Infected (Book 2): The Flight

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Authors: Caleb Cleek
Tags: Zombies
a halt to his rising.  He put his other hand behind Connor’s head and pushed him back to the floor.  “You need to take it easy, Buddy,” he said calmly but insistently.  “You have a nasty concussion, at least one broken rib and your guts are probably beat to a jelly inside of you.  You are in no condition to…” and he was cut short.
    “Get out of my way!” Connor heard as Katie came into his field of vision and pushed Zack to the side.  Her mouth opened and her lips quivered as she looked at him.  Her cobalt eyes began to sparkle as the tears built up and overflowed down her cheeks. 
    Zack removed his pack and began pulling things out of different pockets as Katie bent down, hugging Connor and kissing his broken and bloody lips.  When she pulled back, her green shirt had dark splotches of blood all over and her lips were smeared with blood, too. 
    “Oh, Connor, are you okay?” she sobbed.  
    “I don’t understand,” Connor said with confusion, seeing Toby, Eve and Luke behind Katie, all with equally distraught looks on their faces.
    “Mom, is he going to die?” Toby asked, nearing the point of tears.
    “No sweetie, he’s not going to die,” Katie said, looking to Zack for reassurance.
    “Your mom’s right.  He’s not going to die.  He’s going to be pretty sore for a while, but he’s going to be fine.”  Zack affirmed.  After cleaning the wound, Zack interrupted the reunion between the family. “Hang on, Connor.  You’re going to feel some pricks,” he added as he bent over with a syringe in his hand. 
    Connor watched as he injected a clear liquid along the length of the gash on his side.  He didn’t feel a thing after the initial pokes.  After recapping the syringe, Zack prepared the curved needle and thread he pulled from a packet in his bag.  He plunged the needle in one side of the cut and out the other, continuing along the whole length with a running stitch.  Blood oozed out as he pulled the stitch tight and brought the two sides of the cut together.  In a well-practiced motion, he knotted the suture, trimmed the ends, and threw both hands above his head, yelling, “Done!”
    With everybody staring at him in confusion, Zack explained, “Haven’t you guys ever been to a rodeo?  I used to do high school rodeo calf roping.”
    A half smile brightened Katie’s face and Matt shook his head back and forth and whispered, “He’s a strange dude,” to Toby and Luke.  They both nodded in agreement, grins plastered on their faces, as they looked at Zack in awe.

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    The mood in the hallway was suddenly much lighter.  There was talking and even some laughter.  Connor had a hard time taking it in at first, but as his brain began to clear, his thoughts came easier and more cohesively.  Eventually, he was able to put together the nagging question that had been lurking in the back of his mind.  As soon as he was able to put it into words, Connor asked, “How did you get away from Curtis?”
    Eve started for the group, “It was really Luke and Toby who did it.”
    “Yeah,” Luke said.  “They caught us at your house and tied us up and put us in the back of the Army truck.  That guy right there,” he pointed at Curtis’s body, “told them to take us to the ranch.  He and the guys in his Army truck and the other one went somewhere together and two guys in our truck went the other way.  When we passed the grocery store, one of the guys said they should stop and get some booze.  When they stopped, they left us in the truck.  I got my hand untied and then I untied Toby.  They had put handcuffs on Mom and Katie and we couldn’t get them off.”
    “One of the guys left his rifle in the truck,” Toby added.  “I got it out of the front seat.  It was just like yours, Dad,” he added, the excitement building in his voice.  “At first I couldn’t turn the safety off, but then I remembered it was on the side of the gun and not by the trigger.  I

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