CHAPTER 1

Meet David

"I'm out! Cover me!" Carl yelled in panic. "I got your back lil' man!" Tyreese assured Carl.

Carl seeks cover behind the blue 99' Toyota. He starts to reload his weapon, when suddenly he hears a walker peeking around thee opposite side of the car. In a panic Carl uses the Barrel of his rifle to stab the walkers brain. Carl sighs in relief.

Then all of a sudden a walker grabs him from behind, Carl screams "DAD!" The walker sinks his teeth into Carl's right shoulder.

"CARL! Carl Wake up!" Yelled David.

Carl jumps up in a cold sweat off of his bunk at the prison where the group had been staying.

"What's happened?!" Carl asked David.

"You were having a nightmare!"

"It was a dream..." Carl said in confusion.

David puts his arm around Carl,

"Relax"

Carl snuggles up to David.

They sit in silence for the next couple of minutes.

"David, I miss my dad."

"I miss your dad too"

They both grieved

David is Carl's best friend they met a few weeks back,

Must of been around March

Carl was out searching for formula

For his baby sister Judith.

When he entered a house that David had been staying In for the last couple of months.

"Who's there?" David asked in his Australian accent

Carl could tell from his voice he was around his age.

"Hello?" David asked, hoping for a kind response.

"Please don't shoot. I'm looking for formula for my sister. She needs it!" Carl explained.

David too heard Carl's young voice

"Are you alone?" David asked nervously.

"Ye- yeah- yeah" Carl stuttered, not sure if he should tell the truth.

David came out from hiding in the wash room.

David was slightly taller then Carl standing at about 5.5 feet tall.

He was also a bit more muscular then Carl. Probably on a count of being on His own.

He had a pretty good set of abs.

David was wearing some torn up jeans and wasn't wearing a shirt.

He probably didn't own one.

He had long black hair. Same length as Carl's.

"There is some formula under the sink" David informed Carl.

"Thanks" Carl said shyly.

"So what is your name?"

"Carl. What's your name?"

"David"

Carl bent over to get the formula.

David couldn't help but take a peek at Carl's bottom.

Carl turns around busting David.

"Sor- sorry" David said.

"It's- it's okay" Carl said smiling and blushing.

"So, is it just you and your sister?" asked David

"Uhm" Carl hesitated answering.

"It's okay you can trust me." David assured Carl.

"No." Carl paused. "There are a few of us.

"Do you have any parents?"

David asked trying not to get excited.

"My dad. He's a Sherif.. Well.. He Used to be." Carl answered while remembering the days before all of the walkers.

"What about your mom?" David asked knowing he shouldn't of.

"My mom- my mom is dead"

Carl answered.

"I'm so sorry Carl I di-"

"Stop." Carl interrupted.

"It's okay. It was a while ago,

She died giving birth to my baby sister Judith"

David looked toward his toes. Not knowing how to respond to what Carl has told him.

"Thanks for the form-"

"Both my parents are dead" David blurted out.

As silence in the room grew longer

Carl asked David if he was all alone.

"I am now." David answered

"At first it was me and my Girlfriend Saarah Sweets.

But one day she got real sick..

And I didn't know what to do,

I must've gotten her a hundred different medicines from the pharmacy down the street but one day we both went to sleep.. But- but only I woke up" David is starting to cry.

"It'll be okay," Carl try's to cheer up David.

"I lost my girlfriend to, her name was Beth. I was supposed to be patrolling the fence, but- but she called me over to the guard tower to mess around a little, and when we were done and leaving the tower a walker must have gotten in the south side of the yard where the fence drops a little lower and is a little weaker.

And- and it grabbed her. I tried to save her but my gun must've fallen out my holster. And I ran..."

"I RAN AWAY!... Like a pussy!"

Carl screamed.

"Oh my god, Carl I'm so sorry but you have to know, it's not your fault..

It's not your fault

the world is like th-"

David stops.

Carl looks up at David to see why he stopped talking.

"Guard tower?" David asked

"Are you guys at the prison?!"

David asked Carl

"Yes. And you can come back with me."

"Will your people accept me, will they like me"

"Yes, but it doesn't matter. I call the shots." Carl said almost bragging.

" but we have to leave now. We got to beat the sun."

Carl said with his natural born leadership kicking out.

"Okay let me just grab a few things?"

David asked Carl.

"If you have any food, fuel or weapons bring them with"

Carl listed.