AN- Im not naming the chapters in this story because I cant figure out good names right now. So Im leaving it up to yall. Let me know in each chapter what the name should be and I will pick the best one, name it and tag you in the story at the begging :) Help me out fans :) And comments and criticism are welcomed :)
The days are long, nights longer now. It sucked before, trying to live in a 'perfect' world with imperfections but now it was even worse. The walking dead was everywhere and as Trixie made her way through the woods carrying fire wood she wondered how much longer any of them had. She came to a clearing and eyed the people standing around with their thumbs up their butts. Shaking her head she dropped the fire wood not so graciously into a pile in the middle of the so called camp.
"Thank you." Glancing to her left she noticed the blonde girl, Andrea she believed, smiling to her. Her sister Amy was watching from a distance but she couldnt expect much from them. After she met up with their group not even 3 days ago and begged to be kept for fear of dying they had reason to be suspicious of her.
"No problem." She smirked a bit before walking back to the side of the camp that was hers and sighing as she lowered herself to the ground where she had her jacket sitting. Wrapping it around herself she shivered once before glancing around the campsite.
"Food." Trixie glanced up to see Daryl, their hunter in the camp, walking to the middle with a few squirrels that he had skinned and prepared for a fire and smiled. He was kept to himself but he was most like her so far and she took a bit of solace in knowing she wasn't the only loner anymore.
"Thank you Daryl. Are you doing ok over there?"
"Ye blondie. Fine." He glared at Andrea as he turned and went back to his own little part of the campsite where him and his brother Merle were holding out. Sighing to herself Trixie eyed Lori and Carl as they talked with Shane. He was the unofficial leader of the group and when he was giving instructions for the next town run Trixie felt an urge to ask for her little side items but felt embarrassed about it as well.
"We are leaving, anyone need anything else?" Trixie eyed her backpack she had brought with her and frowned before she quickly got up and corned T-Dog near the car they were going to take back into Atlanta.
"T."
"Yeah?"
"Keep it quite please, and if its not trouble, I would like a note book or note pad and some colorful pens. Like sharpies please. It's the only thing that clams my nerves."
"You draw?"
"Yeah."
"If you make me one ill do it." She smiled s T-Dog nodded and went to get into the car with Shane and another camper she hadn't gottont o know much of yet.
"Sherif, I think I might just be takin the trip wid ya."
"I don't think so Merle. If you need something we will get it. The less people the better."
"God Daminit man, Im gunna go and you can't do nuthin bout it ya hear!"
"Merle, don't start something that we don't need to be finished. What do you need?"
"Forget it! You bout useless anyways!" Merle went to walk back to his side of the camp before Trixie frowned and glanced to T-Dog and gripped Merles hand real quick. He turned and glared to her before he noticed who it was and smiled.
"Tell T. He'd get it for you." Merle looked back to T-Dog and scoffed as he put his hands on his hips and laughed.
"That nigger! Naw be better off with the cop getting it fer me hun." Merle walked away, leaving a shocked but none the less expecting Trixie, T-Dog and Shane glancing to him.
"He didn't mean it T."
"I know."
"Hey, grab me something else please."
"Sure." T-Dog smiled as Trixie told him what she wanted and the went back to her jacket. When she sat down on it and wrapped her arms back around herself she glanced over to Merle and Daryl to see them getting ready to go out on another hunting trip and frowned. She was a loner yes, but she even knew when to ask for help. As the guys went to town Trixie found herself watching over the girls and the kids that were running around and smiled. She nodded to Lori as she passed by but Lori just kind of kept her eyes forward and her smile firm as she went to help the others get the food Daryl brought them ready. Trixie sighed, she knew most people wouldn't pay her attention, and when she looked around again she thought quickly back to how she came to see these people.
"Dale, everything clear?"
"All good so far Lori." She smiled to the old man on top of his RV and Trixie chuckled a bit to herself as well. That was where he was the day she met them all first. Held up in traffic her bus stopped right on the edge of Atlanta, trying to get in of course, but as the traffic stalled everyone started to get out to walk and she followed. She held her backpack to her chest as she walked through the parked and stalled cars before she noticed Shane, T-Dog and Lori talking at the back of his cop car. Frowning she went to talk to him but Dale called out to them from up top of his RV first and made her glance his way.
"Theres nothing moving. Were stuck." Trixie eyed the guy as he glanced down to the cop and he frowned as well.
"We are going to have to try and foot it. They must not be letting cars in anymore." Trixie eyed the distant Atlanta before Lori asked Carol, another woman in the gorp with her daughter Sophie, to watch Carl and they went to find out what was going on. Walking a bit behind them Trixie noticed Lori and Shane stop right at the edge of a cliff and frown when they all heard a booming sound and then seeing fire come up in the city. They were bombing Atlanta and they were never going to get in.
"The Quarry. Its our only hope." Lori nodded to Shane as they went to talk to the few people they had met during the traffic stop and while everyone was talking about going there Trixie backed up a bit, backing right into Merle and his brother, but after Shane opened the invite Trixie stuck by and listened. A few people were going to go stick it out at the Quarry and she wanted to as well but she was worried they wouldn't accept her. Sighing as she noticed Merle and Daryl walking to Shane and agreeing to go with them she followed behind the guys and shyly waited for Shane to be alone.
"Shane?"
"Yeah?"
"I need a place to stay. Could I tag along?" Shane glanced over Trixie and frowned, her skinny self wouldn't do much good with the killing of the zombies and he doubted she knew how to clean since she was dirty and had mangy hair but he felt bad for her and as he agreed that she could if she helped she followed the group silently, hitching a ride for Dale as they drove what cars they had up the Quarry dirt drive. That had been a few days ago and since then Trixie had taken her place up where she sat now and watched over the group for the most part, picking up on the soon to be made status and pecking order. She wasnt happy with how she got looked over by mostly everyone other than Andrea, T-Dog and Dale. Even the Dixon's, Daryl and Merle, didn't pay her much attention but they at least were seemingly nice to her compared to what Lori and the others were.
"Trixie. Im going to go and bath in the lake. Do you want to come? Better in pairs." Trixie turned her gaze to Andrea who had Amy at her back and was waiting on her answer. Amy had sort of already answered it for her and when she noticed her scowl and unwanting looks Trixie shook her head, noticing as well that Daryl and Merle were watching, before Andrea walked off towards the water with her sister.
"Bet the gal doesn't even know what a good shower is lil bro."
"Shut up Merle. Shes been out here like us." Trixie closed her eyes as she overheard Daryl and his brother but she couldnt hid the tear that escaped her eye before she laid on the ground and covered herself the best she could with her leather jacket. Her fathers to be exact.
"Dinners almost ready." Trixie smiled, her stomach growling as the other girls made the squirrel into a tasty dinner for them, coupled with a few of the provisions they had left over from the cars and such. Waiting on someone to bring her her share Trixie laid there and listened but when the footsteps had stopped walking she noticed that somehow she had been skipped. Frowning she glanced up and noticed everyone eating, even the brothers, and when she saw two extra plates waiting in Andreas and her sisters spots she knew what had happened. Lori must have made dinner again and forgot her. It happened once before but that time Andrea got her something before it was all gone. Trixie was not one for talking out to someone or letting them know what was going on so she had sat there until Daryl mentioned something about her thinking she was to good for squirrel and Andrea brought her a plate. She had smiled, Daryl blushed a bit out of embarrassment, when Andrea mentioned to Lori not to forget anyone in the camp but tonight she wasn't around and it made Trixie grit her teeth and clench her fists. Sighing before she stood she noticed a few people glancing her way, startled by her movements, and she realized that no one really knew she was there, they had thought she was wa walker and that pissed her off more.
"Trixie, you done already darling?" She glanced to Dale, her once bright ocean blue yes paling as she tried not to cry.
"No. I don't need anything. Im just…going for a walk." She shook her head as her stomach gave her away and Lori suddenly was shocked and gasping as if she had just remembered she forgot about Trixie.
"Oh my god. Im so sorry!"
"S fine!" She shook her head and decided to take Andrea up on her offer of a bath and as she walked towards the water she noticed Daryl and Merle glaring att he group before she made it to the woods and shivered. It was getting a bit colder and colder at night now but she didn't mind that, as long as she was alone she was fine.
