Nuria decided to replay the memory in her mind. It all seemed a blur, but somehow she got out of a situation she thought was impossible.
They had all started running out of the room. The soldiers and scientists had run out of the building to confront the zombie horde that had surrounded them. Adrienne turned down a corner and saw a set of stairs. She made a dash for them.
"Where are you going?!" Nuria asked.
"To the roof! I have to see the zombies."
"What? WHY?"
"They have to be from Poolesville...I need to know if my family is down there. Take care of the others?" She asked Nuria.
"Come on." Lauren H. pulled Nuria and helped lead the other women to the room where the little girl was strapped into a chair. "You go help her out, I'm going to see if they left any weapons lying around." Lauren ran down the hall with two other women while Nuria helped out the little girl. They found her clearly distraught and crying profusely. Her mom lashed at the straps in a rage to remove them off of her little girl. Lauren stuck in head into the room. "We gotta go!"
"Go where?! We're surrounded." Nuria yelled. Lauren tossed her a shot gun.
"Let's go."
The group ran down the hall towards a back door. "We have to get Adrienne!" Nuria remembered.
"We don't have time!"
"Are you SERIOUS? You're willing to leave her behind? Who are you?"
Lauren looked toward the exit and then back at Nuria. "Fine. Let's go."
"Ah, we're getting out of here." A few of the women said.
"We'll stay with you though." The mother said holding onto her daughter's hand. The four women ran back and up the stairs.
They found Adrienne standing close to the edge of the roof. The night was calm, the stars were bright and it was exceptionally beautiful out. "Adrienne, we have to go!" Nuria pleaded from the doorway to the roof. She didn't turn around. Nuria looked back at Lauren nervous about their window of opportunity dwindling.
"You have to get her..." The mother said. Nuria ran to Adrienne and tapped her on the shoulder.
"Adrienne..." Nuria began. Adrienne turned around with tears falling from her eyes. "Honey, we have to go..."
Adrienne shook her head. "I'm not leaving."
"What?"
"WE HAVE TO GO!" Lauren yelled from the doorway.
"SHUT UP!" Nuria yelled. She turned back to Adrienne. "What do you mean?"
"I see them..." Adrienne said looking down. Nuria looked over and saw the guards struggling to fend off the horde that had begun to break down the fence climb up the walls. Nuria ran to the other side and noticed a few of the women escaping through the woods noticing only a few zombies blocking their way.
"Who's down there?" Nuria walking back to Adrienne, nervous.
"My family...my dad, my mom, my sister..." She pointed to a group of zombies by one of the guard posts. One of them looked oddly like Adrienne and Nuria figured that was her sister.
"I'm home..." Adrienne said. "I can't leave them."
"No Adrienne! This isn't home any more. You have a chance to live!"
"My family is here. I don't need anything else!"
The zombies broke through the fence killing off the last of the guards and began making their way towards the building. Nuria's vision became a blur as she was caught between pleading for Adrienne to follow and Lauren grabbing her arm, yelling for her to follow. The daughter was crying with her mother. Nuria's memory became tunneled as Lauren shot their way through the building one zombie at a time.
"Mommy!" Nuria remembered the daughter yelling after a few close calls. Nuria looked all around her seeing zombies everywhere and remembered Lauren yelling at her to run faster. Before she knew it, Nuria had blacked out.
Nuria came to in a car right outside of Poolesville. The sun was just coming up and she noticed that Lauren was driving. "You're awake." She jerked awake noticing the mother and daughter sitting next to her.
"What happened?" She realized. Lauren looked back at her through the rear view mirror.
The mother explained how that when Nuria passed out a few of the other women helped them out of the building with the shot guns they had found. A few were killed by the zombies but 3 cars were acquired from the lot and they headed out towards Poolesville. Two of the cars eventually split with them and headed north towards the country. Nuria fell back asleep out of exhaustion.
Now she sat on that curb as Lauren approached her and sat next to her.
"And Adrienne?" Nuria looked at Lauren, the mother and daughter sitting on a bench behind them, the daughter sleeping on her mother's lap.
"I'm sure she's with her family now..." Lauren said. "Once you collapsed and we barely dragged you out, there were already zombies heading up the stairs towards her."
Nuria fell silent. A tear fell down her eye. She wiped it off with her sleeve. "Where now?"
"One of the women said that there was a safety zone in Arlington. They were headed to one they heard about in Harper's Ferry because they didn't want to take the risk of going towards DC again. I just know that if our friend's are still alive, they'll be heading over there."
"Okay, what are we waiting for?" Nuria got up and offered Lauren her hand to get up as well.
"I'll drive?" Lauren asked.
"Sure." And the three women and the small girl made their way towards the car.
***
The group of girls pushed through the rubble of the abandoned metro station exit.
"I can see light." Caroline said removing another piece of debris.
"We have to hurry!" LeAndria said holding up a gun towards the darkness behind them. She shot another round and the groan of a zombie falling to the ground echoed through the tunnel. The light of the gunshot revealed a group of zombies coming towards them.
"Okay, I think we're through!" The group of girls climbed out and realized where they were.
"Friendship Heights?" Devin asked realizing how much fog covered the ground. They heard the zombies behind them and scattered to find cover behind abandoned cars. They saw the zombies climb a huge pile of debris that looked like a giant barricade.
Suddenly they heard muffled noises and a gun shot.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO." Someone screamed. The group of girls suddenly realized they weren't alone and drew out their weapons.
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