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summery: twenty-nine year old Kathryn Smith and her daughter three year old Jasmine have been on their own until they meet the Atlanta group on the highway. both mother and daughter carry with them a scared and frightening past but Kathryn is also carrying with her something more. Enter Daryl Dixon Hunter, tracker, and all around bad ass as well carries a dark past can they both save each other or will someone or something tear them apart?
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Theme song: Chalk Outline by: Three Days Grace
chapter 4 part 1: Kathryn's story/secret
After Otis's funeral and watching her daughter's interaction with Daryl Dixon, Kathryn fallows Hershel into his house. Her heart slammed a furious tattoo in her chest, she needed looked at but was scared. She hadn't talked to anyone about who she was, where she came from, and what her secret was that could endanger the entire group.
Walking into the living room she found Jasmine playing with Beth, the youngest Greene daughter. She watched them play Tic Tack Toe with checkers, walking up to them she lays a gentle hand on the three year olds shoulder "I would like you to find Miss. Lori or Miss. Carol, I Have to talk to Mr. Hershel." nodding the little girl runs out.
Walking to Hershel's study, the door closed, Kathryn hesitates scared of the outcome and judgment from the older man.
Knocking and hearing Hershel telling her to come in, she walks in her anxiety spiking like it did the first time coming to the farm.
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What can I help you with?" He asks, looking up from a photo album on his desk.
"I...have a...a...question," she stutters out fidgeting with the hem of her sleeve "I...need you...no...I would like you to...give me a checkup...please?"
Hershel looked at her, he never got to talk to Kathryn, but according to Maggie she seamed nervous, scared more like it he thought.
Nodding to her question "alright what is it you would like me to look at?" He asks, not wanting to push or scare her. Kathryn closed her eyes as she pulls her to big shirt over her stomach.
Hershel's eyes widened, this girl is pregnant but that's not what else shocked him. Scars and bruises littered her stomach, he wouldn't be surprised if they were all over her body.
"How...how did this happen to you?" Came the question she dreaded, how do you tell people what happened? She was so scared but she had to tell someone. Taking a shaky breath, putting a hand on her bump she begins to explains:
(A Week before Apocalypse) Theme song 2: Savin' me by: Nickleback and Bully by: Shinedown
Kathryn looks out the window of the plane, her father, stepmother, step siblings, and grandmother were headed to Atlanta, Georgia to visit her aunt for the summer.
Her dad said it was for "bonding" time, which to her was bullshit because they ended up ignoring her anyway. Like she was going to tell her old man he'd just end up beating her to submit to what they were going to do.
She had her IPhone out and head phones in, she was listening to the news about the new pandemic. She had been obsessed with it since the first article in the paper came out.
She knew her stepmom was glaring at her, complaining to both her father and grandmother about how she should have left her phone at home. Whatever she was there to see her aunt not to be the whore's slave.
All she could think of was the song Bitch came back by: Theory of a Deadman, She laughed which earned her weird looks from passengers and a hard grip on her shoulders by the old man.
Kathryn stopped laughing at that point, as she finished listening to the news from a talk show in Cleveland. The stewardess makes an announcement that the plane was about to land, and that all phones, devices should be shut down and everyone to buckle up.
An hour was spent going through the terminal, another spent just getting their bags. All threw out this, the oldest step sibling Anna was complaining no surprise there.
Two hours later they were at her aunt Sheryl's house just outside of Atlanta. Thanks to her aunt's roommate Kathryn got her own room, this was due to him going to his parent's ranch.
"Why does she get her own room? That's not fair!" Anna complained, go figure princess would complain.
Aunt Sheryl looked at the brat in question "because she's my niece!" She informed.
That's when WW3 started, Kathryn walked to her bedroom and blasted Linkin Park and a punch of other bands just to drown them out.
After finishing putting her clothes away, her aunt walked in and offered to take her to the lake.
"No its ok I just want to sleep, but thanks anyway." Kathryn declined.
