Days Gone By

Chapter 7

"Alexis's P.O.V"

Almost a month had passed since we reached the motel, Food supplies were still holding up but starting to run a little thin so Tony decided that it would be best if we went on a run. We all figured staying where we were right now would be best until we couldn't keep the walkers out anymore. Some sense of stability was greatly needed for the group right now, especially for the kids.

"Hey." Tony says as he walks into the doorway of my room.

"Hey yourself" I reply back with a slight smile. We had been actually getting along for the most part over the few weeks wed been at the motel and I believe he trusts me a little bit more.

"Would you like to go on the run with us?" He asks looking down at the floor.

I looked at him for a minuet before I finally answered

"Sure if you want me too."

"Well your good with a gun and knife so we need someone that can handle their own. Not saying Brian and Sydney cant but lets face it Sydney ain't all that good with a gun and Brian doesn't like getting close to those things. You don't seem to be afraid of anything." He says in a low voice like he wasn't really used to giving complements or that he didn't approve of how careless I was when it came to killing the walkers. I smiled at the fact he was acting shy all of a sudden and I think he noticed it too because he smiled just a little bit.

"Well...can't really say no I need to hold my own around here and help out more on runs. So yea let me change." I say pulling my shirt over my head before he could get out the door. Typical guy, he glanced back before he shut the door behind him.

I changed into one of my black tank tops and a pair of blue jean short shorts so that maybe movement would be a little easier, strapped my guns to my sides and my knife to my arm as usual and walked out the door.

"Tonys P.O.V"

"Ready when yall are." Alexis says walking out to us

"God damn looka there." Sydney mumbles under his breath making me turn and look

Black tank top short blue jean shorts armed to kill. Damn she looked good. What was I thinking. Something inside me stirred as she came bouncing up to us. I couldn't have feelings like this now a days it just wasn't safe, but she had grown on me the last few weeks. Maybe it was her stubbornness or the fact that she doesn't take my shit and rebels against my every order, i don't know but i have got to get this under control before it kills me.

"Damn what I'd love to do to her." Sydney mumbles into my ear.

"Tha Fuck man, we ain't got the time to be thinking about shit like that." I replied truthfully

"Jealous are we?" He smirks back

"Naw, I ain't jealous, thinking like that is gonna get one of us killed. Lets get going guys." Smirking at the fact he thought I was jealous of him.

When we reached town we saw a few walkers, easily taken out with knives to keep down the noise so that more werent attracted. We grouped together and decided that we would take on the smaller stores first. We had brought one of the trucks so that maybe it would be easier to gather supplies store by store instead of packing our bags with what would fit and heading on out. The first store we came to was a small grocery store, and pharmacy. Looked like it had been hit a few times by scavengers like us but still had a few good things.

"Sydney you and Brian hit the canned goods. I'll get look at the bagged and boxed stuff, Alexis you check the pharmacy for anything we could use." I gave out the orders as i made my way down to the isles i put myself at.

"Alexis P.O.V"

I didn't argue when given an order this time just went on my way. Took out two zombies right inside the pharmacy door but so far didn't see any others. It looked as if the pharmacy had barely been touched by other scavengers. I found gauze, band-aids, anti bacterial ointment, peroxide, alcohol, pain killers (Tylenol, and ibprophen) tampons (better to use to hide the smell of blood) and anti biotics. Didn't expect to find this much. I had an un easy feeling but I shrugged it off because i seemed to always have an un easy feeling on runs. I turned to walk back to the others and found myself face to face with a walker (uneasy feeling verified). I grabbed for my knife just as it lunged for me. I kicked it back just enough to get my knife and jabbed it into the walkers skull as the guys came running, heard the struggle im guessing. I rolled the walker to the side and stood up.

"I'm good." I said dusting myself off still shaking a tad bit but i wasn't about to let them see that.

We went out to the truck, swapping bags we moved on to the department store. Most of the group needed new clothes so we would get what we could of that from here. I went to the womens clothes of course carrying three bags and the paper on which i had written everyones sizes. I grabbed clothes that i felt everyone would like, but promoted movement and safety as well. When I was done with clothes I went on to shoes because my shoes were falling apart. No one else had needed them but I sure as hell did. I found the shoes, and found one pair of Nikes in my size I put them on placing the old ones in the box bounced a few time and walked away.

"I got wh..." my sentence was cut short by the scene in front of me.

Tony and Sydney held up on top of a shelf guns pointed at them and four walkers closing in. I dropped my bags and dipped behind a display. I peeked around the corner trying to come up with a plan, there were only two guys holding them there, I could handle that, I hoped. Tony spotted me and went to shaking his head to say don't try to save them. Not going to happen i told myself, you have to save them, this is why Tony wanted you along wasn't it. I found an empty can on the floor and tossed it as far to the side of me as I could distracting the walkers, in which the two men finally noticed, and turned firing at them giving me the window to get closer to Tony and Sydney. Brian came sprinting around the corner and I held my hand up signing for him to stop and get down out of sight. He peeked around with a puzzled look. I pointed to Tony and Sydney and then to the two guys fighting off the walkers before easing closer.

"No." Tony mouthed the closer I got.

"I don't take orders." I mouthed back and he smiled slightly but it was quickly wiped away when I felt arms wrap around me from behind

"Look what I found Horis. Aint this such a pretty little thing?" The man behind me half yelled across the isle."