“Allclear,” he said walking to the door and pushing the emergency bar down torelease the lock and opening the door. Will stuck his head out checking for anyunseen enemies and when he could not see any he dragged the body to the smallbalcony and threw it over the edge. He then grabbed the other one and threwthat over the edge too. “Both landed in the rubbish bin, so they will not bevisible from the road should anyone come looking,” Will said looking from Adamto Amelia. To me he said, “We need to hurry and check these other rooms and thekitchen cupboards for supplies, especially cleaning ones for the floor in here,then get back to the warehouse.”
I nodded myhead and started to walk with him towards the doors on the other side.
“I’ll checkthe kitchen for supplies,” Amelia said.
“I’ll lookfor something to block off the gym door with,” Adam said.
Thetwo of us walked to the doors on the right hand side of the room and chose theleft door first. Will opened the door with myself covering him. The room wasquite bare, with only two sets of bunk beds, a wardrobe and a small waste binin it. The walls were grey painted brick and bare. There was a small window atthe back of the room which let in little light.
“Clear,”Will called and walked over to the wardrobe. “Just extra bedding, towels and afew sets of clothes here.” He let me know.
Iturned and went back through the door and to the door on the right. This time Iwas first, I tried not to show my shaking hand as I turned the handle and flungthe door open and … Nothing, the room was empty of bodies, living or otherwise.It was the chief’s office. There was a desk near the back wall on the right.Two comfy looking arm chairs were on the left and a large dead plant in thecorner. There was a nice coffee table in front of the arm chairs. I walked in abit further just so that I could see all angles of the room. “All clear inhere,” I called out to Will.
Adam walkedin followed by Will. He sat in the desk chair whilst Will sat on the armchairto the left and I on the one to the right.
“Jackpot,”Adam called out to us holding up a bottle of whiskey he had just found in oneof the desk drawers. “Is it new?” Will asked. Adam nodded his head yes. “Wewill take that for Deacon,” Will said getting up and taking the whiskey out ofAdams hands.
Adam wasnot happy but I think he knew the more goodies we had to take back to Deaconthe better mood he would be in, and just maybe he would not question us asmuch.
We all wentback into the main room and Amelia came to meet us to show us the supplies sheand Adam had found.
“I found afew tins of soup in the cupboard and some ‘bread in a tin’ whatever that is,and also a half-eaten jar of peanut butter. We will be fine,” Amelia told ussmiling. Trying to be brave but the smile did not reach her eyes which showedfear. “Also Adam found a mop and some bleach so I'll start to clean up now.”
She hadtaken off her dirty, ripped top and had replaced it with a thin, long sleeved,black top.
“Thank youfor lending me your jacket, you’d better have it back” she handed me back myjacket, which I put back on.
“Yeah wereally need to be getting back, we have been away too long as it is,” Will saidto Adam. “You should have enough food and water to last a few days andhopefully we will be out of there and back to you with the others by the timeyou run out. Just keep your eyes and ears open and keep a low profile.”
“It's….Well I'm sure Adam can explain, Gee let's get going. Adam stay safe bud.” Hegrabbed Adam into a bear hug.
“Seeyou soon,” Adam said, his voice was thick with emotion but nothing showed oneither face I'm assuming man code would not allow it.
We walkedback down the stairs. Closing the door at the top behind us.
We movedslowly to the front door which had no windows. And then to the left where thegarage doors were. There were two huge doors which were used to let the fireengines in and out. Each door had six small windows in it, two rows of threewindows. Will looked out of the first door, and I went to the second door. Ilooked for any sign of movement, dead or alive. Seeing nothing around, not evena cat or a dog I turned to Will. “See anything?” I asked him.
“Nope,everything's quiet, you?” he replied.
“No noteven a dog. Wonder where they’ve all gone to?” I asked myself more than him.
Will walkedback to the main door and opened it slowly, sunlight poured into the room. Hetook a step outside, gun in one hand and car keys in the other. He looked fromside to side scanning every shadow and doorway of the stores opposite butcouldn't see anything. I followed him out with my backpack on my one shoulderand slowly made my way to the car. Each step I got closer to the car and safetyI
