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The familiar sound of rubber pelting against someone resounded from behind Hermès. If it wasn't for the fact that they were outside and in front of an injured old man, then he would've sworn he was back in gym class playing dodgeball. He turned to follow the sound and found himself face to face with a short, attractive, red head that seemed to be around his age. Though the way she spoke to those kids he could've sworn she was another senior citizen telling the younglings to get off their lawn. The weak ball toss adding to the image of an older graying ginger instead of the youthful one standing behind them all. Standing beside her was a man that seemed a bit too old to be with her, so Hermes decided they were more than likely coworkers of some kind.

”Hey, you two pulled up at a bad time. Got an injured civilian here and are awaiting paramedics. We've been instructed to stay clear for now and give him some air and room for when they arrive.” Hermes relayed to the two new faces. Ten minutes felt like an eternity, but it was a hell of a lot sooner than anything else he supposed. He kept the phone up to his ear, staying on the line as he was about to turn back around when he noticed Finley walking up towards them. The wound obvious even from this distance. ”Fin you ok?” He signed towards his friend as he began to speak on the line once more. ”There's another injured, from this distance i can see a nasty wound on his shoulder, potentially a bite.”

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The ball went sailing through the air. Or, so Kali figured it would. Instead, her throwing arm had been limp, and the ball had only flew a small distance. Thankfully for Kali, however, the kids had gotten the message, and quickly took off somewhere else to play. "Kids these days," Kali muttered to herself, clearly disgruntled.

Turning her attention back to the injured victim, Kali took note of the scene. Her elderly neighbor had a clear bite wound on his hand, a fact confirmed by a somewhat familiar individual. One of Hannah's friends, Kali could only figure, as she took notice of her other neighbor next to him. The teen had already been on the line with emergency services, although Kali was displeased with what she heard.

"Stand clear?" Kali asked, puzzled about the change in treatment. One medical professional, the doctor at the restaurant, wanted to keep the fever down. But now the paramedics wanted them to stand clear? "He's probably already burning up with a fever—just like Jeff."

Kali glanced momentarily at Isaac, wondering what he had been thinking.

"I'll go get some ice from my freezer, just in case."

Pulling her keys from her purse, Kali walked over to the apartment door. Before she was able to open the door, however, a bird swooped down from the sky and began to peck at one of the women that had come to the old man's aid. "What the fuck?!" She loudly exclaimed, startled by the incident. Were the birds somehow afflicted with the on-going craziness too? "Are you okay?"

Two new people had joined, and the woman of the pair said something and walked off to the apartment complex. Suddenly, Mandy was freaked out when a bird swooped down and attacked her. She had never really been bothered by birds before, why was this one harassing her? She swatted at it, but it left behind some scratches on her face.

She noticed that Hermes was signing to someone else. She looked and saw another teen. They looked messed up. Mandy frowned. Okay, things seemed to have gotten really bad. They had the man on the ground, this new hurt teen (that her cousin seemed to know), and a whole bunch of people in the area. If one of these people turned out to be a danger like Hermes feared they were all about to be in a lot of trouble. She glanced a little worried at the group of kids.

Mandy pulled the keys for her car out of her pocket and clutched them. If they needed to make a break for it she'd want those handy.

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@Trainerblue192@Kirah[@Kuro] Hermes would hear the distinct growling sound coming from Finley just like Elio had been back at the school as he stumbled and shambled his way over towards the group. Mostly focused on Hermes as his next meal Isaac was pretty alarmed seeing the kid as he looked over at Kali, it was just like back at the restaurant. When Kali got his attention looking back at the injured man who didn't look so good either. "Yeah see if you can get whatever ice you can get." Isaac said remembering back at the restaurant and the advice from the doctor. Hannah quickly went over towards Mandy and started to check her for wounds there were a few talon marks but nothing to serious that would need stitches. "Are you okay?" Hannah signed to her.

Finley however was getting closer to Hermes and managed to tackle him to the ground and tried to take a bite out of him. Not really thinking Isaac quickly went to wrestle Finley off of Hermes and managed to take the infected kid to the ground. Isaac turned to look at Hermes as he did his best to hold him down. "Are you okay kid?" Isaac asked him they would be able to see an ambulance driving over and parking next to Mandy's car as they started to unload a gurney and approached. "What happened?" One of them asked as the other paused and stared at the zombie being held down by Isaac. "What the fuck?" He asked sounding really shocked never seeing someone look like that before.

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Flynn looked at the tire iron that he had there was a bit of blood and what looked like some bone on it as well he shook the gore off of it. He simply nodded at Verity as he quickly went over to the guest waiting room Gus managed to get the bitten woman on one of the chairs. He rushed over to grab a first aide kit from the wall that was close to the work floor and pulled out some gauss and started to approach the customer and applied them over the bite wound.

"Are you okay Gus?" Flynn asked as he looked over at his friend as he turned to look at him and shrugged slightly. "Fine as could be." Gus said he looked at the injured woman he was definitely not a medical expert whatever was going on it happened in his work place like back at the Twin Seasons. Verity would get a text from Trudy again as well as a video attached to her text message. "Trudy: People are really going crazy right now some of them are looting, if you still need a ride let me know." Trudy had texted, she would see in the video people were bashing in a few store fronts and grabbing whatever they could.

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The ringing eventually went dead, replaced by Riley's voice signifying the answering machine. Waverley's lips curved into a frown as the tone sounded. "It's Waverley again - just...call me back. Or text me back. I need to know you're safe. Love you..." With a sigh, Waverley hung up, pausing for a second to check if she has any messages from Riley - or anyone else - before slipping it into her pocket. She sped up, once again at Kaitlyn.

"I don't actually know where I'm going, yet...My sister's not picking up. Not sure how much good going home would do. I guess I could go to the Veil - er, the bar I work at - and meet up with some friends of mine..." as soon as her phone was in her pocket, Waverley's eyes were on the sky, following the aircrafts up above. After a few moments, she pulled out her police scanner, bringing it to her ear. After some fiddling, she managed to tune into the radio waves, getting some of the locations the copters were heading towards. Not bad information to have...

"What about you, Kait - or do you prefer Kaitlyn?" Waverley interrupted her own presumption, before shaking her head, forcing herself back on track. "Any idea where you're headed?"

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Verity followed Flynn, careful not to stare too long at the tire iron covered in blood and other materials. This had the makings of a really intense horror film, which left her feeling somewhat comforted, as she would most likely be the "Final Girl." Still, movies were different from real life.

Verity felt her phone vibrate and checked it to see a message from Trudy. She followed it up by watching videos of people going nuts and looting everything. It was almost funny how quickly people devolved into this survivalist behavior when something happened. A disease spreading made people sweep shelves rather than take what they would need to ensure other people had the stuff to survive.

Verity would have laughed at the chaos if it didn't feel like they maybe had the right idea.

Verity shot off a quick reply to Trudy. "I'm okay. Please get home and do not leave until this is over. Talk soon." She hoped she would get the chance to see Trudy again once this was all taken care of.

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It seemed the woman was alright, albeit shaken. One of the teenagers went to check on the woman, and began to sign to her. Well, shit. Kali felt awful—she had no idea the woman had been deaf. Here she had been, all up in her face in worry without the woman being able to understand a single word Kali said. A part of Kali wished she had paid attention in school, barely remembering how to sign her own name from the short ASL course they had one day. Perhaps then she'd be able to apologize, and even on the chance she never saw the woman again, it'd at least be good to know later on if Kali ever ran into anyone else who had been deaf.

As the awkwardness died down, however, the scene suddenly broke into full-on panic. Another one of her neighbors, a teenager like the other two, had come seemingly out of nowhere, and tackled one of the kids to the ground. Staring in disbelief, the events at the restaurant replayed in Kali's thoughts as Isaac jumped to the teenager's aid in response, proceeding to wrestle the other off him.

People were going to get hurt—one of them very much already was by the wound on his shoulder. But what were they supposed to do? Restrain him? Good luck with that! It took two of her co-workers just to lock up the co-worker that attacked Jeff, and even then they had a giant freezer to lock him up in! Were they supposed to hogtie the teenager with their belts or something?

Biting her lip, Kali soon found her questions answered by the arrival of an ambulance. Unfortunately for her, however, they seemed just as lost as she had been. It was good to know that her tax dollars were being put to work in hiring "quality candidates" for the emergency services, Kali sarcastically thought as the man froze up before them.

"Snap out of it!" Kali yelled, turning to face the wide-eyed paramedic, "You're the professional here; do something!"

Mandy let Hannah check out her face. She wasn't certain how deep any of the wounds were. They hurt, but not enough for her to worry too much. Though head wounds always bleed a lot. Mandy tapped her chest with her thumb, her fingers splayed, "Fine." There were bigger things to worry about.

"Hermes!" Mandy yelled as her cousin was attacked. Her voice thick and for anyone who didn't know they might think she had a strange accent. "Are you okay?" She asked, switching back to sign. Concern was written deeply on her face. She wanted to just get into her car and leave. There were Paramedics here, she hadn't seen what happened, did they have to stay? Outside? It was too risky. Her parents would worry if they were too much longer.