Disclaimer
This book is made up, it's not real, it's set slightly in the future and is most definitely not reflecting Harry in real life.
This book is set after human demise, as a disease wipes out most the population-leaving few immunes left.
I will not tolerate hate on my book or my characters, so please don't bother.

Thank you all for reading! Let me know what you think! - A

'Don't call it a fight when you know it's a war'

Chapter One

Bullet holes laced the city walls as gun's were fired from one end of the street to another. It was no planned attack, no meet up- it was a stand off. Both sides wanting the same thing.

A chance of survival.

Harry's POV

"Get in the fucking car Cole!" I hear Ross shout over the spluttering noise of the Jeep that he was starting up. I stood on the back of the Jeep firing shots across the street trying desperately to buy us time. Cole was firing from the side of me hiding behind the open door of the Jeep that Now was covered in bullet holes. We only came out to grab resources for Hardy and we mistakenly took a short cut and ran into god knows who. We couldn't make out who it was because there were so many in the way that had been abandoned when the disease hit.

"Fuck... It's not firing up!" I hear Ross say in between gun fire as I duck down from the firing line covering my head as I felt the bullets rain on the Jeep. Ross bangs his fist on the back window of the Jeep to get my attention desperately.

"Mate you better get this piece of shit working because I think we are under estimating how many of them fuckers there are!" Cole shouts as he climbs into the Jeep shutting the door behind him. This was typical. The Jeep was one of our best vehicles we had and now we were having problems with it?

"Give me a minute" I say as I jump off the back of the Jeep. The Jeep was known to blow the fuel pipe underneath on occasions so it was the first thing I was gonna check.
"Jordan cover me" I pat Jordan on the back as I start to crawl under the car. Jordan was only young, 20 years old. That was pretty young to be allowed on a resource raid. But he was ready for it. He was elite and well trained as he had been with us for a few years now. I trusted him.

"We are so fucked- so fucking fucked" I could hear Ross panicking as the gun fire rained on the Jeep again causing me to flinch as I felt a bullet skim my arm as it bounced of the wheel of the Jeep. It was my arm. I was fine. Not important.

"Harry, what's going on down there?!" Cole shouts down to me as I look up at the broken fuel pipe. Just as I expected.

"I need tape!" I yell up to them

"He needs tape!" Jordan repeats as Ross and Cole barely heard what I said over the sound of gun fire again. This was bad. If we had gone the normal way round the city we wouldn't of had his problem, but no. Of course we would have to take the fucking short cut.

"It's in the back Jordan!" Ross shouts back to Jordan. Within a few seconds, but yet what felt like forever Jordan jumped back down from the back of the Jeep.

"Harry" he tosses me the tape. I catch it, immediately pulling a large piece out before ripping it with my teeth. Time was of the essence and we didn't have a great lot of it. I wrapped the tape round the pipe as many times as I could securing it to the rafter it came off.

"Try it now!" I yell as loud as I could. I hear the engine begin to splutter and spit causing me to sigh.

"Shit.." I panic as I look for anything else that could be wrong with it. Then I see it. A fuse. The fuse just above the pipe had come loose. I push the fuse back in the socket before wrapping the end with tape to keep it there hoping it wouldn't burn out again.

"Ahh- It's not fucking working!" Ross shouts as the Jeep runs quiet again.

"Try it again!" I yell.

"Ross again!" Jordan yells over at Ross as he crouches down at the back of the Jeep as gun shots ring threw my ears. I hear the sound of engine rumble and spit as it begins to start up.

"Holy shit- he did it, Styles is a fucking genius-" Ross says as I roll out form underneath the car quickly pulling my gun out as I crouch next to Jordan.
"It's fucking working! Get in!" Ross shouts as the engine roads over the gun shots. I jump into the back of the Jeep and Jordan follows swiftly before something clicks.

"Where's Zac?" I yell to him over the sound of the engine as Ross revs it.

"Haven't seen him since we stopped!" He yells at me as he fires shots over the roof of the car.

"Fuck sake" I mutter under my breath.
"Zac's gone!" I shout to Ross and Cole as they sit in the front trying to take cover from the shots.

"Harry there coming" Jordan shouts to me. I look back in there direction to see the men on the other side jumping into their cars.

"Shit- who last saw him?" I panic but none of them answer, all just giving me blank looks causing me to sigh.
"Fuck" I mutter as I look round me for any sign of Zac.

"Harry there coming, make the call" Ross shouts to me over the sound of there cars starting up. Where the fuck was he? He was stood here like 5 minutes ago!

"We can't leave him!" I yell at him frantically as I scan the surrounding area. I couldn't see him. Not a trace of him. No where.

"Make the fucking call Harry! Or I will, cause I tell you now I'm not willing to fucking die today mate" Ross shouts at me as he bangs the back window in frustration. This trip just couldn't get any worse.

"Shit-" I mutter in panic.

"I'm out!" Jordan yells turning to me with an empty gun.

"Harry! Make the call!" Ross yells.

"Just-"

"Hey!" A voice in the distance rings through my ears causing me to look around.
"Oi! Help me!" I see Zac waving his hand around like an idiot as he heads towards us slowly. With a girl. He had a girl in his arms. She looked dead which confused me even more.

"What the hell is he doing?" Cole shouts as we all duck from the gun fire again.

"Being a bloody idiot that's what he's doing" I mutter as he gets closer.

"Oi! Are you gonna fucking help me or what?" He shouts over to us as we all stay in place. He gets about 3 feet from the back of the Jeep before falling to his knees with the girl still in his arms.
"She got shot in the shoulder-"

"Leave her! She's not one of ours" Ross shouts through the back as he revs the engine. I looked at Zac who was covered in blood, that wasn't his own. It was hers. She had lost a lot of blood. What was the point?

"She got shot saving me you fucking idiot! Now are you gonna help me or what?" Zac shouted angrily back at Ross as he wiped his forehead from sweat. He looked up at me before looking back down at the girl who was clearly out cold.

"Shit- you guys we are really gonna have to go now, hurry the fuck up!" Cole yells frantically. I look over the roof of the car to see the cars driving towards us causing my heart to beat out of my chest. I crouch back down looking down at Zac.

"Harry.." he looked up pleading with me. He was clearly exhausted and couldn't lift her himself anymore. I looked down at the girl before I looked at him as he nodded at me. Fuck sake. I sigh as I look down at the girl again.

"Give her to me" I say as I jump down off the back of the Jeep.

"Thanks man" he pats me on the back as I scoop the girl up into my arms. She was lifeless. I don't understand why he wanted to save her because she already looked dead to me. But I did it anyway because he was my best friend. Zac climbed into the back of the Jeep quickly as I pushed the girl onto the back of the Jeep before climbing on myself.

"Go! Go! Go!" Zac yells as he bangs his fist on the back window as bullets rained on us once again. Ross puts his foot on the gas and spins the car down instantly swerving round the debris on the road. We ducked holding our heads as the unknown assailants showered us with bullets a final time as we sped away from them barely in time. I looked up as the bullets stopped to see the men get out of there cars. I knew exactly who it was from that very second. I should of known. But I didn't want the lads to know so I chose to not tell them who it was.

"I think we're good" Ross shouts back to us. I sigh pushing myself up off the floor of the Jeep leaning against the side as Jordan and Zac do the same. I push a hand threw my hair as we all sit and catch or breath for a second. My hand goes to my arm as I feel a slight tingle making me wince.

"Dude are you okay?" Jordan asks as he sees my shirt had been torn where the bullet had ripped through.

"It's just a graze it's fine" I tell him as I notice the bullet never actually went in, it just grazed my skin luckily.

"She's lost a lot of blood, what do we do?"

"She's your burden, this is on you" Ross shouts through the back laughing at his own comment. I sigh as Zac stares at me.

"What? You expect me to help?" I frown as he glares at me.

"Please" he begs causing me to roll my eyes.
"Just tell me what to do, she's bleeding out!" He raises his voice as he try's to apply pressure onto the wound. I looked down as blood seemed through the gaps in his fingers and seeped into the jeeps floor.

"Why do you care?" Jordan asks causing Zac to get even more worked up.

"Because I do! Let me save her!" He says clearly in distress as he looks at his blood covered hands.

"She's just a girl" Ross says and I can practically see Zac's blood boil at his words.

"She saved my life-" he says through gritted teeth as he punches his fist against the back window to Ross in anger. He sighs as he looks down at her.
"The least I can do is try to save hers" he says almost in defeat glancing up at me. Fuck sake. I sigh before getting onto my knees.

"Move" I instruct him catching him of guard as I grab the bottom half of the girls white shirt, ripping the bottom off in a long strip. I sigh realising it's not long enough but keep it anyway. I look at the girls wound to see it was rather deep. I put my ear to her back to listen for a heart beat but don't hear anything. I sigh before putting to fingers on her neck checking for a pulse. I wait for a second as I could feel Zac and Jordan intensely watching me.

That's when I felt it.

It was faint, but it was something.

"She's still alive, barely though- Ross your gonna need to go a bit faster mate" I say as I hit the roof of the Jeep.

"Got it" he shouts back as he steps on the gas.

I needed to stop the bleeding. That was the main priority now I knew she was actually still alive. I quickly unbuttoned my white shirt that was now covered in blood, dirt and god knows what before grabbing the piece of cloth I had ripped off her.
I started to push the cloth into the wound to try and pack the wound to stop the bleed.

"Hold it" I instruct Zac gesturing to the pact wound. I used my shirt to then wrap round her wound under her arm and back round again tightly to try and stop the bleeding. Hoping that was enough pressure I sat back from the girl, out of breath and sweat dripping from my forehead.

"Do you think she'll make it?" Zac asks as he sits back leaning against the back window as he stares down at the girl.

"I don't know I'm not a doctor" I snap at him but he doesn't say anything. I look down at the girl to see that she was slightly breathing. Maybe she did have a chance. Maybe she didn't. I had no idea. I wasn't about to get his hopes up over it anyway.

"How's Zac's dead girlfriend doing? I do have to admit I didn't know you were into necrophilia Zac" Ross shouts as he laughs along with Cole in the front seat. I glance at Zac seeing him clench his fists in anger.

"Fuck off!" He yells back at them. I can't help but laugh lightly at the joke only for Zac to glare at me.

"Glad you find it funny bro" he spits bitterly.

"Come on, it was a little funny" I say as I try not to laugh. He rolls his eyes as he looks the other way clearly not impressed. I roll my eyes at his childish behaviour before looking back down at my grazed arm.

"Water?" Jordan offers me the flask of water after he takes a sip of it. I nod taking it off him instantly necking the water back as quickly as I could.

"Cheers" I say breathlessly as I wipe my mouth with my sleeve before passing the flask to Zac.

"Who the hell were those guys back there?" Jordan asks as he pulls out our bag of weapons.

"I don't know" I lie as he puts his empty gun into the sack.

"I recognised the cars, I just don't know where from" he sighs as he zips up the bag. I felt bad lying to him but it wasn't important, we didn't need to add more stress to this situation at all.

"Probably just thieves" Zac says as he throws the flask back at Jordan and I nod in agreement.

"Yeah, I knew we shouldn't have taken that short cut-" Jordan says before Ross cuts him off.

"Bro that was your idea!" He laughed.

"It wasn't! You drove us there!" Jordan snapped back at him.

"Under your orders!" Ross points at me as he shouts over the rumbling of the engine.

"Enough! It was a bad idea, we know that now. Let's just drop it" I say not wanting to draw any more attention to the situation then there already was.

"We're back home now anyways" Cole calls into the back as Ross begins to beep the horn and bang on the side of the Jeep as we approached the gates. I sigh in relief as we make it back, once again. The gates begin to slowly open to Novena and honestly I couldn't be anymore relived.

"Welcome to Novena Zac's dead girlfriend" Ross shouts as he pulls the Jeep up parking it next to the rest of our vehicles. I watch the gates close behind us before jumping out the back of the Jeep.

"I fucking hate him" Zac mutters to me as he jumps off the side of the Jeep before meeting me round the back. Ross and Cole jump out the front laughing about something before Ross threw the keys at me, I catch them with one hand before shoving them into my pocket.

"He's just fucking with you" I say to Zac as he pulls down the back flap of the Jeep quickly. Jordan jumps out the side grabbing the bag of weapons and the little resources we managed to scrimp up on this unsuccessful trip.

"Can you help me?" Zac pleads as I turn back to him getting ready to go back to my hut.
"Please? I can't lift her, I've hurt my back bro" he says as he gestures to the body in the back of the jeep. I look from him to the girl before sighing.

"You owe me" I say sternly as I pull the girl towards me carefully.

"Anything you want" he says with a smile as I scoop her into my arms once again.

"You owe me, fucking big time"