4 Chapter 4

(Sorry i havent written in a bit guys, it's been a tough month and I haven't been in the right head space to write anything I like enough to publish yet for Atlas Grey or The Last Celestial)

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Penny groans and moves as fast as she can. "Blake! Hey! Wake up!" She whispers loudly,

She drags her back into a sewer tunnel and sets her against the wall. Screaming still fills the air.

Penny taps Blake's shoulder hard, Blake jolts and gasps, Penny holds her hands up.

"Its okay. Its okay. The car flipped."

Blake follows Penny's finger to the rolled car, Blake sighs and feels like she is about to cry. She jumps to her feet and signs to Penny.

'We can't sit here.'

"We can't go out there!" Penny whispers harshly,

Blake sighs and looks out the tunnel, then back to Penny. 'It will definitely be worse if we stay here. Whatever those things are, they will find us.'

Penny looks out and somehow turns more pale. She looks at Blake. "I don't want to die Blake."

'We won't. Stay close.'

Penny takes a deep breath and nods, they hurry out of the tunnel, down the canal. Suddenly Blake hurries up one side, before she makes it to the top, she drops to her belly, Penny mirrors her.

They look behind them on the top of the other side of the canal, Blake looks over their side, destroyed cars and people running everywhere. 'Let's go!'

They jump up and dive into the madness. Blake takes her rifle from Penny and they pick a direction and run.

Blake tries her best not to shake, to stay focused, back alleys, thats where they need to be running. Blake stops and jumps back as a body flies past her through the air and slams into a wall.

She jumps and clasps her hand to her mouth. It's still twitching and moving! She raises her rifle as it jumps to it's feet, she aims. It turns and charges at her.

BANG!

The body arches back and drops against the wall. "Blake come on!"

Blake looks at Penny in front of her and continues running, they make it to a back alleyway and stop when they hear a clink.

They look over at a middle aged man in a white turtle neck shirt. Blake looks at the keys near his feet.

Blake looks back at the road, towards the screaming and crying and back to the man. "Get in." He says,

"No-no, let her drive! She's a great driver!" Penny says,

"I'm driving, get in the car or get out of the way!" He says as he grabs the keys,

Blake and Penny hurry into the car. The man turns it over and they fly out of the alleyway. They turn down the road and plow over two corpses as they go.

"Go! Go!" Penny shouts,

"I'm goin!" The man shouts,

People around them scream and run in every direction, some tackling each other and biting each other.

They weave through them and almost instantly the sound fades as the start leaving town from the backroads.

They all shake furiously. Blake looks at the man, and signs.

"She says 'Hi, I'm Blake, this is my sister Penny.'"

"H-h-hi...Tom."

She signs again, "She says...."

Penny's eyes widen. The man frowns, "What?"

"Tom, pull over and get out."

"What?! Why?!" He says while Blake keeps signing,

"I have my gun ready to fire, if you think you're faster then me try it. You've been bit and I'm not risking Penny's life." Penny says,

The man turns pale and looks at Blake and Penny in the mirror and back at Blake. Her rifle is in between her legs and tilted down, the barrel aimed at the man's shoulder/chest.

"You've been bit Tom, please stop the car and get out."

"You're insane! I'm not infected!"

Penny pulls her pistol and points it at Tom's head. "Tom. If you don't do as she says, I'll blow you away. I'm sorry, we can't take chances."

He breathes faster and faster. "She says 'Tom, now. I won't ask again.'"

He grips the steering wheel so tight that practically his whole hand is white. He turns and pulls off the road and puts it in park.

"Please get out." Penny says,

"Please don't do this, I'm fine!"

"We can't take that risk right now Tom."

"So you just wanted to rob me blind huh?!"

Blake narrows her eyes and lifts the gun off the car floor, ever so slightly, to urge him out. He shakes hard and slowly climbs out of the driver seat.

Penny is glued on him with her pistol. Blake motions for him to shut the door. He doesn't, he just stares at them, begging with his eyes. Guilt and pain swirl around in them both.

"Please close the door Tom." Penny says,

"I hope you die, alone. You will! You will both die alone!" he spits,

Blake lifts her rifle and aims at him, he jumps and waits for the shot that doesn't come. He shuts the door, Blake makes a finger gun and points it at him. Penny nods, "I got him."

Blake sets her rifle down and carefully climbs over, Tom speedily grabs for the door, Blake hesitates for a moment and grabs the door as Penny fires, Blake jumps and Tom yells. Blake opens the door and slams it into his face, knocking him to the ground, she slams the door closed and puts the car in drive and speeds away.

Blake's heart pounds, she almost can't drive straight because of how much she is shaking. Penny climbs up into the passenger seat and stares out the windshield, shaking as well.

"I shot him." she mutters,

Blake drives for another five minutes before she can't take any more of Penny muttering about how she shot him. Blake pulls over and climbs out of the car, "Blake?" Penny asks,

She climbs out and watches her sister pace back and forth Penny hurries around the car and grabs Blake, pulling her into a hug. Blake hugs her tightly, her breathing is as shaky as the rest of her.

"It's okay, it's okay. W-we'll be okay." Penny says softly,

Blake buries her face into Penny's shoulder and cries.