Claire's POV

I let out a deep sigh before looking both ways and turning. There was no point in watching where you drive anymore, but it was an old habit. Betty placed her hand on my arm, ever since the shooting a week ago, she sat with me in my Humvee while Max drove the the ambulance alone.

LJ now drives Carlos car while Carlos takes care of that bastard Mickey's van. Even though I wanted to forget everything connected with him, we still needed what he had in his van. Speaking of the asshole, After Chase popped one off in his head, we left his body to get eaten by anything that passed by.

"You're still tense." Betty pointed out. I rolled my eyes, "Of course I am!" She raised her hands. "Didn't mean to piss you off. Relax." I took a breath and continued to drive. An hour later Carlos spoke threw the radio. "Hey guys, we got a few survivors over here. Otto stay in the bus, Max, stay back, Chase, LJ, Claire, Betty, come with me."

We slowly drove up to the small campfire on the floor. There was 3 bodies on the floor. After climbing out from the Humvee, I heard loud snoring which probably meant that all 3 were alive. We walked towards them with our guns raised. Carlos stood in front and got to the first body, a female.

Carlos went to touch her but she suddenly sprang forward and flipped him to the floor. The 2 other people shot awake with a "What?" Suddenly the girl stopped. "Carlos?" she asked. He froze and looked up at her. "Alice?" She laughed and helped him up. "Jeez, it's been a while."

After a minute of them talking, I interrupted. "It's nice to see that you guys are catching up, but who the hell are you?" The girl stepped forward. "My name is Alice, my story's pretty long so I'll tell it later." The next girl stepped forward. "My name's Jill, I used to be a S.T.A.R.S officer." I nodded. The next guy stepped forward but didn't say anything. Finally he spoke.

"Oh... My god... Claire?!" I finally got a good look at his face and a huge smile took place on my face. "Chris!" I dropped my gun and launched myself into his arms. He hugged me to him tightly. "Uhm.." Betty interrupted. I pulled back. "This is Chris. He's my big brother." He laughed. "And she's my baby sister." Betty smiled, happy that for a second I finally forgot about... yeah.

"So can we crash here for a bit then?" Carlos laughed. "Sure. Alice, Jill, Chris. This is my crew, Betty, our EMT, Chase looks over us and has a pretty damn big truck. LJ is just... LJ." I laughed while LJ nudged him. "Claire is second in command after me. In the bus we have the kids and Otto, the driver and the man who keeps track of food, and our newest member is Max, the doctor, and.." He stopped glancing at me.

I lowered my head and Betty placed a hand on my shoulder. "You lost one." Alice guessed. Betty opened her mouth to answer but a scratchy voice sounded from the Humvee. "C-Claire?" My eyes widened. "K-Mart!" I made a run for the Humvee and flung the back door open. K-Mart was laying flat on her back, looking around confused. Tears of joy fell from my eyes. I thought she was never going to wake up..

*****Hey guys. So I kinda dragged that chapter out, made you wait till the end to see what happened to K-Mart. But now, I'm wondering. How far would you want Claire and K-Mart's relationship to go? And by that I mean. How detailed do you want it to be. If you would rather I kept it at a more friendly type of writing, or a saucy chapter every once in a while, let me know.*****