Hope is Dead

Chapter seventy three

It was silent as they walked down the road finally coming up to a small town, they entered this town going into the first house, Jon suddenly punched a lamp making them all freeze ''Calm down Jon.'' Marcel noted and Jon turned to him ''Calm down?" Luke sighed looking away ''I can't calm down, the first time I meet all of you for the first time half of you die, I don't even get to meet David.'' they went quiet ''All I wanted was to meet you guy's, maybe go out for drinks, but no, I meet you guy's right after someone dies.'' Evan walked over hugging him seeing him on the verge of tears, hearing his voice crack.

Brock walked over sitting on the couch resting his head on his hand's while his arm's rested on his knee's, Luke sat down beside him and soon all of them sat down ''Why is this happening?'' Brock asked looking at them, they shrugged not knowing, then they herd a knock on the door, Luke stood up pulling the gun up from behind him and walked over leaning against the door while Evan went to the window peeking outside ''Two.'' he informed and Luke sighed slightly opening the door ''We don't want trouble.'' he informed them, there was no answer, Evan kept looking at them seeing they were human and real. Brock, Jon and Marcel turned hearing a noise from the back door, Luke turned getting the door pushed into him knocking him back, Evan raised his gun but they aimed for one of the three near the couch.

''Hello.'' one guy said, four more guy's then rushed the back grabbing Brock, Jon, and Marcel letting the guy point the gun to Luke while the second guy pointed at Evan ''I would drop that if I were you.'' the second guy said, Jon tried getting out as Evan lowered the gun and they took him as well, they dragged everyone out of the house putting them on the road ''Which on of you is in charge?'' the first guy said while they tired their hand's behind their back and took their guns, none of them answered, never really thinking about it.

''Me.'' Evan said and Jon looked at him, he nodded towards his people who grabbed them all making them walk down the road ''This is our town and since the apocalypse nobody has stopped here.'' he said as they went up a hill and they could see a barn they were headed to ''Do you know why?" he asked spinning around, Evan shook his head ''It's because they know us from other towns in this area.'' Evan sighed ''We aren't from around here, we were just wanting a safe place to stay for the night.'' they stopped and the guy turned walking towards Evan ''Don't you know it's safer to keep walking?'' he asked before they started walking.

They got to the barn and went inside shutting the door's behind them ''Where is everyone?" Jonathan asked looking at them ''We killed them.'' one of them simply said and turned some light's on letting them see the blood that was everywhere ''Can you answer some questions for us?'' Luke asked trying to be nice hoping they wouldn't do anything ''Sure.'' the leader complied sitting them all down letting them talk as one walk over getting something ''How far is Arizona from here?'' the leader chuckled ''You're kidding right?'' they looked at each other ''You're heading for that so called 'Safe zone'?'' he asked and they nodded ''It's probably over run by now, that broad cast has been playing since the second month this was happening.'' he explained giving their hope's up.

''Theres still a chance it's up and running still right?'' Brock asked, he shrugged ''No sure, your about ten mile's away from it though.'' hope came back, the one guy turned around and the leader shook his head ''Something funner.'' he stood and Jon hung his head knowing something bad was coming to them, Luke looked at them getting a knife out of the sleeve of his jacket, Marcel saw and looked at him knowing that was going to cause problems if they saw it, he made eye contact with Luke seeing the determination in his eye's, he wasn't gonna stop no matter what.

They walked over again and tossed a nose over a rafter getting a box, one of them then grabbed Evan bringing him over to it ''No, please, don't.'' Jon pleaded but they didn't listen they just got him on the box and put the nose around his neck tightening it, Luke started cutting the rope around his wrist's that was keeping his arm's at bay ''Now, I hate to make people watch what I do with their leader but you all look like really close friends, especially you two.'' he said pointing at Evan then to Jon. His smirk went away when Luke stood up stabbing on of his people in the neck, killing him, Luke then looked over to him, he grabbed the gun and shot two more before cutting Marcel free giving him the knife ''Stop them.'' one of the guy's quickly pulled the box out from under Evan making him fall.

Marcel got the other's free while Luke fended off the rest, once Jon was freed he jumped up running to Evan but the leader grabbed him pulling him back with a knife to his neck ''Do you really want to lose two people right now?'' Luke grabbed one of his men holding him hostage as well, Jon looked over at Evan, Marcel moved towards him but the guy pressed the knife to Jon's neck more ''Pick, you rescue your leader this guy dies, you rescue this one, your leader dies.'' Marcel looked back at Luke who shot the one he had hostage seeing he didn't care ''He isn't our leader.'' the guy was confused now ''Then who is?'' they shrugged ''Never had one, still don't.'' Marcel explained, Brock reached behind him grabbing a knife on the nearby table.