The Eruption of Time

Chapter Four - The Drive

The plan was that Tiffany and her father were going to leave for Colonial Heights, but things took a turn fast. No one expected that when they made the plan that it would go south so fast. As the kids were cleaning out the kitchen and throwing out anything that would go bad quickly, they were trying to stay quiet as their mother was going to throw clothing and throwing things into piles based on what would fit in the next year and what wouldn't. Tiffany and her father were filling a single crate with food for a week just in case something went wrong when they left the house to go get the supplies they needed from out of town. Nothing was the same anymore and they knew that and knew that they had to accept that fast and they had. Her father handed her the rifle as the sounds of a car screeching and turning up the driveway with the loud sound of groaning following came. It was unexpected and they couldn't help but stare off and look at the dirt road as they waited for what was a black car to come down the road with the monsters following.

Without a second thought, as the car stopped and her father ran toward the car, Tiffany started to shoot the monsters, each bullet hitting one's head. Never did she blink. Suddenly, her brother Jefferson and Annabella get out of the car. Her father and Annabella are picking Jefferson up as his leg is bleeding. "Get him in the house, now!" Tiffany yells, as the front door opens and their German Shepard comes sprinting out. The second she steps out heels she barks and then turns on her heals and runs back inside as if she is, says 'No not today' and they step in as Tiffany takes her final step behind them and turns and kicks one of the monsters as they push close the door and lock it. "Get him on the table!" their father yells as he is slammed onto the table and he yells in pain. "One of those- Those things! They bit him. Right as we showed up, he thought he saw something, so we stopped the car and when we did it, bit him."

Not even within seconds, Xavier came in with a butcher knife from their father's chef handed and handed it to Tiffany, "Remember the man in town that was bitten... He's outside with a buttlet between his eyes." Tiffany gripped the knife as they all looked at her and Annabella winced and Jefferson yelled out, "I'll be damned! You are not coming near me with that f*****g thing! Tiffany, if you cut me at all I'll f*****g kill you, you canie bi-" and with that he was interrupted with his father's fist going into his jaw. They all looked at him, "Are you sure? If you do this, there is no going back. His leg will be gone and there will be nothing that can be done. Not to mention, if he doesn't fix the infection, then he will still turn and we will still have to kill him. No one here wants to kill your brother." She stood for a second to think about it and then she walked into the kitchen and grabbed a rag and walked into the dining room and wrapped the rag around the top of his knee and held it hers for a minute. Annabella went to stop her before she was grabbed by their father and Tiffany grabbed her lighter and heated the blade up, "Every little person, out. Now." They looked at their brother lying on the table and decided not to argue against it and ran out of the room, but they really all sat at the door waiting to hear what happened as it happened.

Tiffany grabbed his leg and put the tip on his right leg beneath the knee and put the pressure on it. Suddenly, the blood started to dribble. "I'm Sorry Jefferson." His eyes started to flutter open as Tiffany slipped at the bottle on his knee and he let out a scream, rowling at the monsters sitting outside of the house. "Clean this up and heat it up, if we don't sever the end then he will bleed to death. Burn it shut, I have muscle relaxers upstairs." Everyone looks at her. "I took a year of medicine in high school." Tiffany says, but her father looks at her, "Where did you get the drugs?" She looked at him, "Sports do its tol."

Within hours, Jefferson was silent and asleep, his fever was gone and they assumed they were in the clear, but that didn't stop Tiffany from sitting next to him with the gun. He was her brother, but everyone else's life lay in her hands while he was still asleep, and while the monsters roamed outside. She couldn't step outside without being taken out and she couldn't risk leaving everyone alone. Right now it was about wait and see and she was willing to wait. Besides, now they were running out of time; they had fewer bullets, fewer guns, weapons, food, gas, and now they were trapped and the gates were open at the end of their driveway and more of the monsters could come.