(I changed the storyline a bit, so it could fit with, well my story. Hope you like it! And thanks for reviewing I really appreciate it!
Disclaimer: I don't own the walking dead, just Katherine. )
Kat could feel pain in her body, she didn't know if it was because she hadn't
eating in a while, or because of running around like a crazy person.
The memories came up in her mind. "Am I dead?" She thought, feeling sadness surge threw her, and her eyes popped open. She saw a man, with brown hair, some scrubby beard on his chin. His eyes she couldn't see though, because of
the dark. But she could tell he had a fit body from where she sat, or as she
looked around, slowly. She realized she was lying down.
"Hey there, are you awake?" She heard the man say with concern in his voice.
"I'm alrigh't" She said with her hoarse and dry voice.
He nodded and glanced at her.
"My name is Rick grimes. I'm a cop, I just got in from my walkie about a camp, we're going there right now" He said in a more 'western' voice maybe?
She could feel tears in her eyes and began to sob quietly.
"So I'm not dead?" She asked with so much hope, she thought that it felt like her body would break with the emotion.
He smiled softly at her.
"You're alive, I saved you right before that damn walker catch you. Wish I would have got a warning about the city" He muttered and sighed.
"But we're alright now, and you are gonna be just fine. Ya hear me?" He said with authority in his voice and she just nodded as much as she could while lying down. "I'm alright, and I'm not alone anymore, fuck if this is a joke I swear to god I will kill him" She thought and started crying again, she was just so.. happy? No, not in this hellhole. She was relieved. Tired, hungry and scared but most of all relieved.
"Thankyou, thankyou for saving me. I will never be able to thank you enough rick" She said.
"It's my job ma'm. I couldn't just leave ya there" He said, staring out threw the windowshield at the darkness and the road.
"My name is Kat, Katherine Heels to be exact" She said, and sat herself up slowly.
"Careful" Rick said.
"I try" She said and looked where Rick looked.
She saw a small gravel road, and around them was an incasing forest. In front of them she could see some smoke of a fire, probably, and some trucks and some people walking around.
"Here we go" Rick muttered and stopped the car, police car apparently.
He opened the door, stepped out and smashed it in place so the people could hear. Rick went around the truck to her, opened her door and before she could protest, carried her bridal style.
"Rick I'm fine, I can walk" She mumbled with her cheeks blushing. She wasn't used to human contact anymore, she had spent months, alone. And here she was, in a camp. Safer then anywhere she been, with people, fire and well safety most of all.
Rick just smiled at her small protest and slammed the other door shut.
She looked up and saw a man waving and jumping around a little, probably signalling that they were here.
They walked up to the camp and stopped next to the trailer the man stood on.
"Hey! I'm here!" Rick yelled loudly and she saw people running up, flocking around them.
"Rick?" A woman with brown hair and big doe eyes gasped. She ran to him and tears started flooding down.
"Lori?" Rick said and Kat was starting to feel, well. Awkward. Rick let Kat go quickly and hugged the woman, Lori, tightly.
"I, I thought you were dead" Lori sobbed and hugged back. A little boy stepped forward and she could see the similarities with the three people.
"Dad?" He said and ran forward.
"Dad! I knew you weren't dead" He said and Rick looked down.
"Carl, I would never leave you and your mom" He answered and let go of Lori, only to pick Carl up and swing him around.
Kat stepped back and looked around at the people with big smiles and confused looks on their faces. The old man stepped forward, she liked him directly, probably because he reminded her of her grandpa. She loved her grandpa.
"I'm Dale, and it's a pleasure to meet you Rick?" He said and guessed that Rick was the mans name.
"I'm Rick, and that is Kat" He said finally breaking out of the little bubble of happiness the family created.
He looked around, still with Carl and Lori around him.
Everyone had stepped forward and introduced themselves after a while. Kat still felt awkward and just smile and nodded when they said their names.
It was just so many of them, alive that she just didn't know how to react.
"Are you hungry Kat?" A woman, Carol, asked with a soft tone to her. Sophia, her adorable kid stood next to her mom and stared at Kat out of curiosity. Kat didn't like being stared at but didn't say anything.
"Starving" She just answered instead and followed after the woman to the fire.
"What's for dinner?" She said in a mocking tone, couldn't be anything gourmet they had.
"It's squirrel" Carol said, giving Kat a plastic plate with food one. Kat just wrinkled her nose and looked up from her plate.
"Disgusting but thanks, how did you catch 'em though?"
"Daryl, the only person you haven't met, catched them. He's kinda our hunter" She mumbled and sat down.
"Stay away from Dixon, he's only trouble" Shane, Rick's best friend, said with an angry voice. She forced herself to like him, even though she didn't since, she trusted Rick and if Shane was his friend she just had to trust him.
"Why's that? And why didn't he greet us?" She said between chewing on the squirrel meat.
"Well, you will get to meet him now, and just trust me with what I said" Shane said and everyone looked up while a man came out of the forest, with a crossbow slunged over his torso.