Jenna

Jenna rifled through her backpack before she pulled out her medkit, turning to face her sister as she took her hand, gently examining the cut. "Yea it looks bad...but not to bad Annabell. This is why you have to stay close to me okay?" She cleaned the cut before bandaging it, pulling her backpack back up as she stood up.

"Alright...I'm sorry Jenna." Jena was twenty-one, with Annabell being only eight. They'd been visiting their grandparents upstate before all this had began. When it had happened, their grandparents had told Jenna to take whatever supplies they could carry and head to a town that was supposed to be safe. Jenna had fought with them, not wanting to leave them behind at first...but now she couldn't be upset about it. She didn't have the time.

As the two continued to walk, Anna was looking around and sticking close to her sister. In the early beginning she had been running off and exploring...but that was before they came across the first of them. The first time they saw one of those things, they'd almost died. Only another survivor had saved them. Jenna assumed he was dead now. He'd left after getting bitten by one of them, saying only, "I don't want to hurt either of you." when he left. Jenna still didn't understand why.

"Jenna...it's...one of those things." Anna moved behind Jenna after pointing towards it, and Jenna crouched as she pulled out her knife. It had to be the head. Preferably through the eye, that was a direct route to the brain. She had a pistol, but she didn't have any ammunition for it. The last of it had gone into a corpse about three hundred miles back.

"Stay here Anna. I'll go take care of that...if another one comes near you I want you to run okay?" Anna nodded as her sister started to walk forward, moving slowly as the thing groaned, stepping forward pointlessly. She never understood why they moved. She'd never seen one that was being completely still unless it was laying on the ground. Just as the thing started to notice her, she raised her hand and drove the knife into it's eye, pushing it backwards as she brought her foot down into it's chest, stopping on it with as much force as she could muster as she drove the knife into it's eye three more times, not pausing until the thing was still.

As she started to pull the knife out, the blade broke off, leaving her to hold only the hilt was she glanced down at it in disbelief. "Damnit. I really hope this guy has something good on him." She rifled through his pockets, searching for anything she could use. It wouldn't last long, but she did find one full clip that would fit her gun. She reloaded the gun as she stood up and walked back over to Anna. "Come on. We need to find a place to stay before night falls."

"But Jenna I'm tired of walking." Jenna smiled slightly as her sister whined, leaning down to pick her up as she continued to walk.

"Then I'll carry you myself." Annabell smiled as she laid her head on Jenna's shoulder, closing her eyes to sleep.

Later That Day...

Jenna took her spare shirt out of her pack and wrapped it around her hand, punching through the glass window in the door before reaching down and unlocking it, replacing it to her pack as she drew her gun and crouched slightly. "Annabell close the door behind you, and lock it back. I'm going to check out the rest of the place." She started to search through it then, walking along as she glanced around. They had come across an abandoned fire station, and it was one of the best places they'd stayed in so far. As Jenna finished searching the station, she entered the last room, the garage and scanned around it before she noticed something and smiled. "Well well well...this could come in handy..."

When she returned to Anna she had a fire axe slung over her back, and she looked out the window with a slight frown before speaking to her little sister. "Anna there's food in the last room on the left, wait for me in there." Anna nodded before heading off into the other room. Jenna set to work then, barricading the building. She started with the door, replacing the now broken window with several wooden planks before adding several similar barricades to the other windows, just with more strength on those.

After she finished hammering the boards into place she stepped back to examine her work. It wasn't perfect, but it would hold. She'd have to add curtains or something so that they didn't see them...if they could see anyway. She turned and headed into the kitchen, where her sister Anna was waiting and sitting on one of the benches. "Alright now Annabell, what do you want to eat?"

That intrigued her sister. "You mean...real food? Like...before?" Jenna grinned and nodded.

"Yep. While I was exploring the garage I found a backup generator. They still have electricity, power, heat...everything we could need to live here." Anna bounded over excitedly.

"I want macaroni Jenna!" She said it quickly and happily as she hoped over to her sister, a bright cute grin that Jenna hadn't seen since before this all began on her face. The elder sister leaned down and kissed her younger sibling gently, answering her with a smile.

"Then I guess I'm cooking macaroni." Anna hugged Jenna then, smiling before sitting back down. She did ask one more thing, about the lights, but Jenna had no answer. She suspected the circuit must have been cut somehow, but that didn't matter. She'd work on getting the lights up and running the next day. For now they had food, shelter, water and even heat. Things were looking up for the pair.