Chapter 1. The dairy
It had been three months since the drugstore incident, we found this man named Mark, he had lots of food, enough for every one.
Mark was in his mid 20's, Caucasian, Former Military, light bearded with glasses, and short black hair. We found him on an air force base not to far from here. Mark, Lee, Romero, and Kenny went hunting for food. I'm glad they found me when they did, I was stuck in room 5, found me couple of days after they moved in. I'm on watch duty since I had no food to give them. "You see anything Alex?" Lilly called up "Nah,
nothing today" I called back down. I looked over to see Lee run out of woods carrying someone on his back. "Open the gates we got wounded"
(What the fuck are they doing) As the gates opened a tall blonde haired boy ran, I turned and ran into a shorter black-haired kid. "LEE, what just do you think you are you doing?" Lilly yelled. "They would've died if we left them"
"We are NOT responsible for every struggling survivor we come across!" Lilly yelled "We have to focus on this group right here!"
"Come on, Lilly. these are people! People trying to survive just like us. We've got to stick together to survive!" Mark stated.
"The only you're here is because you had food. Enough for all of us. But that food's all most g-" Lilly was interrupted by the short boy
"Listen here woman, we don't want any trouble ok" He said "Just fix our teacher and we'll leave." he said so cold like.
Alex went back to her room. She went into the bathroom and stood in front of the mirror, the pale white girl with black hair, black dress, and black shoes. She was thinking of the day this all began. Alex had just gotten back from her mothers funeral, when in the parking lot a stranger grabbed her hair and pulled it back. (well he's a dead mother fucker that's for sure) "Alex you in here?" A voice called in "Ya" she replied
"Lilly wants you to go with me, Mark, Carley,Lee, and Ben, to some dairy" It was Romero (Oh, great Lilly still wants me to prove my keep)
Alex picked up her brass knuckles with knife and walked out the door, as she exited the room she saw Clementine without her hat. Alex thought that was weird (she always has her hat on) "Hmmm..." she mumbled as she took one last look at the little girl.
On the way to the dairy Romero notice Alex slacking behind. "you O.k?" He said in a soft tone.
"Ya, it's just that I..I was thinking about what that kid said" Alex said looking pale.
"Shit! you heard that from your room" Romero said looking surprised.
"No Glenn told me" Alex angrily said "I mean fuck we come back no matter what"
"Can you Tone it down back there?" Travis said
"FUCK YOU!" Alex yelled back "Don't get so worked up." Travis laughed. (Fucking teens.) "Why are you here anyways?" Romero asked Travis,
"Because me and Ben got to stick together to survive" Travis said giving Ben a small elbow to the ribs. "Is that how you guys lived so long?" Andy asked "Ya, I..Our camp got raided it was just me and Ben" He said "Until we found our teacher " Travis said, Ben was to busy talking to Andy and Danny to notice Travis talking. Romero looked behind him and saw Carley talking with Lee.
"Because of your past?" She said to lee "Does anyone else know?"
"Larry knows, and I think Clem knows" Lee said a little upset "She heard us talking at the drugstore asked me about it"
"What exactly did happen with the senator?"
"You know what happen" Lee said coldly
"I only know what the press was told. I don't know your story"
"Sometimes I wonder if I should talk to the group about it..."
"You don't have to. What ever happen before every thing went to hell does not matter anymore" She said with smile.
"Not sure every one would see it that way"
"Maybe you're right..." She was starting to get serious "Listen, over the years I've reported on some pretty messed up shit. I've seen situations like yours a hundred times. It doesn't have to make you a bad man" She reassured him
"I really appreciate that" He gave her a smile. (Shit, I know who Lee is, he's the guy who killed the state senator for sleeping with his wife)
"Right Lee?" Mark asked, bringing Romero back down to earth. "Yeah, why don't you tell us a little more about yourself, Lee" Andy said
"Where you from?" Danny asked
"I grew up in Macon" Lee said happily
"Right in the heart of Georgia, that's what I like to hear!" Andy excitedly said "Y'all seem pretty settled in that motor inn. who's running things over there?" Andy asked
"I am if you guys have any questions, you come to me." Lee said with force, (Did he just say...) Romero notice Carley smiling at that statement.
"How many you got over there anyway?" Danny asked.
"Enough to defend ourselves." Lee replied
"that's good" Andy added. "well, we'd love to get y'all out to the dairy. Like I said we've got plenty of food, quite frankly we could use a couple of extra helping hands"
"In summers I used to help out on a goat farm." Ben said.
"Yeah, that's great. Everything helps." Danny replied.
"YOU THINK YOU'RE GONNA CUT ME OUT OF THIS!" A voice yelled.
"SHIT! Get down" Andy said quietly, they all crouched down. They crept over to the voices, there were two men in masks shouting at each other. "Fuckin' bandits"
"Those look like the people who raided our camp." Ben said and Travis nodding in agreement. (Give me a fucking break.) "There's only two of them" Carly stated
"We can take them" Alex said
"Oh, no there's more of them" Andy said "Let's just wait this out and hope they move on"
"FUCK YOU,FUCK YOU,FUUUCK YOU" the masked man said as he shot the other one.
As the group approached the dairy, a lady in her mid 50's approached them "I thought I saw Ya'll with company comin' down the drive."
"Guys. This is our mama." Andy stated
"I'm Brenda St. John and welcome to the St. john's dairy" she said
"This here's Lee he's from Macon"
"A couple of our old farm hand came from Macon. They grow 'em good there." She stated
"They've got a couple of more friends staying at the old motel." Danny added in.
"Oh, my goodness that place is pretty vulnerable. Have you anyone with survival experience to lead your group?" Brenda asked.
"I've got things under control over there" Lee said
"Well, I hope you know what you're doing. That place isn't safe there like it is here" Brenda bragged. "Now that you're here we'll make you safe and comfortable."
"We're awful hungry" Lee said.
"You've got that right" Travis said holding his stomach.
Brenda held out a big basket full of cornbread "These are for y'all, baked fresh this morning"
"Amazing" Carley said looking in the basket.
"Can't get stuff like that anymore, not without a cow for milk and butter, that's for sure." Danny stated.
"That's right. Hopefully Maybelle will make it through this bout of whatever shes got." Brenda said looking at the ground.
"We have a vet! We could help you folks out." Mark shouted.
"A vet, oh my, our prayers have been answered." Brenda said with glee.
"Maybe our whole GROUP can come...for the day..." Mark continued. Then Brenda suggested that they go and get Katjaa then they can eat.
Brenda and Danny went back into the house, "Why don't I head back with the food and round everyone up for the trip back here" Carley said.
"You might want to take someone with you. Remember those roads can be dangerous." Andy said.
"I can handle myself" Carley said argued with Andy.
"Take this." Mark said handing her his rifle. "Why don't you take Ben along with you"
"Then I'm going too" Travis said.
"Take care of your self Lee, see you in a little while" Carley winked at Lee as she left. The trio was walking back to the motor inn, when a masked walker came out of nowhere and attacked Carley. "Oh, SHIT!" Carley shouted, in the heat of the moment Carley dropped her gun.
"Get my gun" She wailed as she held back the foul creature. Ben picked up the gun and aimed it at the Walker "I...I can't" Ben said.
Travis ran over to Ben "Fine give it here" Travis said as he swiped away the gun "Damn it's jammed" Travis yelled frustrated.
So Travis handed the gun back to Ben and picked up a large branch. He ran over to Carley and smacked the branch over the walker, but it wasn't dead yet as it got back up "Toss me, my gun" Carley yelled at Ben "Bu...But it's jammed" Ben rebuked
"JUST TOSS ME THE DAMN GUN!" Carley shouted. Ben did so and Carley checked the gun "You Bone heads the safety's on" She shouted and BANG! gun shot rang through the forest, the walker fell to the ground. "Next time I say toss me the gun and you don't, it's your ass" she said to Ben.
"Hear me" Carley shouted at the teen.
"I hear you" Ben replied a little scared. They made it back to the motor inn, when a bell sound went off "It works" Doug shouted up to Lilly.
Ben and Travis open the gates. "So how's it looking at the dairy?" Kenny asked "Just great" Carley responded as she gave the basket to Lilly.
"Did you guys eat any?" Larry asked.
"What makes you say that?" Travis asked
"The crumbs on your friend's face says it all" Larry got a smirk on his face.
"Good, y'all can stay here while we go" Lilly said, "Fine" Travis yelled. Lilly,Larry,Doug,Kenny, and his family went without them.
As they approached the dairy what they saw shocked them an arrow in Mark's shoulder. "My god Mark are you all right?" Lilly asked
"I'll be fine just as soon as I pull it out" Mark replied.
"All no, Brenda's got you now" Brenda said
"Nah I got" Romero said "I've got medical training" Romero walked over to Mark and put a firm grip on his shoulder, "This is going to hurt" He said, as he put good grip on the arrow and started to pull it out "AHHHHH!" Mark yelled. After it was out Romero poured some medicine on it, "AHHHH!" he yelled. "Bandits" he said "What?" Romero asked. "Bandits did this..." He finished