deadheads by jade swiler (top 100 books to read TXT) 📖

I also felt weak. I didn’t know how long Graysion had kept me drugged but it felt like days.

 

The light suddenly napped on and I laid looking at Grayson just inside the doorway.

“hello jade, how are you feeling?” Grayson said pleasantly.

“go to hell.”

“now now jad, that isn’t the way to be, after all you are a part of something great here.” grayson said and waked closer and took a chair. He sat down just out of reach from the bars of my cage.

 

I refused to anser him so he went on.

“Sara learned to shut up when I was trying to talk as well. Think she learned her lesson?” Gayson asked and pointed to the cage to my left.

Sara sat with her back to me, she slowly rocked back and forth while moaning.

“Sara?” I whispered.

The deadhead that once was sara turned around and got to its feet. A bite on its neck had ripped out a large area of skin and blood covered her shirt. She had been changed recently. I started to cry and hugged my arms around my legs and buried my head as not to look at her anymore.

 

Grayson chuckled and went to work at his station. He ignored me for most of the day except to give me a sandwich and a cup of water. I ate fast and got a belly ache from it. I kept my body turned so I wouldn’t have to look at sara anymore.

“what did you do with sara’s family you told her you would release?” I suddenly asked Grayson. At first I didn’t think he would answer but he turned around to look at me.

“they died in the camp of course. I didn’t do anything.”

I shook my head and just sat there. I had to get out of here. I just had too.

 

A few days later I got my chance, I was still in the cage but felt better, Grayson had started feeding me better, why? I didn’t know. He was at his usual spot at the work station and had got up to take a skin sample from the deadhead(sara). I still could ay her name anymore, it was just a deadhead now. I had to think like that or I would loose my mind.

Grayson went to her cage and took a small knife out of his pocket, he wanted a skin sample. As he grabbed her arm, she surprised him and yanked him forward and bit down on his arm, through his screams, I watched as skin, and blood tore from the bite. The look on his face was priceless. Horror and fear. Good then he would know how she had felt when he left her turn.

 

It took 10 mintues for him to die, the fever came on and just burned his mind up. He staggered to his feet and wondered around the lab, crashing in to the tables and making a mess. I knew the keys to my cage were in his pocket but I was afraid of getting them. I know I’m immune but the bites still hurt something awful.

“here Grayson, here buddy, common , fresh food.” I yelled while waving my arm out of the cage.

It came to me on shaky legs. The sharp moaning was loud in the small room, when it moaned, so did the deadhead known as sara. When it got closer, I grabbed its lab coat and hauled it to the bars. I felt its pckets and found the keys. Its mouth was inches from my face but I kept a hold of it as tight against the bars as I could. In the other pocket, I found a knife. Taking it I was able to slam it in to the deadheads right eye. Grayson fell to the ground and didn’t get back up.

 

I opened my cage door and stepped out. I slowly walked to ther other cage. Sara stood still, it was like she knew the horror would soon be at an end.

I cried when I took her out. We had been close back at the station.

I gathered up my stuff I had found in another room of the labs, it was time to head home.

 

I had no dieal how long I had been gone but I couldn’t wat to see my family and friends back there. If I could redo this all over, I would do things a lot differently. But of course, no one had the power to go back in time, but if I did, I would keep Emily, sara and the rest safe.

As I opened the door to the lab complex, a thousand deadheads rushed in to the doorway, I screamed and turned to run…
I came to in my own kitchen. I was standing in front of the stove making popcorn.

 

“ Jade come here and look at this!” Emily Baker yelled from the living room. Emily was my best friend in haven high school. We had been hanging out since both our parents won a cruise last week and left us home to finish out the month of school we had left. I didn’t mind, we both were almost 18.

I ran in to the living room and saw the same news station first reporting the virus on tv before the outbreak hit my area.

“Emily listen to me, this shit is real. We have to get this place buttoned up tight, tonight tom rogers will kill you.”

“jade? This isn’t funny.” Emily said with tears in her eyes.

No it wasn’t funny but we were best friends and something in my face told her I wasn’t joking. We nailed boards on the wondows and locked all the doors. I got dressed in pants and a teeshirt and made her do the same. We also packed some food and I took my sword. The late afternoon sun was starting to go down and I taught her all about deadheads., she never questioned me which I was thankful for.

She watched me pick up the phone and call mark and Seth Greenes number.

“what are you doing?” she whispered as I dialed.

“saving 2 lives.

“hello.“ marks voice cam across the line loud and clear.

“hi Mark, can I speak to Seth?” I said.

It seemed to take forever for Seth to come to the phone.

 

“Seth, this is jade. Your parents are going to town, they want to take mark with them, don’t let them. I need you to come here with mark. Its important and may save your life.” I rushed the words.

He was quiet but said, “okay be there soon.”

30 minutes later they both showed up on my door step.

I let them in and they stood in my living room looking at me and Emily like we had lost our minds.

“so you say this virus is going to make everyone zombies and kill us all?” mark asked sarcastically.

“yes! You have to believe me. “I was almost yelling by then and suddenly the pwer went out. It happened so fast that we all stood stock still. In the distance I heard gun fire and sierns start.

Seth believed me and so did mark, we sat on the floor in a huddle and I whispered the rest of what I had dreamed about.

A noise at my front door had seth and I up and looking out the eye hole. It was tom rogers and he was aready dead. I knew the signs but to seth he just looked funny.

“be quiet, they won’t stay around if they can’t figure out where we are. “ I whispered and seth nodded. We sat back down side by side and waited the night out to turn in to dawn.

All night we heard people screaming in pain and fear, gunfire and then silence.

 

I knew we had to get to the station as soon as we could. I wasn’t going to LT. Harrises camp. No way in hell. If I was immune like my dream said I was, then I didn’t want him or grayson to know that since they started this shit.

“ok guys, theres a little boy out in a house near the trailer park, we have to go get him, his name is sammy.” I said and looked at each of them in turn.

Emily was scared so I made her and mark stay in the house and seth and I went to get him.

We found him right where we did the last time but this time I knew more about him.

“sammy, my name is jade honey, your mom heather sent me to get you. Are you ready to leave?”

Sammy looked up at me with tear filled eyes.

“mom sent you?”

I nodded and just like that, he crawled in to my arms and I covered him with a blanket.

We got back to my house and I the others pack more food and find something to use as a weapon. We have to get to the farm house before Jess and rain starved more then they were already.

 

The roads were just like in my dreams, I followed the remembered track and we found jess and rain, they were dead. Torn apart from the deadheads on the ground around them. LT. Harris and his men had already been through here.

 

“a bad man named harris and grayson are setting up a safe zone camp 10 miles up the road, but we can’t go there, I found a station, we have to cut across this field and head to the station, is everyone ready?” I asked and they all nodded. I didn’t look back at jess. It was hard leaving her and rain there on the ground.

 

We made our way a fast as we could. Seth and mark took turns carrying Sammy. We spent the night in the barn of the weird colored house where the family had killed themselves. They were dead when we got there already.

I looked extra careful under the truck in the barn and found the half eaten farmer. I quickly took him out. The rest watched on in horror at the thing on the floor trying to crawl towards me.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(11)

 

Grizzly had already been here because the gate was unlocked. I lead everyone in and locked the gate behind me.

 

I took them in to the station while telling them how it worked and why we had power. Since no grizzly, there was no beds or anything like that but the food was there. Lots of it. More then I thought had been in my dream.

“okay we have to make this place more safe then it was. I need you and mark to help me, Emily you and sammy will stay in here and wait for us to return okay?” Emily nodded and I led the guys outside with me. Already there were 2 dedheads waiting utside the walled area. I took my sword and quickly cut them down. As I cut them opened I heard mark yell.

“what the hell are you doing?”

“this watch and then help me.” I said and cut one of the deadheads opened. I took blood and gore and smeared it all over the wall in front of me as high as I could.

“this will keep them from hanging around the wall. We’ll have to do it again if it rains but it will keep us safe.” I explained.

Seth bent down and started smearing the stuff on the walls and soon mark was helping. It took most of the afternoon but we soon had it all done.

The shower when we came back in was so worth it. We smelled like the dead.

 

The next day a truck motor could be heard coming in the gate. Grizzly got out and looked around.

I stepped out with the others behind me.

“hi grizzly, I hope you brought the beds with you. I hate sleeping on the floor.”

 

I had to hand it to the guy, if he went in to shock, he sure didn’t show it. He just nodded and walked to open the back of the truck up. Inside were all the things I remembered from my dream. Totes with cothes, the furniture.everything.

Later after they