5) Gone to the  Angels

Abby is driving back to Peter's school with Greg and Jen.  On nearing the school, they pass the school minibus parked by  the side of the road and stop to check it out. Hoping that it  was used by the group of boys who had gone away to escape the  sickness, Abby carries on to the school in the hope they are  there. Greg and Jen check out the surrounding area and come across  two children, John and Lizzie who have been fending for themselves.

They tell them that a boy was driving the bus (not called  Peter) and had said that the rest of the boys had 'gone to the  angels'. He'd left and not returned. The kids think that the  'angels' were up a mountain in Derbyshire.

They all go on to the school, which Abby has found is deserted.  Lizzie has the minibus key, so they go back to check its contents.  Inside are a map, with a place in Derbyshire marked, and some  old newspapers containing articles about a religious group who  had retreated into the Derbyshire hills preaching impending doom  just before the sickness had started. They take the minibus and  set off for Derbyshire. Once they reach the area, they find a  house to use as a base. There is already a man staying there  - he is very nervous, and shoots Greg in the shoulder. He has  just escaped from a small settlement which was raided by a group  of thugs calling themselves the 'British Government', acting  on behalf of the 'Chairman of Britain'. They had taken everything  from the settlement, including a young woman, and torched the  rest.

Abby sets off on foot to find the 'angels'. She finds them  in a remote farmhouse - there are three men in the group. Abby  is the first person they have seen since they retreated up there.  Abby asks if she can stay awhile.

Back in the house, Greg's wound is healing. He and Jen are  now a couple, and the new man is jealous and starting to behave  oddly. He is paranoid about getting a visit from the 'British  Government'. Greg and Jen decide to leave him to it, and take  the children to join Abby at the 'angels' farmhouse.

Very soon after they arrive, the 'angels' become ill. Abby  has carried the plague with her and the three men die. Abby is  now worried that if she finds Peter, and he has not been ill,  she may end up killing him too!