"Look for a way out, there has to be something. A fire escape maybe?"

The three of us are searching the room for another exit. The stairs we'd used were blocked by the dead, we needed to find a different way out soon.

I look through one of the windows. There was a ledge around the building but I didn't think it would lead to anything...

"Did you guys find anything?" I ask, stepping away from the window.

Fletch shakes his head. Luna shrugs, "I found the elevator shaft."

I sigh. "I've got a window and a ledge."

"Well, what do we do?" Fletch asks.

"Was there anything out the window?" Luna asks, moving towards it.

I shrug and we all look through.

"It looks like there might be a fire escape over there." Fletch points out.

I nod. "Good catch, we can climb across the ledge and hop onto the fire escape."

They both nod and I open the window. "Who's first?"

Luna and I both look to Fletch who just rolls his eyes.

For once, I didn't want it to be me. I didn't have a fear of heights but I did have a fear of dying and this seemed like a pretty easy way for that to happen. One wrong step and it could all be over. I didn't like the idea of that...

"Is it because I'm a man?" Fletch says as he moves towards the open window.

Luna laughs. "Maybe."

Fletch carefully begins to crawl out the window. He makes it onto the ledge and starts moving towards the fire escape.

"They're getting louder, better move fast." I say, gesturing towards Luna and the window.

She climbs through the window and onto the ledge.

Easy enough...

I grab onto the sides of the window and begin to move through it. I catch a glimpse of the distance between the window and the ground, immediately I bring my eyes back up.

Don't look. It's as high as it seems and will most definitely kill you if you fall.

I plant my feet onto the ledge, still holding the window sill. The dead have now made their way to our floor and are slowly flooding into the room.

Fletch and Luna aren't moving, leaving me stuck by the window within reach of the dead ones.

"Keep moving guys! The dead ones are here."

I try not to hold my breath as I watch the dead ones get closer to the window.

"The ledge is crumbling up here, I can't move any faster." I hear Fletch say from in front.

Damnnit. Here I was, trapped on a ledge outside a window with the dead approaching. What was my plan? I was making it up as I went.

I look to my right, away from Luna and Fletch. Another fire escape, just a lot further off the ledge. As I'm looking, a dead one gets to the window. I feel its grip on my wrist and I shout for Luna.

"Luna, it's hand!"

She grabs her cleaver, gripping onto the building with her other arm she slices the dead one's arm off.

"Fletch move!" She shouts, but I'm already ducking away from another dead one. I hurry to the right of the window, away from the dead as well as Fletch and Luna.

"You guys keep going that way, I'm gonna find a different way down."

I crept along the ledge, clinging as close to the building as I could manage while I moved. I kept my eyes on my feet or on the wall for fear of losing my balance if I tried to look anywhere else.

I made it to the fire escape and quickly began climbing down. I managed to reach the ground without incident, landing softly on my feet before I hurried towards Fletch and Luna.

Fletch was on the ground, Luna climbing the ladder right behind him. I smiled, seeing they were both okay but things quickly changed.

The ladder broke loose and fell off of the fire escape.

"Oh shit," I muttered, running faster as I watched Luna land, rolling her ankle under her and collapsing onto the ground.

Fletch was by her side immediately as she let out a sound that was most definitely from the pain she was enduring. Fletch is swiftly lifting her up, supporting her bad side.

I glance behind me, seeing a herd of dead ones coming around the corner of the building now. Luna has one arm over Fletch's shoulder as she hops on one foot. I come under her other arm, lifting it over my shoulder.

"Sasha we gotta move." Fletch says, nodding towards the dead ones I'd already spotted.

I nod quickly and we start moving away from the dead.

"Luna, are you okay?" Fletch asks.

I feel Luna shrug a bit. "I've been better." She says through her lightly gritted teeth.

I keep my eyes ahead of me as we move. We had to keep moving.

With three bags of meds and Luna's busted ankle, we were moving slow but a herd of the dead on our tail and a group of sick people depending on us back home we had a hell of a reason to keep going.

I needed to make it back for Ahri.

She needed me, so many people did. They were depending on us bringing back the meds on our backs and that's exactly what we would do.

Stay ahead of the herd. That was my plan. It wasn't a short walk back to the station and the herd had cut us off, shoving us further away from home.

"Sasha, do you hear that?" Fletch asked, stopping to listen.

I listened past the groaning and growling of the dead ones following us and listened for what Fletch was hearing.

I furrow my brow, hearing something in the background. Some sort of... buzz or hum?

"What is that?" I question.

"I think it's-"

Fletch is cut off by Luna suddenly falling limp, weighing down Fletch and me more than before.

"Oh shit, Luna!"

We lay her on the ground, her limp limbs sprawling freely as we kneel beside her. The noise in the background gets louder and I'm drawn away from Fletch's anxious voice as I stand up.

A large four-door pickup truck is now coming towards us. The vehicle has been vamped up and has a highly built-up grill and the doors are reinforced.

I cautiously placed my hand on my gun, eyeing the truck carefully as they stop several feet away.

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A/N: I'm back guys! You may have seen me online but now I'm posting again :) I hope y'all like this update. I've got some amazing stuff planned for the future of this story and I cannot WAIT to get it done for y'all! Let's hope that Luna's ankle is healed soon so she can get back to kicking ass the way she does. Don't forget to vote, comment, and follow me!

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