So I'm gonna do the same thing as I do with my other TWD fanfic Every Last Breath (you should go check it out) I'll give the title if there is one in the chapter to try to prevent people from skipping around. Seriously, you miss main points of the story by skipping around... Sorry to all of you who actually fully read the story, anyway..

Chapter 3: Bite

Cautiously I raised my crossbow, leading the horses behind me.

I had found one that looked like Daryl's. It was next to the body of some man. A woman with short brown hair was dying and turning right next to him. It had looked like they had a vehicle of some kind but it was taken by whoever attacked them.
Since then, I had gotten pretty good with it. Not as good as my big brother, but good enough. I had practiced and shot with it so many times back at the farm.

Angel and CJ were deathly silent, probably getting as small on Cobalt as they could. The smell of the dead was practically part of the air. The were around here, somewhere around the corner of a building maybe, but we see just lucky enough to not have seen a walker. Yet. I had gone the direction I thought the group had fled, in hopes the twins and I could find them before they turned and headed home. It's been two days since I've seen them, so that hope was almost completely depleted. I had no clue if I'd be able to stumble apron Alexandria without a map. Pausing, I looked back at my two kids. They both had dirt and dust smeared on them and their clothes. The same went for me. Shaking my head, I snapped back to attention and kept moving forward. That was when I heard it. Human voices coming from a trashed corner store.

"Hold 'em back!" A male voice directed.
"We're trying!" A female snapped.
Now I figured out where all the walkers were.
I glanced back to see Angel and CJ almost flat against Cobalt's back. Swiftly I went back to them.
"CJ, honey, you'll tell mommy if you see a monster from behind right? Will you do that for me?" CJ, with Carl's hat loose on his head, gave me a firm nod. I hated having to ask a five and a half year old to do something like that, but who knew about these people? There could be a list of possibilities concerning them and Alexandria. And damn it, I was desperate. And these two weren't your normal everyday five year olds. They had to both grow up quickly. I led the horses a little closer to the building, before kissing my babies on the foreheads. "Thank you. I love you both." There was a look in CJ's eye that for a second, had me fooled that I was talking to Carl. But no. I was talking to Carl's son. And he was exactly like his father.

I ran into the side door of the building, observing the group, while staying hidden by crates. They kept yelling back and forth at each other, when I spotted an older man, with grey in hair and beard. My memory shot back to when I was pregnant with the twins. I had been stuck in a town, trying to figure my way out when he, and a little boy were cornered in an ally. I helped the only way I could, only to get walkers bursting open the door to the roof I was on. The only word I got out when he asked me my name and of I wanted to go with him, was 'hope'.
But that was few years ago.

Quickly I made my way onto a stack of crates, pulling bolts from my quiver, and firing as quickly as I could. Somewhere in the midst of my rapid fire I jumped down, and took out my knives. Taking out a numerous amount of walkers, I noticed the group could handle themselves, and darted out the door I came in. I was in a dead sprint around the building to find CJ backing the horses away from the tree I left them by. There was a walker that was poking it's head between the two main branches. I loaded a bolt and shot it. CJ paused his activities, before he and Angel jumped down off of Cobalt. They ran up to me, and I engulfed the two in a hug, picking them both up. They did this every time I came back from something. I carried the two back over to the horses. Once I set them down, I retrieved my bolt from the walker at the tree. It was when I got back over to the twins, holding the reins of both horses, they bolted behind me. I stiffened, but looked over to find the group slowly making their way over to us. From the way I stood, they probably couldn't even see my kids behind me.

"Hope." The older man spoke.
"So you do remember me." I voiced my thoughts.
"How could I forget?" The others behind him looked at each other in complete shock.
"This... Is really her?" The young blond woman behind the man asked. She was a few years older than I was. But with dirt and grime smeared all over me and my bare arms, I probably looked to be somewhere around my late twenties.
"Bow... We thought you were kidding." Another man from the group of four looked directly at the eldest of them: Bow. Who in turn gave a warm smile.
"Thank you." I nodded. He looked back at the other three with him. They all looked back with complete respect, seeming to know what he was about to do. He turned back to me. "Hope. We have a community a few miles from here. There is another one close to this location that we are acquaintances - for a better word - with. Would you like to come back home with us? We'd be happy to have you."

Honestly, with two kids, I couldn't search for Alexandria forever. Being on our own for too long would take a greater toll on my kids than it would me. I was practically backed into a corner, only having one answer to give. They seemed trustable enough.
I looked to the ground with a sigh, before meeting Bow's eyes once more giving him a nod.
Bow's smile grew. He pointed to the blond next to him. "This is Kiera." The man next to him. "John, and Nate." He motioned to the guy behind him. I nodded, giving them half a smile. Then I felt CJ and Angel peak out from behind my legs, that was when Bow looked down at them. "Well, who do we have here?" He kneeled down to their height. I placed a hand on both of their backs, reassuring them.
"This is CJ." I messed with the oversized hat on his head. "And Angel."
"It hasn't been that terribly long since the people back home seen kids this small, heck, we may have a few kids your age." He spoke to the twins. "But they'll be excited none the less."
"You have kids there?" I asked as Bow stood, he gave me a nod in response. The person I trusted the most at the moment was Bow, and I was very aware of every breath the other three took in. Alanna had told me once, messing with me was the equivalent to poking a momma bear. If not worse.

Slowly we made our way to their cars. CJ rode Cobalt, but Angel insisted that she walk next to me. Nate led both horses. We were walking through the woods, and as Bow said, halfway there when a pack of walkers stumbled up. I had just killed one when I heard a scream. Whipping around, I was horrified at the sight. A walker was about to latch onto Angel, when Nate threw a knife at it, causing it to fall and go limp. But that didn't stop Angel from wheeling around and setting off in a dead run.
"Angel! Angel!" I yelled after her. "CJ stay with Nate!" I ordered over my shoulder as I took off after my daughter. "Angel!" I could just hardly keep my sights on her, but I was catching up.
I had always told the twins that if there was no other way out, run, and circle back to where I was. But I never had let a walker get that close to either of them. Fear ran through me like my own blood, especially when I saw another walker stumbling up to my little girl. Instantly I was in front of her. I only took one of my knives, and my crossbow and bolts were with CJ and the horses. I cursed myself as I plunged the one knife I did have into the walker's skull. Quickly I dropped to my knee, my hand's on the little girl's shoulders. Her eyes wide with the same fear I still felt.
"Are you okay?" I checked her over even though both walkers didn't even get the chance to touch my little girl.
"Mommy, are you mad?" Angel was still trembling.
"No. No." I pulled her to me. "I'm just happy you're not hurt." After a few moments I stood, right as another, much bigger walker limped up. I pinned it to a tree and lodged my knife in its skull. There was a groan that got closer. Looking over my shoulder, I spotted yet another dead bastard. I tried to yank my knife from the twice dead body I still had pinned to a tree, but had no luck. Frequently I threw glances over my shoulder to see it was focused on Angel. She let out another scream. "Goddamnit." I grunted through gritted teeth. Forgetting about my knife I rammed into the walker headed for my daughter. "Do not, mess with my kid!" I punched it repeatedly, getting blood all over my knuckles.
"Momma!" Angel cried. I looked back at her to find another dead one after her.
"Shit." I totally disregarded the one I was punching and threw myself at the new one.

Taking ahold of it's shirt, I threw it away from my daughter. I looked all around, having totally forgotten where the group was. Oh no... No no no no no.
Two snarls interrupted my thoughts as both walkers headed to us. I dove, trying once more with my knife, only to get back up and get the walkers away from Angel. One of them was about the same size as the one with my knife still in its skull. Again, I tried to get my knife unlodged. With a lot of frustration, I drove my foot on the head of the motionless walker, breaking the skull and pulled my knife out. Now with my weapon I got over to Angel before the smallest walker of the two landed on her. I had slid under it as I stabbed it. I thought I could have thrown it off of me quickly, but I wasn't fast enough. With a dead body pinning me down, the only one left alive took that as it's free meal ticket.

I didn't even recognize the blood curling scream that thundered trough the air as my own, until I threw the dead body off of me and found my knife in the head of one that lay motionless over my leg. My heart stopped. I couldn't move. All my brain recognized was the blood pooling on my calf from a bite mark. It didn't come to terms what the crescent shaped marks that were being hidden by blood was. Mindlessly I took my knife, sawing below my knee. I was only able to get a little over halfway.

I just got bit... I just got fucking bit! Shit!

I snapped out of it, right as everything started spinning. My back hit the ground with a thud, before I rolled to my left side. Then Angel's face appeared in front of mine. Tears spilling from her eyes.
"Mommy? Mommy are you okay?"
"Angel, can I borrow your jacket?" I asked, almost in a whisper. Without hesitation, my precious dirty blond little girl handed me her jacket. Through all the spinning, I managed to tie it on my leg I could hardly feel and barely move without pain all in one. Then I lay back on my side. Angel wrapped her arms around me.
"Please be okay mommy." She cried. I smiled weakly and brushed the hair from her face. The world was starting to become black.
The words of an old melody that Luca sang to me came to my lips, only I had changed a few words. "Hush little baby, don't you cry. I'm gonna stay here, right by your side. It may be dark outside, but all that means is dawn is about to rush in, like the building tides. So you hush little baby, don't say a word. Momma's gonna tell you a story about a mockingbird. It'll sing you the lullabies that she sings you every night.
Oh oh, so you hush my little girl, cause you know, you're my whole world." Silent tears ran down my cheeks, in fear of what would happen if I turned. Almost everything was completely black, and I could feel myself pulling away from this world. "And I'll be here, next to you, until that very dawn breaks through. Oh oh, hush my little baby, don't you, say a word. Mama's right here, and she'll tell you about that mockingbird. Ooooh, and I'll sing you those lullabies that I sing you, every night. So you just, close those eyes, cause mama's right here, and ..." It felt harder to breath as I shut my eyes, hardly feeling the blood that streamed down the side of my leg. I was pulling away from the world, unsure if I was just imagining the voices.

"Hope!" If the world and reality wasn't slipping through my fingers, the voice would have been getting closer. But the effect of my current state caused it to fade like it was getting distant like everything around me.
"Mom!" CJ's voice echoed. Then Angels.
"Mama, wake up!" I think those voices were the only ones that kept me to fight to stay awake, but it was like I was a little more than half asleep. Hardly aware of what was happening, but I felt both my kids being dragged away from me as a searing pain slid below my knee.
"Got it." Nate's voice echoed before something was wrapped around my knee, I couldn't feel the rest of my leg. Then someone picked me up...

I couldn't really tell if I had blacked out, but now I found myself in a new place, and a man with a beard, long brown hair, and I think a stocking hat looked at me with concern in his eyes. Then the world shifted away, and everything went black...

A/N
And with this story, just let me know if you ladies and gents like the long chapters, since some chapters in this book might be shorter than any in The Longest Mile. -my prediction was correct- I had a word goal of that story, that's why all chapters had 1,000+ words, but like the 2nd chapter that was short compared to this. I guess it depends heftily on how much action goes on in the chapter.
Speaking of action. It's only the 3rd chapter and shit just got real people!

One thing I'm not sorry about is Sunny getting bit. Sorry people but it's the truth ?
I had to make something happen. So a decision was made.. Dun dun dun! (Me failing at dramatics)
Soooo, onto the questions!

Will Sunny survive?
Who was the man she saw?
Where did they take her?
And one last one just for the hell of it.
What will happen to the twins?!
Please vote and comment... And find out in the next chapter!