The Long Nightmare From Hell...

Clyde kept his eyes fixated on the zombie as it stood up, clinching the pipe tightly in his hands as he stood next to Heather, ready to rush forth and strike it down in order to escape.

He couldnt help but blink in surprise towards Heather's words of caution. He knew she had a tendency to go from cold to caring when he was involved with her, but it was still rare for him to see her as concerned as this.

"Ain't no thing, babe! I don't plan on lettin' big, tall n' ugly snatching me up for lunch...But thanks for bein' so sweetly concerned 'bout lil' ol' me!" Clyde would say to Heather with a wide, confident grin before he began to tease her a bit.

Upon hearing Heather's yell, Clyde rushed forth at the zombie, his heart begin pulse out fast and heavy beats as he ran at the monster. They only had one shot at this, it was life or death.

Clyde sees Heather's bat smash directly into the zombie's knees, causing the hulking creature to stagger and kneel down a bit. Prompting Clyde to take swing his lead pipe back before he lashed it out on the monster, smashing the pipe right across the zombie's face, sending it crashing down against the wall to the left of the pair, putting the undead creature down. For now at least.

"RUN!!" Clyde Yells to Heather after seeing the creature fall, reaching her wrist to waist no time in pulling her along to run down the hallway and escape, hoping that the stairwell wasn't covered with Zombies, along with making it to the next floor.

"Tch..D-don't get too excited. I'm only saying that because if you die, I don't have anyone who'd willingly go out as bait like you just did." Heather says in a clearly joking tone, forcing a laugh. However her uneasiness at the whole situation was a bit evident in her tone as well. As much as they would like to joke around, what was in front of them wasn't a joke.

As she charged and connected directly with the monster's knees, she looked in shock as it was just staggered into a slight kneel. She did just agree that it would take the both of them to bring it down, but it was still a scary shock to see that direct hit not bring the thing crashing down. However a second later she saw Clyde swing his lead pipe at it, sending it down against the wall.

She stared at it for a few seconds with wide open eyes before her wrist was grabbed by Clyde. "U-uh yeah!" she lets out as the two jet it down the hallway, leaving the monster behind. As they successfully make it through without any problems surprisingly, they run into the two zombies that were blocking their way to the next floor just as earlier, however now they were much better equipped.

"Ok let's take em then?" Heather says, jumping the gun as she recklessly shakes her hand free and runs up to one of the zombies, hoping Clyde was right behind her on it. Smashing the zombie she was after in the head with a bat, she tried not to mind the one that was looming up right near her as she did. She jumped out without warning Clyde at first, but she hoped he was still quick on it on following it up with taking out the other one.

"Heh... You damn skippy 'bout all that, girl. Ain't nobody play gon' play bait for you like, good ol' Clyde Gastin." Clyde would reply to to Heather after hearing her joking remark, stilling grinning confidently.

Immediately after taking down the zombie together, Clyde pulled Heather along to quickly make a break for it down the hallway until they spot the two zombies they had encountered from earlier.

"Yeah, We g-- Ey! Hold up! Clyde would yell to Heather as she charges forth and takes out one of the zombies. He wasnt as ready as Heather to spring in as quickly her, but from the moment she managed to strike one down, Clyde followed her lead as the zombie next to her began to turn towards Heather, getting ready to grab at her until Clyde hammered the pipe down on its head, stepping over it after he managed to beat it down.

"Up The Stairs and Into that Room, Gah Dang it!" Clyde would yell to Heather as he spotted more zombies starting to come up the stairwell and follow the pair onto the top floor. It was at this point that Clyde feared they were all on the verge of being trapped with no way out.

"Heh, come on Clyde! Now that I have a way to defend myself you have to start keeping up!" Heather says as she hears Clyde before the two strike down the zombies that were in their way, effectively clearing the path to the top floor. Heather looked up with a smile on her face. She felt as if they were only mere seconds away from seeing Dante and Bonnie again. Maybe then they'll be able to make sense out of this whole thing and find their way out of the danger that they were in.

"Right, I know!" Heather says in response to Clyde's instructions. She looked back as she saw the zombies climbing the stairwell, just as Clyde had witnessed a few seconds earlier. She gulped a bit, recognizing the possibility of becoming locked in the top floor, but it was a chance that she was definitely willing to take to reunite with the others.

Running up the last few stairs, Heather bursts through the doorway leading to the hall of the top floor. Looking around, she spotted a few zombies near the ends of the hall, one in particular seemed to be walking towards the door to Clyde's dorm. Seeing this, a deep glare appears on Heather's face as she recklessly charges at it. "Get the fuck away from there!" She yells at the top of her lungs before smashing her bat into the zombie's head, shattering part of it as it fell to the ground, bringing the attention of the other zombies on the floor.

This went unnoticed however by Heather as without hesitation she went and opened the dorm room door. The sight she saw she couldn't believe. "...Empty?" She says weakly as she falls to her knees, her eyes wide open as she looks into the empty room. No Dante or Bonnie in sight. Heather stares on in disbelief, dropping her bat as she remained on her knees, her shock and despair taking over her common sense.

As Heather ran up the stairs and stepped onto what was now the 9th floor of the dorms, Clyde would follow closely behind her, clutching the lead pipe tightly in his hands as sprinted up the stairs, hoping that Bonnie was safe and that they would all be able to escape the dorms together and get somewhere safe.

After climbing the stairs and stepping into the hallway, Clyde spots Heather bum rushing into a crowd of undead. His eyes widen at that moment, getting rather worried for Heather as she blindly rushes in like that, maybe Clyde was just a coward and didn't have the guts to plow his way through a small mob like that. Either way, the moment he saw Heather rush in, he tried his best to follow. Sprinting right behind her as he sees her shatter a zombie's decaying skull with her bat.

"Goddamn!" Clyde exclaims in pure shock as he sees Heather just smash the skull of the undead monster with one swing of her bat. Clyde then sees two more zombies edging near him as they began to surround the dorm, prompting him to try and hold them off with his pipe until Heather can retrieve Dante and Bonnie.

"Ey Heather! Hurry up and get-- Heather!?" Clyde would shout before he looks over his shoulder and sees Heather on her knees in front of the doorway, just sitting there as more undead began to creep closer and closer to her. "Heather! Get up! Move!" Bellowed The Texan to the girl before he forces back the two zombies that he was tangling with and charges towards Heather, diving forth to push her into his dorm room before the other zombies could nab her.

As the two slide in, Clyde doesn't even bother to look for Bonnie and Dante yet. He instantly rushes to the door and shuts it closed, putting his back on the door to hold it back as the horde begin to push against it, trying to force it open. Clyde however, manages to lock it after forcing the door shut.

Upon doing that, Clyde slumps against the door and drops to the floor before his eyes suddenly scan the room for signs of his sister, but their was no one in sight other than Heather.

"Aww no..." Clyde would mutter to himself in state of despair, realizing that his sister was possibly dead, along with the fact that the couple were now trapped inside the dorm room, with several undead just standing out in the hallway, trying to force themselves inside the small dorm room and devour the two. In Short, Heather and Clyde were trapped.

As Heather hears Clyde's urging her to go in more to the room, she slowly crawls on her knees before Clyde slips in and shuts and locks the door behind her. She shakes her head, still stunned by the fact the room was empty. Her disbelief was causing her to slowly fade as her eyes widened as far as they could go. She was trying to speak but nothing was coming out, the reality of it all was hitting her hard. The hallway was filled with zombies, she saw what happens to the ones that are bitten. She could only come up with one conclusion in her head, and it was one she was desperately trying to fight.

"C...Clyde..." Heather lets out, being the only word that could escape her mouth. Along with the thought that hit her earlier she was also realizing the position that the two were in. They were on the top floor and there weren't fire escapes on each window. The hallway they just came out of was filled with those things, and they were trapped, nowhere to go in the single dorm room.

"Clyde I...we..." She says as she looks up at him, shaking her head again. Her face was filled with sorrow, fear, and disbelief at the whole situation. She just couldn't stand what was going on.

"N..not this way...It's..not fair..." She says, trying to push and shove reality away as much as she could. Taking solace in her disbelief, she clung on to that with all her will, staring up at Clyde with teary eyes as she did. Just a few seconds ago, she had no doubts that they would make it. However the fact that the reunion with the others didn't happen, it took all the energy right out of her.

Remaining slumped against the locked door that the undead kept clawing at, Clyde sits still on the floor with a look of fear in his eyes as he realizes just how trapped the two really are now. Several thoughts began to loom within his mind about what would of happened if they hadn't gone back into the dorms, thinking that perhaps he and Heather would have left the city a long time ago by now. Despite these thoughts, Clyde knew he couldn't leave Bonnie and that he had to go back for her and doubted that he could with the knowledge that he had left his sister to die.

Clyde then looks up to Heather as she mutters his name, seeing just how scared she really was once he saw her face. In truth, Clyde was just as scared as Heather. While he always figured that he wasn't going to die from old age, Clyde never imagined that his life would end in such manner as this, within this hellish nightmare, trapped within a small room that held the undead back for only a moment. Buying the pair just a little bit of time before the zombies eventually worked their way inside.

"Y-Yeah... I Know Heather..." Clyde would respond hesitantly before he stood up on his knees and slid over to Heather, wrapping his arms around her body tightly, pulling her into a tight embrace as he tried to comfort his lover. Knowing just how bleak the situation had become and how much it was affecting her now, trying to comfort as her as best he could, in addition to seeking his own comfort from her since Clyde was just as scared as her, barely able to accept the unnatural truth about how the both of them could die within this nightmare. "It'll... It'll be alright... One way or another..." He muttered to her as his voice trembled with fear.

During the embrace, Clyde shifted his leg a bit and kicked something, he turned his head toward the object and spotted Heather's cell phone. "Uh... This yours?" He asks her before picking it up, noticing that there was a message left on the phone from Dante. "It's... From you're bro..." He mutters to Heather before showing her the phone and as he opened the message up to let her read it while he looked on.

As Clyde wrap his arms around Heather, she feels a warmth and a slight wave of relief over her from the comfort she was feeling. It takes her a second or two to really let it sink in, but she then wraps her arms around Clyde, returning the embrace and comfort. Closing her eyes, it almost seems as if this place wouldn't be as bad as she thinks. She felt closer to Clyde than ever with the two's lives at stake as the banging on the door from the zombies just on the other side continued.

She thought that this would be for sure the place and position that they would die in, and part of her was comforted to know that she had someone with her at the final minutes of her life. Holding Clyde close she slightly opens her eyes, a few tears pouring down. "Clyde...I...I l-" She begins to say weakly until she is interrupted when Clyde asks her about the object he had found as he goes to pick it up. The embrace broken for a second, it takes Heather a few seconds again to break out of her train of thought and enter a new one.

"U-uh..yeah..yeah that's mine.." Heather says as she looks at the phone. Hearing his next words, she quickly grabs it to find out what her brother had said to her. The text was long, filling it to the max it seemed, as she read the message.

"Heather, don't come back to the dorm room, me and Bonnie aren't there anymore. The hallway is full of zombie-like things, we had to escape right away. I hope you haven't run into any of them, I don't know how far these things have gone, but we're going to look for Alessa as well just in case. Whatever you do though, DON'T come back to the dorm room, it's too dangerous. After we find Alessa, we'll be at the Library. Meet us there."

Heather shakes her head as the text, pressing the end button to close it out. "Well...that's just great isn't it?" Heather says as she curses her luck and forgetfulness of leaving the phone in the room. She was happy the two were safe, but for their safety, it still leaves her and Clyde trapped. "Fucking...great..." Heather continues as her eyes tear up again before she throws the phone on the ground and at the wall. She sits back on her butt before running her fingers through her hair. "If I had just.....Goddamnit Clyde...It's...my fault.." She says, beating herself up inside as she shakes her head.

It was rare for Clyde to have moments like these, especially with Heather. Normally he would hesitate and think that he was showing weakness but as the situation began to edge ever closer toward their possible demise, he didnt seem to care. His pride being tossed aside, he just wanted to spend his final moments with Heather.

As Clyde spotted the phone, he failed to hear what Heather was about to say and would instead simply just hand her the phone and let her read the message outloud. The message however, wasnt exactly good news, even though Clyde was glad to hear that Bonnie was alive. "Aww Hell..." Muttered Clyde once he heard the message, just as Heather tossed her phone away before she sits on the floor in frustration. He knew she would feel bad for something like that too happen, he would feel the same way.

"Nah It ain't your fault. How the hell were any of us supposed to know about somethin' like this happening?" Clyde says to Heather before sliding next to her, sliding an arm around her as she sits on the floor next to her.

"Did ya ever think me and you would end up here when we first met? Or did ya picture somethin' involvin' a Casino and lots of Money? Cause I sure did!" Clyde would muse to Heather with a small laugh, trying lighten the mood as best he could, if even for a few moments.

Heather looks up at Clyde as he goes and sits next to her, sliding his arm around her. Hearing his words she shakes her head, the whole gravity of the message and what it meant was sticking with her too tightly. "No...no it definitely is Clyde..I can admit it...If I had just taken my phone. Why the hell didn't I...What the fuck was I thinking..damnit...I'm such an idiot..." She says as her tears flow down her face before she leans in towards Clyde a bit, taking in the comfort of his closeness as much as she could.

Hearing his next set of words, she couldn't help but return the laughter a bit, thinking of how exactly the two met. Such a chance encounter that came out of nowhere which led to everything in the past week or so. Thinking about it now it almost seemed impossible that the two were complete strangers to eachother then, and now here they are together with eachother in what could be their final hours.

"Clyde..to be completely honest, I'm sure the only thing on my mind when we first met was in which way was I going to kick your ass, win that little match we had. That's all that was on my mind until you put all the rest in afterwards." She says, jokingly putting the blame on him again like she always did, however right now she felt no malice towards him.

"Just..now...I'm glad...it's you that I'm trapped with...If it has to end like this..I wouldn't want it with anyone else.." Heather says, the desperation of the situation causing her to let her inner feelings out about the whole thing.