Chapter 4
Disclaimer: Nope, don't own it … still.
Somewhere down the block, Daryl peered between the spaces in the boarded up windows and cursed under his breath. The streets were suddenly filled with walkers, a small group was gathering around their car, undoubtedly attracted by their smell.
He cursed again, he and Charlotte would be stuck, stuck like animals as the summer sun heated up the stale house like an oven.
"We have to get upstairs so we can open a window, or we're gonna cook in here." Charlotte said. Luckily for them, the universe decided to take mercy on them and the windows upstairs weren't boarded or nailed shut, and they opened fairly easily without much noise.
Now all they had to do was wait, and that's something neither one of them were very good at.
"So, what's your story?" Abraham asked in attempt to break the thick silence between them, Michonne shrugged. "Same as everybody I suppose, lost people, had to survive, you know." She said, not meeting his eyes as she cleaned her sword.
Abraham nodded respectively. "Fair enough." He replied as they fell silent once more for what seemed like a fortnight.
"What about you? What's your story?" She said, her sharp, dark eyes suddenly pinning him like a laser sight. He gave her an amused look. "Tit for tat, you asked me, I get to ask you." She said, he chuckled as he shook his head in defeat, fair was fair.
"I was stationed at Fort Benning when all this went down, they deployed my unit to Atlanta when things started to get really bad and the police were overwhelmed. We didn't know what was going on and at first we all thought it was a simple riot situation gone awry, we were trained never to fire upon unarmed civilians unless otherwise ordered and that was our grave mistake, I lost all but three of my men that day. Things were getting too out of control, we had to retreat, on the way out I found Eugene in the hospital when we broke in to get supplies, and Rosita hold up in a convenience store. Her partner had been killed, too."
And the girl?" Michonne interjected.
Abraham paused for a moment, unsure if he should tell this woman who was practically a stranger such sensitive information, but he figured that if he was going to stay with this group, it would be better to start on even, honest footing.
He rubbed his face. "Where do I start? We found her held up in one of the many houses we raided, in a neighborhood much like this one. Her mother and father and brother had all died and she had to put them down. She is a tough kid, I don't know many kids who could have put down their own mother and father. She was so thin and malnourished, I just couldn't leave her there. So I took her along. When checking her over, I found a scar on her upper arm that looked to be from a bite, but that couldn't be possible, since we all know what happens when you are bitten. She told me that her mother had bitten her shortly after turning. But unlike everyone else we encountered, her wound just … healed like a normal wound. She said that she had felt sick, like she had the flu, but it went away as the bite healed."
"She's … she's Immune?" Michonne said in disbelief.
Abraham shrugged. "Seems that way. That's why we were trying to get to Washington with her and the doctor, because he believes that a cure or vaccine can be made from her blood."
There was a long silence as Michonne processed this, if a cure could be made, then this whole nightmare would end, but the journey to Washington would be arduous at best, and who knows what would be waiting for them when they got there.
"When we get back, you have to tell Rick, this is something he'll want to know." She said.
Notes: I am sorry for the huge delay in updating, I have had bouts of writers block and have been working on helping my parents build a new fence for their yard, so I haven't had as much free time as I'd like … that and this story isn't getting as much attention as I thought it would. I would like to reiterate that in this story, Daryl and Charlotte will be SUPPORTING characters NOT main focus characters. Sure, sure, there will be Daryl/Charlotte moments, don't worry about that, I promise there will because they are just too good a couple to ignore completely. It will just take some time, because I have to develop the story first! So please be patient and hang in there! Also please take the time to review, it really means a lot to me.
