Well, I managed to pass out in the hospital again but at least it wasn’t the worst part of my day this time. I can’t believe this fuckin town. Where do I even start. Oh yeah, getting shot at.

This crazy motherfucker in a football helmet has been running wild around town hurting people, people I know and like, and he’s needed killing since he took Lara. Well, guess who I see as I’m walking into town? Yeah, a dude in a football helmet. I tried to follow him but he gave me the slip so I asked around and this woman named Ilsa saw him too, and knew what he’d been doing.

So we started hunting for the guy and checking everywhere, me with my gun drawn like I know how to use the thing. We found a girl named Rose and convinced her to help with the promise of steak. We all ended up searching, and in the alleys behind Coach’s we spot the guy trying to break in the back door! The prick got the jump on us though and fired two rounds, scared the shit out of me but they were wild shots. Rose got grazed but she’s going to be ok and I managed to avoid seeing blood that time. Helmethead snaked under a truck and run off before we could find him again. I was so pissed I was shaking. Well, maybe it wasn’t all anger doing that but still.

I headed back to the bar for my shift and it got swamped. Kali was back from the hospital, she was down with the sickness but she’s doing alright now. And Aiden. Man, that guy is a mess. He’d been sick too, but more than that the girl he was going to marry killed herself last week. Serina was her name, she was a good friend of Eva’s too. I haven’t seen a man so dark in a long time and my heart breaks for him but he’s not the kind to talk about pain, so I just don’t.

Aiden hears the news of the day and the two of us decide to go out rapist hunting. We ran into Slade and Tah while we were searching town and they expanded the hunting party. I was nervous as hell, I’m no commando and I haven’t even fired the gun yet but if I could help I was going to, shaking hands or not.

But nobody expected what we found. We were searching buildings and inside a trashed old place we found Kay, a woman I know who is sweet as can be, beaten and hogtied on a rotten mattress. I went to help her get free but she was bloody and my vision started to narrow so I backed off and faced the other direction. But once she was cut free, Tah put Kay on my back where I couldn’t see her and I piggybacked her down to the hospital as fast as I could. The girl was in bad shape and I couldn’t even look, I just kept focused on moving and getting her there.

Once she was safe and with the doctor I went outside to breathe but the doctor said he needed help and called me back in. And there was Kay on the table, bruised from head to toe and cut bad in a few places. So yeah, she was bloody and yeah that’s when I passed out like a pile of lumber on the floor of the hospital. Again. That security guard Porkins dragged me out of there, when I woke up in the lobby I just headed home. I hate hospitals.

I don’t even know if it’s the same asshat we were looking for but if not, whoever did that to Kay needs killing just as much. And a lot of other folks see it that way, too. I’m tired of people getting raped and shot around here, people have enough to be scared of with the dead walking around trying to eat them. Sometimes it becomes very clear that the real monsters in this world are some of the living.