A/N: So yes... it seems that my story is hard to keep up on the top page and as such isn't read all that much, ehhh I'm writing this for myself now and if you happen to like it you do, if you don't then you don't. I'm getting a little fed up that no one reviews my stuff much for the public to see, so I ask as a writer... PLEASE GIVE ME YOUR FEEDBACK... nothing worse is not getting that to help improve writers.
Secondly I don't own any of the Characters minus Kamryn, and the OC's that show up in here. The regular characters belong to the guy that wrote this series. I don't do this for money but for my own and others entertainment. And as you are all well aware this is a raw story, I have a beta that is now starting to go over my other works, it will be a long time before all of them are beta'd.
"So… you are military right?"
Kamryn's eyes narrowed dangerously towards Shane who stepped up trying to make himself look bigger and dangerous. The two of them locked eyes as Kamryn set her mug on the side table by the door and stepped up to the man.
"I am, what does it mean to you …. Soldier?" Kamryn asked with as much malice and distaste for the man before her as she could currently muster in her state. Shane looked over his shoulder to Rick for a second and when he looked back he swung out which Kamryn stepped back from as Shane hissed and spat.
"What does it mean!?" Taking a step again towards Kamryn he swung again despite the yells from the others, Kamryn's voice was the one that was the meant the most danger in the room.
"Get it off your chest you self serving shit ball, come on, tell me what it means to you, because it can't be as bad as my own men and women getting slaughtered by an unknown military force. Maybe this is why you are pissed, does it bug you that you saw American Military killing innocent?" Kamryn ducked under a wild swing while dancing around making sure that nothing was being destroyed by the 'rhino's' madness.
"I saw you guys killing innocents in the hospital; you slaughtered doctors, nurses, everyone you came across. You have no value for human life, you just kill!" Shane was grabbed by Rick in a headlock while having a leg kicked out from under him and he landed on his ass.
"I'm Canadian you shit; I'm not even from the United States. While I'm at it, it's not just the innocents getting killed it's military as well, so before you go off and think you are high and mighty I would seriously reconsider everything I have just said."
Kamryn brushed away hair from her eyes and looked to the others who looked at her when she mentioned she was Canadian and it wasn't just regular people getting killed, it was also their country's and other countries defenders as well.
Rick held onto Shane who had since stopped struggling and looked at Kamryn with contempt. Kamryn didn't care for Shane but she was getting the impression that something that had been shared amongst the others wasn't all that good.
"You're just like them, you came here to kill us and move on. You aren't a protector…" Shane said venomously. Walking over to the downed man and in kneeling down on the balls of her feet, Kamryn rested her arms on her knees and stared the man in the eye.
"If I wanted to kill everyone here, I would have done it from the tree line with a high-powered rifle, and everyone in this room would be watching each other's brains painting the walls. I would make sure you would be taken out last after I blew your hands and legs off first." Standing and looking down, Kamryn looked around the room before she made as if to step by Shane only to turn and slam her knee into Shane's face with a sickening crunch.
"That's for trying to attack me you shit…" Kamryn went to the table where her mug of tea was and picked it up leaving the room allowing others to either go to Shane or go about whatever and not be involved with the situation they had just been privy to.
Leaving the house Kamryn went to the RV and stood outside under the moonlight taking deep breathes while drinking her tea; the painkiller was still working but the dose of adrenaline from Shane trying to take swings at her helped to wake her up some but it was wearing off.
Shaking her head to remove the fuzz that had been building up in her mind, Kamryn put her hand on the door and shook her head shaking away from the fuzz again as she heard someone come up behind her. Turning around suddenly Kamryn lost her balance as black started to come up on her only to feel hands catching her and gently settling her on the ground.
"Hey, Hey take it easy…" said a voice.
Kamryn lowered her head so her face was facing the ground, leaning her head forwards it connected to a chest as a hand came up to Kamryn's back rubbing slowly. There was a soft rumble coming from the chest that Kamryn was leaning against as darkness shut Kamryn off from the rest of the world.
"We need to get her inside…" was all that Kamryn heard before she passed out from the drugs, she could no longer fight them.
Blinking slowly Kamryn sat up in what seemed to be a chair outside a building, seeing something in the distance Kamryn pulled a rifle up that was sitting at her side. Pulling the charging handle on her rifle and lifting the rifle to her shoulder Kamryn took a deep breath with a slight wince due to a pain she had. Looking through the scope Kamryn saw sluggish movement, fingering the safety off and setting it to single shot Kamryn squeezed the trigger, the head exploded out the back before the body collapsed. Looking around further on the edge of the distance Kamryn turned when she heard a moan from behind her, milk white eyes stared down at her as peeling, dripping flesh fell off the 'walker's' face before striking.
"Guuuh!" Kamryn awoke from the nightmare in a cold sweat and sat up looking around; she was in the RV in one of the beds. Looking around wide eyed Kamryn looked to the side where her rifle was sitting with her vest and belt with leg rigs on the floor beside her boots. Moving the blanket off of her and looking down she was put into one of her t-shirts that was now sweat soaked, pushing herself to a stand Kamryn heard a creak before looking to the first rays of the sun peaking into the RV.
The muffling of voices was enough for Kamryn to look out the opposite as movement sounded on the roof. Looking to the roof, Kamryn heard something squeak then the RV shift and slight clanging before a thump. The adrenaline that was coursing through was making her twitchy, it was a good thing that Kamryn wasn't wearing her leg rigs because the door to the RV opened and someone climbed in. Slapping a hand to her thigh Kamryn groaned and realized that she was unarmed; Dale's head had poked around the corner as he held a plate of food in hand.
"Breakfast." Was all he said when he saw Kamryn in a flight or fight stance, "Whoa, take it easy I mean no harm Lieutenant." To break the tension Kamryn's stomach rumbled loudly enough for both to stop and stare at her stomach to the offending yet welcome sound.
"Uhhh…." Kamryn looked up from her gut to Dale with the food in hand that he set onto the table after he made his way fully into the RV. Kamryn's face tinged pink as put a hand to her stomach, she was now somewhat relaxed and she edged to the table and sat down as Dale pushed the plate towards her with a bottle of orange juice. "Sorry about that Dale."
"Don't worry about it; it wouldn't be the first time someone here woke up like you."
"What's going to happen today?" Kamryn asked as she dug into her meal, her shoulder ached because of the sudden jerking awake in bed, but the stitches held so she was lucky in that regard. Looking to Dale she waited to hear what the day's plan was.
"Well today is a bit of a cleanup day. There was an incident a couple of days ago, we are just cleaning up the last of it." Dale watched as Kamryn finished the last of her food and pushed her plate forwards before looking under the table were her rucksack was and pulling it back out from under the table. Opening it Kamryn pulled out a rolled up smaller back. It was in the shape of a large triangle with a single strap, it had a rubber bottom with large buckles and a single flap with webbing on it. Kamryn unrolled it and unbuckled the main flap and unzipping the main pouch before turning back to rucksack and pulling out item after item.
Out from the rucksack came two tightly bound rolls of cording that went into a side pouch that had been already attached, following that was a small blue first aid kit which was shove into the bottom of the back. Dale watched as item after item was fitted into the pack and closed up.
"What is that?" Dale asked amazed at the amount that went into the pack.
"This is what I call a grab and go bag. I use this if I get stuck in some place and Walkers start coming for me, this has all the gear that I need, ammo, protein bars, vitamins, emergency stuff that I would need in a case of running. I usually use this as my scavenge pack too when I'm in the city. I've had to make up a pack like this a couple times in the last few months. If I have to run I take this and I can come back to my other pack at a later time."
Kamryn set the made pack down on the ground and brought out from the now sagging inwards rucksack brown paper bricks. There were nine large bricks; eight were of a medium size, one was a bit larger. About half a dozen smaller boxes which Dale noted where ammo for a pistol were placed on the table along with a black mesh bag that clacked when it moved and was set down on the table.
Standing Kamryn picked up the now light rucksack with only a few pieces of clothing, large med kit, a small tent, and a sleeping bag attached to the underside of the pack and her other two weapons; the M24 and the Mossberg. Picking up her vest and belt, Kamryn took it back to the table and sad back down pulling out black magazines and clips and standing them up on the table in their respective piles.
"What…"
"These are my spent rifle and pistol mags, quite a bit hmm?"
Kamryn pulled a knife from her vest she used it to open one paper brick showing rifle rounds. Pulling one of the longer black magazines Kamryn started hand loading each of the rounds into the magazine till there was none left in the paper wrapping. Setting aside the now full magazine Kamryn folded the paper wrapping and set it to the side and repeated the process, each of the paper bricks held exactly thirty rounds for the assault rifle magazines. It worked out that all of the eight empty mags were filled, but there were no more paper bricks. Taking the one larger sized brick it too had thirty rounds of a thicker, larger round that Kamryn put into magazines that were shorter than the assault ones, they took only ten per and there were four empty magazines. Pushing the empty magazine to the side Kamryn pulled the pistol mags towards her and pulled the boxes closer and started hand loading the magazines, she had more than enough magazines but not enough rounds for the twelve clips she had. Filling a total of nine magazines Kamryn leaned back in her seat and looked at the pile of empty boxes and magazines.
"Not enough for a full reload…"
"I'm sorry?" Dale said, Kamryn's face grew dark as she picked up an empty magazine and pushed the piece attached to the spring.
"This isn't a full reload, I am lucky that I have a full reload on the assault rifle, but I don't have any more rounds for it after I use them all up. The M24 is shy a magazine for a full load out, and my pistol, damn I didn't think I used so much of the 9MM. If something goes wrong and we have a large… 'herd' we are screwed, I have nothing left to load up and I have a box of 12 gauge slugs, but that's all and my vest is loaded to the gills."
Kamryn put the empty mag down and pulled the loaded ones and her vest to her as she loaded her vest up, it gained several pounds, but it was several pounds that she was happy to have again. Taking the pistol mags and her leg double right leg rig, she set six of the pistol mags back into their pouches and put the last three in the pouches on the waist itself.
Dale watched with a bit of fear Kamryn was seriously armed to the teeth there was no denying that fact, but when she mentioned that if they were spotted by a herd they would all be screwed. For someone armed to the gills to say that made Dale get up and start to take stock of what was in the RV. Kamryn stood and put her dirty clothes into her rucksack in a plastic bag along with the empty mags back in their mesh bag.
Pulling on a black combat shirt and buttoning it up and tucking it into her cargos, Kamryn went to the tactical belt and pulled it on arranging the second rig she had on her right thigh up front from her pistol holster. Checking her pouches on the left leg rig Kamryn buckled her rigs into place after adjusting the belt so it was angled to take weight. Grabbing her vest Kamryn winced as she pulled the thing into place buckling the sides into place, wigging the thing so that it was comfortable she sat down on the edge of the bed and pulled her boots on and her right knee guard-brace. Standing Kamryn pulled a pair of gloves from the rucksack and put them under a strap on her left leg rig before grabbing her rifle and slinging it.
"I'll take the plate inside…" Kamryn had rolled up her sleeves to mid forearm and picked up the used food stuffs and headed out of the RV, it was now bright outside as someone started for some barn. Ignoring the person that was walking away Kamryn went to the house and gently knocked before heading inside to the kitchen. Andrea was there with a couple others including Hershel talking quietly, nodding in a greeting Kamryn went to the sink and washed the dishes and dried them before leaving them to the side as she didn't know where they went.
"Kamryn?" A voice asked, Kamryn had turned from the sink and looked to the small group,
"Hmm?"
"I need to know, did you know about the killings…" The question came from a black haired woman who Kamryn remembered was Lorie, leaning with her back again the sink Kamryn took a deep breath as if to sigh,
"No, no I didn't know, my platoon was slaughtered, and there was maybe three or four of us that lived. I went to my rooms while everyone else….. Needless to say there nothing that could have forewarned us to what was happening. It was shit luck that I met an American Sniper…" The group looked to each other and to the counter or the mugs they had in hand. Pushing away from the sink Kamryn walked around the island where the others were and stepped beside Lorie.
"I stand by what I said last night, if I wanted you all dead… you would all be dead. I'm a protector of life even if I'm a soldier of the military." Stepping away Kamryn exited the kitchen and left the house into the bright sunlight, squinting and heading the RV Kamryn stepped back inside as Dale finished cleaning up his rifle that was laying on the table.
Dale stared at her and offered a smile before Kamryn nodded and went to her rucksack pulling a pair of shades out from it and the M24 from the pack with its sling. Checking the magazine that was in the larger scoped rifle Kamryn smiled and headed outside with it as she heard a yell.
"The bastard snuck up on me and hit me!" Kamryn had the M24 ready in hand with the muzzle down as she looked on as others had joined Kamryn. It was Shane that had yelled and his face was covered in blood and a rather large slash mark on the bridge of his nose.
"Who did?" Kamryn asked as she eyed the tree line, Andrea has quickly filled Kamryn in on the situation and Kamryn lowered the rifle and glared at Shane. "You didn't kill him, and yet he was locked up and suddenly Shane comes back bloody?" Shane was on his way to the house when he turned to look back at Kamryn with a snarl.
"I knew we should have killed him…" Someone said from behind Kamryn, Kamryn herself looked to the tree line and waited for something to come out from it.
"Something doesn't smell right…" Kamryn said quietly but loud enough for the others to hear her. "Something is coming and I don't like the gut feeling that I have right now. If something goes wrong sincerely hope you all have an escape plan."
"We do…"
"No we don't Rick… we have no plan to get out of here." Andrea said biting back at the man who said they had a plan.
"We have no plan; we shouldn't need to because nothing can get us here." Rick said turning to follow Shane into the house. "
"Then I hope that herd that I saw coming out of Atlanta after me and you don't come after us…" Kamryn watched the trees as the others left, there was dread, pure unadulterated dread and it was worrying Kamryn.
"Dale, Andrea I'm sure you want a plan out of this… get ready to leave at a moment's notice…" Kamryn went back to the RV and her pack and attached to it a holster which could hold either a shotgun or a larger rifle such as the M24 that Kamryn strapped into it.
It was night time and Kamryn was sitting on the porch of the house reading and not the RV as Andrea and Dale were having a private conversation. Flipping through a page Kamryn looked up once in a while to the trees to make sure nothing was coming. From the front of the house Kamryn heard a door in the back open and close as two figures left and were arguing as they headed up to the field in front of Kamryn's view. Watching the two disappear over the hill Kamryn went back to reading. A soft click and a door opening brought forth little Carl whom Kamryn had met at earlier in the afternoon.
"Hey big man, what are you still doing up?"
"Hey Kamryn, I'm looking for dad and Shane…" Kamryn looked to the hill and nodded to it offering the kid a smile, she smiled more when she saw the pistol that Rick had given him on his hip in a rather large holster.
"Over the hill kiddo, though I don't think they would want you to follow them." Kamryn was ignored except for the information that Carl's dad and Shane were over the hill of the field. Looking back down to her book Kamryn read through another couple of pages before her gut and her 'spidey' senses kicked into overdrive. Getting up and making a pass by the RV to throw her book inside, Kamryn pulled her rifle to bear and looked to the trees when she heard a gunshot come from the field. It seemed to draw the others from the house as Kamryn looked towards the fields her stance lowered. Fingering off the safety and setting the auto to single shot, Kamryn started for the hill when she stopped and saw two figures running with something following them five seconds later.
Raising the rifle to her shoulder Kamryn sighted down the scope and squeezed the trigger once, the Walker that had been about to grab Rick dropped to the ground, Rick and Carl had disappeared from sight behind the barn making Kamryn lower the rifle and turn towards the house.
"WALKERS!" she roared, turning back towards the hill Kamryn started to back pedal while firing shots into the Walkers that weren't going. Hearing activity behind her Kamryn glanced over as everyone in the house was going for vehicles. Glen and Maggie were in a blue SUV firing the shotgun as the run off of Walkers became too much for the barn.
Kamryn make her way to the RV when she heard a yell for help, it had come from Dale who was pinned to the siding of the RV by a Walker that had come from behind the house were the forest was. Kamryn was about to turn the corner of the front end of the RV when fire lit up the night sky in reds and oranges. The barn was on fire and in the light of the fire were more and more walkers.
"HELP!" Kamryn turned back and ran for Dale who was trying to prevent the Walker from biting him. Rising her rifle up Kamryn pulled the trigger and Walker's head exploded and the body dropped as Dale shuddered and rubbed his face of the blood.
"Get as many as you can into the RV and leave!" Kamryn ordered, Dale nodded and picked up the bat he had dropped and went into the RV doing as Kamryn had commanded of him. There was gunfire all around and despite all the gunfire there wasn't much stopping the massive wave of Walkers coming in. Going to the house Kamryn stepped up beside Hershel loading in another Magazine putting the used one into a drop pouch at the back of her waist.
"Hershel get to the RV, get out of here!" seeing him nod Kamryn took his spot and kept up the wave of gun fire, it was scary to be caught up in a situation as bad as this. Hearing that people had been picked up Kamryn started for the RV and jumped in last looking out the doorway.
T-Dog a black man with Andrea and a man named Jim that Kamryn had met earlier were in a truck driving when they heard screams. Kamryn looked out the windows and saw Carol was pinned by Walkers, the truck stopped and Andrea got out getting Carol. Seeing what going on, Kamryn swore and picked up her back and threw it on before opening the moving RV's door and jumped out with gloves on and rifle in hand. The RV screeched to a stop and someone's head poked out. Carol was picked up by Daryl but T-Dog took off when Jim got pulled out of the truck and was mauled.
"What are you doing!?"
"Get the fuck out of here; I'm not leaving Andrea behind!" Kamryn pulled her second empty magazine out and slammed a fresh on home as the RV pulled away along with the other vehicles. Opening fire Kamryn dropped the Walkers that were about the eat Andrea, getting to her Kamryn pulled Andrea's arm and headed for the forest while keeping up the gun fire.
"Let's go!"
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