''Aubrey,'' Daryl said, shaking my shoulders as he tried to make me understand. ''C'mon we have to go.'' His eyes were wide with panic as he gripped my shoulders tighter, hurting them a bit. I wanted to nod at him and run away but my body couldn't move. It was as if he was talking to a dead body.
''C'mon!'' I yelled, when he looked around I found my eyes doing the same. Leaving his face and turning to look at our surroundings. Walkers were surrounding us and coming closer by the second. ''Dammit woman! I'm not leaving you!'' He grabbed my wrist and started to pull me with him, but it was already too late. The walkers were too close and attacked Daryl, sinking their teeth into his flesh. That seemed to flip a switch in my brain as I reached out the catch his falling body.
''Daryl!'' I yelled at him, the roles now reversed. There was a huge chunk out of the crook of his neck and he was groaning in pain. ''Daryl, we gotta go!'' I tried to pull him up, but he would just fall down again. His eyes were open and he stared at me in shock.
''Wake up!'' He suddenly yelled and I frowned, wake up? ''Dammit woman wake up!''
My eyes flew open, only to be met with the barrel of a gun in my face.
''Finally, you're awake!'' I heard an unfamiliar voice say and I looked away from the barrel to see a female who seemed to be around the same age as me. My thoughts instantly went to Judith.
''Where is she?'' I growled, my eyes narrowing at the woman. I looked to my left and saw Olivia in the same position as me, on her knees and a gun pointed at the back of her head. She didn't look scared at all, instead if looks could kill, they'd be dead right now.
''Who?'' The woman asked sarcastically, clearly knowing who I was talking about.
''The little girl.'' I said, my voice very low. I swear to god if they'd hurt Judith.
''Oh this little girl?'' She asked as she turned around, her gun still pointing at me face. For a second I was considering taking her out, but if she had Judith she could hurt her and I didn't know how many were here at the moment. Right now I only saw two, the woman in front of me and the man behind Olivia.
The gun against my head was removed and instead placed on Judith, who was now in the woman's hand. I immediately tensed up and put my hands in the air.
''Just let her go.'' I said, trying to show her I surrendered ''Why are you even here?''
''We need supplies.'' She simply said and nodded to the man, he stepped away from Olivia and started to raid our stuff, mostly Olivia's stuff since she was the one who had the most. I sincerely hoped that Olivia wouldn't do anything, the Olivia I knew would never try something if Judith's life was at stake, but with this Olivia I wasn't so sure.
I glanced over at her and I felt relieved when she just stared the man down. She didn't look like she was planning to do anything and when her gaze turned to me she slowly shook her head, signaling that she, indeed, wasn't going to do anything.
''If you don't do anything stupid, we won't have to kill the baby and we just walk away without any problems.'' She still said and turned to the man who had just picked up Liv's compound bow.
''I want the bow, I claim it.'' She said to the man who just nodded and mumbled a 'sure', but next to me Olivia was starting to get furious.
''No.'' She stated, ''You can take everything, but not the bow.'' The woman just laughed at her comment.
''Yeah, sure.'' She laughed it off and I noticed Liv clenching her fists in the air, as if she was containing herself from doing something 'stupid', as the woman had said. ''You ready?'' She said turning to the man who seemed about done with stealing our stuff. When I looked at the spot where all our supplies used to be the only thing that could be seen was an empty corner.
''Yeah, let's go.'' The man said. Swinging his, now full, backpack over his shoulder.
''Wait!'' I stopped them, ''You can't just steal all our stuff. You'd just leave us to die. We have a baby.'' I said nodding towards Judith, my hands still raised in the air.
The woman exchanged a look with the man. The look on her face told us she wasn't happy with the idea, but she gave in anyway. ''Fine, here is a can for the baby.'' The woman sighed and put it down in front of her. ''We also left the baby stuff in your bag so she'll live. Be happy we left you a can.'' She said, as if we should be grateful.
''Fuck you.'' Olivia spoke up, spatting out the words and the woman cocked her gun against Judith's temple, ''You want me to kill her now?'' She dared us and Olivia instantly pressed her lips together, keeping quiet but her eyes were flaming.
The couple slowly walked to the backdoor, still holding Judith in her arms and the gun still pressed against her temple. The man opened the door and stepped outside, the woman quickly placed Judith down and stepped outside too, closing the door after her.
I darted to Judith as soon as the door closed and picked her up. Luckily she wasn't crying and didn't even seem to realize what had just happened. I turned back to Olivia who had started to pace around in rage.
''What happened before I woke up?'' I asked her, trying to contain the rising panic in my chest.
''I was walking around, counting our supplies and watching the kid.'' She said pointing at Judith in my arms, ''And before I knew it two guns were pointed at me, telling me to kneel and they stripped me from my weapons.'' My eyes widened when I realized they hadn't stripped me from any weapons. My hand reached towards my belt and I found that my gun wasn't in its holster anymore. Olivia followed my movement and sighed.
''They took your gun when you were sleeping, but they left your machete. They also left my knife.'' She sighed again and rubbed her eyes with her fingers. ''What are we gonna do now?'' She said, her voice raising. ''They got everything! We have nothing!'' Suddenly she turned to the ground and her eyes found the can on the ground.
''Except for this piece of shit!'' She yelled kicking the can and we both watched it fly a few meters away. I grabbed my bag and watched what was left. The woman had spoken the truth, they had left the baby stuff in their, but everything else was gone. I sighed, grabbing the baby carrier and put it on, placing Judith in it before my arms got tired.
''I guess we'll have to head for Macon, right now.'' I said to her and she stopped her pacing and turned to me.
''I guess so.'' She agreed with me and looked out the window. ''We need to hot wire a car.'' She mumbled, more to herself than to me. I frowned, I had absolutely no idea how to hot wire a car, I had seen Daryl do it several times and right now I felt pretty stupid that I'd never asked about it. I silently prayed that Olivia knew how to it, otherwise we'd be fucked.
''Do you have a car?'' I asked her and she turned back to me.
''Yeah I do, it has enough gas for at least 10 miles.'' I nodded, that should be enough until we found some more. Macon was maybe another 30 miles, 25 if we were lucky. My fingers anxiously played with my hair as we both thought about a plan.
''Who gets the car?'' Olivia asked, but we both knew who was going to get the car. I was going to watch Judith and pack whatever was left and Olivia was going to get the car, she also knew which car it was and I had no clue how to hot wire so it was only logical if Olivia was going outside.
Not even five minutes later, Olivia had left in search of the vehicle. The walkers had spread out a bit more since yesterday and I hoped that Liv would get through this without getting noticed. Judith was sleeping in the baby carrier, she hadn't really slept a lot yesterday, whileI was slowly packing everything up. Not that there was a lot left to pack. They'd left the map, a can of peas, and the baby stuff.
''This is so fucked up.'' I sighed to myself, things couldn't possibly get any worse. Apparently I spoke too soon because not even 10 minutes later, Olivia came running through the front door, making an awful lot of noise
''They took it.'' She said, her whole body was coated in sweat and she was panting, she obviously had to run the way back. ''They took the freakin' car!'' She looked about ready to cry and there seemed to be a lump in her throat as she spoke.
''We have to walk.'' I said, even though it sounded more like question. Olivia slowly nodded and I realized how tired she looked.
''We'll get through this.'' I said and she mindlessly nodded. At first I thought she hadn't heard me, or at least didn't believe me. But after a few seconds a small smile formed on her face.
''Like we always do.''
So... What do you think is going to happen? What do you think about Olivia? She's actually inspired by a friend of mine who reads this story, so I hope she likes Olivia too XD