Be There For Me- Glenn Rhee

Highway-1

Chapter 1
I do not own any of the Walking Dead characters or the shows storyline; they belong to AMC. I only take credit for Athena and Marlee!

You know how people say you never know how good you had it till you didn't. Well I clearly took it for granite, five minutes ago I just had to put my parents down in front of my 15 year old sister.

"Athena... are you okay?" My little sister Marlee asked with her tear stained cheeks.

"No... but we will be, we just need to find somewhere to stay." I said.

Marlee and I have always been close despite the age gap between us, I was in my early 20's and she had just turned 15. I don't know what I would do without her, she's all I have.

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It's been a few days since that happened, Marlee and I have been on the run hoping to find someone or something to help us. We are currently on some random ass highway in Georgia I think, I don't really know.

"Athena... you see that?" Marlee asks. I hum lightly in response, I see about 10 walkers scurrying our way and my heart drops into my ass. "Marlee, let's go!" I whisper. I don't get a response from her so I turn around and see her frozen in her spot staring at the 10 walkers.

"Marlee!" I yell. She turns around slowly and looks at me with tears in her eyes. As I am about to grab her one takes a big bite into her neck, she screams as blood pours out of the side of her neck. Her frail body falls to the ground while she is gasping for air.

My eyes welled up with tears and I walk over and take out the 10 walkers that just took my baby sister's life. I take out the first 9 and the last one is on the ground attempting to get up and get me too. I walk over to it as a few tears fall down my cheeks and stab it in the head multiple times before I hear something I never want to hear.

"A-Athena, stop." Marlee says as she's drowning in her blood, she reaches her arm over and lightly squeezes my calf. I quickly get off the walker and crawl towards her and places her head in my lap. Sobs rack through my body and tears rapidly fall down my face.

"I love you. I love you so much I am sorry" I whisper. She brings her pale cold hand up to my face and cups my cheek.

"It's not your fault, I froze, I'm so s-sorry" She whimpers out. I lightly bring my hand to the side of her hair and brush back her light brown hair. I weakly smile at her and kiss her forehead. I see her hand lightly fall limp as her eyes flutter for the last time.

"Marlee...Marlee!" I yell, I shake her and she doesn't respond. I weakly turn my head to the right to grab the knife I had left over by the walker. I crawl back over to her and push the silver knife through the side of her head.

As I see her head fall limp it hits me that I now have no one. "No! No!" I yell as I sit on my knees.

I hadn't realized how long I had been sitting there until I saw a herd approaching the highway. "Shit!" I curse under my breath, I carefully kiss Marlee's forehead one last time before getting up and running down the highway.

I hear muffled talking before I hide myself behind a car and peek over to see two men working on a RV. One of the men glances over and looks at me before I quickly turn back around to hide myself.

I hear footsteps approach and I turn my head to look at him. "Hi, I'm Glenn." He says quietly. I didn't respond, I wanted to but I couldn't find the words to do so. My eyes start to sting but I swallow back the tears remembering the horde that was traveling down the highway.

"You- you need to hide under the cars now." I say, my voice breaking midway through the sentence. "What-" Glenn is quickly cut off by a man with black hair. "Get under the cars! Now." He looks at me and Glenn nods and I quickly get under a car across from Glenn and the man.

I look at the hot concrete below us as I hear the snarls and growls of the dead that pass through. I hear quiet screams from the RV that Glenn and that man are under. My eyes go wide and I look at Glenn giving a look that says "What the hell?!" He just shakes his head. Soon the growls and snarls become quieter and I see the walkers that are passing down the highway.

I look down to see a little girl start to get out from under the car and scream when two walkers try to get her. Another man gets up and starts chasing after her. I slowly get out from under the car, and so do Glenn and the other man. Everyone runs over to where the little girl ran off too, I see a woman who I assume to be her mother "There's two walkers after my baby." She cries as another woman holds her and shushes her.

A few people look at me with questioning looks. "Hi, bad time, I know but I'm Athena." I say quietly. Everyone one is now looking at me and I mentally punch myself in the face for embarrassing myself. Some nod at me while others look away. A little boy speaks up "Hi, I'm carl." He says with a small smile. I smile back and shake his little hand that he held out.

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Carl had found some weapons only to be yelled at by his parents. At least I think they are, I don't know. Some people continue to work on the RV, waiting for the other men that went out to get the girl named Sophia. I sat against a car next to the RV only to be consumed by my thoughts, I had thought back to Marlee and her last moments. I know she wouldn't want me to be like this, but I can't help it. Tears cloud my vision and I bring my knees to my chest and quietly cry. I feel a presence next to me and look over at the little boy with brown hair and ocean blue eyes. "Are you okay?" He asks quietly.

I wiped my tears quickly, "Yeah, I uhm...just lost my sister before I came across you guys." I lowley whisper trying to contain myself. "I'm sorry." He says. "Don't be, it's okay." I lightly smile at him.

AUTHORS NOTE: I have never written fanfic before! Let me know what you think...And please vote. Word count 1,176.