Mankind devoured - BOOK 1

Part 13: Sorting A Problem.

"Ugh!" Jamie yelped as he withdrew his fingers.

The man seized this opportunity, lunging forward and taking a large chunk out of Jamie's throat, completely removing his Adam's apple.  Jamie gasped, unable to form any sort of noise to signal his distress.  The man pulled his head back, tearing out the muscle and the oesophagus, blood spurted everywhere, all over the man, all over Corey. 

Jamie fell to his knees, his eyes bursting out of his skull with fear and pain, his mouth twitching and spasming.  The man pushed him down, audibly breaking his back and more infected piled on, digging into Jamie greedily and letting his organs pool out onto the floor in a bloody mess.  

Corey took one wild swing behind him and clipped an infected man, not enough to kill but enough to make space for him to escape.  He backed off, making direct eye contact with Jamie.  Jamie didn't break it, only stared at Corey and began to weep as his body was shredded in front of him.  This didn't last long as an infected with a rock joined in, pulverising Jamie's skull and scooping out the bits of brain that was left, making sure to collect it all.

Corey vision became blurry as he shouted and screamed, knowing that his college mate was now gone.  He went to chafe back in but was held back by two enormous arms that he could only assume were Dolton's.  He was dragged off, kicking and screaming through multiple voice breaks and an unstoppable flow of tears.

"I'm sorry, lad.  I'm sorry." He heard Dolton's voice tell him just as he passed out.

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Elise watched as Dolton dragged off Corey.  She's seen Jamie go under and had stepped back when she saw this, allowing some of the bigger brutes to take her place.  It scared her more than anything, seeing that someone could be surrounded and overpowered so easily, Jamie had only been out there for about 30 seconds she guessed by the time that he had gone down. 

She understood though, she had only been in the thick of it for about a minute and was completely exhausted.  Wanting nothing more than to lie down and close her eyes. 

It saddened her.  Another of the boys gone.  First it was Alex and his stunt with the young boy, and now it was Jamie, who hadn't quite lived long enough for his mental state to make him do something bad, but instead had become yet another poor life, taken by this cruel new world, taken too early, taken before their time.  It made her want to cry, but she couldn't, she had people to protect. 

"Elise!" She heard Alfie yell. 

She spun on her heels and saw a very sweaty, very bloody looking Alfie come running at her.  Before she could even say his name he had her in an embrace, a tight hug that made her feel so protected. 

Mark came over also, Alfie stepped back and allowed him to hug her. 

"I'm so glad you're okay!" Mark almost whimpered. 

"I'm okay dad."  She assured him.  "Jamie isn't though."

"You what?" Alfie asked.

"I'm so sorry, Alf." She said, shaking her head and tearing up.

"No." Was all Alfie could day.

"Alfie he was just killed I'm so sorry." Elise was crying now.

This brought Alfie to instant tears.  His childhood mate, his Alfie, his best mate and he was dead.  Gone.