(Hope you don't mind too terribly that I don’t use your que but I can't really come up with how my character got there :/ ...so I guess I'll just use a little something I managed to think up)
Chrys crept against the blood stained walls slowly. She took a deep, near haphazard breath, slowly wiping off a band of sweat that had built around her forehead as with her other hand, she raised up a beretta and cautiously looked around a corner.
Clear. Nothing but blood spattered medical gurneys and the occasional broken syringe scattered in the dimly lit hospital corridor. She let out a breath, relaxing as she walked out from the corner. She glanced back to a nervous, paling man behind her, and with a head movement, motioned for him to follow after.
She had been wandering around the hospital for two days now and the lack of sleep was starting to annoy her. The longest she had ever been without was for a week, but she was hoping it didn't come down to that.
Less than six hours ago, after using up the last magazine on her AK-47, she had bumped into a survivor. She didn't question how he had managed to survive without becoming infected, as she needed someone to lead her out of the hospital. However, it didn't take her long to realize that they had been walking in circles once she passed the same vending machine twice.
On their third walk around, Chrys stopped at the vending machine and to the man's surprise, broke through the glass with her currently useless sub-machine gun. She tossed the man a bag of chips and a coke, settling with pretzels for herself.
The man opened up the bag quickly with a small smile. "What's this for?"
Chrys leaned against the wall with a cold expression. "What do you think? You've been b*tching to me for the past few hours about being hungry and considering this is the third time walking past this, I got the hint..." she drifted off as she noticed him gagging on the chips, unable to even take a sip of cola.
Just then, a power surge occurred, for a brief second, illuminating the damned hospital and the characteristics of the man. As soon as it came, it disappeared but it lasted long enough for Chrys to come to a discovery. She opened up her bag of pretzels and calmly started to eat. "So, when did you plan on telling me?"
The man, recovering from his fit looked to her nervously. "Tell you what?"
She tossed down the bag, unfinished, as she looked to him with an icy expression in her cold blue eyes. "That you were infected."
The man scratched at his arm sheepishly as he turned away. "I don't know what you-"
In one swift movement, Chrys grabbed hold of his arm and pushed back his sleeve to reveal a small scratch, the area around it looking swollen and blue. "THAT'S what I'm talking about," She pushed him away from her then took out her beretta, pointing it to him. "How long?"
"I...it's...ar...around five hours now..." he confessed, scratching at his arm violently, the aura of death approaching him.
Chrys felt herself grow angry but her face gave away nothing. She shook her head, angry she hadn't noticed the symptoms earlier. It was far too late for him now, he was literally a ticking time bomb, being able to turn any minute from then. "So when did you plan to tell me? When my decision to take you with me came back to bite me in the neck? You should've just told me earlier so we wouldn't have wasted time going in circles."
"I thought maybe the hospital might've had a cure somewhere ar-"
"Oh yes, for a biological outbreak that overran the town, no doubt they'd have the vaccine in plain sight..." interrupted Chrys in sarcasm. She sighed, squeezing the bridge of her nose, then bowed her head slightly to the man. "I truly am sorry but it will be painless...god, I would hope so."
The man looked to her with a mixture of fear an curiosity. "What will?"
A shot rang out in the hospital, the sound of blood, brains, and shattered bone heard throughout as they splattered against the wall, and the body of the man collapsed downward, making a sickening sound as he landed. Chrys lowered her smoking gun. "Your death."
She briskly walked away from the scene, turning into a storage room, the light burnt out long before her arrival. She closed the door and leaned against it as she dug into a pocket, taking out a Salem cigarette. She took out a blackish blue metallic lighter and started to flick it rapidly near the cig, but stopped after a moment. She placed the lighter back into her pocket and looked out into the window that made up the wall.
Above her was the sounds of moans, below her, something scratching against the tile. She blocked it all out looking through the window. The sky was a light purple hue, with a dash of orange in it's centre, not a cloud visible in the horizon. She sighed, a sheepish look in her eyes and the cigarette dangling from her bottom lip. "What interesting times we live in..."