Rescue

Sara reads the sign aloud.

"They're living off 'pastires?'" Jasper says.

Sara shrugs. "So their spelling is a little off. Big deal, it's been a long month for everyone, right?"

"So what do we do?" asks Jasper.

"Maybe we can do something for them." Sara jams a fresh clip in her Kalishnokov. "We're safe here for the moment, but we won't be for too terribly much longer. When we leave, we might be safer in a group. There's plenty of guns and ammo here."

Jasper nods as they descend the stairs back into the restaurant. Wordlessly, they went to the back door, barred since the Incident began. They move the bar aside, and open the heavy door, rifle barrels first. But the area behind the store is empty.

'kay, here's the plan. I go out into the alley, and you close the door behind and bar it again. Then you run up to the roof and cover me while I get to that Starbucks. If all goes well, I'll be back in a few minutes. if it doesn't..." she trails off. It's a crap plan, but it's all she can think of right now.

Nothing remains to be said. He squeezes her hand and she smiles back bravely. And then she steps through the door, and he locks it behind her. He charges back up the stairs to the roof and to the edge, where he sees her darting like a soldier through the rubble-strewn streets. A pair of zombies lurch out of the debris and begin moving towards her, but two well-placed shots put them down. And then the street is full of zombies coming from everywhere. Gamely, he centerpunches zombie after zombie, but for every one that falls three more wander in, looking for meat.

Sara manages to cross the block and sprints across the street before a half-dozen zombies stagger into her path. She reflexively sprays them with the Kalashnikov, but more are coming with every passing second. She manages to reach the Starbucks only seconds ahead of them. She turns and empties the rest of the clip into them, drops the empty clip and jams in a fresh one as she hits the door behind her with her elbow. "LET ME IN!" she screams.

The door opens and she falls inside, with only a second to spare. The door closes against a tide of moaning zombies.

1. Sara talks to the survivors, and gets their stories.
2. Sara and the people inside the store start trying to plan a way to get back to the Hardees across the street.
3. There's one guy in the Starbucks...and he's nucking futs.
4. a carful of customers drives up, cheerfully oblivious to the thousands of zombies milling around outside.
5. Sadly, the store is full of zombies. The sign is several days old, unfortunately.
6. A barrista asks her if she'd like to order yet.
7. Jasper calls her cell phone to ask her if she'd pick him up a caramel latte.

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