Nightmare

Times were crazy, all of society was broken. Few places were still holding on to some kind of normal.This story is about how the bad got worse, after this there was no more hope for the future. Katherine, John, and their son John Jr. that they called Johnny, this is their story and how the world died after it's fall.

"Johnny" his mom called. "John, I think something is wrong." "Johnny!" John yelled. Then he grabbed his rifle and went to find Johnny, it was getting dark and he was worried and starting to panic, "Johnny, it's Dad!" Then John heard growling, he looked and it was a wolf attacking anything that moved. Johnny heard his dad and called out. The wolf snapped, Johnny was in the woods surrounded by trees and darkness. He was up a tree, hurt and crying. He was bitten on his arm before he could get away. His dad taught him well though in the six years of little Johnny's life. He had survived the wolf attack, and was now sitting alone in a tree crying and bloody. His dad was helpless, John immediately started shooting, he hit the wolf four times before it died. He was afraid for Johnny, he carried little Johnny home, holding him so tight that Johnny almost didn't feel the pain anymore. Katherine was waiting outside when they got home, Johnny was so dirty. They cleaned him in a warm bath, and wrapped him up, "Baby we have to get him some help. He needs medicine." Katherine was panicked. They took their baby boy to the doctor's house because all the hospitals closed years ago, society was broke. "He got bit!" Katherine yelled. "Bit by what?" The doctor said. "It was a wolf, can you give him something for the pain." "Yes, of course." the doctor said. "How did he get bit by a wolf? Where were you?" "I was home with and Johnny was playing outside. The wolf should have never been so close." The doctor gave him pain medication that put him to sleep, then he took blood from little Johnny. They got home and little Johnny slept in the bed with his parents. The next morning Johnny was burning up with fever, and when his parents tried to wake him, he wouldn't. John gets frustrated, he's seen this before as a child. John's uncle was bitten and their ma just tied him to a tree out back where he died. John cries out because he can't hold it in, then leaves. "What? John, tell me what's wrong." John left, he had to think, how long, what was he going to tell Katherine? John paced back and forth, then he walked into Johnny's room and lost it. He threw clothes, knocked the dresser over, kicked Johnny's toys. All the plans he had for him and his son were over, and John knew it. He secretly called Johnny his twin, he was proud of him, proud to have him. Johnny was different, he wouldn't be like his father, he was going to be better John thought. "John, John! Help! Johnny was up and he tried to bite me." "What! No, already! John broke down. "Already what? John I don't understand! Tell me please!" She demanded to know, screaming at the top of her lungs. "Johnny's sick!" He screams back. "He's sick and he's only going to get worst." "Wha.. John what are you talking about?" "Rabies!" John shouted. "Rabies! Wait John wait, how can that be, he's just a baby, my baby!" Just as she fainted John caught her. John carried Johnny to his room and layed him in his bed. Katherine and John talked quietly that night. They realize he was bit by a rabid wolf. The dad discusses telling Johnny, there is no cure. "It hasn't affected him yet, maybe it didn't get him. John gives in, he doesn't want to see his only son die either. John never wanted to admit to himself that the wolf was rabid, the white foam at the mouth, the fact that the wolf never flinched even when shot, John always knew. He agrees to just wait and see what happens. Over the next couple of months John lost himself, and Johnny wasn't their little boy anymore. Johnny had transformed, he was like an animal and only wanted to hurt them, he could no longer do simple tasks like feeding himself, talking, or walking upright. The boy screamed and fought until his mind progressed into animal form, so they kept him locked in his room. Now the dad was convinced that the boy would have to die.

Mom: No, don't hurt him!

Dad: He has to die.

Mom: He's just a child!

They both broke down crying, the dad knew the truth all along, all these years, Johnny needed to be at peace from all the pain. It was wrong to leave him like that. John loves his family, he loves his wife, he knows it's wrong to leave little Johnny that way but he just can't bring himself to do it. "My family has been through enough." John to himself. They try to go on with a normal life, years pass, they even have another child. A daughter, she's eight months now and has never seen her big brother. The little boy is gone, he's a teenager now and the disease has completely taken over his mind. He no longer wears clothes because they grew off of his body. He will only eat raw meat. The smell that comes off of him smells dead, he's a complete animal. He walks around on his hands and feet like a dog. He growls at any noise he hears. They boarded up the door and windows to his room. John feeds him through a hole in the roof. John is the only one who knows what Johnny looks like. The mom walks around like everything is good, like their first child never existed, and the world isn't a mad house. It's been eating at John for a long time. Everyday he sees his son, a animal that wants to kill him. One day John sends his wife out for food without him, with their daughter. He has played this out in his mind over and over again for the past month. John is watching his son watch him. The son wants to eat him, and John knows it. What John doesn't know is that his son can jump to the roof. John aims his rifle at his son and at that moment the son runs right at him, jumps and grabs his ankle and they both land on the floor. The gun lands a few feet away from John, he jumps up and run for the gun. Johnny grabs his ankle again, dig in and bites. John had to grab his rifle and kill Johnny, he just cried after. About a hour later Katherine came home, put the baby down for a nap and closed the door. "John, we're home. Where are you? John, John!" Then she pauses and think about how John had brought up their son more then usual. How he's been depressed lately, spending more and more time away. It was unusual for John not to go food searching with them, she had been asking for days. Katherine runs to Johnny's room and start yelling, "John!. John!. John!!" He starts crying out loud. John cries uncontrollably. Katherine runs to get the keys and a hammer. John yells "No, no! Don't open the door!" Katherine is determined to get the door open, it takes almost an hour. He runs straight out the room and grabs her hands first, Katherine screams and cries while John holds her tight. He can't let her see Johnny like that, she hasn't seen Johnny in years. "John, where is he? Where is our son?!!" She broke down, crying hysterically. John just held his wife. He picked her up and put her in the bed, she was finally asleep, John limped out the room. John took care of their daughter, who missed her mom. He kissed his daughter on the forehead while he cried, bouncing her just like she loved. The only person that didn't know what was going on. John fed her and put her back down. He started to snap so he closed her door while she slept. John paced up and down the halls, he can't remember anything..

"John." Katherine cries out. "Where are you?" Katherine walks into the hall and what she sees scares her. "John, what's wrong?" Katherine comes to him, and he bites her on her neck and drags her into the bedroom to finish his kill. She screams and hits John with a tool on the floor. John yells like an animal, then the baby begin to cry. John stops and stands still like an animal listening for his prey. He runs down the hall to the baby's room. John is gone, he slams into the door. The first slam the baby goes quiet, John rams the door again and the baby screams. He's staring at the door, his head moves left to right slowly. His hand starts to pick up slowly toward the doorknob as if he remembered how to open a door, he turns the doorknob slowly. Then suddenly there was a knock at the door, what's left of John screeches and runs for the front door, he slams into it like a wild animal trying to escape. It's family that came over to visit, Katherine's family. Her sister and her husband Dave. Dave calls the neighbor authorities and they are on the way. John beats on the door he can't remember how to open it. Dave turns the doorknob slowly afraid of what would happen when it opened. Immediately John attacks Dave almost fighting him to his death when his wife, Katherine's sister shoots John. John dies instantly mid bit to Dave's arm. The sister and husband come in scared and shaken, not knowing what they would find. She haven't seen her sister in almost ten years, they lost contact 5 years ago. As they walked through the house she hears a baby crying and runs toward the cry, "It's unharmed." They find Johnny all grown up and cry from being so shocked about. He remembers the boy as a child, respectful, happy, helpful. They can only imagine what little Johnny went through to look that way, and how John had to have gone crazy and locked him up, then killed him. The smell made them wonder how long Johnny had been dead. They can't help but feel horrible about how messed up John had to be. The sister all of a sudden cries out to her husband. "Dave, come quick. Hurry!" She yells panicked even more, Dave comes running only to find her sister laying there bleeding. Dave checked her vitals and discovered she was still alive just as the neighbor authorities were coming in the house. "Is there anyone in here, we were right around the area." "Back here! She's still alive!" They do what they can for her. The authorities send Katherine's sister and Dave home with the baby. Before she left she grabbed a heart shaped locket that she got found in Katherine's jewelry box, it was from their mom. Something for the baby, she didn't think Katherine would make it, and they never wanted to come back to this house again. Before they left one of the neighbor authorities said to them "By the way sir you should get that arm looked at, it could get infected." "Yes sir, officer", and Dave and his wife went home with John and Katherine's daughter. Times were already bad when society broke down, and this is the story of how it got worse, and how the whole world died.