Suzy’s Strange Saga
You might be reverting back to old habits, but if there is some hectic bullshit going on out there, then you want to avoid it. They can handle it and you decide to be extra cautious and block the door with a chair.
You hear the sounds of gunfire above you. That isn’t what bothers you so much as it’s the growling and yelling that sounds like it’s coming from nearby. You remember that there are other “patients” on this same floor.
More time passes and you still hear gunshots and the inhuman noises. You are starting to worry that it’s quite possible this house is going to be overrun by these things, and you haven’t even seen one. This fear becomes even more intense when you stop hearing the gunshots and only hear the guttural noises nearby. You start to feel like you’ve made another bad choice.
Suddenly there’s an attempt to open the door only to be stopped by the chair you’ve propped against it. This is followed by a loud bang on the door, which scares the hell out of you.
“Suzy! What the hell? Is this door barricaded?” you hear Lilith’s voice shout.
“Yeah…is it safe?” you ask.
“It’s safe in that we’re not in any immediate danger, but we gotta start getting the hell outta here. Open up!”
Wasting no time you move the chair and the door opens up. Lilith throws your clothes at you and you can hear those awful noises in the corridor. Yelling and banging.
“Here. Get dressed and don’t worry about the noises, the other subjects aren’t getting out of those rooms anytime soon.” Lilith says.
You’re not as sure as Lilith is about that, so you just get dressed as fast as you can and exit the room with her.
“So what’s going on?” you ask as you follow her.
“What’s going on is Leslie and I are heading to that GZ Shelter after he and I gather a few things. The crazies from town are spilling out from it and we don’t want to be here in case another wave comes. I was hoping to have more time to pack, but I guess we can’t have everything.”
You and Lilith get to the ground floor and finally see the house proper. It’s a bit of a mess now probably due to all the running around and shooting, but obviously was nice at one time. Then you enter the front room and see several broken windows, and couple of dead bodies. One of them is a uniformed man with his throat ripped out and several slashes across his face.
Nearby him is a body of a disheveled looking woman with several bullet holes in her body and head. She still has a chunk of flesh in her teeth and even in death her eyes display a crazed look. It sort of freaks you out.
“Um, that guy in the uniform, shouldn’t someone shoot him in the head?”
“What? No. These aren’t zombies. They’re just well…rabid.” Lilith chuckles. “Headshots aren’t even necessary to kill them, though it sure as hell helps.”
A couple more uniformed men with the Ground Zero insignia on them walk into the room holding rifles.
“Place seems to be all secure Dr. Morningstar. No other hostiles in the house or around the house.” One of them says.
“Good. Glad not all of you were incompetent. Wait, are you two the only ones left?”
“Afraid so doctor.” One of them remarks.
“Oh well. Okay, I want you two to stand guard out front. Make sure there isn’t another horde or whatever coming our way and if there is, run back in here and tell me immediately.”
The two uniformed men nod and leave out the front door which is now half hanging off the hinges. You and Lilith both take a quick look outside and see the bodies of several crazies as well as GZ security. In the driveway you see that Lilith’s truck is heavily shot up and a couple bodies of crazed townies lie next to it.
“Great, these assholes never learned the concept of one shot one kill. (Sigh) Guess we’re all just piling into the Ground Zero van.” Lilith says shaking her head.
Lilith continues looks around a bit more at her partially destroyed house.
“Well at least nobody has to clean this up this time. I remember the many many times I’d come home from work and I’d find Leslie had left a damn mess all over the house, much worse than this sometimes even. A lot more bodies too. Still remember the disorder he left when he was trying to write a poem for me on one of our past anniversaries. But it was such a lovely and thoughtful sentiment so I wasn’t too mad…anyway have you made your decision of what you’re going to do yet?” Lilith asks.
You still really aren’t sure and lacking an answer, you ask a question.
“What would I do at the shelter again?
“Well I told you, I’m not in charge of assignments, but I’m sure there would be some sort of position there for you. Ground Zero doesn’t waste resources.”
“I see.”
Lilith looks at you with a squint.
“You…still don’t trust me do you? Don’t answer. I know you don’t. (Sigh) I suppose I don’t blame you. Look, if you don’t want to go with us you don’t have to, I meant that. Still, I think it would be foolish if you didn’t.”
“It might be equally foolish if I went with you. Who knows what the hell is in store for me in an underground shelter.” You say.
“True, but think on this. If I really had anything bad in store for you there, don’t you think I would’ve just had security and my brother restrain you and take you there against your will anyway? I’m giving you a choice. You can go with us, or not. One of your problems Suzy is you don’t take chances, you stick with what you think is safe and look where that has gotten you. But if safety is your main concern, I’m just going to say that staying here isn’t exactly the safe option. This house isn’t secure, you’ll have a few days of food and water at best and if the crazed townsfolk don’t come ripping this place apart again, there are always just the plain opportunists that are no doubt lurking about as well. You don’t even have a vehicle to leave this place. Mine got all shot up and we’re taking the other one. Do you even have a plan if you stay here?”
You don’t…as usual.
“No.” you reply.
“Well I’d think your choice would be simple then. Anyway, I have to bags to pack and when I’m done, I’m going to need to know what your answer is Suzy.” Lilith remarks and leaves you by yourself.
You walk around the ground floor of the house a bit, just looking around. You start to form various thoughts in your head about how this place could be made more defensible. You just aren’t sure if you’re up to the task though.
You briefly consider the idea of somehow overpowering one of those GZ security guys outside and driving off with the truck yourself, but you aren’t confident that you’d be successful. You then wonder if you could successfully flirt with one of them…
You head outside and speak with both of the guards while attempting to be as charming as you can. You even manage to muster up the fortitude to blatantly make sexual innuendo and such.
It doesn’t work. One of them is gay and the other is happily married and even if that wasn’t the case, they get irritated at the fact that you’re distracting them from their duty and start telling you to go away. You realize your plan isn’t going to work and you give up.
“Christ Suzy, some seductress you are.” You mutter to yourself.
This brings you back to your original two choices and both of those have the potential to go to shit for various reasons, but it’s all you got.
You hear the sounds of gunfire above you. That isn’t what bothers you so much as it’s the growling and yelling that sounds like it’s coming from nearby. You remember that there are other “patients” on this same floor.
More time passes and you still hear gunshots and the inhuman noises. You are starting to worry that it’s quite possible this house is going to be overrun by these things, and you haven’t even seen one. This fear becomes even more intense when you stop hearing the gunshots and only hear the guttural noises nearby. You start to feel like you’ve made another bad choice.
Suddenly there’s an attempt to open the door only to be stopped by the chair you’ve propped against it. This is followed by a loud bang on the door, which scares the hell out of you.
“Suzy! What the hell? Is this door barricaded?” you hear Lilith’s voice shout.
“Yeah…is it safe?” you ask.
“It’s safe in that we’re not in any immediate danger, but we gotta start getting the hell outta here. Open up!”
Wasting no time you move the chair and the door opens up. Lilith throws your clothes at you and you can hear those awful noises in the corridor. Yelling and banging.
“Here. Get dressed and don’t worry about the noises, the other subjects aren’t getting out of those rooms anytime soon.” Lilith says.
You’re not as sure as Lilith is about that, so you just get dressed as fast as you can and exit the room with her.
“So what’s going on?” you ask as you follow her.
“What’s going on is Leslie and I are heading to that GZ Shelter after he and I gather a few things. The crazies from town are spilling out from it and we don’t want to be here in case another wave comes. I was hoping to have more time to pack, but I guess we can’t have everything.”
You and Lilith get to the ground floor and finally see the house proper. It’s a bit of a mess now probably due to all the running around and shooting, but obviously was nice at one time. Then you enter the front room and see several broken windows, and couple of dead bodies. One of them is a uniformed man with his throat ripped out and several slashes across his face.
Nearby him is a body of a disheveled looking woman with several bullet holes in her body and head. She still has a chunk of flesh in her teeth and even in death her eyes display a crazed look. It sort of freaks you out.
“Um, that guy in the uniform, shouldn’t someone shoot him in the head?”
“What? No. These aren’t zombies. They’re just well…rabid.” Lilith chuckles. “Headshots aren’t even necessary to kill them, though it sure as hell helps.”
A couple more uniformed men with the Ground Zero insignia on them walk into the room holding rifles.
“Place seems to be all secure Dr. Morningstar. No other hostiles in the house or around the house.” One of them says.
“Good. Glad not all of you were incompetent. Wait, are you two the only ones left?”
“Afraid so doctor.” One of them remarks.
“Oh well. Okay, I want you two to stand guard out front. Make sure there isn’t another horde or whatever coming our way and if there is, run back in here and tell me immediately.”
The two uniformed men nod and leave out the front door which is now half hanging off the hinges. You and Lilith both take a quick look outside and see the bodies of several crazies as well as GZ security. In the driveway you see that Lilith’s truck is heavily shot up and a couple bodies of crazed townies lie next to it.
“Great, these assholes never learned the concept of one shot one kill. (Sigh) Guess we’re all just piling into the Ground Zero van.” Lilith says shaking her head.
Lilith continues looks around a bit more at her partially destroyed house.
“Well at least nobody has to clean this up this time. I remember the many many times I’d come home from work and I’d find Leslie had left a damn mess all over the house, much worse than this sometimes even. A lot more bodies too. Still remember the disorder he left when he was trying to write a poem for me on one of our past anniversaries. But it was such a lovely and thoughtful sentiment so I wasn’t too mad…anyway have you made your decision of what you’re going to do yet?” Lilith asks.
You still really aren’t sure and lacking an answer, you ask a question.
“What would I do at the shelter again?
“Well I told you, I’m not in charge of assignments, but I’m sure there would be some sort of position there for you. Ground Zero doesn’t waste resources.”
“I see.”
Lilith looks at you with a squint.
“You…still don’t trust me do you? Don’t answer. I know you don’t. (Sigh) I suppose I don’t blame you. Look, if you don’t want to go with us you don’t have to, I meant that. Still, I think it would be foolish if you didn’t.”
“It might be equally foolish if I went with you. Who knows what the hell is in store for me in an underground shelter.” You say.
“True, but think on this. If I really had anything bad in store for you there, don’t you think I would’ve just had security and my brother restrain you and take you there against your will anyway? I’m giving you a choice. You can go with us, or not. One of your problems Suzy is you don’t take chances, you stick with what you think is safe and look where that has gotten you. But if safety is your main concern, I’m just going to say that staying here isn’t exactly the safe option. This house isn’t secure, you’ll have a few days of food and water at best and if the crazed townsfolk don’t come ripping this place apart again, there are always just the plain opportunists that are no doubt lurking about as well. You don’t even have a vehicle to leave this place. Mine got all shot up and we’re taking the other one. Do you even have a plan if you stay here?”
You don’t…as usual.
“No.” you reply.
“Well I’d think your choice would be simple then. Anyway, I have to bags to pack and when I’m done, I’m going to need to know what your answer is Suzy.” Lilith remarks and leaves you by yourself.
You walk around the ground floor of the house a bit, just looking around. You start to form various thoughts in your head about how this place could be made more defensible. You just aren’t sure if you’re up to the task though.
You briefly consider the idea of somehow overpowering one of those GZ security guys outside and driving off with the truck yourself, but you aren’t confident that you’d be successful. You then wonder if you could successfully flirt with one of them…
You head outside and speak with both of the guards while attempting to be as charming as you can. You even manage to muster up the fortitude to blatantly make sexual innuendo and such.
It doesn’t work. One of them is gay and the other is happily married and even if that wasn’t the case, they get irritated at the fact that you’re distracting them from their duty and start telling you to go away. You realize your plan isn’t going to work and you give up.
“Christ Suzy, some seductress you are.” You mutter to yourself.
This brings you back to your original two choices and both of those have the potential to go to shit for various reasons, but it’s all you got.