The Walking Dead: Origins
Chapter 3: Lilly
Hello my fellow Walking Dead readers. I apologize for taking a couple of days, I was a little busy with some things, you all know what I mean. I was also making a video about the mistakes in The Walking Dead Game Season 1. But the chapter is here now.
This is the story of Lilly, but there won't be that much to go on since there's not much information regarding Lilly's life up to the apocalypse, but I did what I can.
All right, now I am just speaking too much. Enjoy chapter 3.
During a peaceful afternoon near the small town of Macon, a young woman named Lilly and her father Larry were stuck in a traffic jam just on the outskirts of Macon. They were on their way to the International Cherry Blossom Festival, but they were now stuck on the highway and could only wait until things got moving again.
Larry, whom was sitting in the passenger seat opened up the window and shook his fist in the air, yelling out in frustration and anger. "Get a fuckin move on! I ain't getting any younger!"
Lilly attempted to keep her father calm before he pushed himself too far. She sometimes wished that her father was still the same happy man he was a few months back. "Dad, please, calm down. Your heart, remember?"
Larry wanted to continue screaming out in rage, but he took his arm back into the car and shut the window. He took a deep breath and kept himself calm before shifting his attention to his daughter, whom he loved and cherished. "Sorry, pumpkin. I just hate this traffic jams."
"It's okay, Dad." Lilly assured with a slight smile across her face, but deep down inside, she was extremely concerned for her father.
He used to be an army commander when he was a little younger, but he was forced to retire due to heart problems and was forced to take nitroglycerine pills regularly. And to make matters worse, a couple of months back, Larry's wife Miranda had passed away due to an illness that could not be cured. Since then, Larry had changed to a completely different man.
Whilst they were waiting for the traffic to start moving again, Larry checked his pockets for his pills when it was time for him to take them. He tipped the last couple of pills out from the bottle and swallowed them down. "I'm out of pills, Lilly."
"We'll stop off at a pharmacy when we get to Macon." Lilly replied, now a little concerned for her father if he got angry again. She knew if he suffered a heart attack, she had no way to help him and might not be able to get him to a hospital. The best thing she could do was keep him calm.
Lilly shifted her attention towards her rear-view mirror when she saw a few people limping towards her car and many others. She immediately took action and locked the doors, prepared for the worse.
Larry had also noticed this and turned back to see what was happening. He was shocked to see these people were banging against cars, either trying to get inside by force or merely trying to scare them. "What the fuck are those bunch of morons doing?"
"Relax, Dad, I'll handle it." Lilly assured as she unlocked the door and stepped outside her car, closing the door behind her. She approached one of the people whom were banging against a car behind her that caused the driver to get out and run away.
She was not afraid to speak up though. She had handled people far worse than a couple of jokers. Or so she thought she had, at least. "Hey buddy, what's your beef!?"
A couple of the people banging against the cars shifted their attention over towards Lilly and began limping towards her, making some groans like they were in pain.
Lilly was unsure on what to do next, but when these people got closer in view, her expression changed from angry into a shocked and fearful one when she could see them in full detail. Those people were not ordinary people. They looked like they were dead! Their skins were torn and dry, their eye balls looked completely white, and their torsos were skinny as the average body should be.
Whatever those monsters were, some of them advanced towards Lilly whilst snarling and groaning.
Lilly stood in shock for a moment but she ran back towards her car and got back inside into the driver's seat, closing the door behind her whilst doing so. She immediately turned her keys into the ignition, but out of the all the days she owned this car, today was the day it refused to start. "Come on!"
"Lilly, what the fuck is going on!?" Larry inquired in a somewhat angry yet fearful tone.
Before Lilly could answer her father's question, she screamed when one of those monsters stood inches away from her outside her car and banged against the window. "Shit, AH!"
Larry had also panicked when one of those monsters were standing outside behind the door, hanging against the window to try and get them. Thank the Lord he closed the window when he did. "W-W-W-What the fuck!?"
"Start you fucking piece of shit!" Lilly cursed as she continued to try and start the engine, but it refused to start. She angrily punched her hand against the car wheel in frustration and fear. "Come on, start!"
One more time, Lilly attempted to start the engine, and this time, she turned the keys and pressed her foot down against the gas simultaneously, and could not be more relieved to hear the engine roar to life. She immediately turned off the highway and drove off the road, desperate to get as far away from those monsters as she could.
Larry was almost as shocked as his daughter was when witnessing what had just occurred. He did a quick look behind them to see if those things were following them, but to his relief, they seemed to be busy with other people on the highway, but the good thing was those monsters couldn't exactly run. "What in the fuck just happened?!"
"Dad, we have to get to Macon. Maybe we can call the police while were now." Lilly suggested whilst she kept her eyes focused in front of her to make sure she did not hit anything they may cause her car to stop. After all, this vehicle was not exactly made for off-road. "Just try to relax, Dad."
Larry was nowhere near relaxed after that he just witnessed, but for the sake of his daughter, he made it look like he was calm and kept a level head. He leaned back against the seat and folded his arms together. "I was an army commander for a long time and I have never seen anything this crazy. Those things looked like...Dead people walking from all those movies you see."
"Zombies?" Lilly corrected for him. She agreed with this.
"Yeah, zombies." Larry confirmed.
"We should still find some medicine for you, Dad." Lilly suggested, willing to take care of her father anyway possible before putting her own needs for herself. "Let's just get to Macon first."
It took Lilly around fifteen-minutes until she made it to Macon, but unfortunately, her car had broken down just a few feet away from the town and now she and her father were forced to continue on foot. She knew Macon quite well after her regularly visits and figured she could find her way around easily.
Once Lilly and Larry were in Macon, to their horror, there was more of those monsters roaming around the area, but not as many as before. The duo stuck together and avoided any contact with those monsters.
Before long, Lilly walked around a corner of a building to a street where there were not any of those monsters walking around. And to her relief, there was a drugstore just down below. It was quite obvious since it had the word "Drugs" on top of the building in a huge red letters. "Dad, there's a pharmacy just down there. We can get you some pills and maybe hold up in there for a while."
"Anywhere is better than out here." Larry admitted, doing a quick survey around the area to see if there were any of those things lurking around the area, but they were in the clear for now. "Let's go."
Lilly did one more check to make sure they were in the clear before she began to run towards the drugstore, but she had to keep a fair pace due to her dad not being able to move as fast as he could when he was younger.
The second they reached the drugstore, the two immediately departed in through security gates and through the doors that were still left open. As they went inside and shut the door behind them, a lone walker attempted to reach out for the two living people that went past him, but he was trapped under fallen power line lamp post and could not do anything about it.
Lilly took a couple of breaths once they were safe for now and hidden out of plane sight. However, she surveyed the store and was relieved to see the windows were boarded up, preventing anyone from seeing them from the outside. But she had to admit she would feel a lot safer if those security gates were.
Whilst she did that, Larry had spotted the area where all the medication was located and walked over to investigate, but to his annoyance, he was prevented from entering by a security gate. "Oh, fuck it's locked."
Lilly finished catching her breath back before she joined her father to see what was wrong. She hummed and placed her hand upon her hip, unsure on how they were both going to get in there. "The keys might be around here somewhere." she shifted her attention towards a door by the shop counter. "Let's look in there, Dad."
Lilly was about to go inside, but her father went first and insisted that he go inside first just in case things went wrong. He opened the door slowly and poke his head through the door, only to see the room looked clear that gave him the confidence to open it fully. But his eyes seem to miss what was lying on the ground. "Jesus..."
"Dad...?" Lilly questioned as she followed him into the office, but what she saw next had almost caused Lilly to vomit. "Oh...My God."
Lying on a dirty mattress was two dead elderly couple whom looked around in their late sixties and presuming the owners of this store. A lot blood was smeared around them both that looked horrifying for anyone to see.
Larry was also shocked by what he just witnessed, but he immediately took action when he saw a backdoor that he presumed led to an alleyway. He grabbed one of the bodies by their hands and began to drag them towards the door.
Lilly was slightly surprised by what her father was doing, that caused her to speak up towards him. "Dad, you should have some respect for the dead!"
"I do, Lilly!" Larry assured in a somewhat snappy tone. He explained his actions as he held the body up with one hand whilst he used the other one to open the door. "Like we said: those things are like zombies. Zombies were dead but they come back, remember? We can't risk them coming back as one of them. We'll be safe, trust me."
Lilly still thought it was ungrateful to drag corpses out like this, but she saw her father's point and gave him the benefit of the doubt. She decided to search the table that was pressed against a metal for anything useful. She searched through all the doors, but the only thing she found useful was a combination lock that could be helpful if they needed to close those gates. But then again, there was no clue inside the draw to what the combination code was.
Before long, Larry had finished dragging out the bodies that did not take him much effort due to his strength and he walked back into the drugstore. He closed the alleyway door behind him and blocked it off using a shelf just in case they were discovered.
"Dad, are you feeling okay?" Lilly inquired, concerned for her father's health, especially after what they had just been through.
"I'm fine, Lilly." Larry assured as he shifted his attention back towards the metal door that looked like it would lead them into the pharmacy. "Now, let's get-"
Larry did not get to finish his sentence when the sound of the front door opening and then closing again in a matter of seconds had shot through his eardrums. "What the fuck! They got in?!"
"They're not smart enough to open doors, Dad. We better go and check it out." Lilly suggested, she too had heard someone coming inside. She marched outside the office and back into the pharmacy with her father where her eyes met three people, whom must have also trying to escape from those monsters. How bad did this situation get?
The first one was a woman who looked around in her middle twenties. She had medium dark brown hair, and her ethnicity seemed to be Caucasian-American. She wore a long sleeve white shirt and a long black pencil skirt.
The second one was a man who looked around in his late twenties. He had short brown hair with a fringe hairstyle, and his ethnicity seemed to be Caucasian-American. He wore a light green shirt, brown shorts, and was a little overweight.
The third and last one was another man who looked around in his middle twenties. He had short black hair but it was mostly covered by his blue and white cap with the initials "SW" written on and his ethnicity seemed to be Korean-American. He wore a brown jacket with a red shirt underneath and blue jeans.
"Who the fuck are you people?" Lilly inquired, immediately demanding answers from these strangers.
"Wait, you're not the Everett's, are you?" the Korean man asked, obviously he seemed to know the owners here.
Larry was about to say something, but Lilly placed her hand back and beckoned for him to not say or do anything. She spoke first to the three strangers, now in a calmer tone. "They're dead...We found their bodies in the office back there...Had to drag them out."
"Oh...My gosh." the woman silently gasped and placed her hand over her mouth.
"Jesus..." the Korean man sighed; shocked to how bad this situation had got when it only just began.
Lilly decided to introduce herself since she had the feeling they were planning to stick around for a little while, and she was in no mood for herself and her father to start a fight. "I'm Lilly. This is my dad, Larry."
"I'm Carley."
"I'm Glenn."
"And I'm Doug."
"All right, first things first. That door stays shut no matter what, got that!?" Lilly ordered in a bossy tone that the trio did not seem to take a liking too, but nevertheless, they decided to nod their heads in agreement. "Good. Whoever owned this place, boarded it up good. We should be safe."
"Yeah, got it." Carley assured.
"Now if you going to stay help us find the fucking keys to that pharmacy." Larry requested, marching over towards the security gates that blocked off the pharmacy. He attempted to pull it open with his bare hands, but he was not strong enough.
Carley placed her purse on the counter whilst she decided to try and get settled in since they might be there for a while. But she was worried about those monsters barging through the doors. She noticed a pair of security gates outside that looked strong enough to hold them back when you came inside. "Anyway we can lock those gates outside?"
"We found a combination lock in one of the draws, but we don't know the code." Lilly replied, throwing the combination lock over towards Glenn, whom caught it, but was unsure what to do with it. "If those things find us, THEN we put the lock on."
Carley nodded in agreement whilst she turned her interest over towards a radio on the counter that caught her interest.
Now that they had their orders, Lilly proceeded to search around the store for anything she could use to help her father get into the pharmacy. She was unsure on how these entire events were going to turn out after witnessing the undead attacking the living, but she had the feeling everything was going to be okay as soon as the government would take action. For now, all she could do was hide, protect her father until this whole situation blew over.
And that was the story of Lilly and Larry, ladies and gentlemen, and fans of The Walking Dead. Stay tuned for chapter 4 where we will hear the story of one of our favorite characters, the deuteragonist of season 1 and the protagonist of season 2...
Clementine.