Hey guys!

The end is nearing, can you feel it?

Some things before you read on? Okay. So first, some people are going to die this chapter and I hated writing it but it had to be done for the story, no zombie apocalypse story is complete without death (I mean look at TWD or any zombie movie.)

Second, I know I'm not the best when it comes to writing so I'd like to thank you guys for staying with the story :) Some old faces will show up in this chapter. :)

Thirdly, I'm going to shut up and let you enjoy this chapter.

xxM

Warning: Except if we follow and talk to the same people you might not know that characters mentioned in this fic and if we're not, i'll be posting their usernames at the end and you can follow these perfect people. :)


The last thing you remember was a sharp pain on you chest before you wake up with a start. You notice that this place looked familiar; the white walls, the large windows. You run your hands over the black and red satin sheets that you bought yourself—that you bought.

It couldn't be.

You're probably having some delusion.

Either that or you're dead.

It's the only possibility.

How else are you back in your fucking bed?

"Naya! Hurry the hell up! The car is waiting!" you hear a deep male voice; the voice you thought you'd never hear again.

"Matt?" you call back, your voice deep-raspy from sleep.

You hear his footsteps hurriedly approaching the room before a frantic-looking Matt Hodgson peeks through the door,

"What is i—Jesus Naya, You haven't even showered yet." The man says, frustration evident in his tone, "Here." He adds as he pulls out a simple green and black striped dress and throwing it at your face.

"Wh-" you start but cut yourself off, not knowing what to say.

"Are you okay?" he asks trying to sound worried but you don't fail to notice the irritation in his voice.

"Um, I'm… not… sure." You mumble

"What's wrong with you, now?"

What's wrong with me? You think to yourself as you remember details of the prison and everything that's happened.

Was it all some kind of Zombie-movie related dream?

You remember seeing an episode of The Walking Dead but it couldn't have been enough to trigger a dream so detailed.

It couldn't be; you felt pain when you fell off that branch in the dessert, it hurt when you smashed through those steels bars.

The steel bars. Cory put you through those bars; could you be dead?

Is this some twisted after-life? Why are you still with Matt?

Oh God, could you be in hell?

"Is she ready?" you hear another familiar voice say from outside your room.

"No, she's fucking having some kind of mental breakdown or something." Matt tells her before opening the door and stepping out.

"Nay-Nay?" Amber calls to you once she enters the room, "What the hell is Matt talking about? Are you okay?"

You had to admit, you kind of missed Ambers motherly tone, "have you ever had that dream that felt so real? Like, it felt like your dream was reality and when you wake up for real you feel like you're dreaming?" you ask her, silently hoping she makes some sense out of the craziness that you just dumped on her.

Amber was silent for several seconds, her face scrunched up as she thinks over what you had just said.

"It sounds crazy but-"

"What? Like Inception?" she asks, effectively cutting you off.

"Exactly!"

"So you feel like you're having a dream right now?"

You nod and both of you are silent for a second.

"Ow!" You yelp as you feel this sharp pain on the back of your arms.

"Doesn't feel like a dream now, does it?" Amber laughs, standing up and handing you a towel, "take a shower and get dressed, we have that press conference in an hour."

"Press conference for what?" You ask her as you rub your arm to soothe the burning ache. "Amber, you pinch like a fucking psycho; that really hurt."

"Don't be such a baby, Naya." She laughs

"Don't be so violent, A."

"Whatever, get showering." She says with a laugh as she makes her way to the door, "Oh and by the way, the press con is for Glee Tour 2013."

"It's really going to happen?" you ask with a smile

"Honey, only a freaking zombie apocalypse can stop it now." She laughs before disappearing out the door, leaving you alone.

"A zombie apocalypse, huh?" You think out loud

"Talking to yourself again, superstar?" You hear the unmistakable sound of Nickayla's voice before she even steps in. Without thinking you dart out of your bed and jump on her, wrapping your arms around her neck, "Whoa, you okay sis?" she says and you could feel the smile on her face.

"I just had a bad dream, that's all."

"I died, didn't I?" she laughs but holds you close nonetheless

"Worse."


An hour later you get to the studio where you're immediately greeted by Ryan's booming voice,

"Where the hell are the boys?" Ryan asks angrily

"Blake and John called and said they were stuck in traffic." Brad tells him as he watches the crew prep the interview area.

"None of our main stars are here. That's just dandy."

"What are we? Chopped liver?" Harry laughs bitterly

"I meant the new kids, Harry."

"Of course you did." Jenna says, patting the bald man on the shoulder before taking her seat near the middle of the long table.

"Just get ready." He mumbles, taking his seat at the right end of the table.

"Ryan's such a douchebag." Melissa whispers to you, her head propped on her hand "I'm one of the new kids and he doesn't treat me like a pariah."

"That's because you have a va-gi-na." you laugh, emphasizing the last word by saying it slowly.

"Right." She smiles before taking a bite out of her grilled cheese sandwich

Half an hour and Ryan downing a bottle of red bull later, Jacob and Blake arrived at the hotel, "We're really sorry Ryan." Blake says apologetically while handing everyone a bar of chocolate each, "There was some kind of accident that caused a huge traffic jam. We literally had time to get out of the car, buy some snacks, come back, and the car would still be in the same exact spot."

Listening to Blake complain about traffic almost put you to sleep, you still had the prison in mind even though Amber proved that you weren't dreaming. You just couldn't shake the feeling that there was something… off about everything.

You realize that not only were the newbies late but several of the original cast was missing; Dianna, Lea, Mark and where was Heather?

"Where are the others?" you ask nobody in particular,

"Dianna and Mark are still on their vacation in Paris."

"Lea's still in her spiritual retreat after her break up with Cory."

"Heather's on her honeymoon, how could you forget?" Ian, Darren and Chris all answered.

When the hell did all that happen?

There's something weird going on, you were sure of it, but what exactly was it? You contemplate just as Cory walks in, taking a sip of his coffee and taking his seat beside Ryan.

You decide to lay low until you have a more solid idea of where exactly you are, "has anyone seen my phone? I haven't seen it all day." You ask them as you take your seat at the left end of the table but nobody answers, they just continue talking amongst themselves and it sort of annoys you.

"Amber?"
"Yeah?"

"You were at my house earlier, did you see my phone?"

"Uh, no I don't think I did."

"Can you call it using your phone?"

"No, I can't." she tells you simply before taking a drink

"What? Why not?"

"My phone's missing too." She says nonchalantly.

This wasn't right, Amber lives off of her phone. You remember one particular day when she had left it at home and had been in an awful mood the entire time you were taping 'It's all over', this calm phone-less Amber was not natural.

It just wasn't.

"Hey Blake? Can I-"

"Let's start!" You're cut off by Ryan's loud annoying voice as the security team opens the doors, allowing the media people to come in.

"Hello everyone, just like the word that we put out, this is not a panel interview but an announcement. If anyone of the cast wants questions, then that's when we'll allow it." Ryan says and the people nod at him before taking their seats.

"We're looking forward to seeing all our fans from all over the globe, Glee World Tour 2013 will start on September; locations will be announced through the Fox website." He says happily.

"Any questions?" he adds and immediately, several reporters raise their hand. When the questions start, you let your mind float away as most of the reporters were asking Ryan or looking for Lea anyway.

You spend the time thinking about where exactly you were; this was obviously not a dream because it hurt when Amber pinched you.

But it wasn't reality either.

You rack your brain to just before everything went to shit and you don't remember Lea and Cory breaking up.

Mark and Dianna never made plans to go Paris, the blonde had actually invited you to go with her to Italy.

Heather and Taylor couldn't have been on their honeymoon because you don't remember them getting married.

You're thoughts are interrupted when you feel a nudge on your side, "Wh-wha?" you mumble stupidly.

"Next question's for you." Melissa whispers without looking at you. You look up at the crowd in front of you and you see the girl with her hand raised. Unfortunately, you couldn't see her face since she was sitting behind one of the big security men.

"Um…" you clear your throat, "yes? Miss at the back?" you call out, gesturing your hand towards the hidden girl.

"Yeah, Hi, My name is Viv with Us Weekly…" the girl says cheerfully. The name you hear instantly making your heart skip a beat, "I just have a couple of questions regarding your album and things in general?"

"Uh…"

"Miss Rivera, are you alright?" She asks worriedly. Getting a good look at her face you realize that it really was Viv from the prison.

What the fuck was going on?

"Naya?" you hear Ryan call to you

"Y-yeah, I'm fine." You tell them as you shake your head to clear your mind.

"Yeah sure, go ahead." You tell the girl, trying hard not to look at her directly.

"So, we've been having news about your album for a while now but still no album, any updates for your awaiting fans?"

"There's been a few hiccups along the way for the album but I'm really working hard to get it out there, feel free to ask Columbia Records though." You tease with a sly smile. Everything really was ready to be recorded but Columbia just keeps delaying your album, by contract you aren't allowed to tell that to your fans but it's really gotten annoying.

"Well that sucks but I'm sure your 'nayaholics' will be waiting with bated breath." She says with a smile and you smiled back, "Next question, what is your reaction to Heather Morris' rumored pregnancy?"

The words didn't feel like they made sense together, Heather? Pregnant? How?

"P-pregnant?"

"Yeah, three months now."

"I-I don't know. I didn't..."

You knew how but you just didn't know how. She promised you that she wasn't with Taylor anymore; that she wouldn't be with anyone else until you were ready.

"If the rumors are true then…" you say, making sure that your voice didn't waiver, "then I wish her a healthy pregnancy and all the best in life. I think she'll be an amazing mom. She's an amazing person." You finish with the best fake smile you could muster.

This might not be reality but it was close enough and hearing things like that still made your heart ache in pain.

"This is not reality." You remind yourself

It couldn't be.

"One last thing, Miss Rivera?" Viv says softly.

"Yes?"

"We received a letter from California State, do you know anyone from there?"

"California State… College?"

"No, California State Prison."

Again you feel your stomach drop and the blood drain from your face but you couldn't make it obvious; you couldn't let them take pictures of you looking like you're going crazy.

"N-no, I don't think I do. What did the letter say?"

"It's a pretty weird note; it just says 'Thank you. From Ace and Cesar.'

"Ace…" You whisper to yourself.

Was he in this crazy world too?

Did he know what was going on?

"Naya…" You hear someone whisper from behind you, making you turn around quickly, "Come back. Please." They whisper again and this time you catch a glimpse of blonde hair; Heather's blonde hair.

"Heather?" You mumble before standing up and dashing backstage; choosing to ignore Matt and Ryan's angry screams

"Heather, where are you?" You call out to the, oddly, empty space

"We've already lost Viv and we're probably going to lose more people…" you hear her say, it sounded like some kind of voice-over; you could hear her but she wasn't there, like some kind of ghost.

"Come back to me, Nay" she says again as you look around frantically.

"I'm here!" You shout, "Heather!"

Where was 'here'? Some alternate reality? You rack your brain to find some rhyme or reason to what was going on and where you were. There had to be some reason why these people were here and why others weren't; Matt, Ryan, Cory, Blake, Viv- Wait.

You involuntarily hold your breath as memories come flooding back;

"…aside from losing Cesar…

"…Harry and Jenna were killed…"

"Killed" you think to yourself

"Oh my God, CHORD!"

"Close your eyes, John. I'll make the pain stop. I promise…"

"Matt, Ryan, Melissa and Amber were already there…"

"So Cory's infected?"

"We've already lost Viv."

Dead; Everyone here was dead.

Were you dead too? Oh God. Was this some kind of after-life?

You couldn't be dead, you could still hear her; you had to be alive, right?

"If you can hear me, please, wake up."You hear Heather again.

Was this some kind of alternate reality? Like, purgatory? A transition to death?

No.

You refuse to die.

A moment later you feel a sharp pain in your chest, pushing you down to your knees as the room starts spinning, "Heather! That's too high!" you hear Mica's voice scream.

Another hard jolt and you feel like you're teleported back into your body, you're sore and you feel like shit but before you could even breathe, you hear Mica's panicked scream again,

"It worked! Remove the clamps!"


"Heather!" you shout as soon as you see her unconscious and face down on the floor; both hands were connected to metal clamps that, in turn, were connected to a car battery.

You watch as Mica reaches for her shoulder but pull her hand back quickly, "Tami! Cut the wires!"

Without thinking you stand on wobbly legs and kick the battery as hard as you can, hitting Tami square in the face

"Tami!" you scream and run to her side. She had her hand covering the left side of her face where you guess the battery landed, "Oh God, I'm so sorry!"

"I'm fine, how's Heather?" she asks before pushing past.

You turn around quickly and see Heather slowly getting up and shaking her arms around, "Naya, you're okay." She smiles as she walks towards you, hugging you as tight as she could, "I thought you'd left me."

"Never." You whisper before closing your eyes; you hear her give a long sigh and could feel her shoulders relax.

A moment later, you open your eyes and see Mica checking on Tami, "Is she okay? I didn't mean to hurt her." You say apologetically.

"I'm okay, just a tiny bit of blood." She says just as she turns around, showing you the small vertical cut on her left eyebrow.

"Okay." You breathe.

"Anyway, I'm sure Heather can take care of you. We have to go help out with… um… stuff." Mica says with a sad smile, "Sit down and stay until that stops bleeding, I'll be back in a bit." She adds, placing a soft kiss on Tami's forehead before running towards a large group gathered several meters from you.

"How bad is it?" you ask Heather

"Not as bad anymore since you're still alive." She tells you softly, brushing a lock of hair behind your ear, "We don't have to talk about it now, you should rest. You were dead for, like, two minutes."

"I heard you say that we lost Viv, who else?" you ask her again. She had to tell you, you had to know; instead of answering though she held out her hand to you, "Come on, I'll show you."

You weren't sure how you'd react to seeing the casualties, which one of your friends had you lost now? you think to yourself as the two of you walk up to the group where you see the bodies on the floor, "excuse me." You mumble to the crying person in front of you. Once you pass her and see the people on the floor, you fall to your knees.

Naomi.

Ace.

Paula.

Gina.

Viv.

Ximena.

Laura.

Ka.

Elke.

Kevin.

"Are they-" you choke out

"Not all of them." Heather says quickly, rubbing circles on your back

"Who-" You couldn't even finish your sentences, you didn't even know if you wanted to know.

"Viv, Ka, Ace, Gina and Kevin as of now..." Gabi tells you without looking

"Elke and Naomi are stable." Cami says a little more hopefully, "Laura was in pretty rough shape but she's getting better."

"Paula and Ximena are… they're not—unless there's some kind of miracle, they're both not going to make it." Cami adds while manning the radio and calling for help. Looking at the girls caused your brain to stop working; you didn't know what to say or what to do, there was literally nothing going through your mind.

You see May sitting beside Paula's blood-drenched body and beside her was Hannah, helping Ximena breathe through the respirator inserted in the girl's mouth; both women tear-stained and tired.

"There must be something we can do! We can't just let them die!" you shout, making some of the girls jump. Everyone was silent but just as you were about to give up your gaze lands on Helen; you see her eyes widen, like she had just discovered the meaning of life.

"There is!" Helen half-shout, shooting up from her seat

"What do you mean?" Heather asks quickly

"Come with me!" she announces before darting off towards their lab.

Heather, May and Hannah go with you as the two scientist dart for the destroyed wing, "What's going on?" you call out to them

"Before Cory turned, we were able to perfect serums from Alexandra's blood." Sara explains, "They were in the lab when he got loose and the syringes could be broken but we can try, right?"

"Yes, yes we can try!" Hannah cheers before running full speed at the pile of rubble that was the lab.

"What do they look like?" May asks as she stops just behind you, panting and holding on to her stomach that already had a visible bulge.

She's about three months along and all this stress can't be good for her kid. She's about to lose Paula, she can't lose their baby too.

You quickly pull her aside to sit on one of the large blocks that had fallen, "May, stay here."

"No! I want to help!" she counters but before she could move out of the way, you push her to sit on the make-shift bench.

"And risk the life of your baby? You're already too far along to be digging through rubble."

"But…"

"I know you want to help so here…" you say as you walk over to the rubble and pick up the shotgun that Hannah brought with her, "All the shooting that we did will definitely attract more walkers and that part of the fence is wrecked, keep us safe just in case, okay?"

"Okay…" She whispers. You smile at her and hand her the gun before turning to the girls already digging through the mess.

"What are we looking for?" Heather asks without stopping

"It's a metal syringe with a silver liquid inside; we were only able to make two so I'm hoping that both of the syringes survived." Sara tells you. It was all you needed to start hauling chunks of cement to the side in search of this serum.

Five minutes after you started searching, you hear Hannah's voice from behind you, "I found one!" she says, running over to Helen and showing her the syringe

"Nice! We only need to find the other one!" the scientist announces and you instantly feel the adrenaline rush to find the other one.

"It has to be around here." You whisper to yourself as you turn over a small slab of stone, "Heather, did you find anyth-" instantly, regretting your decision to look away for a second, you pull your hand back quickly and see a small amount of blood in the palm of your hand

"Goddamn it." You mumble before sucking on the wound.

"Are you okay?" Heather asks as she approaches you.

"Yeah, I think this stupid rock got me."

"Aw, let me see your hand."

"No, I'm fine, I promise."

"Are you sure?"

"Yes. I'm just gonna set this aside and-"

"Naya? Are you okay?"

You wipe your eyes to make sure you weren't having a delusion but it was still there.

The second syringe.

"I f-found it." You say weakly, grabbing the metal tool with both hands.

"Where?" May asks from her seat. You turn around to face the group before showing them what you found and the look their faces reflected yours.

Hearybreak.

"I-it's broken."


As you all make your way back, the question was clear.

Who gets the serum?

Who dies?

May looked like a zombie from the way that she was walking. She wasn't really focused on anything and you could tell that she was preparing herself to lose the love of her life.

What if you had broken it? No. You couldn't have.

It was already broken when you found it.

God, you sound like some kid's excuse when caught with a broken lamp or something but it was true, it was already in pieces when you saw it.

"May…" you half-whisper, trying to get her attention but she doesn't turn around.

"M-" you try to call again but Heather stops you, shaking her head.

"There's nothing we can say that would make this situation better."

Once you get back to the girls, May heads straight for Paula who was now on a small mattress and you could hear her crying silently.

"This can't be the end for her, can it Heath?"

"I don't know, the serum we have isn't enough for two people."

"I think, I broke the syringe."

"What?"

"The syringe, I should have been more careful. I think I stepped on it or something, I don't know." You tell her, running your hands through your hair and looking at the sky to stop the guilty tears that were threatening to spill.

"You can't blame yourself for that. It was probably broken before we even got there."

"You don't know that."

"Neither do you."

While the two of you were talking, you notice Hannah approach May with the syringe in hand.

"May." Hannah says softly but got no response

"I told Ximena what happened and she wanted me to give you this. She wouldn't have it any other way and Paula was the one who told us to come here in the first place so it's only right." She tells the girl before handing her the metal syringe, "We want to save her, so the two of you can have a family together."

You're floored at this turn of events as you watch Hannah walk away, swiping at her cheeks, back to Ximena's side. These women have been through hell and the bond between them was something that brought tears to your eyes, they'd give up their life for each other.

They were family.

"Helen." May calls out and the scientist was by her side in a heartbeat, "Will this work?"

"Yes. The antibiotics in the serum will control cell regeneration and decay so it only keeps you alive while your heart is beating."

At that moment, you see Paula open her eyes to look around, "Hey there, cutie." May coos; making the girl smile weakly.

"Hey… What's... ugh... what's up?" she says but coughs up a little blood.

"Nothing much."

"I heard everything." The girl says, "Are you sure, Han?" she asks, her voice a little louder so Hannah could hear.

"Yeah, we're sure. You gotta take care of your family, mate; can't do that if you're dead." Hannah tells them and you watch Paula whisper something to May's ear.

You watch as the girl's face turned pale at whatever Paula had told her but then turned into a kind of calm surrender, what was going on?

Suddenly, Paula turns over onto her stomach and starts crawling over to Ximena. "I can do it." She says with difficulty as soon as you and May tried to help. She crawls and grunts her way towards the two women, leaving a trail of blood behind and all anyone could do was watch, she didn't want anyone's help.

"Hey… Mena…" Paula grunts as she sits beside Ximena who had turned her head slightly to her direction, still being assisted by the manual respirator.

"Thank you for… trying to save my… life but…" before she could finish, you watch as Paula quickly plunges the syringe into Ximena's chest and presses down on the lever, pushing the silver liquid into her friend's heart, "...but I'm… allergic to… Antibiotics, I'd have… died anyway." Paula almost whispers.

"Paula!" Thuccy and Mica scream at the same time when they saw Paula collapse backwards, too weak to sit up on her own.

You quickly grab a towel and press it on Paula's wound, "Stay with us!" you tell her, "Somebody do something!"

While pressing down on the girl's chest, you look over to Ximena and could see how the serum was healing her. Her chest inflated like a balloon and all the cuts and bruises slowly disappearing, it was like she was never hurt.

"Paula!" Ximena screams, crying as you both look down at your friend.

"H-hey…" she whispers to you just as the rest of the girls gather nearby, "At least… I found o-out th-that Heya was… real… b-before i…" you could see the light fade from her big brown eyes and you couldn't believe she was dying in front of you.

"Paula? Paula!" Ximena shouts and it seemed to have brought her back, at least temporarily.

"M-May…" she whispers again and this time you could hear a wheezing noise coming from her throat and a bubbly noise from her chest.

You and the rest of the women step back as May takes her seat beside Paula.

"H-hey sexy…" the Filipino says softly

"H-h-hey." Was all May could say before she breaks down in tears, Thuccy and Raye quickly at her side.

"Take… unghh…" Paula's cut off, clutching her chest and her face twisted in pain that she didn't want to show, "take care of May." She tells the two women who both nod tearfully at her.

"I don't want you to die, Pau." Thuccy sobs and you could feel your heart break as you look around and see Mica holding on to Tami.

"I'm s-sorry…" she says before coughing up more blood,

"You can't leave me, you promised me you wouldn't." the pregnant girl cries into Thuccy's sleeve and grabbing Raye's arm. "What about our family?"

You could feel the tears streaming down your face as you watch Paula slowly lift her hand up to caress May's left cheek, "Everyone here… ungghh…" Paula grunts again, this time was louder and sounded more painful, "Everyone here is… family and I will always be… with you. You know that."

"I love you, Lulu…" Paula whispers, followed quickly by May's tortured cries

"I… l-l-love you t-too."

It wasn't like in the movies. There was no long dying speech, no birds flying around, no light from the heavens.

A moment after they said their 'I love you's, Paula's hand dropped to the floor. That was it.

No slow-motion moment.

Just… Dead.

You make a decision to take care of May and her baby; by looking around you see that the rest of them had made the same decision.

"What do we do now?" you hear Mark ask nobody in particular and it was Ella who answers.

"We bury them."


The group makes their way towards the garden where Dianna had already dug four holes and was halfway done with the fifth. Coincidentally, the graves were right beside one of the prison walls that allowed them to make a makeshift gravestone; all they had to do was write it on the wall above the whole.

Naomi and Elke were already well enough to follow with the help of Leanna and Thuccy but they were trailing a little behind.

"There are only five graves here and we have six bodies." Heather tells the group but before anyone could react, "We can squeeze Ace and Paula into this grave; we just have to dig it a bit deeper." Mark answers before grabbing the shovel.

He doesn't get far before Raye rushes forward and grabs his collar roughly, "We bury them properly!" she screams

"What does it matter?! They're dead! They won't mind!" He answers, pushing Raye off of him.

"It matters to us!" the girl says angrily

"It matters to our family." Ella tells him firmly

"If they're stupid enough to get killed, they don't deserve a proper burial." He mumbles more to himself but you hear him and it sets you off.

Before anyone else had the chance, you lunge at him and land a left hook to his jaw, sending him to the ground, "How dare you?!"

"What the fuck is wrong with you?!" Coco shouts, mounting him and landing four punches to his face,

"Get her off me!" Mark yells just as Leanna and Thuccy pull her back,

"I saw you! You were hiding behind Gina, like the coward that you are you little shit!" Naomi yells, "How dare you call them stupid?! How dare you!" Tyler adds as Raye attacks him again.

"Stop it. Stop it! STOP IT!" May cries, her voice several octaves higher "Can't we at least bury them in peace?! IS THAT TOO MUCH TO ASK?!"

Instead of answering, Mark stands up and heads back to the courtyard without another word while Thuccy, Tami, Mica, and Coco split up to finish the graves.

There was only one shovel that Raye was using to start a new grave near the corner so the rest of the women used their bare hands to dig through several feet of dirt. Tami and Mica were working on the unfinished grave while Thuccy, Raye and Coco working on the new one; all five of them silently crying.

"I'm going to help them dig." Heather tells you

"Okay, I'm going to help Cami and the others."

Before you go your separate ways, Heather grabs your arm and pulls you in for a hug, "we'll get through this" she whispers softly and you nod, "We will."

Once you get to the tables, you see Cami and Gabi lifting Ace's body up while Naomi slides a cloth underneath him. "Okay, then take this end and put it here; then this end and wrap it around the body before slipping it into here." Cami instructs.

All around you were people wrapping corpses in clean white sheets; there were already two bodies covered who, you figure, were Gina and Ka

Helen, Sara and Elke were working on Viv.

Ella, Dianna and Lea working on getting Paula wrapped up.

Vanessa was off to the side with Leanna and Nicole. You quickly make your way towards them and you could see that they were carrying Kevin's body to the table before laying him on top of the sheets.

"Vanessa and I can handle this, you can help the others." You tell the two girls who just nod. They take one last look at Kevin's body before walking towards the two wrapped bodies and carrying one out to be buried.

Once you two were alone, Vanessa lets out a breath and buries her face in your shoulder,

"He's g-gone." She cries and you could feel her gripping your arm tighter

"I…" you, what? You're sorry for her loss? For your loss?

Kevin was gone. The one person who stuck by you after everything was gone. Your bestfriend was gone.

"Little bee…" you whisper and for the nth time that day, you let the tears flow at the loss of your friend.

"Before h-he died, he t-told me that he-e loved me…" Vanessa tells you, "I love him so m-much and I d-didn't even g-get to tell him tha-at. I didn't t-tell him." She scolds herself, curling up tight.

"Shhh. V, don't do this to yourself; I'm sure wherever he is now, he heard you." You tell her softly, stroking her hair.

"You think so?"

"I know so."


Once all the bodies were buried May, Naomi, Tyler, Thuccy, Leanna and Vanessa painted their gravestone on the prison wall.

There was no Eulogy.

Instead, the group sits around a small camera that had recorded their adventures until all the batteries had died down,

There's a short jingle before they hear Thuccy's voice from behind the camera, "It works!" she says excitedly

"There's a red light in front!" Coco giggles off screen

"It's recording dumbass!" She teases and points the camera at Laura, "Say 'Hi' babe."

"How bout no?" Laura laughs, holding her hand out to cover the lens, "Stop it, throw that useless camera away."

"This is useful. We can record what goes on in the prison until this thing is over and we can be like, people that kids study about during their history classes." Tami says excitedly before taking the camera from Thuccy and pointing it at the others.

"What do you think, Nicole?" she asks, turning the camera to the left to get Nicole on the screen. Mica, Ka, Leanna and Coco were just behind her, waving and smiling at the camera.

Nicole was the newest member of your group. She had come in with Ka and Leanna just a few days ago and had immediately bonded with Thuccy and the others.

"I think it's great, we can make a lot of videos and watch them when all this is over." She says hopefully.

"Okay, whatever, let's get this over with. I want to get back to the prison soon." Laura tells the group before walking out of the room, presumably back to the truck

"Geez, what's up her vagina?" Mica asks as she packs up the food and other supplies that they found.

"She's been irate because we're doing this no-sex thing until our anniversary." Thuccy mumbles before the screen turns black


"Laura I'm so excited!" Viv says from behind the lens,

"Shut up, V. You're getting me nervous!"

"Girl, you have nothing to be scared of! Everything is set!" Gina says from beside Viv.

"Okay, we're going to hide this right here and if you get lucky and have sex, turn it off with this remote." Ace instructs from off-cam, "Wanna give it a try?"

"Yeah."

"Okay, go ahead."

The screen turns black for a few seconds before it turns back on, "awesome, it worked! Okay, I have to go!"


"Okay so we've managed to sneak in to this clinic with Cami's help because she's so ninja and she's going to help us get a little sneak peek at our little bundle of joy in here!" Paula says off-cam but her hand appears on the right side before rubbing May's baby bulge.

"This is incredibly unsafe." Cami whispers

"Don't be a pussy. We'll be fine!" Paula says cheerfully

At this point, you steal a glance at May who had a small towel covering her eyes. You could hear her crying but figured that she couldn't keep all that pain bottled up so you leave her to cry it out.

"There he or she is! There's Annie slash insert male name here!" Paula says off cam

"He or She is beautiful, she looks just like you." May says softly.

"Babe, what? She's three months old, she looks like a potato." This earned a snort from Cami,

"I was trying to be sweet okay?"

"Yeah, yeah; Come on, we have to go. Sanny's waiting for us."

"She's been distracted lately…" Cami whispers worriedly as she's helping May off of the bed

"Yeah, she's been acting a little off." May adds

"Everyone has their off-days, you can't blame her." Paula tells the two girls, not really wanting anyone to think that Sanny was losing focus.

"Guess not. Let's go we need to get back for training" The medic mumbles before turning off the camera.

The videos not only reminding the girls of the friend's they've lost but also Sanny, who still hadn't come home; this caused several of the girls to burst into tears so everyone decides to call it a day.

"Everyone! Go get some rest, tomorrow we'll start clearing out the rubble and getting the fence up again." Ella announces before Heading for Ace's office.


When night time rolls around, you and Heather are in charge of patrolling and checking the walls and fences to see if there were walkers that could get in.

"I still can't believe they're gone." Heather says sadly

"Neither can I; watching that video was heartbreaking, especially for May and Nessa."

"Why do I still feel like something bad is gonna happen?"

"It's probably just because of all the death we've been seeing, tomorrow we'll reinforce the walls and everything will be back to nor-"

You're cut off by the sound of the car horns from a distance. The two of you sprint towards the direction of the gate and see several headlights up the road, noisily shooting at the walkers.

Was this an attack?

A hostile takeover?

You use your scope to get a better look at the cars; there was one school bus and a truck; in front of the cars was a familiar looking motorbike.

That was Santana's bike.

"What the hell is going on?" Heather mumbles beside you.

"Open the gate!" You shout towards Tyler and Julia who were stationed at the front. They quickly open the gate just as the cars approach

"What? We don't even know who those people are!"

"We don't but Sanny's with them; the bike in front is hers." You says firmly before running towards the gate where the trucks and the bike had just pulled in.

Immediately, you could see Sanny scoping glancing from the left at the ruined walls, to the right where the graves were located.

"What happened?" she asks you and you watch as she takes off her helmet and riding to reveal a bloody shirt.

"The serum backfired, it turned Cory into a big one and he attacked. People died but we managed to kill him." You tell her, trying hard not to show weakness.

You don't understand what you're feeling, was it relief because she was alive? Anger because she abandoned the camp? Distrust because of the large group she had brought in with her?

"Died?" She echoes and instead of answering, you simply nod your head.

"Is Mica d-" before she could finish, you see a flash of blonde hair before engulfing the girl.

"Sanny." You hear Mica's gentle voice

"Hey there." Sanny answers after a few seconds

"I hate you for leaving."

"I'm sorry I wasn't here to help."

"We're just glad you're safe, San." Tami says from behind Mica.

You watch as the three of them look at each other before Sanny nods at her and turns to you, "Who died?"

"Viv, Ka, Kevin, Ace, Gina and Paula." You tell her, your heart aching a little at the mention of their names.

"Oh, h-how is everyone coping?"

"As expected, we're all pretty destroyed."

Sanny nods slowly, she had this pained expression on her face. Seeing this made all the anger and bitterness seep away; Sanny couldn't have know what would happen, she lost her friends too, just like you all did.

Sanny looks away and makes her way to the graveyard where she stops and kneels just in front of her friends' graves.

"I'm sorry." You hear her cry before planting both hands on the distressed dirt on top of the graves.

Mica and Tami make their way to the graves to console their bestfriend.

You notice the black pick-up truck's driver side door open and out steps a large man holding a pump-action shotgun over his shoulder, "Heather?" he says as soon as he spots her.

"Brandon, what are you doing here?"

It looked like this "Brandon" had gone into some sort of trance and by that point the school bus had unloaded to reveal dozens of families,

"What happened to your group?" you ask him and this time it looked as if he registered your question. He shakes his head to clear the fuzz before answering,

"We were… attacked… It took us by surprise and, unfortunately, most of us were killed. We're all that's left. We saw Santana scavenging near one of the malls where we were hiding and she brought us here." He answers as another, thinner, guy gets out of the pick-up.

"How did walkers get in?" Heather asks him

"We weren't attacked by walkers." The smaller guy answers, "At least not just walkers." He looked like he was about to pass out.

Heather quickly moves to support him. She brings him to sit and lean on the wall "What do you mean?" you ask him

"It was a big group of people, looked like military. They had walkers with them as pets."

"Glenn, you're burning up." The blonde says worriedly and you see Brandon looking away sadly. Glenn lifts his shirt to reveal a bit on his rib, "They used the zombies to kill some of us..."

"...They wanted to know locations of survivors and thanks to Ryan, you're camp is next."


Chapter Nine D-Z-O-W-N!

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AUTHORS NOTE:

Now for the twitter usernames! ((Nobody is using private anyway so I GUESS this is okay. Be sure to follow them ASAP because they might change their usernames!))

Ace – TheLoserKidYo

Naomi - naaaomiholt

Elke - SnixRivera

Mica - hemosfingers

Paula – HeyaFeelings

Tami – riverasgasm

Santana - riverasbee

Hannah - beyoncvera

Ximena – OrgasmicNaya

Ella – Heyalicious

Laura - quinchels

Thuccy – quinberries/lizzaronigills

May – magickunicorn24

Cami – TheGayProps

Gabi – diannacatgron

Mariana - derphemo

Julia/Julian – NayaGermany

Coco - agronick

Vivien – VJusticePower

Tyler –riveralovato_

Raye – LuckyDuck132

Helen – 4evadiannanaya

Sara – sarac93

Leanna - LeaIsOurQueen

Nicole - diannasbacon

Ka - ItsHeathr