All that is Left
Disclaimer: This is an independent fanfic based on the TV show the tribe. I do not own The Tribe or any of its characters, it is owned by Raymond Thompson the writer and Cloud 9 the producer of the show.
Chapter 1
The boat had ended up in a storm a fortnight after they had left the city when Ram's AI Zoot had released the deadly Virus. When the boat had been caught up in the storm all had been split up. Amber holding on to Bray Jr., Slade, Lex and Trudy who were holding on to Brady had been washed up on the same shore. The others had been split up even more, Ebony had ended up with Ruby on some other shore and the younger kids, Salene and May ended up somewhere else.
Amber was the first one to wake up on the beach and she was still holding in to little Bray. She tried to feel his pulse but couldn't feel it. She was getting distressed, she screamed so loud that she woke up Slade and Trudy. Trudy looked around confused and remembered what had happened. She checked Brady's pulse and she had one, so Trudy relaxed and crawled over to Amber. Slade just looked around and moved over to Amber. He could see Lex lying in the sand passed out but didn't bother to try and wake him up.
"What's wrong Amber?" Trudy asked as she got over to her. She put down Brady on the sand and tried to put her arm around Amber but Amber pushed Trudy's arm off.
"He is dead. He doesn't have a pulse. I've lost him; I've lost all I had left of him as well." Amber stuttered between sobs. She had started to cry really much.
"Oh Amber." Trudy said and looked at the lifeless body of Bray Jr in Amber's arms.
Lex was starting to wake up at this point. He heard Amber cry and wondered why she was crying. He got up and moved over to them, well the crawled over to them since he couldn't get up from the soft sand.
"What's wrong?" Lex asked as he got there and noticed that Amber's son was not breathing and that Amber was holding on to him like she was never going to let him go. The three of them knew that they would have to get Amber to agree with them to bury her one and only child since he would start to smell and that meant the attractions of birds and other animals that ate corpse.
"Amber?"
"What is it Slade?" she asked and turned her head to face him.
"You know that we have to bury him so he doesn't attract animals."
"I know but not yet. Let me be with him alone for a while." Amber said and got up from the sand. She saw her bag a few feet away and grabbed it. She opened it and took out a set of dry and clean clothes for her son. She was determined not to bury him in dirty clothes. She knew that she wouldn't want to be buried in wet and dirty clothes. She put a pair of light green pants, a bit darker green shirt and a pair of his boots.
"There I'm ready to bury him now." Amber said and walked over to Trudy who had picked up Brady again. Brady was thankfully still asleep. It meant that she would be spared a bit of the pain to see her younger cousin dead even though she did not know what death meant. Brady would probably ask questions when she woke up and noticed that her cousin wasn't with them, but Amber knew what she would say to her.
Amber knew where she wanted to bury him. She had seen a beautiful spot with flowers and beautiful white rocks. The place was a few miles from the sea so that the tide wouldn't get to it. She had seen it from the beach since there were no bushes to hide it. She pointed it out to the rest and carried her son there with the rest walking behind her. When they arrived at the place she had set out for then the guys found some sticks to dig the hole with. When they had dug the hole, then Amber put her son Bray Junior to rest there. She gathered up some of the stones and placed them on the grave as a B so that she would know that it was there her son was. No one said anything since they thought Amber would but she was to sad to even try and say anything, she just stood there looking at the grave as it had been built by her. She didn't want to say farewell to her son but she had to. She knew that she would have to move on and live her life as if he had never existed; she knew it would be hard but she would have to do it for her friend's sake and for big Bray's sake if they ever found him.
When they had buried Bray Jr. then they gathered the stuff that had ended up on the shore with them. It was a chest with clothes and some food in it, they also had Trudy's backpack with food in. Lex and Slade let Trudy and Amber to be by Bray's grave while they gathered the stuff so they would be able to move away from the place, and to find a safe place to live in.
"Amber we have to go now. We have to find a safe place to stay in." Trudy said and looked at Amber whom was still crying.
"I know but not just yet. I don't want to leave him yet." Amber got out between her sobs. She was trying to stop crying but it was hard. He had been her life ever since he was born; she had loved her son more than her own life. She wouldn't do anything to hurt him, yet he was dead. Lex and Slade had finished packing their stuff in one bag and the chest. Lex and Slade were carrying the chest between them. It was almost full of food; there were also water and a couple of blankets.
"Amber, Trudy. We should get going now so that we have a chance to find shelter before night falls." Slade said as he and Lex got up to the girls.
"We know." Trudy answered as she put down Brady on the ground so that she could pull Amber up from the ground. When she had managed to get Amber up to her feet then she picked up a sleeping Brady. She put her left arm around Amber and held Brady with her right arm and hand.
"Let's go." Lex said and started to walk toward the sun that was setting, it was still quite high up on the sky but it was going down. They walked for an hour and during that hour Brady woke up and looked around.
"Where are we mummy?" Brady asked as she looked at Amber who was walking next to Trudy.
"We are at some island. We don't know which one yet sweetie."
"Okay, where's Bray?"
"He is with the angels up in the sky." Trudy said she didn't really know how to explain it to her four year old daughter.
"Like grandma and grandpa?"
"Yes exactly." Trudy answered and smiled warmly at her little girl who was growing up.
Half an hour later they reached a city. They had electricity and street lights you could also hear cars driving around. The four of them wondered if the adults still were alive there. Brady didn't know what the sound was so she started to cry of fear.
"It's okay Brady; it's nothing to be scared of." Trudy comforted her daughter who continued to cry anyways.
They entered the city and saw the street lights and cars driving around and people walking around. It was hard to tell their age since they were quite a long way from them. They were at least 5 miles from them.