FORSAKE

"Hurry boy, we ain't got too much time"

"Yes pop"

Randall and his son is walking in the middle of the day since they abandoned their car in Philadelphia, they have been walking for over 3 days since they have been separated with Lee and Toby. They had to abandon the their car because it made too much noise in the city. They have passed Franklinville and Vineland is in sight. They didn't take any breaks and now they have.

They chug down water as fast as it they can because of basking in the scorching sun, they started to have sunburns. They grew more more seeing how no dead has been in their sight, meaning the hordes has started to move into the towns. They stood on top of a skyway which looked over the the southern part of the Franklinville, scorched and the dead that they have been looking, there. People are still there only difference is that they are being chewed on by the dead.

One of the people who barely survived crawled on top of the highway, they rushed to it. Only to see it half burnt, Randall put her out of misery quickly. Randall himself hates killing people, especially the 'mercy-killings' that has become the norm in this new world. Children will pick the fact that 'death' has to be normalized at a young and impressionable age.

Randall hugged Craig and said sorry. He always says that every time he kills someone. Randall still wants his boy to have empathy to them, even with the living dead. They buried her body near a tree as they hear the screams of agony coming from both sides of the highway. Some people would just sit their accepting their fate, Randall would carry his son on his back when he falls asleep.

The next day came and a car drove passed and stopped in front of them. Craig walked faster than his dead, the woman in the car turned out to be.

"Amanda"

"Darlin'? Boy, get in here"

The two boys get in the car and finally relief, Amanda kissed his husband and hugged her son with the biggest embrace. They started to drive down to Vineland.

"How's home?"

"Not good, you saw those towns before...ruined.. I'm sorry you have to see this baby"

'Its fine' Craig continued to look outside the window, Amanda looked at the rearview mirror directly to her husband. He shook his head, the two parents started to feel disappointed as Craig is not showing sympathy to the people they passed. They arrived in Vineland, now a ghost town. 4 blocks from the city is closed off, using trucks and cars with 3 rows. The blocks that S mill road is enclosing. Like every massive cities in America, there is always a portion of the city that is saved.

"Nottingham Drive, is mom there?"

"Yeah, she is just waiting for you"

The part of the city where they live is quiet. They got out of the car and stood up front. Randall tried to open the door but is locked, 'I'll open it' he said and the mother and son nodded. Randall starts to pick lock the door and taking his time.

"So, how was you with pop?"

"Great, he is protecting me"

"Good, grandma will be excited to see you now big"

The street where they live in is always lit, but this day, no. Something is definitely off.

"So mama, how did you see Philly?"

"It was horrible kiddo.. Like bad"

Randall finally opened the door, and as soon as he opened it something came and jump at him. The three started to panic and they the dead started to bite at him rabidly, he closed his mouth tightly. Something Tobias told him before they left.

"Why?"

"Its like rabies, so bite your mouth shot, and carry alcohol"

"Why?"

"Saved my ass, but careful of poisoning"

"Sure, I'll keep at it, careful now... you and your girl"

"Yeah she's not"

"See ya when I see ya"

The dead continued to bite on him until Amanda shot it on the side of the head. He grabbed the alcohol from his bag and put some on his mouth, it started to sting. He did it quickly and started to count 120 seconds.

*1....2....3....4....5"

His ears started to ring.

"110...11.....7...120"

"Are you okay honey?"

He spat.

"I'm fine, I'm fine"

They looked at the corpse and its Randall's father, his eyes immediately filled up with tears. Unluckily it is not time to shed a tear, the shot rung through the neighborhood and the people started to come out and towards them.

"Get in the car now"

Amanda got on the wheel and Craig in the passenger sit. Randall opened fire on the dead, the truck moved and he got on it. He noticed that these people and his family has been forsaken.

"Washington"

"What about it?"

"I've heard that, people go there for safety....let's give it a shot"

"What if there's no one there?"

"I know people"

"Who are they?"

"Soldiers....soldiers"

He looked on his hands which is Tobias' dog tag, a way to identify him and help them. He remembered his conversation with the two soldiers.

"DC?"

"Yes.... Its a safe place...hopefully"

"Is hope all we got?"

"Yes... how about you Toby?"

"Yeah, after we go get my brother and his family, we're on our way to DC"

"How about Canada?"

"....."

"The cold might slow em"

"Yeah... but they might reach us.. don't wanna risk it"

"But DC is a big city... same risk"

"Well... I don't know anymore"

Randall is now more worried about one of the city they have to come across, Wilmington The Delaware Memorial Bridge poses as a problem, despite still being intact the dead would have absolutely covered it. They also cannot risk having a massive detour, if they want to head to DC as fast as possible.

They arrived at the bridge after an hour long drive they arrived at the bridged, Randall using the binoculars looked at the bridge, the density of the dead is on the lesser side. They took their time, stayed and watch the bridge for longer hours, and to their regret something became a much more bigger problem than they thought.

"The fucking fog....shit"