Hey guys!

First of all thanks for reading this story it means a lot. I've been a big Walking Dead ever since I have seen it and I thought of doing a fanfiction of it for quite a while now, but I never got around that unfortunately. But when Season 4 came out, I thought to myself that this would be the perfect time frame for Casey to make his appearance :). So again thank you for reading and I hope you guys enjoy chapter 5!

Okay here goes :D

Chapter 5: A hellish day and a normal night

2 years ago

"Okay smart and good looking people!" My science teacher, Mr. Hughes announced to the class in a cheery casual voice. "We are now going to watch a movie called Apollo 13. With the all famous Tom Hanks an actor you should all know by now."
I liked Mr. Hughes. He was unlike any other science teacher I ever had. Usually the science teachers I had were mostly cool but really serious and made us do all these projects that were so pointless. Mr. Hughes on the other hand, while expects us to work hard, has a laid back jaunty personality to him. Not to mention a brainiac.

"I don't know who that is." One of the students Kevin Jackson suddenly called out. I let out a chuckle and shook my head at him. He really knew who Tom Hanks was, he just had this thing that he didn't know things just to get attention. It wasn't a problem though, and Mr. Hughes would make a smart comment in return.

"Well I guess you've live under a rock." Mr. Hughes replied with a smile. He looked up and pointed at a student who raised her hand. "Yes, Yuki?"

I turned to Yuki to see what she had to say. Yuki Westbrook is a Japanese American girl and one of my best friends since first grade. She was born in Japan, but came to America when she was six-years-old. Her black hair was wrapped in a bun like most times. Yuki wore a Hard Rock T-shirt and some short jeans.

"Is there a paper with this movie?" She asked. I hope there isn't.

"Nope!" Mr. Hughes answered. "This is all movie week, people so savior it while you can."

"It's movie day! Pop the popcorn! Get the sodas! Yeah!" I cheered making some people laugh. I always said crazy stuff like that when we're going to watch a movie in any class. "Woo! Movie!"

After my foolish scene and a good laugh, Mr. Hughes flipped the lights off making it dark so we can see the movie up front. There was no TV in the classroom, but Mr. Hughes did have one of those projector screens hooked up to the DVD console.

I was watching the movie up to about 15-20 minutes when all of a sudden the school announcements beeped over the intercom. There always have to be that occasional announcement about girls volley ball has been canceled, or the anime club has been postpone until Wednesday, or our head principal Mrs. Rogers telling us that we are awesome and that this is the best school in all of the state.

Let's see what's going on.

"Attention All Colton Valley students: This is Mrs. Rogers. At this time, ALL students are hereby dismissed from school at this time! Again all Colton Valley students are hereby dismissed and are to leave the school grounds immediately!" She said in a firm authoritative voice. "School buses are now outside to take you back home, and for our seniors who are driving home: PLEASE drive safely. That's all guys. Take care." And with that the announcements went off.

No freaking way! We get to go home? Oh man this is the best announcement ever! We should have these more often.

"Huh. That was unexpected, but what you heard the lady! Get outta here and have a nice weekend. We will pick up on this on Monday hopefully with no interruptions like that next time." Mr. Hughes said as we were all getting our stuff packed into our backpacks left the classroom into the hall with many other students making their way through the hall and outside to either the buses or to their cars to get home cheering and getting all excited.

"Thank you Mrs. Rogers! You have done a great deed this day for all of us!" Kevin yelled happily.

"Amen to that, Kev." I nodded. "A-freaking-men."

"So whattya gonna do when you get home, man?" He asked.

"Ahh a camp out in the back yard. It's getting close to summer so I figure what the heck." I replied. "What about you?"

"Maybe some Modern Warfare 2. Maybe later on you wanna get on LIVE?"

"Sure! Why not?" I replied. "Hey you excited for the new one coming out in November?"

"Hell yeah, man! I'm pumped for Black Ops." He exclaimed all excited. "I wonder if their gonna have Zombies in it."

"Dude they gotta! Its made by Trearch! They made Nazi zombies and it's awesome!"

"We'll know when it comes out."

"Okay see ya later, man!" I said bumping his fist.

"You too brotha!"

A voice called my name behind me. "Casey!"

I turned to see Yuki making her way towards me through the crowds until she was right next to me.

"Hey Yuki." I greeted with a grin. "What's up?"

She smiled back. "Nothing much and you?"

"Same here, bud."

"Hey are you ready for that bonfire tonight at my place?" She asked all excited.

"You bet I am." Was my answer. "My mom went to Giant the other day to get some marshmallows, graham crackers and Hershey bars so we're all good for food."

"Awesome!" Yuki looked really excited. Me, her, and a couple other friends have been planning out this bond fire for sometime now.

As we exited the school there was a cop car parked outside the school as well as an ambulance. We rarely get visits from the cops and the paramedics, but never at the same time. Must have been a bad fight with on guy seriously getting hurt or something.

"Hope everyone is okay." I said.

"Yeah, me too." Yuki nodded. " Oh! Rachel contacted me saying she's going to be a little late, but not that much so nothing to worry about there."

"Well as long as she arrives at the party, I'm all good."

"What about your lovey dove?" She teased me mentioning my girlfriend Emma Kingston. Like Yuki, Emma has been my best friend since first grade and she became my girlfriend in 7th grade. She had brown red hair that she usually keeps in a ponytail and light green eyes. Emma was known for her tomboy appearance, mostly wearing a shirt and jeans mostly.

"Yeah... Yeah..." I groaned.

We made our way to our bus to see our bus driver, Greg opening the door for us. He was a older looking guy with a grey T-shirt and a blue ball cap. Greg was also the best bus driver ever in my opinion because he turns on the radio for us and occasionally gives us Oreo cookies, which I love so much!

"Hey, guys! Lucky day, huh?"

I chuckled. "Yeah looks like it, Greg."

Me and Yuki sat up at the very front waiting for the rest of the kids to come on board.

About a minute later, another good friend of mine, Rachel Collins showed up. Like Yuki, she kept her light brown hair wrapped in a bun, and wore glasses.

"Hey guys!" Rachel greeted taking a seat right next to Yuki.

"Hey there!"

"Hi!"

We began talking about how we are going to have such an awesome time tonight, while more and more students began to fill up the bus. About five minutes later, Greg turned the radio on with Tik Tok, by: Kesha playing on the air, and the bus started moving until we left school grounds on our way home.

"Ugh! I hate this song!" Rachel groaned annoyed.

I nodded. "Amen to that, Rachel."

Yuki on the other hand was smiling and and moving to the beat. "Oh come on! It's not so bad once you get used to it."

"If you say so." Rachel said shaking her head and chuckling.

About a few minutes on the road there was some traffic slowing us down and some horns honking. Traffic does get crowded sometimes, but never this busy.

"Ugh! This traffic is going to be the end of me! I'm going to die from boredom." Yuki groaned.

"Well let's play a game then." Rachel suggested. She then looked out at the traffic scanning the cars and all of a sudden she shouted. "Red one!" Punching Yuki in the arm.

"Ow!" Yuki yelped cursing at Rachel in Japanese.

I laughed at her. "What was that?"

"I basically said screw you." Yuki explained. We all laughed after that. We decided to curse at each other in different languages just to pass the time.

"Arschloch." Rachel cursed at Yuki in German. She speaks fluent German because her family coming from Germany."

"Rokudenashi." Yuki chimed in speaking a Japanese curse word.

"Mudak." I said in Russian. Like Rachel and Yuki I spoke a fluent language because of my grandpa.

"Haha what does that mean?" Rachel asked me.

"Asshole." Was my response grinning we were all laughing. "Courtesy of my gramps. He and my mom were born in Russia."

"Didn't know that!" Yuki exclaimed.

I laughed. "Yep Latino/Russian American." Explaining my ethnicity. My expression turned a little more serious. "He was also a WWII vet."

Rachel looked up a little shocked and then said. "Mine too. His name was Dieter Bauer. Wehrmacht. Fought on the Eastern Front..."

Yuki chimed in as well. "Mine was Juro Takahashi. Navy pilot. Fought in the Pacific." She said mentioning her grandfather.

It was my turn. "Mines Andrei Pirogov. Red Army. Eastern front." I told them.

There was an uncomfortable moment of silence. It was kind of shocking that all three of our grandpas fought in WWII. Especially since we were American but we all had grandfathers that were from other countries.

We were silent for a few minutes until we began to hear police sirens outside getting louder. Yuki, Rachel and I looked out the windows to see three cop cars racing there way past us until the sirens died down.

"Okay that was weird." I said.

"Hey! Hey guys! Look up there!" Rachel pointed up at the sky to see a helicopter flying off in the same direction as the police cars.

"I'm guessing this isn't by coincidence." Yuki guessed. We both nodded. Something was going on here.

"You think it had something to do with us being dismissed early?" I asked.

"Maybe." Rachel replied. "I don't know for sure but Mrs. Rogers doesn't really let's us go home early because she's feeling generous to us."

"True." Yuki nodded."Maybe someone brought a gun to school?"

I nodded my head. "Unlikely. The Cops were going off in the opposite direction."

"Maybe a robbery?' Rachel suggested.

"Probably." Yuki acknowledged. "But a robbery wouldn't have let us go home early. Maybe i-"

Yuki got interrupted by a the music stopping and being replaced by the Emergency Broadcast alarm.

"Okay this is getting weird." I said sounding worried.

An announcer came over the radio. "This emergency broadcast is being transmitted at the request of the Pennsylvania State Police. An unknown epidemic is rapidly spreading across the state of Pennsylvania. Although unknown of where it came from, it is mostly affecting borough communities such as Reddington, Victortown, Wheelsburg, and Pinestream. The United States Dep*static*ment *static* -th.." The transmission went dark causing some commotion on the bus.

"Did he just say Wheelsburg?" Rachel asked alarmed. There is an unknown infection in our hometown?

"That explains the ambulance at school." I pointed out. "But who would've gotten sick?"

"Wait... Luke Thompson!" Rachel said as she was making a connection. "This morning I was on my way to my third period class, and I saw Mr. Bright taking Luke to the nurses office. He looked really pale and sweaty."

I nodded at her statement. "That explains our early dismissal."

"But the main thing is, why would the cops be in hurry?"

"Oh my God!" A girl screamed pointing out the window. I was in shocked to see a what looked like a woman on the road eating a mans guts out and looked up in our direction with a scary feral look making her way toward us. Everyone on the bus started screaming freaking out. What is going on right now?!

"Get moving!"

"Fucking go! GO!"

"What the fuck was that?!"

"Oh my god... Oh my god... Oh my god.."

"She's coming for us!"

We were all in shock as the bloody woman was shuffling straight towards the bus. My whole body frozen up and I couldn't move.

"Greg! Open the damn doors!" One of the students Nick Foster screamed all terrified. Just then I managed to snap myself out of it. I suddenly began to think of Emma and to see if she's okay. She lives in this area, and I can get to her neighborhood on foot, but in order to do that, We needed to get the doors open so we can get the hell off this bus.

"No! We're staying right here! It's safer in here!" Greg shouted back a little worried.

Just then the lady bumped herself into the door trying to push it open.

"She's at the door!" A girl screamed huddling up like a ball crying. "I don't wanna die, I don't wanna die, I don't wanna die..."

"Okay... That door isn't gonna hold. She'll push it open eventually."

The door was blocked but I looked back at the emergency exit looked safe. "Hey! Somebody open up the emergency exit."

"I got it!" One kid replied as he jumped out of his seat and pushed the door open. "Everybody out! Come on!" He shouted waving his hand letting everyone off the bus.

"Come on, let's go!" Rachel yelled through the screaming chaos. She was out of her seat first and Yuki and I followed.

"Hey! All of you get back in your seats!" Greg yelled at us sounding terrified. "You can't go off into traffic! It's dangerous!"

"So is staying here." I murmured making my way towards the exit.

"Hey! Get back in your goddamn seats!"

I saw the girls still curved up into a ball shivering and mumbling so I rushed to her. "Hey! Hey! Come on! We're getting outta here!" I told her shoving her body to get her attention. She didn't respond and continued to mumble incomprehensibly. I really didn't want to do this, but we needed to get of the bus now!

"I'm sorry..." I said as I raised my hand and slapped her across the face.

She gasp in pain but she snapped back into reality looking up at me horrified. "Please! Don't hurt me! Please!"

"I'm not gonna hurt you, but you need to get off the bus right now. Okay?" I told her.

She nodded. "Okay..." She said getting out of her seat and exiting the bus.

"Are you outta your God dam mind?!" Greg continued. "It's dangerous out there! The doors will hold anyways! You get back in your seat ri- AAAGH!"

Greg's blood curling scream along with a some nasty sounding screeching made me turn to see that the lady pushed open the doors and started biting savagely at Gregs arm taking a bite out of it. She then turned to me and started shuffling her way to me quickly growling and screeching.

I panicked and fell on my back allowing her to hold me down and keep me pinned. She looked scary as hell with her face all bloody and a little torn. Before she could take a bite of my neck, I headbutted her causing fall back a little and make me go free. I quickly got to my feet and rushed towards the back exit jumping out landing on my feet and I closed the door before she could follow me out.

I looked around at my surroundings to see people running terrified in all directions, a couple of cars crashing brutally, some cops firing guns at some people. I was scared to death, but I couldn't let this get to me.

I dashed off the road and into the local Got Beer store where everyone else was. The place was crowded with customers and students from the bus. Some were scared like hell while others were trying to calm them down. I even saw the girl curved up in a ball on the bus hugging and older woman. That must have been her mom.

"Casey!" I turned to see Yuki and Rachel running towards me with relief. We all made a big group hug thankful that we were all okay.

"You okay?" Rachel asked me all concerned.

"Yeah I'm fine. Don't worry." I said.

"What about Greg?" Yuki asked me.

I shook my head violently. "The lady got in and... just bit his arm off..."

"Holy shit..." Rachel gasped. "Okay... Okay what do we do now? we, we, just can't stay here okay? We need to-"

Before Rachel could finish, we all heard a distant boom and a loud siren echoing through the whole town.

What the hell was happening?!

Present Day

I shot up from my bed drenching cold sweat and taking in quick shallow breaths. After a few seconds, I took in a deep breath fell back on pillow and stayed there for a few minutes.

That day two years ago was one of the scariest moments of my life. I was amazed I survived that hellhole and managed to stay alive to this day.

"Jesus Christ..." I swore silently.

I didn't want to think about it anymore, so I got up and went to the sink, splashing cold water on my face. I wasn't even aware that someone was hanging out by the entrance of my cell.

"Excuse me, Casey?" A familiar soft girl voice called out from behind the curtains. "It's me, Beth. You wanna come have dinner with us? It just started."

"Uh yeah. Yeah sure hold up, Beth." I called back quickly putting on my dirty blue shirt. I know it wasn't clean but it was going to make me more presentable than me being shirtless. I opened the curtains up to see Beth smiling at me. My heart was beating really fast now.

Man! She's a beauty!

"Okay ready." I said.

"Okay follow me. It's this way." Beth said leading me the way out of the cell block.

"That was a cute little rascal you had there." I said.

Beth looked at me and laughed. "Yeah she's a little sweetheart, but she can be a handful."

"She's a baby. Of course she's a handful." I said.

"That's true." Beth said. "Judith is a little laugh machine. I mean she will laugh and smile at just about everything. Even during a diaper change."

I laughed. "Never thought that would be possible." I said.

Beth shakes her head and laughs. "It's so ridiculous though!"

"Babies are ridiculous." I said laughing. "How old is Judith?"

"About six months old." Beth replied. Her expression turned sad now. "Her mom would've been so proud of her."

I frowned. "I'm sorry... Tyreese told me about her... Her name was Lori right?"

She nodded sadly. "She died shortly after we found this prison giving birth to Judith. It was really hard for all of us, even for her husband, Rick and her son, Carl. We all miss her."

"I would've like to meet her. She seems like a good person." I said.

"She was. She was there for me when I... lost my mom and brother. Help me get back on my feet." Beth said softly.

I decided to change the subject to lighten the mood. "Where were you from before... all this happened?"

"I was born in Atlanta, but I grew up on a farm with my mom, dad, my older siblings Shawn and Maggie." She replied with a smile.

"I'm the youngest too!" I said grinning.

She laughed at my comment. "And what about you? Where are you from?"

"I actually came from Wheelsburg, Pennsylvania. But I was born in Philly." I told her. She looked at me with a shock expression.

"What? You came from Pennsylvania?" She asked astonished.

I nodded. "Uh huh. I'm actually shocked myself. I never thought I would just travel all the way down to Georgia."

"And you were by yourself this whole time?" She asked still amazed about what I said.

"Well not at first. I was with a group for awhile. But... then we got attacked by a swarm, and I got separated by them ever since."

Beth looked at me with sad eyes. "It's amazing you've managed this far on just your own." She said.

I nodded. "I know... It wasn't easy but I managed. Been on my own for six months scavenging for scarce supplies, and moving from place to place until Tyreese and Daryl found me earlier today."

Beth smiled. "It's good to hear they did. I'm sure you'll like it here."

"I'm sure I will. Thanks Beth."

"No problem, Casey."

After some walking she lead me into another cell block that looked like the cafeteria with a lot of people sitting at the tables talking, a couple of kids chasing each other yelling and laughing and their parents telling them to sit down and eat. And whatever they were having smelled so good that I was hungry all over again.

This place and people just brought back some normality into this crazy hellish world.

Well There is Chapter 5 I hope you guys enjoyed it. I wanted to add a flashback chapter just to spice things up on Casey's past. Note: I don't own Kesha, or ANY type of music. I'm sure you know that but I just need to say that. Anyways I hope you guys enjoyed this Chapter please feel free to review it would be great :)

Cya guys!

DeltaSandman Out :)