"How do we give it to them?" David asked.
Wayne took out the large vial with the cure in it and a syringe, and he handed them to Sarah.
"We have to inject it with a needle," she told him.
"Isn't it... dangerous?"
"Think you can help me with that?" she asked.
"I think so."
He studied the zombie for a moment, then he closed his eyes and concentrated.
The zombie's head perked up suddenly and stopped, then slowly turned to face the three of them. He trotted over, its eyes blank and staring forward. Sarah didn't worry about anything, because she knew David had it under control. When the zombie reached them, it stopped, and she let David hold it still as she administered the shot.
It wasn't hard to find a vein on its withered body, and soon enough she had extracted some of the cure from the vial and injected it into the zombie's bloodstream.
Sarah returned to her spot on the hill next to her son and Wayne. "All right, all done," she said. "Can you move it back to the middle of the field?"
David kept his eyes closed.
The zombie spun around and trotted out a little distance from them. And David relaxed and the zombie resumed its normal movements. But then after making its way through the grass a little more, it turned its head and noticed the three of them lying there. It immediately started to approach, but then when it got halfway to them, it faltered. The zombie twitched a little and then suddenly as it stared at them, it seemed to have no more interest, instead turning and heading off toward the road at the edge of the park.
Sarah and David looked over and saw the zombie heading for another one far off in the distance.
She squeezed Wayne's hand and he smiled, then she tussled David's hair.
Her gaze returned back to the zombie she'd injected, and she realized that while David had been the first zombie to be turned back into a human, this one traveling across the field would be the progenitor that started the chain reaction, ultimately bringing about the salvation of all mankind.
Sarah watched the zombie go and wondered if he would ever know that fact. Then she imagined having a barbecue with him and his wife in the new world and having her kids play with his kids. She wondered what his name was, and what he was going to do after this.
All these thoughts created a funny feeling in her. They brought her all the way back to when she and David first set off on their adventure. He reminded her of the struggles she'd had back then, trying to find a shred of hope in this dark world. But even in her times of greatest darkness on their journey, her son kept her going because he taught her a very valuable lesson: he taught her about hope and how powerful it was. Hope had gotten her to Noah's Ark, even though it didn't turn out the way she wanted it to. And as strange as it was, through all the equally dark times she faced after that and the hell that she'd been put through, without hope, she wouldn't have been lying on this grassy hill with the two most important people in her life. If she had stayed in those townhouses—stayed trapped within herself—she never would have learned and never would have grown. All of life required faith in something greater than one's self, and sometimes that was faith in God for some people, faith in one's own inner strength for others, or just simply faith in the hope that everything would turn out okay, no matter what. To her, she finally realized that they were all one and the same.
As Sarah lay on the itchy grass under the warm rays of a hot summer's day with David and Wayne by her side and the whole world in front of them, she chose to always have hope. No matter what.
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Other books in the Zombie Apocalypse Series:
The Fall of Man
A Rising Tide
Ashes in the Mouth
In Shadows
Scourge of Evil
The Eden Project
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jeff DeGordick is a horror and post-apocalyptic novelist currently living in southern Ontario, Canada. Writing stories was his first passion as a child, but he's also had forays into testing and designing video games for a living, and a very brief career as a cook.
He began writing in 1994 at age seven, embarking on a long journey of spinning strange and sometimes gruesome tales, penning many short stories and partial novels as a hobby, including a published novel and short story on Amazon under a pen name.
He is the author of the Zombie Apocalypse Series and he's currently working on a brand new horror series.
Table of Contents
Copyright
Foreword
1. A Short Drop and a Sudden Stop
2. Second Chance
3. Scouting
4. Clues
5. Bloodbath
6. Coming Clean
7. Enkindled
8. Close Encounters
9. Landslide
10. Washed Up
11. Dress Up
12. Identity Crisis
13. Slaughterhouse
14. In Her Darkest Hour
15. Hell on Earth
16. A Bump in the Night
17. Cell Mates
18. A Fated Reunion
19. Ultimatum
20. Hope
Afterword
About the Author
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