Ever since she had originally moved to Georgia from California, Zachariah only enjoyed one thing about her new home, and that was the night sky. The skyline was beautiful beyond words, the moonlight was the brightest she had ever seen, and the stars where as clear as water. Though when the end of the world came around the night sky was more bright and dazzling, probably because mankind wasn't making light pollution. Though no one in the new world could appreciate it.
The moonlight however, was so brilliant it woke the orphaned survivor up from her light slumber she was in. she sat up instantly and rubbed her eyes to keep them open. Though when she fully opened them, she met the gaze of Merle's blue eyes as he was leaning in the doorway. Why was he here? Zachariah wondered to herself, and as always when she noticed his presence in the room, she could feel her cheeks heating up.
"Hi." Zachariah said with a tone of confusion in her voice, why was he here? Zachariah wondered to herself, and as always when she noticed his presence in the room, she could feel her cheeks heating up.
"Hey," Merle said back as he sat down at the foot of her bed. After a moment or two of silence Merle drew a long breath and spoke up. "How can you trust her so easily?" he asked with concern in his voice. He didn't even need to define who he was talking about, it seemed like that was the only thing he and her ever argued about, whether or not they could trust Michonne.
"Why can't you just trust my judgment and trust her too? She hasn't done anything to raise eyebrows about her." Zachariah said irritably. Merle was really pushing her when he was pushing the subject about Michonne, and Zach was getting fed up with discussing this with him. Merle then sighed heavily and put his only hand under her chin so she would look at him. His electric blue eyes burning into her Onyx black eyes. She realized something then, he was worried about her, and he was trying to keep her safe. When she thought this she sighed and put her hand on the wrist of the hand that was cupping her chin.
"Merle if you're worried about me, you don't have to. I'm perfectly capable of taking care of myself. And you should trust Michonne too-"she was then cut off when the older redneck moved his hand from her chin and rested it on the back of her head, then pressing his lips against hers.
With his hand at the back of her head he pushed her closer to his lips as he glided his tongue across her bottom lip, then penetrating into her mouth as she placed her hand on his shoulder. He then laid her down onto her back and trailed his hand up to her shirt, undoing the hook on her bra. She was lost, she didn't know what to feel, what to think, hell, she forgot her own name momentarily. What the hell was he doing to me? She thought to herself as he moved away from her lips and started licking the crook of her neck. Her body was heating up like a toaster oven, she was completely paralyzed, all she did was close her eyes and let the feeling of him over stimulating her body rush over her like a small wave of warm water on a cold winter's night.
He managed to get her shirt off to start working on her chest. Her bra was unhooked and her beasts were exposed. He pinched one of her nipples as he suckled on the other one, her cheeks where heating up as his mouth moved down from her chest to her stomach, then stopped at her waist line. He went back to kissing her stomach as he was un zipping her black, ripped up jeans and pulled them off of her legs. Merle kissed the sensitive skin on the inside of her thighs before his lusty gaze landed on her now soaking wet woman hood, l but was then interrupted by what sounded like someone calling Zachariah's name in the distance...
"Zach! We need to go!" I heard Michonne yell as I started to regain consciousness as she was shaking me. As soon as my vision became clear I realized why it was urgent for us to leave right there right then. I could hear moaning in the distance that sounded like it was coming from downstairs. I looked at the black women next to me and her voice assured my fear. The walkers where going to get in this house one way or another. So there was no chance of us being able to stay.
Michonne left immediately after that and I got my stuff together. A lot of thoughts where running through my head. Where would we go? What do we do? But I was also chastising myself because I knew that this house wouldn't last and I had no back-up plan what so ever. But as soon as I heard what sounded like wood breaking I stopped being pissed at myself. Figure out a plan later You've done it once and You can do it again. It was kinda like riding a bike in some way, but if I crash this particular bike, I have just as easily killed Michonne and Merle.
Damnit Andromeda! I thought to myself, figure it out once you're not at extreme danger! I decided to take my own advice and think about it later. This wasn't just my time I was wasting. I ran down the stairs after getting all my things together (which shouldn't have taken longer than I made it, but oh well.) and found Merle looking at the window, now broken in several places and had undead hands clawing to get in.
"Nice of Sleepin' Beauty to come and join us." Merle said sarcastically.
"Shut up Merle." I barked back at him. "Where's Michonne?"
"She's loading up the car." Merle said when the door finally gave to the substantial amount of pressure it had on, and broke.
The undead stumbled in just as Michonne ran back in from the garage door. I drew my sword and Merle had already had his (or should I say mine) gun all ready to fire. But there where way too many to handle. So we dispersed into different directions. Michonne and Merle ran out the garage door while I ran out the back. I closed the door when I got out hoping it would slow them down. Though I wasn't paying attention and when I turned around one tackled me to the ground. I just had to drop my sword about a foot away from me, because ya know, when the hell did things go my way? Never, that's when. But there was a stick in reaching distance, and I jammed it into the corpse's eye, killing it… again.
When I managed to get the dead body off of me, I first threw up, and after I did that I saw a blue truck speeding away from the house. I looked to the driveway and saw that our truck wasn't there, and I put two and two together. But I couldn't be pissed at it because I heard small wood snapping from behind me.
"Are you fucking kidding me?!" I said as I ran away from the house.
Merle and Michonne had left me.
I was looking out the window watching the trees go by as we were on our way to some unknown destination. I saw steam coming from the front of the car, though I just thought I was seeing things. After a few miles however the engine made a few weird sounds and died. Michonne, who was driving at the time, tried the engine a few more times but it did nothing. Just like mostly everything in the world, the car died.
"I guess we walk from here." Michonne said as she completely gave up trying to start the car back up.
"Why don't you try to fix it?" Merle asked. And before Michonne could answer I spoke up.
"For starters it sounds like the alternative belt snapped, and also the gas light has been on for about an hour." I said, still looking out the car window. After a few moments of silence I looked back to the front of the car and saw both Merle and Michonne looking at me with their eyebrows raised.
"My brother used to go to a trade school. He took auto shop, and I used to read the books he brought home about cars." I said lightly. I had pulled off a poker face, but just saying that brought back memories about Troy. I bit the inside of my cheek to bring me back to reality; there was no need what so ever to bring back that slide show.
"Alright… then we better get going before the sun goes down." Michonne said as she opened her car door. Merle didn't argue he got out too, and I grabbed my bag and my sword and got out too.
Everyone just walked in silence. That kinda made me realizes that we never really talk. I mean it's not like it was a bad thing. I've always was the silent type for as long as I could remember. And Michonne was definitely in the same category. But Merle kinda fell in the middle of it. Sometimes he talked, but when he did it's not like he had the words of a poet. Usually he just criticized and joked for as long as I've known him, which wasn't that long. But a small thought popped into my head at that point, Merle and Michonne where the only two people I've ever really hung around. I mean sure I been around people before, and for long periods of time. But those two (with the exception of my brother), where the only people I've ever stuck around and talked to. It was kinda sad that it took the end of the world for me to make friends.
Though I don't think I could call them friends though. I mean I don't their last names, how old they are or, well… anything about them for that matter. Though I kinda had the feeling that Merle and Michonne where going to be the closest to friends that id ever have. And it was kinda nice to have people have my back, even though in a sense, they where complete strangers to me.
A crow cawing in the sky snapped me back in reality. I was staring at my feet when we were walking and when that bird called out, high in the sky, I looked behind me and I was surprised I couldn't see the car anymore. How long have we been walking? I thought to myself. The sun was setting and the sky's horizon started to turn orange. I kinda felt like I just woke up from a really long nap. You know, muscles kinda ach, your kinda disoriented, you wondering what time it is and/or how long you've been sleeping, That kind of feeling.
After what felt like an hour of walking we eventually got to a restaurant parking lot at the opposite side of the road from where we were walking. It was a serious lucky find because it looked deserted and there were a few cars in the deserted lot. From the sounds of the conversation in front of me, I assumed I was the only one who noticed the lot of cars. I walked a little faster to try to join in on the conversation.
"We should have checked a map before we left the car. We've been walkin' for hours." Merle complained as he looked at the black women next to him.
"We'll come across something eventually." Michonne said, probably irritated at his complaining.
"Christ, and I thought Zach was incapable of directions." Merle mumbled as he looked ahead. Michonne glared at him after he said that and was about to start an argument. But I was already pissed off at both walking all this way, and that crack Merle said about my sense of direction. So I butted into the brewing argument.
"Okay one; I have a great sense of direction. And two, why don't we get a car from over there?" I said as I pointed to the restaurant across the way. Both Merle and Michonne looked to where I was pointing, and both of their eyes had surprise in them.
"When in the hell did that get there?" Merle asked in surprise.
"It's been there for like, ten minutes. You two were just too busy arguing to notice." I said irritably. I mean, sure sometimes their arguments are a riot to listen to. They fight over the littlest of things. But other times their arguing makes me want to hotwire a car, leave, and never look back.
"If Mickey didn't start-"Merle started to say but he was cut off by Michonne.
"What I started?" Michonne angrily asked. And then they started another argument. There wasn't much too really do at that point. So I stood there at the side of the road and I waited for them stop their pointless argument. after about five minutes of listening to them bitch and complain at each other, I decided that if we were going to find shelter before the sun went completely down, we would need to get moving right at that moment.
"HEY!" I yelled angrily. Now I was getting really sick and tired of hearing the two of them argue. I mean they argue about the most stupid shit you could possibly imagine. I thought me and my brother where terrible like that, or even me and Merle for that matter, before Michonne got into the picture. They both looked at me as soon as I yelled for their attention. At least I managed to get their attention; I thought to myself.
"Instead of arguing about who started what, why don't we go get a god damn car, and find some sort of shelter before the sun goes totally down?!" I exasperated. Hoping they would at least call a truce long enough to accomplish at least getting a vehicle.
"Fine by me." Michonne said with her arms crossed. Then we both looked at Merle, waiting for his answer.
"Fine." He said with his hands raised in surrender. After that all three of us got to the parking lot.
We should have been gone a LONG time ago; I thought to myself as we were looking for a car. We stopped by an SUV and Michonne looked into it.
"This one's unlocked." She said opening the door with no problem.
"What, are we taking our son to soccer practice?" I asked sarcastically "let's take this one." I suggested, pointing to a midnight blue truck.
"Why? Just because you like the color?" Merle asked.
"What's wrong with the color?" I asked.
"What's wrong with the SUV?" Michonne asked.
"Um, hello? It's a gas guzzler. We only have one planet." I stated. Both Michonne and Merle groaned when I said that, which I kinda expected them to.
"Fine we'll take the damn truck." Merle said as he got in the back.
"Alright then, I'm driving." I said as I got into the driver's side. Michonne looked at me with her eyebrow raised and then got into the passenger's side of the vehicle. Though if I could be perfectly honest I didn't really give two shits if the SUV was a gas guzzler or not. I just really liked the color of the truck. Though it's not like id ever say that to either of them. I also realized a little later that the reason Michonne was looking at me funny was because that was the first time I ever drove when she showed up. I guess I wasn't technically legal to drive, or at least didn't look like I was but hey, end of the world. The law didn't exactly matter anymore.
After hiding in a tree for about an hour or so I realized the coast was clear. I got out of the tree and I started off in some random direction. I didn't exactly know where I was going but I knew I wasn't going to stay around there that was for sure. So I kept walking until the sun went down, and lucky I found a motel that seemed half way deserted. So I broke in, stole a key to a room, and opened the door to the room and immediately laid down on the bed.
I ran through the events of that day again in my head. I was so pissed off at Merle and Michonne just leaving the way they did, but at the same time I was on the verge of tears because of it. Then I realized that was the first time I've ever really been on my own. Sure there was like a one day gap between leaving Morgan and his son to meeting Merle and saving his ass. All this time I've said "I don't need people. I can do things better on my own." When really I've never actually been alone.
Hell right now I thought, Merle and Michonne would be having some sort of argument and I wouldn't be there to stop it before it really escalated. And with that thought I felt tears running down my cheek. Then I started crying for my brother, for Merle, for Michonne, and for my position then and there. After letting the tears flow for a few minutes I slapped myself. Jesus Christ, get a hold of yourself, Zach! I thought to myself. You're better than this! Do you think Michonne, or Troy, or Merle would want you crying over them? Hell no! Even though I did miss them all like crazy. I realized there isn't time anymore for crying and feeling sorry for myself. So with a sigh of self pity, I rolled to my side, faced the door, and fell asleep. Though that didn't stop the tears from falling.
wow it seems like a life time since I've updated this story. i am so sorry! i would update more than i have but i havent had the time. but im going to try to better than i have. i swear! anywho back to the story. i know im kinda lagging back before season two i know, but in my mind i already have gotten to the mid season finale, i just cant type as fast as i think. speaking of the mid season finale, it was beyond AWESOME! i was litarily in tears from what happened. now if you havent gotten to watching it yet i dont want to spoil anything but if you have, well... there are no words to describe how awesome that episode was!
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