Free Zombielandia by Lee Wade Page A

Somerset! We rushed without thinking from where we were hiding and called out Lia’s name. I think we must have took her by surprise, because she spun around, gun pointed directly at us! But as soon as she had recognised us she had lowered it. We ran to her and we hugged. Paul and David emerged from the boats and joined us on the bank. Thank fuck for that, you’re a sight for sore eyes and just at the bloody nick of time too. David had said.
    I jumped aboard the Hue, Ken was gone, blasted in the head with a high powered rifle, he had had no chance, at least he wouldn’t turn I remember thinking; he had been spared that indignity at least.
    I jumped back off and went back to the rest of the guys on the bank. He’s gone, I said, poor old bugger, we’re going to have to go back and tell Margret. I don’t know why I showed so little emotion. Maybe we just accepted this was the way of the world now. I guessed it would hit me later when I had time to think about it properly.
    Chapter Thirty Eight
    I recognised the other sash from the Somerset; it was warrant officer Rigby, not a sash at all, but a Royal Navy officer. Its okay Lia said, she’s with me.
    Warrant officer Rigby introduced herself as Sandra. Or Sandie if you like, she smiled. I remembered how kind she had been to us aboard the Somerset and shook her hand and thanked her. Where’s Gav? I asked Lia.
    He turned, I shot him, was all she said. She didn’t go into any detail and I hadn’t pressed her for it. I could tell she didn’t want to talk about it, at least not there and then anyway.
    Becky and I went and checked on the dead guys that were still on the road and gathered all weapons and ammo we could find on them and in their vehicles. Becky smashed them all through the skull with her axe. Just in case she said and smirked at me.
    The vehicles were pretty shot up, so of no use to us. We stripped them of anything that was of use to us and the fuel of course.
    When we had finished, I asked Lia about my brother and his family. She said she would explain later, but he was not with them. There was just Michael and Holly in the vehicle that they’d been driving.
    We thought about draining the pumps of the fuel in them too after we’d shut them down, but thought better of it. My brother or other survivors could be following us or using the same route, so we left it. We didn’t know then if we would need to use it again ourselves too if things didn’t work out on our journey ahead of us.
    We could see movement in the distance so decided to head back to the cottages. David and Paul had already taken the boats under the road and back up the other side whilst we’d been scavenging for supplies.
    Chapter Thirty Nine
    Back at the cottages we tied up the boats and Lia parked up their vehicle.
    David broke the news to Margaret privately whilst I told the rest of the guys. She wanted to see him, so David had taken her out to the Hue where we had left him covered up for now. David had done his best to comfort her.
    We had discussed staying at the cottages for the night, but decided it was too risky. We didn’t know if the ten people back on the road that we had just killed were part of a larger group that may have come looking for them and then us. So we thought the best plan of action would be to get a few miles between ourselves and the lock at Dalmuir, find somewhere safe to moor up for the night and contend with what Clydebank had in store for us the following morning.
    Lia, Sandie and her kids went ahead in their four by four Jeep. We had managed to scavenge walkie talkies from the dead guys back on the road, so we had a means of contact between everyone.
    The rest of us had boarded the boats, as before, except John and Amy had now moved onto the Gamebird so John could take Ken’s place as main driver. We had buried Ken in the garden of one of the cottages before we’d left. Margaret hadn’t wanted to leave him and had wanted to stay at the cottages as she