Story Title: Dead Amongst Us

Pairings: Eventual Daryl Dixon

Seasons: 1

WARNINGS: Dark Content / Mature Themes / Course Language

DISCLAIMER: I do not own the walking dead or it's characters, only the OCs.

:: PROLOGUE

Our world is not perfect but it is beautiful – the creatures, the views and the cultures – who knew that all of that will be destroyed by one bite, a disease that would wipe out the world's population and leave others to suffer.

"The world could simply never end," The professors or scientists would say, the government or people in the higher ranks would turn down such idea. They think its fiction.

It's about to become reality. And it will be terrifying for the others left behind. The dead will rise and spread their disease to others and create monsters.

In Atlanta, it was like any other day and people were gone to work, school or staying at home preparing dinner.

Two officers, Rick Grimes and Shane Walsh went to the lower parts of Atlanta to a noise complaint in one of the run down apartments. The two were best friends - soon they'll become enemies but they would never know that.

Ahead of them was the apartment building that had people surrounding it. Inside was a young girl, with another hostage and a robber who took things to the next level. To kill his hostage's starting with the little girl's parents. Her baby sitter was stabbed and was fighting to stay alive to keep the little girl safe.

"Alice Rupert is fourteen year, both parents were shot when they stepped inside and the baby sitter was shortly after stabbed the baby sitter who is Veronica Fleming. Alice has a relative in town." One of the deputies called out.

Twenty minutes later, the robber was shot dead by Officer Walsh and Alice was reunited with her aunt and Veronica was alive. She was brought to the hospital and was later released.

Two days later, the two officers would be apart of a chase that would hospitalize Rick Grimes and Veronica would leave flowers and thanking the officer who saved her life. Days would go by and things would get worse.

The shootings in LA, the cannibalism in the northern parts of America and then the bombs in Israel - it's all connected.

Veronica Fleming places one last flower beside Rick's bed and places a chaste kiss on his damp forehead before leaving.