survive ⌲ season one

> episode one

CLEMENTINE

Running, thats all I ever did, thats all I could ever do, run. I turned around to see the seven walkers still following me, yearning for my blood. Their teeth desperate to pierce my skin,  to infect me. Scum. I had a gun of course but the noise attracts them and I couldn't take them on my own without having to fight for my life once again. I'm tired of that. I had come to the conclusion that I would only fight if it was absolutely necessary.

Every single miserable day that went by I couldn't help but miss everyone, I missed Lee the most but they're all gone, they're all dead and I couldn't do anything to save them. I only had Jane but I had only known her for a short while. I trusted her but sometimes things no matter how hard you try, they don't go exactly to plan and everything goes completely wrong and it ends up feeling as though the world is threatening to end all over again. My world has ended multiple times and each time it hurts just as much.

Now we walk this world alone and being alone for so long can have consequences... I've seen it before. It messes with your mind. It tampers with a person's sanity and they soon become a grenade waiting to explode. And now meeting and trusting new survivors almost always ends in uncontrollable chaos that leads us spiralling in to the unavoidable path of death and destruction. We all try to avoid that path, but in this world it seems such a thing is impossible.

Jane continued to protect me, taught me how to survive using newer and effective methods such as combat and survival routines. She had taught me how to hunt and cook without giving myself food poisoning. Although eating a rodent isn't my preferred pallet it's actually not half bad when you're stomach is in knots because you're starving. Jane had been yet another guardian to me, guided me just like Lee and Christa did.

I was meant to be looting but then I had came face to face with the seven walkers who were blocking my path back to Jane. I wasn't far from where we had been staying but I was pretty sure she wouldn't  appreciate having seven unwelcome guests turning up to our camp especially because we were so vulnerable and had little to nothing to protect ourselves with apart from some flimsy blunt knives and pistols without bullets.

Finally I had reached the R.V. my breath barely present but I continued running, hoping that Jane was there to help me. And she was. Jane came out instantly and began shooting at the walkers while I stabbed those remaining. Within a few minutes they were all dead. And I was left wishing I was too. I know that Lee would be disappointed in me saying that but the days were getting tougher and I began to wonder how anyone could bare with living like this.

"Jane, the noise remember? Those shots could have attracted a whole herd." I shouted, quite annoyed about her foolish actions. Her recklessness had been becoming a pet peeve of mine lately, she was going to get us in trouble or worse: killed.

"It doesn't matter Clem we're leaving, now." She told me and I furrowed my eyebrows in confusion. Had she gone insane? Was this another person I'd be forced to put down?

"What? Where are we going to go? Theres nothing left Jane and you know it." I said with my arms stretched, motioning to the nothingness which surrounded us.

"Look Clem I found a place, through the woods... A huge prison, I saw people there too, maybe we could go there?"

"Jane..." I said shaking my head becoming more and more worried. New people led to new and more difficult problems. New people hate other people.

"I know it's risky and you know I never take risks but I think we'll be safe there. I'm tired of running Clem." She sighed as she scratched the back of her head. I could see the exhaustion on her face, a face that I once thought was so pretty but now had become polluted with wrinkles, dark circles and scars. I sighed, she was right, I was tired of running too, it was becoming so exhausting and with our supplies running low, who knows how long we'd last.