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chaosmagetwin · 8 years ago

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South for the Summer: part 1

Spoiler Warning: Terrible things happen in this story. I do not apologize for them. Read at your own risk. Consider this your trigger warning too. Also, if you’ve watched “The Day After Tomorrow” this is set in the same universe.

"I'm here to take you away." His silky smooth voice sent shivers down my spine. Bronzed skin, green eyes, and chiseled abs stared at me from my doorway, a raging winter storm outside. He stepped forward as I leapt into his embrace. "My love, at long last, our winters end." He pressed ice cold lips against my own, slid freezing hands down my side to grip my ass, pressed his chiseled abs against me. Behind me, another man appeared. His face seemed blurred. His hands, too, slipped over my sides until i shivered with anticipation and cold alike. I suddenly realized my stomach was hot, and i looked down to see his massive throbbing - I jerked awake, my entire body shivering. I looked around, confused for a moment, then tapped the back of my head against the floor. "FUCK. I WAS THIS! close! Mittens, why!" The black and white cat with white paws yawned at me widely in answer, then purred as she snuggled in closer on my stomach in the sleeping bag. "Ugh." I cast a look around the room. The fire had died. Of course it had. My little one room shack wasn't much to look at. A few old textbooks sat on a shelf above a ratty looking bed. Five coats lay in a pile on the coach that sat only five feet away from the fire, boots sitting right at the center position on the floor. Between the couch and fire is where I slept, in a thick sleeping bag. A desk took up a small corner, next to which the fridge also sat. The litterbox, such as it was, sat next to the bed. The few decorations I once had were long gone, either burnt or gotten rid of for space. A cooking flame thrower stood next to the fireplace, with a flint and steel tool to light it right next to it. Two empty tin cans sat next to the fireplace, the paper burnt off and soot staining them. Light poured in from the window, which was open a scant half inch. I suddenly remembered the last night. I'd gotten too warm after a couple of whiskeys and opened the window in a fit of idiocy. Being alone did tend to lead to mistakes like that. I groaned and rubbed my sides inside the sleeping bag in an attempt to rub some heat in. I might as well have grabbed some ice for all it did. "Sorry, Mittens. I have to get up now." I slipped out of the sleeping bag as Mittens glared at me, refusing to get off me until she was nearly out of the sleeping bag as well. She yowled her complaints as i quickly got into the thick sweatpants, then the snowpants. I shut the window the rest of the way. "Last time I drink, I promise." I pulled on the first coat and opened the door. I hastily grabbed a few logs from outside and moved them inside. A few seconds of fiddling with the cooking torch later, and the logs were blazing. I sighed as heat burst forth into the room. I loved pine. It burns quick and hot, and it never smells bad. I moved over to the cabinet and looked inside. Two cans of beans, and maybe a quarter pound of rice. "Fuck..." I had to go on a scavenging trip. I pulled the cans of beans out and got the can opener. A year ago, and i would have been at a campus barbecue right now. My mouth salivated as I remembered hotdogs, burgers, and bread. I could almost taste the mustard, the crisp lettuce, the wet tomatoes. Or maybe I'd be at Pike Market. See a fish flying the air. Maybe buy one for a dinner. Not that it mattered anymore. Some people had said that the apocalypse would come with bombs. Or with global warming. Or maybe with demons and monsters and aliens, but those people were crazy. turns out everyone was wrong. The apocalypse came with cold. Massive storms that looked like hurricanes but froze everything instead of bringing rain. Scientists said that they brought the cold down from the upper stratosphere or something. Frankly, it all sounded like bullshit at the time. But then the storms hit. People evacuated. I wasn't a very smart person. I knew that when the radio said to not even bother getting out. Just bunker down and wait it out. So I did. The storm passed. Over the radio, I heard that help was on its way in the form of helicopters. I also heard that one of the scientists who had predicted the whole thing managed to save his son and a bunch of other people over in New York. I think they meant it as a sign of hope. I don't know if they ever actually sent those helicopters. Another storm hit the next day. Only this time, it was bigger than the last. The first month, it was pretty bad. Finding people standing in the streets. Frozen solid. They'd tried getting out of Seattle. After that, the radio didn't chirp too much. Maybe it was because they gave up hope. The super storms were hitting at least once every other week. Two hundred and fifty six days later, I still survived, though, mostly through stubburness and anger. And also determination to keep Mittens alive. I don't amount to much, really. Petite and weighing no more than 90 pounds soaking wet when I was in college, most people wouldn't look at me and say, "Yeah, she'll survive the apocalypse." I wouldn't have either. I'd lost weight since then. Bad diet, restricted food, and a lot of exercise in clothes that, all added together, probably weighed as much as I did. I finished my beans with a sigh and a stretch, enjoying the comfort warmth the fire brought. The last storm had been four days ago. It wouldn't show its ugly face for at least another two days. I went to my backback and checked its contents. Rope, nylon cording, wire, a flashlight, an ice pick for climbing, a combat knife, two pairs of socks and an extra set of thermal underwear. To last the next week, though, I'd need more than the little backpack could carry. The local reacreational sports store had already been emptied of its MRE's and other dried foods. Most of the grocery stores too. There was one that I knew of though that had supplies in the backroom. It would take a quarter day to reach, though. "Mittens, don't let the fire burn the house down!" I said jokingly as I slipped on an extra pair of socks and put on my boots. She gave a maow in return from inside the sleeping bag, sounding fairly less grumpy than she had when I got up. I pulled on a couple more coats. After the third, i felt like a ball of fuzz. After the fourth, I almost felt like I was cooking. I'd need it though. I pulled ski mask over my face, wrapped a scarf around my neck and face, and slipped the ends over my ears and under the finishing touch; a fur cap. I pulled a couple of the parka's hoods over that, slipped on a pair of heavy mittens, and stepped outside. Once outside, the cold actually felt good, in a biting sort of way. Despite the layers, it bit into anything that didn't have at least three layers, which meant my face hurt. At least most everything else was warm though. I shambled over to the sled. It was a childs wooden sled, old and rickety, but I had made a few modifications over the months. Now it looked more like a badly made sled pulled by huskies. A rope stretched in front of it, a plastic handle almost buried in the snow. Leaning against the wall of my home, next to the sled, was a stick, a knife glued and taped to the end to make a makeshift spear. Luckily, it was fairly sturdy. With sled in tow and spear in hand, I headed for the west side of Seattle. Two hours later of trecking over hills and sliding down the other side, i arrived at the grocery store; Tom's Grocer. The shelves were all empty, which I expected. "I sure hope there isn't anyone in here," I called out from the doorway. "I would sure hate to stab someone." There wasn't any response from the room and i looked around, carefully eying the ground. I'd run into some traps meant for people a few times before. One had stabbed a knife into my thigh right into the bone. I'd been lucky. If it'd gone almost anywhre else, i could have died from any number of things; a cut artery, ruined tendon, cut nerves. Even still, without some medicine I had found on that trip, I probably would have died from infection. At least there weren't any traps that I could see this time. I stepped carefully into the grocery, holding the tip of my spear in front of me and took waddling steps forward, trying to be stealthy in my mass of clothes. It didn't matter in the end, because no one was there. I made it to the door that led to the backroom easily, and opened it carefully, still keeping an eye out for traps. The backroom was mostly empty. When I had been here last, it had a few more boxes, but the four I saw in front of me still had my handwriting on them to label them for what they were; a box of beans, a box of peas and carrots, and two boxes of one pound bags of rice. A quick glance around told me there was nothing else. I poked the boxes with the spear, curious to see if there was a weight tap, but nothing happened. I let out a sigh. "Paranoia is getting the best of me..." I picked up a box with a struggle. It was full. All of them were. Eight minutes later, and the last box was on the little sled, with nylon cord wound around it and tied off to keep it from falling off. If it weren't for the modifications to bring the sides up, it probably wouldn't have helped much. I stared at the sled for a moment, doing some calculations in my head. I was probably around eighty pounds of food there. It didn't make much difference to the snow that was closer to solid ice these days, but it would to me. I checked my boots, eying the small steel claws I had added to them to give myself more grip. They weren't meant to be there. Would they hold up under the extra weight? As I thought, i moved back into the grocery, and found a large piece of cardboard someone had left behind when going through boxes. I slipped my mittens off and pulled out a permanent marker from one of the many pockets available to me on the outermost parka. "Emptied Out." I put it in the window. "There. Now people are less likely to waste their time here..." With me sitting at, probably, seventy five pounds these days, my clothes somewhere in the range of another fifty, my backpack around twenty, and the sled sitting somewhere near ninety pounds, I was looking at lugging two hundred and thirty pounds, including myself. I grimaced. That was not a good weight to be going up a hill with at my size. It wasn't going to get any easier, though. With my mittens back on, I stepped back outside and picked up the spear and the rope. When I reached the first hill, my muscles were already burning, and my breath was coming hard. "FUCK! YOU! SEATTLE! FUCK! YOUR! HILLS!" The screams came with each step, shoving steel toe claws into the ice that threatened to send me back to the bottom. The ice pick slammed into the snow ahead of me between the shouts, and tears sprung from my eyes as I pulled with my entire strength to go even a single step. The rope dug into my hips, as I used it as an impromptu harness."HARGGHHHHHH!" The shouting grunt came as I crest the hill. Several more followed until the sled made it over as well. I fell to my side, crying in pain. The first hill, and everything was already flame and ice at the same time. Wind blasted my face, and the sled slipped back slightly. "NO!" I pulled on the sled, pulling it closer to me. "NO! I REFUSE!" I got up and pushed onwards towards the descent side of the hill. I looked down as wind pushed on me, and for a moment everything swayed. A hasty step for balance later, and I noticed there was a rash of cars at the bottom. If i let the sled just slide down, it would crash right into them, breaking the sled and making the rest of the trip impossible. "Nooooo...." my voice was a soft cry to the noonday sun. I turned around and slammed the teeth into the ice again. I needed to get home with this food. I pushed the sled down and let it slide until it jerked against me. I let out a grunt as it nearly pulled my boots out of their grip, and even with the teeth i slid nearly ten inches. I grit my teeth and took a breath so I could let it out when i slammed the ice pick into the ground once more. By the time i reached the bottom, everything was numb, and the sun had noticeably shifted position. Thirst had turned my mouth into sand, my tongue swollen and aching. I had reached the bottom, though. I tiredly scooped some snow from the hood of a car and shoved it into my mouth. I winced as I crushed the near-ice with my teeth, and I almost spit it out as it began melting, the cold pure pain making everything taste like blood. A few shaky breathes later, and it was mostly melted, and I enjoyed the water it provided for a few moments. I waited until the rest was melted before sticking another chunk of snow in and beginning the walk towards the next hill. This one wasn't as tall as the last, but it would be an ache to get up as much as the first. Even slight grades were troublesome with ice, and the steep hills of Seattle were deadly. This time, I tackled it with a rhythm. Step and breath, ice pick slam and exhale. Step and breath, ice pick slam and exhale. This time when I reached the top, there was slightly less fire in my lungs, but i was near certain my limbs were being dipped in vats of acid. A look down this hill showed it was clear. "YES!" I almost did a victory fist pump, but then I remembered that i sitll had probably another three hills to go over. I let out a sigh instead. That took almost all the fun out the moment. I laid on my back and pushed the sled down the hill, letting it tug me over the edge as well. For a few moments, all I did was watch the blue sky above, the lightest of clouds softly moving from one side of my vision to the other as I slid down the hill. It was peaceful, a sort of moment of blissful relaxation. Then I hit a bump halfway down the hill. Before I could even yell, I was in the air, limbs flailing as I tried to find some sort of purchase. The ground came into view and I reflexivly winced as my legs and chest slammed into the ground. My chin followed shortly, knocking my teeth together. I woke up a short time later, everything aching again, but especially my chin. I carefully tested movement in my toes, then my feet, then my legs and fingers, and finally my arms and back. Nothing injured permanently there. No broken bones. I would have sighed in relief if my chin didn't hurt so much. I carefully pulled the mitten off my right hand, and lightly touched my chin. I flinched when I felt something rough, until I remembered it was my scarf. Hesitantly, I pulled it off, and carefully lifted the ski mask. A second feel told me it was swollen. Tears sprung from my eyes once more as I tried to move my jaw. It creaked, but it wasn't broken. Thank god. I ran my tongue over my teeth next, and tasted blood. I'd nicked my own tongue with my teeth, but after a thorough checking of each tooth, I was relieved to find not a one had broken. There wasn't exactly a dentist to fix anything. I got up carefully and looked at the sled. It had taken the bump far better than I had; it was still on the skids, instead of its side. I sighed with care to my now sore jaw and put everything back in its place so I could stay warm. I might not feel the cold at the moment, but that was dangerous. Exhaustion and pain was numbing me to most of the cold. Sweat certainly wasn't helping, chilling me more than I'd like. But I was still three hills and a bridge away from home. I grabbed the rope and began the trek to the next hill, tired muscles straining. The short rest had helped, even if it had been spent unconcious.

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thomaspatterson1989 · 4 years ago

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