A living heart Pt 2: Elevated heart

Jenna was very uncomfortable within the spacious hospital elevator, the blood was slippery on her shoes and she had to hang to a little rail on the elevator wall and to the I.V. pole she picked up earlier to keep herself steady. The elevator made a loud 'ding!' and the door opened.

She was not ready when the blond young woman threw herself into the elevator with her arms outstretched as if stumbling inside. Jenna let out a loud gasp as the woman grabbed her blouse and fell to the elevator floor. She could see more people coming towards them, slowly shuffling their feet and moaning longlingly, Jenna wondered if these were real undead or just disoriented people. She hoped for the latter but knew it was the former.

The woman on the floor grabbed Jenna's left knee trying to stand up, Jenna's survival instincts inmediately kicked in, she was not going to get eaten here, she had to save Bo and neither this stupid woman or the small mob coming towards her will stop her.

Jenna elbowed the woman in her head trying to shake her off and was surprised by a loud "Ow!" coming from her. The blond let go of Jenna's leg and used the railing this time to quickly stand up, she watched the mob coming towards the elevator and desperately pushed the elevators buttons. The doors began to close and the elevator moved once again.

It took Jenna several seconds to come back to her senses, as she realized she was moving away from her goal. She resolved to leave this young woman here and get out on the next floor, she would take the stairs.

The woman fell to the floor and was grabbing her bandaged right arm, she looked up at Jenna. She was a 19 or 21 year old college girl. Her expression was of exhaustion and pain and tears formed around her eyes. The girl started to cry as she sat down on the bloody corner, putting her head between her knees.

The elevator doors opened again, Jenna checked and they had went up to the 5th floor. The coast was clear. Without taking her eyes off the girl Jenna stepped outside leaving bloody footprints behind her as she walked away.

The crying girl continued her muffled wail as the elevator doors closed.

The hospital had two elevators, so Jenna tried the other one. Certainly it was going to be faster than the stairs, so she tried calling it. After a few moments the second elevator's doors opened and to her surprise it was already occupied.

Three men were in the elevator, an old patient with only his hospital gown and a deep dry blody gash on his neck, a man who apparently was a doctor had half of his face bitten and clawed and only had one eye, you could see his jaw and teeth through his partly consumed cheek. The last one wore a torn business suit, his intestines dropped to the floor from a huge cavity in his abdomen.

Jenna took three steps back as the men slowly turned around to face her, the first one stepped out of the elevator, Jenna hurriedly looked around and realized she had left her I.V. pole with the girl in the other elevator.

The undead doctor moaned and lurched at her as he exited the elevator, he quickened his pace; Next came the old patient and finally the business man all of them making growling and moaning sounds.

Jenna picked up a vase from a small tall table nearby and threw it at the doctor hitting him squarely on the face, he didnt even blink as the vase shattered into pieces and fell to the floor. She grabbed the small table and threw it at him too, this time the table made him trip and the doctor fell face down to the floor. The old patient behind him falling down as well as if he didnt notice that the doctor was in front of him.

Thankfully, these zombies were stupid.

Jenna deftly jumped over the doctor and stepped carefully out of the old patient's reach, they were trying to get up. She also kept an eye on the business man, oddly, this one only looked at her but didnt move towards her, the elevator doors were still open, the business man's loose entrails were blocking the doors.

Jenna pushed the business man in the chest and out of the way and went into the elevator, kicking the disgusting organs outside so the doors could close and they did.

She pushed the button labeled '2' again and the elevator moved once again. She was getting mentally ready to confront the small mobs of zombies on the maternity ward's floor. She counted six maybe seven last time. She thought of Bo, crying his little head off with the other babies, Jenna could feel the adrenaline pumping her up. She would make a run for it, elbowing and punching faces as necessary through them.

The elevator doors opened and a dead woman's face turned towards her, she punched her in the nose making a loud crunch, an explosion of pain erupted from her fist and the old lady fell back and down to the floor. Jenna stepped over her and saw three more in the hallway. She grabbed the first one, a nurse, and threw her into another zombie close by, they both fell to the floor. The third zombie, an overweight middle-age man with bandages on his head, lurched at her and grabbed her shoulder to try and bite her face.

Jenna grabbed his chin to keep his mouth off of her and thinking quickly, she swept him off his feet, the zombie lost balance and she easily threw him off to the side. Jenna ran forward. She could hear moaning all around her, from the next intersection she could see six more to the left and another group to her right. She tried to remember the way and decided to go straight and the zombies slowly shuffled towards their next meal.

A muffled scream was heard in the distance and Jenna's conscience gave her a faint tingly feeling of guilt as she remembered the young blond girl she had left behind, but she did not have time for this right now and out of the corner of her eye she saw the sign she was looking for.

She went running through an open door as moans sounded closer and closer behind her and came face to face with another doctor who did a quick sweeping motion with one of his arms, Jenna instinctively raised her arms to shield herself, she screamed in pain as the deep cut burned her and at the same time the doctor screamed in surprise.

- "Ahh!!~ You're alive..", the doctor said, as if apologizing in the same sentence.

- "What the hell do you think you are doing!! You could have killed me!!", Jenna retorted.

- "I thought..." the doctor was interrupted in mid-sentence as the zombie's moans grew louder, they were coming.. all of them.

He quickly ran to the door and closed it again, he grabbed an empty incubator nearby and put it against the door. He looked around to find more ways to block the door.

- "Don't you stand there, woman! Help me with the door!"
- "Im bleeding to death here, you stupid fuck!"

Her arm was really bleeding profusely, Jenna looked around for something to bandage her arm while the doctor stashed another empty incubator into the barricade. Pounding came to the barricated door and more and more hands pushed and pushed against it, the incubators moved a few inches, the doctor panicked trying to put his whole body as he tried to keep the door closed.

Jenna was starting to get dizzy, her breath was short and she felt tired, her recuperating body trying to get some more rest. She saw another door at the back of the room that said Bassinet room, her eyes lighted up and she clumsily quickly staggered towards the door but she found it was locked. She grabbed the doorknob with her good arm and tried pulling and pushing her way into the room, she banged on the door and started to scream in frustration.

- "Shut up! They wont go away if you keep making noise!! Shut it!!!"

Jenna did not care, all she cared was about Bo and he was just right behind this fucking dumb door that would not fucking open!!

- "Bo!!! Bo!!! Please God No!! Bo!!!" She banged and threw herself at the door trying to force her way in but the door was strong and her body was shutting down.. her arm went numb as a small puddle of her blood was forming beneath her, she felt weak, her shoulder hurt, her head hurt.. she was starting to get dizzier and dizzier and her vision was fading away.

She fell to the floor, exhausted, tears and blood on her face. She was starting to loose consciousness, the last thing she heard was a loud 'click' from the bassinet room door.