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They continued to walk by themselves until Jess her name being called, "Hey! Jess!", she turned around to Michael staring at an area in the bushes, she saw them rustle, but nothing else, "Can you see them?"

Neither she nor Toby answered.

"They were there.. two seconds ago!" he turned his head towards Jess, "Did you see them? There were people, standing in the trees just down there... But..."

Jess wasn't really sure how to react, she saw a bush rustle and even though part of her wanted to just discard it and continue on another part in her head, the part that had kept her alive for five months, said to trust Michael and that there had been people standing there. "Well should we fight or what then?" Jess asked, not stating out right that she believed him, but knew he would have a plan of action either way.

"We need to keep moving... Who knows what kind of crazy is sitting out here in the forest..." Michael had rushed passed Jess as she stood and looked around. Something had changed, she could feel, but she wasn't entirely sure what it had been. It was silent, though she couldn't really know this for sure because she hadn't exactly paid attention to the noise around her when they were walking a few minutes ago. She kept her eyes on the trees getting her shotgun ready to fire, just in case and began to follow Michael. As they continued to walk Jess could hear Michael mumbling to himself, mostly because now she was very aware of the fact that the forest was indeed silent. She began to fidget a little with her gun, her fingers moving worriedly. Then they came to a large gates and a driveway.

"Looks like a private estate out here..." Michael said out loud as if still in his own world and forgetting she or Toby were there with him. They finally came to a building and a small open area in the forest. The building was a big grey cement block, cold and unfeeling. 'A prison', Jess thought and sure enough she heard Toby mumble, "Black Falls State Prison", as they walked by the sign.

As they neared the cement building it seemed Michael's earpiece had something to tell him because he suddenly stopped and Jess could hear a buzzing noise coming from his general direction. "What the hell is going on?" He asked 'HQ', but all was silent. "You might just be right..." Michael mumbled as he looked back to Jess. Jess bowed her head and smirked silently. She knew she was right especially after this 'HQ' person had bombed a town of survivors with no explanation to the person working for them. Though she was trying to hide the smirk because Michael still trusted them and even though they were in a dead society that doesn't mean that respect for others suddenly dies. "Whatever is going on... We have a vehicle in cell block D... come on."

Michael stepped inside, Jess held her shotgun at the ready and followed him in. Inside gave her the creeps she would admit; it was complete chaos inside. There were no lights, all the light bulbs looked like they had been shattered and all along the wall were scratch marks, some just small indents, but others outlined with blood. The only light was coming from the open door and that was slowly fading away from there view, meaning they would have to rely on their hearing and how best their eyes could adjust. Subconsciously, Jess moved forward a couple steps trying to get closer to Michael, though in her head she figured it was just because she tripped on something. In her head she knew this was the part in a horror movie that people would scream out "Don't go in there!", and she wasn't really sure if she should. Though it did give her an adrenalin rush, this rush was different and one she wasn't too fond of. It was less of a thrill and more of a chill. She hoped that they would find the supposed car, if there was one because she highly doubted that there was one, before zombies started attacking them in this little hallway.

"Do you really think this is safe?" Jess asked, to no one in particular, "I mean, can't we just walk the rest of the way, exercise won't kill us..." she looked turned around and walked backwards to see behind them. She kept looking around the silence stronger in here than it was out there and their feet echoing around. Then she heard something rasping, like wind coming and going through small holes. She looked into a room and noticed limbs, at first they didn't move, but then slowly the shifted slightly.

"...but they might," she whispered. Toby ran into Jess, making her stumble and knock some rubble on the ground alerting the zombies who were now standing up. "I think we should run," she said, shoving Toby towards Michael and raising her gun, she stood her ground backing away from the, "Go run! RUN!" she yelled, the zombies were now standing up and walking and running towards them, "I'll hold them off as long as I can, you two run for that car!" she shot a couple fires at the faster zombies, trying to take down as many as she possibly could. She didn't look back to see if they had actually ran, she just stood her ground taking the occasional step backwards and continued to fire. Then there was another problem, she was running low on bullets, her pockets were feeling lighter and lighter even though more zombies piled out of the room.