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(Chapter 13 Rayne's view)

We have been on the road for 14 hours Tess. gas tank is almost empty.  Can you help me fill it up? you ask. Tess? (I notice shes sleeping peacefully in the back cuddling with my old teddy bear) She's a beautiful sleeper. i wont wake her. ( you step out of the car and you pop the trunk noticing multiple filled gas cans. they are 10 gallons each. specifically 10 of them. i can run over 250 miles on a tank which is 25 gallons. i have 4 tanks worth. that's a thousand miles before i need more. i could make it to the farm lands with less people with that, its only 200 miles to the center of Montana. I considered my options i say to myself. Montana it is.

        Its been another 3 hours and Tess woke up not to long ago. Hey Tess. "yeah babe?" can you hug me? "sure anytime" (she hugs you and holds onto you while she is sitting on the center console.) So you know where we are going right? "By the street signs, we are heading to Montana." I want to go back for my dad but i cant anymore. "why not?" we have 100 gallons of fuel. i can run a thousand miles. I'm already down to eight hundred miles left on my gas tanks and the car. I'm not going back, i couldn't afford the risk.

        (street sign reads) "Montana, 90 miles until border" baby girl. what if they are infected to like there is no where in the united states that has a safe haven? like there is no where to go to be safe... we cant build a cabin in the middle of the woods i don't have the tools.....(the ground rumbles and you look up to see a 747 falling out of the sky) we might have the supplies now. I can reach that plane its in a field so it shouldn't be too hard to get to.

        "But you cant just go to a fallen plane there could be bombs or infected or worse."  Worse? what could be worse? "alot of uglies are gonna be attracted to that, it was alot of noise, ground vibrations and the light flash was big enough for Russia to see." Good point. (a person runs out on the road when your not paying attention and you hit them) (Tess flies up and almost out the window but you catch her before she gets ejected completely) SHIT! Tess you okay?! (holding her) "yeah. just a little surprised....." the car seems to be moving fine it just seems he hit the window and flew over the top. Christ, the windows cracked. ( you pull over and kick the window out of the car) I shouldn't have a  problem seeing now.

        "hey how far?" about 83 miles. just go back to bed. I'm right here if you need me. (you see a little boy hovered over his dead father crying) Hey Tess. "huh?" (groggy tone) this little kid. ima go see if he wants anything. "babe be careful." (you turn around and kiss her) always. 

        don't be hesitant,just go up and say hi need anything? its as simple as that.  (you walk up to the little boy) hey kid you want any- (he jumps and lunges at  your throat) (you lean back and kick him over your head into the car)  little fucker! (you take your knee put his head against the car door and bash it with your knees and fists, you finally crush his skull) god. i need to wash this off. all this new infected blood. (you notice a small stream a few steps away) Hey that is use full. (you wash your arms and hands off with water on the lower part, its deeper.)

        (you open the bent car door get in and slam it shut, you then turn on the car) Tess did you see any of that? "yeah all of it." sorry.. (motions hand for her to get in the passengers seat, instead she pulls back the seat and sits in my lap) hey cutie! (smiles) so off to Montana right? "yup!" shall we stay away from little kids and people on the side of the road? "It'd be in our best interest." okay Montana it is!