Paul was sitting in his parents living room and his mom was in the kitchen cooking something, Paul looked around and smiled. He missed home, it had been almost six years since he last visited there. 'Mom what'chya cooking?' There was no response other than her suddenly halting in the middle of stirring whatever was in the pot. 'Mom?', still no response, a foul smell came to his nostrils, he tried to get up but he seemed to heavy. His mother let her arms drop and slowly turned to him, 'NO! Not you to!', his mother's face was rotten and falling off at parts, suddenly from behind a hand grasped his shoulder, he recognised the golden watch as his fathers, the grasp tightened, 'Dad, do something!' There was a loud moan instead of an answer, Paul turned sharply and saw his father with an eye drooping from its socket and parts of his skull could be seen where his nose should have been. Paul tried to get up but the pain was unbearable. The expression on his fathers face suddenly changed into what was an unmistakable smile, Paul would have rather him not smile because it cased parts of his flesh to stretch reveling more decay. 'Paul join us, be a part of the family, you left us and look what's happened...JOIN US!', his father bent down to bite him,'NO!'
Paul awoke into total darkness, he was drenched in cold sweat, he tried to get up but found he was pinned down by something heavy lying over his legs. He tried to move again but he couldn't use his arm, panic began to creep into his mind, where the dream was still fresh. He tried to move his arm again sending a sharp pain up his shoulder, he used his other arm and felt his left arm limp at his side, he had just dislocated his shoulder. He began to calm down, this was only a minor injury which he was trained on how to treat. Without any delay he lifted his arm best he could with help of his right arm closed his eyes and yanked it violently, his vision blurred from the pain but he felt his arm slip back in place. He tried sitting up again but was helled back, he realised the his bag was still on his back, it must have gotten caught on something. He flinched as he took the shoulder straps off and sat up, he felt for his legs and his hand touched cold metal. It was a locker or something, he pushed but it wouldn't budge. He felt around him till his hand wrapped around what he was looking for, his shotgun, it was still in one peace and he wedged it under the locker and put all the weight he could, he felt the pressure on his legs relieved, he quickly slipped out his legs and let the locker fall with a crash. He was trained on how to recover from injury quickly as a part of his training they had dislocated his shoulder among other things so he felt fairly fine, a bit dazed but other than that good. Paul could see bits of light coming from somewhere above him, it seemed to make sense now, someone wanted to cover something up and brought down the building to do so, the two of them might have just been a bonus.
'Rain you ok!?', Paul momentarily forgot about her but now reality was coming back to him.
'oouuhhh', a faint moan came from somewhere behind him.
'Rain is that you?', Paul grasped his shotgun, couldn't be too careful.
'oh shit what happened?', he heard her ask as he approached the place where her voice was coming from.
'You can put that thing down it's just me.', Raine forced a smile, though it looked painful.
Paul lowered his gun, 'I thought you might have...', his voice trailed off.
'You're not getting rid of me that easely', she winced as she spoke.
'You ok?', Paul asked looking down at her.
'Barely, is it always so painful to go for a ride with you?'
Paul forced a laugh, 'Lately...yes.'
'Are you gonna help me up or just stare at me?!'
'Oh yea', paul grabbed her arm and lifted her to her feet, she seemed, a bit bruised but ok.
'Ok now for a way out of here', Paul said as he looked around the dark room. His eyes slowly began adjusting to the darkness.