Mother and Daughter Reconciliation

Lillian sits in a room with her mother Camille and is ashamed to have argued with her about finding a safe place. Camille was really scared of all the zombies but she feels really bad for running off the way she did.

"Lillian, I could not begin to think how sorry I was for leaving you behind," Camille said, emotionally. "I know we could not agree to a place to be safe but I really don't know why I did what I did."

Lillian looks at her mother with the same feeling, except she is a lot more distraught over what had happened.

"Mom, I know that it was hard for us to find a safe place out there," Lillian said. "All that matters is that we are safe and no zombies will come and get us. You don't even want to know what I thought about doing if I had found out that you were dead."

"Oh, I know what you had thought about doing," Camille said. "It's a good thing that guy Chuck found me. I was worried sick about you."

"I was worried about you, too," Lillian said as she started to cry. "If I had known that you had died out there, I would not have felt the need to live anymore."

"How do you think I would have felt if I found out that you jumped off the roof?" Camille said. "I would have been heartbroken. I don't think I could go on living if I found out that you died."

They hug some more but are very emotionally distraught over what had happened.

Camille backed up a little from Lillian. "Just be glad that things are okay right now. We're both safe and we will get out of this very soon."

"I know we will, mom," Lillian said. "We need to talk more about why we got ourselves into that mess to begin with. I need to go to bathroom to go cool off a bit."

"Okay, I will wait right here," Camille said.

Lillian goes to the restroom and looks at herself in the mirror and realizes that what she had gone through was something bad. She knows that she has some emotional problems, enough that she contemplated committing suicide but deep down, she is glad that is still living. She starts thinking about what her mother said about how if she had found out that her own daughter was dead, she would be really devastated over it. She starts thinking back to what had happened before.

Mom and I were in the Platinum Strip and tried to find refuge somewhere like the movie theater or the bar that was nearby. It wasn't safe for either of us, so we tried the Fortune City Arena but there were already hundreds of zombies in front of it. We would have been dead.

So we tried to find other places that we thought could have been safe for both of us. We tried going into some of the casinos like the Americana and the Slot Ranch and there were lots of zombies in there as well. We tried going into the office of the Americana but it felt too small and there wasn't a lot of food for us in there to eat and going out to the steakhouse that close would have been dangerous. I was so scared to go out there and get some food. I suggested that we find somewhere else to hide from the zombies. She got mad because she didn't think there were better places for safety. I said that we should go the Slot Ranch Casino and so we did.

The office was a little bigger and there was a food court nearby in case we got hungry. I thought that this place was better than the Americana Casino as there was better access to food and drinks if we got hungry and thirsty. However, Mom was starting to think that this place was not safe enough as she saw a zombie break right through the windows and door of the office. I remember seeing some assault rifles lying around and picked one up and shot a few zombies before dropping the gun when Mom told me that I should just run out of there with her. I didn't let go of the gun because there were zombies right in front of the main door of the casino. I shot a lot of them before the clip was emptied. We got out of the Slot Ranch Casino and ran as fast we could to an area where there weren't as many zombies and that was in Fortune Park by that rock fountain. We got into an argument about the places we decided on. I tried to tell her that we will find a safe place but she didn't want to listen to me. She got very stubborn and ran off into the Atlantica Casino.

I couldn't believe that she did that and I cried as I went into the Fortune City Hotel. I was afraid that she had gotten eaten alive by the zombies and I was ready to die at that moment. I could not imagine my mom dying helplessly because sometimes she needs my help more than I need hers. I didn't want to lose her like I had lost my dad. It's been years since he died, but I still miss him. I would just die if I knew that she had died.

While Camille was waiting for Lillian to come back, she, too, started to think about what she and her daughter had gone through.

I don't know how this zombie outbreak stuff happened, but I felt like Lillian tried to be a little bossy about what had been going on. I felt like she was trying to help because we had stared at death straight in the eye. We tried to find a lot of places to be safe at. The safest were a couple of casinos we had gone into, but that all changed when some zombies came right for us. It was hard for us to find a safe place for us to hide from the zombies but we tried our best.

I tried to suggest another casino to hide in but Lillian disagreed. I tried to tell her that I had gone through some bad things all of my life and that I know what I am doing. I sometimes wonder if she thinks that I am careless and stubborn. I worry about her, too. She has emotional problems and I am not surprised that she was almost going to kill herself. She has had emotional problems ever since she was a teenager when my husband died. I remember she took her dad's death so hard that she couldn't go to school for a week. She is my only child and I am grateful that I have a great relationship with her.

When I was in the Atlantica Casino, I started to worry about her a lot more than ever before. What if she had gone to go kill herself? I would be so lonely. She means the world to me.

Lillian came back to the room. Still a little distraught over what happened, but calmer than before. She then approached Camille and told her that she has calmed down.

"I am glad you are better, Lillian," Camille said, hugging her daughter once more. "I just want you to know that even though you are an adult, you will always be my little girl and I love you more than anything. I am just glad that we are both safe and is everything forgiven between us?"

"Everything is fine between us, Mom," Lillian said, after taking a deep breath. "We are going to make it out of this shit. We will. Trust me on this."

Things have worked out for them.

Commentary: I know that this was a little different than what I have wrote and it is kind of sappy. I wanted to do one on these two and wondered how far I could go to make their story work.