TORI'S POV:

"Over here! Come on, everyone inside" I slammed the door as soon as Andre cleared the threshold only to have it cut a walker in half. Walkers, that's what they called them. People who had been infected with some awful virus that would kill them, strip them of their memories and humanity, and then , in death, force them to kill everyone they had ever loved in life. It was terrible really but there was nothing we could do about it. It had been years since the world as we knew it had passed into the oblivion of living nightmares that it had since become. Behind me I could hear Andre, Cat, Trina, and Beck clearing out the steel and concrete reinforced building we had just run into. Buildings like this were put everywhere when the world ended. I guess the government figured that anyone who was tactical enough to make it to them deserved to live, at least through the night, until they opened the door and ran for the next one.

"Tori, I really think you should see this." Cat shouted across the dark and bloodstained room. It held the last words of so many people, scrawled across the walls in whatever they had that would write. Not the ideal way to have your memory preserved, far from it in fact. But in this world, that just how it was. As I reached Cat's side, I hoped that there would be more than one reason for someone to carve messages into the walls of reinforced rooms.

"If you can read this, the military has cut us off.

We have been left to die.

Patricia West 1977-2009"

My heart jumped into my throat at the sight of the name. It was Jade's mother, the woman who took my otherwise prepared, raven haired vixen and ran away from the apocalypse as fast as she possibly could. I don't know what she thought she was going to accomplish by trying to run. Maybe she thought that the infection would putter itself out and she could return to her comfortable lifestyle in her more than comfortable house. Maybe she thought that if she took Jade and kept on running, she could just ignore it altogether. Whatever she thought, she was obviously wrong. The worst part of it all was that I had never gotten to tell Jade how I felt about her. Sure she made my life hell for the first couple years at Hollywood Arts, but eventually we broke the ice and landed safely on level ground..

"Hey, Tor. What are we gonna do now?"

"What do you mean 'what are we gonna do'?" I stared incredulously at Andre, as if he had asked me where I thought we should go out to dinner.

"Well I just figured…I mean, are we still trying to find J…" I cut him off before he could finish her name. It was almost painful for me to hear it anymore, knowing that I might never find her.

"Yes, we are still going to try and find Jade."

"It says they were left to die, what makes you think we can still find her?" I took a couple slow steps toward Andre and lightly placed my hand on his shoulder.

"We have cleared this entire room, and I didn't see anyone dead or otherwise that looked anything like Jade, or her mother. Plus if there is anyone in the entire world that will survive the frickin ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE, just because she would be too stubborn to die, it would be Jadelyn West." I looked him in the eyes with all the confidence and hope I could muster. "I know she's out there Andre, I have to find her. I have to know."

"Then lets get what we can here and head out again in the morning, we still got a few hours till dark fall to clear a perimeter and set up watchtowers."

And so we reloaded our guns and busted out the door, shots ringing through the air, heard miles away. And somewhere out in the world, bright green eyes stared at the sky, hoping that the shots were closer. At least then she would feel safe, protected. Like someone was out there fighting for her.

A/N So I know its kinda short, but it's a first chapter. Shoot me some reviews and let me know how you feel about the beginning. I will update as soon as I am able. That is if anyone wants me to J