Amy was gone. I was crying and just curling up there on the ground when I heard the others crying as well. The kids were scared. I couldn't bring myself to look up to see the rest of the damage of the camp. I didn't want to see who was left.
"Jade" I heard a whisper and I just shook my head. I didn't want to be bothered. I just wanted to stay here forever. I felt a hand touch my back and I flinched and looked up to see it was just Daryl. "come on" he whispered gently. I sobbed and shook my head
"I can't...."
"the hell you can't" he replied simply. I sobbed and looked down "you helped take out some walkers I think you can manage to walk" he mumbled to me. I wanted to scream and break something. I rocked myself as I tried to stop my tears and control my breathing. Daryl knelt with me never leaving. When it got to a point I couldn't try anymore I just felt tired. Weak and numb. When I started to take in the world around me I saw everyone who was left was starting to clean up the bodies. Walkers in one pile to be burned and the other pile for those who were in the camp to be buried. I turned to look at Daryl to see he was in fact still here with me.
"You should go help them..." I whispered with my voice rough my eyes burning.
"Come on...let's get you away from these" he said and I glanced at the walkers behind me. I nodded and moved to stand or try to. My legs didn't want to work or maybe I just didn't want them to. Daryl took hold of my arm and stood and helped me up to my feet. I didn't want to move but he gently pushed me forward so I did start moving and I went towards Lori who was with Carl and she gasped at the sight of me. The blood on me must have been gross to look at.
"Jade are you bit?" Lori asked and I shook my head. "scratched?" she asked and again I shook my head. She nodded and took my silence as a hint that I wasn't much for talking. She moved and got some water and she cleaned me up the best she could with what we had. I watched as the group moved around and when the sun came up we started a fire to burn the walker bodies. I looked over toward Andrea and saw she was still leaning over Amy. I wasn't sure I could go over to her yet. Her crying stopped.
Finally I saw Lori stand up and walk towards Andrea to speak to her. I watched her until she finally stood up and I heard a grunt and looked over to see Daryl putting a pick axe into the head of yet another camp member. we couldn't allow them to turn. He stood up straight and looked over to me before wiping the sweat off his face and moved on to the next.
"She still wont move?" Rick asked and I looked over to see him looking over towards Andrea
"She won't even talk to us" Lori mumbled. I hadn't even realized she had gotten back. She was still upset about the whole thing herself "She's been there all night...What do we do?" she asked Rick. She was right. these things turned when they felt like it...who knows when she would come back and who knows what Andrea would do in her greef...and yet it felt wrong to rush it.
"We can't just leave Amy like that" Shane added and I looked between them. What were they thinking?
"People grieve in different ways" I whispered to them "just give her time"
"How much time?..." Shene countered and I looked to him to see he was glaring at me "We need to deal with it" he added and I glared back.
"How can you be that cold?" I hissed at him with fire in my eyes.
"it's the same as the others..." he told me and I shook my head at him. I was ready to stand up and slap him when Rick patted my shoulder, keeping me down in my seat. He must have known that I too was close to Amy and this was hard on me as well.
"I'll tell her how it is" Rick spoke and walked away and towards Andrea
"It's a stupid idea" I whispered to Rick but he couldn't hear me. That or he just ignored me. He walked over to her and leaned down to her but without a word she pulled out her pistol and aimed it right at his face. I scoffed. Lori glared at me and I looked at her "I told you" I whispered just when I turned back and saw Rick slowly backing away.
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Surviving The Walking Dead (TWD FanFic)
Fanfiction*SEASON ONE ONLY* During the outbreak, Jade lost her family. Everything she had was gone. Ripped away, ripped apart by those...things. After losing her family, she felt so lost and alone and wanted nothing more than to just die. That was until much...
