the living are hungry hodnes [ lexark ]

2] come home

"Debra. For the last time, it needs to be the brain. You can't stab them in the heart. They won't bleed to death if you cut them. And if you cut off their head, they will still be able to bite you. Plus, have you ever cut someone's head off Debra? Even if you have the sharpest of blades, it still takes a lot of strength to cut through the spine." Elyza tells her. She is driving the van now, not looking at the road, trying to get through to Debra. Ronnie claimed his sugar was low, and needed to sleep. She definitely saw his bitch ass eat two snickers within the short time she has been with them, but ok. Elyza prefers to drive anyway, she will make better time, so she had jumped at the chance.

She has been trying to teach Debra everything possible, about how to survive the new world, to ease her mind a bit about leaving them. It's not looking too good though, as they haven't been able to move past the first lesson. 'How to kill a zombie' Should have been a simple one-minute lesson. Here's the lesson; destroy the brain with a sharp or blunt object. End of lesson.

Debra is writing away, with her fucking milky pens, on some customized cat stationary. What she is writing, Elyza doesn't know, because the only pertinent information Elyza has said worthy of being written down, is to destroy the brain. And Debra has somehow how managed to have used three different colors, has drawn a diagram of some kind, and has at least a paragraph of words.

"Deb." Elyza says. Debra looks over to Elyza, while still writing. "Do you have that you have to destroy the brain, written somewhere on there?"

Debra looks back to the paper and starts running the pen under what she has wrote, reading softly out loud to herself.

"What are you doing?" Elyza asks.

"Making sure I have that written down." Debra says, without taking her eyes of the paper.

Elyza squeezes the steering wheel so hard, that it cracks. She feels the anger building and building and pulls the car over. She opens the door without saying a word, and walks over to the tree line.

She paces for a minute back and forth, before stopping. She stares at the tree closest to her before letting her fists fly. "Fuckin god damn milky pens... salmon...lilac...diagrams! Are you fucking kidding me!" She yells before she stops, as the tree she is repeatedly hitting almost breaks in half.

She hears the creak of the passenger door open. "Elyza hun, I found it. Right here." She walks over to Elyza pointing at the spot on the paper. "See."

Elyza closes her eyes, and takes in a deep breath through her nose. Elyza doesn't trust herself not to go off on the woman, so she just smiles painfully and nods at her.

"Elyza, what happened to your hands? Hun are you ok?" She goes to reach for Elyza's bloodied hands, but Elyza pulls them away.

"It's nothing. We should probably get back on the road, Debra. It's about to be light, and we only have another hour or so left until we get to the safe house." She walks back to the van.

Only an hour or so left. Only an hour or so until she could possibly see her Hodnes. She suddenly calms at the thought of Alicia. Not that Alicia has really left her thoughts, but the thought of seeing her sooths and excites Elyza all at once. Holding her. Kissing her. Everything.

"So Elyza, what's next?" Debra has her pens and paper ready, once she buckles herself in.

A little annoyed that she is being interrupted while thinking of Alicia, Elyza almost growls. She doesn't though, instead she takes a moment to scold herself for being overly optimistic about Alicia even being there. She told them to leave, they should be gone.