The Walking Dead: Alone- Season 1

Episode 3 "Just Another Day"

A young Dex awakens on shore, he ended up washing up not long after the bombings, it is the next morning already, and there is a dead silence that fills the air. He slowly gets up, coughing a lot, he sees nothing but a bunch of smoke and a few car alarms off in the distance. He climbs up the hill slowly, he sees a few shambling corpses roaming the streets aimlessly, they seem burnt up, there are a bunch of fires raging still from the napalm, he doesn't even feel as scared anymore, it's almost as if he lost all sense of fear after the nightmare the night before. He walks down the street, shivering, he walks past some corpses on the ground and leaves the city limits on a freeway nearby. He sees blood everywhere, he is confused as to how everything was peaceful one minute and hell the next.

He passes by a car with a small radio on the hood next to the corpse of someone who took the easy way out. He listens in and it is a repeating message from officials listing cities to have evacuated, "Los Angeles, San Francisco, Baltimore, Atlanta, D.C., Pittspurgh, ..." The batteries seemed to have died at that moment, he keeps walking, he picks a blanket off of the ground and wraps himself in it, he continues, coughs a little, that's the only sound he hears. He makes it a decent distance away from the city and begins to get very tired since he was hungry, thirsty, weak, sick. He climbs on a car and looks at the city from a distance, great skyscrapers now at ground level, places that were once tourist attractions, now unrecognizable, he sees how society collapsed and it was a quick and very painful downfall. He begins to close his eyes and begins to fall over, a man catches him and calls some people over.

"Shit, guys come and help me out here, this kid needs some help." another man rushes over with water and looks at LA, "How the hell did he make it outta there." a woman saying, "A goddamn miracle, that's how" they see some fresh walkers and they make quick work of him, the man carries Dex to their van and they drive off, they were a travelling group of friends pre apocalypse and ended up stuck in the apocalypse together with no way of crossing the country.

PRESENT DAY:

Dex stares off into the distance, Jack joins him in staring and offers him a beer, he takes it and opens it. "You ever think that this shit with the Raiders will be over Dex?" Dex takes a drink and looks at a walker eating a bird, "I've seen many conflicts like this throughout my journey across the country, it always ends with both sides suffering crippling casualties." Jack looks at the walker as well and responds with, "I don't know, it just feels like I'm not doing enough or good enough for these people, I care for them all, it's just I see no change in this conflict." Dex takes note of his worriedness for his people and says, "Ya know that means you are doing things right, you care about these people so much that you begin to doubt it all when there still is a threat looming... You are doing good because these people are still here, they're still breathing, they are still thriving and I doubt that they could do it without you man..." Jack looks at him and says, "Ya know you got real leader vibes in you man, you would make a great leader one day." He and Dex continue to drink as they watch walkers do walker stuff in the streets.

Sarah hoes some farming soil when she spots one of the people with her rubbing their arm a bit, she walks up to them and asks if she was okay. The woman looked at her, she wanted to lie and say that she was but she couldn't, she rolled her sleeve up slowly to reveal a bite that she received a day prior. "It's a day old Sarah, I'm not gonna make it, I didn't wanna mention it because I didn't realize it was a bite until after I returned from walker duty on the walls, I don't wanna waste health equipment when others need it more, I'm getting old, I was bound to die of something soon anyway." Sarah looks at the bite and wraps it up with her sleeve that she cut off of the flannel shirt that she just got, "At least wrap it up, when you feel the fever get worse leave a note by your door and cuff yourself to your bed, the least you could do is make sure others are safe." She nods and agrees with her, she mentions that she'll tell Hailey after work so Hailey can prepare her for a peaceful goodbye.