The Youngest Greene (Carl Grimes fan fiction)

Chapter 23

I run for a long time, and after awhile I slow down to a walk. I try to maneuver around the walkers and stay in the area, but it's nearly impossible. I'm so lost, and I don't know what to do. So I just keep walking.

I walk until the sun comes up the next morning. Flowers have bloomed everywhere, lining the woods. The sun is bright and it's extremely hot, my arms ache from carrying Judith and the diaper bag, I'm sweaty, dirty, and exhausted. I've never felt more alone in my life.

I seem to be miles away from any houses. I continue walking, searching for people.

This is how I spend the next two days. Not sleeping once and the only thing that I consume is water from a small stream. Luckily Judith has food, but I don't have any. It's not like I could hunt something either, that's impossible with a baby.

Just as my body is about to give up from exhaustion, I break through the trees and come to a wide open field that's filled with wild flowers.

They're mostly white flowers, with some light pink in there and purple. The sky shines bright blue with white puffy clouds decorating it. The Cora are so beautiful.

I lay down in the middle of the field, putting Judith on my chest and giving up. I can't go on. The pains in my stomach are great, the exhaustion not allowing me to go a step further. I'm trying to keep going for Judith but I can't.

The world had broken me. Not just physically, but emotionally. Ripping me apart from the ones I love over and over.

I watch as a small honey bee flys around the perfect white flower that's right beside me, drinking the flowers nectar.

I shut my eyes for a few seconds and then open.

"God," I say my voice low and cracking. "Please help me. I can't do this alone." I say near crying. I don't know what to do.

"You're not alone Anna." I hear someone say. I shoot up and look around the field, but all I see is flowers and greenery. The voice was deep and rich, the only way I can describe it would be that it sounded like velvet. It was the most beautiful sound I've ever heard. Did I imagine it?

"Anna." A different more familiar voice says. I turn to look behind me to see Daddy standing in the field.

I close my eyes a few times. I'm delusional. I know it.

"Daddy?" I ask.

He doesn't look very old anymore, his leg intact.

"Baby, you're gonna be ok." He says walking towards me.

"I don't know what to do." I say. I would be crying right now, but I don't have enough water on my body to cry.

"Follow me." Daddy says and turns away from me, walking in the opposite direction than I came from. I shakily stand up and follow him. He leads me through the bright woods, trees with moss on them everywhere.

"Where are we going?" I ask. If Judith can understand me, she probably thinks I'm going nuts.

He doesn't answer me, just continues to walk. I follow him for maybe ten minutes until we come to a small white house, that looks like one of the houses you might see in a children's picture book.

I look at it for a minute, and when I look back to Daddy, he's not there any longer.

I pull my gun out and walk up the back steps of the house. I open the door timidly and enter the small house. After checking all the rooms it's obvious that no one else is here.

I lock the doors and set Judith down on the large couch and hand her a toy from the diaper bag, and then walk to the kitchen. I walk through the pantry door to find my savior, food and water.

I open one of the bottles of water and poor it into my mouth, getting it all over myself in the rush, but I don't care. I grab the first kind of food I lay my hand on which happens to be a bag of trail mix, and I stuff it into my mouth, eating like a savage. Hey, I haven't eaten in three days.

After eating until I was full I walk around and collect everything that I can use from the house. It doesn't end up being a lot, but what I do find I extremely needed.

I change my filthy shirt, putting on a loose fitting white tank top that ain't staying white for long. I clean myself up a little using the least amount of water as possible to do so. I then find a sturdy black back pack and I put the things from the diaper bag in there making it much easier to carry. I put all the food and water in there as well and change Judith's diaper and give her a bottle.

After that I can't keep my eyes open any longer. It doesn't matter if this isn't the safest option, I have to sleep.

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I wake up as the sun is coming up, determined to find everyone today. I take care of Judith, get my stuff together, and I'm gone.

I use a stretchy shirt that I found in the house to tie Judith to my body, because my arms are so sore from carrying her.

I start off along the road and decide to just try to scout along this area for awhile. I find train tracks along the road and after awhile they curve away from it. I decide to walk along the train tracks for a while just in case someone decided to follow this path. Hopefully Carl. I miss him so much.

As I walk along I notice a body laying on the train tracks up ahead of me, and a large sign.

As I get closer to it I make out the words on the sign that reads, 'Glenn go to Terminus, Maggie'. Nice thinking of me sis. Whatever.

The signs are for some kind of sanctuary that if you follow the train tracks you will get to it. I speed walk down the tracks as fast as I can. The blood it was written with is fresh.

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(Two chapters one night? What what? I've had a really awful past couple of days. You can't count on anyone. But anyway so I kind of listened to sad music and wrote these chapters. Thanks for reading. Love you guys, Isabella.
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