The Journal Of The Life Of Tom Marks

Confronting Demons

After making it back home I quickly sat down to tell Libby what I just witnessed. “It sounds like some have mutated with some kind of hyper senses it would seem, I would like some tissue samples to look at if you ever get a chance to get any”. I took a deep breath and looked at her like she was crazy. “Well you never know if this might be curable” she said. She went to make a call since the land lines still worked. “Allen, I wanted to make sure you were ok”. I herd while I had my head down on the table like a little kid trying to sleep in class. “That’s great you are more then welcome to come hear, you know we live out in the country so there aren’t a lot of people around”. Allen was a scientist who was working with one of the major colleges to make a cure for the virus before it mutated to what it is now. “No I don’t have any samples at the moment, but my husband agreed to get some if he gets a chance don’t try and do anything stupid just bring some equipment with you and come here”. At this point I’m near crying in my arms now I never agreed to that. After about a hour a RV pulled up with a huge Atoms sticker on the hood of it. “Is that Allen hun”? I asked. Libby nodded an took the four wheeler to go meet him. He pulled up and ask if he could tap into the solar panels, because his mobile lab draws a decent bit of power. I helped him get set up and told Brandon to go check on his friend who was setting up a make shift grave for his family so he could morn them properly. Aaron was sitting there fiddling with a stick while Tripp and Micah helped engrave some stones with a dremel for him. The three stones sat on the ground with him crying silently. Brandon cried a bit to for they were like his second family. Allen received a call on a satellite phone, he look at me very excitedly. “Can I have someone drop off so material”? I didn’t know how to respond I just gave him a blank face. “Are they alive”? Already knowing what he was asking, I just had to ask for the safety of everyone there. “No she said it looked like they have been dead for a while”. I looked at him in contemplation of what he said. “Who is she”? I had to ask, because anyone out there had to be some sort of psycho or anouther. The last thing I wanted was some crazed maniac see our supply’s and try and steal them. Allen smiles at me and said,” you know her, you just won’t like her”. After he said that I immediately tried to shout “o hell no”, but Libby stopped me and looked at me with a disdained smile. I walked off shouting “why the hell do I have to deal with these people in the apocalypse, it’s shitty enough I have to deal with Linda but now I have to deal with satan herself”. The person I was referring to name was Andrea. Andrea was Libby’s mother, she was young when she had Libby so she almost past off as her sister weirdly enough. When I said the women was satan herself that was no lie. When I first met the lady she was a city cop arresting me for vandalism at the age of 15. She then proceeded to try and get me killed by throwing me into a dangerous area with a choppy looking wire on to buy drugs so she can ‘help clean the streets’, as she worded it. Ever since then I’ve held utter hate for the women. It didn’t matter how nice I was to her for Libby’s sake either she hated me on a equal platform. It didn’t matter how old the lady was tho she was the definition of a mean b***h. She stood at 5’ 6” but I’ve seen her throw down with guys bigger then me. I walked back in the shop to work on my new project I named the twin R&R drones. I designed them to make rescues easier, ever since encountering Soul Looker I knew some bad things were inevitable in the future . One was a air drone I made a couple mini mini guns with about 100 rounds each for air cover and to balance it out I fitted it with a full 360 degree bluetooth camera with a soldered on range increaser. The furthest range I could get it was 1000 ft away. I figured that would work fine for now until I got some better equipment. The second one was a off road go cart. I mounted a motorcycle engine on it with a radio controller transmitter on it that could reach a range of 3/4th of a mile. I welded on some thin sheet metal I had left over on it for protection, an also mounted an 360 degree Bluetooth camera on it as well. I managed to get the range of the camera close to the controller range there was just some spotty feed the last few feet. As I was feeling proud of my little duo I made I herd this screeching demon shrill coming from outside.”Libby my baby I’m glad your ok, I was worried with that no good, dead beat, crazy husband of yours”. Suddenly I herd a loud slapping noise, so I poked my head out. Libby was red faced almost to the point were a little vain on her forehead was showing. She growled at her mom,” he has risked a lot in a short amount of time so far, if you were so fu**ing worried why didn’t you bother to show up and try to protect me huh? O that’s right you were probably trying to find a excuse to come out her for the safety right? To his house right? As you can see mother I’m plenty safe. How many people have you managed to help threw out this, huh? I’m betting no one but yourself were as Tom has even risked his life to try and save some kids”. She was breathing raspy at this point still holding her hand in the air. “Call my husband crazy or no good one more time and you can have fun out there”! She screamed that last part at her. I celebrated a little bit behind the wall that was the first time I’ve seen Libby snap like that. I quickly wiped the smirk off my face and walked out with a forced confused look on my face. Andrea didn’t say anything to me as she pushed her way past me into the shop, she just yelled at Allen and said they were in the bed of her truck. I walked over to take a look and what I saw froze me for a minute.