Dead Inside (Walking Dead/ my version)

Chapter 8

🖒

Third person POV

Melanie slowly snuck out of her tent. She stiffened as a soft growl was heard from Ethan. She turned to see him still sleeping soundly at the far left of the tent, along with Shane. Callie slept on the right, a gap in the middle where Mel once slept.

She sighed softly in relief and continued to leave the tent. She made it out and tiptoed away until she was far enough to lightly jog.

"Where do you think you're going?"

Mel yelped softly as she turned to Kathryn and Daryl coming towards her.

"H-hey guys..." She stuttered as she fidgeted awkwardly.

"What's that?" Daryl asked as he looked at Mel's hands. She held a small bag of chips.

"Wasn't that tonight's dinner?" Kathryn asked. The group had found a few bags from a van they searched through and decided it was either eat those or starve.

"...no?" Mel said questioned.

Kathryn's POV

"Uh huh. Right. This totally looks like a "midnight walk"." I said sarcastically.

"What else could it be?" Mel fidgeted as she smiled at us sweetly.

"Then you wouldn't mind us getting Shane to walk with us too?" I asked with an evil smirk.

Melanie pouted. I took this as my victory and asked her again.

"Where are you going?"

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Me and Daryl stayed watch as Mel snuck into small shack. I looked in front of me with an annoyed expression.

"Hey, what's wrong KitKat?" Daryl asked.

"Did you just call me a candy?" I eye rolled him.

"Yes I did. Now answer my question." He said bluntly.

"Nothing." I sighed. I guess he gave up because after he cleared his throat, he stayed quiet. I looked over to him and blushed as I remembered what happened.

Flashback

I can't sleep... How can I sleep with Tori literally snoring in my ear!?

I walked over to a small log near the woods and sat down. I picked a fat piece of branch and a knife in my boot. I slowly started to carve it as the tip of the branch became more pointy.

Slight footsteps echoed towards me. I looked up to see Daryl. I looked back down and kept carving.

"Couldn't sleep?" He asked.

I stayed quiet, not wanting to disturb the calm atmosphere. Daryl excepted it and nodded slightly as he got his own thick branch. He started to carve a figure I couldn't make out.

"What are you doing?" I asked, breaking my previous mood.

He looked at me and then back down to his carving.

"Hold on." He said as he kept carving. He then put the knife in his mouth and started to smooth out the wood so the splinters would fall off. He then started carving again and repeated the process a few times.

"There we go." He said as he passed me the now carved in branch.

"Oh wow." I said with a slight chuckle as I looked down at a wolf figure carved into the branch.

The wolf laid down, but it's head looked up. I remember the dog I had before all this. I smiled, but then frowned as I remembered whimpers and blood stains outside.

I handed Daryl the brach and stood up.

"Thanks for showing me this." I smiled at him. He stood up and smiled back.

"Kathryn."

I looked over only to see his eyes looking into mine. Some time during this, he pulled my arm with only enough force to bring me closer. His face suddenly became inches away.

I could feel his warm breath on my face as he slowly crept closer.

*crunch*

Flashback over

We found Mel at that point and had forgotten it momentarily.

My face began to slowly burn and I wished he couldn't see it through the dark night.

"KAT!"

"MEL!?" Me and Daryl turned to see Mel and a girl run towards us.

"Walkers!" Mel screamed.

She was right to be afraid. A large herd of walkers walked towards us. There seemed to be at least 20 at first, but the number slowly began to increase.

"Mel! Go warn everyone at the camp!" Daryl commanded. Mel did as she was told without question, the girl we had kept imprisoned running behind her.

"Let's go!" I declared as I took out my gun and knife.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Hey guys! Sorry I'm always so late! This chapter is really short but I promise the next chapter will be waaay longer.

Thank you all for supporting me this far!! I love you all!!!

~NicoleSilven