Well when I got to my estate house, the party was in full swing, it was mostly girls in bikinis by the poolside getting drunk mixed with a few girls with their own boy toys.
If your wondering how they got in when I was gone it was because, like a whipped boss, I gave the combo to the gate and key to the house to one of the girls iv been sleeping with most of the week, Victoria, blonde hair, blue eyes, about 5'5 with some decent curves, but I kept her around more for her personality, even though she looks like a model, she doesn't seem to have an over inflated ego, nor does she seem to be overly materialistic, though everyone likes nice things every now and again of course.
Then there is the fact she actually knows how to shoot a pistol better than me, may have helped, as she did competition bullseye shooting, taught by her father who was a cop before he died in the line of duty years ago.
As I walk around for a few minutes looking at the random individuals roaming the pool area as well as the house, checking for anyone who looks wounded, I only see one or 2 people who may be getting sick but it doesn't look too bad yet. Thankfully nobody that I know either so that's good.
I did hire a few bouncers for the night to keep anyone who looked sickly out, and if they wanted in they had to wait til I got there. There were only 4 girls and 2 dudes in the room specified for that but they could wait til later. As I finally spotted Vicki giggling with a gaggle of girls.
"Hey you" I say to her as I walk up behind her with a backwards hug.
"Hey Alex! I'm kinda surprised you didn't cancel the party with how crazy the city is right now" she told me while raising a perfectly manicured eyebrow in question after the others walked off to give us a moment.
"Well to be honest" I began with a sigh of resignation "if they aren't here, they will probably be dead by the end of the week..." I began slowly "the virus that's been on the news, I recently found out is far worse than is being shown on the media and my contacts tell me that in a day or 2, most of the country will likely begin to collapse... it's why I wanted as many people here as possible so if you know anyone, you should call them quickly and have them come here to bunker down for a while. I was also told that if it gets too bad.... the government will carpet bomb the major infected cities." I tried to get it out quickly as I simply didn't know how to tell someone the world was going to end. In my past life I was somewhat shy and tended to keep to myself so this was all new to me.
As I was telling her this I pulled out my phone to show her videos I had saved to it. "These are all real darlin, some of these happened in this city, and some of them I videotaped myself when I was walking around yesterday. But they are all completely real.
There are some people here that are also infected though from what I can see, it's mostly early stages"
The more she watched the more she paled, it was obvious she didn't want to believe, who truly would? She did look like she wanted to panic, though thankfully she didn't overmuch.
"If this is real.. then what are we going to do? How long can we stay here for?"
"Mmmm as for what we are going to do, for now anyways, we will sit tight, I have my yacht and another ship anchored at sea, between them I can house a few hundred people for a good few months at minimum as they are stocked with supplies. If things get too bad, we will go to the ships, I didn't have enough warning to prepare much more than that." I tell her with a wary and tired sigh.
Though that's not completely accurate, I did have some cattle amongst other things located in a remote fenced in area, but I don't know if they will survive.
"I did make a few other plans but I don't know how well those will survive as obviously I can't oversee them. I wanted to be here to make sure you were alright as well."
"Ok so what do you want to do then, you said there are infected here though? Will they turn into those things as well?" To which I just nod at the last part.
"We will either have to quarantine them or... maybe we should speak more privately? There are some things I may need to show you...?"
While obviously I wasn't going to tell her everything, I did need someone in my corner and to maybe bounce ideas off of, I couldn't hide everything forever anyways. I just want most of the government to be gone before it gets out too much. So I told her about and showed her Helia and the abilities of her tears, that I had a few doses saved up already but it's simply not mass producible so we would need to be careful with it.
I also showed her my personal healing ability with a tiny cut on my finger and told her because of that I'm immune, I played it off as having Helia as my familiar. I mean how else could I do it without saying I got wishes from god? 🤷‍♂️
She has already, over the time we have been talking, made several phone calls to some friends who live within a few hours and did her best to explain what was happening and where was and wasn't safe, several of them would try to make it here while the rest would try to reconnect with their own families.
Other than that we discussed how to explain to the other people here what is going on outside, in the city and around the world. She decided to download the videos to my laptop and simply hook it up to the 80" tv and have people watch it and deal with it from there. It was the simplest thing to do in my opinion.
I also had the bouncers bring the 6 people who were definitely infected and separate the other two who looked like they weren't feeling good.
With that we went outside and made our announcement that there was some crazy videos that they needed to see to believe. The 8 people would simply be our living examples.
It's simple to say, nobody was overly happy with what was going on and the fact the government and media aren't publicizing this shit storm, several people obviously had to leave, either to take care of or find family members. They were told they could come back if they could make it but that I doubted it would be safe after the next 12 hours.
And like that we went from a lively party of over 60 people to down to 47, including the two bouncers who decided to stay as they had nobody to go go back to anyways, the 3rd bouncer had an ex wife and a kid to go save. I gave him a pistol and a spare magazine and told him they could come back.
And with that we ended up with 40 hot chicks and 7 dudes including myself. The only thing left to deal with were the 8 people who were waiting around nervously. Looking quite terrified that they were going to die, as 7 of them admitted to the group that they were bitten a few hours ago before they came here. The last one was unknown as he didn't seem to have any bites but would quarantine anyways. So 8 out of 47 people possibly infected, yay! That's not really a good ratio to survivors.
So with that I brought out the cure, there were obvious questions, like how the fuck I had a cure to this thing, so eventually I had Helia flame onto my shoulder, who sang a calming song. That did the trick there, most people have either seen or read Harry Potter as a kid, so I simply told them the cure was Phoenix tears and couldn't be mass produced.
I was only able to produce 9 tears but we figured that unless the person was on the verge of death, that the tears could be watered down in a solution to stretch our supply a little bit, and they were my guinea pigs. 5 of them got full doses and 3 of them got a watered down solution of it. (Including the mystery sickness whatever that was) as we looked at the first 5 girls to get it one after another, their wounds simply began to smoke then heal over like they never existed. The last 3, while the wounds smoked and somewhat healed, didn't simply vanish. But I'm fairly sure the virus was at least killed and that's what I wanted to see. Well either way I have 3 more tears I can play with now.
"We will have to watch you 8 until we are positive that it worked, but I believe it did, as Helia can no longer 'smell' it on you as she did before" that was kind of an exaggeration but it seemed like it calmed them down.
I also called both captains of my ships before we all decided to call it a night, and told them to go dark for now.