i dont own the Walking Dead...
It's Adam, my 15 year old cousin. I hadn't seen him since before the initial outbreak. His family was the fox decent family so his direct family could transform into foxes. In his case, he was a red fox. Since we were family, we had a telepathic link so we could communicate in canine forms and even human forms.
Long time no sees, he says to me.
Tell me about it. Where are your parents?
Gone, there's sadness in his thoughts, but he changes his mood when he asks, who's the little one?
I was separated from my group, and I found this girl and her family. The mom was bitten by a walker and the dad offed himself and the mother. This girl was just left to fend for herself.
Addie stirs in her sleep and she looks up at Adam with curious eyes. She slides off my back and goes over to pet Adam.
What is she doing? Adam says to me, he backs up a few steps while Addie walks to him.
Just let her, she's just a kid, I tell him. He reluctantly stops and lets her pet his fur. She comes back over to me and holds onto my neck.
My groups up the street, do you want to come back up with me? He asks me. I nod in response and we begin walking. Addie doesn't question anything, and I note that she trusts me. We only walk for a minute or so until we come to see a camp. There am tents lying around and I makeshift fire pit on the pavement. Adam howls, as if telling the others there we were here, and some people emerged from the tents. There must've been at least 5 others here. A teen girl with long blond hair came over to us she had some clothes in her hands which I knew immediately were Adam's because they were his style; A men's tank top, and tan shorts. He was good-looking enough to pull it off, too. All of the girls back in the days would stare at him and I would always roll my eyes.
He grabbed his clothes and shrugged them on quickly from years of practice. He changed back into his teen age boy form and looked down at me, his red hair falling across his face. His green eyes gazed to the blond haired girl and they had 'a moment'. I purposely stepped on his foot with my own when he attempted to kiss the girl.
Mind filling me in? I ask him.
My girlfriend, he thinks back to me, he says aloud, "hey, Lisanna, can you go get some clothes for my little cousin, Destiny?"
"Destiny?" Lisanna asks, she looks at me, then at Addie, "can I take her?" she reaches down to pick up Addie, and I let her. "Sure, just some jeans and a shirt?"
I nod to her and she leaves, holding Addie in her arms.
No one's POV (back with Rick's group)
Carl wakes up in his bed for the first time. His chest hurts painfully, and he doesn't want to sit up. He opens his eyes, and his mom is lying next to him. He looks to his right and sees his dad, sleeping in some chair. His dad looked paler than usual. The last thing he remembers was seeing the deer with Destiny, and then an inexplicable pain in his chest. Carl blacked out after that. He vaguely remembers people talking to him, like Destiny telling him not to die. He wanted to tell her he was okay.
"Where's Destiny?" he asked groggily.
His mom, noticing he finally woke up, looks at him. A flash of sadness washes over her face, and she tries to cover it, "she and Daryl were out looking for Sophia. They were separated and Daryl hasn't come back yet."
"So Sophia's still missing?" Carl asks sadly. His mom nods.
"We'll find them," Rick says. Carl tries to sit up but regrets it right after. A pain stings in his chest and he lies back down. "Just rest, Carl."
Carl heads his advice, and falls back to sleep.
Destiny's POV
I'm wearing a tank top and jean shorts that were apparently Lisanna's when she was smaller. She had a growth spurt recently but kept her old clothes just because. Lisanna had her entire family at the camp; both her parents (Greg and Renee), her brother, John (who was the same age as Addie), and her parents' adult friends (whose names I believe were Jane and Ron).
I stayed close to Adam, because I didn't trust anyone else yet. Very soon after I met them they accepted me, though. Greg gave me chores to do, like wash the clothes of everyone. He gave me a washboard and bucket of water to help me start. I scrubbed the clothes and got through the chore he gave me. Jane walked over and smirked at me.
"You're new," she said, "Greg only gives the newest person Laundry duty. It used to be me."
I smile, "really?"
"Yeah."
She's older than me, but when we go on supply runs in the next weeks she and I are generally paired up. Addie doesn't seem to understand her parents are gone, and continuously asks about them. We don't know what to tell her. Addie and John like to play tag frequently, and it makes me laugh. Adam and I go hunting sometimes, but more than half the time the meat is poisoned for humans, and we can't eat it.
My thoughts occasionally wander to how Rick's group is doing. I wonder if they have met Sophia yet. Is Carl okay? Is he alive? The probability of someone getting shot in the chest and surviving is highly unlikely, and gloom fills my heart because I think Carl is gone. What if his group is looking for me?
"Destiny-," Jane starts before I interrupt.
"Just call me Des," I say, "Destiny is too long to say, and it's such a weird name."
"OK," she says.
From then on, everyone calls me Des, even Adam.
"Who came up with that nickname?" he asked me one day.
I think about Sophia. It's been two years now since I've seen her and joined this group, and I feel like I'm family. We've had to move around a lot, and currently our camp was built in a small forest clearing, and we slept in trees to prevent
"A friend of mine gave me the nickname," I say, remembering her sad short life. I feel a tear come to my eye, but blink it back before Adam notices. She shouldn't have died. "It just kind of stuck."
He notices my discomfort with the topic and drops it. He's called over by Greg and goes off to help him. I watch as Adam and Greg begin making a fire for eating, when Jane screams.
"HELP!" she shrieks.
A.N.: i'll try to update the next chapter tonight but no promises. this chapter was definetely boring, i know, the next chapter wont be, and the next after that will be simply amazing. THAT'S ALL I'VE GOT TO SAY! HOPE YOU STILL LIKE MY STORY!
