Two Alive, стр. 90
“Wow. Did you throw that?” Torrez asked, impressed.
“Shhh!” Miles put a finger over his lips and dropped down low as he creeped over and snatched his knife from the dead monster’s head. The boy held his knife in a reverse grip and surveyed the area, whipping his head back and forth. “We have to go! I told you no guns! No guns!” He whispered and crawled around the ground trying to stay low. “We have to go! We have to go now!”
Torrez dropped down and looked around too. Burrows looked at the both of them and turned left and right. “Nothing’s coming. We killed them all.” Burrows said in a normal tone of voice.
Miles shushed him. “We have to go! Get her down from there and we have to get back to the van.”
“Her?” Torrez looked up in the tree and saw a teenage girl hanging from a branch who he recognized.
When Miles and the others finally made their way back to the van, Julia was relieved to see them but surprised to see they were accompanied by a young girl.
“Alana?!” Julia’s face was scrunched up in confusion as she stood in the middle of the street.
“We heard gunfire, is y’all ok?” Clint was hanging out of the van looking around with his one good eye.
“We have to go! Mr. Burrows shot his gun and we have to go before more infected come around.” Miles was rushing everyone onto the van.
Manson, still sitting in the front seat, asked “What happened?”
Burrows shook his head and sat next to Clint in the middle row. “I killed a freak and this kid is losing his shit.”
“Aye! He told you not to use your gun stupid!” Torrez was chewing Burrows out in both Spanish and English as he sat next to Lance in the first row.
“What the hell Alana? Where the hell did you come from?” Julia grabbed the teenage girl wearing a leather jacket and backpack. “What are you doing out here?”
Alana was hanging her head in shame and keeping quiet.
“We have to go Ms. Julia. We have to go now. It’s not safe here.” Miles was trying to push Julia and Alana on the van.
“Ok. Castle, get out of the driver seat.” Julia shouted.
“There’s no time. Just get in.” Castle shifted gears and looked at her.
“You bast--”
“Hurry! We have to go!” Miles kept pushing and Alana just rushed to the back of the van.
“He said hurry doctor.” Manson looked through the rearview mirror at Julia with flat eyes behind his glasses.
“Damn it.” Julia said through gritted teeth. Then closed the door behind her and moved to the backseat.
***
“Don’t let her in here.” Antonio said, leaning in to look at the monitor screen on the table. He put a hand on Nadine’s chair, and she moved slightly to let him get a better view.
Carver looked down at the boy and scoffed at him. “How the hell did she even get back here?” The major watched the woman on the screen wave her arms and constantly looking around to see how close the infected were.
“She found it the first time on her own, why wouldn’t she be able to do it again?” Ben took a deep breath, trying to slow his heart rate down.
“We took her thirteen miles out, blindfolded, and left her.”
“Left her to die?” Antonio looked up at the major with an eyebrow raised.
The major turned up his lip at the boy’s question. “We gave her what food we could spare and sent her out.”
“And now she’s back! And this time we have to help her and let her stay.” Ben turned from the monitor and looked at Antonio, “Even Miles and Antonio. We have to take them in and they have to stay.”
“We can’t keep letting everyone into the store, who just happens to stumble on it!” Carver roared.
“Yeah, you let that lady back in and she gon kill one of y’all.” Antonio stepped back and shoved his hands in his pockets.
“Take him into that fucking office!” Carver shouted and went into a fit of coughing as he pointed at the office door.
Baker sighed and tilted his head and Antonio went with no argument. The captain went to shut the office door and when he turned around, Carver tossed him the keys.
“Lock the door.” The major said once he was able to stop coughing.
Baker sighed again and again did what the major ordered.
“I’m going to the front of the store and I’m letting her in.” Ben turned to leave but didn’t get more than two feet before Carver grabbed him.
“We can’t let her in here!” Carver said.
“We can’t leave her out there!”
The two men stood in the middle of the room, staring each other down for what felt like ages. The silence did nothing to hide their intensity and made Nadine uncomfortable enough to turn around at her table. Baker let out a long sigh and shook his head. Without a word, the captain started to leave the security room and Carver watched with a raised eyebrow.
“Captain… where are you going?” Carver spoke through his teeth.
“Forgive me for saying so sir, but this is bullshit.” Baker turned to the major, “We keep getting people who find their way to the store and we turn our back on them. We leave them out there to die or we send them away to die. I’m making a judgement call and I’m letting Karen back in here with her son.”
“What the hell