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"Possibly," she answered, but slowly smiled Her

There was a burst of static over the walkie-talkie

"That’s it," Greta’s voice cackled through the static "Holy God in Heaven, that’s it We got two colu to the east and west and the ones that hit us straight on…boys and girlswhat you see in front of you is it!"

Travis heard the news and snatched up his walkie-talkie "Yolanda, !" she hollered back at hih walkie-talkie

Within seconds, Yolanda’s voice boo victory

"Holy shit," Bette whispered, then rapped up in Linda’s aran to screa his feet over the edge Looking down past his knees, he saw a cluster of body parts "Well, it was a good day to die, but oh well," he said and lit up a cigarette Then he grinned as he realized his bike stood unscathed "Well, hot daan to cry

Lenore sat back in the chair next to her crossbow and sighed softly

Nodding to herself, she pulled out a soda and popped the top "Damn zombies shouldn’t have touchedthe massacred zombies, she said, "For Felix and Ken Rest in peace, my brothers"

Katie ran up to Travis and launched herself into his arht and he swung her around Juan joined the down his face, and they drew hi with joy Nerit tackled all of the with joy They wrapped her up in their enor each other, they were all crying and talking at the same ti with excitement and Jason worer’s cheek and ly

"We did it!" Travis shouted it to the heavens and the helicopter circling over head

"I kneould," Nerit said with a big grin "I knew it!"

"It was almost too easy," Kevin exclaimed

"You call that easy?" Nerit s man! We planned it out and we did it!" Juan whooped "We were a little late on the ‘organize before they rise’ part of the Zoot here"

"Thanks to Jason here," Katie said, squeezing the boy tighter

Katarina dove into theand Kevin high-fived her "Bill would have loved this!" She burst into tears again, but she was sht and happy They looked over the battlefield at the destroyed bodies of the dead and slowly it dawned on them that they had not lost one person in the battle More tears came as relief set in

Travis hooked his arm around Katie’s shoulder and kissed her firmly just as Eric and Stacey showed up Lenore and Rune ca each other again

"We did it," Nerit said over the din of voices "Look out there Look at it

We all did this We survived And this is life Our life The fort stood"

Slowly, they fell into silence as the enorripped the defenders of the sroups all over the fort, they stared through s, or from the rooftops, or froround Since the first day of the rising, they had never had such a sweet victory

"What a mess," Katie finally said But in her heart, she knew that every second of every day from the first day had been worth it to feel this ht It had been worth it She snuggled into Travis’ sideher arms around Jason, she felt secure in the family she and Jenni had created Jack yawned at her feet and looked up at her with his "I want a cookie" look

"Yep, that is one helluva reed "Loca would be proud"

Calhoun suddenly shoved his way past the hie

"We did it, Calhoun," Travis said proudly

"We did a daood job The clones are not uy