A/N: Sorry for taking so long, I honestly have no excuse other than me forgetting my password. I know it's horrible.
Anyways I hope you guys like this part and I'm sorry for it not being longer, I'd promise you the next one would come out soon but I'm not sure I can keep it.
Hopefully, I will get 3 done and posted ASAP.
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"Hey Glenn, are there any woman razors or tampons or something like that on that list of yours?" Dawn asked while looking at the feminine hygiene section of the pharmacy they were both currently in. Glenn had told her about his group and invited her to come with him the minute he knew she was alone. "You know, as a thanks-for-saving-my-ass kinda thing." He had said. She told him she'd think about it, and offered to help him look for supplies. It's been a couple of hours since then, and they had already cleared one grocery store and one camping supplied place.
"Uhhh.. No." His voice called back to her from the other side of the pharmacy. "But get some anyway, I'm sure they'll thank you for it." he continued. She shrugged and grabbed as much stuff as she could in her bag.
They met up once again at the entrance. "so," Glenn started. "Are you coming with me? Back to the group?"
Dawn looked at him, then looked down and bit her lip. Tossing things around in her mind for a bit before looking at him. Being with a group is a lot safer than being on her own, she'd get someone to watch her back while she slept rather than tossing and turning through the night worried that something would feast on her while she was sleeping. Then again, would they accept her? I mean, this is the end of the world. Why should they trust her? Why should she trust them? What is they kill her or something? But Glenn seemed like a nice guy, he doesn't look like the sort of guy who'd basically betray a person that helped him out.
She really did like Glenn, and felt strangely comfortable with him and that is something that didn't usually happen. At all. And even though she wasn't exactly a fan of human contact, she'd seriously missed having noise and people around. And so she decided to take a chance and just go with Glenn, ignoring the familiar fear and clenching gut caused by her sometimes-there-sometimes-not-there anxiety.
"Yeah, can't exactly let the only man I've seen slip from my fingers can I?" she smiled and joked. He blushed and said "we should get going now, so we can get back before dark."
Glenn and Dawn were walking for about an hour or so before they came upon a makeshift camp. "Home sweet home." Glenn mumbled, before turning to her "C'mon, I gotta introduce you to Shane." Dawn cocked her head "Shane?"
"He's the guy who's sort of our leader I guess." Glenn kept walking towards a white RV with Dawn following him closely. He walked up to a buff guy with tan skin and short dark curly hair with dark eyes that immediately turned towards her.
"Glenn! We asked you to look for supplies not bring back strays, you know we barely have enough to feed ourselves as it is, we don't need any more mouths." The guy, she guessed Shane, said to Glenn.
"Look man, I wouldn't even be here without her. She saved my life." Glenn said, defending her to Shane. She walked forward, not willing to let Glenn defend her while she just stood idly by.
"Listen, I know it's sorta unexpected and everything but I've got food and medicine and I'm willing to offer them in exchange for letting me stay." Shane looked at her interested. "And I can help you out, you know, pull my weight?" she continued, very unsure yet determined to not let it show.
"Yeah, I could use her help looking for supplies and stuff, she's super quiet and really good at killing those things." Glenn backed her up. She looked at him, and he smiled back.
Shane looked at her, thinking. "Okay, fine, you can stay." He said. "I'm Shane, I run this place, more-or-less." She flashed him a small smile, "Dawn."
Shane left, leaving her alone with Glenn once again, "Thanks for having my back." She told him smiling once again. "Yeah, no problem, couldn't exactly let the person who saved my life get kicked out." He replied.
"Guess we're a team now huh?" she said. "Guess so."
"C'mon I gotta introduce you to everyone." Glenn said, before holding her arm and dragging her to a group of people sitting around a fire.
It's been a week now and Dawn was settling in fairly well. She'd met everyone in camp and they all seemed fairly nice. Well, all of them except a guy called Ed, who seemed to enjoy spousal abuse. And another guy called Merle Dixon. Merle was mostly harmless other that the obscene comments, gestures, and racial remarks. He was that kind of guy she would've avoided the entire street if he was on it back in the day. But now it didn't really matter, I mean the world went to shit and a redneck hunter could be the most valuable person.
When introducing her to everyone around camp Glenn had warned about the Dixons, said their tempers were horrible and that they were probably violent druggies. Still she insisted on meeting them on the bases that meeting them in the company of Glenn would be ultimately better than meeting them on her own.
Upon meeting her, Merle had made a sexual comment and criticized her for staying with Glenn. "Why's a hot piece o' ass like you staying with tha' chink there, when you could have a real man right here, sweetheart?"
She ignored the remarks, which seemed to frustrate him, and proceeded to introduce herself.
"Name's Merle, ya best 'member tha'" he said with a wink, before gesturing to a guy on his right that was staring at her "and this here's Daryleena, ma' brother" the guy on the right kept his stare and grunted "it's Daryl". She looked at him very closely, observing him, taking him in. He was wearing a sleeveless flannel shirt, his hair was a dark-ish blond in color and his eyes were the most piercing set of blue that just stared at her like he knew all of her dirty little secrets. She looked away when Glenn called her to go meet the rest of the camp.
Nothing of note happened after that as she just turned and walked away with Glenn to meet everyone else.
Tomorrow, she was supposed to go on another scavenging trip with Glenn, they'd already gone three times in seven days to get enough supplies for everyone. But, she didn't mind. She liked going on those trips with Glenn, they got along great and she didn't really feel comfortable at camp with anyone else other than him and the kids that were there.
Anyways, it became her duty to go ask the woman for any 'woman-stuff' they might need, as Glenn had put it. and so she stood up to go and ask them all about what they might need from her upcoming supply hunt.