❝ 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...
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017. a killer within
Katherine was in the RV reading a book, Harlow was still in the house with Carl, she's been spending a lot of her time in there with him. Katherine suspects that she may have a tiny crush on Carl, but she wouldn't say anything, because the minute Katherine does, Harlow will get all embarrassed and weird about it.
And though, Katherine loves to annoy her sister. She deserves some happiness, some distraction from the real world, and the fact their friend is missing. And her and Carl were really cute.
"Hey, Kat, what are you reading?" Dale asked her from the table in the RV.
"No idea, the book is kinda boring" Katherine replies, "Sorry"
"Don't be" Dale smiled at her, "I didn't plan for the world to end, if I knew, I would've brought better books"
"Maybe we'll find better books at a bookstore" she suggested, "I always wanted to run my own bookstore"
"In another life you are" Dale stated.
"Do you believe in that? Different life stuff?" she asks him.
"I believe everything happens for a reason" he replies.
"So this? End of the world shit was supposed to happen?" she questioned.
"In a way, yes. And some of us are built for this world, others are not" he says, "Me. I'm an old man, I'm 64, sooner or later somethings gonna catch up to me. I won't survive, I know that. But you, Katherine James, are"
"Me? Sometimes I feel like I barely know what I'm doing" she chuckles in amusement.
"You're strong, you know how to fight, and you're young. You're gonna survive this new world" he says.
"So are you, Dale. We all will; T-Dog, Lori, Andrea, Glenn, Carl, Harlow, we all will" Katherine says, "Because we're family, and we stick together and watch out for each other."
"Not Shane" Dale shakes his head, the vibe of the room changing, "Can I confide in something with you?"
"Course" Katherine replies, putting her book down.
"I think Shane killed Otis," Dale said.
Katherine stayed quiet for a moment, thinking about what Dale said, before putting her own theories together. She thought of it, but God, if she said it out loud, everything would change. "Me too," Katherine mumbled.
