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My dreams of an easy work out went out the window after the sixth time he tossed me to the ground. Straddling me he let out a string of frustrated noises and scrambled up. "Come on Vicki. This shit is child's play," he berated me pacing across the clearing. "Yeah, for you! A man that has a good 50 pounds on me. If not more!" I shouted back irritated. "Right now, you'd be lucky if you could fight Benjamin!" he retorted. "Then why don't we just stop! It's obvious that you're not going to be able to teach me anything! Why are we still doing this?" "Because, if we are going to end this apocalypse, we are going to need you to survive! We all need to survive! What are you going to do if one of these Eaters gets too close to shoot at? What happens if you don't have a knife? What then, Victoria? Let's not even think about what would happen if you met a man who wants to rape you! Don't you remember Dilly?" Dilly had been the asshole who had cornered Craig and me in the maternity ward
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"Damn it," I cursed slamming my fist on the seat. "Mommy! You said a bad word!" Johnny exclaimed. "I know, honey. I'm sorry," I replied halfhearted. He gave me a justified nod.We were sitting at the barbed wire section of a well-built roadblock. Cars were lined up from one side of the road the next. Between the cars and the barbed wire was torn up furniture, tables, postal boxes and whatever else they could find to buffer the spare room. It was set just perfectly so no vehicles or big groups could come through. If they wanted in that badly they had to walk in single file. On each side was nothing but marsh lands. Water and grass land went on for miles in each direction and the road had been laid right down the middle. There was no way we were going to be able to drive around.The silence in the truck was almost deafening as we each looked around. I knew we all felt the same wave of disappointment as we all realized that we were thoroughly trapped. "Well," Tom started as he turned
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"Are you sure this is gonna work?" Gerard asked distracting me.I kept an eye on Tom until he calmed down enough that his face returned to red. "I'm not sure of anything right now. But it's all I got."Benny spit out a curse then went back to keeping watch again. I knew he wasn't happy with my idea, but I didn't have a moment to give him reassurance. My gut was telling me that these people were not trying to kill us otherwise, since we hadn't exactly been hiding when we had weeded our way through the barrier, one of us would have been dead. I started to crawl away towards the only opening into the main street. Marcus grabbed me again before I could stand up. "Mom, be careful please." My heart melted and I stopped long enough to draw him into a hug."I will be, sweetheart. I promise I'll be back," I reassured him. "We've already lost Dad and I don't wanna lose you too," he whispered against me."Son, you're not going to. I swear to you, we are going to get Daddy back," I told him em
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"You won't make it, I know that for a fact," the woman stated with complete certainty. She walked over to me, and her bright green eyes sized me up. My heart sank to my toes. Exactly how far were we from the boarder? What were we going to do if we couldn't get further?"But, if you stay here with us tonight, we'll move some of these cars out of the way in the morning and we'll let you get your truck through," she offered out of the blue.It should have been a god send; a real blessing that she had offer us shelter like that. But, instead of feeling lucky, I was suspicious. First, they didn't even want us to come through the barricade and now she insisted we spend the night? "Are you kidding me?" I snapped. "What?" she replied in defense. "You shot… my companion. You had us at gun point. Now you want us to stay with you out of the blue? All I asked for was away around the roadblock so we could leave. Why?" I asked not even bothering to keep the suspicion out of my voice. "Beca
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I was in awe of the exuberance that a tiny young girl who would only hit 90lbs if she were soaking wet. Benjamin, on the other hand, stepped up to her with his chest puffed out trying to appear much broader than he was."I'm Ben," he said, his voice dropping an octave out of nowhere. My jaw dropped as I pinned him with a stare. He stubbornly ignored the question in my eyes, and I had to bite back the amused chuckle that was bubbling up in my chest. "It's so great to meet you, Ben," Erin chittered. He gave her what I guess was supposed to be a dashing, flirtatious smile and took her hand. I pushed him aside when I noticed him starting to bend to give her offered hand a kiss. "I'm Vicki," I said with a large smile. "Hi!" Erin said with a jaunty little wave. Her gaze jerked down beside me, and I felt a little hand grasp the back of my shirt. I put my arm around the boys and pulled them, forcibly, forward. "These are my sons, Marcus and Johnathan," I introduced them. "Boys this i
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The silence was back. An angry, disappointed, and heartbroken silence. One that I experience with Benjamin after I told him that his parents were never coming back. I hated this. I didn't want the weight of the world on my shoulders, and I didn't understand why fate would give it to me. I wasn't infallible, I wasn't unbreakable. I was just Vicki Anderson, working mom and wife. I was... or had been anyway... a normal person until all this bullshit went down. At times I found myself wondering if I would ever actually go back to the woman I had been before. My kids, whose weary eyes darted around the abandoned town searching for the danger that they knew was lurking behind every door; were a walking testament to lost innocence and it was something I could never repair.The weight on my shoulders never felt heavier. "Is there some where we can sit down and eat?" I finally asked changing the subject. "My boys haven't had a meal since breakfast, and I know they must be hungry." Like som
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Johnny stopped eating and looked from her to the food a few times as if trying to figure out what to say. I put my hand on his arm to draw his attention to me. "Answer her, sweetie," I prompted him.I felt slightly guilty for forcing him to interact with her since he so badly didn't want to. The look he gave me did not help that feeling. He nodded really quickly then shoved the rest of the cake in his mouth as if he were afraid someone was going to take it away from him. I gave him a smile to let him know that his answer was perfect even if it wasn't a verbal one."Cynthia, did you grow up here in town?" Craig asked reaching for a plastic covered cupcake. I barely managed to stop myself from jumping at the sound of his voice having forgotten he was there. She pursed her lips together and her green eyes hardened once again. Her stubborn reluctance to answer a simple question was unbelievable. She tried to stare him down and intimidate him. Still, Craig's attention centered on the cup
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Benjamin pumped his fist behind Erin's back and gave me a grateful look. Anger darkened Craig's eyes and told me I was in serious trouble for accepting Erin's offer. The boys came running up excitedly to Benjamin talking at once telling them about all the junk food they had eaten. With the patience only an older sibling would have, he listened to their animated prattle and still manage to make the right noises or comments. Finally, when he mentioned going to the store the boys begged to go with him. They all looked at me with big pleading eyes. Even Erin was addled enough to seem to want to spend some time with my sugar crazed children. "Are you sure about this?" I asked them both. "You know I love hanging out with the kids," Benny insisted. "I'd love to play with them," Erin reassured me. "I haven't seen anyone else in days.""Please, Mom. Please, please, please," Marcus and Johnny begged in tandem. "Alright, alright. Benny, take the boys up and show them where they'll sleep. Boy
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The sunlight shined through the gossamer curtains and hit my face. I awoke gently, blinking several times as my eyes tried to adjust to the light. As the window became clearer and clearer, I couldn't place it. I sat up trying to remember where I was. "Vicki?" said a deep voice from behind me. I turned and behind me were the sleep hazed eyes of my husband. Everything hit me at once and I began to shake. He wrapped me in his arms as he had done every morning since our return. We got back to that tiny shore side town to find Craig, Erin and Marcus had been waiting for us at the edge of the pier. They had greeted us like heroes, and I hadn't been able to stop holding Marcus or checking him over to make sure he was okay. Other than the rope burns he seemed physically okay. There was a haunting look in his eyes, but he refused to talk about what had happened while he had been an Eater. I had been forced to let it go after a while, but not before I made him promise to talk to me when
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I laid the ruby on the ground and brought the solid rock down on it as hard as I could. The ruby shattered instantly and the shockwave from the power being released hurled me back to the ground again. A bolt of light shot to the sky and little lights sped out of it so fast that it looked like one light if you weren't as close to it as I was. Souls. I thought. Souls were being freed. They streamed at light speed towards the sky and as soon as they touched the storm they shot off in all directions. So many souls that the sky began to light up like it was noon instead of almost midnight. The roar of the souls leaving their prison was so loud you could hear it for miles. A loud scream from the circle snapped me out of the hypnotic state that the light show had put me in. She was beating against the field still, but this time it wasn't it anger it was in fear. "Let me out! Let me out! She's gonna kill me! Help! Help!" she screamed frantically. I jumped up to go help her, but Jenevive
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Avamarie gradually stood up and wiped the blood off her mouth as she chuckled weakly. "You're right, Mother. You did teach me to duel, and I never did defeat you," she said softly. I watched her closely my gut telling me she was up to something. My gaze flew between the two women trying to figure out what was happening. Avamarie couldn't be giving up that easily. Jenevive was indeed enormously powerful, but it was becoming obvious that Avamarie was truly quite powerful in her own right. Movement behind Jenevive caught my eye. A large boulder that had come out of the ground began to quiver then slowly float up. I glanced over at Avamarie trying to see how she was doing it. One finger was lifting, but the hand was pressed so tightly to her side that from where Jenevive stood she wouldn't be able to see. "Look out!" I screamed. Jenevive spun around just in time to be plowed over by this boulder. She flew across the clearing until she landed brutally on the ground, bouncing once
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"You had everything inside you to make it here. And look you did," she finished with glee.Her reasoning's were horrifyingly simple, terrifyingly easy. She used me plain and true, and I had made it so easy for her to manipulate me."If you hadn't meant for me to save the world, then why did you give me this stone that would save me and keep me safe?" I asked angrily throwing the shards from the stone at her feet.She bent over slowly and picked them up petting them tenderly as if they were the sweetest flower, she had ever seen. She looked down at them with a strange curiosity that held a tinge of regret in her eyes."I gave it to you so that you could bring it back here. I knew Mother would never give me this stone and it was the last piece I needed to complete the spell. A pure soul for sacrifice," she said softly. Then fury boiled up as she turned it on me. "But you! You, selfish bitch! You couldn't help yourself. You had to use it on every bleeding soul that you came across, didn'
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In anger and disbelief, I confronted her. "NO! You're lying! It is you! You killed your own daughter! You sacrificed her to seal your pact with the Daemon!" I yelled at her. She dropped her head and I nodded at the acknowledgement of her guilt. "You're right. I killed my own daughter," she admitted despondently. I straighten my shoulders feeling justified in my anger. She was trying to mess with me to keep me from my goals. Well, she would have to try harder than that. By the end of the night, I was going to have my children back. "But not for the reason you think," she interrupted my thoughts. "And you have no reason to trust me, but I sacrificed her in hopes that I could save her before she finalized the pact with the Daemon. What I didn't know was that in doing so I, myself finished it. Because I took the last piece of good that was in her and sealed it in a stone known as the Black Star Sapphire." She pulled a necklace from under her dress and showed me a stone that was
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The dusk was approaching harsh and rapidly when I dropped in front of a tree wasted. Panting, thirsty and starving. I was lost and had long ago ran out of will power to keep going. My body itself was refusing to keep walking. I had been coaching the exhausted lump of skin for the last few hours just trying to keep going and now my feet finally gave out on me leaving me sitting against the tree. The little nudge inside of me had grown into a constant tightness of the gut. I knew I was getting close and didn't want to give up. Looking around I tried to spot something anything that looked familiar to me. I pulled up the image that Avamarie had given me in my dream trying to find a clue. The cabin was desolate and run down. The area looked like a million other areas that were in the forest. The only thing that stood out was a few odd wooden wind chimes.Wait… wind chimes. Immediately I closed my eyes and tried to slow my breath so that my pounding heart didn't override every other soun
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We waited until we were far away from the shore before beginning to bombard Gerard with questions. "How did you find us?" Was mine. "Why did you come back?" Benny asked viciously. Gerard raised an eyebrow at him. "You're welcome," he replied sarcastically. "Something told me that you guys needed me. So, I found the nearest non-crushed rig and following the carnage. You guys left a lot of banged up rigs behind." He gave a short chuckle as if he could see the image of the wreckage in his head. "Where is everyone else?" he asked changing the subject abruptly. Benjamin and I looked at each other hoping the other would tell the story not wanting to verbally rehash it. I couldn't think of Marcus laying tied to that bed thrashing around reaching for someone to try an ease the hunger inside of him. Just the thought of not wanting to think of it brought the image to mind and my breath left my body in a whoosh as if I had been struck in the gut. "I left him," I whispered heartbrokenl
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The Eaters let out a scream rocking the walls then went straight for Craig and me. I tucked my head down around Marcus' shoulder waiting for the hands to grab me. Two loud thuds then nothing. My ears were ringing making it hard to hear anything more than the pounding of my heart over them. An eerie silence reached me when my ears finally opened again. Glancing over my shoulder into the room I found Benny standing there staring at us with a smoking gun in his hand. Erin stood next to him gripping his arm tightly and horror darkened both of their gazes. Marcus was making clicking noises in my ear and then I heard a response in my other ear. Panic consumed me as I struggled to get free realizing that Craig had been turned as well. Something slammed into the front door before any of us could make a move to free me. It slammed over and over again until we could all hear the wood on the door splintering. "Get him off her," Benjamin order Erin before booking it out of the room. Erin
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"Let me take Marcus," Craig offered. I gave him a grateful look and traded him. Johnny jumped on me wrapping his little arms around my neck with a strangled grip and I felt the wet rain of his tears. My own silent answer fell from my face as I walked behind Craig watching him carry my screeching Soul Eater son in his arms. I felt like a failure, worse than I had when I thought I had lost the world to this epidemic. I had failed to keep my son's safe and now one had been turned. Benjamin opened the door as he saw us approaching. "Oh shit," he whispered. Erin popped out the door with a smile of greeting until she saw Marcus. "Oh, God! No!" she cried racing towards us. "Stop!" Benjamin demanded grabbing her to keep her away from us. She spun in his arms and hid her face against his chest sobbing. Craig pushed passed them and took Marcus to a little room in the back of the house. "What happened?" Benny demanded. I had to swallow several times before I could speak and even
