to the ground and rolled over to Holiday. David could hear grunting and smacking in the darkness but it was so incredibly dark he had no way of knowing who was winning. He crawled to the flashlight quickly and picked it up. He stood to his feet shining it all around him looking for the two women fighting.
Finally, he saw them. Destiny was on her back breathing heavily, while a woman wearing a white doctor coat, badly ripped, stood over her with a baseball bat raised in the air.
“Wait!” David shouted, causing both Destiny and the unknown woman to look toward the light he was holding.
“She attacked me!” The woman said sharply.
“She attacked Holiday first!” Destiny said in an almost attempt at provoking the woman to attack further. The woman lifted her bat a little higher as if she was going to hit Destiny, but stopped by the sound of Holiday’s shotgun cocking.
“Listen here stranger,” Holiday said as he walked up beside David pointing his shotgun toward the woman standing over Destiny, “We don’t have a lot of ammo left, but that won’t stop me from taking your head off.”
She slowly lowered the bat from above Destiny before dropping it to the ground beside her. She raised her hands and stared at the light shining at her.
“I know this was all a misunderstanding,” Holiday continued lowering his shotgun. “I thought you were a zombie, and you defended yourself. Let’s not have this get more out of control.” Holiday’s words shocked David; he was expecting Holiday’s odd behavior to turn this situation into a disaster.
“Put your arms down,” Destiny said while getting to her feet. “I am sorry.” She said quickly.
“What’s your name?” David asked.
“Sam.” The woman replied. “So I can just go?” she continued.
“Go?” Holiday said curiously. “Go where? There ain’t exactly any place that is safe.” Holiday grabbed the flashlight from David’s hand and threw it softly toward Sam. “Why not stick with us?”
“No.” Sam replied without hesitation. “I have somewhere to be.” The group looked at her as she walked down the road away from them shining her flashlight all around her to check for zombies. David walked quickly after her.
“Where is that?” he asked her. The group started to follow her. Her flashlight made it much easier to go down the road. “Maybe we can stick together for a bit then?”
“Look,” Sam said while stopping and turning toward him. “I am going to Chicago. I have – well just – you don’t want to go to such a big city when all of this is going on. O.K.?” She turned and continued walking.
Destiny and Holiday chuckled slightly at her comment as they were headed to New York City - one of the largest cities either of them could think of.
“What is so funny?” S am stopped once more and shined the flashlight at the group.
“We are headed to a big city ourselves,” David said, “New York.” Sam paused for a long time considering his words. If it wasn’t so dark, the group would have seen the look of disbelief on Sam’s face.
“Have fun with that.” Sam eventually said. She turned and walked faster than before in an attempt to leave the group behind her. Destiny slightly jogged to catch up with Sam until she was at her side.
“What is in Chicago?” Destiny inquisitively asked.
“You guys sure are a curious bunch aren’t you?” Sam said ignoring the question.
“Yes, but we could help you. Chicago has boats right?” Destiny continued.
“Whoa!” Holiday shouted “I am barely in agreement with going to one suicide pit, now you want us to go through one and then to another?” Holiday stopped walking and stared at the ground angrily. “Fuck this.” He said and began walking back down the road the way they had come from.
“Sheriff?” David said turning to look at Holiday. He was lost in the complete darkness behind the group. “Sam can you let me use that light for a second?” he asked. Sam reluctantly