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Jake was over by the cash registers, busy ripping open the packaging on a flashlight so she could have one of her own. “I can’t bGabriel even how dark it is in here,” she whispered once he was close. Some light did stretch into the store, not just from the windowed front but from a line of small windows that stretched across the sides of the building near the ceiling, but she was right. Even as the store slowly grew more and more clear as their eyes adjusted to the dim interior, the long shadows between aisles and jutting silhouettes still cast an especially eerie pall on an already dark and creepy building.“We should check the camping section,” she added. “Some of those electric lanterns are pretty useful for times like this.”“Okay,” Gabriel agreed absently. While she worked he swept his flashlight in an arc across the store, on the lookout for any sign of movement. Jake finished shoving batteries into her own light and clicked it on. She reached up and put a hand on Gabriel ’s sh
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He craned his neck and peered off in the direction of the back of the store. The aisles were already filling up with the creatures. Where the hell did they all come from? Gabriel wondered to himself. Jake followed his gaze and her eyes went wide at the sight. “Right,” she said, dumping one last bottle into her bag. She broke into a run and barreled past Gabriel and up to the car.“Should we shut the doors?” Gabriel called after her, hesitating for a moment.“Screw the doors, let’s get them!” Jake snapped. She pulled open the passenger’s side door and threw herself, bags and all, into the seat. Gabriel shrugged his consent and followed her lead.“What’s going on?” Nancy demanded as the car roared to life.“A swarm,” Gabriel answered. The tires screeched as he threw the car in reverse and blasted away from the store. “They came in through the back. It was like they were planning it.”“They can’t do that.” Nancy said, but there was a wavering uncertainty in her voice. She turned to
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The big man took in the news with a deep intake of breath, as if he could breathe it all in and let his entire body process the information. Letting out a sigh, he shook his head sadly. “I never should have told them to wait,” he said.“Yeah,” Gabriel said absently, staring off into the distance. Suddenly, the actual words clicked in his head and he turned back to Robert with a jolt. “Wait, what? You told them to wait?” Robert nodded his affirmation, and a growl issued forth unintentionally from the back of Gabriel ’s throat. “You told them to wait? Who gave you the right to make that call? That totally went against my plan.”Jake and Robert gave the young man surprised looks, and across the room various eyes were beginning to turn in the direction of the suddenly heated conversation.“There’s no need for pointing fingers,” Jake began, but Gabriel cut her off.“There’s every reason for pointing fingers!” As if to lend credence to his words, Gabriel jabbed a finger at the bigger man
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Gabriel offered a meek smile and sighed. “Well, it’s hardly important,” he said dismissively. “What about the others?” he added, motioning back at the group with his head.“The first one’s Matthew,” Daniel answered. Matthew was a tall man, easily six feet, probably more. He hovered over the other three, taller even than the preacher who was himself a rather tall man. Matthew was bigger, though, built like a boxer, with a broad chest and broad arms and legs like tree trunks planted firmly into the ground. “Matthew’s married to Kelsey. That’s her over there.” As he said this he motioned to a woman across the room, back behind Gabriel . He turned and looked. She was sitting by herself, eating something directly from a can. She was a fairly attractive, young woman, with shoulder length blonde hair and thick, rectangular glasses. Gabriel figured she couldn’t be more than a decade older than him, which would probably put her just a few years younger than Matthew.“The other one’s Stephan,
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Daina reached over and placed her hand on Daniel’s. He met her eyes, and something exchanged in the silence between them. After a moment, he turned and looked back at Gabriel . “Seriously, how did you miss all of this? Don’t you have… friends? Family? Anyone who would have contacted you when things went from bad to worse?”The younger man’s jaw hardened. Truth be told, he hadn’t even had time to think about it yet. Everything since he’d left his apartment that afternoon had simply been about survival and trying to understand what had even happened. There in fact were a number of people he cared about, and he had not heard from even one of them. Minus the apocalypse occurring outside his door, not having heard from his friends or family for over two weeks wouldn’t have really been that abnormal. But once the dead started rising from the grave? Surely, at least one of them would have thought of him.“They must…” he began, the words choking off in his throat, “they must have… died… too e
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His eyes opened at last, but everything was blurry. He blinked, feeling the crustiness around his eyGabriel ds, and after a few moments could make out the general form of the woman standing at the end of his bed. “I knew you’d come,” he said, not really fully aware he was even talking.Jake's eyes went wide. She scoffed in annoyance and rolled her eyes. She kicked him in the feet again, still harder. “In your dreams, you perv. We’re being overrun. If we don’t leave, and I mean right now, we’re as good as dead. So get your ass out of this bed or I’m taking your keys and leaving you here as bait.”Realization slowly dawned on Gabriel and his face flushed red. He rolled out of the bed and grabbed his bag off the floor. He must have been much more tired the previous night than he’d realized, as he was still fully clothed. He hadn’t even taken off his shoes. I must reek, he thought distantly. Actually, considering that there probably wasn’t running water anymore, everyone in the group pro
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It felt like an eternity, though in reality it was only a couple of minutes before the high concentration of abandoned cars finally came to an end and they were able to increase their speed. Gabriel ’s small car roared after the leading vehicles, ripping down the streets as quickly as he dared push it.“It’s all back roads from here,” the man in the passenger seat said after a time. Gabriel shot him a glance, but quickly turned his focus back to the road ahead. “I’m Rico, by the way,” the man added, motioning to himself with his hand that wasn’t holding a shotgun. Then, waving into the backseat, he said “this here is my brother Lucas and my cousin Chuy.”Gabriel blinked, turning his head just enough to glance sideways into the back seat. “Chewy?” he echoed in disbelief ef.“Chewy” was playing with a switchblade, and at Gabriel ’s tone he snapped the blade into place and leaned forward. “What, you got a problem, ?”“Oh settle down, niño,” the woman to Chuy’s left said. “You gonna st
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Gabriel caught the knife with both hands and as little flailing as he could manage. He had never been too good at catching unexpected items midair, and usually just ended up batting them around a bit with each hand as he flailed desperately and unsuccessfully to grab the item before knocking it out of his own reach. Not wanting to look like an idiot in front of this big group of strangers, he was quite thankful and rGabriel even when he managed to actually catch the item this time.He turned the pocket knife over in his hands, looking at it. It was the multi-tool variety, complete with a number of items that would probably never be useful again, like a cork screw and wire cutters. “Thanks, uh, I guess,” he muttered. He turned his head and looked down the highway. Down the line, at another empty car, someone was busy draining the unneeded gas from the tank into a container. Someone else was similarly busy going through the vehicle for useful items. “What kind of stuff would be conside