The Blackout

The Outbreak

Something I knew but never accepted, Death, but here I was lying in my own pool of blood. Wanna know how I ended up here, so lets go back a week.

1 week earlier

I am Hamaad Rouf and I am a 25 year old doctor. I am a cardiologist working in the SMHS hospital in the city of Srinagar. My day was near its end and I was sitting in my office for a last checkup before I went home.

"Please come in." I called out.

I heard the door open and looked up from my file. This was just for a good first impression on the patient. I saw a very old man who was looking like he was a 200 year old.

"What is your name, problem and age?" I asked the old man.

He did not reply back but looked at me evilly. He was an average looking old man with many wrinkles but when I saw his eyes I freaked out in my head.

He started moving his hand towards the pocket of the kurta pajama he was wearing and removed a gun from there.

"What are you doing?" I asked again and again.

"Don't pull the trigger."I said desperately.

But he fired the gun. I didn't know what possessed me. I jumped over the table and the bullet I could see clearly and kicked him right in the chin .He dropped the gun and then I twisted his head backwards .I thought he was dead but started to rise again. I quickly picked up the gun and unloaded 3 bullets in his head .I didn't have time to dwell on the murder I dust had done.

I quickly put the gun in my backpocket of my jeans that I was wearing and went to the window of my office and saw complete devastation outside in the parking lot. It was a M-rated movie outside. People were running around madly eating other people and I knew that this world is going to change.