Living in the Zombie Apocalypse

Chapter Forty-Five: The Beginning of Our Struggle

I had no clue who honked but I was guessing someone ran out of gas. Daryl and I killed our engines and I could finally warm my hands up.

I got to Daryl and he grabbed my hand.

"Why is yer hand so cold?"

"We are riding motorcycles in the cold, what do ya expect?"

He grabs my other hand and holds them. His touch instantaneously warmed my hands up.

D:You out?

R:Running on fumes.

M:We can't stay here.

G:We can't all fit in one car.

R:We'll have to make a run for some gas in the morning.

C:Spend the night here?

Carl:I'm freezing.

L:We'll build a fire, yeah?

D:You go out looking fir firewood, stay close. Only got so many arrows. How you doing on ammo?

R:Not enough

M:We can't just sit here with our asses hanging out.

H:Watch your mouth. Everyone stop panicking and listen to Rick.

R:All right, we'll set up a perimeter. In the morning, we'll find gas and some supplies. We'll keep pushing on.

M:Glenn and I can go make a run now, try and scrounge up some gas.

R:No, we stay together. God forbid something happens and people get stranded without a car.

G:Rick, we're stranded now.

R:I know it looks bad, we've all been through hell and worse, but at least we found each other. I wasn't sure. I really wasn't, but we did. We're together. We keep it that way. We'll find shelter somewhere. There's gotta be a place.

G:Rick, look around. Okay? There's walkers everywhere. They're migrating or something.

R:There's gotta be a place not just where we hole up, but that we fortify.

Hunker down, pull ourselves together, build a life for each other. I know it's out there. We just have to find it.

Me:Even if we do find a place and we think it's safe, we can never be sure. For how long?

M:Look what happened with the farm. We fooled ourselves into thinking that, that was safe.

H:We won't make that mistake again.

R:We'll make camp tonight over there.

Rick points to what seems like a good place to stay but it was still out in the open and would be cold tonight.

R:Get on the road at the break of day.

C:Does this feel right to you?

She directs the question to me and Daryl.

B:What if walkers come through, or another group like Randall's?

D:You know I found Randall, right? He had turned. It he wasn't bit.

B:How's that possible?

L:Rick, what the hell happened?

D:Shane killed Randall. Just like he always wantes to.

L:And then the herd got him?

Rick pauses and looks at us all before saying, "We're all infected.