Get ready.

Two words send your world into a spin, the text simply reads GET READY and is from Dava this was a simple set of different words you had agreed upon before she and her lot left town for when the road blocks and check points would be removed or the shit was really hitting the fan. This particular set is simple sometime within the next twenty four to forty eight hours the roadblocks and check points will no longer be operational, more importantly it means Dava will be getting in contact with you soon as well.

Happy things have reached this stage but also worried as it means things have reached the point of no return and that the military will now only be focusing on protecting very specific areas now if what Dava told you might happen before. " Ladies fun is over the warning has come through so lets get to it shall we, Lily check the vehicle's are ready to go, Rachael start sorting the food, Stella get online and check the maps for the routes and as long a forecaste as possible please. I will text the others now and then join you but I will have to take the vid call when it comes in so lets get to it ladies".

Over the next half an hour you sit in your fathers office texting, calling or emailing everyone you give a shit enough about that it is time to get ready to leave. The list was longer then you had expected outside of Angie, Lily, Stella, Rachel and Brittny's family of four you have to text Holly and Jessica, call Antonia over and inform the older ladies as well. Most of the older ladies apart from Angie say they are staying or going another way but thank you for the information in the end with Dava, her daughter, Paige and Gabriella if they join your group, you end up with sixteen people joining you on the journey to your Uncles place.

Just as you are getting ready to email your dad again the laptop pings and you click on the vid call icon and Dava appears and from the looks of things she is in the RV and it is on the move. " Frankie good to see you got my message I will keep it brief, less then three hours ago the President issued orders that all remaining military assets are to converge on cites and specific locations deemed vital to the country to aid them in dealing with the virus and the civil unrest. In reality most of the units furthest from the cities and not involved in guarding holding areas for those infected are been sent to bases, facilities and the embarkation points for the children camps to protect them from the growing number of freaks and bandits that are now roaming the country so they can be nice and safe for when he drops the next order which is the Government is going to ground and its everyone for themselves".

Not even finding this strange the freak numbers you have always know to be inaccurate that the media give out and a lot of people from the cities have found no one wants to help them so have resulted to stealing and looting and found it a hell of a lot easier to just take what they need. " That bad is it Dava how soon before it goes public and how soon before everyone finds out it is a lie".

Dava sits back in her chair and rolls her neck before answering that set of questions, " the President goes live in just under forty eight hours, by then most of the out of city roadblocks and check points will already no longer be maned leaving just the ones closest to the cities who will then start to move into the cities two hours after his press conference and it is going to take a while for the lie to come out as their is not really one in what he is going to say". Wanting to laugh at that you think for a second and realise the media is not going to be able to spot it at least until it is to late to say anything. " Look the units closest to the cities are been left in the cold as they are going to be the ones heading into the cities and basically left anyway as they have the highest chance of been infected already, while the others further out will be heading to the lockdown areas to do a mix of guarding and semi isolation before been sent out again, they will all have shoot to kill orders for all non authorised persons so do not approach any military unit you encounter while on the road".

It is then a voice you had not heard before calls out asking if it is ok to have some water and Dava smiles to someone off screen and waves them over. It is then a little girl of about eleven comes and sits on Dava's lap, " honey this is the nice man mommy told you about, Frankie meet my daughter Abby". Smiling and waving to the girl she waves back and Dava says she will just be a sec and you really do smile as it is nice to see that sort of thing. A minute later Dava sits back down, " sorry about that but she is a little excited to be in the RV and happy to see me again".

Nodding you say its ok, " when did you pick her up and will not someone be worried about her going missing". Giving you a really look Dava sighs, " I am insulted by that comment I am a trained agent that has gotten into more places then I should have in my life, a simple holding camp is nothing. Anyway we hit the place as they were moving her group so as far as they and the paper work is concerned she has been moved by another route and no one is going to be looking for her or care about a missing number. Not only that as my boss has so graciously put it things have hit the wall so its time, he left us to fend for are selves now and to use what we have as we see fit to make it out here as no way will we be let into any base or facility unless we can get there in the next twenty hours as all sites are going into full lockdown including the child evacuation sites".

Not able to help yourself you ask what she is planning to do now does she have a place to hole up yet some super secret home away from everything. " Honestly no home to say off so I was thinking of joining up with your little group we are less then two days away from your town and we have much more up to date info on the routes you could be taking as someone in my lot has been a naughty girl and gotten into some things she really should not have". The last part is said rather loudly followed by a sorry that makes you laugh, "send me the info and I will pick a route and then inform you which one we are taking and we can try and find somewhere to meet up also any ideas on where to get medical supplies that no one will miss".