Zombies'n'S**t Ep. 28

Not Exactly the Argument Type

A moment passed and she snarled at me, "Kill you?  That's what you are worried about?!  What about all the people your kind killed?!  You don't think that calls for a little payback?"  She slid to her knees, face in her hands, tears spilling out, "What about my little brother?!" She shrieked.  She collapsed in a heap, weeping.  Huh.

What's her deal?

She lay there in a pathetic heap, trembling.  I grunted.  "Look, Sophia, was it?  Your brother isn't dead.  Well, he is, but not really.  Does that make sense?  No, I guess it doesn't."  She glared up at me.  I sighed heavily and turned around.  "You want to cry and mourn him, but what about the rest of us?  Yeah we 'kill' you guys, but we have been 'dead' for a while now.  Some remember what life was like before."  I turned back.  "What do you want me to say?  Sorry?  Well, I'm not.  We are what we are.  We are following the only thing we have left.  We were once alive, but we don't have a choice."

I walked over to her and crouched in front of her, "You think that is easy?  Please.  I would rather be in your position.  I don't even remember what I was before.  I would kill a hundred people to know who I am and where I come from."  I grabbed her chin between my fore finger and thumb and tilted her head up high.  I sneered down at her, "I would rather not have anything to do with you humans!"  I spat the last word.  "All I want," I continued, "Is to be left alone.  Live what is left of this pitiful existence and be done with it all.  You think terrorizing you people is what I want?  What arrogance.  I got better s**t to do."

With that I stood.  Whoa, I thought, what was that about?  I don't think I even made any sort of coherent point with that little speech.  I didn't realize I was that bitter about anything.  I looked down at her, "Look, sister, it doesn't end after 'dying'.  Things keep rolling."  I added under my breath: "Whether you want them to or not."

I started walking away from her.  "Your brother just became a victim of the same thing we did.  You want to mourn him?  Mourn the rest of us."  I reached the street and picked a random direction and started walking.  I made it almost a block before I heard footsteps running after me.

She caught up with me after a minute and walked beside me in silence.

Reviews

[Wordsmith_Artemis]

Gods, I missed your writing. This scene was beautifully put together. And I could definitely take a few pages from your playbook on writing solid human (so to speak) interactions. I always enjoy reading your work. Keep on keepin' on, you're doing wonderfully :)

[unspokenguilt]

>_< and he let the cat out of the bag lol

[C. Rose]

For a moment I thought perhaps John (who doesn't remember his past) could be Sophia's brother - but then she ought to have recognized him and that would be a stretch that they happened to end up on this adventure together. (lol and now I just read the part where he calls her sister!)

Great speech from John, especially "You want to mourn him? Mourn the rest of us."

[wagonburner]

Yeah, this one took a more serious tone, didn't it? Funny thing is, John doesn't even know what his own point is.

[wagonburner]

Holy S**T! I just realized exactly what you mean by him being her brother! Seriously, I didn't think anything of her brother dying and his loss of memory had any sort of correlation! It could be that due to the decomposition or something else that his face is damaged beyond recognition. I can't believe it took you commenting and me re-reading that to figure that out. That would be so cool if he was her brother!

[C. Rose]

:D :D :D :D :D (it insisted on ten characters so I had to give the extra smiles)

[wagonburner]

Like I said before, I have no idea what is going to happen next; until I actually sit down and write it. In effect, I am getting the story at the same time y'all do. Kinda fun for me. So I gotta ask, what do you think of the story so far? I think it is going a little slow, but starting to get really interesting. This may sound stupid, but I am eager to see what happens next. I kinda hope the whole 'not letting the Normies know the truth' thing is explained soon. I am really enjoying his interactions with them, though. I don't know about you, but Sophia seems like a really weird character. She doesn't seem to fit in too well with the other survivors and seems really interested in the undead.

[unspokenguilt]

Dude if that's the case he was checking out his sister. If life after dead is all you have other than living in fear might as well bite the bullet since you already enthralled by zombies and search for your brother while being johns zombie fling. Heh!