章 2: Four Weeks later (Rewritten)
Three weeks, that's how long we had to stay in the hospital and take care of the people that come here bitten or injured, not to mention all personnel that worked in this hospital.
At first, they would be kind of ok, but as time pass, the fever become more violent than ever and before we could do something about it, the patient would die. The fact that the patient would die isn't the worse part, after a few moments, the patient would come back to the line and if that wasn't scary enough, they would seek to eat any living being. We lost a lot of good men and women to these freaks.
As I was lost in my thoughts, one of my men approaches me.
"Sir, we have a problem."
"What it is private more freaks?"
"Yes, sir. If we don't do something about them quickly, we would have to abandon the hospital."
" Fuck me, Private gather the men and the hospital staff, we would leave."
"Roger, sir…Sir…what about the patients?"
"That isn't our job anymore private, we can't die here, besides there isn't anything we could do to the infected."
"Of course sir."
I know that this would mean that the people that still need help in the hospital would have to die, but I can't risk so many lives for a dream that would never happen. We had done our job. I tried to contact the base for the last ten days and unfortunately, we didn't get any response, which could only mean that something must have happened back there.
One hour later, all of the soldiers and the hospital staff that survived stood in front of Lt. Joy.
Looking at the people's faces, he saw how tired and how scared they are. He knew that most of them don't know a thing about fighting and would probably die if they are left alone.
When he had come to protect the hospital he had a total of 50 men and women, now…he had only 20 soldiers left alive. Most of the deceased soldiers died protecting the hospital staff, which was caught by surprise by those freaks.
Seeing that all of the people in front of him were waiting for him to say why they were called, Lt. Joy decided to speak his mind without any further ado.
"Good day to you men and women, as you can see, we struggle with the increasing number of freaks that keep coming and as a result, we can't stay any longer here to protect the hospital. I know that this may sound pretty harsh coming from a jerk like me, but I assure you that we won't abandon you. I want you to gather as many medical supplies and easy-movable equipment as you can. We may need it in the future and as you may have already guessed we have to leave behind the hospital if we want to survive."
After he said his part, the people begin to argue. Of course, most of them didn't like the idea of letting the patients die, but what can they do if they are left alone, but two females decided to remain behind, even if that means that they would have to die. One of them was Gale Macones, a 50 years old doctor while the other one was Ellen Porter, a 32 years old nurse.
From the soldier's side, only one private decided to remain at the hospital protecting the two women. His name was Paul Carter, a 27 years old man that joined the army last year.
Seeing that one of his soldiers decided to remain behind with the nurse and the doctor, Lt. Joy could only shake his head and headed towards Paul.
"Private Carter, are you sure about your decision?"
" Yes, sir. I'm sure."
"Go take three extra mags and a box of ammo from the deposit. You will surely need it and private, take care of them. Hope to see you sometime in the future."
"Thank you, sir."
Three days later. (Eric POV)
Darkness, that's all I can see right now. As time flew by, I begin to remember what happened. I was riding my bike and after a stop at an intersection, a man didn't saw the red light and decided to continue walking. When I saw him, I decided to avoid him, but the man did the same thing and as a result, I lost control of my bike, which made me have a date with a tree branch. Fortunately, the branch didn't pierce any vital organs or I would have been dead by now.
After an unknown amount of time, I begin to slowly open my eyes. What I saw was a hospital room or at least a room that resemble one. Looking around the room I noticed that I was connected to a device that probably kept me alive. Strangely, there were some flowers near my bed, well what remains from them at least. I did not know how to disconnect the things in my arms without doing something that may harm me so I decided to yell for help. Of course, yelling wasn't achievable for someone that was in a coma for an unknown amount of time, which means that I failed a couple of times before I saw a water bottle near my bed. Without any further thoughts, I drank the whole bottle in one go which was a very bad idea. After I was done coughing, I tried to yell again, this time with better results. Ten yells later, a man entered the room. He was shorter than me, maybe with one head shorter. He has an average face and a body that indicates that he trained hard. He also carried a gun in his hands.
When he entered the room, the man looked at me with a surprised face. I saw his surprised face and didn't know why someone would be so surprised to look at a person. Maybe it was the fact that I was injured and my coma should have been longer?
I smiled at him and decided to speak first.
" Morning, sir."
"Good morning, kid. Are you feeling alright?"
"Just hungry and weak, which are normal for a coma patient, I think. Also, I'll gladly take a cup of water if possible."
"No fever? Or any thoughts that could make you angrier? Or even the desire to devour my flesh?"
"Don't think so, why?"
"A lot of things happen in the last four weeks."
"Four weeks? That long I was out?"
"Yeah, you are a lucky bastard for surviving that injury. I'll go and call the doctor to check you, ok?"
"Sure thing, sir."
Five minutes later Gale and Ellen entered the room, Paul was checking the corridor for any walker that may have slipped past the defenses.
After checking him, Gale decided to leave the room without speaking with Eric.
Looking at her attics, Ellen could only smile apologizing to me.
"I'm sorry. She isn't the same after the whole shit happened."
"If I may ask what happened while I was in a coma?"
"Four weeks ago, people start coming to the hospital bitten by other people. At first, we thought it may be a drug that causes the people to have hallucinations, but when the people begin to have a fever, we know that something was amiss, one day later the patient would die and after a few moments he or she would come back to live, but this time it would be like a beast took over the patient body. The patient would seek to eat or bite the closed person to it which would infect the said victim and the case would start again."
I was stunned by what the nurse told him. If what she said was true, the world may have already ended. We remembered a game that he played last year. It was about a survivor of a zombie apocalypse in London. The story coincides with that of the game which means that the infected patient is a zombie.
"So the world has ended right?"
"Yes, it seems that you take the whole thing pretty well."
"Not really, but what good would if I despair? I have one question, the flowers, who brought them here?"
Ellen looked at Eric and took a sorry face,
"A girl brought them here two weeks ago, unfortunately …she was one of the last people to enter the hospital and from what I know her mother was brought here four weeks ago, after that the girl didn't come back, I'm sorry."
"Thank you for telling me. Can I be left alone for a moment, please?"
"Of course. Take your time, if you need something call for one of us okay?"
After she heard him, Ellen left the room, outside the room she meets with Paul.
"Is the kid alright, Ellen?"
"I'm not sure, Paul, I don't think so. He may have lost his girlfriend and he found that the world has ended. This news is pretty bad you know."
"Hopefully he will get over it. It won't do any good for him if he blames himself for her death."
週次パワーステータス
-- 推薦
ランキング 
-- 推薦
チケット