I look at my watch. 6am. Everyone's up and ready to hit the road again. Glenn and Maggie left for a supply run. After maybe an hour, we head down the main road.
"We should move fast, the walkers are catching up." Carol says.
Never have I seen a sky so gray. It matches the torn down city.
I've only been outside our town twice, for quick runs. Never this far.
The walkers are moving fast. We ran into at least 30. We walk through trails in the woods, and we stop in a clearing. A few feet a head of us is a small building, maybe a barn or shed. "Hey," Daryl points. "remember?Before Alexandria?"
Before Alexandria, our town. Home.
Is this the barn they were talking about? When they met one of the council members, Aaron?
We settle in and I take a look around. It's much bigger inside. Michonne points to one of the wooden poles that helps keep the place up.
"When it all started." She smiled.
"That means Terminus is near." Abraham points out. "I say we stay the night, then head down the main road. All the walkers are gone and in Alexandria. It should be clear."
Carol stands up "If not, me and Tyreese found a house on the way. We built a fence to keep them out, just incase." She looks at me and grins.
"What?" I laugh.
"You were with us." She smiles.
I smile back. "Dad? Can I...take a walk? A few minutes, I promise."
"A walk? Are you crazy? The world has ended, we are stuck in a barn and there are flesh eating zombies out there and you want to take a walk?"
"Rick," Mark says "I'll go with her. 5 minutes."
Dad stared at me with that angry look. "5 minutes. Run into a walker, use your knife."
I walk out the door and Mark follows. We walk away from the clearing and into the woods.
"Why?" he asks me.
"I want to see the world. I want to know if this was before. I want to know everything."
I look at my watch. 3pm. The grayness is gone and now it's clear blue with the bright sun. I walk faster and ahead of Mark. All is quiet until I hear a piercing scream behind me. I turn and a walker is digging into Mark's shoulder.
All I see is his blood pouring down his arms and pooling on the ground. It sprays onto his legs as he kneels and cries for help.
I stand there for a second trying to process all of this. Then I scream. As loud as I can. I take my knife out and stab the walker in the eye as Mark falls to the ground, clutching his wound.
"Oh my god. Oh my god." I whisper. I let out a sob and try to drag him back to the barn. With a grunt I try harder, but it won't budge.
"JUDITH?" Carl comes from in front of me. Behind him is Michonne, Daryl and my father.
"We heard the screams, is everything alright?" my Dad asks. Then he saw Mark's bitten body lying on the floor.
"There was a walker and I-" I run out of breath. I can't take this.
My dad and Daryl drag him by the legs back to the barn. He's still alive and breathing, still holding his shoulder.
Carl opens the door to the barn where Maggie is patiently waiting to see what happened.
"MARK!" She throws herself onto her son and sobs. "MY BABY!" Glenn starts tearing up, then cries for him to come back. "Mark Mark Mark noooo!!" and with that, Mark closes his eyes and escapes this world.
But soon he will come back.
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The Walking Dead-Judith's life
FanficMy father told me a lot about my childhood. 15 years ago, when I wasn't even a year old, the world changed. The walkers, the... just everything. But they made it to Alexandria and that's our home now. It's perfect. Carl says it's just how it was bef...