DEAD BY DAYLIGHT The Walking Dead

- chapter five -

The Walking Dead ---- 01x06
Vivian Ford --- September 2010

[ TW : Slight mention of SA, nothing graphic
but it's hinted at. (Not Vivian) ]
[ + a mentions of suicide, aka the doctors that killed themselves in the CDC ]

VIVIANS EYES were still wide as she followed her mother into the CDC, fingers clutching the fabric of her brother's jacket tightly. Fearing that something could happen in a split second that would separate them.

Carl was now beside his mother, Lori's arm firmly wrapped around his shoulder as the two followed Rick into the CDC. The lobby was empty but well kept, no sign of blood or death anywhere, same goes for a lack of any deadheads lurking. The floors were still shiny as if they'd been freshly waxed, no dust or grime to be seen.

"Watch for walkers." Dale warned as they walked across the lobby cautiously, weapons ready to defend themselves if necessary. The sound of a gun cocking caught everyone's attention, their eyes snapping towards where it came from to see a man.

He held a shotgun in his grasp, but other than that he looked completely harmless. He looked well kept, shaved, showered, dressed in a pair of exceptionally clean jeans and a grey shirt.

"Anybody infected?" He questioned.

"One of our group was...he didn't make it." Rick said honestly, Vivian staring at him in disbelief, wondering why he would disclose that information to a stranger.

"Why are you here." The man asked them from the stairs leading to the back, his gun still raised cautiously. "What do you want?"

"A chance." Rick spoke through a shaky breath.

"That's asking an awful lot these days." The stranger stated.

"I know." Rick nodded.

The stranger didn't speak, his eyes scanning their fearful expressions. They looked so much dirtier compared to him, his clean clothes and appearance clashing against their mud caked books and the blood splatters across their clothes. They held a type of fear in their eyes that he didn't, a look that came from their time on the outside.

"You all submit to a blood test. That's the price of admission."The stranger instructed.

Rick glanced back at the group, looking back to the stranger quickly before nodding his head. "We can do that."

When the stranger finally lowered his gun Vivian took a deep breath, loosening her grip on the back of Thomas's jacket. "You got stuff to bring in, you do it now. Come this door closes, it stayed closed."

A few people went out to collect their things from the RV but Vivian stayed put with Thomas and her mom. Everything she cared about was in the backpack hanging from her shoulders, she could care less about any of the stuff inside the RV. She sat beside her brother and Sofia, who had wandered over to talk to her brother. Vivian could still feel the knife from Glenn in her pocket, wondering if he would be wanting it back anytime soon.

Vivian stood between her brother and Carl as they all squeezed into one elevator, listening as the stranger introduced himself to Rick and Dr. Edwin Jenner. Vivian looked at at her mom, she was standing between Carol and Jacquie on the other side of the elevator. Realizing that like Vivian herself, she was also toying with her cross necklace worriedly.