Isabelle Winchester has truly seen it all, from vampire to demons, all the way to angels. She has evaded death multiple times, just like her brother's.
She had got separated from her brothers in, yet, another apocalypse they somehow created. God ha...
𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐓 𝐇𝐀𝐏𝐏𝐄𝐍𝐒 other things may change us, but we start and end with family
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YOU MAY THINK that by living in a world overrun by walking corpses and growing up fighting and dying, it would bring a sense of familiarity around death, but unfortunately that wasn't the case.
But, nope, Isabelle always felt a piece of herself leave after a death, and that definitely did not change even after everything she has been through.
It had been a week since they had arrived at their destination — Noah's hometown. But, it wasn't what they were expecting. It had been burnt down, destroyed, and the people were massacred in their homes and in the streets. His whole family had been killed, slaughtered right in his own home.
While everyone else was preoccupied with finding things that could be useful, Tyreese had been caught off guard by one of Noah's younger brother's who had risen from the dead as a walker. He had been bit and nobody got to him on time — he died pretty quickly.
And through all the panic on trying to get Tyreese to safety, they weren't ready for an ambush of demon's that came rushing into the town. Apparently it had been demons that had come to the town and slaughtered all the people. And while the group fought back harshly, it wasn't enough, and Noah had ended up dead, alongside Carol and Eugene.
The group had watched as demon's easily snapped their necks, killing them both immediately.
Not only had they lost Carol — a woman who has been with them since the beginning of things — they lost a kid that Beth had grown close to. Of course there was Eugene, but no one was particularly close to him.
While Isabelle and Daryl left to go find Beth, Abraham finally got his chance to head to Washington and take Eugene to find the cure, but their trip was cut short when the truth came out. Eugene had lied the entire time about knowing how to make the cure. He had only said so to earn the protection from others, so no one was sad to see him leave. Though, it was still terrible because he was yet another loss in this world.
And even though Sophia was kinda angry at her mother for basically abandoning her, she still sobbed and cried, and screamed for her mother's death. Izzy was there to console her and to take care of her like any mother would do.
The death's would've been a lot higher if Castiel, Meg, and Crowley weren't there to help them. Crowley and Meg acted like enemies and ended up killing a few demon's pretty easily, and Castiel came ablazing in with his angel powers, spiting them all before anymore lives could be lost.
Skipping to now, they were all exhausted, hungry and tired. They had abandoned the car's days ago because they had ran out of gas, so now they were walking in the hot sun, sweating.
And upon having no where else to go, they headed towards Washington.
They all walked in a line on the open road, only continuing forward with the only strength they had. They were all starving, thirsty, tired, and just wanted everything to slow down so they can take a breather for more than a few minutes.
As they were walking, Izzy couldn't help but flash back to Noah's, Carol's, Tyreese's, and Eugene's death's. If only she had been paying attention, if only she had been faster, maybe she could've saved all of them, maybe they could all be together right now. But, no, she allowed herself to relax for a bit, and that's all on her. Their death's are on her.
As they all came to an abrupt stop, Izzy looked up from where she was looking down at her feet, and her eyes came in contact with several jugs full of water. A single piece of paper laid on them, reading; from a friend.
"We can't drink it," Rick stated, shaking his head. "We don't know who it's from."
"It could be poisonous!" Beth exclaimed, licking her lips as she looked at the water, wanting to drink it, but she knew better. After all, she had learned a lot about the world after being stuck in the hospital.
Claire nodded at Beth's words, standing by her wide, along with Jack. They were on both sides of the slightly taller blonde, almost like they were guarding her.
"Somebody's been watching us," Isabelle rasped out, her arm's crossed as she looked up at Rick who nodded in agreement. She then glanced around at the tree line, trying to spot movement.
"Bloody hell!" Crowley exclaimed, wanting to just grab one of the jugs and chug it. "Can't we just drink it? We'll be dead soon, anyway!"
"Shut up, you potato!" Meg huffed, rolling her eyes. Castiel stood by her side, his trench coat still on even though he was clearly sweating through it.
Izzy looked back to the jug's of water, her mouth drooling slightly at the sight. She was tired and beyond dehydrated. And after a good minute of everyone arguing on what to do, she reacted recklessly, and quickly snatched up a bottle of water. Just as the water reached her lips, the water bottle was roughly slapped out of her hands, and she looked up to see Rick staring at her with wide eyes. Beside him was an angry Castiel, Jack, and Daryl. All four were tense.
Claire was upset by the fast Isabelle clearly didn't care about her well-being, but she also wasnt surprised. Caring for others instead of themselves seems to be in the Winchester DNA at this point.
"What the fuck, Izzy?!" Rick shouted, his voice cracking slightly.
Izzy furrowed her eyebrows before her temper got the best of her. "What the fuck is right, Rick!" She shouted back, her face red, not only from the heat, but also anger. She shoved a finger into his chest. "You're wasting perfectly good water!" She waved her hands around, her voice raspy and dry. All she wanted was water. "We're all slowly dying, Rick! We need this. This could save our lives!" she yelled, a single tear sliding down her cheek.
Rick sighed and stepped forward, wiping the tear away before making her look him in the eyes. "We can't risk everyone just because someone left some water for us, okay? You know this better than anyone else." He gently rubbed his thumb over her cheek and she slowly nodded. He sent her a small smile before backing away, just in time as thunder was heard, and it all of a sudden started to pour down on them.
Smiling to herself, Isabelle looked up at the sky, opening her mouth, allowing the water to fall into it. Her thick brown hair was drenched, and her body began to shiver as the water soaked through her shirt.
The whole group jumped in shock as lightening was seen and thunder rumbled from above. That was their sign to find shelter or else they'll be in some deep shit.
"We need shelter!" Rick yelled in alarm over the loud rain and thunder that once again roared around them.
"There's a barn this way!" Daryl shouted, leading them all into the forest.
They approached the barn and entered it, the smell of rotten corpses and cow shit hitting them immediately, but the roof was intact, keeping the rain from them which was all they needed. However, it wasn't the rain that was gonna be their problem, but rather what followed after.
None of them realized what the storm would cause them in the long night ahead.
