Resident Evil 6: Papercuts-Interlude
Resident Evil 6: Papercuts
Interlude
Scene: 3rd story office building rooftop near twilight by the rooftop edge.
Characters: Shannon( a secretary), Joshua (Network Administrator), or they where
Shannon: It’s getting dark soon. You should eat or rest or something.
Joshua: Nah, I’ll be alright. I have my coffee and I’m gonna watch the lights.
Shannon: You mean the fires. The East side of town must look like a combination war zone and crematorium.
Joshua: Well, probably, but I doubt where going ever see it firsthand.
Shannon: You mean like where going to die here?
Joshua: No, no, no…….I mean that direction out of the city isn’t going to be any good.The only highway bridge that crosses the river got taken out by the Guard or the Army when they where trying to keep people out.
Shannon: Guess that didn’t work.
Joshua: Nope, it didn’t.
Shannon: So…….you atleast hungry?
Joshua: Yeah, I could go for a steak.
Shannon: Yeah, right. We’ve got Cheetos, Doritos, and soda, and all that other crap out of the vending machines, take your pick.
Josh: I’ll pass I’ve got some fig newtons I raided out of the refrigerator some employee left behind. Shannon: Speaking of refrigerators. The electricity the lights. How long do you think we have till it goes the way of the West?
Josh: Actually this city and some of the surrounding area is supplied by the nuclear plant forty miles from here. Those things are designed to run without supervision if need be, but if the plant goes out of perameters then it will shut itself down. When that will be I don’t know. A week or a year I don’t know. Besides it could run for ten years, but there’s high tension lines and substations and transformers between it and us. Like the fire on the East side. If it was on the Westside we’d probably have lost it already. The high tension lines for the city predominantly go through there.
Shannon: So, we hope the fire doesn’t go or start there?
Josh: Yeah, or some chuckle head rams his car into a substation while the dead are trying to eat him alive.
Shannon: I guess. Yeah………..
Josh: Damn, I think I saw it again.
Shannon: What?
Josh: Just a minute………
Shannon: What? What is it?
Josh: The building across the street. See the second story windows on that edge of the building?
Shannon: Yes, what about them?
Josh: Somebody put sheets over those windows. Actually, dark blankets it looks like. I’ve been watching it for awhile when I come up here. Every so often I think I see lights or a shadow of somebody, but I don’t have any binoculars to see better. Up here on the roof we’re three stories up and if my hunch is right somebody is alive on the second story of that building.
Shannon: Why aren’t they on the fifth floor that’s the top?
Josh: I’m not sure why even if there is somebody there. It reminds me of the Omega Man movie, the old one with Charlton Heston. He held out in a two story house he had when he could have been up in a skyscraper. But the character said when asked it “because it’s my home.” There’s only one person there that I think would call it a home.
Shannon: And whose that?
Josh: The gun shop owner.
Shannon: Oh.
Josh: Yeah, oh. I had the odd pleasure of meeting him once. I went to his shop to look around for a friend of mine who was into guns and asked me to. Smart guy, but sometimes cagey, like he knew something you didn’t and enjoyed it. That and well just alittle on the different side. Other than that he appearingly was nice guy. Older maybe in his 50s’ somewhere.
Shannon: A gun nut?
Josh: Nah, I think he was smarter than that. He seemed to have an appreciation for firearms. Not a gun nut, just different somehow. He seemed very much the “I know something you don’t know type.” Otherwise, normal enough.
Shannon: What’s normal?
Josh: Look around, I can’t tell you what’s normal anymore.
Shannon: Yeah.
Josh: Oh, yeah how’s Theis?
Shannon: Part of me being up here was to tell you they got him tied down to a couch downstairs. He flipped out over that when they were doing it. He seemed to be conscious of what was happening, he wasn’t trying to bite though.
Josh: Not yet, he’ll be trying to bite.
Shannon: True, enough. Otherwise he’s got the shivers real bad. Not talking much except the occasional moan.
Josh: Give it a day or less. He’s as good as already dead.
Shannon: That’s callous.
Josh: Yes, it is, but it is the reality we have now. The reality I wish we didn’t have. Damn, there’s that fucking shadow again across the street.
Shannon: You really think someone’s alive in there?
Josh: Yeah, I think there is. We need to get over there regardless.
Shannon: Don’t you think the guy that owned the place would have locked it up tight?
Josh: The gun shop owner? Maybe, but we won’t know until we’re there. If anything that place had guns and ammo. Food, maybe, but firepower.
Shannon: Firepower we’ll need, right?
Josh: Yes, oh most definitely, yes.
Shannon: Are you afraid?
Josh: Well, I’m not insane. I’d have to be insane not to be just alittle afraid. So yeah, I’m afraid. I don’t know about you, but I could go with a flame thrower right about now. It would smell like a barbeque and burnt hair, but I rather deal with that then them.
Shannon: Me, too.
Shannon: Um, I better get back downstairs. They’ll wonder. I was supposed to just tell you about Theis and come back down.
Josh: Ok, then I’ll see ya in a bit I’m gonna stay up here for awhile.
Josh: Oh, let them know I’m scoping out what I talked about. How we’ll get over there. Ok?
Shannon: I will.
End scene as Shannon returns down stairs via the internal fire stair well