The Walking Dead Fanfiction
Chapter One
I was so exhausted. I'd been constantly running ever since the incident happened. I was running from them. From the biggest threat to humans in the world. From the Walkers. The Walkers are the most deadly, most savage, most morbid thing to ever walk this fucked-up earth. The infection spread like a wildfire, every poor soul was taken. All except for a few of us who made camps and are still surviving on what we have left, which is still barely anything. Everybody's loved ones were taken. Except for mine, or should I say, my loved one. I think… I hope. I know it was a bad idea to volunteer to go to the city with some of the others. I don't like being separated from my brother, even though he can handle himself. And he is older than me, but I'm scared something will happen to him. I don't know what I would do or how I would carry on without Daryl.
"I'm back, got a guest, plus four geeks in the ally." Mary heard Glenn say from Andrea's walkie-talkie.
"It's Glenn." Mary said, walking towards T-dog who had already picked it up.
"Don't answer, he said he has someone with him." Andrea commanded.
"We got two Walkers out here, Lets go T-dog!" Morales yelled from the open door leading outside.
T-dog hurried outside and beat one of the walkers intensely with his baseball bat. Mary tried not to look and flinched every time she heard the baseball bat meet the Walkers' head. Mary then saw Glenn and another man, who was dressed in a police uniform, come charging the wooden door with T-dog and Morales right behind, closing it.
"Son of a bitch, I'm going to kill you!" Andrea pointed her gun at the unknown man and was ready to shoot.
"Chill out Andrea, back off!" Morales yelled.
"Come on, ease up," Jacqui said, trying to calm Andrea down.
"Ease up, you're kidding, right? We're dead because of this stupid asshole." Andrea said breathlessly.
"He seems harmless," Mary said nervously, trying not to draw to much attention to herself. Andrea just looked at her with a disgusted expression. "He didn't hurt you, Right? Glenn?" Glenn turned his head to Mary and shook in decline.
"I don't care if he's the queen of England, he could still be dangerous."
"Andrea, I said back the hell off." Morales said looking at her with his deep brown, angry eyes.
Everyone stood there staring at Andrea and the anonymous man who looked extremely terrified with sweat rolling down his face and all in his swept back, chocolate brown hair.
"Don't pull the trigger…" Morales said, trying to be sincere.
Andrea pulled her gun away from the man's forehead after a few seconds and had a despaired look on her face.
"We're dead, all of us, because of you." Andrea said, close to crying.
The man seemed very confused and was looking at all the survivors, turning his head side to side. Mary noticed his light blue eyes and had a slight twinge of jealousy inside her. She never liked her forest green eyes, she always thought they looked to murky on her tan colored skin.
"I don't understand…" the man said curiously.
"Look," Morales took the man by the shoulder and led him down a hallway. Everyone else followed, "We came to this city to scavenge supplies. You know what the key to scavenging is? Surviving. You know what the key to surviving is? Sneaking in and out. Dead pulling not shooting up the street by the old kicker round."
"Every geek for miles heard you pumping out rounds." T-dog added.
"You just rang their dinner bell." Andrea said.
"Get the picture now?" Morales said with a bit of sarcasm.
Everybody stood in front of the glass doors being banged and pounded on by the disgusting, rotted creatures called Walkers. They all had horrified looks on their faces.
"Oh god!" T-dog said quickly, backing away when he saw one of the Walkers with a large rock, breaking through the glass. Mary almost ran into one of the many clothes racks when backing up with him.
"What the hell were you doing out there anyway?" Andrea asked the man.
"Trying to find the helicopter." Everybody looked at him with confused faces.
"Oh god, did we pick up a crazy person?" Mary thought to herself.
"Helicopter? Man that's crap man there's no damn helicopter." T-dog said with disgust towards the man.
"You were just hallucinating, imagining things, it happens." Jacqui said.
"I saw it!" the man said with anger. His loud voice made Mary jump a little.
"Hey T-dog, try that signal, can you contact the others?" Morales said giving T-dog the walkie-talkie and not acknowledging the man.
"Others? The refugee center?" The man said but more softly time.
" Yeah the refugee center, they got biscuits waiting in the oven for us." Jacqui said sarcastically.
"Got no signal, maybe the roof." T-dog suggested.
Suddenly, there was a very loud noise coming from above everybody and all of their heads shot up. Mary's white cloche slid off her head revealing more of her strawberry blonde locks which was in a ponytail. She quickly picked it up and arranged it back on her head. Mary then noticed Glenn staring at her with his mouth slightly open.
"What?" she said a bit rudely.
"Oh, uh, nothing. I've just, uh, never seen without your hat. Thing. On. Um yeah…" Glenn said nervously.
"Haven't seen you without yours." Mary replied, in a nicer tone.
"Well, if you want to-" Glenn was cut off.
"Oh no, was that a Walker?" Andrea said, running towards the stairwell leading to the roof. Glenn and Mary shared a glance then ran with the others. There were many stairs to run up and Mary got more and more exhausted with each step she took until she finally reached the top, breathing heavily.
"OH SHIT!" Morales screamed.
Everybody came out and saw about ten Walkers stumbling around the roof. They heard Morales and came towards them.
"Nice job dude." Said T-dog.
"Well they would have seen us anyway!" Morales argued.
"Both of you shutup!" Andrea said. She then pulled out her gun and started shooting the Walkers, one by one. Mary joined in as well after three Walkers had been shot and together they cleared them all before they got close enough to bite.
"Nice shooting ladies." Morales said, impressed that two women got the job done before one of the men could.
"How's that signal?" Morales asked T-dog who was sitting down, catching his breath.
"Weak."
"Keep trying." The man commanded.
"Why, there's nothing we can do, not a damn thing." Andrea said as if she had already given up on hope.
"We got some people outside the city is all, there's no refugee center. That's a pipe dreamer." Morales explained.
"If that's right we're on our own, up to us to find a way out." The man said.
"What's your name anyway Mr. cop?" Morales asked.
"Rick, Rick Grimes."
"Well Rick, we can't get out the normal way, these streets are not safe." Andrea said to Rick.
"These streets are not safe, now there's an understatement." Said Morales.
"What about under the streets? The sewers." Rick informed Morales.
"Oh man," Morales turned around. "Hey Glenn, check the ally, you see any manhole covers?" Morales asked Glenn.
Glenn jogged down some rusted metal plates and across the concrete until he reached the edge of the roof. He looked over and examined a bit then came back
"No, must be all out on the streets where the geeks are." Glenn answered.
"Maybe not, old building like this is built in the twenty's, old structures often had drainage tunnels into the sewers in case of a flood down in the basements." Jacqui explained to all of them.
"How do you know all that?" Glenn asked.
"It's my job, was, I worked in the city's zoning office." Jacqui said.
All of them ran down hallways and stairs to get to the basement where, hopefully, they could escape. When they reached it, it was dark and creepy but they had flashlights and quickly spotted the drainage tunnel. Everybody looked down and saw a mat of wires and some puddles of fluids on the ground. There were also pipes running into the black hole which was the pipe.
"This is it? You're sure?" Rick asked Glenn.
"I really scoped this place out the other times I was here. It's the only thing in the building that goes down… But I've never gone down it. Who would want to right?" Glenn answered, while scanning the area.
Everybody turned their heads and looked at him. Glenn then realized what he had to do.
"Oh, great." He said.
"We'll be right behind you" Andrea said, trying to make him feel better.
"No you won't, not you." Glenn said back.
"Why not me? You think I can't?" Andrea said, a little pissed off.
"I wasn't saying…" Glenn just went into mumbles.
"Speak your mind." Rick told Glenn.
"Look, until now I always came here by myself. In and out, grab a few things, no problem. First time I bring a group, everything goes to hell. No offense." Glenn explained to all of us.
"You want me to go down this giant, big hole, fine. But only if we do it my way. It's tight down there if I run into something and have to get out quick I don't want you jammed up behind me and get me killed. I'll take one person," Rick started going closer to Glenn. "Not you either." He said to Rick.
"You've got a gun and I've seen you shoot. I'd feel better if you were on that store watching those doors come in on your ass. You've got the only other gun so you should go with him," Glenn said to Andrea. "Morales and T-dog go up to the roof and monitor the geeks, we don't know how many could surround us unless you're up there. Just in case the sewers don't work out."
"You be my wingman." Mary saw Glenn point to her and nodded.
"Jacqui and stays here. Something happens, yell down to us, get us back up here in a hurry."
"Ok." Jacqui replied.
"Ok everybody knows there jobs." Rick said while patting Glenn on the back who looked pleased with himself. Glenn then took his flashlight and put it in his mouth to go down the ladder leading to the pipe. Mary did the same and followed close behind as they entered the drainage pipe. As they made their way through they saw rats everywhere, which made them both make noises in disgust.
As Glenn and Mary got further into the pipe she just had to ask him a question.
"Hey Glenn?"
"Yeah?"
"Why'd you pick me to come with you?" She asked
"Well, you just, seemed like a good choice."
"But I have a gun, didn't you say like, no guns?"
"Um, no, at least I don't think… but if there is danger in here, and we can't get out in time, you could shoot it. You seem to be good with guns." Glenn said.
"So is Rick. But you sent him to guard the store you know we could have easily traded jobs, just why me?"
"Look, Mary," Glenn turned around to her. "It's dangerous in store, those Walkers could break in at any time. If there was to many for you guys to handle you be dead and I don't want you dead."
"What about Rick?"
"To be honest, I care more about you then anybody else here or at the camp." Glenn turned around and kept walking leaving Mary standing there, confused and slightly flattered.
"C'mon I found something!" He shouted, making her go over to him. When she got there she saw a hole, about the same size one that she entered through, but with metal bars go up and down it.
"Yeah, we got ourselves a sewer tunnel. Jacqui was right." Mary said.
"Can we cut through it?" Glenn asked, pulling on the bars.
"If we had a blowtorch and half a day, sure. Dale's hacksaw sure won't do it." Mary answered in doubt.
Glenn was about to speak when they heard strange crunching and ripping noises coming from inside. Glenn shined his flashlight and right there in front of them was a revolting Walker eating a rat. The Walker turned to them and let out a horrifying scream and stuck his bloody, decayed arm through the bars to try and grab Mary but Glenn took her hand and pulled her body to his. She turned around and grabbed on to him, stuffing her face in his chest as if everything would go away if she did. Glenn pulled her away and took her hand again and said,
"I know you're scared, but we have to go, now!"
Mary nodded then ran along with him. She felt like it took years to get to the entrance. Like she was running in slow motion. Each step she took hurt her feet. She thought her lungs were going to blow out her chest. She wanted it to be over. She closed her eyes and waited for it to stop. Everything. The running, the cries of the Walker, the disgusting smell in the air. Then it did. And when she opened her eyes she saw Glenn staring at her and then started to hear what he was saying, not just see his mouth move.
"Mary? Mary? Are you OK?" Glenn touched her cheeks softly and got closer. "I need you to be ok please say something or do something just please!"
Mary saw a tear start to roll down his cheek so she grabbed his face and wiped it away.
"Just, don't cry." She said then smiled.
"Oh thank god!" Glenn hugged her tightly and got her up from the ground.
"Let's just get to everyone else." Mary said happily.
"Whatever you want," Glenn walked with her to the ladder. "Jacqui! We're back!"
"Oh good, we should check on Rick and Andrea, I thought I heard a noise like glass breaking."
Glenn helped Mary up the ladder then said, "Well, let's go then." Then ran up the stairs to the store with the two women close behind. They made it up and saw the outside glass broken and Walkers already breaking through the doors leading to them.
"What'd you find down there?" Rick asked Mary.
"Not a way out." She answered, breathing heavily.
"We need to find a way out." Andrea said
"Soon" added Jacqui.
So everybody went to the roof were T-dog and Morales were.
"You guys alright?" T- dog asked.
"No, the Walkers are about to break through the damn glass!" Andrea yelled.
"Calm down, that's not what we came up here to do," Rick said. "Morales, hand me those binoculars."
"Here" he said, handing them to him.
Rick hurried over to the edge and started looking all around the surroundings with the binoculars tight on his face. Everybody else ran over to the side as well to help.
"That construction sight, those trucks, they always keep keys on hand." Rick told everybody while handing Morales the binoculars.
"We'll never make it past the Walkers." Morales said in despair.
"You got me out of that tank." Said Rick.
"Yeah but they were feeding, they were distracted." Glenn responded.
"Can we distract them again? Their drone by sound right?" Rick asked
"Right, like dogs, they hear sound, they come." Glenn said back.
"What else?" Rick continued.
"Aside from they hear you, they see you, smell you, and if they catch you they eat you." Mary said to Rick.
"They can tell us by smell?" Rick asked in a thinking kind of way.
"Can't you?" Glenn said.
"They smell dead, we don't. It's pretty distinct." Andrea explained.
Rick stood silent for a few seconds then ran down to the door leading to the stairwell back to the store. Everybody followed.
"Just what the hell are you doing?" Andrea yelled to him.
"If Walkers can smell their own kind then they won't eat them, correct?" Rick asked.
"Yeah, so?" said Andrea.
"So, if a couple of us can get the zombie smell on us, then we can make it through the Walkers, to the trucks, come back, and get the hell out of here."
"Oh you don't mean Rick…" Mary said hopelessly.
"Yes I do," They made it down to the store. "Here, everyone get rubber gloves, a brown suit or lab coat, and goggles. This is gonna be messy." Rick said while giving Glenn some gloves.
"If bad ideas were an Olympic event, this would take the gold." Glenn said with slight disgust.
"He's right, just stop okay? Take some time to think this through." Morales suggested.
"How much time? They already got through one set of doors, that glass won't hold forever. Now let's move out. Get the zombie you and T-dog killed." Rick said while putting on a brown outfit and a pair of blue rubber gloves. Everyone gathered to the place where Andrea almost shot Rick and got suited up. Rick and Morales ran outside and quickly dragged in a dead Walker. They all had weapons and knew what they had to do. Rick let out a sigh and put his goggles over his eyes and broke open a glass case holding an axe and took it out. He was about to take the first hit but stopped himself. He took out the dead Walkers wallet and said,
"Wayne Dunled, Georgia license. Born, 1979." then handed they license to Glenn and continued. "He had twenty-eight dollars In his pocket when he died. And a picture of a pretty girl." He turned the picture around then read, "With love, from Rachel." And put it down. "He used to be like us, worrying about bills, or the rain, or the superbowl. If I ever found my family, I'm gonna tell them about Wayne." He finished.
Rick put the Walker's possessions back in his pocket and was about to break into it again when Glenn said,
"One more thing, he's an organ donor."
Rick took his axe back and stabbed it into the Walker with great force. Everybody turned away and moaned loudly. Rick was chopping off the limbs one by one and each time he did, Mary got and closer to crying. Rick couldn't take it anymore and gave the job to Morales. Mary went over to Glenn and tried to comfort him because he was moaning and groaning the most. He also would say, "Oh god…" a lot too. Mary was just afraid he might faint or something. Morales started chopping on the stomach to grind up the mushy, red guts. Everybody was very disturbed and Mary thought she saw a tear go down Andrea's face at some point.
"Anybody got gloves?" Rick asked.
Morales stopped chopping and took of the goggles.
"Don't get any on your skin or eyes." Rick informed them.
Everybody slowly stuck their hands into the guts and started removing them. Each time a hand entered it made a squishy and mushy sound that got everyone close to vomiting. They started rubbing them all over Rick and Glenn (Who volunteered to do it earlier) and Mary was whispering to Glenn,
"It's gonna be okay, you're gonna be fine."
"Oh god, oh it's just, Oh this is bad, this is really bad." Glenn said with horror in his voice.
Mary could tell he wasn't doing good at all, his usual Asian colored skin looked green and he was shaking like there was an earthquake.
"Think about something else," Rick said to Glenn, " Puppies and kittens."
"Dead puppies and kittens" T-dog made the mistake of saying.
Glenn turned away from the people putting on the guts and intestines and puked everywhere on the floor behind him. Mary felt a pang of pity for him and was horrified at T-dog.
"That is just evil, what is wrong with you!?" Mary told T-dog.
"I'm sorry dog." T-dog said to Glenn.
"You suck!" Glenn replied, holding his stomach and bending over.
Mary put the rest of the rotted guts on Glenn and patted his back for reassurance. He looked up at her with his black, squinty, helpless eyes and she couldn't help but let a tear drop.
"Do we smell like them?" Rick asked.
"M-hm oh yeah." Andrea said back.
"Glenn," Mary showed him her gun, "Just in case." She lifted up his lab coat and put in in his pants. He looked at her very sincerely.
"We make it back be ready." Rick warned everybody. "Give me axe." He commanded Morales. "I need more guts."
Rick got the rest of the guts he needed and headed out the door with Glenn and Morales shut it behind them and hurried up to the roof with the rest behind.
"Hey T-dog, try the R.V.." Morales yelled when he got to the roof.
He grabbed the binoculars and looked for Rick and Glenn while T-dog was saying on the walkie-talkie,
"I'm pretty scared, this is T-dog. Can you hear me? Can anybody out there here me?"
"There!" Morales said when he spotted them.
Thunder started booming in the sky and everybody could see rain clouds coming closer.
"Oh shit! Rain clouds!" Mary said loudly. "I hope they make before it starts to pour!"
"Hello? Hello? Receptions bad on this transceiver" They heard a voice say from the walkie-talkie.
"Shane is that you?!" T-dog said with excitement in his voice. "We're trapped in a department store, there's geeks all over the place, hundreds of them! Hello? Hello?" T-dog waited a bit but there was no answer. "They're gone…" he said sadly.
"Damn it…" Andrea muttered.
"Andrea, give me the binoculars." Mary said.
"Here" Andrea handed them to Mary who immediately put the over her eyes and watched Glenn and Rick. As she was making sure they were fine, rain started falling out of the sky. They looked up with mouths wide open and scared expressions on their faces.
"Oh man…" Mary said with worry and put the binoculars on again.
She could see the blood and guts already starting to slide off them. The Walkers were getting suspicious, turning their heads and checking Rick and Glenn out. She watched for a little while longer then saw Rick crash his axe into a charging Walker's head. All of the other Walkers then came running towards them.
"NO!" Mary screamed.
Rick and Glenn were hurrying and bashing in Walkers' heads along the way, but were getting very close to their destination as well.
"C'mon, C'mon, C'mon…" Said Morales, watching intently.
Rick and Glenn made it to the fence and threw their weapons and bodies over it just before the Walkers could get them. They quickly took off the rancid clothes they had on over their regular ones and ran for the truck. But some Walkers were climbing over the fence so Rick tried to shoot them off while Glenn got a key to a truck and threw it to Rick. When he grabbed it, they both ran to the truck and got in.
"Oh, yes…" Mary said, relieved.
"Keep watching, one of the Walkers got over the fence." Morales said to Mary.
"K." She said back.
Mary saw them back up away from the Walker and thought they were going to get out of there worry free. But then she saw the rest of the Walkers push down the fence and go charging in. Instead of going back to the others they went down another road together.
"They're leaving us." Andrea said with sadness in her tone.
"No they can't!" Jacqui said.
"NO, NO, NO!" Morales yelled
"C'mon come back!" Said Andrea.
"Glenn…" Mary whispered to herself as she watched them bust through a fence and drive away. She gave Morales the binoculars and walked to the stairwell.
"How could he leave? I thought he cared about me…"
Mary thought while sitting down against the wall in the stairwell.
"I don't want to cry, don't cry Mary, C'mon just don't…"
Mary managed to suck up her tears and go back out. She shut the door quietly because she didn't want to disturb anyone. She made her way to a large gap with ground still on it and put her body into it, lying down. She closed her eyes and thought. Thought a lot. Thought too much. She had fallen asleep in there and was awoken by muffled voices. She opened her eyes wide and sat up quickly. She heard the door to the stairwell close then silence.
"They probably think I'm down in the store or something, better catch up." She thought.
Mary used a pole to boost herself up but then heard noises coming from the door. At first she thought someone was coming out but then she realized that it was being locked. Not opened. She tried to step over the edge as fast as possible but tripped on accident. She caught herself before falling on her face but lost time to get to the others. Mary ran to the door and pounded on it as hard as she possibly could.
"DON'T GO I'M STILL UP HERE," She screamed. "PLEASE HELP! SOMEBODY JUST COME UP HERE IM BEGGING YOU!" She yelled and hollered for about ten more minutes before giving up.
"They left me… they thought I was down there or somewhere else and they left…" Mary put her face in her hands and wept at just the thought of being left there until death. Mary was crying her brains out until she heard a loud ringing noise coming from the streets. She jogged over to the edge and craned her head over to see what it was. At first there was nothing, but then she saw a red and black Mustang come bolting around the corner. She knew it had to be somebody so she waved her arms back and forth and screamed at the top of her lungs for help. But, sadly, it went right past the store.
"DAMN IT!" She yelled knowing that that must have been one of her group members because it was drawing away Walkers.
Mary sat down on a pipe running across the building and just cried and wept and screamed. She had never felt so miserable in her life. Trying to make herself feel better wasn't going to work. She had lost all hope. Inside she knew she was going to die.
Everybody quickly got in the truck driven by Rick. It was a close call because the Walkers broke into the store and almost made it to them but luckily enough, they didn't. Morales closed the back in time and now they were just sitting in silence. They knew. All of them. Someone was missing. But nobody spoke. Until after a couple minutes when Rick did.
"Where is she?"
"Not here…" Andrea said.
"Exactly. Where is she?" Rick asked again.
"I think Glenn took her." Jacqui said.
"You sure?" Rick asked her.
"… Yes." Jacqui said after a few minutes.
After that it was just silence again as they made their back to the camp, not knowing what really happened to Mary Dixon.
