Mike's Diary Day 73 - That's all I Could Remember

*Morning*

I passed out I don't know for how long. My body is all aching, can't feel my legs too. My back hurts like crazy, felt like its been carved by something. Sitting up was a struggle, lying down feels like hundreds of spikes thrusting up my back. I got no choice but to try to sit up while Jack was making breakfast. He told me what happened, and that's how I knew why my back and legs hurt like hell. He asked me what happened, so I told him what REALLY did happen. 2 nights ago I believe, when I was writing down my journal, I heard footsteps, well more like shuffles. I thought it was just going to be another craze, but when I was about to get up, I felt something stinging on my neck. I then woke up from that drugs, and was hung on a pool in a room, I saw my leg and what happened to it, but wasn't sure what she had done to my back. Her face was also covered with blood, though I couldn't really see since I was really busted up. She sent a final blow and I just passed out. Next thing I know is right now, that I woke up. He asked me if I could remember the features of that figure, and YES I'm pretty sure it was a woman. She was about 5"4 and thin build. I think, I wasn't sure since she caught me off guard and just stung me with a needle. Jack only nodded. I asked him what does that mean, but he only responded "I'll tell you when I'm sure myself, until I have a proof."

*Afternoon*

I was just basically trying to get as much rest as possible, while Jack is guarding the building for the moment. He wanted to go back to base ASAP, and I mean "As Soon As Possible because I don't like where this is is going" kind of thing, but I insisted because I was to busted up to even sit straight up. He agreed, and he told me that we should go back tomorrow for sure. The situation was tense, well Jack was really tense all the time. I then spoke up and told him that I remembered a phrase that she said before that final blow. She said "Sshh.. Do not watch." Then boom. At that moment, Jack's expression was blank. I didn't know what to say so I just drank and closed my eyes.

*Evening*

Jack was hunting near the building, for rabbit or such, I just woke up and fever was at its climax. I can't feel my body, it was like I was completely paralyzed. I tried my best to calm down until  Jack came back. He re-bandaged my wound because the old one was soaked with blood. He told me once again that after he cooked and after we finished dinner, I should sleep so that I can feel better again tomorrow and take off back to base as soon as possible. I know, because he really doesn't like what is about to happen next if we stay here any longer.

*Night*
The moon is right on top of us, and it was about 11 PM by approximation. He told me to sleep while again he guards the door. He notices me writing, and now he's back looking tensely outside the window. I don't know what he's thinking at the moment. I don't know what he's keeping away from me, but secrets can sometimes backfire and kill you or your comrades.

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Day 6, July 2nd 2013 - Found Her

9:32 PM

I'm exhausted, sad, and I don't even know what's going through my mind. I woke my cousin up, we're running low on food and water. We were too exhausted to even continue our journey, but we gotta keep moving. We destroyed our shelter and repacked everything, and after 3 hours of walk, we finally got to a small lake. We refilled our water bottles, and continued with our journey again. We walked and walked and walked then we found a high way. This high way is abandoned, and cars everywhere. I told my cousin to try to at least hot wire them. We broke the window and then, the alarm goes off. We're fucked I thought, craze are everywhere coming towards the car. We didn't know where to go so we decided to go under cars, and prayed so that they won't find us. We sneaked from cars to cars, and when we got away a little bit more, we decided to blow the cars up. That way, we can at least try to go on foot through the highway. Boom, huge explosions, fun, kinda. It's been along time that me and my cousin barely laugh or even smile. After a while and seeing no craze, we decided to walk on foot, when suddenly we heard something from the bush. We crouched, and all of the sudden, a little girl showed up. My cousin and I backed up and asked her if she was bitten. Turned out that she was fine, only some scrapes and blood, but no bite marks. We gave her water and some gauze to fix her. Fuck, that girl scared the fuck out of me. She looked like she has been surviving alone all this time, only her and her backpack. But how? She's pretty badass I must say, she swears a lot though. I asked her how old she is and she said she was only 13. Okay, so we got another member after we lost Boomer the other day, but I haven't talked much with her since we were too busy trying to walk on the highway without getting noticed by craze. We got to this place, I don't know, some sorta abandoned electric panel. There was no one nor craze so we decided to take a rest there. We made a little shelter, now she guards us and so on, the shift continues. She doesn't look scared at all, I don't know why or how. She had a radio with her and we were listening to it. The government, finally. They said that the military made a base in Quebec, but in order to go in there, we must be checked for bite marks or any signs that show that we're the rebels. Rebels ? I thought, what does it mean? No one knows until now who and what the rebels are, what they do and how many are there. All we want to do know is just to survive another day without losing any of our member(s) again. It's been along week for me. For all of us, and tomorrow we gotta start to hit our way into the city again to loot some food, and weapons and all the necessary needs for all of us. And this girl, we gotta keep her safe. She kinda reminds me with my cousin which I don't know where she is now. Dead? Hopefully not. I still need to find my brother too, hope he survives this hell.

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Day 4, june 30th 2013

 2:18 PM

We continued our journey, we decided  to go take a look at the sports store. We were walking man, it was calm until this frickin dog barked. Though I saw a figure running away from us, he/she was about 5'5 we were about to run after him/her but the craze man. They followed us so we had to rush into the store and locked ourselves in. Now there are 3 craze and I took the first one out easy, put some choke. The next two, we had to co-operate with each other. I took the left and Dion took the right one out. We thought we were clear for a sec there, we looted some stuff, more damn weapons, and cash, thought it's pretty useless in an apocalypse like this. I'm hearing noises now from the safe room inside the building and we decided to check it out.

11:55 PM

Figured. One of the cutter was trapped inside, It took us hours to do so though. After hours and hours trying to figure out what to do, finally we found a way to kill this damn thing. We found an alcohol, put some fuse in it, burn it and set that fucking thing on fire. It worked, it fucking worked.  I'm exhausted, I think I'm going to delay the journey till tomorrow and thinking of making more molovs in case if we encounter one of the cutters again. I'm too exhausted, my cousin and the dog are too. We looted some stuff though, knives, baseball bats, some clothes, a tent, sleeping bags some junk. I'm wondering wether that figure is still alive or not. Maybe, it was the girl that the letter was talking about. Hopefully she's still alive. I'm really thinking of taking a rest for a bit and let Boomer keep the guard up. We have a shift now, 3 hours sleep for me, Boomer, and Dion, then we have to change shift on who's watching what. Boomer truly is a gift.

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