The journey to Elena's house was a difficult one. After all, the three of them were forced to dispatch small groups of walkers with both their abilities and their knives. After all, any shot fired would immediately attract unwanted attention. As for Zane, he was severely lacking in offensive capabilities, as his skill was passive in nature.
Thus, Zane helped when he could, but was mostly relying on both Elena and Olivia to kill the hostiles. What surprised Zane was that they did not run into any other living beings on their journey through the city and towards the suburban neighborhood where Elena lived.
Eventually the party arrived at Elena's house, to find that its windows were boarded up, as were most building that had not already been broken into and looted. Elena's heart skipped a beat when she saw that there were signs that her family had survived. She nearly broke into a sprint towards her home when Zane stopped her.
Zane pointed towards the entrance, where the door which appeared to have been previously barricaded was broken down. No doubt by Walkers. This caused Elena's hopeful expression to shrink, as she broke away from Zane's grip, and sprinted off towards her family's home, all while shouting out to her family who she prayed silently in her heart and mind were still alive.
"Mom! Dad! Jimmy! Are you in there? Please tell me you're alright!"
Zane immediately chased after Elena, shouting at her to not rush into unknown danger, and Olivia naturally followed after the both of them.
"Elena god dammit! Hold up! We don't know what's in there!"
When Zane finally crossed beyond the entrance with his rifle in hand, he found Elena staring in horror at what she saw. Her parents were already turned, and they were desperately clawing at the entrance to her little brother's room. While the young boy shrieked at them, to stop.
"Mom! Dad! Stop it! Please! I'm begging you, don't hurt me anymore!"
It was abundantly clear from the lack of decomposing on Elena parent's flesh that they had only recently been turned into Walkers. Despite this, Elena froze still. She could not move a muscle as she saw what her parents had become.
As for Zane, he sighed heavily and shook his head, before reaching towards his gun belt and pulling out his combat knife. Elena immediately noticed what Zane was about to do and grabbed hold of him, stopping him from doing what was necessary.
"Zane, don't you dare! Please! I'm begging you! We can still save them!"
Zane, however, had an emotionless expression as he looked towards Oliiva, who had just caught up to them and gave her a command. He knew better than anyone that there was no saving Elena's parents. They were already dead...
"Olivia, get her out of here! She doesn't need to see this..."
[Duration: 29 seconds]
[Duration: 28 seconds]
[Duration: 27 Seconds]
---
Zane's hands trembled when she saw this. Luckily for him, he had already stashed his knife away or he would have accidentally dropped it on the spot. His voice cracked slightly, almost as if he was having a hard time speaking the words that needed to be said.
"Elena.... Elena, you need to get away from him from now...."
Elena stared at Zane. Tears had been flooding her eyes since she realized Zane had killed her parents. There was absolute hatred in her voice as she spoke to him.
"No! You get away! You fucking psycho! Leave us be! Jimmy... Everything will be alright, your big sister is here for you now! I'm going to make you all better, don't you worry!"
By now, the countdown timer on Jimmy's affection was down to less than ten seconds. And Zane knew from experience that when that timer ended, the boy would turn into a Walker. Because of this, Zane called out to Olivia with a stern and cold voice, mustering all the strength he could as he gave her command.
"Olivia... Do it again!"
Olivia had apparently seen the countdown as well, and just when Elena was going to scream at Zane, she felt the electricity of Olivia's skill enter her body once more paralyzing her. Olivia then dragged the girl out of the area so she didn't have to witness another death in the family.
Once Elena was gone, the clock ticked to zero, and Jimmy's moaning ended. Instead, he began to snarl like a beast, his mouth frothed as he climbed to his feet, all while Zane's twitching fingers gripped hold of his sidearm's pistol grip.
There was a dreadful tone in his voice, which was the first hint of remorse that Zane had shown since this apocalypse began. Just when the boy was about to bite into him, Zane withdrew his pistol from its holster and pointed its muzzle towards the middle school aged Walker's head.
"I'm sorry..."
*bang*