trying to convince you; I'm trying to convince myself."

She sighed. "Okay listen, maybe you shouldn't be the one to do this."

"What? I'm the one who came back in here with the cure, it's my job to get two people to safety," I said.

"I know, but this is your brother! I don't want you to see him dead and have another existential crisis or something, especially when we only have fifteen minutes left."

"No, I'm going to do this, I'll be fine," I insisted.

"Dirk please. I can see it already, you'll be going up to give him the cure and then you'll freeze up right in front of him. You might even get bitten! I really don't think this is the kind of thing we can risk right now!"

"Stop trying to talk me out of this. I know what I'm doing."

"You said the reactions for a zombie bite are a lot faster than they were before! If anything happens we could miss getting out by seconds!"

"Nothing's going to happen!"

"Please! At least let me go to hold him down or something in case you can't do it!"

"No, I don't need any help!"

"Even if you could do it without me, it'll be easier this way! With this little time, you can't deny we need every advantage we can get!"

"Fine! If you insist on believing that I'm that incompetent then be my guest to do whatever the hell you want to make up for my stupidity" I shouted, gesturing towards the ladder leading from the roof down to the street.

She made an irritated noise and started climbing down. "Don't you dare come down until I've got him under control!" she warned me.

"Whatever," I muttered, watching her get to the bottom. I was pretty mad at her at the moment, but I was still worried about her. What if she tripped or something and she ended up getting bitten again? It was hard to see someone go out into a dangerous situation like that without being able to help, but I couldn't look away or I would miss my cue to come down.

She was inching towards Dave with her hand hovering readily over the gun on her hip. Yeah she's got this, I thought, and for a reason I couldn't explain I felt a slight twinge of jealousy.

Suddenly when she was halfway to him, I saw her stop. I couldn't see her face, but I could tell something was wrong. "Jane?!" I called down to her, but she didn't move. What was going on?

"Jane!"

Now Dave was stumbling towards her. Oh no. Was she freaking out from seeing her dead? Of course she is, you idiot. If you saw someone you recognized as a zombie, you would freak out too. This is exactly like what happened when you went to save her. I don't know why she thought it would be better for her to go first.

Move, Jane!

She was still frozen, but now I could tell even from up here that she was shaking. I was starting to freak out too. Dave was getting closer and closer, and she wasn't even trying to do anything. She was going to get bitten.