I watched as he gave Richard a thumb up. Richard pulled Amy’s head back even further with his hand wrapped tightly in her hair and dragged his knife across her throat. Blood flowed freely down her throat and soaked onto her once light pink top.
“No!” I called out hitting the gate with the palm of my hand in anger.
I closed my eyes trying to rid the sight from my mind but I couldn’t get away from the gurgling sounds as she choked on her own blood.
Will came down the ladder fast. “Hey guys, we have a load of zombies, I’d say at least three dozen coming this way.”
“Oh shit, what do we do?” Adam looked worried.
“Round up all of the able adults. Get Mr and Mrs Snow over to the Price’s and keep all of the children there, with Heidi. Let John stay with Mick but get Ben out here. We may need all hands available.”
Adam nodded and ran back towards the trailers, Lewis towards his new house without another word.
“So what’s it going to be? Are we just going to stand here all night taking out more and more people.” Jed called.
Will put his finger to his lips asking me to be quiet and hopped back up the ladder. After a few moments he pointed to his eyes and then to me, then back outside.
I looked through the peephole, it took me a few moments to work out what he was showing me. Then I saw them. Dark shadows moving towards us like a huge black wall of Death and decay.
I looked to see if any of the men outside had noticed but they were too caught up in attacking us.
Before they had murdered Amy in cold blood I may have warned them so that they would have gotten a fighting chance. Now I hoped that every one of them would get what they deserved, I just hoped that the innocent people would not get hurt also. That they could make a run for it.
Richard had gone to the back of the truck to pull out another woman. Annabelle.
Her tear streaked face pulled at my heart as Amy’s had earlier. Amy, I looked to where they had let her fall, blood tuning the concrete a crimson slab.
Her hand twitched, did they know anything about zombies at all, the idiots.
What the hell had happened back at our old camp? How had Annabelle and Amy come to be hostages with these assholes?
“Please just let all your hostages go, I’m sure there are plenty of other places that have room for you” I called out, I looked up for Will but he had disappeared. I had no idea where, I hadn’t even seen him come down the ladder.
I looked behind me but still couldn’t see any sign of him, Adam had not returned either. John and Lewis came quietly out of their house and jogged towards me.
“G, Adam just radioed, they are covering the other gate just in case our friends out there get a little creative. Where’s Will?” Lewis asked peeking through the hole and shaking his head in dismay at what he saw.
“I have no idea, one minute he was up there and the next poof” I tried to explain.
The men outside had gone quiet, I spied back through the hole. They were huddled together, whispering. No doubt about how they were going to ram the gates.
Something at the back of their trucks caught my eye and I feared that the zombies were closer than we had thought. But it was Will and Adam, something must have told him that I could see them because Will looked at me and winked. They were leading another two women away from the trucks and around to the side of our compound. I assumed that they were bringing them in through our back gate. It was a risky move but the outcome outweighed those odds.
Now we just had to get Annabelle away from them. I had no idea how to do that without shooting at them and then possibly hitting her in the crossfire.
I had turned to talk with Lewis to see if he had any ideas when we heard Jed yell. “Ahhhhh get it off me”
I jumped, heart in my mouth my pulse raced faster.
I looked back through the gate to see Amy, now one of the undead, with her mouth clamped firmly around Jed’s ankle, trying to tear through his trousers to get to the juicy flesh below.
Her skin had turned a mottled grey and her eyes now just two white orbs.
Richard put his gun to Amy’s head and pulled the trigger, once again Amy’s body slumped to the ground. This time she would not be getting back up again.
Rest in peace Amy, I’m sorry I couldn’t save you. I sent up a silent prayer to the higher powers that they take her in with Kelly and the kids and look after them all.
“Aw hell thanks ma-“ Jed’s thanks were cut short by Richard putting his gun on Jed’s head and pulling the trigger for the second time. Blood, Brain matter and bits of bone flew as the bullet exited Jed’s skull.
“What the hell man?” the driver of the first car got out, followed by two men from the second truck. As far I could tell nobody had gotten out of the third car.
Annabelle used the drama to run around the corner to where Will had taken the other two women. I hoped that they all got to safety.
The men did not notice.
“He had been bitten” Richard said shrugging
