Jenny throws her rock as hard as she can at Crazy Tom's face. He automatically raises his dominant hand and blocks it, and the knife is knocked from his hand.

Jenny dives for the knife on reflex and scrambles away with it, holding it out in defense before Crazy Tom can even bend over to try for it. He bares his teeth in anger and lunges at her, uncaring as his arms get sliced up with her swings.

Jenny screams as he attacks her, kicking at him and cutting him in desperation, fighting to keep him away. He tries to get a hold of the knife and pull it away from her, but she's faster. He leans in to grab at her throat, and she stabs at his face. She feels the resistance and sickening softness of his flesh pushing against it when the knife stakes a claim in his eye.

Crazy Tom goes still. He sinks to the ground and lays with the knife in his face, dead.

Jenny turns toward grunting and scuffling noises to find Michael struggling with a large, gray-skinned man. She grabs the knife out of Crazy Tom and sticks it into the man's neck at an upward slant. He loses his strength like his power was cut, and he falls to the ground.

She pants and put her hands on her knees, looking around. More shuffling footsteps and moans warn her that more neighbors are coming.

"Thanks," Michael says, panting just as hard as she is. "I thought that one was going to be the one to get me."

"My car," Jenny says, pointing to her garage, then runs toward it.

Michael looks at the people gathering with their strange gait and gray skins, and then he follows her quickly. He helps her lift the garage door and Jenny unlocks the car. They both hop in, and she drives them away, leaving a crowd of ghouls behind.

"Whew!" Michael says, when they pass the city limit sign. He leans over and gives her a loud kiss on the cheek as they celebrate, high from relief and gladness to be away from the zombies.

The authorities quarantine the suburbs. Within a week, it's all over.

Michael and Jenny forged a bond in the midst of high emotions and danger, and they get married after an intense couple of months of dating. They move into a house on a hill with distant neighbors and security bars on all of the windows, but they never see another ghoul.