SERIES DISCLAMIER – I DO NOT OWN THE WALKING DEAD, IT IS OWNED BY AMC.

(A/N – I just want to point something out right now - in order to make this oneshot series work, I had to put an OC of mine in for the plot. I have not decided yet if I will have him appear throughout the entire series or if he will just appear in this introduction. I just wanted to let you guys know that so you can still give this series a chance.

P.S – The OC of mine from this introduction MAY or MAY NOT appear in other 'Walking dead' stories I create.)

Love's dark side – introduction

The group could not believe the sight before them. They had spent SO LONG on their mission to find her, to find Sophia Pelitier and the entire time, she had been in the barn as a walker. Carol was currently sobbing her daughter's name whilst being held back from her zombified daughter by Daryl Dixon, as was Carl Grimes but being held back by his mother. Shane, Glenn, Andrea, T-Dog and Dale were simply watching silently with the exception of Rick, who appeared to be breathing heavily. Hershel Greene was simply staring also; a look of anger and horror stuck to his lips whilst his daughters known as Maggie and Beth began crying at the violence. Noticing that no one was doing anything, Rick swallowed down his grief and went to put an end to the girl's misery whilst another survivor began thinking something over in their mind.

The survivor's name was Damien Jenner and he was the son of Edwin Jenner who the group had met at the CDC. Before he set the CDC to self-destruct, Edwin pleaded Rick to take his son with him so he wouldn't have to live in this world alone because technically, he was still a kid. Accepting the man's request, Rick, Shane and Daryl had all had to work together to get the resisting boy into Dale's RV and away from the CDC. When the building had exploded and killed Damien's father, he began crying his grief away and even began to take his anger out on the people in the RV at the time (Glenn, Andrea, Dale, Carol and Sophia) but no one calmed him down because they all knew what he was going through in some manner.

Damien was a 15 year old boy who stood at a staggering height (for his age) of 5 foot 10. He had brown hair that sat on his head in a helmet-like fashion whilst it came down to just above his shoulders. He had beautiful (as his father had once said) sapphire eyes to go with his kind character because even though Damien did have his moments, he was overall one of the nicest people the Atlanta survivors have ever come across. He wore a pair of grey tracksuit bottoms, a pair of black trainers that had 'no hope left' in purple along the sides and he wore a black shirt which had the logo for the 'Resident evil 6' video game on the front and the words 'Our hiding places diminished... we turned to hope... but she had fled. NO HOPE LEFT' in purple on the back.

As Rick raised his gun to point it at zombified Sophia, Damien pulled a syringe full of blue liquid out from his trouser pocket; the colour of the liquid is said to represent hope. Damien argued with himself in head; he wanted to believe his father had got it right this time but if he hadn't, Damien would be putting the whole group in danger and plus, was Sophia really worth it? Damien looked from the syringe and at said girl.

Yes, Sophia WAS worth the risk. Ever since he was dragged out of the CDC, Sophia had become like the sister he never had with her desire to cheer people up and plus, she meant a lot to a lot of other people as well as him. With this in mind, Damien quickly took action before Rick could pull the trigger of his firearm.

"Rick, wait!" Damien called to the sheriff. Rick obeyed the boy's words and reluctantly lowered his gun before backing away from Sophia and looking at Damien with a wondering look. "You're gonna have to trust me" he said. For a second, Rick looked to be deciding what to do but after a few seconds and to Damien's relief, he nodded.

Damien stepped forward and looked towards T-dog. "T-dog" he called to him. "I know this is gonna sound like I've lost it but you're going to have to trust me alright?" T-dog nodded slowly after a moment of thought with Damien smiling in response. "I need you to grab Sophia and hold her back from me so she can't attack me, alright?" T-dog looked hesitant at first but then slowly stepped forward towards the zombified girl with the other members of the group watching in fascination. After a quick speed manoeuvre, T-dog managed to get Sophia in a full nelson lock. With his target now held in place, Damien stepped forward with the syringe in his hand.

Damien looked at the syringe one last time before he stuck the needle of it into Sophia's neck and into her bloodstream. As soon as he pressed the blue liquid into her, she began to moan sounds of denial and she began to shake. At this, Damien motioned for T-dog to release her and he simply watched the girl in patience. "C'mon please" he began to say to himself. "C'mon dad, you HAVE to have figured it out!" Sophia's shakes begun to slow down. "The brain cells, the brain cells" Damien continued to himself.

After another minute of Sophia shaking about and Damien saying something scientific to himself, Sophia stopped shaking and became still. The moment this happened, the group all looked from Sophia to Damien, who now had an uneasy smile upon his face. "C'mon" he started to himself as he neared the girl he wished was his sister. "Give me a day like this, just one." Damien gave Sophia a light pat on the head and the girl raised it to look at him. Her look did not contain the one of hunger but now, one of wonder.

"D...D...Dam...Dami...Damien..."

Damien's uneasy smile turned into a full teeth grin of absolute happiness as he picked the 12 year old girl up in his arms to spin her around and started cheering. "WELCOME BACK!" he practically screamed in joy. He pulled her back to look into her still milky eyes. "You may have the body of one of them rotters but you're back with us now!" Damien let another cry of happiness loose from his mouth as he pulled Sophia in for a hug.

"What happened?" Damien turned around to see Carol, now free of Daryl's arms who had an uneasy look on her face but he swore he could see a glimpse of happiness. "I injected her with my dad's half cure; the unfinished product. She might still have a walker's body but she's got her own mind!" Carol looked down from Damien to her supposedly cured daughter to see an awkward half smile (as much as an undead girl can manage). The girl opened her arms wide.

"...M...Ma...Mama...Mama..."

Tears of happiness began to fall from Carol's eyes as she took her 'daughter' into her arms for a bone breaking hug. As Damien looked around, he noticed that quite a lot of the group's members had tears of joy at least evident within their eyes whilst clear happiness and surprise was written on their faces. After Carol let her daughter go, they both heard a shy voice.

"S...Sophia?"

The girl in question and her mother turned to see Carl Grimes, standing awkwardly with his hands behind his back in a shy fashion. "Is that really you?" he asked. Sophia looked at her mother who simply smiled and gave a slight nod to the nervous boy's direction. At the motion, Sophia began to slowly walk forward towards Carl. When she got close enough so that they were almost touching, she nodded slowly and took his human white hand into her own zombie grey one.

As the scene played out before him, Damien looked to the bright blue sky above his head. 'You see, father' he thought to himself but in the direction of his dead father's spirit. 'Your efforts did NOT go to waste. Your research has paid off and you have made quite a few miserable people happy today. Maybe, sometime in the future, I can get to work on creating a full cure and saving the world but for now, I want to thank you because thanks to your efforts...

Sophia is still with us.

(A/N – And there you go! I hope you enjoyed it, I certainly did. Before I go, I just want to ask/tell you guys some things...

1. If you are going to review, please tell me if you would like to see more of my OC, Damien. If more people do, I will include him in some oneshots and if more people don't then I'll just either not mention him in this series again or I'll write how he was killed.

2. All the updates (oneshots) following this one will be set in the prison and at points, I may even try to follow the story line so I just want to let you know that all character deaths will be counted as normal except for Sophia's and if it happens, Carl's.

3. Finally, I want to let you guys know that as long as I have oneshot ideas, this series WILL NOT END. I already have a couple of ideas in mind but if you guys come up with some and want it used, don't be afraid to send me a PM or put the idea in a review.