Snippet #2287134

Jess grabbed the bars of the door that separated her and Michael, huffing, her grip tightening around them as if she were trying to break them through pure strength alone. She heard footsteps coming up behind her and knew that some unwanted company had arrived and judging by Michael's reaction they were ones to keep an eye on.

"Don't move and we won't kill you," a man said behind Jess, she just smiled cockily as if she were planning to do just the opposite out of spite alone. A loud screech, something like a woman being murdered and a crow cawing its warning, could be heard in the distance. Jess could feel the people behind her hesitate, it was human nature after all, and Michael took this chance to give her his torch and instruct her to find Cell block D. Then a smash, louder this time as if it were in the hall with them, came. Michael freaked out and began yelling at her to run before running off himself. Jess's eyes widened, expecting the absolute worst, and when she turned around what she saw was beyond what she could even come up with. What now stood in front of her, beginning its charge, looked like Frankenstein's monster and the Hulk child got turned into a zombie.

"Well, fuck," Jess breathed, not believing her luck. She tried to come up with a way out that would avoid the Hulk monster, but the only way she could see was right behind it. So she took a deep breath, held it in and charged towards the monster as well then at the last second she bent down and leaned back, letting her body slide beneath the monster and like she hoped it ran right above her, letting her pass without a scratch. Well a scratch from the monster, the rubble on the ground having fully chewed her knees up. She took a running position and was off before the monster could even turn around. The two men must have found a place to hide or ran off because they were nowhere in sight as she ran down the halls; a left, a right, two more rights, a left, and finally a dead-end. She could hear the the Hulk monster charging somewhere in the halls and so she clicked the light off, hooking it onto herself, and raised her gun towards the only entrance that she could see. Her breath became silent, her eyes focused in the dark, unblinking, and her whole body stiffened up. Her shivering stopped, her nerves shut down, and she became a statue, just waiting for a monster to show its ugly face before it was blown off. Time passed slowly and Jess could here the Hulk monster making its way past, but she didn't even think about starting to move until she couldn't hear it anymore.

Her gun lowered and the light clicked back on, her breath came out in a big rush as if she had been holding it that entire time. Then with one small step after the other she began to make her way through the maze some more. Like before she was keeping track of the numbers on the cells around her. Judging by the numbers she was in Cell block B division, meaning she had a ways to go before she could make it to where the car supposedly was. After a while of just walking and deducing, a thought accord to her that when the numbers go smaller than she was headed to the Cell block A division and that she would have to find a way to get the numbers to get bigger. Though she remembered that they were getting bigger where she and Michael got separated and that that path was blocked off so she needed to find a way around it. Her sigh was harsh and her eyebrows furrowed, she maybe good at figuring out tactics to win a race, and even then not so much considering how many times she actually won. So she made her way back to where the door had slammed in her face, this wasn't the first time either that a situation like this had happened, though last time it happened it was more metaphorical than an actual door slamming closed in front of her. She remembered when she was in high school and planning for the future, sure school wasn't really her thing and she knew all too well that her dad didn't have enough money, but she liked having the option of going to college even if it was just a fantasy. But when she brought the subject up with her dad, his only answer to her was a "No, you're not going to college." That door closing was hard for her to face because it meant saying goodbye to her friends and hearing whispering jeers about her being too stupid to go to college by the bullies in high school. This situation was almost like that, the door slamming in her face cutting off even a fantasy of going through it and then having to run from it by monsters that mocked her.

As she approached the door, she could feel what the bullies had said back then coming back to her, weighing her heart and optimism down. The light around her grew as she approached and she found the wall that the Hulk monster had beat down. The light from outside was coming, though it didn't lead to the outside it was just windows that hadn't been blocked. She poked her head through and looked both directions checking for zombies or the love child of Frankenstein's monster and the Hulk. There was nothing there except disturbed dust floating through the light back to the ground. There were no cells to label the direction she should go, but she figured going to the right would be best as that was the general direction she wanted to go. She stepped in, clicking the light off the preserve the batteries energy since she didn't need it in this hall, raised her gun in a defensive position and headed down the hallway towards Cell block D.