11 : 15 AM

William's POV

Sergei and William arrive at a small park with houses around it. Sergei rests against the nearest tree while Davey falls on his knee,weakened by his wound to the left shoulder. Sergei,noticing it,goes to help him by getting his right arm onto his own shoulders. Then the duo together goes to the door. Sergei tries a kick but it won't budge. Just then,the horde comes closer by groaning; Will turns around and warns his friend.

This one does four more kicks and then,the door finally opens. They get inside the house before to make sure to close the door.

" We only have a few moment. "

" Before what. " Will asks,dumb as usual.

Suddenly,a walker punches through the door and tries to get into the little hole. But his arm is blocked.

" Before this. " Sergei answers.

Then the zombies begin to break the windows. The ukrainian survivor quickly grabs every large shelf he meets to block all the openings. After he finishes,he goes to see Will who was sitting on the couch,pressing his hand on the wound.

" Will,go to the bathroom upstairs and get the bandages and some medical stuff. "

" How do you know the bathroom is upstairs ? " William asks,doubtful.

" Every bathroom is upstairs. " He answers truthfully. " Now hurry. Now. Meanwhile I hold them off as I can."

William runs upstairs. Then he reaches the bathroom and finds the medecines hidden behind the mirror. Due to his stealing experience,he already knew where to look. He grabs some painkillers,sleeping pills and finally the bandages. He also takes a bottle of disinfictant. But as he was gonna to get out of the bathroom,an unknown person traps him by sticking a big stick on his neck. Since he has his back turned,Will doesn't know precisely what was the object.

The person gestures him to get down the stairs. Then,when Sergei sees what is going on,he takes out his Makarov and negociates with the enemy.

" Okay. Let's stay cool. Let my friend go and we will leave. "

" You have my medecines. " A male pretty low voice answers to the duo.

" Listen,my friend here has a serious wound,we have a pregnant woman,an old man does some insomnia and my brother just got shot. We really need those medecines. "

William directly knew that the european dude was totally lying about the rest of this stuff. But he understood why he did this. Now he hopes that the man has some heart. And,after some dozens of seconds of silence and hesitation... the man lets Will go and lets it go. When Davenport turns around,he discover a 30-years-old man who has brown mi-long hairs,blue eyes,a mannequin face and he wears a blue shirt with squares,a blue pants and brown shoes. Everyone is now chilled and drops his weapon.

" Now what ? " The unknown man asks.

Suddenly one of the walkers managed to break a window,despite Sergei's work. This one takes his knife and chops the arm off before to throw it to the kitchen.

" They are gonna burst in. You... " He is talking to the new guy. " Take everything we will need : guns,foods,medecines,everything ! And Will,find a way out. "

Will,like a lightning,runs to the back of the house and finds directly a door to the wall of the house. He directly kicks it and by opening the door,he sees that it leads outside. He warns the other men. Whike Sergei joins him,the man joins them with a bag full of random stuff. Everyone gets out right before the walkers finally get inside.

After a long minte of walk,and right before to arrive at their hideout,Will questions the man after hiding the wound with the bandages they found :

" You never told us your name. "

" Ah yes ! It's Johnny. "

" Johnny... "

" Or if you don't wanna make it personal,call me John. Your choice. "

" He seems really nice. " Sergei compliments.

" Anyway... Where do you come from ? "

" Je suis né a Paris. "

" ... What the hell does that mean ?! " Will asks,shocked and totally stranger to that language. The ukrainian friend comes to help him out.

" It means he was born at Paris. "

" Paris ?! With the Eiffel Tower and the croissant ?! "

" That same Paris. "

" Actually the city's all nice. Well... Except the traffic,the criminality... "

" And the parisian walkers... Hahahha ! " Will allows himself to laugh.

" Anyway... Do you have any friends ? " Sergei prepares himself to grab his gun.

" No ! I was all alone. "

" All alone ? "

" Yes. "

William,instinctively,gets away stealthly from the group,under Sergei's agreement,then goes into the forest to search anyone wanting their death. At the end,he finds no one and returns to the duo who talks to each other.

" I got that gun... after infiltrating a military base. The most secure one before. "

" Impossible. This looks like shit. "

" As you wish. "

" Good. Let's keep walking. "

" Something the matter. " The young man quickly wanders alone.

" Sergei,pass forward to get the body there first. "

" Alright. " The ex-soldier,despite the fatigue,manages to pass everybody and move forward further.

A few minutes later,the trio arrives in front of the motel. Sergei calls Lars out who gets his body out of the window. But all of a sudden,he takes out his shotgun and shoots at John's feet who dodges the bullets in extremis.

" BLUE ! BLUE ! " William shouts,panicked and shocked by the shot.

" Oh sorry ! We're never too careful ! " Lars apologies.

" What a way to welcome strangers. " John reacts jokingly.

" Lars,he's okay. Let us all in please. " Sergei implores.

Karlsson gets out of the window before to open the door to them and let them in.

" Lars,meet Johnny. John,here's our routine drunk man : Lars Karlsson. "

" Good morning sir. "

John shakes Lars' hand. But when this one presses his hand,John feels an extraordinary strenght that the european hides in himself.

" You got a strong hand,do you ? " John notices with a smile. " Do you do boxing ? "

" Not much. I especially fish. That strenght comes from my father. "

" Ah okay ! Genetics. Anyway,where is all the group ? "

" Well... The old man named Hans is trying to sleep in the bedroom,Alejandra and Kyrie are playing together in another bedroom and Jaiden is performing some musculature... I don't know where. "

" Is that all ? "

" No. There's four of them in the public dining room. They are probably eating the dish right now. Lars,watch that door like you did. William,get some painkillers for your wound. And John,come with me,I'll present you to everyone. "

Sergei's POV

Sergei leads Johnny to the dining room where the rest of the group is : Ryan,Alicia,Melissa and Shima.

Melissa is behind the counter preparing the juices,Alicia waters the plant at the corner of the wall,Ryan is eating some spaghettis at the table and Shima is watching the window for any sign of walker.

Shima wears something different than last day : she wears a black short-sleeve T-shirt which barely shows her belly,a blue jeans and black Adidas shoes.

" Hey everyone. " Sergei calls them out. " Today,we've just found a new survivor : meet Johnny. "

" Hi guys ! "

" Hello Johnny. " Each one of them welcomes the new guy.

" Hello,I'm Alicia. " She presents herself before to shake his hand. " The girl right here is named Shima. Don't feel yourself offensed if she doesn't care about you. It's her natural behaviour. "

Melissa,who was looking to the drawer at her knees,hasn't seen John yet. She was wearing the sme attire as usual except she has taken her jacket off. After picking up the plates for this noon,she gets up but when she meets her eyes with John's,she unwillingly drops all of it which breaks them into pieces. Everyone turns around and sees her with the gaze totallu focused on the new man.

This one goes to see her and checks her hands.

" Are you hurt ?! " He asks,worried.

" No... No... No,I'm fine,thanks. " She responds,smiling like an idiot.

" You'd better be careful with this. Soon,you won't have any of them anymore. " He warns her gently. Then,when he wanna sees the last person to meet,Melissa grabs his right hand and presse sit slowly with her hands.

" I'm Melissa. Nice to meet you. "

" Nice to meet you too. " He answers with a gentleman's shiny smile.

" So... How did they find you ? "

" Actually... They burst out into my house when walkers chased them. "

" Aren't you bitten ? "

" No. Thanks to this gentleman here. " He points at Sergei.

" Yes,he knows how to fight. " She says,hypnotised by the beauty of the man in this hell.

" So... I haven't met everyone yet... Like this friend here at the table. "

" Oh don't mind him. " She suddenly gets pissed at the mention of Ryan. " He is the lonely kind. "

" Even so,it's my obligation to show myself polite. " And then,he walks to meet Ryan.

As soon as Melissa and John started talking,Ryan has become obviously pissed off by this new guy. During the rest of the time,he looks at him very angrily. It becomes angrier when he walks to him to shake his hand.

" Hi I'm Johnny. " He shows his innocent hand.

Sergei,noticing Ryan's behaviour,stands next to the table to witness the scene and prevent the trouble from coming up.

Meanwhile,Ryan looks at his hand for a pretty long time before to answer him meanly.

" Hi. "

" I'm very pleased to meet you. "

" I'm not sure the feeling is mutual. " He even looks away from the guest.

" If I have done anything to anger you,I'm volunteer to repay you. "

" Ryan ! Show him a little bit of respect. " Melissa suddenly roars.

" But I'm showing him respect. " He lies. " I'm totally respecting him. Isn't that right,buddy ? " Suddenly he violently slaps the shoulder as if a big fly has landed on it. But there wasn't any fly.

" I should maybe... Leave to the bedroom. Sergei,do you mind if you accompagny me ? "

" No no ! Of course no. Let's go. "

Sergei leads his guest out of the room. Suddenly Alicia hurries to get out,while Shima taked her time. Just before to close the door,he can see Melissa walk angrily to her ex and yell at him.

" WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU,ASSHOLE ?! "

" Let's go to the first floor,shall we ? "