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trees and off rocks down the side of the hill. It had touched the food so it knew they had to be close as it crawled along, its legs not working.
    It found the food still mewling in the long grass as it dragged itself along hand over hand towards it. The food must have heard it coming because it started screeching and wailing as it sank its teeth into its leg . It crawled along the food, grasping at it, longing to sink its teeth into its warm flesh…
    There was the faintest hint of a scream outside. Frays and Rodriguez looked at each for a half second then leapt to t heir feet, Amy pulling her M9 out of the holster strapped to her thigh. She glanced at Frannie and briefly considered running into the back bedroom for her M4. “Mom, stay put. Me and Rodriguez got this.” she said as she hurried onto the deck outside.
    Now that they were outside, they could hear the screaming a little better. It seemed that Laura was screaming down by the lake. Frays and Rodriguez looked at each other then hopped across the gap and started moving towards the sound. “Holy shit!” Frannie shouted when they reached the landing. There was a stranger on top of someone, seeming to try and attack them. Frays sprinted down the stairs then took a good isosceles stance, centered her weapon’s sights on the target, took a deep breath and let it out slowly…
    A shot rang out and the creature slumped forward over Laura’s lower half when its skull exploded like a watermelon at a Gallagher show. Screaming, she tried to extract herself from the inert form when Adam was at her side. He was barely aware of it when Frays and Rodriguez came hurrying up, covering the area around them with their weapons.
    “Baby, you okay?” he asked desperately as he grabbed his wife under the arms and pulled her away from the corpse. “Laura, you okay?” Lacey desperately started patting her down, hoping that she was not hurt.
    “It’s alright, Laura. Laura. Look at me.” Rodriguez said calmly as she pushed her carbine around her torso on its sling and crouched beside the screaming woman. “Laura, you’re alright. We got you. You’re gonna be alright.” She pulled a pair of latex gloves out of her CLS kit and snapped them on. “Tell me where it hurts, okay?”
    “My arm.” Laura said quietly, breathing heavily. She looked down as Rodriguez started patting her down, trying to see where she might be hurt. “I think I broke my arm.”  Frannie started getting a little concerned when she saw how pale and clammy her patient’s skin was getting. She cast a worried glance at Lacey then continued working on the woman.
    Frannie felt like she had swallowed a stone when she saw the gouge ripped out of Laura’s calf. She felt around in her Combat Life Saver kit and frowned. “Hey, Frays do you have a bandage? Looks like I’m out.” Rodriguez asked as she started trying to staunch the dark red blood oozing out of the wound.
    “Here.” Frays said as she felt around in her ow n CLS kit and handed Rodriguez a pressure bandage wrapped in plastic. The woman did not dare take her eyes off of her sector of fire for more than a half second at a time. Noise drew infected and Laura was screaming like a stuck pig. She spared a glance at Lacey and tried to give him a reassuring smile and prayed silently that Laura had cut her leg on something as she started covering their position again.
    It only took Frannie a couple minutes to get the bandage in place. She turned her attention to the woman’s arms. “Good news is I don’t think you broke your arm.” Rodriguez said with a small grin as she finished checking her out. “Just banged it up pretty bad. Are you hurt, Lacey?”
    The man looked blankly at her for a moment. “Yeah, Yeah I’m fine.” he said then glanced down at his wife. “Let’s get out of the rain, baby.”
    Amy and Frannie looked uneasily at each other as Lacey helped his wife back towards the house. Rodriguez glanced over her shoulder at Frays. “Holy