CONTINUANCE

one

"Mia stay with us" Shelby says, clutching her grown belly and wincing in pain from the movement.

"Shel, take it easy we are going to be fine." Tom calms her running his hands down the sides of her arms.

Shelby nods and continues to pick up her side of the blanket everyone is using to transport Mia.

We are on our way to the hilltop to seek medical attention, because Mia, one of our own has come down with some illness we believe is food poisoning.

Mia yelps in pain, I smooth her hair out of her face. "Everything is going to be fine, okay just breathe." I say.

But everything was not going to be fine.
A strange whistle seemed to cause a ringing in my ears. I immediately covered them squeezing my eyes shut, until the intense whistling settled down to more of an echo I watched my allies do the same.

Suddenly we were surrounded, closed in with no where to run.

"Well, well, well, what in the holy hell do WE HAVE HERE?" a tall man yelled, leaning back with every syllable.

We stayed silent.

"Oh I do believe we have a shy bunch of folks on our hands!" The man said.

"I'm afraid I'm going to need all of you sorry shits on your knees!" He said with a devilish smile.

We all sank to our knees and helped Mia down off of the blanket. Then Tom and I helped Shelby down to her knees, feeling sorry that my closest friend would soon be bringing a child into this disgusting world, but also being supportive and proud of her for being strong enough to do so. My mind couldn't stop racing.

"Becca, Dwight collect their weapons will ya?" He said.

Becca and Dwight came around to collect our weapons one by one.

"So let's get to the point, I wouldn't wanna keep ya waiting" he says with a deep laugh.

"You people killed a bunch of my people, way more than I am comfortable with."

"Uncool, very uncool I don't think you know how uncool that shit is"

"So for that you've got to pay, and pay you most certainly will!"

"But since you've gone this long without squirming all over the damn place, let's make it a little fun" he says raising his eyebrows.

"I've got an idea."

I gulped trying to stay quiet, looking around at those I love, all of my friends who love and support me. Terrified of what this man could do to any of them in a matter of seconds. We've made it too far for something terrible to happen, we've had enough heartbreak.

"Oh hell, hold on one damn minute fellows I don't think I gave you a proper introduction," he smiles so brightly, "this is Lucille, she's a vampire bat."

He holds up a bat that seems to be covered in a shiny metal wrapping. Barbed-wire.

"And she is thirsty, so let's get to it!!"

He moves pointing the bat in Julia's face, then Jess, then Ivy and continues down the line.

"Eeeny meeny miney mo" he points to one of us at a time as he says each line to the children's tune.

He points to Shelby focusing Lucille on her for longer than we were comfortable with.

"JeSus you look shitty!"

Tom struggles to stay in place.

"STOP THIS!" Tom yells.

Becca and Dwight each pull his arms and drag him back into line.

"Oh no no no, that does not fly with me!"

He highers his bat preparing to swing.

"You can breathe, you can blink, you can cry" he says deeply, "hell, you're all gonna be doing that."

He starts to swing, I shoot a gun shot straight into the air, then aim my gun quickly at the man, finger preparing to shoot.

"DON'T TOUCH HIM" I yell.

In the corner of my eye I see Tom crying and looking at Shelby.

"Oh darling-" he begins to say before I cut him off.

"It's Brooke."

"Well excuse the hell out of me," he laughs, "I can tell this is hard on you, but the others usually seem to beg for forgiveness or act terrified, this group is different." He pauses, "you are different."

He smirks.

I stare him straight in the eyes.

"You don't scare easy," he says stepping closer to talk into my ear, "I love that."

I feel chills sent through my body as he whispers in my ear.

"It's your lucky day you sorry shits!" He yells, echoing through the dark forest.

Before I know it I am thrown into a trailer and the door is slammed behind me, I watch as I am being dragged away from the ones I love, my friends, my life, my family.
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A/N: my writing isn't great, but I really hope you enjoy this story, please let me know if I should continue this story!!