Alone

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I was running. There was six infected chasing me. I could take four but six no way. I looked behind me while I was still running they were far behind me, but then I run into someone or thing. I looked to see who it was and I was face-to-face with a boy, he was wearing a sheriff's hath, he had brown shaggy hair that almost covered his eyes, I have to admit he's pretty cute. We stared at each other but the suddenly he pushed me to the ground, making my bag fall to the ground.

"Ahh." I said. I fell on my back. I looked at him.
"What the hell?!" He pointed his gun at me. Oh fuck that, I don't care if he's cute, he's an asshole, he is now on the list of people I hate and it's a pretty short list.
The infected were getting closer so I got up and took out six of my throwing knifes and throw them at the infected, I got them right in the head. I went over to the dead infected and got my throwing knifes.
"Put your knifes down." The boy said still pointing his gun at me. I just stared at like are-you-serious look. So I put them back in my pouch. We just stared at each other with hated in our eyes.
"You didn't have to push me!" I said to him.
"Well, you were the one who ran into me!" He said back to me.
"Now, put your weapons on the ground." He said still staring at me.
I rolled my eyes. "Nah I'm good."
"You better do what the boy says." Someone said behind me. I saw the boy smirk. I turned to face the person who spoke to me. It was a man holding a gun to my head. But it didn't phase me, I just stared at him with a blank expression.
"I've had my fair share of untrustworthy people, I think I shouldn't do what THE BOY says." I said standing my ground.
"I mean who cares if I die it not gonna make a difference, I'm not trying to sound emo or anything but you know living in this world, you're going to be killed sooner or later, rather it be a person or an infected, everyone is just waiting for their moment and well this is my moment." I waited for a gunshot but the man just stared at me in disbelief.
"I have three questions for you." He said to me.
"Uhh, okay then?" I give him a confused look.
"How many walkers have you killed?"
"Walkers?" I asked.
"Yes, walkers. Those things that you killed." He pointed at the dead infected I killed.
"Mmm, about 100 and something I think. I don't know, I don't keep track." I said and he nodded.
"How many people have you killed?" He asked. So I started counting with my finger.
"Okay, her, her, him, him, oh and HIM ugh. Uhh, so about five people." I smiled.
"Why?"
"Well, because four of them asked me to and well the other one was going to rape, so yeah." I said still smiling. The man looked at me with sympathy. He needs to stop.
"Umm, we have a camp and-" the man was cut off by shaggy boy. That's his new nickname.
"Dad! What are you doing? We don't even knew her name! You're going to let her come with us? What if she tries to hurt Judith?" Shaggy boy said. Judith?
"Carl, you don't know that." He said to... Carl?
"Neither do you!" He yelled.
"Uhh okay, I'm gonna going to go now." I said grabbing my bag off the ground and heading off to the direction I came from.
"No, wait!" The man said so I stop.
"What's your name?" He asked me.
"Fatima Larios." I said.
"I'm Rick Grimes and this is my son Carl." He said.
"It's very nice to meet you Rick, I couldn't say the same for Carl over there." I said and he rolled eyes, I smirked.
"Listen, Fatima, are you alone?" Rick asked.
"Yes." I nodded but I had a blank expression.
"How long have you been alone?" He asked more. Gosh is he the king of asking? Ugh I'm so childish!
"Uhh, let's see... For about 10 months I guess."
"Well like I was saying, we have a camp not to far from here and I was wondering if you wanted to come and stay with us?" He said.
"For how long?" I asked.
"For as long as you want, but I doubt our people would want you to leave." He said smiling.
"Why is that?" I asked with a confused expression.
"Well you're funny an-" Carl cut him off again.
"Yeah, funny looking." Carl said smirking. I gave him the most deadly glare I have ever given. Ugh god I hate him.
"Carl, stop, be nice. Anyways our people need someone like you." He said ignoring Carl as he rolled his eyes.
"Why do they need someone like me?" I asked.
"Yeah, we have Judith, dad. We-They don't need her." Carl said reassuring his dad.
"Carl, stop talking. So, Fatima, what do you say?" Rick said.
"Hmm, it seems like Carl doesn't want me there... So I would love to stay at your camp!" I smirked at Carl and he rolled his eyes.
"Alright then, let's go." He started walking, I followed him and Carl followed behind me.
"So how did you get your hair like that?" Rick asked me. My hair had blonde at the bottom but it was a dark blonde.
"Uhh, well, a couple months back I found some hair dye and bleach and it use to be blue but it dyed out." I said walking beside Rick.
"Why blue?" Carl was suddenly beside me.
"Because I like blue." I said with a are-you-stupid look at Carl.
"Does it even matter if you have a favorite color anymore? Like you said the world has ended." Carl said.
"Well, no, it doesn't matter, but just because the world has ended doesn't mean I can't stop liking the things I like." I said.
"You, my dear, speak wise word." Rick said smiling.
"Yeah, I guess so." I said smiling back.
"How old are you anyways?" Rick asked.
"14 but I'm turning 15 soon." I said causally. I've been keeping track of the months and days since the outbreak has started.
"Oh wow Carl is turning 14 soon too." Rick said looking at Carl then back at me.
"That's cool." I said looking straight ahead. Then I saw something in the distance. A fence?
"Is that is fence?" I asked them.
"Yup and that's our camp." Rick said.
"You guys live behind a fence?" I said looking at Rick.
"Well, kind of." he said looking forward. I looked forward and there was a prison behind the fence!
"You guy live in a prison?!" I stopped in my tracks and they stopped too.
"Yeah, is that a problem?" Carl questioned me.
"...... That's so cool! Did you see infected inmates?" I asked them.
"Haha, yeah we saw some 'infected' inmates." Rick said smiling at me. He started walking to the gate and I followed behind Carl. A woman with short brown hair opened the gate, she smiled at me and closed the gates before the infected got in.
"Hi, what's your name?" She said running over to me.
"I'm Fatima." I smiled at her.
"I'm Maggie, it's nice to meet you." She said smiling back. She really pretty.
"It's nice to meet you too!" I said as Rick lead me into the prison. When I got inside there was a couple of people.
"Everyone, listen up, we have a new member." Rick said and the people looked looked at me.
"This is Fatima, Fatima this is Glenn," He pointed at the Asian guy.
"Hi." Glenn said smiling.
"Hershel," He pointed at the old man, he was in crunches.
"Hello, dear." Hershel said.
"That's Daryl," He pointed at the man who was cleaning his crossbow, at least I think it's his crossbow.
"Do you know how to shoot?" Daryl asked me.
"Heck yeah I do!" I said to him and he smirked.
"That's Axel and Oscar." He pointed at the white and black men in prisoner suit.
"Sorry I was getting Judith her milk." A blonde girl said. She was holding a baby. I gasped.
"Oh my god is that a baby?!" I went over to her and the baby.
"No, it's a turtle?" Carl said in a sarcastic tone. I rolled my eyes and looked at the baby and then the girl she smiled at me.
"Sorry I just haven't seen a baby in like forever!" I said to her.
"That's okay." she smiled at me some more.
"I'm Fatima by the way." I said to her.
"I'm Beth and this is Judith." She said. Judith? Wait a minute.
"Wait, this is Judith." I looked at Carl and back at Beth and she nodded.
"Are you serious, I would never hurt a baby! That is just not human!" I said looking back at Carl and he glared at me.
"Do you want to hold her?" Beth asked.
"Oh no way I feel like I might drop her." I said moving back a little.
"You won't, here." She said handing me Judith. So I took her, she was so light. I smiled at her.
"I haven't seen a baby in so long." I said looking at her then handed her back to Beth.
"How good are you of a shooter?" Daryl asked me.
"I am a great shooter!" I said to him.
"Well, why don't you show me?" He said getting up.
"Yeah, sure why n-" I was cut off by Rick.
"First, you should rest. You've been alone for a long time, so Carl, go show Fatima to her cell." Rick said to Carl, Daryl sat back down. Carl hesitated then went to the jail cells and I followed him. He lead me to the cells.
"So you can have one of these cells." He said pointing to the one that didn't have curtains. So I picked the one that was upstairs. He handed me a dark blue curtain.
"What's this for?" I asked him.
"To cover your cell, duh." He said.
"Do you have other colors?" I asked him.
"What, I thought you like that color." He said looking away, I stared at him with a confused expression.
"W-" He cut me off.
"You can put your stuff away, now." He said walking back to the group. He is so bipolar. I started putting my stuff on the bed, I looked at the windows, they were high up. It was already dark. So I took off my shoes and went to bed.
The next morning I woke up to the sound of knocking. I opened my eyes to see Glenn standing there standing there.
"Hey." He said smiling at me.
"Hi, Glenn." I said smiling and getting up.
"So Maggie and I are going for a run, and since you're new, I thought we should get to know each other. And well, do you want to come with us?" Glenn said.
"Ohhhh yesss." I said excitedly.
"But before that, breakfast time." He said walking away. So I put on my shoes and followed him. I saw everyone there but Rick.
"Hi everyone." I said to them. They all said 'Hi' or 'Morning' except Carl, he just continued eating a oatmeal. I sat down between Maggie and Beth, they smiled at me and I smiled back.
"Uhh, so where's Rick?" I asked them. But before anyone could answer, Rick came walking in from another gate.
"Everybody, okay?" He said closing the gate.
"Yeah, we are" Maggie said, everyone stopped eating. Okay, is there something I'm missing here?
"What about you?" Hershel asked.
"I cleared out the boiler block." He said looking at Hershel then at Carl.
"How many were there?" Daryl asked.
"I don't know, a dozen, two dozen. I have to get back. Just wanted to check on Carl." Rick said patting Carl on the back. Everyone looked a little concerned. Glenn got up.
"Rick we can handle taking out the body's, okay, you don't have to." Glenn said.
"No, I do." He said walking over to Daryl. What is going on here?
"Everyone have a gun and a knife?" He said Daryl.
"Yeah, running low on ammo, though." Daryl said.
"Maggie and I were planning to making a run his afternoon, Fatima is coming with us." Glenn said and Rick looked at me with a are-you-okay-with-this look, so I nodded reassuring him.
"Found a phone book with some places we can hit, look for bullets and formula." Glenn said and Rick looked back at Glenn.
"We cleared out the generator room," Daryl said and Rick looked at him.
"Axel's there trying to fix it, in case of emergency. We're gonna sweep the lower levels as well." Daryl said and Rick started walking but the the gate.
"Good. Good." He said opening the gate.
"Rick!" Daryl yelled but Rick closed the gate ignoring him. Then they started eating again.
"Uhh, what's wrong with Rick?" I asked, Carl looked at me them back at his food.
"He's grieving." Hershel said, after that I didn't ask why, because I already knew the answer, someone close to him must of died. Daryl got up and told me to follow him, so I did. We went outside to the gate below. There was infected growling at me and putting there fingers throw.
"Show me how you shoot." He said.
"Right now?" I asked.
"Yeah, I want to see if you can handle yourself." He said and I laughed.
"Daryl, I've been alone for several months. I think I can handle myself just fine." I said laughing.
"Okay, then you have no problem shooting them in the head, right?" He asked.
"Nope. No problem at all." I said taking out my gun. I shot five in the head and stopped to look at Daryl, he smiled at me.
"Man you got good aim, kid." He said ruffling my hair and we walked back the to prison. I saw Glenn and Maggie putting some stuff in the car.
"Are you ready to go, kiddo?" Glenn asked me.
"Yup, I'm ready." I said walking over to them.
"She's got good aim." Daryl said walking back into the prison. I laughed.
We all got in the car and Glenn started driving down the road. They were talking to each other, I was looking at the trees. Man, even if the world has gone to shit, it's still beautiful. We pulled up to a store. We got out, I got my gun out and looked around searching for uhh what do they call them? Ah! Walkers, that's right!
"It looks pretty clear out here." I said walking back to Glenn and Maggie, Glenn was getting out a bag from the car.
"Alright, let's check it out." Glenn said walking to the store but Maggie stopped him.
"Wait." Maggie said getting closer to Glenn. They kissed. That's cute!
"Get a room you two." I said laughing, they laughed as well. We walked to the store and Glenn grabbed something to cut the chain with. He opened the door and bird flew out and we ducked. I laughed and walked inside with Glenn while Maggie stayed and shine some light for us.
"Glenn, Fatima, get that duck." Maggie said.
"What?" Glenn asked.
"Get that duck." She said again.
"Haha, you serious?" I asked laughing a little.
"Yeah. A kid growing up in a prison could use some toys." She said, Glenn grabbed the duck and put it in his bag. I went farther into the store, I found some canned noodles. Yes jackpot! Glenn went over to Maggie and they started putting some of the things back in the car. They were talking and I was still searching for food.
"And where is it y'all good people coming home?!" I heard someone yell.



So uh yeah leave a comment and uhh favorite it. I mean if you want to. It's okay if you don't, I'll uhh understand. But anyways thank for reading my story. I will upload every Wednesday ~ Poppy