A New Beginning (Carl Grimes Fanfiction)

Chapter Six

CHAPTER SIX

Danielle's POV

Am I dead? Am I a walker? Would I be able to think if I was a walker? I open eyes. At first I don't know what I'm looking at. I see a roof of some kind over my head, and some guy with brown hair and bright blue eyes. Where am I? Then I remembered. The CDC blew up. Dr. Jenner was dead. And Jackie. Even though I didn't really know her, we had only spoken a few times, I hated to think that she was really gone. I start to take in my surroundings. I'm in a car. My head is in Carl's lap, but he didn't notice I woke up.

"Can we see it? The Grand Canyon? I would like to." Carl says, talking to Rick and Lori who are in the front seats.

"I would too. Can we go?" I hear Sophia say. I didn't even notice her and Carol sitting on the other side of the car.

"We would never go without you and your mom. Or Danielle." Says Rick. I smile at that. Suddenly Carl looks down and sees that I'm awake. He smiles at me, and I can't help but smile back. Rick and Lori keep talking and Sophia and Carol are deep in their own conversation.

"What happened?" I ask? My back is killing me.

"You got knocked out after the explosion pushed you off your feet. There was glass in your back and legs. We took them out, but when we get to Fort Benning they can probably stitch you up. I'm glad you woke up." I just smile again. He smiles back. I realize that my head is still in his lap so I sit up. We come to a sudden stop. I look around and see a ton of cars stopped all around us. Some are tipped over, their doors open wide. A semi truck is tipped over on its side. We start slowly weaving in between the cars. There are even more than I originally thought. There are cars upside down or with dead people in them, still seat-belted in (they either haven't turned in to walkers yet or they were already shot in the head). We come to a stop again. We all get out of the cars to see what's wrong.

"Problem, Dale?" Asks a very annoyed Shane.

"Just a small matter of being stuck in the middle of nowhere with no hope of-" Dale stopped talking even though nobody interrupted him. I turn my head to watch Daryl looking through the cars, taking anything he thinks might be useful.

"Okay, that was dumb." Dale says partially to himself.

"If you can't find a radiator hose here-" Shane starts.

"There's a whole bunch of stuff we can find." Daryl finishes for him.

"I can siphon more fuel from these cars for a start." T-Dog says.

"Maybe some water, or food" Carol states. Everyone must be starving. I wonder how long I was out.

"This is a graveyard." Lori sighs. Everyone looks at each other, clearly uncomfortable. In a way, I agree with her. I feel bad about taking these people's things, but... It's not like they're gonna come back for it anytime soon.

"I don't know how I feel about this." Lori says.

We all split up silently, checking for supplies. I go with Cameron, who was on the RV with my grandma. She is currently keeping watch on top of the RV. I look into a red car. There's not much inside of it, just a hammer and some old CD's. I grab the hammer. Cameron's checking out a blue car that's next to it. I hear him gasp, and I rush over to him, scared he got bit. He pulls out a pair of shoes, just like the ones he wanted before the apocalypse started. He could never afford them though. I peek through the back window and see a Vera Bradley suitcase with a name tag on it. I look at the nametag, Lexi is written on it in cursive with little smiley faces and hearts around it. I look inside and see clothes, shoes, glasses, and an asthma inhaler. Most of the clothes are too big for me, but I think some of the shoes might fit. I take the whole suitcase and put it into Dale's RV. Cameron is busy helping Glenn and Dale fix the RV, (he always had a thing for cars) so I go off to find Carl and Sophia. We walk around for a while, talking about nothing and everything. Our favorite sports, foods, things we miss from our old lives. Sophia is telling us a joke just as a wild Rick appears, yelling "Get down! Under the cars! Carl, Sophia, Danielle, get under the cars!"

I get under the same car as Carl, the red one I got the hammer out of earlier. Sophia is under a car next to ours. Lots of walkers pass us. I hug onto Carl, trying not to scream. Once they stop walking by the cars, Sophia tries to get out from under the car. A walker sees her, and tries to catch her. She crawls our from the other side of the car, only to find another walker waiting. She runs into the woods behind her, the two walkers right behind her. Rick grabs his gun and runs after her.

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Sorry for the horrible update. It's been a while since I updated, I know I said I would try to update everyday but school got back this week and soccer and I didn't have time until now. So I won't promise anything. I'll try to update tomorrow though. Once again, sorry for this update, I know it's not very good.

1. Should I make the chapters longer even if it meant less updates?

2. Was this a good chapter? I felt like nothing really happened until the end but idk..

Comment what you think! Thanks for reading!