She was running down an alley when she heard the scream. Stopping behind a dumpster, she kneeled down and listen and there went the scream again. Looking around she sees a few stray walkers but none that are too close to worry about. she looks up and see an escape ladder and decided to climb up and see where the screaming came from. Hoisting her backpack up, she jumps and grasp hold of the ladder and pull herself up. Carefully making her way up she can hear someone yelling, still too far to know what they were saying. Reaching the last ladder she hoist herself up and over the ledge and look to see a man sitting on the roof yanking away at a metal pipe.
"Excuse me, are you okay? Do you need help?" she asks while putting my hand on the handle of her bat.
The man jumped and looked at her with wild and frantic eyes.
"Now ant you a sight! Why don't you bring your pretty little ass on over to help ol'merle out, sweet checks?" Merle said with a smirk on his face.
Looking the man over, she notices he must have been out here for a long while. His face is bright red with sun burn and he looks very dehydrated. Walking over to him she kneels down by the pipe and see that he's handcuffed to the pipe.
"So Merle? How did you end up like this?" she asks while looking through my bag.
"Had a run in with a not-so-nice cop. Punched me then hand-cuffed me and booked it outta here leaving ol' merle behind" he tells her while looking her over. "Now sweet-checks I don't think a little old nail file is gonna get me outta here." He laughs while watching her dig in her things. Finally finding what she needed she leans over toward merle and show him her lock picking kit and smirk when she notice his reaction.
"Well then I guess I'll have to use this?" pulling out the things she'd need. Quickly working she got his hand un-cuffed and started cleaning his cuts from the metal cuffs cutting into his wrist.
"Ouch! Damn it! Can't you be careful! That stings like a motherfucker!" Merle hissed while pulling his hand away.
"Oh come on! Stop being a baby! I'm almost done. I just got to wrap it up so you don't get it infected." she tell him while pulling his hand back. She wrap up his wrist and stand up and repack her things and start heading back to the ledge of the building to go back down the ladders.
As she was about to go down the ladder a hand grabbed her arm and pulled her back. Turning around to face Merle she raise her eyebrow in a "what do you want" gesture.
"Where you goin sweet-checks? Do you gotta group? What about a place to stay?" he asked.
"Im heading toward the woods outside Atlanta to make camp, hopefully find someplace safe for a couple of days or so. Why? You wanna tag along?" She asks.
"I gotta baby brother right outside the city. There's a big group of people who made camp at a quarry. If you want I can show you?" he said while climbing down.
"Sure, why not. You're the first person Ive seen for a while that hasn't tried to eat me." she says laughing.