The Undead

Chapter 14: Repeat

I wake up to wet kisses. "Furball down boy" I chuckle. I lift him off me. "Go for a walk boy?" I ask getting his leash. I put it on his neck and we walk out to the elevator. A few moments we arrive on the first floor and walk out. Its dark. I glance at a clock and see its 2 in the morning. We walk around and he sniffs everything and thats an understatement. The pup enjoys the walk. I notice Im the only one awake. I decide to take Furball on the beach. I remember the infected. Thats when I decide we need to burn them. I remember how we cleaned up the main part of the island. But we just moved the bodies.

I take the walk back to our suite. I take the leash off him and fill his bowl. I decide to take my sniper and go on the roof. I take the stairs and step onto the roof. I walk over to the couch. "Jillian?" I whisper to her. Shes asleep. I run back downstairs and grab a blanket. I get on the roof again and place the blanket over her. I go to the parking lot. I unlock my car and hop in. I load it onto the ferry.

I have to drive the ferry myself. I take it slowly across and easily spin it around. Piece of cake. I get back in my car. I drive around with the map and fire ax and sniper. I decide to drive farther away this time. I stop to kill walkers repeatedly. I drive about 3 hours away. I dont know where exactly. I and up surrounded by walkers. I decide to hit them with my car door. I open it and hold it open with my hand. I roll the window down first and accelerate and hit a few walkers. I shut my door and apply the brake. I take my rifle out and pick off some walkers. I switch to my fire ax and decapitate walkers left and right. I make it back to the car and drive off. I stop at a gas station and raid some fuel. I decide to take some diesel fuel for the helicopter. I take several gas cans full. I stuff them in the trunk. I also take some more and place them in the car.

I get back into my car and take off towards Cedar Point. I Drive on the other bridge. I notice walkers all over it. I drive back onto the ferry and go onto the island. I grab a propane tank from the red hotel where we stored everything. I take another and load it into my car. I drive onto the second bridge which stretches across the skinniest part of the island. I go where it is over water and hotwire a few cars to help the explosions. After moving six cars into place I set the tanks in between and shoot the tank. Its about 9AM and if this doesnt wake anyone up oh well. The explosion roars and I shake even in my car. I drive off and the bridge keeps falling apart. It doesnt stop until 100 meters of it is lost in the water. Nothing is getting across this bridge. I kill the few walkers on my side and drive off towards the parking lot. I park right next to Melanie and Britni's car. I lock it.

I walk back to my suite. I am greeted by Kelly. "Sleep good?" I ask. "Yeah..best sleep since this shit started. Anyways why do you wander off so much?" She asks. "I like to find stuff...explore..." I answer. "Well next time take me!" She says punching my shoulder lightly. "Once you get armed maybe. Speaking of which do you need a gun?" I ask. "Yeah...But I probably cant shoot very well" "Neither could I.......look at me now!" I say. "If you need a gun....You're gonna have too do me a favor" "What is that?" "Help me move these cans of diesel fuel onto the roof" "Why diesel...why the roof?" "Its what fuel this helicopter runs off....thankfully it doesnt need military grade fuel" I answer. We walk off to the parking lot. I grab four cans. Its heavy as shit. She grabs two. "fuck...this is heavy" She complains. "I know...." I agree.

We take several trips but get it done. I leave them up there and we silently enter my room. "Okay...we got a couple shotguns and MG'S and a shitload of sub-machine guns.." I say to her. "You should pick a pistol and a SMG. It'll be easier to adapt to" I say to her. She picks out her guns and I give her some rounds to go along with'em. "Thanks Kaleb" She says. "No problem" I say closing the door behind us. She walks off to her room. I go to the roof to refuel the helicopter. "Hey" Jillian says outloud. "Huh?" I grunt. I stand up and walk to her. "Goodmorning!" I greet. "Did you give me this blanket?" "Yeah...you looked cold" "Thanks" "What are you doing up here?" She asks. "Filling the helicopter up. What about you?" I ask. "I was thinking and then I fell asleep."

We both talk as I finish fueling the tank. I have 3 fuel cans full still. We both eat some breakfast before hanging out in my room. I run into Phillip and we talk about the bodie...We end up burning several piles of bodies that day.

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The next months things dont change much. We take hit squads on the helicopter or the school bus and get fuel and kill walkers. Summer changes to fall. Fall to winter. During winter we become lucky as the temperatures never freezes our fuel. More people have joined us in Sanction adding to our numbers. Although we do not run out of guns we did run low on ammo for a few days before finding another military outpost in Kentucky. We made several trips via the sky and now we have a suite full of ammo.

Jillian and I grow closer. Cole and a new girl from Indiana named Jessica also grow close. I decided to make Jillian mine and Cole did the same to Jessica. Phillip did grow close to a woman....but he dumped her for what reason I still dont know.

Winter changes to Spring. We gain more survivors. We have a rebellion afoot. A small group has rised against us after we were forced to put down a loved one who tried to sneak onto our Island infected. 

We put down the rebellion and luckily suffer no casualties or injuries. Furball has grown into a faithful companion of mine. I start to include him in our hitsquad after learning dogs cannot be infected. We still make him wear a K-9 unit vest we scavenged from a military outpost. He is smart and doesnt get hit. I've trained him well. Most of the other animals grow and produce offspring as intended.

Spring changes to Summer. We celebrate a year of survival by lighting off fireworks our hitsquad has obtained from one of the 50 states. 

Years progress. Ryan grows to 3 years old. It is now February 12th 2017. My 18th birthday. I celebrate with a few drinks. Furball and I relax most of the day and I give Phillip the position of Leader for the week. I want to relax and take some time off. Jillian and I also relax on the couch on the roof.

It is a warmer day today. Maybe 40 degrees F.

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A few hours later. "Lub! Let's play tag!" Ryan says to me. "Okay..who else is gonna play?" I ask. "Dill and Mel said they would!" "Okay bud But im it so run!" I say laughing. He never grew out of Phillip and I's nicknames. It makes me smile everytime as it does to Phillip. I run after my brother taking slower steps to not ruin his fun. I usually let him win at this kind of stuff. I mean thats what you are supposed to do right? I find Phillip and tag him. He chases Ryan also.

After about an hour we stop playing. "Ryan...let's take a nap? Watch a movie?" I ask. "Sure lub. Can we watch Nemo again? I like that one.....Can Sissy watch too?" He asks. "Sure...I'll go find  Sissy" I say as he runs up to our suite. "Melanie!" I call out. She pokes around the corner and appoaches me. "Huh?" "Ryan wants to watch Finding Nemo....and he wants you to watch also....Im about to take a nap with him. Care to join us?" I ask. "Sure...anything for him" She says. We walk into my room and He already has it playing. I take one side of the bed and Melanie takes the other. Ryan lay between us. This is our normal routine. Jillian doesnt like it but Melanie and I dont have anything between us anymore.  That is the reason why Ryan has to lay between us. It is the only way Jillian wont flip out.

I get to the part where Nemo touches the "Butt" and fall asleep after Ryan laughs his head off.