AN- Oh my goodness you have no idea how happy I am to find out that my very first story has one follower and one favourite. This has actually made my day, heck my week. Thank you guys so much, I was going to delete when I saw this and I'm just ecstatic! 😄 Also you have to remember no one knows anything about he condition. Plus I forgot to mention that this story takes place after season 1 beginning of season two, it won't follow all of the tv show plot.
Well here you go after a disclaimer Disclaimer I DO NOT OWN THE WALKING DEAD sadly... I wish I did.
~It's been two weeks~
"Melinda , you still don't know how to shoot do ya?" The sheriff Rick Grimes asked the young lady.
"Sadly no. I would probably just waste the bullets anyways."
"I'm sure you're a natural, you just need some practice" he chuckled at his joke, while moving from Lori to sit in front of her. Melinda frowned and she was sure that out of the corner of her eye she saw Lori glaring at her. "Look, I will get one of the men to teach you." He whispered, not wanting his son to overhear, and complain.
"Thanks Rick I really need to learn, I'm only weighing you guys down without knowing how to. Do you mind if I ask you a question?"
"You already asked me one, but you can ask me another one." The two laughed, Melinda could feel Lori's eyes bore into her skull.
"You've got a weird sense of humour you know that, Grimes. Anyways I've been meaning to ask if you can get Daryl or anyone to teach me how to hunt?"She glanced down at Bandit you was sleeping peacefully and snoring here and there, before continuing. "I mean, if anything were to happen, and Bandit and I were on our own we would need a source of food, living off the stores didn't do to well for us..." She stopped remembering what had happened last time she went into a store, what had happened to her. Melinda shivered at the memory.
"I can't make any promises, but I'll ask Daryl to teach you how to hunt and shoot. That way we'd kill row birds with one stone." The leader of the group spoke before paying the lady's arm and getting up to rejoin his wife and son.
"Hey, Soph do you wanna play some cards?" Mel asked the cheerful girl, who nodded her head and joined Melinda at the table dragging her rag doll with her.
"You coming Carl?" The 23 year old glanced at their leader's son before returning to shuffling the cards.
The threesome played cards in till they were dying of boredom.
"Rick, we should pull over here for a couple of nights, we're running low on gas." Dale their chauffeur spoke. "Also thinks hose isn't going to last another mile."
"Okay. Turn the blinker" He lightly chuckled at this, who would've thought that at the end of the world they would still be using blinkers.
All the cars and the motorcycle came to a not so graceful halt as they pulled over, the r.v stopping suddenly and making a strange hissing noise.
"Great we're stranded till we find a new hose." Dale cursed silently under his breath
The sheriff looked out the window for a few moments into the nice sky, it was only around 9 or 10 he assumed.
"Well Mellie, you might be learning how to hunt sooner." He stared at her. "Come on let's go outside stretch our legs, in form the others." He gestured to everyone while swinging his arm towards the door.
The group made their camp on the highway, Mellie was just helping Carol with making a breakfast/lunch for the group, when Rick came over.
"Hey Melinda, Daryl is going hunting now. He agreed to let you tag along, but you better hurry up don't want him to leave you." Rick spoke then moving along to check on everyone. Melinda scurried to grab her knife and jogged towards Daryl, with bandit tagging along beside her.
"Mellie!" A kid screeched and Melinda stopped and looked at Sophia running up to her. Sophia had taken quite a liking to Mel and was completely out of her shell around her.
"What Soph? Ya gotta be quick I'm going hunting."
"Oh, well can Bandit stay with me while you're gone? I promise to look after him?"
"Yeah. Bandit stay with Sophia, listen to her and be a good boy alright? Take good care of him Soph alright?" The little girl nodded her head before running off with the dog. Melinda stared at her figure running in the distance thinking that it is such a shame that such a innocent little girl has to live in this world. It was in that moment that she realized she would do anything to protect her.
"Ya comin' or what?" A husky southern drawl pulled Melinda out of her mind.
"Yup, sorry bout that was just thinking." She spoke as she and Daryl walked into the woods.
"Kay so if ya wanna learn then you better pay close attention here" Daryl said not wanting to waste his time.
He had stopped walking and was staring directly at Melinda. He was trying to see if she seriously wanted to learn, she passed his test, by not looking away once and holding his stare.
"Okay first things first, know your surroundings." He spoke quietly, but no too quiet.
"Like look there, prints it's probably a rabbit." He pointed to the sets of prints
Melinda nodded along while they hunted and, was actually learning things. As it turned out she wasn't too bad to have around. Daryl though she was going to be a pain I. His behind, but she wasn't she was quiet, listened, and she was pretty good at had already snagged three rabbits and one squirrel.
"Hey Daryl, look." She pointed to a new sets of prints, hoofs.
"Ya, got a good eye. That's deer tracks, we better follow them. That deer will feed us for a couple days." Daryl spoke as he kneeled down to examine the tracks closely.
"They're fresh too. Watch we're you step,don't want you messing up this kill"
The pair crept along to the dear where they were close enough to shoot it, when suddenly Melinda collapsed to the ground having a seizure, alerting the deer and scaring it away.
"What the hell?" The redneck spoke as he quickly grabbed a branch and placed it in her mouth.
There you go second chapter!😄
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Also if you're wondering about the branch thing it's cause while you have seizures you can bite your own tongue off and that stops her from doing that. Don't worry you will find out more