Damaged || A The Walking Dead Story

A walker in camp?!

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~Nightmare/flashback - 18 years ago~

BANG!

I hear causing me to jump awake. Looking at the clock to my left I see it's after midnight so I get up to go see what my mom is cleaning this time.

"Mom?" I call out tiredly while rubbing my eyes.

I'm met with silence confusing me as I continue down the hallway. My dad is at work and my brothers are staying at their friends so it's just mom and I at home, most nights when she can't sleep she just cleans and says that it helps but I know it doesn't.

"Mom where are you?" I call out again this time louder.

I go to my parents bedroom deciding it's the best place to start since the light is on. When I get there the door is cracked open so I peak through before opening the door all the way, seeing nothing I go to the bathroom door in the room and knock.

"Mom? Are you in there?" I question followed by more silence. "Mom?"

I step closer to the door putting my ear up to it to see if I hear anything and that's when I feel something wet touch my feet. At first I thought it was water since it was coming from the bathroom but when I look down I realize quickly that it's something else.

Blood.

Immediately I start banging on the door and yelling. "MOM! MOM! OPEN THE DOOR! PLEASE!" More silence.

Turning the handle I try to push the door open but there's something on the other side making it hard to open it by myself, so I do the only other thing I can do I run to the phone and call 911.

"911 what's your emergency?" The women asks.

"I need help I think my mom is hurt!" I tell her quickly.

"Okay calm down sweetie tell me what happened" she says in a calming voice.

"I was sleeping and I heard a loud noise so I went to see what happened and when I went to see if she was in the bathroom I stepped in blood so I tried to open the door but there was something in the way!"

"Okay help is on the way what's your name sweetie?"

"Hannah" I tell her with a shaky voice and tearing up.

"Hannah my name is Maddie I need you to tell me where you are in your house"

"I'm upstairs in my parents room"

"Okay is there anything you can tell me about where the room is so help can find you?" She asks.

"It's the only room that has a light on"

"Okay now how old are you?"

"I'm 8"

"Alright now I need you to listen very carefully help is on the way but they won't be there for a couple of minutes, so I need you to do something very important can you do that?"

"Yeah"

"Okay first is there a cord connected to the phone?"

"Yes" I say slowly getting more scared.

"How long is the wire can it reach the bathroom?" She continues to ask.

"Yeah my mom sometimes takes it in there when she's getting ready"

"Okay that's good now what I need you to do is go to the bathroom door and push as hard as you can until you can squeeze in can you do that?"

"I think so" I say slowly walking to the bathroom door.