BLEED

BEFORE THE EXPLOSION

"They'll have to take me"

"What?"

"Fuck no"

Everyone is in shock upon hearing him.

"They need someone to ask right?"

"No j-"

"Stall, I can take a few pummeling. Don't worry"

"So, how will they take you?"

"I'll go to the park"

After the meeting and in the dead of night, Toby approached the the weak fence and got out by himself, it scratched his back and bled. He started to walk for an hour towards the park. He approached the gate and lights were shone at him, he held the makeshift pipe bomb in his hand.

"Cannibals?"

Behind him someone hit his dead, knocking him out cold. Hoke up hooked up the ceiling, his head is bleeding and he tried to move until one of the cannibals stopped him.

"Good morning"

The butcher cut the rope and he fell on the butcher's feet, they drag him to a house where animals are slaughtered. All he can smell is the disgusting irony smell of dried blood in the walls. The only source of light is the single light bulb on top of his head. His head started to hurt then he fell unconscious.

"Wakey, wakey big boy"

"....."

'Mornin' He grabbed his head to straighten his head, the butcher checked him. Then threw his head, Toby's eyes are darting around the small room. It is small but terrifying. He tried to get up, unsurprisingly he is cuffed. His eyes followed where the chain is coming from, and it is bolted on the wall.

"I wonder where Randall and Craig is"

"Waddya say?"

"A friend....Maybe he is heading to DC by now"

"DC?"

"Yeah, ya know what's there?"

'Skeleton of the US government' He replied whilst sharpening his cutlery then cutting into the flesh of the limbs.

"Just the limbs, how about the innards?"

"Nah, too much shit that can poison us"

"Oh, interesting"

The only thing that feels the room other than the stench is the sound of meat being sliced through, slabs of meat being placed on top of one another and meat being dropped into oil.

RANDALL

"Are we near?"

"We just passed Greensboro did we?"

"Not yet, on our way, we're definitely close"

They got passed Greensboro, and from where they are they can see a massive plume of smoke. They are in shock to see it, knowing that there maybe where Tobias and his partner is. They immediately drove ahead to save Tobias and Lee, if he is still there.

TOBIAS

Toby's head is repeatedly being tapped by the butcherer, he opened his eyes slowly to see Earl with his face up on his. His breath filled his nose and he gagged.

"MORNIN', what the fuck are you doing?"

'HI' Earl punched his abdomen and he puked everything he ate.

"WE ALL GAVE YOU A HOME, WHERE YOU CAN STAY.....IN THIS IS HOW, YOU OF ALL PEOPLE WILL REPAY US?"

"You eat people....holy shit"

"WE have NO CHOICE"

Earl is in mania, his face is red from the anger that he pent up. One of humanities' worse directly in front of him. He sliced of a bit of Toby's flesh and ate it in front of him.

"this is....WHAT YOU GET"

"....."

"NOW OUR TOWN, OUR DENTON....IS IN DEEP SHIT...THE FU"

Earl left as one of his men came and get him, after leaving. Toby stood up from the chair and pulled the bucket of oil to him. He dipped his hand into the oil, then pulled and freed his left hand with all his might, then his right hand.

He freed himself, he started to climb up the stairs and the sounds of the town has started to get clearer. He climbed more flights of stairs then finally outside, the dead has overrun the town. The butcher is being eaten right in front of him, they screamed in agony and damned Toby.

Toby smiled at him and ran towards north up to the house where hey stayed. Everything is in chaos, he cannot save anyone anymore as he is in danger of death himself. He tripped on a small hole in the ground and in front of him two siblings, his head is shattered into two. Abandon or bring with him. Everything slowed down for him, but when one of the dead rushed towards the two kids. He tackled it and save the kids.

"Come with me"

He carried both kids in his arms and he ran towards the house. The mother is being devoured, and instead of agony she felt relief that her kids are safe. She was continued to be eaten. Toby's stamina starts to run out as he tries his best to maintain balance and vision toward the house.

He arrived at the neighborhood where they stayed, the RV and truck is not insight. He got in the house and there seems to be nothing. He put the kids down and asked them to wait, he checked every single room only to find a pistol and 4 magazines and a suppressor and a paper that has 'DC'.

"Oh no"

"....."

"Okay, uhm into the wheelbarrow"

The two kids got into the wheelbarrow and Toby pushed it as fast as he can. He cut through Kathryn crescent and into N 6th Street. He started to scream as his feet starts to hurt.

RANDALL

Randall stepped on the pedal and the truck is going as fast as it possibly and they stopped at the intersection, hoping for that familiar face to show up.

"Stay here"

"Look out?"

"You know it"

Craig hopped on top of the delivery truck and looked through his scope. When he looked at a certain direction he sees to kids crying over something, he called out his dad. He gave a thumbs up and asked for the direction, Randall walked over to the two kids and their wheelbarrow and sees a body.

"Toby?"

"help him please?"

"Yeah, get in the truck...Craig"

Randall put Toby on the wheelbarrow then in the back of the truck. He switched sits with Amanda who starts to treat his wounds. His wounds are starting to get infected so she cleaned it.

"We have antibiotics right mom?"

"Yeah, don't worry...we'll help him"

Amanda talked to the two kids.

"So what is your names?"

"I'm Zachary and she is Sam...that's I don't know"

'Tobias' Craig replied.

"He saved us too"

"Is he a good man?"

"He saved you two right?"

"Yeah"

"Then he is"

Amanda smiled at the two kids and they smiled back her. Tobias let out a little groan of pain. After an hour or so they stopped at an abandoned Kent Point Farm, Tobias wakes up.

"Here"

"Oh, Randall?"

"Hey buddy"

"Holy shit, holy fucking shit"

'Oh' Tobias hugged Randall, a massive relief after being scared of a possible death earlier in the evening.

"I'm so happy your alive"

"So am I buddy"

Tobias explained his encounter back in Denton and Randall also explained his plan to meet him in Greenwood. The two expressed their gratitude to each other, the two siblings gave their name to Tobias and he also hugged them.

"I'll take care of you two okay?"

"Promise?"

"Of course"

Randall told Tobias of their situation and another means of escape to DC. He became much more worried knowing that Harry and the others have to take a massive detour just to get into DC because of the Chesapeake bay bridge is destroyed to stop the dead from coming over to the capital city.

Nothing is going better for them, not even a time to breathe in sight. They can see from where they are standing plumes of smoke rising into the air. Suddenly above them a plane flying and dropping aerial bombs, the small party is is filled with chill. The two kids held tight on Tobias. Craig and Amanda in awe and Randall, afraid.

The safest place they know is being bombed, what is there in the other side of the river, Utopia or hell.