When time stops

Chapter eight

Jean saw Nathan pulling off the main road and into a town, they had spent a couple of hours on the road so Jean was thinking they needed some gas, they followed a side road through some fields, Evin looked at the rows and rows of grass being tended to by farmers in the late evening while they were just entering the town ''Where are we?'' Evin asked leaning forward ''Armstrong.'' John's eye's widened as he stared up, he sat up grabbing his side and looked around ''Why?'' he asked and Ash looked back while Jean kept his eye's on the road ''Because we're following Nathan.'' John groaned and hung his head.

''What's wrong with Armstrong? It's nice out here and look's untouched by what's happening?'' John looked to Evin ''My family live's here.'' Ash smiled ''You mean we could actually meet your family?'' John sighed and leaned back holding his side groaning at the pain ''Sadly, yes.'' he said and looked out the window, Ash could see something was wrong and turned front as Jean slowed the car down after seeing Nathan put the emergency light's on. The three stepped out fo their car and walked over, Ash rolled the window down ''Jeep ran out of gas.'' he said and looked in the back seeing it was full ''We'll go back to them.'' he said disappointment hinted in his words.

Jean started driving after seeing they got inside the car and they soon entered the small town ''Which house belong's to a family memeber?'' Jean asked but John was to busy trying to stay awake that he didn't asnwer, Evin looked at his friend ''John you feeling alright?'' he asked noticng something was wrong ''78 Triwood Ave.'' John said faintly beofre passing out ''John?'' Evin moved a bit and Monte checked him for a pulse then checked his side ''He's not bleeding I don't understand why he just passed out?'' Monte said confused ''What did he say?" Ash turned to them ''78 Triwood Ave.'' Evin repeated for them. Jean started driving faster looking for the address. He found the street and turned onto it following that road finally finding the house, Jean got out while Monte and Evin moved John out of the car towards the front door. Two people came out and walked over "Oh my god John?" The two went inside with Monte and Evin.

"What happened?" One asked while they laid him on the bed "Do you have a medical kit?" Evin asked scared, the woman nodded and ran down the hall, the man sat down beside John ''What happened?'' he asked again looking at him ''He was shot.'' Monte lightly described while the woman came back ''How?'' he asked looking up to him and saw he was in a military uniform and stood up ''Did you shoot him?'' he asked anger evident in his voice ''No, my commanding officer did.'' the rest of John's friends came into the house and looked over to him ''Jean? Why are you guy's up here?'' he asked ''The apocalypse is coming here.'' Jean said and looked at the other's ''What?'' he asked and the other two were confused ''We herd the radio, their saying it's spreading fast, they listed off areas that were going to be hit the worse, this place being one of them.'' Monte sighed and looked down.

''What are you talking about?'' the guy asked ''Zombies, flesh eating people.'' Evin said looking at him ''They were in the city, that's why we're here now, that's why he got shot, these military people thought we were infected, John took a bullet for me.'' he said looking over to him remembering why he was laying there. Jean walked over ''Where's the police station?'' the guy sighed and looked back at John thinking ''I think it's in the town somewhere, I don't know, I've never had to go there.'' Jean nodded and looked at them ''Who want's to stay here with him?'' he asked, Monte looked over ''I will.'' he said and Jean nodded looking at them ''He'll be ok?'' the guy turned to his wife seeing she was doing her best ''We should've really took him to the hospital but that's to far away, she'll help him.'' he said and Jean nodded ''Let's go.'' Jean said and left the house, Evin got to the door and looked back at John before leaving.

Monte looked at John ''Who are you to him?'' Monte asked thinking they were some kind of family or friends ''I'm Ben his uncle and this is aunt Sophia.'' he explained walking over, Monte stayed back knowing she probably needed space ''Did you get the bullet out?'' she asked looking over to him, he nodded then looked at his hand's seeing it was evident ''Where's your bathroom?'' he asked, Ben looked to him then pointed down the hall, Monte thanked him and walked off finding it and started washing his hand's in the sink, he turned the water off and looked at himself in the mirror seeing his rank on his military jacket.