God Forgive Us

Lost and Alone-6

Mack's POV
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"Mack, we need to keep her alive. At least long enough to get back the bag." I turn away from my brother to see Ericka walking far enough behind us to avoid listening in on our conversation. I walk back over towards her and drag her in front of us so she can't slip away, she may have said she'll help us, but I have a feeling that she's just waiting for the right moment to take us out. I've never been one to trust people and I'm certainly not going to start now. We turn the corner to the six foot deep sinkhole in the forest floor. I look up at Ericka with a smile, "You first." I say pushing her in as she screams attracting walkers closer to us, great. I roll me eyes at her stupidity and stab a walker. The day after the storm, my brother and I were checking out how bad the storm truly was when my dumbass fell into an unrevealed sinkhole. I grabbed onto a root and pulled myself up, but my backpack containing almost all my knives in it, didn't entirely make it. That's why we needed this little bitch. I peer into the hole and see her looking around. "Just hand me the bag and your ass is free to go. Deal?" She quickly nods and throws my bag out of the hole. "Now help me get out." I smile her before slightly laughing, "That wasn't part of out deal, I said that if you helped us, by force that is, to get our bag, and we said we would let you go wherever the fuck you want." Her eyes widen as she suddenly realizes that I neglected to ever mention that we would help her get out. "Wait-" she stutters with her words as she's still facing the realization of being out here alone. "Are you guys actually going to leave me out here?" My brother reaches into his bag and pulls out a rope, "Come on Mackenzie, we can't do that." I give him a look and he rolls his eyes and shoves the rope back inside of his black backpack. After reaching down to put my bag on, I begin to walk back towards the apartment complex in which we've camped out at, not realizing that my brother had tossed the rope down to the girl he felt pity for because she helped us. She scatters out and lungs at me with a rock that was placed on the ground by us, dogging right in time I turn around and grab the back of her hair and slam her face into my knee then kick her body into a nearby tree. I run over and hold my knife to to her fragile neck catching the blood that is rushing down her face because of her very broken nose. She looks into my eyes with a look as if to say that she isn't afraid of death, I inhale deeply before loosening my grip of her shoulder. I use my knee to again hit her, but instead I hit her stomach this time. She falls to the ground and my brother looks at me in horror. I don't understand why he's helping this girl, we're not supposed to care. We've both killed people before, many people, and done the worst imaginable things to the innocent. Why does he suddenly wish to help a girl, I think he wants to change, no. I walk away from the both of them, I turn back to see him crouched over her helping her to her feet. I continue along a different path, alone. I begin to run as I quickly clear my mind of all that just happened, once I'm far enough from them I slow into a walk. Looking over, I see a man out of the corner of my eye. He turns to face me and I quickly draw out my knife and throw it into his skull. His lifeless body falls to the ground and I release the breath I didn't realize that I was holding all this time. I walk over to retrieve my weapon, and end up searching the guy for whatever he may possess. In the end, he carried two guns four knives and enough food to last me a week, sweet. That was all that consists of his things, all that is useful anyway. As I continued to wherever it was I was going, I remember that I don't have anywhere to go, I'm lost and alone. I'm sure as fuck not going back to where Max and I were staying, I'll survive all on my own, I don't need anyone, I never have.

Max's POV
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After helping Ericka to her feet, we started to walk out of the woods. She told me where her friends were and we decided that it was best to take her there. "Why are you being so nice to me?" I look at the girl that quite possibly ruined the relationship that I shared with the only person I ever had in my life. "I want to change." She smiled at me softly as we reached the house she had told me about. We entered to find that it was completely empty, she looked as if she was about ready to break down. "Is there anyplace else that they would go?" She looked up at me with tears in her eyes. "No, there gone. There's absolutely no where else-" she abruptly stops herself as she realizes something. "Wait, I think I have an idea." She stumbles out onto the street and begins to go somewhere. I guess she must have realized that I was giving her a look because she slowed her pass down, "Awhile ago we found a community place thingy but decided not to go in yet, they must be there, they have to be." I nodded to her, surprised that she still had hope. After we had walked for about an hour, we spotted a wall that she said was part of the place. We walked up to the only entrance and knocked, I didn't think knock would we the bright idea and said that we should try shouting, but my idea was quickly shot down by Ericka. "I just got the living crap beaten out of me by your insane sister and I'm on my period, I am not going one to be pushing around right now." She practically yells at me, if no one heard her knock then someone definitely heard this. Right then, the gate thing slowly pulls open revealing a lady in dreads next to another woman with a rifle. "Who the hell are you." The lady with dreads is the first to speak up, I look at Ericka and then back at the two women who do not look like the want to be messed with. "I'm looking for some people-" Before Ericka can finish her what she was trying to say the rifle shooting badass cuts her off completely. "You're Ericka? Michonne, go get Rick and Ana." I notice Ericka's face quickly light up at the mention of this Ana chick. Suddenly a third woman comes running followed by two men shortly behind her walking. She grabs Ericka and holds her in her arms. Once both men are over to where the pair are hugging, the two break apart as Ericka looks over at one of the men. This look confuses me because she does not look thrilled to she him. "What. The living fuck. Are you doing here." The man doesn't move, instead he looks to the lady who I assume is named Ana. Ericka speaks up again, "You left us and never came back Daryl, I wished you dead a long time ago." Our conversation is cut short by the other kid who was in the woods yesterday when he tackles me to the ground from behind. Ericka pulls him off of me, and I turn around and punch him repeatedly in the face before the girl named Michonne I think and Rick pull me off. My first instinct is to pull out my gun, and that's just what I did. Ericka locks at me and shakes her head as if to say not to do it. I lower my gun and throw it to the ground. I look in Ericka's direction, "I'm sorry for everything Ericka, but I need to find Mack. I don't belong here." I turn to walk away but before I can Ericka limps over to me, "We'll find her tomorrow, she probably went back to the apartment complex you guys were at anyway, but no matter what, you're with us now kid." She smiles at me and I return the jester.

Mack's POV
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I found a place. It's an old warehouse. I'll stay here for a while, then leave and move on to the next place. No matter what, I'm not going back to where Max and I stayed. I'm not going back to Max period. He lost me the second he chose some bitch we just met over his own flesh and blood. He's dead to me.