Are You A Saint Or A Sinner? || Bahorel & Combeferre || ZombieVerse
When the Infection began, it had been only in the lower class. The gutter dwellers, the ones best left to their deaths in peace. Bahorel hadnāt blinked an eye when heād begun to see the gamin appear more ragged, more rough, than the had been before the Infection. It was just another gutter problem, like the multitude of others that had sprung up in these last few years. They were endless, constant, and unavoidable.
It was when the dead in the streets began to show signs of not just normal deterioration, but missing chunks, bites⦠as though they had been eaten from. That was when he had begun to grow worried. If the street dwellers were at the stage of eating other people⦠then nothing was off-limits anymore. And while that would aid the rebellion against the government... it would harm them even further. There was no way of knowing who was Infected and who was not, who would be safe to involve in their plans and who would not; and that wasn't even taking into account those who could report them to the National Guard.
When he first witnessed one of the Infected tearing a man limb from limb, biting into his flesh and feeding off of it without shame, he hadnāt known what to do. It was the first time he had ever seen such cruelty, such⦠such inhumanity. Nothing could have prepared him for that day. Bahorel had fired off a shot to the head, hoping to stop the Infected in question from eating the man he had begun to tear apart, thankful that he had been collecting weapons for the Amis that day. Luck had been on his side. When that man had started trying to crawl toward Javert, a look of pure hunger on his face, Bahorel had fired off a second shot. The Infection was getting serious.
That was months ago now. As Bahorel walked down the alley, loaded gun in one hand and the other hooked in his pocket, he found himself wondering how it had come to this. How the gutter dwellers had grown so ill, how the rest of society had been steadily getting more ill themselves, how the government was allowing this progression⦠He wondered with all of him how this had come to be. He wasnāt certain he wanted to question enough to really know, though. His thoughts were ripped from him at a sound behind him, and he spun on his heel, aiming behind him immediately. āWhoās there?ā