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Decaying Lives (Jugger82 X Hime)

HimeSlut

Planetoid
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Feb 1, 2013
The stench of death and decay greeted you upon waking, like a haunting fog descending over your being to remind you what stalked the world outside the large soldered and bolted metal walls that stood guard, protecting you. Protection however came with rules and for some certain rules were to hard to follow, one such person was Lily Hunt, only twenty years old and sentenced for what surely was a death sentence, her partner in crime was already exiled to his fate of teeth and blood. Sitting, shivering inside her icy iron cage that would creak open in no more than a day's time.

During this nerve racking wait the young lithe woman took the time to ponder on how all had gone to hell in a hand basket and not just her life, but the very world itself. It all started over a year ago, Lily was a slight outcast during school in the time before the dead came to reek havoc on all walks of life. Lily had constantly good grades even though she was a bit of a trouble maker, the only person she truly relied on was her father, he was her rock, always with smile and the strong sense of safety he gave off. The only problem was his job tore him away for long periods as a gunnery sergeant in the marines with a few tours under his belt. At that very moment he was on shore leave during what was turning out to be a chilly winter, sitting happily in front of the family fireplace warming his feet as he joyfully listened to his daughter's sweet voice explaining her various adventures during his time away, her mother happily singing in the kitchen as she cooked. Their t.v had been faulty for days and the cable company were dragging their heels, so when the first bone rattling scream vibrated their living room windows, Sgt. Richard was on his feet in seconds jesting to his dark haired daughter Lily to stay put. Sliding up against the off white wall, he carefully parted the curtains to get the first glimpses of the terrifying events that would unfold over the next few days.


People running dragging loved ones with, others in cars almost riding them over as all attempted to flee the human like monsters that staggered along, pale and puff skin barely hanging on bone while eyes sat rolled into the back the head, but whether they were blind or not was up for debate as the vile fiends seemed to easily track their source of food and just like that an elderly couple stumbled and toppled to the ground, those around them not bothering to help, mankind's greatest values fleeing out the door of morals as the need for self preservation kicked into high gear. For the aged couple the few seconds it took to get footing was all the strange animated flesh bags needed, ten of them fell upon the two old lovers, their hands still firmly grasped in the others as deathly teeth sank deep into their wrinkled skin, tearing it away from the flesh around it, amazingly the two never really screamed, only moans and sobs of pains could be heard as they stared deeply into each other's eyes, as if their minds had melded together and fled to the same blissful memory.


Days later found Lily and her parents sheltered in their own personal bunker, something the previous owner's father had built during the second world war, in fear of being bombed. It was near on a month and supplies were running low was well as the fact that they barely bathed was forcing the fact that they needed to depart their little burrow of safety and brave this new zombie infested town. Richard took hold of his Sig and slipped the magazine from the butt of the gun, ten rounds still held with in which meant eleven bullets including the chambered round. Going first the sergeant found nothing, even a sweep of the house found no damage or unwanted guests. Lily followed her shivering mother up through the metal hatch and both headed for the kitchen, stacking can food on the table along with crackers. Seconds later Richard entered with a duffel bag, his Sig stepped to his right thigh and his hunting rifle shouldered.


The small family had left their home hours ago, the car wouldn't start so that was forgotten as they stepped out into the freezing air, snow devouring the street and sidewalk. Lily was the fist to notice the cardboard taped to the street lamp. Reading the blatant message had them set course for the large mall near the city edge, the trip was stomach churning with the half eaten corpses dangling out of car windows or littering the streets, others human parts scattered around like a Easter egg hunt gone wrong. However if Lily knew then what she knew now, she would have rather walked amongst the never to return corpses instead of walking into that forsaken concrete death trap. The outside of the mall looked like nothing had touched the place so they entered cautiously, her father gun in hand, her mother with broken mop and Lily a lead pipe almost a meter long. They were about a hundred meters from the entrance, the place was dark and all the rattling objects were making them jumpy, especially with reek of rotting flesh hanging in in the air. It was at the very moment when they heard the sounds of something similar too wet feet slapping against tiled floor, when a voice rattled there world, "Get out of there, its a freak fest in their."


It had all been to late, as Lily and her mother started their sprint for the exit they heard a car jolt to life, but what they saw had them praying, they had walked past shops filled with zombies, obviously the creatures had reacted to the man at the doors voice. Lily ran as hard as her legs would allow, sounds of gunfire ringing loudly behind her. Her mother burst through the doors, Lily hot on her heels, the sight was a large burly blonde haired man onto of a pick up with his arm outstretched. In no time at all she was on the pickup turning to see a sight that would never release its hold on her restless nights. Her father going down in a hail of gunfire as the beasts swarmed upon him, some already biting into his flesh. Then he turned, smiled before yelling in his commanding tone for the driver to get the hell out of there, he would hold the line. The last words to depart his mouth as the vehicle skidded away was that he will always love his special ladies, seconds later as the burly man continued to hold Lily back from the edge of the pickup, her arms outstretched an explosion erupted from the very entrance her father stood.


Days later she would recall that the shop that was at that entrance was the camping store with propane tanks in the display window. Life after that was just a jumble of emptiness, she could barely sleep before screaming awake and days were filled with with following a nurse around in their new sanctuary. She barely spoke to her mother, who helped out in the village kitchen, cooking up food for others as the slowly built more shelters for refugees such as themselves. You were explained the strict rules upon entry and over the years many had been tossed back out into the hell the world had become, some simply for having a birth defect, some the head honcho just said were tainted and nobody argued. Dr. Walker was a cruel man and nobody argued with him or his rude guards in fear of banishment. Ten months after arriving her mother had married the vile man, making her life a living pain. She always felt the man wanted her ideas, especially when her mother fell pregnant, now she had granted the bastard's wish.
 
"Dammit. Empty..." Murmured a young man as he began to go through the pet store located in Camburry Mall. The place had been slightly fortified, though even the mall had fallen victim to the mass horde of creatures that killed the living. Armed only with a baseball bat and an empty glock 17, Nathan struggles in this new world. He is alone. Hungry. And aching for companionship of anyone. Originally...He went into the dog store in the very dim chance of finding perhaps a caged dog that was still alive...but all he found was blood, bodies, and gore-filled kennels. He sighed...deciding to loot the dog food there, hoping that some of the canned food was still good...most of it wasn't, and others were empty. He sighed and leaned against the counter of the pet store, taking out a bottle of water that he began to drink. He looked over and saw the dead remains of the pet store owner, presumeably that was him anyhow.

Nathan sighed...wishing things would go back to normal. He wished that he hadn't decided to get himself kicked out of the colony from whence he came after this disaster hit and everyone was trying to pull together survivors and fight for dominance. "It ain't the dead you gotta worry about. They don't kill each other...Its the living thats the most dangerous." He murmured to himself as he looked to his bloodied baseball bat and drank the rest of the water before tossing it aside. He raised the bat high, and brought it down hard...completely killing the shop owner before he could rise from his death. He decided to check out the rest of the mall. It wasn't heavily infected, surprisingly. It was mostly empty. Then again, if there was no food for even these zombies, what was the point of sticking around? "Maybe Burger King has a few rotten burgers leftover or something..." He said silently to himself as he made his way.
 
Footsteps thudding on nearby concrete startled Lily awake to the slow rising of the new sun, turning her head to see who was surrounding her cage, she instantly winced from the pain that sparked along her neck from sleeping harshly and restlessly on the cold unforgiving man made earth. Taking a deep breath she slowly lilted her head to find the reason she had decided she'd rather face the zombie mass than stay within the same walls with this creep. Lily would have sneered at him when the burly man smirked, brimming with his own arrogance, but she decided not to give him the satisfaction as she instead focused her deep hazelnut eyes on the heavy bars of the cage doors, “what, no final remarks or pleas before your pathetic death” Dr. Walker chuckled, but Lily’s attention was else where when from just overhead she heard the creak of the lever that signaled the opening of her cell. The young woman held her breath and listened, taking a big step back before raising her hand towards the self crowned leader of the colony, LiIy waited for the very second the doors were open wide enough for her to fit through. Upon that very second she flung forth her middle finger in Dr. Walker’s direction and bolted out the doors, running like hell itself was tearing open behind her to devour her soul. 

Lily continued to sprint with the sun on her back, even as her lungs began to burn, she had decided with the dipping of her eye lids last night that searching any buildings close to the colony would be futile as the guards would very likely have looted the area ages ago. Within minutes she was already far out of visual distance of her temporary home, but what was worrying poor Lily was the few walking corpses she had already disturbed in such a short time. Stopping shortly for a breather with her hands on the knees of her faded black jeans, with her heart beating like a steam train inside the heavy blue zipper jacket that covered the white sleeveless shirt clinging to her heaving chest with sweat while raven black hair lay cascading over her face like a waterfall, a tinge of purple flashing when rays of light hit the locks at certian angles. It was at this point in time that she actually to stock of her surroundings, the buildings in this area of the city was less substantial, all thanks to the military raids, many were now carved into rubble leaving wide open spaces and filling the street with mounds of undifferentiated debris topped with a foul layer of droppings from pigeons like the few cooing on the sole standing street lamp to her right. 

She had continued on her way, the sun was now nearing the panicle of its accent as Lily kept moving as softly as possible towards the outer ring of the deteriorating city, her hand now sporting a aged crowbar that she’d pried out a car trapped within the rubble, thankful not to have found any corpses. She’d pulled her soft hair into a ponytail and was navigating various vehicles abandoned in the city streets, many with doors standing open, a sign for all who passed that even cars had not been safe in the chaos of those final days of modern civilization, the worse though were the cars that now acted as tombs for their former owners, who now lay drying out in the blazing heat of the sun. Barely covered skeletal remains folded over dashboards while others lay sprawled over the front seats, a lot still had skin shrived against the bone. These grotesque scenes did not however affect Lily; no it was the familiarity of the scenes that called forth tears to her eyes, tears for the day her dad had sacrificed himself for his girls.

Pushing her tears back Lily clambered onto the large black SUV that had skidded to a halt straight into a yellowish white Toyota sedan on the off ramp, melding together in metal carnage to block the road indefinitely, her eyes falling on the frozen in time occupant of the SUV, virtually unrecognizable as a human being except for the mouldy clothes and the glinting metal of a chain hanging on a skinless hand that still to this very day clutched the steering wheel. Shaking off the visual sight Lily gazed over the top of the vehicle, she found herself at the back of what must have been an army barricade covering the six lane freeway. Gracefully sliding off the roof of the car she stalked carefully down the crack riddled ramp and through the maze of cars before entering rows of dull white tents, some splattered with blood and what she could only guess was rotten flesh while only the frames of other tents stood shivering in the sudden cold breeze as the covers had long been blown away, exposing it's innards of low standing make shift beds with medical supplies, IV drips, monitors and trays littered around the areas, skeletons still sleeping on the beds, never to leave their place of traumatic death.

Looking at the antique silver watch she had librated from an severed hand, had Lilly cursing, it was nearing three in the day and she still hadn’t found proper shelter, quickening her pace she slipped the small medical pouch she had stocked with bandages, tweezers, alcohol swabs, syringe with a few needles, some cotton swabs, dumped a lighter that didn’t work along with a torch that had obviously been dropped on its bulb, the last two items was a thermometer and a not so useful penlight, but it would have to do for the moment. Stepping quickly past the tents found her among tanks and there in the corner of her eye she saw the rusting out trick bike, long forgotten by the youth that would most likely have manipulate it into various acts of gravity defiance. Mounting the rustic green bike with odd metal pipes attached at the wheel nuts she begun to pedal, annoying squeaks following every rotation of the crank. Slowly guiding the bike through the deserted Humvees, empty gun stands protected by piled high sandbags, but no sign of the men that manned them, all was now deathly calm under the gaze of the afternoon sun. 

Lily was happy to abandon the stench decay that was so thick among the tents, she continually felt like gagging, the rotting air seemed to worm inside you to the very core and would likely linger inside your body for days. The second she cleared the final concrete barricade, she pushed herself to a near standing position and gunned it down the freeway to the more suburban area, with its shopping centres and gated off communities. Lily did her best to keep her somber eyes on the road, forcing the carnage to the fringes of her vision, until she came upon one of the larger mall. The exterior appeared undamaged, along with the faded kiddies gym, while lawn furniture sat displayed and undisturbed by the doorway dusted with leaves and yellow pollen. The only other sign that anything was amiss was a large square of plywood propped against the wall, holding the crowbar ready she slipped through the faulty automated doors and navigated the dusty halls of the once overtly popular mall The power was out, but thankfully the sun was at just the right angle to light up the Camburry Mall.

Heading in the direction of Burger king, in the hopes of canned food was where Lily felt her luck had maybe run out, for there in the doorway to a clothes store was a bulky corpse, standing as if on a break from hunting the poor living. Standing as frozen as a statue, her body shaking lightly in fear, the corpse appeared to have once been a security guard for those cash vans, all dressed up in Kevlar vest and his 9mm still strapped to his right thigh. The rotting predator was facing away from her and she was seriously starting to think of running when the fiend turned slightly, its decayed face barely hanging onto it's skull, it was at that point that a flash struck Lily, this was like one of the things that had held her father away from her arms, a beast like the ones that had caused agony in her life. Fear parted way for blazing hate as she screamed out in bubbling rage. The long dead guard turned on primal instinct, but with its decayed senses it never felt the powerful impact of the crowbar burying into it's skull, forcing it's head to collide with the steel door frame. 

The initial impact echoed with the sound of bone cracking, but Lily pulled her arm back and swung again and again. Until finally the long steel object caved a path past the fragile skull of it's victim, the sheer force causing thick putrid blood to splatter along the area behind the crowbar, some even spraying on it's handler. Lily stood frozen in place, the crowbar pinning the dead, well now permanently dead guard in place before it's unsupported weight gave into gravity and crumbled onto itself, Lily however continued to stare at the spot where it's head once was for over ten seconds before a creak from behind the truly dead corpse had her crashing back to reality, turning slightly she could see two more zombies stumbling towards her from deep inside the store, but they were still a distance away and her mind jumped into the survival mode her father had taught her. Crouching she released the straps of the gun holster and bolted down the wide open hallways, holster in her left and her blood soaked crowbar in her right.

Turning a corner she made out a humanoid shape, her feet skidding to a halt, before ducking down behind a foul smelling dustbin, peering out from behind the dustbin, she watch the shape walking towards the Burger King entrance, she watched for a few seconds and decided the shadow had to be a living human, the walk and lack of moaning all pointed towards the living, so she stood up carefully, hoping beyond hope that the shadow was friendly," Hello, ahm, I'm not undead" lily whispered badly while wanting kick herself for sounding stupid, of course she wasn't an undead, undead dont speak.
 
Nathan had not expected to hear someone speak to him. He jumped, and grabbed his baseball bat to get ready. He looked toward the direction from where the voice had come from...and he saw a girl? A living girl at that. He did not show any break in his guard as he glared at her and looked all around, expecting this to be a trap of sorts. Raiders using a young, 'innocent' girl to get the attention of an unsuspecting victim, only to feel a blunt object go to the back of his head while the raiders began to loot his body. "You infected?" He said cautiously as he took a step back, still looking around...making sure that no one was watching them. He didn't see anyone...but that didn't mean hey weren't there. His gaze then returned to Lily and he slowly lowered down his weapon. "What are you doing here, alone? Where is your colony? Shouldn't you be there?" He said coldly, expecting her to be from some bigshot colony...maybe, in the slightest chance, she was even from the colony he was kicked out of.
 
Lily watch the figure quickly get into a defensive posture, she unknowingly took a step back, her hand reading her crowbar just incase, waiting to see what the figure would do, the worst was that she could barely make out the moans of the walking corpses Shee had been running from, which meant she really didn't have time for this, but then if she made a mistake he might attack, hell she didn't even know if he was alone, he could be from One of the gangs she would hear about the ones that raped woman.

"No I'm not infected, are you?" she answered cautiously while glancing over her shoulder, the infected the guy was worried about were closing in, she had to through Caution to the wind, carefully she stepped over to the opposite wall, hoping not to startle the other person, but now she could keep an eye on him and the flesh eating creatures that once were considered fantasy.
 
Nathan was not cautious when she stepped over the wall...by now he had figured she was truly alone, for someone would have attacked him by now if this was all just a trap. He could hear the moans and shuffles of corpses heading their way, and he peered over to see the two corpses she had been running from. He frowned, and looked to her. "One sec...you've gone and had to lead some of them over here." He picked up his baseball bat and began to walk past her, heading toward the two of them. He moved to the side, that way when he struck one, the other one wouldn't just grab him immediately when he would be in the middle of the two of them. A swing of his bat caused a cracking sound to echo throughout the dead mall. The rotting head of one of them busted immediately from the impact and caused it to fall over, though Nathan had overdone it, and the baseball bat was literally lodged into its head, taking it with him as it fell to the ground dead. "Oops!" He said as he stepped back, the other one slowly trudging a bit faster after him now that he was so close. "A little help, sweetheart?!"
 
Lily eyed him carefully as he frowned and then almost accused her of purposefully leading them here, 'bell of course l lead them here how else was I going to share a milk shake with cute dead guy with his intestines on the verge of spilling out' Lily thought sarcastically as he stepped past her. The man quickly despatched the one with a hole the size of a basketball in its chest, nice displaying a half chewed heart and rotten lungs, now sporting a baseball bat from its right temple. As he stepped back, Lily had already started her path towards the undead with its intestines peeking through bite size holes along its stomach.

Throwing dirty glance towards the otter living soul, for his use of sweetheart she turned her focus back to the staggering corpse, while raising the crowbar high above her head as She stood. The moment the walker was in place, she brought the crowbar with all her might. The metal instrument connected squarely with the things forehead, sending it toppling onto the floor, back first. Lily stepped over the sprawled out corpse, her feet on either side of its arms and brought the blood covered crowbar down again and again until its forehead burst open spitting black fluid every where and large chunks of what looked like a sponge, bat was actually brains.Turning back to the guy she smiled sweetly while dropping the crowbar and pulling the pistol from its holster, pointing it at the floor, "Well are you infected and are you alone?l" Lily asked as politely as possible while gazing into the boy's eyes, she wasn't sure if she could shoot him or not.
 
He saw her dispatch the next one and sighed a breath of relief as he walked over and put his foot down on the head of the creature, using the weight of his foot to keep the head down while he dislodged the baseball bat from its head. He began to swing it in the opposite direction, trying to get off as much blood as he could before he put it back into the little jury-rigged slot holster he made for it. Turning to her, he saw her with the gun in her hand and heard her questions. He gripped his own gun, though empty, and aimed it at her, glaring her down. "Put your gun down girl. I ain't infected and I'm here alone, trying to get a bite from Burger King." He said angrily and eyed her down, gun pointing right at her with a look to kill in his eyes...even though this entire thing was just a bluff with an empty gun.
 
Lily raised her gun at the boy, her father had always said that if someone pointed a gun at you, they very likely wanted to use it and that mean't pointing yours at them would likely cause them to not act. Plus she hadn't pointed her gun at him, "Not likely to happen, just cause your alone doesn't mean you ain't got bad intensions" Lily responded, her father had trained how to fire a gun So she gambled on the fact that her ain was better as she got the sights lined up, her target become a slight blur.

"Look, I dont want trouble, l was just kicked out my colony and was hoping to scavange some food, so lets both lower our guns and maybe just move on like nothing happened" Lily negotiated as He dipped her gun slightly to see if the boy would follow suit, if she had to react the she still had aim at his knee cap. She really didn't want trouble, hell she would think it best to team up like they had with the walking corpses.
 
He stared at her for a little bit, wondering if what she was saying was true...and eventually holstered his gun. "Clip's empty anyway." He murmured as he looked around and saw that no other zombies were following her or coming toward them since they were talking a bit loudly. He sighed. "You got it. Come on. Lets see if there are anymore rotten burgers or frozen patties we could cook up." He said and headed in the direction of Burger King without getting into contact with anymore of those zombie bastards. He entered the Burger King and saw dead bodies everywhere, but they all head wounds to the brain. "They've been killed by guns from what it looks like..." He said as he looked at all the bodies. "Stay careful...might be someone with a gun nearby that ain't us. We want to see if there is anything to scavenge and then get the hell out of here."
 
Lily holstered her gun at the same time before strapping the leg bands in place, "Good bluff, guess things are worse out here than I thought?" Lily answered before following her temporary partner into burger king where she almost lost the lunch she hadn't ever eaten yet. Bodies scattered around the shop, they had been executed, the question was, did the person kill them while they were human or after they had joined the ranks of the undead.

Lily put a hand on the boy, while putting a spare dip from the holster, "No point you take the lead ard cant even return fire, but don't make me regret this" Lily said with a serious face"I'm lily by the way" she added as an after thought. Once the boy had the clip she gazed over her shoulder to be sure no dead were trapsing in behind them, lastly she pulled the g lock from her holster, flicked off the safety and got ready to follow the boy.
 
"Smells rotten in here." Nathan commented as he looked through the store for food. The only thing that he hadn't opened yet would be the freezer, but he couldn't exactly pry the door open. He frowned and looked to her. "Oh...and its Nathan." He responded, giving her his name for the first time. "Nothing but some moldy bread that might kill us if we eat it." He tossed it to her. "You can risk it if you want but I ain't eating that shit." He said with a sigh and crossed his arms. "Guess the people who were here before are gone. Look just do me a favor and watch my back...I'm gonna keep trying to pry open this door." Nathan turned and put his hands on the handle and tried his best to force down the frozen lever, even going so far as to jump up and keep his arms straight as he came down to slam hard down onto the lever...but that didn't help either. "The only way we'll get this open is if we can heat up the place...Is there a heater in here?"
 
Lily couldn't deny that, the smell of rotten food mixing with the smell of decaying corpses was not the most pleasant, yet it was better that the stench that hung off the undead. She watched as Nathan attempted the freezer, glancing over her shoulder every few seconds, just in case. Lily turned back just in time to catch a moldy green loaf of bread before dropping it on the floor and kicking it across the floor "Eew, no thanks, i would rather starve" Lily growled back before turning and walking to the front of burger king.

She peeked out the doorway, holding her hand on her gun, just in case, "well I did see an appliance store back the way I came, they should have a heater" Lily answered as quietly as possible, while her eyes roamed the still empty halls, before stalking her way back to her crowbar, sliding the gun back into its black holster before retrieving her trusty crowbar.
 
"Yeah...good idea." He murmured and met her outside of Burger King. "Lets go in, get a heater, and get back over here to thaw out that door." He said with a smile and a wink to her before heading off to the store. Walking in, he could see the place had barely been touched, aside from blood and bodies here and there. Nathan proceeded to cautiously looking around...and found a heater. "Finally...Lets get this and get going." He replied as he picked it up and began to walk with her out...but when he walked out of the store, the alarms went off. They were loud. And Nathan cursed himself! "Get to the burger king and stay low!" He cried out as he began to run back to Burger King, jumping over the counter with the box and holding his hand out to help her over. He sat down under the counter, quiet as he sat next to her. He could hear the horde of undead begin to slowly make their way toward the appliance store in search of food, just like Nathan and Lily were searching in Burger King.
 
Lily raised an eyebrow at the boy's smile and wink, just moments ago they were threatening anot being a bit abrasive to one another. Oh well, was all she thought as she throw a genuine smile his way before trailing him to the find a heater, walking behind him, she had to admit he had a very sexy ass, in fact he was very cute, not that she would tell him that. Obviously lady luck Was being kind to her again, so far not a single walking bag of pungent meat was around, just corpses, the ones you were use to before the outbreak.

Lily guarded the door as Nathan searched the store, the moment he mentioned he had one, Lily's stomach grumble at the thought of food. A mad blush tinted her cheeks, not that she thought he noticed. Lily waited to fall behind Nathan when suddenly loud ringing burst into her ear's. she bolted down the halls jest behind, accepting his help over the counter before curling up her knees and praying. Lady luck had gone and been a bitch again, that bloody alarm was attracting every blood zombie in the whole mall, although when she thought about it, that Was a good thing. Slowly she chanced a peek around the counter , what she saw wasa pale women limping against burger kings window her head hanging to the right with a massive chunk of Flesh torn away from her neck., allow one to see her Various tubes and rotten tissue with piece of bone jutting out.

"Well at least they will all go shopping away from us" Lily said with a sweet smile," lets sneak into the kitchen and get that baby going" Lily suggest as she peered around the counter to find nothing.
 
He nodded and crept into the kitchen as well. He went to a nearby power plug, and plugged in the heater after opening it as quietly as he could. The windows to Burger King would muffle a lot of sound but it wouldn't keep them from being seen or heard if they talked out loud normally. Once it was plugged in, he put it as close to the freezer as he could and turned it up as high as he could. "We need to wait about ten minutes, maybe more...The heater has to thaw out the door at least...Lets take this time to get to know each other, partner." He said as he held his hand out to her, as if wanting to seal the deal.
 
Lily kept watch as Nathan setup the heater, nothing had moved for awhile, but taking a chance in this hostile environment would surely end in death. Her attention was drawn back into burger king when Nathan started to speak before offering a hand, she gratefully shook it, hoping this would make life in this zombie infested world easier to live in, “Great idea, well as I said, names Lily and well I was just exiled from my stupid colony, cause I broke our dictator Dr. Walkers stupid rules, my dad was a marine, so I know my way around guns and have some knowledge of basic survival and field medics, not much, but I can dress a wound and stitch you up…. So what about you?” Lily rambled on, only to feel a bit embarrassed.
 
"Name's Nathan. I don't really have much of a story like that. I just attended college around here and was at a party before I noticed one of the guys was acting a little funny. Next thing I know, an orgy in the living room turned into a bloodbath as he turned while some girl was riding him. Everyone kind of scrambled after that. Two days later, the news starts talking about some zombie bullshit and then months later...this." He murmured, motioning to the world around him. "I don't know guns. I just have one on me from a dead guy I found. Though, no one really needs teaching on how to kill something with a baseball bat. Maybe you could teach me a few things. I was heading on my way to the stadium...I heard it was safe there. No colony. No raiders. Just the remnants of the military trying to use it as a safe zone. The only danger is that there might be a few or many zombies still inside."
 
Lily listened as her new partner spoke, wondering who attends orgy parties in varsity, but who was she to judge, so she smiled a awkward smile as he told his story, a dark though popped into her mind ‘well at least zombies don’t have to worry about safe sex’. Lily quickly cast the thought away and reset her thoughts on his plan for the stadium. “Sure, I can give you a few tips on shooting a gun, as for the stadium plan, it sounds great and we should do it once we get to the food” Lily started as she glanced at the heater, “but I think we need to find quieter weapons, guns are great and all but the amount of attention they will draw should we need to shoot the stadiums inhabitants will be like ringing a diner bell” Lily answered as her eyes drifted over to Nathan, “Maybe there is a camping store nearby” Lily said with hope in her whispering voice.
 
"Camping store? Maybe. If not, we'll have to improvise when it comes to silencing our guns...Otherwise, I'm good with just bashing in the heads of those undead bastards." He replied. "This bat has killed many of them." It was a simple wooden bat...reinforced with duct table at a point where it looked like it would split without the duct tape holding it together. "If I had nails, I'd make it a nailed bat." He snickered a bit. "Get me a soda can and I can make a silencer for you...Its just something I learned from TV...but who knows if it works or not. Movies lie about stuff like that all of the time.
 
“Don’t know, but we should stick to melee weapons anyway for now, ammo is almost as hard to find as proper food is, speaking of which, you wanna try that food safe and I will go scout the hall for the walkers?” Lily smiled as her hand waved to the frozen door before peering around the corner again. There was still nothing in sight, which was usually a good thing as she got on her hands and knees, her butt now in Nathan’s face before she crawled around the counter stopping to look around again before slowly crawling to the door.

The alarm was still blasting from down the hall and most of the place seemed empty, slowly she got into a cough, her crowbar at the ready as she gazed into the dark windows of the opposite shop and noticed for the first time the corpse of a elderly woman still sitting in the hair dresser chair, a pair of scissors protruding from her eye socket.
 
"Okay...Ammo is rare and the gunstore here is...well...spent." He shrugged. "I could only find some empty clips and broken guns and parts. Don't know how to put a gun together or even distinguish the parts from one gun to another." He sighed and shook his head. "Wish that damn heater would hurry up and do its job...I'm hungry here. I don't think zombies can smell so I think it would be alright for us to cook the food here...don't you think? Unless you prefer eating frozen beef and chicken."
 
Lily headed back into food joint, “so basically this place is cleared out and we need to move on” she grumbled and stood next to Nathan as shook his head “I think those things can only smell something when they are close to it, or else they would munch on anything that made a noise, but hearing seems to be their best sense, so let’s cook, if they come we can always head up into the air ducks” Lily rambled on as she glared at the blasted door that denied her food, “So what were you studying and if I may ask, did you have a girlfriend?” Lily questioned nervously, not sure why she really cared.
 
"What was I studying...?" He questioned, confused by what she had asked. "I don't know what you're talking about...as for question number two...No. I don't. We broke up sometime before this outbreak and she's been dead for a long while now so I'd say I'm single right now." He answered. "The door might just thaw out soon...I don't want to break the ice that may hold the door shut. It might crack and echo throughout this empty mall and attract them here."
 
"You said you attended college around here?" lily answered Nathan's confused question, slightly perplexed herself at his response and still not sure why she asked if he had a girlfriend. Shaking her head gently she gazed out the window again "then lets give it some more time, I doubt those stupid things are going to bother us soon" Lily answered as she took a dirty rag from the floor and began cleaning her crowbar even as her stomach rumble lightly making her blush. "Sorry"
 
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