United States of Zombieland [3/?]
anonymous
March 21 2010, 23:23:13 UTC
After two weeks, Arthur reluctantly admitted that he was wrong about Alfred. There was no way he wasn't ill, considering his recent behavior. The normally quite sociable young man had started holing himself up in his house, not leaving for anything but the most basic of essentials. When Arthur had tried to visit, he was turned away without a second thought.
The last time America turned England away was in 1776. Sure, he'd turned England away from visiting his neighbors once the Monroe Doctrine went out, but Alfred hadn't minded much when England had stopped by at his place. Maybe Matthew had been onto something after all. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________
Alfred, too, was becoming aware of his situation. Researchers had begun studying some of his citizens that had been infected with whatever the new virus was, and it wasn't looking good. What was worse, enough of his people had the damn thing that he was starting to show symptoms, too, and more than just a little drop or two of blood than it had been. Heck, it had gotten so bad that he could barely leave his house without freaking people out over his appearance. As a nation, he couldn't pass the virus on, but it's not like he could just tell people that!
....Fuck. It was times like this where America really wished nobody had ever tried to mess with biological warfare. It was still unclear what the virus came from, but he'd bet anything on some chemical experiment gone horribly, horribly wrong. Still, nothing he could really do about it by himself.
From what he understood from the reports he'd read(and also what he was experiencing, to a point), the early symptoms of the sickness included fever, coughing, and light bleeding from the mouth that would become much heavier as it progressed. In the infection's secondary stage, it began shutting down various parts of the brain, erasing areas associated with the conscious thought, leaving the infected with only basic instinctual drives, such as kill, eat, and mate, and most of their motor skills. As for the third stage... well, none of the subjects had progressed that far, but theories include everything from death to regression. Alfred, for one, didn't care to find out.
He just hoped he'd be able to pull it together for the G8 meeting next week.
The last time America turned England away was in 1776. Sure, he'd turned England away from visiting his neighbors once the Monroe Doctrine went out, but Alfred hadn't minded much when England had stopped by at his place. Maybe Matthew had been onto something after all.
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Alfred, too, was becoming aware of his situation. Researchers had begun studying some of his citizens that had been infected with whatever the new virus was, and it wasn't looking good. What was worse, enough of his people had the damn thing that he was starting to show symptoms, too, and more than just a little drop or two of blood than it had been. Heck, it had gotten so bad that he could barely leave his house without freaking people out over his appearance. As a nation, he couldn't pass the virus on, but it's not like he could just tell people that!
....Fuck. It was times like this where America really wished nobody had ever tried to mess with biological warfare. It was still unclear what the virus came from, but he'd bet anything on some chemical experiment gone horribly, horribly wrong. Still, nothing he could really do about it by himself.
From what he understood from the reports he'd read(and also what he was experiencing, to a point), the early symptoms of the sickness included fever, coughing, and light bleeding from the mouth that would become much heavier as it progressed. In the infection's secondary stage, it began shutting down various parts of the brain, erasing areas associated with the conscious thought, leaving the infected with only basic instinctual drives, such as kill, eat, and mate, and most of their motor skills. As for the third stage... well, none of the subjects had progressed that far, but theories include everything from death to regression. Alfred, for one, didn't care to find out.
He just hoped he'd be able to pull it together for the G8 meeting next week.
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