Living for What?

Chapter 8

TellTale owns TWD Video game. I really hope you don't hate me for killing A.J. Seriously, it took a lot of hard thought to decide what to do with AJ, but alas... I felt it would be important for development. But, I am back. No hate, but I really hope you guys have been enjoying my story so far. I enjoy writing it. Future updates to come and criticism is welcome! Enjoy!

Chapter 8

Mom and I knew how bad it was after the first car. We passed the red Toyota Camry that was on the highway, and a family of walkers were trapped inside. There were four of them, two children. All of us just kept walking. When one grabbed Gabe's ankle from under a Chevrolet, that's when we saw that the highway was flooded. With walkers. Gabe got rid of his easily, but there were a lot more. They were everywhere, under cars, behind cars, in front of cars. So many of the dead were there. I saw Javier's eyes widen. There was no way just the five of us, with heavy bags but limited supplies, could take down at least 100 of them. Highway 95 was large and crowded and the five of us stood at the base like small specks. "What are we going to do." I asked nervously. "We can't go through, but, if we need to get to Washington, then what? Do we swim?"

"No, water's too cold and deep." Javier replied.

"The walkers haven't noticed us yet. We could take one out, cover ourselves. Either that or we fight through and lose," Clementine said.

"Sounds like our only option, however gross," mom shivered. I nodded in agreement.

"So... we have a plan." Javier nodded, and Gabe pulled the one he killed out from under the truck. We each took out a knife and coated ourselves with the innards of a walker. The smell alone would have been enough to deter any sane human. But nonetheless, we got through it. Everyone else here seems to have done this already, but it was a first for mom and I. The insides were just gross.

Javier lead us through the large colony of walkers. All of us had our weapons drawn, but we held them close. I was amazed at how well this tactic worked! It was like they didn't even notice us, and we walked right through. It was towards the end that things got bad.

My ooze of innards had started to come loose from the elements and bumping into walkers. I noticed this as one looked straight at me, and snarled his phlegmy snarl. Four other walkers turned right to me, and looked. I realized about half my coating was gone. I pulled my Bor in front of me, and held it in the ready position. They didn't seem to notice the others. Mom glanced back at me worriedly, but I nodded. I'll be alright. My heart was pumping, and I registered that more and more were being drawn to my attention. Suddenly, an idea popped into my head. I lead them away. Not every walkers was storming after me, so, I drew the ones that were to a corner. They followed me towards the edge, and then, Boom. I took off running towards the other side of the Rappahannock. I darted past walkers who lunged at me. Cool wind blew in my face as I ran, dodged, and juked out the dead. Blood was rushing to my face, and adrenaline pumped through my system. I stabbed one through the eye, dodged past another two, and slammed one to the ground.

I could see the group behind me and to my right. They were still unnoticed by the walkers and walking calmly. They were muttering amongst themselves. I could see my mom was distressed, and I knew my mom wanted to help me. I registered all of that in a second. I kept running, jumping on cars, stabbing and dodging the dead. I stabbed one behind me when I saw the group running. They were all running towards the exit. Now, pretty much every walker on the highway knew, and was rushing to get a taste. "What the fuck are you doing!" I yelled to all of them. They looked like a machine, taking out walkers and running all in unison. I was jumping cars two lanes to their right. I guess they didn't hear my question, because they kept storming down walkers. I didn't know what we were going to do once we got to the other side, because we would get stormed by a walker army.