Alex: ok so this is going to be my first try writing like this. I do more fluffy stuff most of the time, but I figured I should try this. I haven't read the books and I've watched my dad play the 5th game. I've scene all three movies and loved them. I OWN NOTHING!

It all started three years ago. She had been searching for food and she noticed a K-Mart in the middle of nowhere. She parked her motorcycle outside and checked to make sure she had all her weapons on her. Her blades, two guns and a knife incase something happened. Nodding the brown haired woman walked into the store. She wasn't surprised to find a zombi walking around. With a quick head-shot Alice cleared the store. She looked around, noticed a quite whimpering and she went to the storage room. The door was jammed and she knocked. When she didn't get an answer she slammed against the door with her shoulder and stumbled into the room. A girl with long blonde hair stood shaking pointing a gun at Alice. When Alice noticed the girl she lowered her weapon. The girl looked no older than 14. The girl put her weapon on her hip holster and slid to the floor. A quite sob came from the girl and Alice didn't know why, but something about her made her wait to stop the tears. She pulled the girl into her arms and told her soothing words that didn't mean anything. When the girl stopped crying Alice smiled lightly at her. It had been years since the ex project smiled kindly at anyone. The girl buried her head on Alice's chest and sighed.

After a few quite moments Alice asked, "What's your name?"

"D-Dahlia." the quite blond answered.

"Are you alone?"

"Yes."

Alice debated something in her head wondering if she would regret it later on or not. She figured that she wouldn't so she told the girl, "You can come with me if you want. It will be better than being alone."

The girl nodded and they lift the storage room. Grabbing all the canned food, bottles of water, and a book, they walked back to Alice's black motorcycle. Putting it all away she smiled at the younger girl looking at her bike. The 21 year old got on and patted in front of her for the little girl. Delilah got on then she felt Alice's right arm wrapped around her waist, pulling her closer to her body. Alice felt the girl relax and lean into her body.

A few weeks after their meeting Alice was laying down in the sand looking up at the star filled night sky. Dahlia looked a little worried, still not completely use to sleeping in the open like Alice was. The blond looked over the woman she calls a friend and asked, "Alice?"

"Yeah?" Alice answered.

"Would you? Could you? Can you teach me how to fight? So I don't have to be a pain in the ass to keep around?"

Alice was a little stunned that Dahlia wanted to learn how to fight. She didn't mind watching over the younger girl. It gave her a reason to get out of dangerous places without dying. Alice nodded and the training began. With in four months Dahlia could fight off a attacking zombie if she had to. A month later she could shoot a gun without shaking. Two weeks later Dahlia began driving the motorcycle around for Alice. One month after that Dahlia had her own silver motorcycle like Alice's. Halfway through the 15 year Alice realized that the little girl she had found in the K-Mart a year ago wasn't the same girl riding beside her. There were only two things the same about those two girls. One, they both had the same name. Two, they both had nightmares on some nights, but now, Dahlia didn't have to ask if she could cuddle up to Alice when woke up scared. It had become a nightly thing between the two. They would fall asleep apart, but they would wake up tangled up in each other. Alice smiled at this thought and looked over at her friend, that's right, Alice had a close friend.

When they parked for the night Alice watched Dahlia make her bed a few feet away from her bike. Alice smiled at her and the other girl looked over at Alice with a confused look. They started a fire without a word and laid down. A few minutes later Alice up and looked at Dahlia who sat up quickly looking for what was out there. Alice smirked at how careful the girl as and shook her head to let Dahlia know that there wasn't any threat. Dahlia relaxed putting her gun back in the sand.

"I've been thinking. Your not the same little girl I found two years ago. I think being 16 you should think about maybe changing your name to fit your new life maybe. A name that could fit the young woman you are now. Not the scared girl shaking at the thought of lifting a gun."

"K-Mart." Alice lifted her eyebrow and the blond explained, "I think that should be my new name. When I think of K-Mart I don't think about the year I lived there scared for my life. I think of it as the place I met the most important person in my life."

Alice smiled, nodded, and said, "K-Mart it is."