This is Issue 99 of Hope On The Rocks, entitled "It Never Ends, Part 1".
This issue is Al-centric.
721; It Never Ends, Part 1
“Want eggs, hon?” I hear Ellis asking me from the kitchen.
I stand in the bathroom, looking at myself in the mirror. I can’t specify it, but I have changed in some way.
“Yeah. Thanks.” I yell back. I finish shaving and then take on my shirt.
As I walk into the kitchen, the smell of eggs makes me hungry.
“How’d you get eggs?” I ask, walking towards Ellis.
“Glenn found a farm with living chickens.” Ellis says, and gives me a quick kiss. “He offered me a basket of eggs if I would do his laundry.”
“Seems like a good deal to me.” I say and smile.
I then grab a piece of bread and goes to sit at the table. Timmy is already there, reading in ‘Rogersville Weekly’, a newspaper Garrett made. I don’t see the point, though.
“‘Morning, papi.” Timmy mutters, sipping to his coffee.
“Sleep well?” I ask as I sit down.
“Slept decent.” Timmy mutters, focused on his newspaper.
“Hey, honey?” Ellis says, and I look. She is walking towards the table with a pan with scrambled eggs. “Are we going to leave Rogersville?”
“No, why’d you think that?” I say, looking at her as she gives me and Timmy eggs.
“Oh, I just heard some rumors...” Ellis mutters.
“Listen, when we leave Rogersville, we are leaving together.” I say and smile. “Okay?”
“Okay.” Ellis says and smiles back.
Leonardo Harbor seems like a pretty big town when you have to search all car-ports and warehouses.
I am walking with Miles and Texas, currently walking down a street where every single house has a cabin, made to store a boat.
We just finished checking one. These cabins are hard to get into, so it takes a while. We have checked nine cabins so far.
“Getting hungry.” Texas mutters.
“Yeah, me too.” I say, looking behind us. We didn’t loot the houses for some reason. I guess we just want to find a boat right now.
A zombie is standing in the middle of the road. It seems to be unavare of us, and we take advantage of that.
I raise my machete and sneaks up behind the zombie. Then, I shove the machete into the zombie’s head, killing it.
I then have time to look at the zombie; a bald man with sad, rotten eyes. He is missing his entire mouth area.
My guess is that he gave his wife a last kiss, and then she turned.
I am glad it didn’t get to that with Ellis.
“Should we loot the next house?” Miles asks.
“Yeah, shouldn’t we?” I say. “I’m hungry.”
We turn, headed for the next cabin. It has already been opened, so that is not a problem.
I go inside it: empty.
With a shrug, I head for the house. Miles and Texas follow.
Sounds come from inside. Guess it’s zombies?
I nod to Texas and Miles, as a sign that they should get out their guns. They do so, and I raise my machete.
Opening the door, a zombie instantly attacks me. I manage to kill it with the machete, and I push it out of the way.
We then go inside.
Deaths
- None
Credits
- Miles Vance
- Al Halib
- Timmy Ember (flashback)
- Texas Starr
- Ellis Wayne (flashback)
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