Horror Fan Fiction ❯ Death Comes Knocking ❯ Parents ( Chapter 5 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]

Adam was driving home after picking up some dinner from KFC for his mom since he figured that she wouldn't want to fix any dinner after coming home from work. As he drove, munching on a piece of chicken, he turned on the beat up radio he had been meaning to replace but never got around to. The first few channels were either broadcasting static or a repeating emergency broadcast message, wanting to relax a few minutes before getting home, he keep searching, hoping he would find a station actually playing music. He finally found a station that was working right, but it was just playing a news broadcast, giving up on finding some music, he just left it on and concentrated on driving while only half listening to the news.

“The CDC has rescinded their earlier statements, and are now says that this crisis is not the cause of a biological attack, as the white house has been saying all along, but that the recently deceased are coming back to life. There has been limited response from the white house, but those few statements are denying these claims. Now, I know that's bullshit! I mean come on, the dead coming back to life? No way in hell that is what's going on. I still agree with the white house personally, that it was a biological attack, but im only here to report the news, not to voice my opinion. I apologize for any offensive remarks I have made. With that said, the state has issued a list of rescue stations, and we will be giving those to you shortly and every 10 minutes thereafter, but now we go to Brian Ward live outside Richmond. Brain?”

“Yes Dwayne, I am here at the state capitol just after the governor has given his speech. The governor and the rest of the main state government have been relocated to an undisclosed location and have called up all available national guard units and sent to set up a defensive perimeter approximately 15 miles to the east of Richmond. According to the few national guard superiors that we have been able to talk to, the entire east coast of Virginia and several major cities in the central part of the state have been affected by whatever is going on, but they say that everything is under control, and that they are slowly bringing order to those regions. That's the latest from Richmond, back to you Dwayne “

”Thank you for that brief report Brian. Now, we have a list of the rescue stations in your area here ...somewhere. Where is that list? What? Well find them! I don't care...you know what, screw it, ill find them myself!” While the anchorman was searching for the list of rescue stations Adam pulled up into his family's driveway turning the car off, shaking his head Adam hoped that everything would turn out alright, but Richmond was a long ways off still, so he shouldn't worry about it too much. Getting out or the care he tried to juggle his bookbag and the three bags of food, mumbling cursed the whole way to the door, almost dropping the food, but his mom saved him just in time by grabbing the bags of food from him before he dropped them.

“Hey hun.” his mom said. “ I was waiting for you to get home.”

“Yeah, I finally got back, traffic was a bitch though. Hey! I brought home some chicken and stuff from KFC, thought you would rather eat out and not have to cook tonight.” Adam told his middle aged mother.

`Thanks kid, I wouldn't know what to do with out ya.” his mother laughed. “Come on inside, but be quiet, Your father isn't feeling to well this evening and is in bed, hopefully sleeping.”

Adam frowned, his dad never went to bed early, even with a bad case of the flu. It just wasn't like him at all to go to bed early. He was usually outside tending to livestock or taking care of the average sized garden till well after dark. “ What's wrong? Is he really sick?” he asked.

“ I don't know, he came home about 4 hours ago from the farm store, saying that there had been a brawl there and someone had bit his hand. He had it all bandaged up, so I couldn't see how bad it was. But he said he was just going to go lay down for a little while, since he wasn't feeling all that great. He's been asleep ever since he got back.” Kathy, Adams mother said to her son.

“Is he going to be alright? Adam asked in a slightly worried tone of voice.

“Yeah, I think so, but if he doesn't get any better soon I'm going to take him to the hospital. You'll have to watch your sister if I do have to take him there.” she told him, pointing her bony finger at him.

“Nothing new for me there mom. Speaking of miss add, where is she?” Adam asked.

“She's in the basement playing with one of her friends.” she said while setting the dinner Adam had gotten on the table. “I'll go get them and we can eat, we'll just let your father sleep for a while.”

The dining room was exceptionally quiet that night with at best sporadic conversation. Adam told his mother about what he had learned in class, since he was a decent liar, it went over rather smooth. Melissa, his sister, and her friend, which Adam had a hard time recalling her name, thanked him for bringing home dinner and went back down to he basement to play some more.

“ Hey mom, I think I may go lay down and take a little nap or something, I'm really tired. Would you mind waking me up around 11-ish, so that I can get online and talk to Amy?” he asked.

“ Sure thing sweetheart, I'll wake you up. Wouldn't want you to miss your naughty little conversations with your girlfriend now would I?” his mom elbowed him in the side, laughing loudly.

“Thanks mom.” Adam stuck his tongue out at her, then laughed and gave her a big hug. “Im going to go get some sleep now mom, don't forget, eleven!” he told her as he was walking through the door to his room.

Adam walked over to his stereo and turned it on to his favorite song, Disturbed's Down with the sickness. `God im tired' he thought while he flopped down on his bed. ` Hope mom remembers to wake me up.'he mumbled into his pillow and in no time at all he was fast asleep.

Adam woke up with a start, trying to determine if the scream he had heard was in his dreams or not. Listening intently he couldn't hear anything else, but again, he could hardly hear anything over his stereo blaring out hard rock. Wondering what time it was he glanced over at the clock on his wall. “Holy shit! Its almost three in the morning!”Adam said loudly to himself, wondering why his mom didn't come wake him up like she promised she would. Getting up and stretching, he suddenly realized that he had to piss like a motherfucker. He half walked, half staggered to his door. Luckily for him the bathroom was right across the hall. Opening the door he stepped out into the hall, making his way to the bathroom. Limping on stiff muscles, he glanced into the living room and at the end of the hall he saw his sisters legs sticking out into plain view from the edge of the sofa, with her little teddy bear laying nearby. `That's cute, bet she fell asleep on the couch and fell off, I wonder where her friend is?' Adam thought as he walked into the bathroom to empty out his bladder. After flushing the toilet he opened the door to go see if anyone was still awake. As soon as he stepped out of the bathroom he noticed that his sister wasn't there on the floor anymore. `Weird, I didn't hear her get up or anything.' he thought to himself. Walking down the hall to the living room, he passed where he thought he had seen his sister lying there moments earlier. Looking over he noticed a large dark stain on the carpet, with her teddy bear soaked in the same dark liquid now laying against the couch. Worried, he looked around the living room and into the kitchen to see if he could see her anywhere, only to see two trails of blood, one going from the kitchen through the left side of the hallway down to the end of the hallway, ending at the door leading down to the basement. The other ran from the living room down the other side of the hallway, ending at his sisters blood smeared door.

Adam walked up to his sisters door, knocking lightly. “Melissa, are you alright?” he asked quietly, listening for an sound. When none came he tried the door, but it was locked. “Damn, hey, you alright in there? Open the door sis.” Adam said a little bit louder this time. Again no answer came, but he thought he could hear her moving around inside. He knocked on the door a few more times, then put his ear up to the door to see if he could hear anything. He involuntarily took a few steps backwards when he heard footsteps coming towards the door quickly. `What, is she going to run into the door?' he thought, and with a resounding crack, she did just that, and with the way doors are made these days the door partially splintered, cracking it down the middle.

“Fuck!”he yelled in surprise when that happened.”What the hell are you doing?!” he yelled at the now shattering door. Gasping in surprise every time she ran at the door, each time breaking it even further. With one last run at it, the door finally couldn't take any more punishment and shattered to pieces and the girl ran through it with her head down, completely missing Adam , who had moved to the side when he heard the door burst open, running face first in the wall on the other side of the hallway face first. With a sickening crunch, she landed face down on the hallway floor twitching violently. Adam went over to her and kneeled down, gently touching her shoulder. “Sis...are you ok? He asked in a shaking voice. “Melissa, come on, your scaring me, say something.” he didn't get a answer from her, only her continuing twitching. “Shitshitshitshitshitshit. What do I do now?” Adam said to himself while he rubbed the back of his head, pacing quickly in a small area around his sister. His thoughts were interrupted by a bloodcurdling scream. Adam froze in mid pace, trying to figure out where that had come from. His mind slowed down to a crawl, taking in more detail than before, glancing down he noticed that almost all of the flesh was missing from the underside of his sisters forearm. His attention was taken away from the slowly stilling form at his feet and was directed to the door leading to the basement. Hearing another scream and what sounded like someone breaking furniture, he watched the door in horrid fascination. Suddenly he heard someone come running up the stairs, then a few seconds later a young girl threw open the door, and slammed it shut, quickly locking it behind her. Slowly turning around, the tiny 14 year old girl sprinted down the hallways towards her best friends older brother.

“Adam! Run, come on, what are you doing just standing there!” she asked as she ran up to him. She looked down at the still body laying at Adams feet.”Holy god, Melissa's dead! Adam, come on, we've got to get out of here! Please, I don't want to be here anymore, your parents are messed up Adam, somethings wrong with them, they killed your sister, and tried to kill me!”the girl yelled at him, beginning to cry hysterically, tears streaming down her face.

Adam just stood there with a dumbfounded look on his face, not saying a word. He didn't know what to say to the girl but he didn't get a chance to try as there was a sudden breaking sound coming from downstairs. The girl started crying again, saying something about them breaking through the door, backing even farther down the hall. Footsteps were heard running up the stairs seconds after breaking through the door the young girl had locked them behind to get away. Adam stared in absolute horror as his parents suddenly burst through the door and came into plain view, his mother in front of his dad. Adam took a couple of steps backwards and tripped over the now forgotten body of his sister. He finally remembered the name of Melissa's friend, Rachel, that was he name. Rachel grabbed on to him and started yanking on his shirt, yelling at him to run. Adam looked back down the hall, seeing his parents notice the pair of kids, and start running towards them. His mind finally snapped out of its stupor and started to function normally once again. “Holy fucking shit...” Adam whispered to himself as he watched his mother trip over her own intestines, falling face first, tripping up his father as they both fell into a big heap just a dozen feet away from Adam while he was in the process of getting up. Bolting upright, he half turned away from them, half watched while they struggled to get up. The cries from Rachel brought him to his senses. “Come on Rachel, were getting out of here!” he told the girl while picking her up since he saw that she was frozen in place and wouldn't budge. Taking a quick look at her, he noticed her eyes were glazed over, and she was still crying, while shaking all over. `Fuck, she's probably going into shock or some shit, this aint good.' he thought as he gently put her over his shoulder and started to run as fast as he could towards the front door.

Running with wild abandon, knocking over small tables and lamps as he neared the door. When it came into sight, he risked a glance back over his shoulder to see if his parents were still behind him. Looking back he saw that they had apparently gotten up and were racing towards him, their mouths hanging open and a look of undisguised hunger on their faces, with the exception of blank white eyes. “Shit!” he spit out while turning back around and ran even harder, a few seconds later he reached the door, turned the handle and bolted out while slamming the door shut behind him. Running down the steps, he stopped when he reached the front lawn, gently setting Rachel down and trying to get his breath and slow his racing heart. He went over to Rachel to check her over quickly and see if she was hurt or anything, satisfied with the impromptu inspection, he looked back at the house, hearing the pair hitting the door with their bodies. Rubbing his temples, trying to bring some relief to the ever growing headache, he pondered on what he was going to do now. “What the fuck is going on. I've got to get some help, call the police, an ambulance, maybe the fire department, cause something's really fucking wrong over here.” Adam talked to himself out loud, starting to pace back and forth.

His train of thought was brought to an abrupt halt when an ear splitting crack came from the front door. He knew the door was strong, but that it wouldn't hold out much longer, seeing cracks starting to appear in the only solidly built door in the entire house. “Rachel, come on, time to get out of here.” he told the girl, who was still standing in the same spot he had last left her.

“Rachel, girl, listen to me, snap out of this, I need your help ok?” Adam said to her as he knelt down in front of her. “We can drive out of here, I don't know why, but I forgot I had a car.” he chuckled, trying to get any response out of the girl, the only thing he got was her looking at him with dead looking eyes, and she said to him, in a cold, emotionless voice. “Were all going to die.”

“No were not Rachel, you just stay here and ill go grab the car, its parked just a little ways away, on the other side of that road, so you can see me the whole way alright? Don't move, just stay right there” Adam told her, trying to re-assure her, or at least make that dead look go out of her eyes. But she just stood there, and slowly turned her head towards the house. Seeing that she wasn't going to move, at least he hoped she wouldn't, he went to bring the car around, sensing that she didn't want to be carried anymore. Crossing the road he had an impulse to look back at her, and as soon as he did, he saw here slowly start to walk back towards the house. Stopping dead in his tracks, he turned around and yelled in a half scared, half angry voice, “What the hell are you doing! Don't go back there.” `Fuck she's going to go back to the house.' He started to go after her, yelling for her to come to him, but stopped when he noticed a light flickering at the right side of his vision. At first he ignored it, concentrating on trying to get to Rachel, but it kept getting brighter.

“What the fuck is that!” he stopped near the middle of the right hand side of the road and turned to look what it was. Seeing two brightly shining orbs coming at him at a high rate of speed, he cursed himself for being so stupid. A blaring and screeching sound filled his ears as light engulfed his vison. “Fuck me.” were his last words as blinding pain took over his world, then blissful darkness engulfed him as his thoughts faded into numbness.