Location: School
The door wouldn’t budge. JC tried putting all of his weight
into it, but it gave resistance. Lucky sniffed the ground, her head lowered to
the floor as she followed the scent around the side of the building. She was
onto something. Giving up on the barred entrance, JC followed the dog. Directed
by her keen sense of smell, Lucky led him to another point of entry. She
whimpered and clawed at the bottom frame. JC immediately pushed against the
door. It inched away a tiny bit. Placing his gun in the waistband of his jeans,
he pressed both hands to the weather-beaten wood and shoved. The door swung
open with a whirling gust of air, and out with it the smell of rot.
Retrieving his weapon, he cautiously started forward. A
large pool of blood had soaked into the hay-covered floors and he was wary of
every step he took. Lucky, however, was moving with less concern for the
crimson puddles and more curiosity of what lied ahead. JC looked back as he
caught movement over his shoulder. Jake nodded at him as joined the two inside.
“Anything?”
“Nothing yet. I think the dog’s got something though.”
Jake looked in Lucky’s direction. Sure enough, the small
creature had already caught wind of another unlocked passageway, almost as
though the doors were left open on purpose. Jake and JC followed close. “Wait,” JC said,
motioning for Jake to get down. “Someone’s in there.”
Just as the words left his lips, bullets ripped through the
wall nearly tearing through his head. JC hit the dirt while Jake crouched
nearby. Lucky had continued her trek, trying to locate the source of the
shooting. Using hand signals, Jake gestured to JC that he would circle around
and hopefully get behind the shooter, JC would lay down cover fire. Jake
counted down from three.
Like a bat out of hell, Jake sprinted forward. JC popped off
a couple of rounds, being careful not to let his fun click. 3—2—1 he counted his shots. With one bullet left in the chamber,
his back hit the wall. He closed his eyes in silent prayer, hoping Jake got to
their attacker first.
Lucky growled. She had spotted someone. Diving across the
center partition and a stack of hay, she bit down on the soft patch of flesh.
The man howled as she ripped into him, screaming for someone to pull her off.
Jake advanced, aiming his weapon at the nearly naked man as he called for Lucky
to back off.
“I’d lower my weapon if I were you,” a familiar voice said
behind him. He felt the barrel of a gun on the back of his head and slowly
lowered his pistol as he placed his hands in the air. “Good boy.”
“And I’d be very careful waving that thing around if I were
you, Matt. Lucky’s out for blood right now.”
Matthew lowered his weapon as Jake turned around. The men
greeted each other with a hug and Jake gave JC the all clear. “It’s good to see
you two made it out alive. Anyone else with you?” JC knew the question was
mostly concerning Natalie. However, he was unable to confirm her status.
“I hate to break up such a happy reunion, but do you think
someone could, I don’t know, help me so I don’t bleed to death down here?”
Edward asked, his tone growing louder and angrier with each word he spoke.
Lucky again growled at the man as he got to his feet. He pointed at her and
backed away. “And keep your mutt away from me!”
“I wouldn’t worry about it too much. Looks to me like she has good taste,” Matthew replied.
JC went out to collect Nina and Mike. And while the groups
reconnected, exchanging stories, Edward glared angrily at them and the dog
lying guardedly beside her young mistress.
“And you think he was telling the truth?” JC asked as
Matthew recounted the story about the safe zones.
“Who knows, really? Only one way to find out for sure.”
“It could be dangerous,” Jake said. “And we’re nearly out of
ammo.”
“Yeah well, that’s never stopped us before,” Josh replied
with a grin.
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LOL Lucky attacking Eddie. Good girl, she needs a treat. hahaha
ReplyDeleteWell yay, some of the crew is back together. Why do I get the feeling Matt will have some jealously issues when/if he hooks up again with Natalie's group and David is still hanging around.
Go Lucky, someone give that dog a treat!!!
ReplyDeleteSo glad that some of the groups got back together, but it does seem that Matt really needs to calm down and get his head n the game. He seems to be a bit too 'trigger happy' for my liking.