Heya!
Okay so I know I said this was going to be the last chapter but there's just too much things I need to squeeze into the story to make it (at least slightly) acceptable so I decided to make this the second to the last chapter.
The spoilers I posted will be applicable to both chapter cuz I don't want ya'll to think that I'm lying!
Not a lot of Heya in this chapter but some of the other couples *cough* Thaura/Leacole *cough*
By the way, I just want to give props to Mica (hemosfingers)! She was actually the one who suggested I make a fic with all of the twitter people in it. So yeah, without her I would never have come up with his story!
Just thought I'd lay it out there! Love ya Mica!
I'll shut up and let you guys read.
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"What the hell are you talking about? What did Ryan do?" Ella says as she approaches quickly from behind you; Dianna, Hannah, May and Ximena trailing close behind.
"Ella, so nice to s-" Brandon stops himself as soon as he sees Ximena pull out her sidearm and press it against Glenn's forehead.
"Ximena, don't!" Heather cries before the girl pushes her away from the infected boy.
"He's been bitten. He has to die." The girl tells her firmly.
"Try it." Brandon says before pressing his own pistol on the girl's temple, "If he dies, you die."
"Brandon." Ella half-whispers, sounding exasperated and tired, motioning to the gates where Tyler and Julia had their guns pointed at the group.
You feel like you're watching some western standoff, one shot and more people are going to die. "Mena, please. He's my friend." Heather begs.
You hear a low growl before the girl shakes her head and presses the gun deeper into Glenn's skin, "Ximena." You whisper loud enough that she can hear.
"What about our friends? What about them?" She says as she points her free hand towards the graves where Sanny, Mica and Tami were still huddled together in their own little world. "Haven't any of you learned anything? Walkers kill! That's what they do and now you want to voluntarily bring one into the prison, again?" She continues, her voice loud but broken.
"We can help him, you know we c-" Heather says again but is cut off before she could finish,
"John, Paula, Viv, Cory, Gina, Ace, Kevin, Ka!" she adds; pain coating her words.
"Who else are we going to lose before you all get it?! How many friends are you willing to put in danger?" she finishes.
"She's… right." You whisper to Heather. "We can't risk it; another incident like Cory's would completely destroy the camp."
"Kill me if you want but I know that you know the damage that these walkers can do. I'm sorry, I know you're probably a good guy but I can't risk anyone else from my family getting hurt; you're not getting in." Ximena says.
A moment later, Glenn gives the group a quick nod; he just gave you permission to kill him. "Find peace." Hannah whispers from her place as Ximena fires, making you jump just as Glenn's body falls lifelessly to the dirt.
"Now tell us what happened with Ryan." Ella says as she watches the bus start to unload, kids and elderly people walking slowly towards the benches, looking scared and confused. "May and Dianna, can you two please escort these people to the mess hall? Give them something to eat; I think we have some biscuits in the pantry. Also, tell Lea to make more food for dinner, yeah?" She adds; the two girls give her a quick nod before making their way to the crowd, ushering them towards the large hall.
"Thank you." Brandon says, "Now about that group, they attacked us out of nowhere, we barely had time to react before they came storming in. There was about twenty of them from what I counted, we were outnumbered and they had bigger guns; we surrendered quickly. I thought they wanted the mall or the supplies but… I was wrong."
"What do you mean?" Hannah asks, urging him on.
"They took our guns and made us kneel down; our hands tied behind our backs. They… They made us watch…" He says absently and you notice him physically flinch at the memory
"Watch…?" You echo
"At first, they beat the men until they were half dead then they… they raped the women. They made us watch they-" He chokes out, his knuckles turning white from him clenching his fist. "What happened next?" Ella asks, her tone serious.
"They killed about twelve of us execution style."
"Monsters." Heather mumbles from beside you
"That's when Ryan made the deal with them in exchange for his safety."
"Did they say what they were after?" You ask
"No but they seemed to be looking for someone. They kept looking at our kids though, I don't know if that's information you can use."
"Did Ryan tell them where we were?" You ask; it wasn't impossible, you knew that Ryan would do anything to save his own skin.
"No, he just said that there was a group in a prison somewhere north, that's all."
"Where is he?" Ella asks quickly, pulling out her gun
"He's dead; they killed him before letting us go."
"I wish they didn't so I could have killed him myself." Heather says as she checks Glenn's body for any supplies that could prove useful. You've never heard Heather so angry. You could feel her anger as she digs through his pockets roughly; that grace that she moves with, gone.
"I don't know when they'll attack but you need to decide if your group is going to stay and fight and, very possibly, die… or if you're going to run. Your group can go with us and we can all find somewhere else to stay." He says more to Ella who stood speechless.
Once Heather was done emptying the boy's pockets, Brandon helps her carry the body towards the graves. You get a chill in your bones as you watch Brandon dig another hold for his body; the graveyard was getting bigger.
Something Ximena said earlier keeps echoing in the back of your mind.
"Who else are we going to lose before you all get it?! How many friends are you willing to put in danger?"
What would Ella decide? Will she risk all your lives for the prison? And what if what Brandon said was accurate?
The people that attacked them sounded very calculated and organized in their attack; they also seem merciless and vicious, using Walkers against other survivors
"So that's what it comes down to, huh?" Ella asks from behind you. "To fight or flee."
"I guess so." You tell her with a tight smile which she returns.
"I won't make the decision on my own, I'm not in charge of your lives but we have to know what our best option will be…" She starts and you notice Heather and Brandon weren't listening so that meant that she was talking to the three of you.
"Ximena, I need you to check our cars for gasand then the garages for any extra tanks of gasoline you can find; fart yourself empty if you have to but find as much as you can. Hannah, come with me to the warehouse we need to check supplies like food, clothes, blankets, water and camping equipment. If worse comes to worse and we can't find a new location, we're going to need to camp…" She says calmly before turning to you. "Naya, if we are going to fight we need to make sure we have enough so try to see how much ammo and guns we have; if you can pull out lightsabers from your ass, even better."
It was still dark by the time you got to the armory. Ella had given you specific items to check but as soon as you get to the large doors, you discover that the doors were locked.
There's an itch at the back of your mind, no one was allowed to lock this. Unfortunately, except for the scientist working near the armory; most of the people were still asleep. Helen couldn't have locked this and the rest were out in front of the prison. You ponder your options while you make your way towards the warehouse to tell Ella when you notice a figure of a girl standing and holding a lantern near the makeshift graveyards.
Heather and Brandon were gone.
Tami, Mica and Sanny went with the group into the mess hall.
No one was supposed to be here right now, were you seeing a…ghost?
"H-hello…?" You call softly, trying to get the girl's attention. She turns slowly, giving you a small smile. "Thuccy…" you say with a breath of relief, "…how are you?"
"What was that? Sorry, I didn't hear." she asks and you take note that the girl didn't sound too sad, of course she wasn't her cheerful self either and that just broke your heart that much more.
"Just wanted to know how you were doing." You smile sincerely. You figure these men wouldn't attack in the next five minutes, right now Thuccy needed you.
The girl looks at the ground before slowly turning her attention to the marked graves, "I just never thought I'd lose them. I still half-expect Gina to come into my room with two cups of shitty coffee so we can hangout." She says without looking at you, "I can still see Paula with that stupid, clueless look on her face whenever she'd hear Tami, Mica, Coco and I laugh about our inside jokes."
"I know what you mean," you say, holding her hand and giving it a small squeeze, "It's been less than twenty-four hours and I miss them all so much; Ace's crazy training sessions, Ka's friendly smile in the mornings even when everyone else was shit-faced and Viv's calm presence; the prison doesn't feel…complete, anymore."
"It's not." She says plainly.
You let a moment pass because to be honest, you didn't know if it would do more harm than good if you agreed, even though you wanted to. To be honest, you wanted to run. Run away from this threat that was coming so you could live your life in peace but it wasn't your decision to make alone, everyone decides.
You try to convince yourself that they would choose to run, there were just too many people that you all were responsible for; if they choose to fight, they would lose. What happens to the kids? Or the old people? What happens to all of you if you fail?
"What's on your mind?" Thuccy asks, again, without looking
"It's weird, the… uh… armory is locked." You deflect quickly, scratching the back of your head
"What? That's impossible, we never lock that." She thinks out loud before standing up and making her way towards the armory gates.
You follow her and just like how you saw it earlier, it was locked with a thick, silver padlock.
"What the hell is this?" Thuccy says as she fiddles with the large lock.
"We need to get this lock off and fast, Ella needs me to…um… run inventory." You lie. Thuccy didn't know what was going on with the group and it wasn't your place to tell her.
"Inventory? At three in the morning?" she asks and you knew she was getting suspicious.
"She had a…nightmare. She dreamed that the…uh… guns grew arms and legs and ran away so she sent me to check it."
"You're an awful liar."
"Just help me open it Thuccy, please?"
Without another word, Thuccy grabs a shovel that had been leaning against the wall and uses it to smack the lock off the hook. "After you." She says before stepping aside so you could enter the room.
Once inside, you quickly spot someone sitting at the table near the back where you, Sanny, Mica and Tami were loading magazines a few months back.
You couldn't help but think how much has changed since then; you remember what Tami said and the first time you met Sanny. Back when everything wasn't as chaotic as it was now.
"So you're Santana? If you tell me your last name is Lopez, I swear to God I'm going to think I've gone cray-cray" You smile as you remember the look of the three women smiling but then you also remember the other things that they said,
"All the guards and us, 'soldiers', we lost everyone." You remember Tami saying, telling you how everyone here had lost everything and now more that ever you could feel how true this statement was.
"At a time like this, all you can really do is to live your life in memory of the people who died."
In memory of those who died. Would Ace and the others be proud of what your group will decide? Whether you fight or you run, what would be worthy of their memory?
"Who is that?" Thuccy asks from behind you, knocking you back to the present. As you approach you recognize the hair and the clothes the girl was wearing.
"Laura? What are you doing here?" you say to the girl who was still sitting down and facing away from you.
"Babe? Were you the one the locked the door?" Thuccy asks again as she walks up to her girlfriend, "You're burning up, are you sick?"
You notice that Laura was drenched in sweat and dirt; she still had on the clothes from when Cory attacked and for some reason you felt like something was wrong.
"How did you get in here?" Laura asks angrily, standing up and pushing Thuccy away which visibly hurt the petite girl.
"Laur, let go you're hurting me!" Thuccy half-screams.
You quickly move and push Laura away, making her stumble back roughly into the table. "Ow! Fuck!" She yelps in pain, clutching her sides and you watch the blood spreading on her shirt.
"You're bleeding." You say quickly.
"Laura, are you okay? Did the stitches open up?" Thuccy ask, her voice frightened; eliciting a sad and yet, surrendered look on the girl's face.
"Stitches? What's going on?" You ask as you watch her stand back up before pulling off her leather jacket.
She takes off her dirty t-shirt to reveal four long gashes, running from just below her armpit down to where the hollow of her hips were.
Scratches.
You hear Thuccy's horrified gasp as she approaches the injured girl, "I thought you were feeling better?" She asks worriedly.
"I t-told you that these were scratches from the wire but they're not…"
"What are you-"
Thuccy is cut off by Laura's grunt of pain, "Cory got you." You say.
Cory scratched Laura.
"Thuccy…" she says softly, turning to where Thuccy was standing, looking at her with wide and frightened eyes.
"How did you get in here?" she asks and of all the things she could have said, you didn't expect this to be it.
"The scratches, I'm scared-"
"That doesn't answer my question."
As the two continue talking, you catch yourself slowly reaching for the pistol on the table just behind Laura.
"I climbed in through the side window there." She says, pointing at a small rectangular window.
"Why go through all that? If you were scared and wanted to hide, all you had to do was tell me, I would run away with you if you wanted to." Thuccy says gently but her voice betrayed a deep hurt but Laura doesn't answer. Instead, she fidgets with her hands and feet, like she was nervous.
You subtly check on the magazine and you're surprised to find one single bullet.
"Laura didn't tell you because she didn't come here to hide." You tell her, sliding the magazine and the gun across the table and into Thuccy's hands.
"One bullet? I don't-" You could see the gears in her head start turning, "Oh God, you were going to kill yourself." She cuts herself off, dropping the magazine back onto the table with a loud thud.
"Thuccy, I don't want to turn into one of those things." Laura says sadly.
"You weren't bitten! You won't turn." The smaller brunette counters but you could see that there was no convincing Laura otherwise.
"I can feel it."
"Feel, what?" you ask her, trying to understand what drove her to go this extreme, "What can you feel?" you ask again.
"Death..." She says; her tone serious.
"Don't be so over-dramati-"
"I've already developed the fever. I want to end this before I burn out and the fever kills me." She says firmly and you can't believe what was happening. The group has already lost so much; were you going to lose Laura too?
"Enough with the jokes, Laura. You promised me you wouldn't leave me behind and I'm fucking holding you to that promise. Do you hear me? You are not doing this, okay? I forbid you. I fucking forbid you Laura." Thuccy says seriously trying hard to hide the shakiness of her voice.
"I want it to be my choice, Thuc." The girl says gently, pulling Thuccy closer to her.
"Don't call me that." She says firmly, "When you say my name like that it makes me feel like you're actually serious about this. It's not funny anymore, Laura. This isn't a joke."
No one speaks. What words could you say to ease them into the pain?
No words existed.
Nothing would make this easy.
"I wish… I wish I was kidding but I'm not." Laura says quietly, her voice cracking as she moves to grab the gun and the magazine from the table.
"I heard banging and came to check, what's going on?" you hear Helen's voice floating in from the door
"Helen! We need your help." You tell her
"What is it?"
"Can you get infected from anything other than a bite?" You ask her quickly since Thuccy looked like she had just suffered a stroke; she wasn't moving or even blinking at all.
"I've only seen it happen through a bite but theoretically, you can get it from eating infected meat or any sort of fluid exchange."
"Laura there was no fluid exchange, you're safe, okay? Please don't do this." You plead with the girl.
"What about a scratch?" Laura asks Helen without looking at you
"If say, there was dry infected blood or saliva on the fingers then yes. Did you-" she didn't dare finish her sentence as she hears Thuccy start crying behind you.
"Yeah…" Laura says sadly "…I have the fever already." She adds before turning to show the doctor the scratches.
The doctor takes a step forward before lifting the girl's arm to get a better look at the wounds, "It's normal to develop a fever if you have a wound this big, it's your body's way of fighting any kind of infection."
This little bit of information gave you even more hope; maybe you weren't going to lose Laura after all.
"Is there anyway we can check?" Laura asks and you see the doctor nod, taking out a small plastic bag from her back pocket. It had a little amount of clear liquid inside; you have no idea what it is.
"Sara and I just made this; you drip some of your blood in here and give it a little shake, if the liquid turns black it means that you're infected."
Laura takes the bag from her and quickly makes a small cut on her palm, squeezing out three drops of her blood into the small bag, turning the clear liquid into a dark red color. You notice Thuccy watching intensely while her girlfriend shakes the bag, careful not to spill the liquid.
"Please…" You hear Thuccy whisper but as soon as Laura stops shaking the bag you notice that the liquid inside had turned pitch black; like ink.
"I'm so sorry." Helen mumbles quietly.
"Thank you, doctor." Laura says curtly before handing the bag back to the scientist.
"I don't have the tools to make another serum in time." The scientist admits sadly.
"That's okay." She tells Helen who simply nods and steps out, leaving another "I'm sorry."
As soon as the scientist leaves, the injured girl lets out a breath before collapsing on the ground.
"P-please just leave; I don't want you to see this." She whispers, looking right at her girlfriend.
"Laura please, please don't do this. I already lost Gina and the others; I can't lose you too. I won't survive it." Thuccy cries, kneeling in front of Laura and burying her face in her girlfriend's hair, "Please don't."
"I can't let myself turn…" She says breathlessly as she loads the magazine into the pistol, "I'm not making anyone else shoot me; I'm not letting anyone be forced to kill a friend ever again." She says as she points the muzzle under her chin and pointing up; in this position the bullet would come in from under her tongue and out through the top of her head;
A sure kill.
"Naya, take Thuccy away from here, please." She pleads with you as she pushes on the girl's shoulder; you turn to Thuccy and see that her face has turned into that of utter determination.
"I promised you I wouldn't ever leave your side. I'm not going anywhere. If you're doing this, I'm going to be right beside you."
"Thuccy, I love-"
BANG!
You close you eyes and duck down instinctively as the sound of the gunshot echoes in your ear, making you dizzy. When you open them you see Laura and Thuccy standing together and staring at the gun which was pointing up towards the roof that now had a tiny hole that was letting in a little moonlight.
"What happ-" It was only then that you notice Alexandra holding onto Laura's arm; she had probably grabbed the girl's arm which caused the trigger to shake and set off the single round at the roof.
"Lauri, you don't have to die. I can help you." She says innocently
"How?" Laura asks.
Before anyone could react, Alexandra twist around to sink her teeth into Laura's neck, drawing blood and eliciting a pain-filled scream from the girl.
"Let her go you fucking bitch!" Thuccy yells as she tries to pry the kid's mouth apart
"Alexandra!" You shout, pulling the kid away from Laura, "Let go!"
Heeding your order, she lets go of Laura, "You crazy evil b-"
"Watch" the child says, cutting Thuccy off.
You stop to look at Laura and just like what happened with Ximena earlier, you could see Laura's wounds heal on their own; from the bite mark on her neck to the scratches down her side.
"H-how?"
"The medicine thingie comes from me." She says cheerfully.
"She won't turn into a zombie anymore?" Thuccy asks and Alexandra simply shakes her had,
"Am I a zombie?"
At that moment, the two women lifts Alexandra up into their arms and wrapped her in a tight hug; relishing the second chance that they've been given. "Thank you."
"Hey Alex?"
"Yes?"
"What were you doing alone in that Highway where we found you?" You ask her, feeling like there's more to this story.
"I ran away from home. They were bad guys; they were hurting me and the other kids." She says sadly, "they told us we were gonna be superheroes and save the world but I saw them, they were ezperimenting on other people and made them transform into those big monsters." She tells you, Laura and Thuccy also listening in on your conversation.
"I'm sorry they hurt you, Alex. Did you say that there were others like you?" You ask the child and she just nods. "There was four of us."
"What did these bad guys look like?"
"Like the police but badder! They were really really bad guys." She mumbles before hugging your leg.
"Anything we should know?" Tami asks breathlessly
"We have to tell Ella."
"Four."
"None."
"Leanna."
"Nicole."
"Four."
"Four is too much. My maximum would be two and that's pushing it."
"Four."
"What happened to compromise?"
"I want four kids. This isn't a discussion." Leanna says firmly
"Kids are evil, have you seen how crazy they get?" Nicole laughs
You and Heather watch their exchange along with the rest of the girls, "What about two kids and a cat?" Coco suggests with a laugh, "Or one kid, a ferret, a cat and a hamster?" Gabi adds, making Leanna glare at them, shutting them up.
"Babe, four kids is just too many." Nicole says gently, holding her girlfriend's hand.
"I want a big family with you…" Leanna tells her quietly just as Ella comes in through the door.
Last night, after learning about Alexandra, you quickly tell her everything you knew and how you think these men were after her. She was quiet for the most part except for some questions about what happened with Laura, she had thanked you and told you that she would be the one to tell the others at the meeting that she had called which is where you were right now.
"I'm sorry for waking you all up but something's come up that needs our attention as soon as possible." She tells the group. You notice that everyone that knew were sitting behind Ella while the others were seated on the benches in front of the new leader.
"Is this about the new people that arrived?" Tylah asks
"Yes and no." Ella answers
"Yes and no?" Cami echoes
"There's a new threat-"
"Of course, there's always a threat. It's not like zombie are enough of a challenge, let's add some crazy fucking humans to the mix." Naomi scoffs
"They're looking for us."
"Why would anyone be looking for us?" Laura asks
"They're looking for the cure, who is with us." Ella tells them and you notice Heather hold on to Alexandra's arm.
"The cure is gone. It didn't work." Lea says quickly, "What they're looking for is not here."
"Wait…" Raye says quickly, "You said 'who' is with us; this cure you're talking about isn't the cure that ASTI provided, isn't it?"
Ella simply shakes her head and turns to show them the small girl, "She's the cure."
"Is this some kind of joke?" Elke laughs, "She's just a kid."
"It's true." Tami speaks up before making her way beside Alexandra, "I was infected and she saved me."
Before anyone could react, Ella speaks again, "We need to make a decision…" she starts.
"These men will kill us given the chance. They will also hunt as down until they find us."
"Oh wow, the odds are in our favor. Awesome. Yay. Fuck. Me." Mark mumbles angrily
"I'm not going to beat around the bush. We need to decide if we're going to stay and fight or if we're going to run; you don't have to decide on it right now, we'll meet again at 9:00pm to decide. Until then we're going to have double the guards, I need at least two snipers up at the towers at all time. Is that clear?" she tells the group before sending you all back to your rooms.
It was only 5:00am, there's still fifteen hours left to decide but would anything change your mind? Right now you're hell bent on making a run for it but who knows?
A lot can happen in fifteen hours.
You wake up to find yourself back in Nickayla's empty room, "Not again." You sigh as you take a look around at the room. "Hello?" you call out.
Nothing.
You make your way to the window and you see the cars parked outside as they would have been on a normal day but the drivers were nowhere in sight.
"Where the hell am I?" you think aloud
"Literally or figuratively?"
You hear from behind you, making you spin around and, by instinct, make a grab for your gun which wasn't there.
When you vision clears a second later you see Ace and Paula standing in the doorway, "Heya." Paula greets with a wink.
"What-"
"You okay there?" Ace asks with a smile
"Are you—Am i-"
"I'm going to take a guess at your questions. I'm not a ghost-"
"At least I we don't think we are." Paula interrupts
"Yeah, we're not really sure what's going on either. Ha." Ace laughs
You approach them slowly, trying to figure out if they were see-through or if they were real, "Don't… move…" you mumble before lifting your hand up to touch their arm.
"We think you're sleeping but maybe you're in some sort of trance." Ace shrugs just as you touch Paula's arm; she was soft and warm. There was no blood on their clothes, they weren't cold or stiff; for all intents and purposes, they looked… alive.
"Is this one of those visions where you tell me what I have to do?" you ask them. The two look at each other with confused looks before turning back to you, "Take care of my baby." Paula says and you smile at her, "Of course we will."
"That's it?"
"That's what?" She asks
"You're here just to tell me to take care of Annie?"
Ace and Paula look at each other again, "Oh! I know!" Ace says loudly.
"What is it?" you ask them quickly, maybe they knew something.
"Help Sanny convince Mica to tell Tami how she really feels."
"Huh? That's it?"
"Yep." Ace answers, popping the 'p' at the end
"Aren't you going to tell me some secret or show me anything?"
"Um, no I don't think so." Paula smiles.
"What are you doing in my dream then? Just hanging out?" You tease, unable to hide the smile on your lips.
"You brought us here Naya, you called all of us to you." Ace says gently before turning around walking out towards the garden.
You follow them to the door leading out, "Where are you going?"
"You'll see." Ace smiles before opening the door to the backyard
What was supposed to be your garden was now the courtyard of the prison. You see a group of people gathered near the cars and as you approach them you realize that these were the ones that had died.
"Naya!" Kevin greets as he runs towards you,
"Bee." You breathe as soon as he wraps his arms around you.
"Hey there." Gina smiles at you and you smile back at them as the others also greet you. Ka, Viv, Melissa, Chord, and all the others; everyone was here.
"What can we help you with Nay-nay?" Amber asks and like magic you realize why you had called to them.
"The prison is in trouble." You tell them and they all nod as if they already knew, "Ella wants us to decide whether we should stay and fight or if we should make a run for it."
They're all quiet for a second and it was Chord who broke the silence, "What do you think you should do? What would be the best thing to do?"
"I think we should run. We can't beat them. We should just hide and lay low until they stop looking." You tell them.
"What if they never stop looking?" Viv asks quietly
"I—I don't know."
"Abraham Lincoln once said that to die in the hands of man is to die but once; to live in constant fear of death is to die a hundred times."
"Did he really say that?" Paula asks her curiously
"Something like that, shut up." Viv laughs
"Naya, it's not your sole decision to make but do you really want to live in constant fear of being found?" Kevin tells you but you notice that his voice and the others were slowly drifting away, like you're being submerged underwater.
"Naya?" You hear clearly. As soon as you open your eyes you see Heather's crystal blue eyes staring at you from a few inches away.
You lift your left hand to tangle your fingers in her hair before pulling her down for a searing kiss. "Mmhh." She moans at your sudden move.
You've missed this.
You smile as you pull back, "Good morning."
"Good morning, babe." She smiles, giving you a quick peck before pulling you to your feet, "We're late for training."
"Sanny?" you call out to the girl standing on the rooftop, "What are you doing here?"
"Oh hey, Hannah and Ximena were sent out to set up some traps and early warning stuff a few miles from the prison and Laura's spending some time with Thuccy so she asked me to take over. Is that okay?" she says with a smile.
"Of course it is." You smile back before giving her a tight hug, "I'm really glad you're back." You mumble into her hair.
"Glad to be back." She tells you.
"We're going to be training with these today." She says, nudging a large barrel with her foot.
"I'm going to shoot large blue barrels? Are you underestimating me?" you tease, raising your right eyebrow at her. She laughs before pulling off the cover and you almost vomit on the spot.
Heads.
Lots and lots of zombie heads.
"I spent all morning collecting that." She says proudly. "I'm going to throw each one up in the air and you have to shoot it. We can't train with zombies anymore because if we're going to fight, we're going to be fighting people."
"What's the difference?" You ask from behind the cloth you were using to cover your nose.
"Live humans move faster; they run, they zigzag, they duck and cover. You have to be ready for anything." She tells you as she puts on a face mask and gloves.
"Let's start." She says and a split second later she grabs one of the heads and throws it high. You scramble with your gun and shoot standing up, missing the head completely.
"What was that?" You whine
"They could arrive here anytime and they're not going to stand outside and wait until you've mounted your gun, Naya." She tells you.
She was being extra serious today and you understood, this threat was coming and you can't be caught off guard. "Again." Was the only warning before she vaults another head sideways; this time you were slightly more ready, hitting the head just barely.
"Better." She says.
For the next fifteen minutes, she trains you and gives you tips on how to shoot moving targets and tips if you were ever caught off guard and had to shoot standing up.
Keep the gun tight to your shoulder.
Lead the target.
You took in all the things she was teaching you and it seemed that she was having fun teaching you as well, "Hey Sanny?"
"Yeah?"
"Why did you leave?"
"Long story."
"I know it has something to do with Mica." You say gently and you notice her let out a breath.
"Remember that talk we had?"
"About Mica?"
"Yeah…"
"Well-"
"What about me?" you hear Mica from behind you.
"I was just asking Sanny why she left." You tell her but you notice that the two were just staring at each other. "Am I interrupting something? I can-"
"Did you tell her yet?" Sanny asks quickly, cutting you off.
"No, not yet." Mica answers sadly
"Why not?"
"Do you really want to talk about this?"
The two of them stare at each other and you slightly feel like you've stepped into a minefield, "I'm just gonna g-"
"You can stay." Mica tells you, "I'm out of here."
The two of you watch as the blonde walks away when you remember what Ace asked of you in your dream. "Mica, wait!" You call out to the girl, making her stop in her tracks.
"What is it?" she asks
"Sanny needs to tell you something." You say before kicking Sanny on the shin, knocking her out of her stroke.
"San?" she call out
"Yes…" Sanny tells her
"Yes, what?"
"I want to talk about it. I want to help you." She says gently as Mica makes her way back to you with a smile on her face.
"I want to help too." You smile at them.
"Okay." Mica says, taking a seat on the floor.
"I have a plan…" Sanny tells the two of you,
"We'll call it operation Tica."
"Okay are you ready?"
"Sanny, I feel like I'm going to be sick."
"You'll be fine." You tell her, curling her hair in place, "You look hot."
"Shut up." She laughs
The three of you make your way into the room where you and Sanny have prepared a small candlelit dinner for the lovebirds. "We're gonna go, good luck!" You tell her before pulling Sanny outside where you see Tami making her way towards the room.
"Are you two in on this?" She asks as soon as she's close enough.
"No, of course not. Psh." You answer.
"We're just on our way to the mess hall when we saw Mica. Anyway, we're going. Bye." Santana lies confidently before pushing you away from Tami.
The two of you hide and watch as Tami enters the room where Mica was, "Our girl's are growing up so fast." You tell Sanny, giving her a pat on the back.
"I hope it works out." She says before pulling you towards the mess hall.
You hear laughing from the room and you figure it was going well so you relax and let Santana pull you along, "I'm happy for th-"
Bang!
Sanny is cut off by the sound of a gunshot coming from just below you, "What the fuck was th-"
Bang!
A second gunshot cuts you off and you suddenly feel the adrenaline pumping in your veins just as Tami and Mica reach the stairs where you were, "What's going on?" Tami asks, pulling Mica down in case there really was an attack.
"ALEXANDRA!" You hear Heather's voice from where the gunshots came from.
Without thinking you sprint towards the source and you see two women lying on the dirt. "Heather!" You scream before stopping just behind her; you turn her over and see that there was blood all over her pants.
Your brain spaces out as soon as you saw the small bloody hole on her leg and you take a moment to add up all the information to make sense of it.
She was bleeding.
She's been shot.
Heather's been… shot.
"N-naya." She chokes out, "Brandon—Brandon kidnapped her."
"There!" Sanny says, pointing at a figure running away from the prison. A moment later the her and Tami jump up and run after them.
"Go, you have to catch them. We'll be okay." Heather tells you before sitting up and looking at Sara, who had a bloody shoulder.
"I'm not going to leave you!" you say, trying not to panic
"I'll stay with them, go!" Mica volunteers as she wraps a tourniquet around Heather's leg, "We'll be fine! Go!" she commands before starting to work on Sara's shoulder.
"Okay. I'll be back as fast as I can." You answer before sprinting after the man as fast as your feet would carry you.
"I'm going to fucking murder you." You think to yourself.
You see the three women gathered just outside the fence, Alexandra in Mica's arms. "Thank God." You whisper to yourself just before reaching them.
Brandon was writhing on the floor; Viv's knife buried in his calf. "Good thing Viv taught me how to throw these things." Sanny tells you, flipping another, identical knife in her hands.
"I bet that hurts." Tami says before nudging the buried knife with her foot and eliciting a painful scream from Brandon.
"It wasn't just Ryan who made the deal, wasn't it?" you ask him, pulling his hair back roughly before kicking him hard on the jaw.
He takes a second to spit out the blood before he answers, "He says he won't hurt anyone if I gave up the kid." He says with a grunt
"How did you even know it was her?" Sanny asks, stepping on the knife to drive it deeper, making the man scream in agony.
He lifts his hand to show a picture of four kids, handcuffed and sitting on a long bench in front of a group of men. You recognize the one at the end as Alexandra and man behind her was…
"You're one of them." You tell him but he doesn't answer. "'The kid' has name, it's Alexandra." you add.
"What were you going to do with her?" Sanny asks him but he doesn't answer
"Were you going to kill her? Harvest her blood?" Tami adds
"I'm not telling you shit." He says angrily before spitting blood on your shoes.
"San?" You turn to her with your hand help out.
She hands you the other knife and you quickly impale Brandon's hand, "You try to kidnap Alexandra, you shoot Heather and Sara, you death to our doorstep. I hope you know that your life is literally in my hands right now." You whisper into his ear; drowning out his screams.
"Please stop!" He begs but it only makes you angrier; making you dig the knife deeper between his knuckles.
"Naya…" Tami whispers from behind you but you force yourself to drown her out.
This man hurt Heather and Sara. He was going to hurt Alexandra. He was going to hurt everyone at the camp.
This man was the enemy.
"I'm going to make sure you never use this hand again." You tell him harshly before twisting the knife, making it scrape against his bones.
"I didn't shoot anyone! I just grabbed the kid! I swear!" he screams and this time Tami touches your shoulder, making you calm down almost instantly.
"If it wasn't you…who shot them?" Tami asks him
"You're the only one that's missing." Sanny says.
"Am I?" he asks arrogantly
"You're lying." You bark at him.
"Lady, I'm not the only one who's been lying to all of you."
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Ace – TheLoserKidYo
Naomi - naaaomiholt
Elke - SnixRivera
Mica - hemosfingers
Paula – HeyaFeelings
Tami – riverasgasm
Santana - riverasbee
Hannah - beyoncvera
Ximena – OrgasmicNaya
Ella – FindingHEYA
Laura - quinchels
Thuccy – quinberries/lizzaronigills
May – magickunicorn24
Cami – Sparklestorms
Gabi – diannacatgron
Julia/Julian – NayaGermany
Coco - agronick
Viv – VJusticePower
Tyler –riveralovato_
Raye – LuckyDuck132
Helen – 4evadiannanaya
Sara – sarac9