Day 47

     "Are you okay?" I asked Lexi.

     "Yes, but Victor..."

     "Yeah I know. Go get some rest. You kicked ass though." I chuckled and gave her a hand gun. 

     "Now what." Said Jess who was taking care of Victor at the time. I looked to her, then glanced over to Jack. Oh I see you want revenge right Jack? Well it'd be better to do it after we deliver this thing don't you think? More guns, gather more people? Ask for Valors' help? 

     "So Jack." I asked

     "I'm going with or without you guys."

     "That's what I thought."

     "You, guys be safe. I'm going tomorrow morning"

     "No, everyone comes with you. I'll deliver this to valors myself."

     "Mike WHAT THE FUCK!" Lexi yelled from across the room.

     "Language." 

     "Don't tell me that. I'm going with you." She responded. All I could do is let her be. 

*NEXT MORNING* 

Everybody wakes up, and is packing their stuff.  

     "Jack how far is it? Their base?" I asked

     "Far enough. You two. We don't need two more dead people."

     "And I don't need three." I said, then I continued, "you see that church? The one over the mountain. We'll be there in 2 days. Try to catch up if you can. If you can't, turn back to base or go to this address." I handed him a copy o the address. Then we went on our own ways. Me and Lexi walked, far, far enough for her to collapse and just sit down in the middle of the muddy road to take a rest. It's not yet evening, but since winter is approaching, it gets pretty dark.

     "You haven't answered my question. What happened to you before you met me." I asked

     "I was with my aunt. But you know, shit went down. I try to survive, blablabla, 5 days later, you found me." She answered. "Yourself?" 

     "Me?" I asked "well, had a family once. They all dead."

     "I'm sorry." 

     "Me too."

I got her up and we continue walking. Craze here and there but they don't even bother us anymore, we tried our best to be unseen. Uzi in my right hand, a revolver in Lexi's. Lexi for some reason doesn't complain that much during the trip. You're a tough little kid for your age kiddo. We walk until it was really dark, approximately 15 miles away from the church. We set up a tent, went in it, I'm staying up and she's sleeping. We'll take turn obviously. There's nothing else to do, so I decided to write this. Hopefully those three are just fine, and can meet up with us in two days in the church. I was so stupid not telling them what the signal is when we're near by because yelling and screaming out names just doesn't cut it. It'll bring us to our own deaths. Mike, you're so dumb.

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Day 46 - "Separation"

     Victor woke me up in the morning, man I must've been passed out for too long. I thought to myself. I opened my eyes (still blury), then I saw everybody was waiting for me to pack up. Well too tired, considering I lured the cutter off and drove the RV since forever. I thought again. I got up, went to the water cooler, grabbed a bottle, and washed my face with it. The rest is just walks for hours.

      I walked slowly until I was walking parallel with Jack and said "Ever thought of dying?" I asked

     "Sometimes."

     "Are you scared?"

     "Somewhat. We just don't know what's after death." He said, "you?"

     "What?" I asked

     "Scared?"

     "No." I'm not scared of death. We were already doomed once we were born. I'm ready under any circumtances.

     "Why bother to survive then?" Jack said while pointing his gun at me. I looked at him, then I smiled.

     "There's always something you have to fight for. You don't give up, you want to make people who care about you happy" I said. Then we just kept walking until we went into suburbs. We went into one of the houses, scavanged for water, guns, or anything really. Nothing, then we went back out to head to a school. We were too late, the student clinic was already been looted FUCK! I thought. Then, when we went outside, there were survivors, weird ones, they have some kind of dress code (red top, blue pants). 

     "What do we have here?" Said the leader

     "Survivors." I said

     "And who's that little girl?" He waved at Lexi

     "I'm none of your GODDAMN business!" Lexi said

     "Whoa ho ho! Terrifying." Said the leader. I saw Victor's finger was on the trigger ready to pull, I looked at Jack who was anxious as if he was saying (just kill these motherfuckers) and also ready. In the matter of mili second, we all spread out, and BANG BANG BOOM! Gunfights.   There were too many of them so I decided to retreat. I led the way, Lexi, Jess, Victor, and J-- I looked back and he was pinned down. Oh great. I told the rest three to run towards the blue roofed dorm and wait for me and Jack there. I went back for Jack, and opened fire, Jack ran towards me when his right thigh  gets shot. He was limping, towards me, I supported him with my own body, then we rushed for the building beside the school. We managed to hide, but we won't be risking our lives going back outside, especially when I have a man down with me. I gotta do something. I rushed to the first aid box, took out a bottle of alcohol, dipped my knife into it, heat it up, and gave a small wooden spoon to Jack.

     "Bite on this. It's going to be hurt." I said, he nodded. Slash,, I sunk my knife into his thigh, blood splattered, I dug my finger in his flesh, and took the bullet out. He was moaning in pain, but when it all ends, he managed to say thanks. I tied a cloth to stop the bleeding, gave him my water, and take a rest. He's now asleep, hope nothing happened to those three in the dorm. 

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Mike's Diary - Day 41 "Not so Useless Afterall"

I saw Jack, my face was busted. After Jack unchained me, I told him to get the old guy (whoever he is) and told jack to carry him to our base. Before I walked outside, I spat my blood on the floor right beside the villain's body and whispered 

   "I fucking told you he'd come."

Those two days outside base was exhausting. Very exhausting. I woke up from my long sleep, my body was aching, still is; however, i got my wound patched up (whoever did it, thanks.) I got up and stumbled my way out of my dusty small room and beat my way through the small gloomy hallway. I went outside and I saw people, guard mostly are keeping our base away from craze and other raiders. From afar, I could spot Jack was walking towards me.

       "Thanks." I said to him

       "No biggie, Lexi was worrying."

       "I know." I responded.

       "I need to talk to you." He said

       "About what?"

       "Your brother, and your base."

       "What about them?"

       "We had a conflict, I wanted to plant some trees, and vegetables, but your brother only cares about defense. We argued and he tried to hit me but I blocked it. Never talked to him since." He  explained

        "He is my brother. He built this base long before we came. Defense is important, but you do have a good point. I'll talk to him when I see him. Where's Lexi?" I said

         "Playing with the others, yeah I guess I can't say much, I have to get going, get your ass out of trouble, you got two holes already, you dont need more bullet holes." He responded

I chuckled "Ohh, mind if you help Jessie sorting the firearms? Thanks Jack."

I went to Lexi and her friends, she ran up to me and asked if I was okay and told me that I'm stupid going off alone. And the old guy, she asked. I couldn't care less, he's still sleeping, he saved my ass after all, and shit I forgot to ask Jack who the old guy is. Lexi just starred at me and said 

    "This is bullshit Mike, I don't wanna play with other girls, I wanna help. Teach me something new, join the the crew to gather supplies, all that stuff."

     "Well why not start with helping Jack and Jessie with the firearms?" I asked. She smiled, biggest smile she has ever given me since i was gone for 2 days. Then she ran away, and she left me here, alone, peacefully, writing on my journal.

          

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Day 9, July 5th 2013, 10:24 AM

I woke up this morning, well Lexi woke me up. "I'm so fucking hungry, do we have deer meat left?" she asked. Yes we did, so I woke up and got out of the car. I told my cousin to make a fire so we all could eat breakfast. I went to the nearest lake just to refill our water bottle, it was peaceful but always, craze are around. We chatted for a while then we continued our  journey, by car now. My cousin was driving, I was navigating him, and Lexi was just there, doing nothing really. We got to the border between Ottawa and Montreal but it was blocked by vehicles lots of them. We stopped and we walked instead of driving, we went around, took the nature way I guess. This time, no craze nor cutter, our hope was high. We thought the military base was near so we kept on going. We took a little rest, drank some water, and continue our walk. Lexi was walking around the branches and she slipped, so we all laughed, big deal. We need some humour nowadays. "Why don't you cry like other little girls?" My cousin asked. "I'm tough, unlike those other wuss." she said. True say, this kid made it this far, she fought hard. We went into this one huge gate but then it was locked from the inside. It didn't look right to me, we decided to boost Lexi in to open the door for us. Well she asked us to do that so we did. "Be careful" I said, "Don't worry". We went in and guess what we saw? An abandoned fucking army base. Looked like it got over run, or raided. But how? We had no idea. We went in the buildings and its empty, no guns, no lootables, no food, no nothing.We got all upset, my cousin was fulfilled with rage and Lexi was there sitting, doing nothing. Thinking perhaps? I don't know. "We gotta make this right. Let's just find everything we could use and get some rest here. The sun is almost out." Even though something happened to the base, at least there are no craze in here. We gotta start find some clues of where the military is heading tomorrow, but tonight we are going to get rested up for the night. 

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Day 8, July 4th 2013 - That Negotiation Went Well

10:12 PM

I woke up early this morning, you know wanna give them some breakfast surprise. Grabbed everything I needed, my shotgun, and my baseball bat. I walked pretty far, but I left some marks so I could go back to our camp. It was quite and peaceful in the morning, some craze are still around but I don't really give a shit at that moment. I walked a bit further then I saw a lake, not only that there was also a deer. A fucking deer dude, it's like 6 days meals. I thought, I gotta get this deer but how? I didn't know how to kill it. If I shoot it, the loud bang is gonna wake the craze and I'll ended up getting my ass beat. I sneaked up on the deer but when I was this close and I was about to swing my baseball bat, that animal ran. I followed the track, not too far from where I was then I saw the deer, this time it's lying down under the shades. Still didn't know  how to get it, I thought if I shoot this thing really close, I might be able to reduce the noise of the gun. So I sneaked up on it and I stuck my barrel to it's chest and boom. Not a damn noise came out, I was so happy. Now we all can feast. I tied the horn to a vine and pulled it along the way. I got to our campsite and saw everything was a mess. Those fuckers holding Lexi and my cousin as hostiles. Both of them were armed with vest and a machete and revolver on the other. I thought this was the end of it, I decided to negotiate with those guys. Walked slowly to them, we talked and talked and talked. I didn't wanna give the deer either, then luck was on my side this time. A craze walked towards him while I distracted is ass with stupid negotiations. The craze bit him and sank it's teeth in his neck and I quickly grabbed my shot gun and shot the other raider. Then lastly, bashed the walker with my baseball bat. Man I didn't know what was gonna happen to my cousin and Lexi if I wasn't there on time. I was terrified. We looted them, couple shots to the heads just to make sure they're dead, then we threw the bodies into a ditch and we enjoyed our deer, freshly cooked. Again we feasted, joked around and just got to know each other a little more. After that, we decided to leave the forest, through some more horde of craze but we didn't wanna deal with it so we just sneaked behind them. Finally after a full day of walk we got out of that forest. We are still far away from Quebec, but we'll get there eventually. We found a car, that is not locked luckily, some fuel, and my cousin hot wired it. It worked, and he drove us until the fuel ran out and we stuck in the middle of this highway. I'm too tired, and since there are cars in the highway that we are on right now we might be able to suck the fuel in them and use it. I was about to give up but then I saw this red haired, blue eyed, little girl who is so cheery and sweary and all that, that's what motivated me. That what keeps me going, Lexi and my brother is the reason why I try this hard.Well no matter what happened, we all always have things that we want to fight for.

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