Summary : Santana is on her way out of her house after witnessing that her wife was having an affair in the beginning of a zombie apocalypse when she found a little girl alone in her house, then she took her with her since then.
Previously on The Walking Dead
"Come on Lopez. We need to go now." Puck shouted as they looked around, getting ready for another attack.
"In a minute!" Santana shouted and went back inside the tree house.
"Rachel... Rachel... come on wake up we need to go..." Santana said as she shook the girl's waking her up. And then Rachel woke up confused. But Santana dragged her with her. "Come on. we have to go!" Mike shouted as the saw a lot of them was coming their way.
"Fuck!" Puck cursed wide eyes.
Finally the two girls came down and they ran to the car blowing the walkers heads on the process.
"Man... that was sick!" Puck shouted as the drove away from the neighborhood.
"Jesus Christ! Thanks guys..." Santana said. "Yeah, no sweat lesbro..." Puck told her as Mike nodded his head.
"Do you guys what they are?" Santana asked. Puck sighed while Mike shrugged his shoulder not really knowing what was going on.
"Walkers..." was all Puck said.
Santana raised her eyebrow while Mike just looked at him. "You know like zombies and shit but walkers sound more bad ass." Puck shrugged. Santana rolled her eyes, "Dumb ass.." She muttered and glanced at Rachel. The girl just sitting there quietly. "Hey... you okay?" She asked gently.
"Yeah..." Rachel answered.
"Okay... Oh Rach, this is my friends Mike Chang and Noah Puckerman. And guys this is Rachel..." Santana said gesturing to the boys on the front seats.
"Hello..." Rachel said nervously.
The boys just smiled at the little girl. "That is a very pretty name... just like you sweety..." Mike said. Rachel blushed shyly.. "Thank you Mikey." She muttered. "Aww you got the shy one here Lopez. Nice to meet you Rach." Puck joined in. Santana just smiled looking at the little girl. "You too Noah." Rachel replied and glanced back at Santana smiling.
"So where to boss?" Mike asked after a while of driving.
Santana glanced at Rachel for a moment. "Rachel?" She gesturing to the girl next to her. "I – I don't know." She said with her teary eyes. "Hey hey, It's okay. I'm here remember? I won't leave you."
"I know Tana, but what if my parents come home and they can't find us?"
"Then you just got to stay with me until then." Santana answered with a tiny smile hearing Rachel called her 'Tana'. "Okay..." Rachel mumbled and Santana nodded her head.
"I think we should get back to the station, you know like preparing ourselves and look for back up." Santana suggested.
The boys nodded their heads. "Alright I'd like that." Mike said and turned the car around heading towards their station.
After a while, they made a stop on the gas station. They sees a bunch of abandoned cars and items everywhere.
"What the fuck?" Puck muttered as he looked around. "Swear..." Rachel mumbled. Santana sent Puck a glare as Puck sighed lowering his head. "Sorry.." He said.
"I swear man, they weren't this bad when we left the city." Puck told them. "Yeah.. they were some cars wreck but wasn't like this." Mike added.
"Yeah.. I think these people need more help that we do." Santana said.
"I heard screams two nights ago, that was Harmony... one of the monster got her." Rachel told them sadly. Santana wrapped her arm around her.
Puck and Mike looked at the girl in sympathy, they couldn't imagine what damage had done to a little girl like Rachel, she still too young to see those things.
"It's going to be okay, you've got us now." Puck said as Rachel gave him a warm smile.
Santana sighed and comes out of the car to check the area for gas with Puck following after.
"Look the door." She instructed and Rachel did just that.
"Hurry up Chang." She called for him and then they got the car full so they wouldn't get any more problem.
"Alright spill Lopez." Puck said as they filling the car. "Spill what?" Santana asked. "About that little girl, you seems just really fond of her." He answered. "Oh it just... I think the girl's parents didn't make it." Santana sighed. "What do you mean?" Puck asked. "When I got there, you saw it yourself how the neighborhood was." Puck nodded. "Yeah and so I walked inside the house to get some stuff and there was answering machine so I played it and I heard a woman probably her mom talking about these accidents and you know the rest." She explained. Puck could only nodded his head and glanced back to the car as he saw Rachel playing with her walkie talkie.
"Shit" He mumbled under his breath as Santana nodded understanding. "She got us now though. So she's going to be okay."
"I sure hope so San. This just I just didn't see this coming, just days ago we still running catching those bad guys and now we are running because of these walkers shit."
Santana sighed. "Yeah.. let's go Puck." She said when they're done and went back inside the car.
Just as they about to go, walkers from all around started coming. They gasped as they saw the walkers was all over the place.
"Shit! Come on man! Fucking drive!" Puck shouted. "Alright alright!" and with that they drove away leaving bunch of walkers behind. By that Rachel was crying on Santana shoulder while the Latina trying to calm her.
So they continued their way to the precinct the road was quiet too quiet, they thought maybe the people already gone somewhere the military had brought them for the safety.
Then after few more minutes they finally made it there.
Santana's eyes wide open when she saw that the precinct was isolated by barricades and there were corpses everywhere while few walkers eating them.
The walkers then saw them coming and began roaming around them.
Santana, Mike and Puck then got out of the car while Rachel wait inside as they starting to blow their heads into pieces with their guns.
They sighed in relief as the walkers one by one deadly fall on the ground.
"I didn't see that coming. Looks like they already infected the whole city." Mike said as they looking around the place.
"Yeah. Come on let's just get this done with." Puck said.
She turned around and glanced back at her friends, they both had the same expression as her own. "Alright... let's do this. I say we see the captain first." She suggested and the boys nodded their heads.
Santana then pulled Rachel closer to her. "Stay close to me." She told her. Rachel nodded and mumbled an okay.
"Let's do this." She said and preparing her gun as are the others and then made their way inside.
Luckily for them, the building seems secure once they got inside. The group made their way upstairs and looking for their captain and walked straight to the office.
"Nothing." Mike said as they entered the office, it was empty yet they could see the place were tear apart and messy all over the place. "I guess she already gone. There is no way in hell that the boss didn't make it." Puck said. "Yeah." Santana agreed with him.
"Alright, let's make sure this floor is safe, at least for us to stay for the night." Santana suggested. "Yeah it's getting late. And I don't think there is a good idea walking around in the middle of the night in this situation." Mike answered.
"Okay then, let's get to work boys."
An hour passed and they just glad that they didn't see any walkers and they safe for the night in the building.
"Hey..." Santana said as she approached Rachel sitting on the couch with her walkie talkie in her hand.
"Hi Tana..." Rachel said looking up at Santana.
"So here... It's not much but here you go." Santana said as she handed her an energy bar she found on her desk. "Thank you." Rachel replied and took it.
"So uhh..." Santana said nervously. "Are you okay?" Rachel asked looking at Santana. "Yeah sure I'm.. I'm good." She replied. "That's good." Rachel said. "Yeah I think so being good is good despite the circumstances." She said. "Yep." Rachel mumbled. "I know I'm not your mom but I'll try to keep you safe and taken care of so I'm here if you need anything okay." Santana explained. "Okay same." Rachel said. Santana chuckled looked at the little girl, she just so cute acting all grown up. "Yep munchkin. We'll look after each other." Santana said. "Yes. Deal..." Rachel said stuck her hand out and Santana took it to shake.
"Okay try to get some sleep, I'll be right back need to talk to Mike and Noah." Santana said kissed the girl on the cheek. "Okay." And with that Santana made her way out.
"Everything ok?" Puck asked looking at his best friend.
"Yeah, Rachel's sleeping though. So all clear right?" She asked and they nodded. "Great. I think we need a new plan."
"Yeah I think so too." Mike agreed. "First thing in the morning, we go down to collect the supplies, guns, ammo, food and all the stuff that we need." She instructed. The boys nodded.
"And where we heading?" Puck asked. "What about our family?" Mike added.
"The lines are busy, I couldn't even use my phone anymore." Puck answered. "Shit. Seriously? That bad huh..." Santana mumbled.
"So we keep Rachel with us right? I mean there is no way we leaving that little girl." Mike asked. "Of course we do dumb ass." Santana snapped. "Hey easy, I was just asking geez." Mike said holding his hands up surrender.
Puck chuckled, "Oh don't worry Chang, Lopez here is just acting all mama bear with that little girl." Puck joked. "Oh shut up Puckerman." Santana glared at the jewish as the boys trying to hold their laughter. "You do really care about Rachel huh?" He asked seriously. "Yeah... I just couldn't imagine what the girl been through for the last couple days on her house alone." Santana answered sighing. "So I'm going to take care of her, she's my responsibility now." She continued.
Puck put his arm on her shoulder. "We're a team here San. So we all responsible of her and we've got your back especially on the shitty time like this." He said.
Santana chuckled, "Careful Puck your true color showing."
He pushed her playfully. "Hey I'm a badass alright." He retorted. Mike burst out laughing. "Yeah right." He sneered amused.
"Alright you two, cut it out." Santana said pushing both boys away as they playing bumping each other. "I think for now lets get some rest, it's been a long day. We got a big day tomorrow." She told them. The boys said yeah and walked to their desks to get some sleep while Santana heading back to the office.
Once she walked inside, she noticed that Rachel fell asleep on the couch, she walked towards her and took out her jack, putting it on the little girl and she tuck her in kissing her forehead, "Goodnight sweety." She mumbled as Rachel hold on the jacket tighter as if it was her blanket.
Santana then made her way to the desk and sat down. "What a day... what a fucking day..." she muttered closed her eyes.
The next day, Santana was the first that woken up. She then glanced at Rachel who still asleep on the coach. She made her way out to wake the boys up.
"Hey wake up! We got lot to do." She shouted. They boys jolted up from their seat. She chuckled at them as they gave her a glare. "Oh don't be such a pansy. Just wake up you two. We got to find the supplies and head out." She glared at them, and they knew better not to pissed Santana in the morning.
"Alright jeez... we're up..." Mike said as they waking up from their seat.
"So what's the plan?" Puck asked.
"We should go down and get the guns, foods, medicines and other supplies before we hitting the road. Just fucking pray that they still have some in this precinct because I wonder if they already clean it up." Santana instructed. "Got it..."
"Alright get ready, I'm going to wake Rachel up." She said and go back to the office.
"Hey Rach..." Santana said softly, Rachel slowly opened her eyes and saw it was Santana.
"Good morning sunshine." Santana greeted. "Morning Tana." She replied yawned and get up from the coach. She then realize that she had a leather jacket on her hand. Santana smiled, "Put it on baby. It's rather cold outside." She said. "But what about you?" She asked. "Oh I got another one see."
"Okay thank you." She said and put on the jacket. "It's baggy Tana." Rachel whined pouted. Santana couldn't help but giggled at the little girl's expression that she gave her. "Oh it's look cute on you Rach. Don't worry." She said and kissed her on her palm.
"Okay Rach, we need to go. You ready?" She asked getting up.
"Yes!" Rachel answered.
"Good, stay close to me okay?"
"Okay." Rachel said. They both then walked out of the office.
Once they outside, Puck and Mike are ready waiting on them. "Okay, guns first and then foods and medicines." Santana instructed. They both nodded. Then the group starting to get the mission on.
The reached the shooting range and weaponry station. Luckily for them that there are still a lot of guns, ammo and all the weapons for their survival in there. "Alright let's pack them all." Santana ordered. "Yeah! This is my baby!" Puck said picking up the shotgun, riffle and the others. Mike chuckled and began to pack joining his partner.
Santana went to get the ammo, guns, grenade, flash bang, lights and all the worthy stuff while Rachel helping her with it. She smiled at the little girl and they began to pack some more.
Once they're done with the weapons, they ended up having five bags full of weapons in it. Santana thought it would last couple of month or so just in case they needed lot of them.
"Woo! Those walkers don't know what hit em man!" Puck shouted. Santana slapped him on the back of his head. "Not so loud dumb ass!" She hissed as Rachel giggled at the childish man. "Sorry." He mumbled embarrassed.
"Alright! I think that's good enough. Now foods and the meds.." San told them.
They made their way to the cafeteria. They stopped and noticed there were couple of walkers in there but luckily there were no corpses this time. "Alright I just noticed that sounds lead them to us, let's not using our guns. You got your pocket knife with you right?" the boys nodded. "Good then lets get this over with." She instructed and they walked towards the walkers put a knife on their heads. Then their bodies fell back on the ground.
When they finish, they walked inside the kitchen where they keep their supplies. "Alright! Just take the cans, well you know some food that would last longer." Mike said and they began to pack the foods. Puck on the other hand was busy eating some of the food, "Man! I'm so hungry!" He said.
"Gross Puck." Santana told him disgusted looking at the man talking while his mouth are full.
They ended up having three more bags full of food.
"The last are meds. And because we've got enough bags on our hands already just put them aside with the guns I'm sure there's enough space for it." Santana said while they heading to the pharmacy. Just in time they made there and there are no walkers. They sighed in relief as they walked inside lab and began to pack the medicines as well.
When they're done. They head outside straight to the parking lot. Luckily Puck has bigger truck than Mike so they had no problem putting all the supplies inside the truck.
"Man I wonder where the hell is everybody?" Puck asked as they packed their supplies inside the car. "I don't know.. but I sure hope that they are safe and we going to see the others soon. I mean the living not those dead walkers." Mike joined in.
"Yeah. Even though some of them are bitches it be nice to see other than those disgusting fucking creepers." Santana added.
"Swear.." Rachel mumbled. Santana sighed. "Sorry..." She said embarrassed. "I think we should go back to Lima, you know checking the town." She told them as they finished with packing the supplies. "Hmmm.. Yeah, that's actually sounds good, hopefully they didn't spread the freaks around the town yet." Puck said. "Beside we all from there right? So yea I say Lima." Mike added.
Rachel just stayed quiet and they noticed that the usual bubbly little girl just sitting there. "Hey what's wrong?" Santana asked. "Its nothing... its just what if my parents come home here?" She asked quietly. The adults glanced at each other not knowing what to say about the parents. "Honey, it might take a while." Santana told her. "How far is New York?" Rachel asked. "Its a little far from here. But you've got your walkie talkie with you right? And I got one so when your parents get here they're going to find us."
"Really?"
"Of course munchkin. And until then you're going to stay close to me, Noah and Mike okay?" Santana said. "Okay." Rachel mumbled not looking up from her walkie talkie. "Hey sweety... its going to be okay." Santana said lift her chin up and kissed her on the forehead and pulled her in a hug.
"Alright... ready to go munchkin?" Santana asked wiping Rachel's tears from her cheek. Rachel smiled, "Yes!" Santana chuckled and pulled her in a hug once more as the boys chuckled looking at their friend. They didn't know that Lopez could be acting like that around anyone especially a girl that she just met the other day. But they understand her feeling because they feel as much as she do towards the little girl.
A moment later, they got in the car and ready to start their journey to Lima.
To be continued
Thank you for the readers who read this and I'm trying to update daily for this story because I just love some zombie fics hehe.. anyways till next time.
