With: @jesseshaws Where: Grand Teton Mall When: 30th June 2044
He still can't do this. He didn't realise it was real, at first. He thought he'd fallen asleep somewhere, until the screaming was different from the ones that replay in his nightmares. It wasn't mixed with clicking, but the yells of more recent infected. Indoors. In their base. Matty didn't remember locking himself in a storage closet, nor shoving the shelving over in front of the door. He remembers scrabbling for the radio he'd had on his belt. He remembers wanting Dad, calling Nik instead. The cavalry's not fucking coming. He's going to go crazy or die in this box or both and how much goddamn air is there in here because he can't breathe and whyhasitgonequiet are they all dead again - He has to see, has to know, has to get out - wrenches the shelving out of the way - ow ow ow FUCK, his wrist's never gonna work right, bites his tongue, scream and you're dead too - It's quiet, entirely too fucking quiet, and so's the only figure he can see. Not hunched over, not howling like a runner. Please be alive, please, please - Matty joins the other man, crouching beside him. Fuck, there's next to no cover in this hall. They're gonna die. "Go, we have to go, now, man, go!" He whispers.