The Walking Dead: Alone- Season 1

Episode 5 "War Is Near"

2 years on the road a young Dex wakes up at a small camp, the group van has a few modifications on it, he gets up and walks over to the camp fire where Josh hands him a bowl of rabbit stew, "Here Dex, eat up, you haven't eaten in a few days." Dex begins to eat, "Thanks Josh." John and Mia come back from a morning hunt empty handed, Luis and Rachel walk up, "So how'd the hunt go?" Mia looks at them and says to them, "We gotta go soon, we've picked everything within a pretty far radius and there is no sign of life anywhere, we pack today and leave by nightfall." Rachel looks down and runs over to Dex and Josh, "Hey, J and D, we may not be staying any longer, we got nothing left here for us, we need to go by nightfall, get packing." Dex stands up, downs the rest of his soop and runs over to his bag and starts packing, he puts water, toys, comics, his knife away in it and then he hears the sound of leaves rustling, he turns and says in a frightened way, "Josh? John? Mia? Rachel? Is anyone there?" Then a walker comes out of nowhere, he is quick to grab his knife, he sees it snapping its jaws together, it keeps going at him with no stopping, Dex gets in the van and uses the added height to jump over to the walker, he stabs it through the neck and they both fall, Dex gets up quickly, and takes a rock. He smashes it's head repeatedly, after it's head was nothing but mush Mia grabs him quickly and pulls him away.

"Dex, it's okay, you got it, it's me Mia, your safe." She begins to comfort Dex, Mia was a parent figure for Dex, he looked up to her for many things, he walks over to the corpse and takes his knife and puts it in his bag. Mia walks up to him and asks, "Are you okay Dex?" Dex looks at her and can't resist any longer, he then says to her, "Every night I see nothing but the dead, in my dreams I see the city that night, the dead everywhere, people dying, the flames, it was a nightmare and I lost my family in that chaos and I may never get to see them again and I can't get it out of my head." He says while crying it all out, Mia hugs Dex and says to him, "You gotta quit thinking of the past, we all lost something that night, we may never get any of that back but we just gotta keep on going, they wouldn't want you giving up, don't fail them, just keep on fighting, in the end, everything happens for a reason, you just have to find out what that is and use that to push yourself forward." Dex and Mia sit there for a bit, a few hours later the camp is all packed up, they all load up into the van and begin their drive, they pass up the sign leading into Oregon, they are just a roaming band of survivors searching for a purpose.

Police Station(Present):

The survivors finish up with their setup inside the police station, Dex and Sarah take first watch, they sit on lawn chairs on the roof of the building, they look at the smoke off in the distance. "Since our fun little run together is nearing it's end, what do you think you'll end up after all of this?" Sarah says after taking a sip of her water, Dex looks at the few walker stragglers and says to her, "Honestly I don't know, guess I'll go where ever the road takes me, I was once with this group that lived in this buffed out van, they were the closest thing to family for the first 2 years... Same thing happened to them that happens to everyone... But I kinda miss that on the move life style, I think I'll head out West." Sarah looks at her bottle for a bit and says, "I think when I am back with Will, we'll travel somewhere away from all of this and get away from all of this stuff, maybe go somewhere peaceful and quiet and live out life without the loss we have delt with." Dex looks off at the smoke and says to her, "Good luck with that Sarah, you deserve a happy ending after all that's happened." Sarah looks at him and says calmly, "Ya know it doesn't just have to be us, there's always room for you, I've grown to like you a bit more and you are the person I trust the most right now, you are the closest thing to family right now, I don't think I can lose that." Dex looks down and Sarah reaches over and grabs his hand.

Dex looks at Sarah and says, "Maybe, I just can't get attached to people, I failed that already but I don't want to stay long enough to see you all die, I can't handle losing family again." Sarah looks over at the smoke one more time and then at Dex and says to him, "I understand, let me know if you change your mind, we should probably get some sleep right now, tomorrow is a big day." Sarah walks to a cell and Dex follows, they get into the bunk bed and close their eyes, upstairs on the roof, Jack and Lamar took their position on watch duty. "Damn, it's really gone man, after all those years, it's gone, it feels like a limb was ripped off." Jack looks at it and says, "Yeahhh, it feels like we lost everything back there, at least everyone got out safely, tomorrow we get our revenge and we begin to rebuild, for a safer and better future." Lamar looks at the smoke and then looks down at his bag and pulls a comic out and begins to read it. Jack watches the dead night sky as a few walkers roam the streets, there is a silence in the air, he puts a blanket on and goes to sleep. Lamar reads his book for much of the night to get his mind off of everything that happened.