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but stalked past the man then threw herself down on the couch. Jessica and Frannie stood in the kitchen, the two of them looking uneasily at the two of them then Frannie went to sit in the rocking chair by the couch while Jessie joined her husband at the table.
    Adam caught up to his wife as she raced down the stairs to the lake, the rain drumming on his head as he ran. “Honey, wait!” he shouted once they were down by the lakeshore. “Hon, c’mon!”
    The woman stopped and spun on her heel. “Go back to your little whore!” Laura hissed her face the very picture of rage. She walked up and shoved Adam back towards the stairs, nearly knocking him over. “Go on, get!”
    “I didn’t do anything, Laura!” he shouted back, now starting to get angry himself. After everything that he had gone through to get back safe to her and their kids this is how she was going to treat him? How could Laura even think that he would ever fool around on her? “I-I never…I love you, Laura. You’re the mother of my children. I could never, ever betray you like that. You know that!” the skinny man shouted. He shook his head. “I killed people, stole, did a lot of things that I never thought I’d ever do just to get here!”
    “Please!” Laura spat then shook her head, quaking with fury. “I see the way you keep looking at that little slut! Don’t try to deny it, you fuckin’ bastard!” The water streamed down her face, washing away her tears as it pooled in her tennis shoes, soaked through her clothes but the woman was just too furious to notice.
    “Hon…” Adam sighed and took a half step towards his wife. “I-I…” he tried to start then grumbled, struggling to find the words. It took a few minutes for him to get up the nerve to look his wife in the eye and continue. “When I first got to Boston we were manning a checkpoint on Harvard Bridge. An Air Force Humvee showed up eventually, but there was all these people…hundreds of them, shit maybe thousands trying to get by us.” Lacey shook his head and shivered “My hands slipped and I shot a machine gun into the crowd. I jumped down out of the truck and ran… Frays was there, in the Air Force truck. Two of her friends died and she nearly got killed herself because of what I did, honey. She doesn’t want to let on…but I think she got hurt pretty bad and now her little baby… God, if there’s problems…”
Laura stared slack jawed at her husband. “God, baby.” she said quietly and put her arms around him. “It’s alright. I’m sorry...” The woman shook her head, suddenly feeling foolish. Adam took his wife in his arms and held her tight as she returned the favor. “I’m sorry.”
    The figure lurched along, stumbling down the sodden hillside. What was left of its nose said there was food nearby and it could occasionally hear food noises over the rain. Its foot slipped in the mud, sending it to its knees where it crawled for a few paces then clumsily climbing back to its feet. It lurched drunkenly from tree to tree as it made its way towards the source of the noise and towards the small house that came into view.
    There was a smell like food coming out of the ground under the front part of the house that was held up by poles. The figure stooped and pawed at the damp earth. A few minutes of work turned up bits of viscera and bones which it shoved greedily into its maw despite the clumps of dark dirt sticking to the remains of the fish it uncovered. Shards of bone splintered into its cheeks as it chewed on the fistfuls of gritty food. Something else caught its attention and it dropped the last bits of guts in its hand. The figure struggled to its feet when it heard more food coming nearby and forced itself to stand and lurch onward. Mashed up innards tumbled out of the hole in its throat as it moved towards the new food.
    The skinny food screamed when it plowed into the two of them. The three of them went off the hard steps then over the side, through