A/N: Okay so i havent uploaded in a while i could give a bunch of made-up excuses but im sure you came here to read the story so enjoy...

The Aftermath

"Huh? Where am I?" Jill asked getting up. She didn't hurt at all.

"You're here…" a voice hazily said and pain shot through her.

"Ow!" she said rubbing her chest.

"Hi, Jill." Another voice said, but much clearer that the other voice.

A man dressed with green clothing and beret walked up to her. It was…

"BILL?" she exclaimed and sat down, "But you're…"

"Dead?" He asked, "So that must mean you are to, right?"

"I don't know! You're the… angel here!"

"I'm not an angel. I'm just someone in heaven."

"Wait this is heaven?"

"Yes."

Jill looked around all she saw was… wait she didn't see any thing!

"There's nothing here!" she said, "It can't be heaven!"

"You've never seen heaven before have you!"

She shook her head.

"Exactly. I never said where we were in heaven."

"So where are we 'in heaven'"

"We're in the outskirts now come on if you want to get to the gates."

"Stay…" the hazy voice said and with every word it said pain jolted trough her, "Come… Stay… don't.. toward… light."

"What is that?" Jill asked in shock.

"What's what?" Bill turned around confused.

They kept walking toward the 'gates' as Bill had put it.

"Come back!" the voice called clearly.

And just as she had seen the very tops of the gates with a color she had never seen before, she was pulled back… back to where Bill had found her, and even further…

"Theo… come on you have to eat." Ro coaxed Theo with a cooked hamburger.

"No." he rasped, turned around and sulked.

Everyone was at a loss of what to do. He hadn't eaten or slept in three days, and he only had one small cup of water each day.

"I'm worried about him." Zoey said to Francis.

"I don't blame him." Nick said, "They've been together all their lives and now…"

"Yeah, but he needs to eat." Zoey said gloomily, "I'm taking this much the same as him, but…"

No! Theo wanted to scream at them but he didn't have the will, I'm taking this so much harder than you! We never kept anything from each other! We practically shared the same brain!

"I'm worried about him too Zo, but he needs more time." Francis said hugging her from behind, "But I'm going to force feed him if he doesn't eat anything soon."

Theo got up and ate the hamburger. He might as well try to make his parents think he was slowly getting over it.

"Look." Ro whispered to the group that was talking, "He's eating!"

"She's actually waking up…" that voice said, the voice that took Jill out of heaven, and away from Bill.

"Who…?" she started.

"… am I?" I finished for her.

Yes! I finally get to myself!

"I'm Lilly." I replied.

"Lilly? You saved me?" she asked, "Why? You don't know me."

"Yeah. I know survivor groups don't really… help each other but something told me, to save you for a reason."

"So how did I survive? Didn't the tank crush me?" she asked, still a bit confused.

"Well, I saw you through that window." I pointed at a window that was near the ceiling, "And you blacked out before I pulled you through just as that tank made to crush you."

Jill looked around for the first time with her still hazy vision, it was a small basement room had one door and three windows and three sleeping bags one of which she was sitting on.

I watched as she inspected the room.

"Lilly!" a male voice shouted, "Where are you?"

"Oh- just play along, ok?" I said worriedly.

"Lillian!"

"We are going to tell him that you were... getting... strangled by a smoker ok? And that you were alone. Got it?"

"Lilli- Oh there you are. Who's this?"

Ok, just to save myself some explaining he's the cowboy guy.

"Oh, her? I found her being strangled by a smoker."

"And you helped her?" he asked exasperated.

"Yes. Only because there were no common... guys around, and she was alone so I brought her here." I said nervously hoping he would buy it.

"I guess she could stay with us as long as she's not to much trouble." He said after awhile, "What's yer' name kid?"

I looked at her expectantly.

"Right, My name is Jill." she said.

"Well, Jill, I'm not going to ask questions, But now that you're in my group, you gotta act by my rules." the cowboy explained, "Lilly here will teach you those rules. Won't you Lil'?"

"You bet!" I said enthusiastically, I turned my back on the man and so he couldn't see me roll my eyes.

"Ok. Get ready we are leavin' tomorrow morning 'cause Molly is starting to feel better." he said and walked out of the room.

"Who was that?" Jill asked confused yet again.

"That," I said, "Was Jed. He's our groups leader. He found me when I was attacked by some zombies in my house when the infection first began."

"Wait you were alive before the infection?" staring at me in wonder.

"Yeah, I was only five when the dead learned to walk."

"I'm ten."

"So you were born after the infection started. Wow."

"Why 'wow'?"

"Oh... nothing."

"No really... what?" she pressed.

"Ok... Well I said 'wow' because I'm surprised that love can exsist in a place like... this."

"Oh..."

A/N: Hi ok so i didn't upload right away oh well here it is now. I was having a great spring break so... yeah. I uploaded it now cause thing are going too slow for me. any way im sure you dont want to hear my problems. Any way the chapter is from Lilly's POV like she was telling the story not by my own. okay bye! R&R ppl. :)