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Infection

A Trip Down Relationship Road

I woke up first and decided to make breakfast. Luckily everything in the fridge was still good. I grabbed bacon and eggs, and milk, strawberries, blueberry syrup and whipped cream, sausage, and flour, I them started to cook. It took a bit to makes the but I made enough for all of us I went to go check up on El. She was still in the bed. I made a loud noise to wake her up, he head shot up and I said, "Morning sweetie, breakfast is ready I'll see you down stairs."

Of course then I saw her eyes were still closed, Holding her pistol aimed at me her eyes fluttered open and she saw who she was pointing her gun at. Dropping it to her side she said "Sorry, old habits, you didn't say the safe phrase, breakfast sounds great." looking down she then said "I'm still in my clothes; you know I hate sleeping in my clothes, my fur is going to be a pain! I'll be down in 10."

"Sorry I forgot, I didn't want it to seem like I took advantage of you," I said and walked to the room where Felicity was in and said, "Hey, wake up and get some food." I then headed down stairs and into the kitchen.

Turning around I saw what El had meant by she can't get out, the door hinge nails had been replaced with crushed shell casings preventing the door from opening and the door handle was tied to the frame to prevent the door from being opened even if it could be forced. Sighing I walked back to the door and reached for my k-bar I cut the cord and said, "Felicity, I need you to get out of the way of the door." I heard the shuffling of feet, and then I kicked the door as hard as I could. The door fell over after flying several feet. Then I headed back down stairs.

Hearing movement on the stairs I looked up and saw El coming down with one the gun on her hip, she was wearing one of my shirts and a pair of her old shorts she had left here years back. Grinning at me she said "Isn't there a song that says I never knew a girl could look hotter than in a halter top until I saw her in one of my shirts."

"Yes there most certainly is, and you look better than you did all of those years ago. Come on lets go get some food," I said offering her my arm.

Taking it she said "Let's enjoy this spread!"

"I may have forgotten you like sleeping in the fur but not your favorite food," I said as we entered the kitchen.

Spying the food she said "All my favorite parts of breakfast!"

"Well dig in," I said, "I ate while I was cooking."

Sitting down El absolutely devoured the food and didn't even notice Felicity sit down across from her, or she ignored it, much more likely considering what happened yesterday. I sat down with a small plate and said to Felicity, "Look, I know are used to a civilian life but you are going to have to adjust we are going to teach you how to shoot guns, and being scared the entire time, and El please, you have to quit being so hard on her she doesn't have our hardened minds, and next time we stop don't lock her in a room."

Glaring at me El replied "Fine, on the condition that she doesn't faint the next time we stop, if she does I'll not only lock her in, I'll tie her to the toilet," stopping for a moment and eating a strawberry she then said "naked, no use ruining clothes."

Glaring right back I said, "You won't because from now on I'm getting her, end of discussion. Now I have a few things I need to get. I have an upgrade for the humvee, and I'm not leaving without my Great War gun collection, I even have the ammo and everything."

Shrugging El said "Fine, don't open the red cooler on the top, it's lunch sometime soon, just has to finish marinating." With that over with El proceeded to eat everything but 4 pancakes.

"I'm going to need some help getting them all, so cone on down to the basement when you are done eating please," I said.

I got up and walked to the basement door, and opened it. I had a bunch of cases and I started loading them all into their specific cases, a panzerschreck, MP40, Thompson sub machine gun, M1 Garand, Kar98k, and a Luger. I packed the rest of them away and started piling up the ammo crates up along the walls. Then I heard El coming down the stairs.

"I don't understand why you like these guns so much." she said as she grabbed one and packed it with ease.

"Oh come on your talking about history and so what if they are older they were still effective at killing before we created weapons like the AK-47 and shit like that. They also conserved on ammo," I said, "Oh, and please put theKar98k and M1 Garand in the humvee with us, also there are two more of those for Felicity, please put those in the humvee as well from now on she's riding with us."

Grumbling about alone time she quickly stripped down the extras and put the ones we were taking in cases. "You know I don't like the AK, why use it as an example, I'll choose a good Dragonov over it any day. I don't have anything against them precisely; it's just that they present an extra hassle when taking care of them, wood shouldn't be used on guns." Finishing up she left to take the stuff out to the humvee.

Carrying a few cases myself to the humvee I said, "Well, maybe we could have her shoot from the camper she could just use a radio if she needs help. So we still have our alone time, what do you say?"

Taking on one of the mocking respect tones I had heard her use when she was around the only 5 star general that wasn't scared of her she said "It's your call capt'n."

Putting down the cases I put them into the storage compartments of the camper, "Ha, ha seriously how do you really feel about it?"

Organizing the guns in the Humvee she said "I don't know, if it were entirely up to me I would have shot the girl already, but you saved her so killing her is out of the question."

"Let me make it perfectly clear I didn't save her I found them, and her twin brother asked me to take care of her," I said, "and I honestly want you two to get along better but I know you seem to be un interested in the prospect but we will have to stop and help others along the way. Sure you and me are trained in fighting but civilians are going to constantly show up, some who are better trained and some who are like her."

Sighing El turned and looked at me before saying "Military, I can deal with, give them an order with enough authority in your voice and they'll follow it, aristocracy I can deal with, put a gun to their head or their valuables etc, and they'll listen to you. Lower class civilians I can deal with, I grew up on the streets. Middle class people need to be reasoned with, and I don't have the patience for someone so cowed they faint when I level my gaze at them. You know me, I don't get angry, I don't sympathize, I kill anything in my way, period. I will do my best to stay away from her so that doesn't happen, because I know you like saving people, it's why I teamed you up with the doc anytime we split up, the two of you covered each other's ass and saw things in a similar light." Pulling her pistol she aimed it just to the left of me and I heard a soft thump from it, followed by a ping from 4 o'clock behind me, and finally a thud at 8 o'clock right beyond the edge of the camper. "I will teach her about her extreme senses, as I trained our team, but in order to do that we'll need to get me a gun that can't kill her, I didn't keep any of the training guns considering the world has ended."

"We'll have to stop at a military base then or a city and get a crap bb-gun. For now though ill teach her to shoot one of the older rifles, I'll also teach her hand to hand as well we don't want you to end up killing her on 'accident'. Besides she isn't as flexible as you," I said winking.

Opening her mouth and closing it she glared at me until I turned away, as soon as I did she grabbed my tail and yanked me around to kiss deeply, breaking the kiss she said "I love you so much, why can't I feel at least some of this for other people, it would have been so much easier to quit and go with you."

"I care about you and they way that your mother never did, and maybe if other people showed that they cared you'd like them a bit more. And don't dwell on the past put it behind you and look forward to a better tomorrow, and at least your hind sight is 20/20," I said running my paw through her hair and fur.

Leaning into it she said "Thanks, maybe you're right, I still have no idea how to hold back though." Hugging me she looked at my face and seeing my expression said "Tiny once said that a hug can cure a hundred wounds to the heart."

"He was a smart man; too bad no one thought he was smart because he certainly was. I love you, I hope you know that and nothing you can do will ever change that, "I said hugging her back, "When we stop tonight how about a back rub to prove that I still care about you more than life itself?"

"Well, there are a few ammo crates left to get and I need to show you an upgrade for the humvee," I said.

I helped pick up the rest of the ammo crates. After all of that I took El by the paw and led her into the prototype lab, but before that I put a blindfold over her eyes and helped her find her way into the lab. When we were in I said "Wait here for one second." I went and pulled off of the tarps off of the front bumper of the humvee and four hubcaps with spikes sticking out of the sides and said, "Ok take the blindfold off now."

Taking off the blindfold El looked over the stuff and said "When can we put it on?"

"I was hoping we could get them on ASAP, should be easy for one to manage to put these (the hubcaps) on they just pop right on. Getting them off takes considerably more effort. This (the front bumper) will require two people one to hold it one to attach it at the bottom of the humvee, so let's get started," I said adding, "Please."

Grabbing the bumper and, with actually noticeable effort, putting it on the cart next to it she said "Why the hell did you make this thing over here and not in the garage."

"Well I needed to make sure no one would steal this, and in the next room is where all of the testing happened, you wouldn't believe the questions that arose when I was buying whole pig carcasses," I said chuckling as I loaded the hubcaps on the cart as well and pushed the cart out into the garage.

The process took close to forty five minute s the longest part as I figured it would was installing the front bumper. The hubcaps barely took a minute, and then we stepped back and looked at it I put my arm around her shoulder and kissed her on the cheek. I had imaged what it would look like in blue prints but I never expected them to look this good. The motorcycles and everything else we needed was loaded on the truck, humvee and camper so I decided it time to teach Felicity how to shoot before we headed off.

I found her sulking around the kitchen. I said, "Alright we are about ready to head off but first you need to learn how to shoot." I grabbed a can and took her out into the back yard I put a can up on a fence post about seventeen yards away. I instructed her how to remove the safeties, how to aim, how to get empty the barrel in the Kar98k and finally how to eject a clip, load a fresh one, and then refill the empty clips.

"Not bad, you'll get better as time passes. So how are you holding up," I asked.

"Oh you know I'm sad we had to leave my brother. I understand that he was dead anyway but it still hurts," she said somewhat depressed.

"Yeah I get that don't worry, what you need to do know is remember him and think of all the good times toy had with him. I never had family but I know how important it is," I said trying to cheer her up. At that time El showed up.

From above us I heard "You had a family, they weren't blood, but they were family." Looking up I saw her hanging from the lone tree in my yard, makes sense given her nature and the fact that we were in its shade, removing her pneumatic pistol from its holster and pegging the can twice, once from where it was on the ground and again when it flew into the air. "You don't need blood to be family, just trust."

"That's true, but she just happened to lose the rest of her family so she isn't doing so well. We all are going to have to be a family now because we need to rely on each other right," I asked.

Felicity said, "Yes, I have one question though, how exactly did two meet each other?"

"Would you like to explain this one," I asked.

Laughing El dropped down easily and said "Wasn't the first time we met when Ellisa blew up your barracks and your group of recruits had to bunk elsewhere. After that, when we formally met was probably when I got promoted to special forces commander and was making my team, he scored mid top on every category except vehicle maintenance, he was top in the entire group for that."

"Yeah I was kinda shocked about that but hey what are you going to do," I said, "I think what is more important is our first kiss. I was near death, I was fading out and I felt her lips lightly brush against mine in the most passionate kiss I had ever experienced. I remember waking up in a hospital the next day and her face was looking right at mine. I was too embarrassed to talk though, I just had half of my tail taken off."

"That was probably the most minor of the injuries he had at the time and yet it's still the one he's sensitive about, I don't understand why canines like their tails so much, I can hang from mine, but yours just wags about," El said.

"Well for us it symbolizes a canine's pride. There was a real unruly canine in our platoon in boot, so master drill sergeant shaved his tail, that guy never once made a remark unless he was talked to directly," I said becoming slightly embarrassed, "Still hurts a little when I think about it."

Looking at Felicity El held up her pistol and adjusted a few knobs on it. Flipping it over she held it out to Felicity and said "When I get to the fence try to shoot me."

"Um, you want me to shoot you, haven't you been killing zombies with this?" Putting my hand on her shoulder I told Felicity "You'll be lucky if you're even close to hitting her." Watching Felicity take the gun I saw she was far less sure this time, but if she couldn't even take aim at El, who scared her so bad she fainted, how she could shoot a zombie, cruel idea, but El wasn't doing it for cruelty, but for how effective it was at training. When Felicity fired her first shot she was very far off target.

"Is that all that you've learned from Jack, he's a horrible teacher in that case."

Laughing to myself I watched Felicity square her shoulders and aim. When the second one went right by El's left shoulder I saw just how much El had trained herself in the past 5 years, her tail caught and threw back the shot with the rest of El's body barely moving.

"Remember, these are heavier and slower moving than bullets fired from a combustion gun, a typical gun that we'll give you most of the time. You also need to remember that not everyone will treat you kindly even if this is the end of the world."

Felicity's next bullet seemed to be right on target for a headshot but El's head was already gone by the time she had finished squeezing the trigger, she was sitting on the post as easily as if she had been there the entire time, the bullet in her hand dancing between her fingers before it flew back to leave a welt on Felicity's upper left thigh. Wincing she pulled another shot on accident and El grabbed this one while launching herself off the post and disarming Felicity.

"I can't catch bullets normally, but this was just an exercise in showing you what the hell I'm going to put you through is for, I can dodge bullets from a lone source by watching a person's muscles, Jack used to be able to, I'm not sure how much he's dulled in 5 years on that respect, I can say with certainty that his hip muscles are just as good as ever." Holstering her pistol and grabbing the two rounds she had flung back El walked off whistling reveille.

"Come on let's get out of here," I said as I was heading to the humvee.

El and I climbed into the front of the caravan while Felicity went into the camper. I said, "I know you, I think your warming up to her aren't you?" Starting the engine she then hit the gas and didn't say anything as we left town, simply pulling shots on Zombies that most people would miss. "Are you seriously going to stay quiet about this, its noting to be embarrassed about," I sad.

"I'm confused." she said before turning just a bit to hit a zombie.

"About what," I asked realizing how serious this was.

"About us, about you and me. I understand finally what drove you for so long, and it hurts so much." Stopping the Humvee I saw her shoulders lose some of their strength, leaning on the wheel she started crying.

Instead of felling sympathy I found myself angry and said, "You understand something like compassion, or utter determination, that's highly unlikely. Someone like you can't feel those let alone understand."

Looking at me she said "Wha... what do... what do you mean, I've been... been with you, with Tiny, with the Doc... seeing you hurt so badly, seeing the Doc lose it, there are horrible things about emotions but they're so wonderful. You can't understand the differences in perspective, the world is so beautiful." crying even harder she fell over leaning against the window.

This made me even angrier and I said, "Doc, had true emotions, Tiny had true emotions, Boom (Ellisa) had true emotions, I have true emotions, but you were born with a silver spoon up your ass, and you were upset that your mom forced you to do pageants, I would of killed for a life like yours, but instead you decided to turn into a cold hearted bitch who cares for nothing!"

"I tried to find you, but you had already gotten rid of your name, for you I was willing to give it all up, I just couldn't make that decision immediately."

"I shouldn't even dignify this with a response but, you knew I was going to do it for a month, and your mad at me about me changing my name! I wanted to stay away from you! You ruined my whole god damned life. If I didn't feel the need to wait to see if our relationship actually went somewhere I could have been married and had kids. Another thing I still don't know you last name because apparently your last name is more secret than our fucking missions," I yelled, seeing her like this made me eerily glad.

I didn't allow her a chance to respond this time I got out of the humvee and slammed the door yelling, "Fuck you, you stupid whore!" I went to where the motor cycles were and got mine. I pulled on my helmet and punched in the code and sped off. I can't believe that cunt saying that she understands me. There is no way on God's green earth that she remotely understands. How could she even begin to say it was a last minute thing, I made my decision to leave in less than an hour a month was enough. That little cum guzzling bitch never loved me, why the hell did I let her back in my life?

I drove until it was dark outside luckily I just came into a town I slowed down then I saw a figure walking across the road to a bar. I got off of the bike and followed it in the figure along with another one was at the bar in the front. The figure leaning on the bar was drinking double shots of whiskey. They were talking about some girl that he loved. Then what appeared to be almost instantaneously he was thrown out. I followed after him quite curious about what was happening. Then I saw him stumbling inside a hotel across the street.

I followed him to the elevator and pressed the button that he did. I went up to the floor and almost as soon as the doors opened and I entered the hall he was heading into a room. I followed him, with the feeling he was familiar in some way. When I entered he was drinking a bottle from the mini bar, when he turned I recognized his face, it was mine. I drank all of the bottles in the mini bar and then turned on the radio. The song Wanted Dead or Alive was playing then I started pacing around screaming. Several other unimportant events happened apparently the song was on a loop then he went over to the dresser where a full bottle of tequila was and just ripped the lid off. He started to down the whole thing then I went into the bathroom and smashed the bottle on the floor and grabbed a razor blade, then attacked his wrist.

He passed out and then the door opened. Coming in El said in what seemed a very quiet voice despite looking like she was shouting "Damnit you lovable bastard, don't you dare fucking..." her voice trailed off with her mouth still moving and the scene faded.

After the image fades I heard a sudden noise and a crash. "What is going on down there!" I yelled at no one. Rushing down the stairs since it was faster than using the elevator I came to the lobby and stopped 4 feet from the bumper of the Humvee. "You are not going to fucking throw my feelings to the wind again Damnit! You're right I don't understand feelings wholly, but you will give this a chance, I didn't let you kill yourself last time because I felt responsible, but this time you bloody will take responsibility for finally showing me how to feel something!"

Calmly I got into the rear of the humvee and calmly said, "El, why were you here five years ago at the same time I was?"

"I was going to tell you that I was ready to quit for you, I found you in that state though, I knew I was responsible, so I took you to the hospital anonymously. I threw myself into the missions after that, 4 years of taking the most dangerous missions they could come up with, 3 of those years I worked solo. When they released me for endangering those I worked with I tried to find you again but you were gone. I kept track of our old bosses, one of them is responsible for this, he's also dead, I shot him as soon as I saw him bitten. Listen, I know that all of this is stupid as hell, if you had any reason you would have shot me as soon as you saw me again." quickly moving her right hand she threw a handgun into my lap. "It's loaded, and I won't take it personally and I won't react against it."

Taking the clip out and discharging the round in the chamber I moved up into the front and turned her head to look at me and said, "I'm done killing innocents, and about that night it was because of you but for a different reason. I was trying to drown out my life without you not forget about you. I know that letter I wrote said otherwise but I said a lot of shit I've ended up regretting. You could have waited and asked me yourself. Now I think you need to know my real name Marcus Lonein. I want to believe you can change but I need to see it first," I leaned in and kissed her lightly on the lips.