Title: Mockingbird
Chapter rating: K+/T
Pairing: ?
Spoilers: Yep, many.
Length: Multi-chapter
Summary: Sometimes the choices you make, seem right and well thought, but you end up in the gutter anyway. And sometimes you're just an idiot with a gun.
Warnings: None.
Disclaimer: If you reg. I do not own.
Prologue
As the world as we knew ended some of us fared better than the others. Some were pretty obvious, military or police background helped, some vigilante groups knew how to act in the middle of crisis, even some criminals found themselves still at the first base on the foodchain. And then there were the ones whom nobody thought would survive, that if not thrived, at least did surprisingly well in the chaotic new world.
Lisa Cole was one of the odd ones. She had been a vet in her previous life. Her life had been easy and slow, boring even. She had lived with her dog next-door to her parents, now dead and buried. True, her dad had hunted occasionally and even taught her how to use a rifle and she had taken archery glasses back at school years ago, but nevertheless, no day went by when she didn't wonder how easy it had been to survive in the end. And as days went by it got easier for her to shoot them creatures. But as it was, she still mostly just run from them, or hid when possible. Luckily they weren't all that smart. Hell, some of them couldn't even open unlocked doors. So traveling alone, with just the dog to keep her company, hadn't been an issue. She had her trusty old dirt bike and she knew how to be nearly invisible if needed.
When she had traveled through out the main cities in the eastern coast she finally turned in-land. She had visited most of the refugee camps sites that were on the original map given to her back at D.C., but none of them had offered her peace. Most of them had been overrun by walkers or looters, or just plain deserted for reasons that were unclear. Some had had people surviving in them, but that was just it. Lisa didn't want to just survive; she wanted to have a life again.
After a rather pointless trip through the ruins of Albany she had been traveling up north towards Macon, when she had heard from refugees that the military had made a stand at Fort Benning. She had turned her bike to route 80 towards Columbus.
And that's when she found the Dixon brothers.
Or rather, they found her.
...
TBC.