The walking dead Fanfic: The Estate

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Presley slowly walks down the street drenched in blood shaking her head.  She looks down seeing herself covered in blood and whispers to herself.

"5 miles to the road, 3 miles to-"

She feels her legs give out and falls to the floor feeling her body shake as her tears well up as she whispers

"why the children, why?"

She sees flashes of walkers and hears the screaming out of the children. Presley shakes her head and bashes her hand into the cement as screams

"why!"

She looks around at the empty road and shakes her head pushing herself back up to her feet as she comments

"I won't die here"

Presley walks forward looking down the road as she hums to herself. She stops looking at the house to her left and keeps walking forward till she arrives at the gates. They open and she eyes the people staring out at her as she walks forward into the crowd of people and looks around her at the faces she knows. She feels her body grow heavy and falls forward passing out from exhaustion. 

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She blinks opening her eyes and moves feeling her feet burn as she hears a voice.

"we wrapped your feet, they are burned pretty bad. you seem dehydrated, starving, what happened to you?"

Presley looks up at the guy and shakes her head

"they slaughtered everyone. the estate is gone, nothing is left"

Presley learns forward throwing up and the guy looks her over as he asks

"konnor, is konnor alright?"

Presley looks over the guy and shakes her head

"I don't know, someone hit me, I was knocked out for a long time. When I woke up everyone was dead or gone"

The guy nods his head

"then we will send a group and we will search for survivors"

Presley shakes her head

"no, we won't"

The guy looks over questioning 

"how did your feet get burnt?"

Presley closes her eyes remembering 

"they tied up the lieutenants to polls to make an example out of us. They lit coal under our feet until we complied with their demands"

Presley looks down eyeing her feet and the guy stares her down asking 

"did you comply?"

Presley shakes her head

"we did not even when they hung the children. Konnor made it clear the secrets would die with us."

Presley swings her feet around hanging them over the bed as she eyes the man leaning against a wall. She nods to him as she pushes off the bed and lets her feet hit the floor. She sighs in pain and the man shakes his head staring her over

"those are close to third-degree burns you should rest"

Presley shakes her head

"there is no time for rest, not till we get our revenge. we will slaughter every single one of them. They think they won, but they don't know Mason's reach, not even I did"

She reaches into her jacket pocket and pulls out a journal eyeing it as she whispers

"it is all here, every single community, mapped out. thousands of them across the country. The estate may have fallen, but Mason is alive, I'm alive, this community still stands. The estate was the centerpiece of his society. He will take it back, but for now alpha needs to think she won."

She holds up the journal and nods to the man

"We continue to strive as we should and let alpha think she won"

Presley walks to the door and the guy stares her down as she nods to herself.

"they think the estate was weak, but that's because they didn't see his full power."

She walks outside and eyes the town and groups of people walking around talking. Presley walks outside and smiles to herself eyeing the men standing around with guns in military attire. She eyes the journal in her hand and looks up at the community in front of her and smiles to herself as she comments.

"i owe mason and I will return what I owe to him one day soon"

She tucks the diary back into her jacket and walks out eyeing the men and women standing around. Presley smiles seeing the kids playing together but feels a hand placed on her shoulder. She eyes the man as he smiles to her and asks

"what happened there, at the estate?"

Presley presses her hands together as she stares off towards the kids playing

"they left us there tied to the pole for a few days. Konnor, he never gave in not even when his father begged him to. We were saved by the murder twins, but there were so many walkers. I had no choice, you know, I did what I had to do-"

She stops herself staring off at the kids as she hears the screaming and flinches feeling the man's hand placed on her shoulder

"you lived, that's all that matters"

Presley shakes her head

"it's not, those kids they died because of us. we couldn't protect them and that's something I will live with forever"

The man stares at her back and walks up behind her commenting

"there's still kids here, the community needs you, it needs Konnor too"

Presley stays still staring down the kids then turns walking back to the infirmary. She sits on the bed and the man nods his head to her

"why don't you rest. Alpha doesn't know about this place its safe here. Take a few days, heal up I'm sure if Konnor survived he will make it here too"

Presley stays quiet and the man asks

"unless you don't want him here?"

She shakes her head

"he tried to redeem himself, he tried to save the kids, but I ran. I left him there with those walkers because I was scared to die"

Presley breaths in and looks up to the man as she comments staring him over

"I don't think he made it out"