Finding Love in the Zombie Apocalypse (Daryl Dixon fanfic)

Chapter 1

Darkness. All I see and hear is darkness, besides the few walkers that are grunting outside.

It's been like this for two years now, it started with a couple hundred people catching an infection that was yet to be named. That quickly escalated to a plague known simply as death. Everywhere you went it was about avoiding death an escaping its reach, but many were soon taken over and the population dwindled. Along with that dwindled population went my parents, sisters, brother , and even my dog.

Since losing my best friend Jackie, nothing has been the same. Somehow us two normal teenage girls escaped the grasp of death and managed to survive for a whole year together. We were the dynamic duo. We mutilated walker after walker together, managed to take over whole farms were we would pretend this was all a bad dream and sun bathe on the yard, and stock up on food that would last us a lifetime.

I thought my life ended when this whole apocalypse started but it truly ended when my best friend Jackie died. She was my little sliver of hope that maybe we could make through this together and hopefully find two normal guys that would save the day but all that hope died along with her when I made the stupidest decision of my life. I left her alone in our farm house while I made the stupid decision to go for some fresh air. I don't know why I needed it but for one reason or another I stepped out of that house and left her alone.

*flashback*

"I'm going for some fresh air, are you sure you just don't want to come?" I asked

" I will be fine I'm not a child" she said back

"I know, I know but-"

" Just go! You need some alone time and I will holler if I need anything."

She gave me a little reassuring smile and I smiled back.

I grabbed my leather jacket from the closet I was standing in front of and went to the bedside table to grab my knife and gun. I stuck them in the protective pockets in my jacket and started walking towards the door. As I was leaving out the front door I yelled back up to her.

"See you in a few and remember to stay safe!"

"I'll be fine! I'm probably going to take a nap anyway! "

I left out the front door and headed to the right towards the woods. There was a small path that I could follow and it wasn't very long so I could be back in a matter of minutes. My mid length hair was swept into a high ponytail and it was swishing back and forth as I walked. This walk was nice and peaceful and I'm sure I have been walking for 10 minutes now. I decided to head back in a couple more minutes until I hear it.

Screaming. Not just any screaming but Jackie screaming.

I immediately turn and head back to the house as fast as I can. I get there in a matter of seconds and I honestly don't think I have ran this fast before in my life but my adrenaline is pumping and my legs seems to be on hyper active.

When I get to the house I see the door wide open and two walkers inside. I pull out my knife and swiftly take the two out from behind. The next thing I notice is no more screaming.

I walk up the stairs slowly, afraid of what I might see. What if my best friend has become some walkers lunch or got bitten and will soon be trying to have me for lunch. But no I can't think like that. I push those fears aside and rush upstairs with my knife in hand. When I reach the bedroom door I slowly ease it open and see Jackie crying on the bed with blood all over the place. I rush over to her quickly and wrap my arms around her.

"Jackie what happened?!" I say in a frenzied state.

" I.. I don't know.. I was asleep and all of sudden there were 2 walkers." She said in a hushed tone.

I quickly scanned the room for the walkers who were no where in sight.

"I pushed them out the window after fighting with them a little bit." She kept speaking in a hushed tone and I was afraid of why.

" I wasn't strong enough though... I tried to fight I really did, but they came to fast and I got scared without you here and... And this happened.." Her voice slowly faded and the let her arm fall to the bed next to her.

That's when I saw it, a huge bite mark on her arm. I was swollen and different shades of purple mixed with red because of the blood that was coming out. It was also leaking these other fluids that I couldn't even name.

Jackie looks up at me and she knows this is the end. She can see it in my eyes too. We both know what's going to happen but we are to afraid to admit it to ourselves. And so I get off the bed and grab a t-shirt out from the drawer and wrap it around her arm. She sits there silent with her eyes swollen due to the crying. We know she only has hours so she asks me to tell her stories. And then do the deed that we both know must be done.

And so we sit for a couple hours me talking about all the memories and fun times we had before the world turned to shit. I remind her about all the mall trips we would go on because I knew how much fun she had during those times. And as the stories go on her breathing slows and I can hear her heart slowing down to. She opens her eyes one last time and says.

"I love you so much."

I look down at her and see her eyes are already closed. I know within a few minutes she will become a walker but I can't bring myself to pull out my gun and kill her just yet. I need to hold on to the one thing that has kept me same this whole time. It's only when I see her open her eyes again that I know it's not her. Their not the golden brown they once were but have faded into some mess that has blood clots around them.

I hold her down with one hand and pull out my gun. I hold it to her head and whisper "I am so sorry please forgive me and I love you Jackie" and with those inal words I pull the trigger and let go of her.

*end flashback*

So now here I lay on a bed in house that I found not to far from the previous farm. The pillows are soaked from all the crying I've done in the past hours and my eyes are swollen o the point of no return. I've been thinking about all the stuff that has happened to me on the past 2 years and with I could just go back to when being a teenager meant talking about cute boys not killing them. I know that will never happen again.

So I close my eyes and whisper to myself "Happy 18th birthday" and drift of into a nightmare filled sleep.

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AN: sorry for any mistakes! I didn't really edit that much and I wrote this stuff on my phone so you know auto correct....

And this is a Daryl fanfiction even though he's not in it yet. I just wanted to go into a little back story of the main character! So keep reading and you will see Daryl ;)