Rick was feeling guilty after leaving Morgan and his son after they saved his life, but a small part of him wasn't guilty, as he had to look for his wife and son. But before he could wallow in guilty any longer he sees a gas station in the distance and looks down at the fuel gage in his police cruiser and notices that he is started to run low on fuel, then he looks back to the road.
He only pulls into the entrance rather then going fully in as it is surrounded by abandoned cars, he parks the car and then slowly looks at his surroundings to see if there is any immediate danger. When he see that it is clear he leans into the back of the cruiser and pulls out a red jerry can, he then puts his hand on his belt and grabs the handle of his gun and slowly opens the car door. As he steps out he looks around again to make sure nothing would jump out and attack him.
But what he doesn't see while he was looking around was the tall, slim figure in the distance just coming out of the trees behind him. The figure pauses as it looks in Rick's direction and quickly drops into a crouched position and reaches behind them and pulls out a large compact bow and notches an arrow as they slowly creep towards the gas station and Rick.
Rick starts walking forward and looks towards a house, which is behind the gas station and sees that there a male and female body sat together on the porch, both had blood spatter behind them, with bullet holes on the backs of there heads. Shaking his head at the horrid display he continues to walk towards the gas pumps, still completely unaware of the figure closing in on him.
As he reaches the gas station he sees a weather battered sign hanging off its hinges. NO GAS! Rick sighs and then starts to look around as he gets the feeling that he isn't alone anymore. He is now walking through the dual row of cars looking in them to see if any have any keys and gas in them.
The figure, which is now only a few meters behind him, tilts their head at Rick as he starts to talk to something. Moving slightly to the side behind him and sees the back of what once was a little girl.
"Hey lil' girl, I'm looking for some gas. Lil' girl it's okay I'm a police officer."
Shaking their head at Rick the figure stands up and draws back the string on the bow as the girl turns round slowly and reveals that they are now one of the walkers. The figure sees Rick starting to back away slowly and lets the arrow fly straight into the skull of the walker.
Rick is startled twice in the space of a minute the first was due to the girl he was asking questions too turning round and he sees that it isn't a girl any longer, it is one of the walkers that Morgan warned him about. And the second was when an arrow zooms past millimetres away from his face straight into the right of eye of the walker, killing it.
As the walker falls to the ground Rick spins round and draws his gun aiming it at the figure which was stood behind him, with another aim right at his head.
"Rick?"
Both Rick and the stranger look at each other properly, while at gun and arrow point, and they see who they are aiming at. Rick lowers his gun slightly as he gazes to the figure in disbelief, as the stranger lowers the arrow to the ground, but the arrow is still notched into the bow.
"Reyna?" Rick says while gazing in complete shock at the woman in front of him. He runs his eyes down from her dark brown/black hair that was in a greasy ponytail, to her shocked hazel eyes. When he looks at her eyes he is appalled to see a pink newly heal scar over her right eye and when she blinks he can see the scar on her eyelid as well. And he quickly scans the rest of her face to see if there are any other marks and sees an old scar on her upper lip. (AN: Rey looks like Mila Kunis with a scar over her right eye and a little scar on her lip.)
But before he could check to see if there was anymore injuries she partly snarls out "Ya gunna shoot me or not bro?"
All the while a smirk is on her face as she sees realization flash across his face as he quickly lowers his gun.
"R…Rey?" Rick rushes her and throws his arms around her, while ignoring her stiffing frame and pushes his face into the top of her head.
Forcing her body to relax Rey wraps her arms around Rick's waist and buries her head into his chest, while chuckling at her brother.
After a few minutes the step away from each other and Rick looks down at his sister.
"Rey, what are you doing here? I thought you were on tour?"
"I was but I heard about you getting shot and requested leave to come and make sure you were okay, we heard about the 'Cannibal disease' flying around and just as I landed in Florida, the world went to shit and I got my shit together as quickly as I could and then I made my way to your place, hoping to find Lori and Carl and to visit you. But as I got to yours Lori and Carl were gone and I wasn't able to find you in Kings County."
As she was talking she was walking towards the walker she shot and reached down and pulled the arrow out with a sickening slurp. And as wiped the blood and brain off the arrow with a ratty cloth from her pocket, she sees Rick's disturbed look on his face and chuckles.
"Anyway enough about me, how are you and how in God's name are you so damn clean?"
Chuckling Rick walks back to his cruiser and grabs the duffle bag full of guns and says " The station ran on propane and had running showers and I'm a bit sore but I'll worry bout that when I find Lori and Carl."
Shaking her head at her brother she takes a quick glance at the weapons in the bag and gives off a low whistle. But before the siblings could say anything they both hear a nicker from behind the abandoned house.
They share a look as they get their weapons ready and slowly approach the back of the house and they see two horses in a field, a brown mare and a black stallion.
Rey shoulder's her bow and says, " Well looks like we have our rides, ya tackle 'em, I need to get my stuff then we can go."
And then she is gone before Rick could even utter a word, shaking his head he goes into the barn gun raised and finds the tackle and saddles the mare and tries to saddle the stallion but the horse just snorts at him and starts to buck and kick at him.
Rey comes back just in time to see Rick throw a saddle on the ground and grabs his hair in frustration, walking round a bit more she sees the stallion prancing round in front of Rick.
Both males hearing sound of laughter behind them turn and see Rey leaning again the wall with a big duffle bag at the feet. When she sees she has both of their attention she whistles and the stallion trots over and allows her to swing up onto its back and grab a hold of its mane.
She leads the horse to where rick and jumps down and quickly saddles the horse while Rick grabs her bag and then tried to remember how to ride a horse, all while mumbling to himself and the horse.
She quickly catches up to Rick and grabs her bag off him and them smirks at him, before she leans over and slaps the horse and gets it to gallop down the field towards the road, with Rick shouting and hollering for it to take it easy. Laughing to herself she gently kicks her horse into a gallop and chases after her brother, who is still struggling to regain control of his horse.
After the first hour on the horse Rick finally got the hang of riding again and he got full control of his horse and the siblings where calmly trotting down the main highway to Atlanta, which Rick sending the odd glare at his sister.
Rey chuckles and leans over and put a hand on Rick's shoulder. " Come on, bro. Lighten pull, it were a lil' joke."
But before Rick could say anything to his chuckling sister, the siblings spot the jam-packed highway of people trying to exit the city.
Turn on her horse to look back the way they came, Rey says " Erm, Rick? Surely there should be traffic goin' to the city, not out."
Rick looks at his sister and spots the slightly worried look in her eyes before shrugging and he leads his horse in the outer edges of the city. He hears his sister swear and mutter under her before she follows him into the city. They head further into the city and Rey is get more and more taunt and is constantly looking round her, with her bow and her arrows in accessible reach. The horses start to panic slightly as the Grimes' lead them round stray walkers in the street.
"Hey, hey easy girl, you can out run 'em" Rick says patting his horse but before anything else could be said he lifts his head and tilts it to the side as he listens carefully at what could only be a helicopter, as he turns to see if Rey heard it he see the reflection of a helicopter in the glass window of a building he was passing and he kicks his horse to gallop down the street to the center of the city.
Hearing her brother urge his horse quickly, her head snaps in his direction and sees him heading the center of the city.
"No! Rick don't!"
She spurs he horse to follow Rick and is then side by side with him.
"Rick! Damn it! What you doin'!"
"Following the helicopter"
"What! There is no damn chopper!"
But before anything else could be said Rick is about to turn a corner when both horse suddenly rear in fear and the siblings look on in horror at the massive herd of walkers, which are ahead of them. All of which are starting to turn round and growl hungrily at the rearing horses and gob-smacked humans.
Rey growls and spins her horse to face Rick and shouts "Move!"
This make the walkers growl louder but Rick kicks his horse and they gallop down a side street, to get away from the following herd of walkers. But the side street was still packed with walkers and then at the end another herd of walkers, which is smaller than the first but still a problem for the siblings.
Rick does to turn his horse round again but before anything else could happen he is thrown for his horse as a walker latches on to its rear left leg. He lands painfully on the floor before he struggles to get up and a walker notices Rick on the ground and limps over to him. As Rick is still in a daze form the fall he sees the walker but can't do anything about it, and just the walker is lowing its head to take a chuck out of his neck an arrow pierces it from behind and stops a centimeter away from Rick's nose.
Rick kicks the walker off him and stand just as a hand grabs the arrow and another hand grabs his arm and pulls him towards them. Then the pair are running around the two horses, one already corpse with ten walkers already feasting on it and more shuffling over, the other was trying to flee but is soon brought down with walkers eating it alive.
Rick spots the tank before dragging his sister towards it before shoving her underneath it. He turns to look back at what used to be his horse and see his bag of guns. He was about to go and run towards it before he sees the walkers heading towards him.
He drops to the floor and crawls under the tank to join his sister, in what he thinks are his last day on earth. He takes his pistol out and is about to shot the walkers behind him when he sees his sister crawl further underneath the tank and then pull herself up through a hatch. He quickly follows her before he seals the hatch so walkers can't get to him to his sister.
After Rey sees her brother is fine she stands up to look through the open top hatch to see what the situation was. She sticks her head out and sees that walkers are starting to try and climb up the tank to get to her. She duck back inside and locks the hatch as well. Before she collapse to the ground and breaths a sigh of relief.
Rick sits at the back on the tank next to a dead soldier, and he sees there is a full clip of bullets as well as a spare pistol and goes to grab them. But the solider wasn't fully dead, it was a walker. It was slowly turning to face Rick and in his panic he shoots it in the head. But the shot echoed in the enclosed space and made the siblings loose there hear for a few minutes.
Rey glares a Rick before she crawls over and grab the clip from the soldier and passes to Rick, who loads it into his new gun, before she grabs a grenade that was in the right pocket of the jacket.
The siblings start to relax slightly, Rick more than Rey, before they jump in shock as the radio in the tank crackles to life.
"Hey Dumbass 1 and 2. You all cozy in there?"
Rick leaps toward the radio and hits his head to the roof of the tanks, before he grabs the radio, while glaring at a cackling Rey.
"Who ever you are, I. .We are more than a little concerned in here"
"Well you would be more concerned at what I'm seeing. As you and your friend and surrounded by walkers, but there is a chance you can get out with my help as I can see that most of the walkers are distracted."
"If we get out can we get the bag with the guns?"
Rick still has his figure of the button so both him and the voice her Rey snarls out, " Rick forget the god damn guns, they aren't an option."
The voice carries on " Yeah no option, now listen to me when you get out of the tank I need to you run to your right, there is an alley, run down there I'll meet you at the end. How many bullets you got?"
Rick looks at Rey and they count.
"Two full clips, so that's 15 each and Rey has 10 arrows."
"Well you make em' count and you need to go now as your horses aren't going to distract they much longer."
With that the voice goes and the siblings look to each other before they stand and unlock the top hatch. Rey shoots an arrow into the walker on the tank and Rick climbs out and sees the gravity of the situation. Rey climbs out and grabs her arrow out of the walker before nudging Rick to get a move on.
The siblings both jump down off the tank, Rey with more grace than Rick, and the start to shoot any walker that are in their way. They head down the alley when Rey runs out of bullets and loads an arrow and she is about to aim it at what she thinks is a walker, when it shouts out from behind the fence.
"Not dead. Not Dead. Hurry this way."
The person opens the gate and the Grimes' run in and they shut the gate before backing away from the fence. They then see a fire escape and the person starts to climb up it before Rick and then Rey follow behind him.
They get to the half way platform when they stop and take a break from the run/climb from the walkers.
"Nice moves, Clint Eastwood, Artemis. You two the new sheriffs? Come to clean town?"
Rick and Rey look at each other in amusement before Rick steps forward, "name's Rick Grimes and this is my sister Rey. You are?"
"Glenn."
Before anything else could be said, all three look down to see loads of walker trying to climb the fire escape ladder.
Glenn look up and says with a slight smile as he starts to climb, "We got to climb more but the good news is that if we fall, it will kill us."
Rey chuckles and follows him and says, "Well ain't ya the sun is shining, glass is half full kind a guy."
As they reach the top Rey holds a hand out for Rick as Glenn rush to the opposite side of the building before starting to climb down again. The siblings follow him and when they step on the platform, Glenn pulls out a radio.
"I'm coming through the alley, there are four geeks out here and I have two guests."
Just then two burly men in body amour come out of a door and smash two of the closest walkers head with a bat and crowbar before Glenn ushers Ricks in first, as Rey shoots an arrow to the next closest walker, before following them in the building.
As Rey is walking through the door she hears a woman scream something, before she sees a woman holding her brother at gunpoint. She sees red as she aims an arrow at the blond woman before she walks and stands next to Rick.
"You killed us all!"
"Andrea, calm down and put the gun down." The two men in amour remove their masks before asking Andrea to calm down.
Seeing as Andrea isn't going to remove the weapon from Rick, Rey steps towards Andrea and holds the arrow between her eyes and she growls out at the blond.
"Lower the damn gun or ya gettin' an arrow between the eyes"
"Rey! Cut it out!"
Rick grabs his sister before pulling her away from the blond, who has lowered the gun.
A Hispanic man, one of who let them in says " your gun fire has attracted them from the whole city."
The whole group head to the front of the store they were held up in and they all see walkers upon walker trying to get in the store.
Andrea turn ad snaps, " You two rang the dinner bell."
Rey turns to her and says while walking away "Shut up, ya lot are probably scavenging and knew the risk of the city and if ya going to aim a gun at people and threaten them, make sure the damn safely is off first."
Disclaimer/Author's Note:
This is my 1st TWD fanfic and I'm sort if I go the accents wrong but I'm trying to write how they would speak.
I don't own the Walking Dead or any characters but Rey Grimes and any fillers that are going to be put in, also any other new characters.
Please no flames and I will try to update regularly.
Please PM me with any tips you have on making the store better.
Hope you guys like the 1st chapter