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damned_institute2009-07-19 01:21 pm
tightsofmight) wrote in damned_institute2009-07-19 01:21 pm
Nightshift 42: The Bookworm
Worst Case Scenario: they got stuck in town when night came.
He hated being right.
It started out subtle. Hinamori had barely finished her sentence before he realized that the sunlight had all but died. Things got a little cooler, wisps of grey marking their every breath. Peter turned to the window in horror. A splatter of blood blossomed before his eyes on the glass, welling up from the centre and drying as soon as it was born. Beyond it, the paved street cracked. Half-fleshed hands sprouted from the divide, pulling up even more gruesome bodies behind them.
"GAAAH!!" he shrieked, clutching at his throbbing head. His spider sense was going psycho, harder than it ever had. He tasted blood, leaking in a thin trail from his nose to his lips.
Get up get up get up
He pushed past the sensation, shooting a look up to Hinamori, then to the rest of the store when the floorboards started to creak. The clerks behind the counter didn't look so friendly now.
"Zombies," Peter whispered in disbelief, rising from his chair. "Oh my god, they're all zombies..."
The pain in his head began to fade. He took no solace in that.
He hated being right.
It started out subtle. Hinamori had barely finished her sentence before he realized that the sunlight had all but died. Things got a little cooler, wisps of grey marking their every breath. Peter turned to the window in horror. A splatter of blood blossomed before his eyes on the glass, welling up from the centre and drying as soon as it was born. Beyond it, the paved street cracked. Half-fleshed hands sprouted from the divide, pulling up even more gruesome bodies behind them.
"GAAAH!!" he shrieked, clutching at his throbbing head. His spider sense was going psycho, harder than it ever had. He tasted blood, leaking in a thin trail from his nose to his lips.
Get up get up get up
He pushed past the sensation, shooting a look up to Hinamori, then to the rest of the store when the floorboards started to creak. The clerks behind the counter didn't look so friendly now.
"Zombies," Peter whispered in disbelief, rising from his chair. "Oh my god, they're all zombies..."
The pain in his head began to fade. He took no solace in that.
no subject
She disappeared onto the roof.
"...catch you later. All righty then."
What used to be an elderly man in a pair of gardening overalls lunged at him, half rotted jaws wide open in a ghastly moan. Peter grabbed him by the suspenders and coolly tossed him over his shoulder, crinkling his nose as the smell of rotted meat whooshed past his head.
"Ugh. You guys are rank. There's a perfectly good Bath and Body a few blocks down, you know."
He took a leaf from Hinamori's book. He might not be able to stick to walls anymore, but ricochet was fair game. Peter jumped backwards, springing from the wall of the store onto the nearest zombie's shoulders. No sooner had his feet touched base he was in the air again, leaping towards the next corpse in line. Zombie hopscotch. Now that was a thrilling sport.
Free of the first mob, he hit the ground running, and he wasn't going to stop until he hit the park.
[To here.]