The Walking Dead ( Fanfiction )

Chapter One- JSS

" Ellie, you need to run...please baby just run"

" I can't leave you here...don't make me leave you here..."

" Ellie...please go, you have to g-"
Ellie sat up, breathing heavily. She looked around, her heart pounding in her chest, before remembering where she was. She squeezed her eyes shut, ridding herself of the memory. Ellie shook her head and stood up, just above the trees she could see the sun rising. " Well, guess there's no sleeping in for me..." Ellie sighed and knelt down beside the large duffel bag that she had used for a pillow. Opening it quickly, she took out the large handgun hidden inside. Shoving it inside the holster at her waist she zipped up the bag and hoisted it over her shoulder. Taking in a breath, Ellie set off a once again. Damn...I need some breakfast...Ellie thought to herself, hearing her stomach growl. Luckily for her, she had half of a granola bar left in her back pocket. Ellie took two bites and put it back, making sure to fold the wrapper over it. She had a lot of those, granola bars, she found a supermarket a little way back and had stocked up on them. But...that was a while ago and she needed to start saving them if she wanted to survive. Ellie heard a branch snap and immediately grabbed the ice pick that hung in her belt loop, raising it to shoulder height, she spun around ready to attack. She scanned the area and then looked down. Fucking squirrel...Ellie rolled her eyes and slid the ice pick back where it belonged. She kept walking, the only noise now was the clinking of her spurs. Ellie liked that noise, she purposefully loosened the spur strap just so it would clink. Ellie remembered when she got them, it was her birthday and her best friend bought them for her. Ellie almost started crying right there. She tried not to remember people from the past, they were all dead now. Her sisters, her brother, her friends, her parents, her grandparents...gone...all of them...because that what happened when the apocalypse started, people died. Closing her eyes again, Ellie got rid of the sadness and the pain and the memories. She rolled her shoulders and kept going, no crying, not when there were dead people to kill. Something groaned, and snarled, and Ellie knew that was no squirrel. She drew the ice pick from her belt loop and looked around, finally a tall woman with blonde hair came into sight. Ellie watched her, waited for her to come closer because this woman with blonde hair was also covered in blood and had pieces of her rotting flesh falling off. Once she was close enough Ellie ran at her and kicked her kneecap as hard as she could, sending the stiff to the ground. Ellie drove the ice pick into her skull, ceasing movement. Ellie put her foot on the stiff's chest and pulled her ice pick free, wiping it on the dead woman's shirt and sliding it back into her belt loop.

" That's a pretty good technique..."
Ellie drew her gun and turned in one swift motion. The barrel right between the eyes of this strange man. " Hey! Hey woah..." he said, raising his hands in the air.

" Name." Ellie looked him up and down, not seeing any weapons.

" U- Glenn...Glenn Rhee.." He replied, staring at the gun.

" Pretty dumb move sneaking up on someone like that " Ellie narrowed her eyes at him, moving her trigger finger slightly.

" I didn't really expect yo-"

" DROP IT!" Ellie heard a raspy voice and looked to her left, a crossbow appeared out of the trees and a scruffy looking man behind it.

Ellie scoffed and took a step forwards, putting the gun closer to Glenn's face. " You see me with a gun pointed at this guy's forehead...and you threaten me? That's the option you chose? Really dude?" She raised an eyebrow at the dirty looking redneck staring at her. He glanced at Glenn then back at her.

" You shoot him, I shoot you...you try and shoot me, I shoot you...either way you're gonna get shot so drop it " Ellie considered her options and sighed. God damn it...she dropped the gun and put her hands in the air, glaring at the crossbow.