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
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.
Somewhere in Lima
"Ugh." Quinn grunted as her axe sliced through the walkers head. The creature fell, and she pulled the axe from it's head. She pushed her hair behind her ear and grinned. "I swear, these things are getting harder to kill." The walker had jumped from behind a tree and tackled her, she had almost had been bit. She didn't like going on runs alone, but since the Sam and Ryder were on a run, Marley, Jake and Kitty were on a run, Brittany, Mercedes, and Tina were guarding the motor inn, and Artie was dying from a recent bite... It was necessary.
Sam and his best friend of years, Ryder, were raiding the local hospital, looking medical supplies for the dying Artie. Marley, Jake and Katie were also looking for medical supplies just like the others. Quinn however was looking for the basics food. So far she had a duffel bag full canned goods, some bags of chips, and bottled waters. The bag was getting heavy, a sign it was time to her back to camp. She was lost in the woods though. During the zombie apocalypse.
She sighed and told herself not to panic. If she wasn't back by the time the sin went down, the others would move farther to come find her. Ever since the day of the outbreak they had been thick as thieves as a group.
She pulled her hair into a ponytail as sweat dripped down her back. She couldn't remember the last time she'd showered. She shuddered at the thought. She began to continue her journey to find the camp. Her mind wondered as she traveled on. they had bounced around groups, leaving for various reasons. The first group consisted of about forty people and it was near the city after the bombing. Those happy days had ended after a large chunk of the group, a family none the less, had left in hopes of finding more family.
She could only hope that they can stick together and get through this. Quinn sighed and took a deep breath and continue to travel back to the motor inn or their home now.
Its been days since they hit the road trying to get to Lima but always got problem with the walkers around the street. That day the ride was quiet as they observing each other and the road. Santana sighed as she opened her eyes and find that they stuck in the middle of busy road, surrounded by what seemed like millions of demolished cars and puddles of dried blood splashed on the boiling pavement. They gasped looking at the screen, Rachel held her nose as a revolting scent washed over her.
They wanted to know what had happened of these people. "Holly sweet hell..." Puck mumbled, "I thought the city was bad..." He continued. Santana keep her eyes on the road as she finding the hint of the walkers or living person.
They then realized that they are standing on a cluttered, damaged street in Lima, Ohio. "This is bad..." Mike informed. "You can get through the road?"Mike asked Puck who was driving this time.
"Yeah, I guess so just keep your eyes open." He answered starting the angine and drive away as the other nodded their heads.
"What do you think happened to these people?" Mike asked. "Shit! Damn if I know." Santana grunted as she keep a close eye on the abandoned cars. "Swear," Rachel reminded, "Sorry," muttered Santana.
"I think they tried to get out of the city..." Santana muttered. "I suggest we go down the hill, get off the road. I don't think its safe you saw these cars they had to be hundreds of them in the worst place." Santana suggested.
"What?" "You heard what I said Puckerman. I know what am doing, I say down the hills get in the woods. Maybe build a camp and stay there for a while." Santana told him. Mike could only nod he knew that Santana know what she doing because they been together for years and she trusted the latina as a leader.
"On it boss.." Puck mumbled and turned the truck outside the road.
They drove and half slide down the hill when they heard something that sounds like roaming of the walkers. "Did you hear that?" Puck asked, "Hear what?" Mike fired back. "There..." He said once again when another scream heard from inside the woods. "Yeah! Over there!" Santana shouted pointing at the car wreck not too far from them were surrounded by walkers.
"Oh my god..." Rachel mumbled looking at the car with walkers all over it. They then got out of the car to help. "Rach, stay here lock the door. We'll be right back." She said as the got out of the car.
"But –"
"Just stay here sweety. Let's go you guys." Santana cut her off and ran with the guys leaving a pouting Rachel behind.
"Damn it! We're dead! We're so dead!" the brown hair guy said inside the car backing away from the door. "Shut up Ryder! Fuck!" another man said frustrated. The walkers were pushing the car trying to get inside and get them out of the car. "I got no more bullets! Shit!" the blonde said closing the window backing away.
"Damn it! Now what Sam!? I'm out too!" He asked in panic and then...
BANG BANG BANG
They both turned around and saw three figures holding their guns knocking the walkers down one by one. Their mouth wide open when they saw they keep fire their weapons through the walkers' head easily.
More and more walkers fell onto the ground lifeless.
Santana stared at the white pupil's man before blowing her gun once again into the man's thick skull. "Hell yea! Die you bastard!" Puck screamed as he keep shooting the walkers near him with Mike next to him doing the same thing.
Then finally the last walker, Santana pulled out her pocket knife, and went straight to the walker's head. "Raid!" Puck shouted as Santana did that. High-fiving with Mike looking at their leader. "Alright... all clear! Nice job you guys." Santana told the guys looking around and saw all the walkers' bodies on the ground lifeless once again. "Hell yeah! You too boss." Puck said happily.
They then turned their gazes to the car. Santana knocked on the cracked, blood-streaked window. Then the doors opened the guys put their guns up aiming to the door in case they are dangerous. "Whoa... hey easy..." said the man. Santana raised an eyebrow at them. "Alright guys..." She said motioning them to put the guns down.
"Phew thanks you guys. We'll be dead if you guys didn't show up." Said another man as the three nodded their heads. "I'm Sam and this is Ryder." The blonde said motioning to him and his friend next to him as he offered his hand which Santana took in respond. "Santana, Mike and Puck." She told them, she thought there is no use to say Detective in this world anymore. "We're cops." Puck added, Santana mentally kicking Puck as he said that.
"Great! Nice to meet you! We've been waiting for the help from those military rolls!" Ryder said excitedly. "We're no military rolls you dumb. We're just cops. Didn't even know whats going on since the last three days." Santana retorted. "Oh well shit. Anyways there just three of you?" Sam asked. Santana then realized that they left Rachel in the car. "Oh shit!" She said and ran back to the car once she saw Rachel was out of the car, she walked towards her. She heard scream and saw Rachel's feet grabbed by one of the walker. "Rach! What the –" Santana said and fired her gun right through the walker's head just in time before it could bite Rachel on her feet. The guys ran after them hearing the gun shoot.
She ran and checked the little girl. Rachel let out a sob and hugged Santana tight. Santana sighed in relief after a few check up on her body and there is no bite or anything. "Rachel! I told you to stay inside the car!" Santana yelled, Rachel was shocked hearing Santana yelling at her.
"So – sorry Tana... I was getting bored and you took forever in there." Rachel answered between her sobs.
Santana sighed and hugged her tighter. "Shh... Shh sweety, it's okay. I'm sorry for yelling at you. Just don't do that again okay? Unless you got me or the guys with you." She told her sternly.
"I wont..." Rachel replied.
"You guys okay?" Puck asked once they approached them. "Yeah, got a close call but everything is fine now." Santana replied and got Rachel inside the car.
"Okay I'm glad you're fine." Puck told them.
"Oh yea and guys we have a little girl with us." Mike said.
"and we're heading to Lima to find our family." Puck said.
"Yeah... about that..." Sam said hesitantly. "How bad is it in there?" Mike asked after looking at their epression.
"Pretty bad... the whole town was surrounded by those things now last time we checked. That's why we are staying in the motor inn outside the town. We've got some people there." Sam informed them. "You should come with us." Ryder butted in looking at the cops in front of him.
"Okay let's head to my truck over there we need to ask the boss." Puck said and walked to the car with them following behind.
"We should get going this place doesn't look safe, its too close from the road I think its where the walkers came from." Santana said to the boys as they approached her.
"Yeah and these boys said they had a place to stay inside the woods." Puck told her.
"Really?" Santana asked raising her eyebrow making the boys gulped in fear, she is so intimidating thought the boys.
"Ye – yeah..." Sam said, Rachel giggling looking at the boys. Santana turned her head and watch Rachel giggling, "What's so funny sweety?" She asked raising her eyebrow a her. Rachel just shook her head and control her laughter. "Nothing Tana." She answered sweetly as she sent her a sweet smile. Santana shook her head and turned back to the boys.
"Yeah, and thanks again you guys. We really owe you one." Ryder said.
"Well, we saw you surrounded by those walkers and we couldn't just leave you there." Santana said as the other nodded their heads. "Whoa, you really got a little girl with you." Ryder said looking at Rachel. "Yes, you've got a problem with that?" Santana asked. "What? No of course not. It just we never see any kids for a week now." He quickly said. "Okay then. This is Rachel." She introduced her.
"Hello Rachel, I'm Ryder and this is Sam. Its so good to see you." Ryder said smiling at the girl as Rachel returned the smile to him and a wave to Sam.
"So you guys in a group?" Santana asked once again interrupting them.
"Yea. They're not to far from here," said Sam. "You should come back with us." He continued. "Yeah, it's the least we can do to repay you." Ryder added.
Santana glanced over her friends as if asking them mentally and they both nodded their heads. She then turned to see Rachel and she just shrugged as if telling it was up to her. "So what are you doing outside here then?" Santana asked curiously. "We are on supply hunts, we need some medical supplies for our group." Ryder answered shrugging. "But its pretty hard to find though since the dead come crawling we barely even find anything." Sam added.
"Well, we have some supplies." Puck said while Mike nodded his head as he opened the trunk and show them their bags of supplies.
Both boys' eyes widened. "Holy crap!" Ryder exclaimed. They chuckled at their expression. "I'm guessing this is the most you've seen in a while?" Santana asked. They nodded.
"Okay lets go then." She said getting inside the car.
"You going with your car or what? I saw that thing pretty damaged because of those walkers." Mike asked.
"Oh don't worry our car is just fine. Just follow us." Sam said walking toward his car with Ryder and the others following behind with their truck. Then suddenly, they heard some growling coming from around the road. "And that's our cue to leave!" Sam said. "This way!" Ryder exclaimed as they drove away inside the woods and avoided the walkers.
After a while of driving Santana, Mike, Puck and Rachel stared at the motor inn. "So this is where they've been staying." Santana muttered. "Looks like it. They did a pretty good job barricading it too." Mike stated as they drove towards the gate.
"We're back!" Ryder called as he pushed the gate open and let the cars in before putting the gate back into place.
"Whoa, hold on, who are these people?" Mercedes asked as she stomped up to them with Brittany and Tina next to her.
"This is Santana, Mike, Puck and Rachel." Sam explained as he got out of the car so did the others.
"And they're got food," added Ryder.
Puck then opened up one of the bags and showed some of the food. Mercedes was silent before she looked back up at them. "That's great, but you can't just keep bringing more people here!" She exclaimed. "Whoa, whoa, whoa! Chill out lady." Santana said, "We just wanted to help but if you can't chill the fuck out, we're going out of this fucking place." She continued not liking this woman a bit and began to opened her passenger door.
"Mercedes! That's not nice, I say we let them stay with us we need more people anyways. Sorry about her." Brittany piped up. "Yeah, I agree." Tina added and noticed that the others just got back from their hunt also. Mercedes rolled her eyes, "They just going to be another mouths to feed." She said. Santana growled, "Oh you better watch what you said!" She said ready to jump at the black girl but stopped when she felt hands on her, "Tana..." Rachel said in a small voice. "I'm scared... Are you okay?" She added.
"Hey don't worry , I'm ok see." She answered with a smile and Rachel nodded her head looking at the people. Santana turned around and look at Mercedes once more. "Oh you better watch what you say if I were you, and you should be lucky that Rachel is here otherwise I'll end you." She glared.
"Alright... alright... I think we better go then." Puck said having heard enough while Mike nodded and they just about to get in the car.
"Hey wait! Mercedes you've got no right to say all of it, you're no leader here beside they helped us hell we've been died by now if they didn't showed up." Sam explained.
Mercedes rolled her eyes, "Whatever..." She mumbled and turned around walking away.
"Bitch," muttered Santana. "Tana!" Rachel warned and Santana said sorry.
"So What do you think guys?" Ryder asked easy up the situation. Puck and Mike shrugged. "Okay, we're staying. Thanks guys." Santana answered.
"Yay! Oh I'm Brittany and this is Tina." Brittany told them and walked closer to the little girl. "Hey, its really nice to meet you." She said hugging the girl.
"Hello..." Rachel was surprised because a stranger was hugging her but just hugged her back.
"That girl's a jerk," Santana commented. "You got that right, girl." Jake said.
"It's Santana." She corrected. "And those are Mike and Puck. And the little girl's Rachel." She informed.
"Right sorry. And I'm Jake. And these are Marley and Kitty." He said jabbing his thumb towards Marley and Kitty. The two waved. They smiled and waved back at the girls.
"So they all in your group here?" Puck asked Ryder. "No, there is still Quinn but I guess she still out there hunting, she's going to be here in a few and Artie but he's sick so he just resting there." He replied pointing at the room Artie's staying. And just right in cue, the gate opened. And a blonde woman with a bag slide on her shoulder came in. "Hey guys... is everybody alright?" She asked as she got inside the gate.
"Oh yeah. Got a few close calls but we're good." Sam answered.
Quinn gazes then turned to the strangers. "Okay?" She said still looking at the unfamiliar faces.
"Oh sorry! These are Santana, Mike, Puck and Rachel." Ryder said. "And guys this is Quinn."
"Alright, welcome guys." Quinn said while the others nodded and waving in response. "I'm going to put these things inside. It's nice to meet you all." She said and with that she walked away getting in one of the room.
"Okay, that's Quinn for you and thats all. Oh and you're lucky we've got a couple spare rooms left." Brittany said as she walked over to one and opened up the door. "Don't worry, we've cleared this place out," she reassured. "You go ahead and get settled in." She said and walked to the next room and opened it to the boys.
"Alright," Santana said as she walked in the room with Rachel while the guys walked in the other room and closed the doors. They set their stuff down on a table.
"You ok?" Santana asked glancing at Rachel who is on the bed. Rachel sighed. "Yes you've been asking me that." Rachel asked rolled her eyes. "Oh yea sorry about that." Santana replied chuckled.
"Santana..." Rachel called breaking the silence.
"Yes?" She asked turning to see the girl.
"Do you think my parents ever going to find us?" She asked in hopefully tones.
Santana hesitated to answer the question so she stayed quiet a little. "Tana?" Rachel called again.
"Huh? Oh yea I think they will Rach." She answered and walked towards her kneeling in front of her. "And until then you're going to stay with us okay?" She asked softly. "Okay..." She hesitated said. "And Santana..." she called her again. "What's wrong?"
"I – I just got grabbed," Rachel began, Santana sighed, "I was there though and he didn't get you." She reassured.
"Yes I know it just – can you do that more? I mean got the dangerous ones." Rachel asked.
"Yes sweety, I'll protect you from the dangerous ones. Don't worry about it." She told her with a reassured smile. "Thank you Tana." Rachel said returned the smile.
"Of course munchkin," Santana answered and winked at the little girl making her giggled looking at the older woman. "You are so silly." Rachel said giggling. "Take it back!" Santana said and pulled the girl and tickle her on the stomach.
Rachel couldn't control her laughter anymore by now. "No! Stop it!" She said between her laugh. "You better take it back tiny." She said tickle her more. "Okay! Okay! Stop I take it back!" Rachel finally said. Santana grinned and let go of the girl with a victory smile. "Yes!" She said.
Rachel pouted once her laughter died out, "You're cheating!" She whined.
Santana chuckled and kissed her on the forehead. "So what do you think of the Motor Inn?" Santana asked once they calmed their laughter.
Rachel shrugged, "It's alright. So are the people here." She said. "Well, that big lady not so much."
"Yeah, we'll keep an eye on her." Santana said.
Sam and Jake approached Quinn as she unpack the supplies from her bag, Quinn glanced at him "You sure those guys are ok and not a treat for us." She asked.
"Yeah, I'm positive Q. They got foods, medical supplies, and weapons. They totally kicked those walkers behind when they found me and Ryder trapped in the car." Sam answered
"Seriously? Like how much?" Jake asked.
"They got like five or six bags full of supplies. It will last a month or so," said Sam shrugged.
"Okay, just don't let our guards down. We don't know who these people are so just keep an eye on them." Quinn said.
"Will do. And they're cops though so that's explain the weapons." Sam added.
Jake and Quinn turned and looked at him. "Well they are decent enough then. I think we going to be just fine and with that little girl with them I don't think they could be some kind of thieves or something." She said as the other nodded their heads.
They then made their way to Artie's room.
"How's he?" Quinn asked as Tina treating him giving him medical treatment that the cops brought up.
"He's still burning up and his fever keep getting worse and worse I'm worried." Tina answered.
Quinn sighed and looked at Artie who laying on the bed and walked out of the room.
Outside the room, Santana noticed Sam, Jake and Quinn just got out of the room, so she went to see them. "Hey guys." She greeted.
"Santana," they muttered. "So this Artie, is he okay?" She asked.
"No not so good." Sam answered sadly. "So what happened to him?" Santana asked once again.
"He got bitten on the raid back in Lima the other day when we out on hunting." Jake answered. Suddenly Santana get in the room leaving the confused faces behind then they followed her inside. Santana looked at the man on the bad and noticed the bite mark on his shoulder covered.
"Shit!" She hissed. "You should stay away from him." She informed Tina who was sitting on the bed next to him.
"What? What are you talking about?" She asked while the others just looking at the latina curiously.
"It's dangerous. He's going to turn." Santana explained.
"Turn?" this time it was Quinn who asked. Santana turned around to see the guys behind. "Yeah. When we on the road. We found this man and his family getting attacked by the walkers. Unfortunately we can't safe the whole family and just this man but he was bitten yet again we didn't know that time. So we took him with us. After few hours he started getting warm and heat up. Fever and worse we were worried and kept getting them some medicine but it didn't work and the fever wouldn't stopped so he died and not too long he got back as one of those things so we need to put him down before he could do any damage for us." Santana explained.
Their expression was as if they just seen a ghost and Santana could tell that they were in horror after hearing what Santana just said.
Tina checked on Artie and soon enough he stopped breathing and Tina checked on his wrist just to find out that he's dead. "No! Come on Artie!" She shouted shaking his lifeless body with tears streaming her face. "Get away from him!" Santana shouted, Tina looked at her dumbfounded not believing what she said just holding him with her.
Then Artie's eyes wide open...
To be continued
Okay guys, enjoy the update! Reviews would be appreciated. And I don't know about the pairing yet but working on it don't worry. Anyways 'till next time.
