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"Dad." I call out to my father as I shoot up in my bed.

"What's the matter honey?" He runs over to my side. I see both my mother and Glen sit up and rub their eyes sleepily as my dad rubs my back to calm me down.

"Bad dream." I tell him.

"Aw, honey. It's alright." He says and climbs in the bed next to me. "It's not real." He tells me. "It was just a dream."

"But it is real." I tell him. I had dream about the man I saw shot right in front of my eyes three days ago. They shot him and then they burned his body. But in my dream he didn't get shot, in my dream he turned into one of them...the dead.

"No one can get you, Spencer. You're safe." My dad says.

"But we're not. We don't know how the virus is contracted. We could already be infected and not know it." I say a bit hysterically.

"We know that the fever sets in." He says and places his hand to my forehead. "You feel pretty cool to me." I look up at him and he smiles.

"But those things..." I trail off. I hate talking about what I saw that night on the bridge leaving California. Those people...all those dead people...just...walking around.

"I promise to never let anything bad happen to you okay?" My father tells me as I lay my head down on his chest.

"Spencer?" Glen calls for me.

"I'm fine, Glen." I tell him and he nods sleepily before turning over and going back to sleep. Glen has always been very protective of me. I love him to death. We don't fight like normal brothers and sisters do, we genuinely care for each other.

"Are you okay to go back to sleep?" My dad asks me.

"Mhm." I nod and close my eyes.

"I love you, Spence." My dad whispers as sleep overcomes me.

"Run!" Tim yells as he comes out of a house we were scavenging. None of us hesitate to take off running. Behind us are from what I can see, about fifteen dead and they're chasing after us.

Wanting to eat us.

"We're not gonna make it back to camp, it's getting too dark." Carmen says.

"More walkers!" Glen yells and we see the group of about five headed towards us from another direction.

"Shit." Tim says as we cut through a row of houses.

"There's too many." Carmen says, as yet another pack heads towards us from a different direction.

"We're not gonna outrun all of them." I say, realizing how many are closing in on us.

"Follow me." Tim says as he cuts through an alley. We've run into problems like this before out on scavenges, but not this many walkers at once. We're outnumbered and we don't have nearly enough ammo to kill them all.

"Tim!" Glen calls to him when the pack of fifteen gets closer.

"In here." Tim says, running into a building and shutting and locking the door behind us.

"This isn't gonna hold them." Carmen says, placing her back up against door as Tim does the same.

"Spencer, Glen, find something to barricade the door with." Tim tells us.

"But we're not even sure this place is secure." I point out. "It could be crawling with walkers." I add.

"We don't have a choice, now push that table over here." He says, pointing to a table in the corner.

Glen and I run over to the table and push it up to the door. Carmen and Tim move to help us put more barricades in front of the windows and side door.

"This will have to do. We need to clear the building now." Tim says.

"Two floors, Spencer and I can take the top floor, you and Carmen the bottom." Glen says. Tim nods as him and Carmen both pull out their guns and screw the silencers on them.

"You ready?" Glen looks to me and asks as he takes his gun out of the holder and does the same.

"Yeah." I nod. I grab my gun from my holster, take the safety off and cock it, then screw on my silencer as we make our way up the stairs to clear the second floor.

"Don't hold it like that, Spence. The kick-back will hit you in the face."

"I got this, Glen." I tell my brother will a smile as I turn back and face my target.

"Okay." He says and shakes his head. "Now concentrate. Focus only on the target in front of you. Drown everything else out." He tells me as I zero in on my target.

"Squeeze slo-"

"Ahh shit!" I scream out as I pull the trigger and the kick-back does indeed hit me in the face.

"Told you." Glen says, holding out a hand to help me up from the ground.

"Owie." I say and hold my nose.

"Lemmy see." Glen says, trying to get a better look but I slap his hand away.

"Noooo, don't touch it." I tell him.

"I need to see it, Spencer." He says, sill trying to move my hands from covering my nose. I move my hands to let him see. "It's not broken." He tells me applying slight pressure to my nose.

"Ouch!" I shriek.

"Sorry." He says apologetically.

"Is it swollen?"

"Yeah."

"Should we tell dad?"

"He's gonna kill me for teaching you how to shoot." Glen says.

"Mom then?" I ask, tilting my head up to try to stop the bleeding.

"Let's just take you to the doctor." Glen says walking me to the car and putting me inside.

The bone in my nose was bruised and Glen and I both got on punishment when we got back home. He'd been promising to teach me to shoot since I was twelve and finally made good on that promise on my fourteenth birthday. That's a day I'll never forget.

"On three okay?" Glen says as we come up to the last door.

"Okay." I nod as he begins to count. On three he opens the door and we both hold up our weapons.

"Drop it!" A brunette girl tells us, holding a gun at us as well.

"You drop it." Glen tells her.

"No, you." She replies.

"What's going..." The guy's sentence dies in his throat when he comes out of what I'm assuming is the bathroom and he sees us, weapons drawn pointing them in the girls direction. "What's the move here?" He asks the girl.

"They're gonna drop their weapons." She tells him, without taking her eyes off me and Glen.

"No we're not. You guys are." Glen rebuttals.

"How about we all drop our weapons." I suggest. These are the first people we've come across since Rick and Santana joined our group four months ago. I don't want this to end the way I think it may.

"I'm not dropping my weapon." The brunette says.

"Okay." I nod and slowly take the clip out of my gun and place it on the ground. "That's not a problem."

"Spence, what are you doing?" Glen glances at me and asks.

"We're all people here, Glen. Why do we need these guns?" I turn to him and asks. He tries to tell me something with his eyes but I can't read them right now. I'm too focused on the brunette girl and brown haired boy in front of me, pointing their weapons at us.

"Don't shoot us." Glen says, taking the clip from his gun and placing it on the floor.

"Why are you here?" The girl asks.

"We got herded into this building by walkers." I say calmly.

"This is our place for the night." The guy speaks up.

"We didn't mean to intrude. We only wanted to get away from the herd." I tell him.

"Where are you from?" The girl asks, finally lowering her weapon. The guy does the same.

"California originally, but we came from Vegas after the outbreak." I say.

"Why are you in Pine Nut?" She asks, staring at me intently.

"We have a camp a few miles into the woods. We were just looking for supplies."

"Spence." Glen turns and scowls at me. I shrug and turn back to the girl.

"This territory is ours." The girl says.

"And we're sorry. We didn't think there was anyone around here."

"Apology accepted." The girl says and holsters her gun. Her face loosens a little and her demeanor changes to calm. "I'm Ashley." She says walking over to me and holding out her hand. "That's Aiden." She adds, pointing to the boy behind her as I shake her hand.

"I'm Spencer and this is my brother, Glen." I say pointing to Glen who smiles and shakes both their hands.

"Are there more of your group here?" She asks me.

"Yeah, um...Tim who's kinda like our leader and Carmen." I tell her. "They're clearing the bottom level." I say.

"We cleared this place when we got here earlier. The streets were crawling with walkers so we decided to set up camp here for the night. We knew we wouldn't make it back to camp." She says and I keep finding myself staring at her lips instead of her eyes. I think she notices cause she smiles and I quickly turn away. I'm sure my cheeks are red.

"We should probably go tell them where we are." I tell Ashley and Aiden.

"Okay." She nods. "We'll go with."

"Okay." We all walk down the stairs to see Carmen and Tim coming from a room in the back.

"All clear." Tim says but tenses and pulls out his weapon once he sees the two strangers straggling behind us.

"It's fine." I tell him, holding up a hand. "They're cool." I assure Tim and Carmen who both have their weapons drawn now. They stare at Aiden and Ashley for a minute before putting their guns away.

"They were here before us." Glen says. "They'd already cleared the house before we got here."

"What's the odds of that?" Carmen says with a slight smile.

"Pretty good actually. This building is in the middle of town. You can see every part of town from a window in here. It has the best vantage point." Tim says with narrowed eyes, staring at Ashley.

"Precisely." Ashley says, giving him the same look.

"You military?" Tim asks her.

"Both my parent's were." She answers. "They died of the virus eight months ago. Now it's just me and my little sister." Ashley answers.

"Hey!" The boy Aiden shrieks.

"And this doofus." She says shoulder bumping him. "My sister and I got in a real bad situation and he saved us from a few walkers a while back. Haven't been able to get rid of him since." She adds with a smile. "I'm Ashley, by the way." She says, walking over to Tim and Carmen, shaking their hands. "That's Aiden." She introduces him again and he shakes their hands.

"Tim, Carmen." Tim says, pointing to himself then to Carmen. "We're gonna have to stay here tonight." Tim says to Ashley.

"I heard. There's plenty of room." She says looking around at the building.

"We don't want any trouble. We can't trust you not to slit our throats and steal our gear in our sleep right?" Tim says and chuckles a bit, but anyone who knows Tim, knows that he's really serious.

"I promise." Ashley says as her and Aiden laugh along with Tim.

"You guys take the top, we'll take the bottom?" Carmen suggests.

"Sounds like a plan." Ashley nods. "But you guys are more than welcome to share the upstairs with us. More room and actual beds up there." She shrugs as her and Aiden start to ascend the stairs.

"I'm down." Glen says quickly. A little too quickly. I give him a look and he just shrugs and smiles shyly. What's that about?

"That's fine then." Tim speaks up.

We all head up stairs and pick a room.

"Boys with boys and girls with girls?" Aiden suggests to me and Glen.

"Sure." Ashley agrees.

"Okay." I say a bit timidly. I mean, I haven't been without my brother for over ten months. He's literally been at my side, every day and night. And plus I don't know these people. What if she really does try to slit my throat in my sleep.

"Goodnight, Spence." Glen says giving me a hug and kissing my forehead before going down the hall to a different room with Aiden.

"Guess it's just us." Ashley smiles and opens the door to a room close to us. "After you." She says holding out her hand.

I really hope this chick doesn't kill me in my sleep tonight.