❝ Maybe forever was a word meant for memories and not people ❞
𝗜𝗡 𝗪𝗛𝗜𝗖𝗛 Sixteen year old Katherine James navigates her way through an apocalyptic world, surrounded by the dead, her little sister by her side and a group of survivors she met on...
Oops! This image does not follow our content guidelines. To continue publishing, please remove it or upload a different image.
001. the camp
It'd been a month since the fall. A month since Katherine James saw her parents die right in front of her. A month since she saw her best friend, Kathleen Clarke. She thought about them often. Her younger sister, Harlow was the only family Katherine had left. Her grandparents on either side had died earlier in their lives, and their uncle, their Dad's brother, was in Australia.
Katherine wondered if the fall reached there, or if it were just in the states. The dead were rising and eating people, tearing them apart, causing people to have to leave their homes, that's what the James' tried to do, but when tragedy struck, Katherine and Harlow were the only ones who survived.
If it wasn't for the kindness of Theodore Douglas, along with Glenn Rhee, the James' sisters would have ended up like their parents. Lucky for the small group of survivors, they found even more survivors, and together now, the big group of survivors had a camp by the Quarry.
There wasn't anyone there that was Katherine's age. Glenn was the closest, he was 6 years older than her and played a big brother figure in her life. Him and T-Dog saved her and her sister, and she'd be enterally grateful for them.
Her sister, Harlow, on the other hand, had a few other kids at their camp her age. Carl Grimes, who was 12 too. His mother Lori, was also at their camp, unfortunately for his father, he didn't make it. Sophia Peletier was also 12, she was the daughter of Carol, a nice woman who trusts Katherine to watch her sometimes when Carol is doing the chores around camp.
But, Sophia's father, and Carol's husband, Ed, was a cruel old man. Katherine has never hated anyone as much as she hates Ed Peletier. Another person Katherine doesn't like and tends to keep her distance from is Merle Dixon, along with his younger brother, Daryl Dixon. Merle is a racist, sexist, homophobic, asshole, and likes to show that he is too. Daryl isn't so bad, but Katherine still sticks away from both brothers.
The only people at camp Katherine hangs around is her sister, often helping her and the other kids with math and spelling, considering she took AP classes. Their parents think it's best they keep up the basic knowledge until things get better. Katherine begs to differ, things won't get better. She used to think things weren't bad, but once she saw the man rise from the dead with her very own eyes, then later Atlanta, everything changed.
She and Harlow, along with Glenn, seem to be the only ones that know about who bad Atlanta is. There's no way for anyone or anything to save it. What they're doing now is their new normal. Though, Harlow is inclined to believe it, and wants things to get better, Katherine plays along, so whenever her sister asks when they're going home, she replies with "Soon"
Even if things got better, Katherine and Harlow are only 16 and 12, their parents are gone. They'd probably have to move to Australia with their uncle, and though Katherine has always wanted to go to Australia, she doesn't think she could live there.
