Author's Note:

Hey! So this is my first fanfiction ever so don't be too harsh on the criticism.

Note:

Italics mean thoughts or flashbacks.

Bold is author's notes

"Quotations are just normal dialogue"

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Chapter 1:

"Looks like you need some help," The girl said as she revealed her hiding spot. The group had been too preoccupied by the walkers trying desperately to get in to notice the woman. The group quickly found the girl only for the one dressed in police officer attire to raise his gun at her.

"I'm not looking for a fight, but if you want to make it out of here alive I suggest you follow me," with that the woman turned around and started heading towards the roof. Their muffled discussion reached her ears, but soon she heard them following her.

She opened the door to the roof and began walking to the edge. On the way, she passed a man handcuffed to a pipe and a dark-skinned man sitting in the shade of the ledge. When the handcuffed man spotted her, he whistled at her and called her a "fine piece of work". Jennifer ignored his comment she was more focused on survival than some old pervert's comments.

Jennifer was 5'6" with long, dark brown hair and tan skin. Even through the years of hard work my features still remained delicate. My body was well toned from the years of training and conditioning, but they still weren't as muscular as some of the women she had worked with. Her father had always told her that she looked just like her mother, but she never got the chance to find out.

Snapping back into reality, Jennifer gazed down into the walker filled streets below.

"Look," Jennifer said pointing to an abandoned construction site as the plan quickly came to her, "Those construction trucks always have the keys in them."

The officer looked through the binoculars then handed them off to the man with black hair and slight black stubble. He looked at the construction site then down to the street crowded with walkers. "You'll never make it past the walkers."

"You got me out of that tank," The officer said looking at the Asian man.

"Yeah, but they were feeding. They were distracted," He responded backing away from the ledge.

"Can we distract them again?"

"Right. Listen to him. He's on to something," the handcuffed man spoke out, "A diversion, like on 'Hogan's Heroes.'"

"God, give it a rest." The dark-skinned woman with the short hair said.

As they began to explain to the officer how the walkers were able to distinguish them, Jennifer was starting to get irritated. She had been trying to help them escape and they acted as if she wasn't there. She cleared her throat loudly and continued to speak.

"So here's what we do. In the back of this building there's a loading dock with a large roll up door to give trucks easy access. Since a walker's body is decomposing, we will kill one and cover ourselves in its guts. This will cover up our smell from the walkers and we'll be able to easily sneak past them and get to the construction si-"

"What do you mean we?" The blond-haired woman interjected.

"Well, you can't expect me to do this alone. I'll be taking along these two," she said pointing to the officer and the oriental man, "What's all of your names?"

"Rick Grimes," the officer said.

"I'm Glenn," the oriental man said.

The rest of the group introduced themselves and Jennifer learned that the blond woman who interrupted her went by Andrea, the dark-skinned woman with short black hair was Jacqui, the man with black hair and stubble was Morales, the handcuffed man was Merle, and the dark-skinned man was T-Dog.

"W-Why us?" Glenn said swallowing.

"He's a cop so that means he has a gun and knows how to use it. As for you, you obviously know your way around this city so I'll need your help with the distraction," she said grinning at him, "Now I think we should get going if you don't want to become those walkers' next meal."

Again the group descended the stairs. As they did so Glenn spoke up, "If bad ideas were an Olympic event, this would take the gold."

"He's right," Morales said as Jennifer continued gathering the necessary items, "Just stop, okay? Take some time to think this through."

"If you haven't noticed those walkers have already broken through one set of doors, you don't have that much time. Plus, I could have high tailed it out of here and left you to your own demise. If this plan really is that bad then I could still go and leave you here."

The group began to dress in the coats and rubber gloves Jennifer passed out, before heading to the loading dock. Once they were there, Rick and Morales quickly ran out to get a dead walker. Jennifer waited holding the door open with her gun ready to shoot any walker who tried to interfere.

Once inside, Rick broke open the glass box that held the axe they would be using to chop open the walker. He put on a plastic face mask and was about to cut into the geek when he hesitated and stopped. In her line of work Jennifer has seen some horrible things but over all of those things cutting up a corpse and having its organs smeared on her takes the cake. Rick put down the axe and began searching the dead man's pockets as if knowing who he was would make this any less wrong.

"Wayne Dunlap," he spoke looking up at the group, "Georgia license. Born in 1979."

He handed the license off to Glenn. Jennifer took a seat on a nearby box, ready to get this over with.

"He had $28 in his pocket when he died… And a picture of a pretty girl," Rick continued to search the man's wallet, "'with love from Rachel'. He used to be like us, worrying about bills, or the rent, or the super bowl. If I ever find my family, I'm gonna tell them about Wayne."

As he spoke the last part Jennifer rolled her eyes. You'll probably forget about Wayne the minute his guts are washed off you. You probably won't even remember his face, let alone his name. The only thing you are going to remember about today is that you had your ass saved twice by two strangers and that you were covered in walker's guts. Jennifer thought to herself as she started kicking her leg.

Rick got back up and put on his protective mask when Glenn said something, "One more thing, he was organ donor."

After that Rick began chopping away. Jennifer just sat there kicking the air while the others turned away grossed out. She did find it pretty disgusting but she didn't know what was worse the sight or the horrible smell of something that has been dead for a long time.

Rick took off his mask and handed it off, along with the axe, to Morales. Jennifer was just happy she didn't have to be the one chopping.

"I'm so gonna hurl," Glenn said with his hands on his knees.

"Later," Rick told him as he backed away from the mangled corpse.

"Everybody got gloves?" Jennifer asked hopping from the crate as Morales removed the mask and put down the axe, "Make sure you don't get any on your skin or in your eyes."

With that they all began smearing organs on the three brave souls. Jennifer didn't mind touching it, what she minded was the horrendous smell it gave off.

"Oh, geez. Oh, this is bad. This is really bad," Glenn said as his shoulders tensed.

"Think about something else puppies and kittens," Jennifer said trying to comfort the poor boy.

"Dead puppies and kittens," T-Dog said only making it worse. Glenn coughed and began vomiting on the floor.

"That is just evil. What is wrong with you?" Andrea said to T-Dog.

"Next time let the cracker beat his ass," Jacqui told T-Dog with some attitude.

"I'm sorry, yo."

"You suck," Glenn said half way bent over.

"Do we smell like them?" Rick asked.

"Oh yeah," Andrea said wrinkling her nose, "Glenn, just in case."

Andrea opened the front of Glenn's coat and tucked a pistol into his waistband.

"If we make it back you have to be ready," Jennifer said to them.

"What about Merle Dixon?" T-Dog asked. Jennifer didn't know what had happened between him and the group earlier but she decided not to interfere, they had a job to do.

Rick removed his glove and produced a key from his pocket, tossing it to T-Dog.

"We need more guts," Jennifer said as Rick took the axe from Morales and began hacking the walker up more.

Before the trio left the loading dock, Rick tried to hand the axe off to Jennifer saying she would need something to defend herself with, but the woman refused and told him he would need it more than she would. Instead she opted to take the bat Morales handed her.

The three of them left the building after Jacqui draped a hand around Jen's neck. They began limping into the pack of walkers trying to imitate their movements. One started growling and got awfully close to Glenn. He turned his back to the creature and had the most terrified face Jen had ever seen on. A white-haired walker with red eyes followed her movements but quickly lost interest and moved on.

They made their way to the end of the alley and got on the ground to look under the tour bus that blocked their path. Crawling under the bus was easy, but peering out to see so many walkers, some walking, some crawling, and even some walking on broken ankles, wasn't as easy.

"It's gonna work. I can't believe it," Glenn whispered eyeing a walker that was trailing Rick. He was right they were almost to the site, and no walkers had noticed them.

"Don't draw attention," Rick whispered back.

A walker started to catch up to them and walked into the space between Jennifer and Glenn. To avoid recognition, Glenn began growling like a zombie and Jennifer snickered at the odd sounds coming from the man. Although it was quite humorous the growling worked because the zombie soon walked away from the trio to go investigate something else.

Fuck! Why now? Jennifer thought as the rain began to pour down. The three began to speed up their walking in hopes that they would reach the truck before the geeks caught their scent. Unfortunately, as the rain fell harder more of the guts that covered their smell began to fall to the ground. One walker's head started twitching around as the three got closer and as they continued moving, the walkers started to move in.

"The smell's washing off. Isn't it?" Glenn said looking to Jennifer with scared eyes, "Is it washing off?"

"No, it's not," Rick said trying to convince himself more than Glenn. Jennifer knew the small was washing off but she wasn't going to waste her breath telling them, she was determined to get that truck and get out of there. As they passed a male walker it looked Rick up and down then started growling, "Well, maybe."

A walker lunged for Rick almost biting him when Jennifer hit it in the head with the baseball bat, causing it to fall to the ground with its head sunken in.

"Run," she told them as she took off with the geeks following close behind. While making their way down the street the three would hit whatever walker blocked their path.

They made it through the pack and it was a straight shot to the gate keeping them from the construction site. They threw their weapons over the fence and started climbing. Even though the gate was slippery from the rain, having walkers that close behind thee made the climb easy.

Shedding the blood covered jackets and gloves once they got over the fence, Jen, Rick, and Glenn ran for the white truck just as the walkers began climbing the fence. What the hell? Now they can climb? Jen thought as she raised her pistol and shot those who were trying to scale the fence. Rick also did the same and Glenn got the keys to the truck.

"Rick!" he yelled tossing the keys to the officer.

One made it over the fence just as they were getting into the truck. Glenn slammed the door shut and yelled, "Go! Go! Go!" as the walker scratched at his window.

"Oh my God. Oh my God. They're all over that place," Glenn said starting to freak out. They drove from the construction site breaking through the metal gate. Looking back, Jen saw that the walkers had broken down the gate and were now headed this way.

"We need to draw them away," Jennifer explained, "We need to clear those roll up doors back at the store. Call your friends and tell them to get their asses down there and be ready."

"And we're drawing the geeks away how? I-I missed that part," Glenn said frantically.

"Noise."

The sound of glass shattering filled the air followed by a loud car alarm. Glenn stood back covering his ears as Jennifer broke into the red Challenger. She jammed the screw driver into the keyhole and got the car running in no time.

"Get in," She told Glenn as she got into the driver's seat. It hand been a while since she drove a Challenger but she would get used to it. Revving the engine, she pulled out into the walker infested streets. The walkers' attention quickly turned to the car with its loud alarm still going off. Following Rick as he drove the white truck back to the store, she turned and the car went sliding only to have her speed up and pass the white truck.

"Those roll-up doors at the front of the store facing the street, meet us there and be ready," Glenn said into the radio.

Glenn and Jen were flying down the streets when they passed a block filled with walkers. Jennifer put the car in reverse and backed into the street, drawing the mindless walkers' attention.

"Come on. Come on," Glenn said. The walkers began moving towards the car but Jen continued backing away. Soon, the walkers were hovering over the hood reaching out to grab the two.

"Just a little closer," Jennifer whispered. She continued taunting the walkers until they were running after the car. Once they were focused on the car she quickly backed up, spun the car around, and gunned it before the walkers could catch up. Just as she was rounding the corner she caught sight of the white truck pulling on the street. Knowing she wouldn't need to distract them that much longer, Jennifer went around a few blocks and began losing the walkers.

"Woo-hoo! Yeah- hoo!" The two yelled as they sped down the highway, exiting the overrun city.