Though he knew that the injury wasn't fatal, Nick still didn't want the wound to get infected. So he frantically searched for a first-aid kit in the lobby of the motel. When he looked under the reception desk, he found a kit. Relieved, Nick took it, and quickly ran to Jerry to tend to his wound. When Nick entered the room, Jerry was nearly passed out. He came to his friend and started cleaning his wound around the shrapnel. Jerry winced in pain a little, but the two of them knew that this had to be done. Once Nick was done cleaning and wrapping bandages on his friend's thigh, he turned off the lights in the room, and they both slept for the rest of the night.
Nick was the first to wake up, he went outside to get supplies for the long drive they'll have to make. After cautiously walking several blocks, Nick spotted a deserted gas station with a convenience store. Before running towards the place, he looked around to see if anything or anyone was nearby. When Nick got inside the convenience store, he was disappointed to see that the place was ransacked. The only things he could salvage was some bags of chips and some dented cans of soda and beer. Outside, Nick saw that there was one last bundle of firewood next to an icebox with it's doors wide open. He picked up the wood and went back to the motel. Nick went to get Jerry, who was still asleep. "Dude, getup," he said. Jerry only responded with some grumbles before rolling to the other side of the bed with his back facing his friend. "Ugh," Nick said before setting down the supplies he gathered, and dragging his friend to his car. He went back inside to get the supplies and then went into the car to drive somewhere with more supplies.
After a couple of hours driving, Nick decided to go to a rest area to get supplies, check on Jerry's wound, and to use the restroom. When they arrived at the rest area, there was some abandoned cars, but as expected, they were looted. Nick first scouted the area to see if anything of value was left behind, he only found empty vending machines with breath mints and gum. He then checked on Jerry's wound, everything seemed fine, there was no infection, so he cleaned it, took off the old bandages, and put new ones around it. Finally, the two of them went to the bathroom. Before leaving the rest area, Nick went to to get a gas canister from the back of his car and began to siphon gas from the nearby cars. He filled his car up with gas, refilled the gas canister, and they left.
"Do you know a place where we can hide?" Nick asked while he was driving on an abandoned highway. "We could go to my parent's place, they still have the farm so we should be good for food," Jerry replied back. "Okay, next stop, Mary's & Donald's Farm," Nick said as he prepared to get ready for a long drive.