The Bunker (The Infected Series Book 2) (13 page)

Chapter Twenty Four

After half an hour I was starting to get worried when I heard David’s voice in my ear “Team One to Team Two, we’re through. Someone had managed to lock the brakes and it took the A.P.C awhile to push them off the road. It’s clear on the other side so god only knows why someone had done this.”

“Team Two here. Look don’t worry about it. I would have been worried if someone had been shooting at you.” I said.

“Yeah, but there is no one here.” David said.

Then it dawned on me “Shit! Amy how far do these radios reach?”

With a puzzled look she said “Truth be told they should reach the bunker. Why?”

“See if you can get a hold of Jake please.”

“Marc what’s up?” Chris said over the radio.

“I think the cars were there to slow us down getting back to the bunker.” I said.

I could hear Amy trying to raise the bunker on her radio.

“Fuck!” Was all I heard from Chris.

I was panicking now and my heart was racing.

“Chris, how many others knew about the bunker?” I asked.

“Well not too many up here in the North East and truth be told I’m the last of them. There are bunkers down south and they would have evacuated to them. This one was only to be used if the south became unable to sustain life.”

I started breathing when I heard that.

“Ok so that means that they would have very little reason to come here and take over our bunker. The other thing that just occurred to me was that they wouldn’t place cars in the road to stop us getting back. There’s something that I’m missing here.” I said.

Amy was laughing beside me.

“What you laughing about?” I asked.

“Jake, says to stop worrying and get back. He needs some headache tablets. Apparently Philip has been calling into the communications room every five minutes asking when we’ll be back.” She said laughing.

I grinned and shook my head.

“I gather you heard that?” I asked over the radio.

“Yeah, we heard. I was having a hard time trying to keep David from getting out and running back himself.” Chris said.

“Ok let’s start heading back. Team Two out.” I said.

Amy was still laughing as we pulled out of the layby we had parked in. Travelling at thirty miles an hour we came to the place where Chris had shoved the cars out of the way. It was a good thing that I had slowed down to look at the skid marks on the road. Out the corner of my eye I saw something black lying across the road from one side to the other. The two front wheels went bang and dipped forward. I instantly lost control of the Land Rover and then the back wheels went. ‘Fucking spike strip.’ Went through my mind. The Land Rover headed into the ditch running alongside the road. I slammed forward as the airbag went off. I could hear Amy scream once before a dark curtain seemed to pull over my eyes and all sound went from my ears.

My eyes slowly opened to blurred light and the sound of hissing. It hurt to move and I felt pinned between the softness of a seat behind and something hard pushing against my chest. Turning my head slowly I saw a woman collapsed against passenger side door. It was a short while before my brain caught up with what I could see. It was Amy lying beside me, Suddenly I remembered what had happened to us. "Amy?" I moaned.

My head swam and I’m sure I passed out again because the next time my eyes opened, I could hear voices. I couldn't make out what was being said but there was definitely voices coming from nearby. As they got closer their voices became clearer.

"Pull him out." A female voice said close to the Land Rover.

The door was wrenched open and I fell to the ground almost blacking out when I hit it. Blinking back tears I managed to see three human shapes moving toward me.

"What about the woman?" A male voice said.

"Leave her to the infected, we only need him." The woman said.

Her voice sounded familiar but because of the pain I just couldn't place it. Two of the human shapes walked closer.

"Looks like he is coming round." The male voice said.

"Well we can't be having that yet, can we Marc?" Said the female voice with a lot of hate behind it.

Shit! I knew that voice and opened my eyes wide and the blurry single human shape swam into focus and there she was; Tracy was standing above me grinning and a boot suddenly came into view crashing against the side of my head and blackness took me again.