by Adam Birmingham

Created on: January 28, 2009

Jamie stared at the TV screen.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

Five minutes ago the last news broadcast announced it was going off air and that it would start running again after the infection subsided and the city safe again. The one news reporter left in the studio closed the broadcast by telling his wife and kids to be ready, he was returning home.

Jamie resumed his nervous pacing, he had to leave the safety of his apartment, there were screams and gunshots moving closer every hour, and his apartment wasn't exactly safe proof. If he had a chance of making out of the city he would need some sort of weaponry and all his old apartment could muster was an rusty crowbar.

He sighed and grabbed the crowbar from table and walked over to the door, he took one last deep breathe, preparing for what meet him outside his abode, he exhaled slowly and ripped the chair from the door and opened it, he immediately bolted down the hall and ran down the staircase, as he opened the door to the lobby he was stopped dead in his tracks, the lobby was in complete ruin, the desk had been ravaged by looters, the trashbins had tipped over in chaos littering the the lobby floor, someone had even managed to drive a SUV into the glass doors of the lobby making nearly impossible to leave through the front, it was bad, the whole mess of things was bad.

Jamie nervously turned to the fire escape, upon doing so he realized a message written in black paint on the wall that read,

PETER, IF YOUR LOOKING FOR ME MEET ME AT THE MILITARY CHECKPOINT AT FISHER ST. LOVE, KAREN

It gave Jamie a very eerie feeling, it was quite clear how awry things can go in only two days, he had to shake it off, he gave a little shiver and walked to the alley way exit. He opened the door flooding the corridor with cool night air and Jamie took a step outside, the street was deserted, only a few empty cars remained of the havoc that began two days ago, when the infection hit the streets of the city and spread outward into the surrounding suburbs, or so Jamie had heard.

The TV had been Jamie's only means of news for the two days, on the first day the news had said that there was a barricade set up just south of the city limits, of course, by the end of day one a report was sent out to all the news stations that the barricade had been overrun. At the start of day two the military sent teams into the city to try and stop the infected, by noon, they had failed, it was now roughly 10:30

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