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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
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“I don’t know!” She snapped, turning away from them. “Just, anything but that,” she added quietly.“Maybe she’s right,” a woman Gabriel hadn’t met chimed in. “It’s a nasty name.”“Um, there’s kind of a precedent for this,” Gabriel argued. “All the lore about creatures like this calls them zombies. They look like zombies, they walk like zombies, they talk like zombies. Therefore, they are zombies.”“These things don’t talk,” the woman countered. “They don’t even seem to moan.”“I’ve heard one moan.”“Have you?”Gabriel opened his mouth to reply and then stopped short. Actually, everything from the past two days now seemed like a blur, and it felt like almost none of it could even be real. “Okay, maybe not. I guess I’m not sure. But no sounds might be even more creepy than weird moaning for people’s brains, and it still fits with zombie lore.”“What lore?” The woman continued, shaking her head in disbelief. “And why should it matter? Can’t you at least just respect someone’s wishes a
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“Yeah,” Jay agreed. “Look at all those windows. It looks more like an office building than a military complex.”The caravan pulled off onto a side street, and followed a path to an entrance gate. They came to a stop, and Robert and someone in an army uniform climbed out of the lead car. They stood conversing for some time and looking around as if searching for something. “We’re locked out,” Gabriel exclaimed in annoyance. “We came all this way, and they didn’t even have a plan for getting into the place.”“I’ve been on a few military bases,” Stephen said from the back seat. “There will be another entrance, one easier to access. I’m sure Devin knows that.”As if on cue, the two outside turned around and headed back to their car. Robert made a gesture to the remaining vehicles to follow after him, then climbed back up into the driver’s seat. They followed along the gate, rounding a corner and heading further along the base. One of the buildings loomed up before them: a large, three sto
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“Got it,” Jay said, nodding. Gabriel let him go and he hurried off to the car.Robert came up and patted him on the shoulder. “Best of luck, young man,” he said, then hurried off to his car. Gabriel watched as all the vehicles pulled off, the SUVs headed away around the side of the building and his own car pulled off into the field. For some reason, in this moment, he felt a lot more alone then he ever recalled feGabriel ng before. Taking a deep breath to steady himself, he turned and made his way to the parking lot.Drawing two bats from his bag – one aluminum, one wood – he began calling to the creatures. “Hey, you zombies! Free meal! Come and get it!” He stepped right up to the closest one and swung his bat right into its face, knocking it flat to the ground. He looked around to get his bearings and stopped. Even still, none of the creatures took note of him. “Hey, come on! What’s the matter with you?” He shouted, banging his bats together for extra noise. He started to say somet