So far we had been traveling around the local area for days, mostly trying to avoid the military as god knows what they would try to do, either shoot us or try to force us into their 'safe zones' that aren't in fact very safe.
We also went into ammo conservation mode kinda, I had to teach each of them how to knife a zombie in the head, wasn't overly difficult really as long as you didn't freeze up or trip over your own feet. Literally side step and gank them in the temple or if your strong enough just hold them in place, but I rather not touch the smelly bastards. And boy do they smell disgusting.
As we have traveled we have actually been picking up tiny groups of people, those who have probably ran out of food in their homes and decided to take a chance with an armed group rather than scavenge alone. Can't really blame them for that, safety in numbers and all.
The big find though was a gas tanker, the driver was dead and I thought I would have to leave the big bastard but thankfully one of the older grandpas who was holed up with his son, the sons wife and his great grandchildren, knew how to drive the fucker so that's good, it was mostly full also, stuck at a gas station probably about to unload its goods.
We also found a good amount of people stuck in random stores that practically begged to be saved from their prisons while we of course looted said stores. I'm just glad we were organized and armed so fast and were able to gather so many supplies so quickly.
One group of people did take a potshot at me once, I saw them drive up and most of our vehicles and people were hidden so I guess they wanted to upgrade their gear with mine. They were shitty shots and their entire group was met with a hail of bullets when myself and 7 girls and a few dudes poked their heads from wherever they were at the time and returned fire. Not sure what those guys were thinking, they literally had two ratty looking guns between the 5 of them that I didn't even want to take, though I did take the magazines and ammo. And their stuff. They didn't need it anymore as their fight was over or whatever.
Our group while not massive was becoming annoying to maneuver through the county as there wasn't really many places for so many people to hide at, we did end up making multiple trips and stay at previous places like the storage facility, even made it back to my original house for a while. This was mostly trying to out wait the military until they pulled out of the area. Also waiting for the different police groups to scatter, I know that happens around two weeks into the apocalypse or maybe a few days later.
Either way we are already 15 days in and it's time to hit bigger fish. I did eventually, after checking a bunch of abandoned houses, run into Ricks house and found his keys. They would be useful at the sheriffs station to get into places most people wouldn't be able to get in to.
Our first stop would be ricks sheriffs station, I almost feel bad but sorry not sorry, we need the guns and ammo more anyways, considering he loses most of them in the first place.
With that thought in mind I address the good sized group of men and woman. "Alrighty lads and lasses, most people in the area are either scattered, hiding, dead or gone. I think our next stop should be the Sheriffs station, check it out and see what's there. It should even have its own propane system and hopefully weapons still." A lot of people especially the woman looked hopeful at the thought of a hot shower instead of wiping down with a rag and some water. Myself included if I'm honest.
"Let's mount up ladies and gents, I'm hopeful for a hot shower today!" Queue cheers. We had a few dozen vehicles with us, mostly trucks or SUVs, a few cars with one box truck for storage and the fuel tanker for obvious reasons. There was also the one motorcycle that Selene was drooling over loaded in a truck as well for future use.
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It didn't take long to get where we needed to be, about 45 minutes with the roads congested with occasionally having to stop and put down a few walkers that were in the way as I didn't want walker guts on my vehicle.
Once we arrived the place looked abandoned but was still locked thankfully. We pretty much had to surround the place with our convoy so that we didn't block each other in, incase we had to leave on the quick.
Myself, two dudes, Olivia and Desiree were the first ones to enter after I unlocked the door, weapons drawn of course.
After a few dozen of us were through the doorway I gave some instructions. "Groups of two or three minimum. Take anything that seems useful." I pointed at the coffee pot. "Some of you are avid coffee drinkers even though I think it tastes like ass water, so grab what you can where you can, but I think showers are first, someone will make a list of who goes when as I'm sure random people don't want to be buck naked in front of others especially women. Selene please if you would." She nodded. "Family units and stuff like that."
With that I lead most of the girls and a few other people to the weapons locker. Unlocked the chain keeping me from the promised land, well if it didn't look so pitifully stocked for a sheriffs department.
There were about a dozen or so shotguns which I passed out to people, tried to make sure each family got at least one. As well as 20 shotgun shells each. I gave Violet the hunting rifle and a small 9mm Glock with holster, Holly got a small revolver as a backup to her rifle and the rest was passed out to whoever wanted it, everyone in my group took a few boxes of ammo for our own weapons just because, but everyone got extra rounds as well.
Once we finally finished passing weapons out Selene collected all of us as it was our turn to shower and she considered us a family unit. I kinda blushed at that, I wasn't overly used to women like them even after all this time we spent together. I have actually only ever slept with Desiree and eventually Olivia had cornered me. I wasn't a prude in my last life or anything but I was slightly shy, though in this world I kinda faked more confidence and these girls were more upfront than what I was used to so it worked. Hannah, Kelly and the kids were also included in the group as well as they have stuck to us like glue even though there is no interest in being with each other in a physical way, even though they are pretty, we are simply friendly and I have always been protective over kids anyways.
But damn seeing seven or eight hot women in a shower was amazing or would be if there weren't also two teeny boppers in there also so I basically showered with my eyes closed to avoid awkwardness. Assholes.
About ten minutes later, I was once again feeling like a new man and I could tell everyone that I could see was feeling the same way as me. Hot showers are bomb.
The next thing I did was take radios, batteries and charging stations for future use. I did have some portable solar panels that they could be hooked into but the girls tend to monopolize them for their iphones or IPods for music. Or they can be hooked into car chargers.
We decided to stay here for at least a night so we pulled cots or sleeping rolls out of the vehicles to bed down later. My little group bedded down by the armory.
Before all that though I decided to reattach my holster to my belt along with my beautiful 16 inch Bowie knife as I got tired of getting gore on my gloves, I was hoping a bigger knife will make that stop somewhat.
I decided to do a perimeter check to see if old dude deputy dipshit was already here and dead before I bedded down. Olivia saw me getting ready and quickly reattached her gear to go with me quickly followed by Desiree and Violet. "No solo shit." Violet muttered barely loud enough to be heard. I was surprised as she doesn't really talk much and is, while not shy, fairly reserved. So I just nodded and apologized, promising not to go off on my own.
In the end we did find deputy dipshit hobbling around, drawn to the back door opening I guess. It took me a minute to get the gate unlocked but after that one of the girls, Violet, drew it's attention while I went behind it and nailed it in the temple. Yay my hands and clothes are still gore free! I quickly wiped my knife clean on his clothes and re sheathed it.
I checked his Glock and it looked to be functional and even gore free. I took it and his spare magazines and gave them to Holly once we all met back up and she later passed off her revolver to Hannah who was still weaponless and could hopefully use it.
A few more minutes of checking didn't didn't show anything else interesting so we went back inside and bedded down for the night.