Surviving the Dead
A/N: Okay so I love the Walking Dead and I wanted to write another story about it. In this one my OC and Jesus are going to eventuakky become a couple, I'm not going to have him gay in this story, not that I have anything against that it's just he's kind of cute and this story popped into my head recently. I hope you enjoy. Also side note I'm gonna take it from season 4 and go from there.
How did the world end up like this? One minute I was at the bar drinking with my brothers and the next we were running for our lives from the dead. I can say one things for certain, it sure has been a hell of a journey, we started off just living up in a quarry with some people we met along the way, lost Jim, Jaqui, Ed, Amy, Merle...well we didn't know if he was dead or alive. Then we ended up on a farm, but we lost Sophia, Carol's daughter, a sweet little girl, Dale, Shane and a few people who were on the farm that took us in. Now we're here, at a prison, where sadly we lost T-dog and Lori, then Daryl found Merle but he was dead as well. We've turned it into a home and have had 30 days without incident, ran into a man called the Governor who wanted to take this place from us but we fought back and ended up bringing his people in. Life was going good...at least for now. I'm Samantha Dixon and this is my story on how I am surviving the apocalypse.
"Morning, Daryl." I heard Dr. S say I look up to see my older brother walking over to me and Carol, she was cooking the deer Daryl got and I was cutting up vegetables
"What's up, Dr. S"
"Morning, Daryl"
"Morning, Daryl."
"Hey, Daryl!" Other people greeted and he looked back then at Carol grabbing a plate
"Smells good."
"Just so you know, I liked you first." Carol told him and I snorted
"Stop. You know, Rick brought in a lot of them, too."
"Not recently. Give the stranger sanctuary, keeping people fed, you're gonna have to learn to live with the love big brother." I told him and he shoved me, me and Daryl have always been close, he always took the beatings our dad would give even if some of them were directed at me. Me and Merle...well he was always so tough and never showed emotions, hard ass redneck really but I still loved him and I miss him
"I need you to see something. Patrick, you want to take over?" Carol asked the young boy
"Yes, ma'am." He walked over and stopped Daryl, "Mr. Dixon, I just wanted to thank you for bringing that deer back yesterday. It was a real treat, sir. And I'd be honored to shake your hand." He said and held his hand out, Daryl looked breifly at me and Carol then sucked the juice off his fingers and shook the boys hand and we walked away
"Excuse me Mr. Dixon can I have your autograph?" I joked and he shoved me once again and I giggled
"Shut up Sammie." He grunted and we followed Carol
"About today, I don't know if we're gonna be able to spare a lot of people for the run." Carol tells him, since everything that had happened recently Rick stopped leading us and now there was a small council consisting of Hershal, Michonne, Carol, Glenn, Daryl and me
"That place is good to go. We're gonna move on it."
"Yeah. The thing is, we had a pretty big buildup overnight." She tells him and we look down at the fence, "Dozens more towards tower three. It's getting as bad as last month. They don't spread out anymore."
"With more of us sitting here, we're drawing more of them out. You get enough of those damn fence-clingers, they start to herd up." He says
"Pushing against the fences again. It's manageable, but unless we get ahead of it, not for long." Carol inputs and looks at him, "Sorry Pookie" She joked and he nudged her with his shoulder and walked away.
"Okay, are you gonna say good-bye?" I heard Zach ask Beth as she walked past me and Daryl who were walking supplies to the back of the truck
"Nope."
"It's like a damn romance novel." Daryl says and he put the basket in the bed off the truck
"Oh stop it, it's young love. There's nothin' sweeter" I tell him putting my bag in the bag
"You're one to talk, how come you don't find someone?" He asked me
"Me trying to find someone who would be remotely interested is like finding a cure for this world we live in."
"Stop, you've had relationships" He tells me and I chuckle
"Yeah until you and Merle started to scare them off...well Merle more then you."
"Yeah well, I only wanted the best for ya, Merle...he was just an ass." He said
"Yeah, but even still, I miss him" I tell him and he put his hand on my shoulder
"Me too."
"Well, look who's back." Daryl tells Michonne as he stops his bike and I pull mine up next to him
"Didn't find him."
"Glad to see you in one piece." I said to her
"I'm thinking of looking over near Macon. It's worth a shot." She mentioned and I look at Rick who didn't seemed to thrilled about the idea
"70 miles of walkers. You might run into a few unneighborly types. Is it?" Daryl asked her then looked at Rick, "I'm gonna go check out the Big Spot. The one I was talking about, just seeing."
"Yeah, I got to go out and check the snares. I don't want to lose whatever we catch to the walkers."
"I'll go." Michonne said and started to walk to the car
"You just got here." Carl says and she looks at him
"And I'll be back."
"Army came in and put these fences up. Made it a place for the people to go. Last week when we spotted this place, there was a bunch of walkers behind this chain-link keeping people out like a bunch of guard dogs." Daryl mentioned to us as we stood by a fence next to the Big Spot
"So they all just left?" Bob asked him
"Give a listen." I tell Bob and we hear music playing
"You drew 'em out." Michonne says
"Put a boom box out there three days ago." Sasha says to her
"Hooked it up to two car batteries." Glenn adds
"All right, let's make a sweep. Make sure it's safe. Grab what you can. We'll come back tomorrow with more people. Come on." Daryl tells us and we make our way in
"Just give it a second." Daryl tells us after knocking on a glass window outside the building
"Okay, I think I got it." Zack said from next to him
"Got what?" Michonne asked him
"I've been trying to guess what Daryl did before the turn."
"He's been trying to guess for, like, six weeks." I tell her
"Yeah, I'm pacing myself. One shot a day."
"All right, shoot." Daryl says to him
"Well, the way you are at the prison, you being on the council, you're able to track, you're helping people, but you're still being kind of... surly. Big swing here. Homicide cop." Zack says and Michonne laughed and I snorted
"What's so funny?" Daryl asked us
"Nothing. It makes perfect sense." Michonne told him and I shrugged
"Actually, the man's right. Undercover." Daryl says
"Come on, really?" Zack asked him
"Yep. I don't like to talk about it 'cause it was a lot of heavy shit, you know?"
"Dude, come on, really?" Zach asked again and looked at me then back at Daryl, "Okay. I'll just keep guessing, I guess."
"Yeah, you keep doing that." Daryl tells him and a couple walkers bump up against the glass
"We're gonna do this, Detective?" Michonne asked Daryl as he stood up
"Let's do it."
"All right, we go in, stay in formation for the sweep. After that, you all know what you're supposed to look for. Any questions?" Sasha asked us
"Was there ever a time that you weren't the boss of me?" Tyresse asked her
"You had a few years before I was born." She says to him and we head in
I was standing at a clothes rack looking at a black flowy tank top when Daryl walked up to me, "Find something?" He asked and I looked at him
"Just a shirt" I said and walked away
"Why don't you take it?"
"It's just more crap to carry if we ever have to run" I tell him and he sighed, I never really thought that we were going to be in the prison for much longer, we didn't know where the Governor was, walkers keep building up on the fences and to me it didn't really feel like a home. Granted these days it's better then living out there, least we had a roof over our heads, I was brought out of my thoughts when we hear a loud crash and run over to it. We see a shelf fell over and Bob was underneath it.
"You all right? You cut or something?" Daryl asked him crouching down to look
"No, man, but my foot is caught."
"All right. He's just caught. Come on, help me up." Daryl tells Zach and Tyresse who joined us
"What happened?" I hear Glenn ask
"Everyone's all right. We're over in wine and beer." I replied helping with the shelf
"I was moving fast, man. I drove right into the drinks." Bob tells us and Tyresse knelt down next to him
"Man, you lucked out. If this thing had come down on you the wrong way..." He started to say but then we heard a noise from above and saw a walker crash through the roof
"Yeah, uh, we should probably go now." Glenn said and I nodded grabbing my stuff
"Bob's still stuck. Get him out of there." Daryl points out going back over to Bob
"We'll get the others." Michonne adds and more walkers start to fall through, we back up, more and more come through and I back up into a shelf as one comes near me and I fire my gun killing it then move forward trying to find Daryl. I rounded a corner seeing him shoot one in the head and beat other other one with his crossbow.
"Hey!" I hear Bob yell from under the shelf, I went to move over to him but two walkers appeared and I moved back, I went to back around the other side of the shelf when I tripped over a dead one and fell then the two others fell on me. I put my hands on them holding them back and started to loose my strength when I see a bolt go into ones head and the other got lifted off of me then stabbed, I grabbed my brother's hand and thanked him. We made our way back out from the aisle, Daryl shot one in the head and I stabbed another as more made their way over, we climbed on top of a stack of beer cases, we looked up and saw a helicopter look like it was about to fall through. I started stabbing and shooting at walkers then we made our way down the cases as Glenn came over to us shooting more of them.
"Daryl, Sam go!" He tells us and we make our way to Bob, Daryl grabs the walker Bob was trying to hold back and stomped on his head as Zack put his back to the shelf lifting it up and I pulled Bob out. Just then I hear Zack scream and I turn to see a walker biting him, I went to move to help him but Daryl pulled me back and we started to move
"Go, go!" Daryl shouted and I looked back at Zack but then the roof collapsed as we rushed out.
I stood by the sink in the room finishing cleaning myself when there was a knock outside my cell door, I pulled my shirt over my head and moved the blanket back seeing Daryl standing there.
"How did it go?" I asked him
"Alright I guess, like I told Beth, just tired of losing people."
"Same here, but at least we still have each other." I tell and he nodded his head
"Here," He held up his hand and handed me the shirt I saw at the store, "You should feel at home here, it's home and we ain't leavin."
"Thank you big brother" I tell him and he nodded then walked away.