Kira's P.O.V.
A few weeks after the outbreak.
Abandoned house.
I jolted up, my eyes began to look around at my surroundings. I was still in the same room I went to sleep in and nothing had happened. The sun was about to rise and Trevor was still by my side, every time I go to sleep I worry I'll wake up and he won't be there, even though he's mean he's all that I have right now. I noticed that I was sweating and my heartbeat was fast, I had another nightmare about the monsters getting me. I crawled over to Trevor's side and began to shake him, he groaned, "What do you want?" I sniffled, "I had another nightmare." He muttered something under his breath and tried going back to sleep. "When are we going to visit Jade in the hospital?" I whispered. He sighed loudly and sat up, "Can you just shut the hell up?! I'm trying to get some sleep and you're bein' an annoying' little brat." I kept pestering about it and he had had enough of it, "LISTEN! Jade is dead. Get over it and go to sleep." My stomach sank, I moved to the corner of the room and started to weep quietly until I fell back asleep. She couldn't be dead, there's no way. . .
I was awakened by a hard kick to my side. "Common," He hissed. "It's time to go scavenge for food." I got up and rubbed my side. When I grabbed my backpack full of supplied and put it on I winced in pain, I bruised all over because Trevor hurts me when I do anything remotely wrong. When the pain weakened I followed Trevor out of the house. While we were out we walked passed by the hospital. "Trevor! Please! Let's go see her! She can't be dead. . .!" I pleaded. Trevor stopped dead in his track and turned to me, "Listen, if you mention her again or talk about going to the hospital one more time I'm going to leave you behind and let you get eaten by those things! Got it?!" I choked down my tears and nodded at what he had said. I looked at the hospital for a moment and continued to follow him.
A few weeks later.
Abandoned store.
I walked down the aisle of the store, I couldn't see anything useful from what I could see, I was too short to see anything on the top shelves. I stopped walking when I had kicked something that was on the floor, I kneeled down to see a stuffed toy, it was a girl with straw pigtails, she looked dirty but she still looked pretty. I smiled and picked her up. Trevor saw what I was doing and came over to me, "What do you think you're doing?!" He boomed. I cowered, "You have to be quiet!" I whispered. He took the doll out of my hands and threw it across the room, "I don't care! I'll be loud if I want to be loud! I'm not gonna let some little snot nosed brat tell me what to do!" I was about to go and get the doll but then he grabbed my hand, "Where do you think you're going!? I oughta beat the sh-" He stopped mid-sentence and dropped my hand. "Fuck. . ." He whispered.
I looked in the direction he was looking at and my heart dropped, there was about ten monsters inside of the store. I began to panic and looked up at Trevor, hoping he would know what to do. He took out his knife and began killing them and heading towards the exit. I tried to follow but I got left behind, "Trevor! Come back! I'm stuck in here!" You could tell he didn't look back and kept running. More and more of them coming into the store. I took out a gun that I stole from a dead body a while back, Trevor wouldn't allow me having this but I kept it hidden from him. I aimed the gun at the head of the monster, closed my eyes and pulled the trigger. I nearly missed it but the monster fell down to the ground, but more still kept coming. I show two more down before I ran out of ammo. I began to tear up, I didn't know what to do and I didn't want to die.
The monsters got me stuck in a corner, I tried to get them away from me but it didn't work. My vision started to get blurry with tears, this was it for me. . . At least I would be with my big sister again. I slid down the wall and whimpered as they got closer to me, their growling noises were so loud in my ears. I squeezed my eyes shut and a few moments later it was all quiet. I looked up to see a man and a little boy around my age standing in front of me. The man held his hand and I took it. "What's your name?" He asked. My lips trembled and I sniffed, "K-Kira. . ." The man wiped my tears and gave me a weak smile, "I'm Morgan. . and this is my son, Duane." Duane waved at me. "Are you all alone?" Morgan asked. I nodded, "The only person I had just left me behind. . !" I could feel the tears coming back again but then Morgan patted my back and said, "You can come with us. . I'll protect ya."
End of Kira's P.O.V.
"That bastard. . ." I muttered to myself. I could tell she was still uneasy, so I put her close to me and hugged her. "You're so brave, Monkey," I murmured to her as I stroked her hair, "You're with me now. . ." I could feel her nod, "I know that I can take care of myself. . . sort of. I'm glad that you're here with me." I kissed her on the forehead and I had noticed that the time she took to tell me her whole story it had was night. "You hungry, Monkey?" She giggled, "Of course I am!" We laughed, got up and out of the tent and went to the fire where the others would be. When we got to the fire everybody was already eating their food, I got our plates full of food and we sat down by everybody else. "I gotta ask you, man," Morales said, directed towards Dale, "it's been driving me crazy." Dale laughed a little, confused, "What?"
"That watch."
Dale began to mess with the watch, "What's wrong with my watch?"
"I see you. Everyday. Same time. Winding that thing like a village priest saying mass." Andrea nodded in agreement at Morales statement.
"I've wondered this myself," Jacqui said, smiling.
"I'm missing the point," Dale said, also smiling.
"Unless I've misread the signs, the world seems to have come to an end," Jacqui paused for a moment, "at least a speed bump for a good long while."
"But there's you," Morales began, "everyday winding that stupid watch."
"Time. It's important to keep track, ain't it?" Dale asked. "The days at least." Everybody around the fire was silent, "Don't you think Andrea?" It looked like she didn't want to be put on the spot like that, "Back me up here," all Andrea did was a little laugh and began to drink whatever she was drinking. Everybody was still silent, but Dale, "I like- I like what," he paused and tried to think, "the father said to the son when he gave him the watch, it was handed down for said, 'I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire, which will fit your individual needs no better than it did mine of my father's before me, I give it to you not that you may remember time. But that you may forget it for a moment now and then and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it.'"
There was silence until Amy spoke up, "You're so weird." Everyone started to laugh.
Kira poked me, "I need to go get something from the tent." She sat down her plate and got up. I looked at her with concern, "You want me to come with you?" She shook her head and smiled at me, "It's okay, I just have to grab something and. . uhm. . . got to the bathroom." I smiled at her, "Whoops, sorry. Take your time, Monkey." I listened to people tell stories as I finished up the rest of my fish and gulp down my drink. I almost choked on my drink when I heard Amy do a blood-curdling scream. We all looked in her direction and saw that a walker has bitten her in the arm and that more walkers were coming our way.
Everybody got up to their feet, half of the people were screaming and the other half were taking out the walkers. My instantly went to Kira, "Kira!" I began to scream her name over and over again as I ran over to the tent. When I got to the tent I looked inside but there was nobody in there, my heart sank. "Kira!" I yelled at the top of my lungs but heard nothing but the blood-curdling screams of our group and the loud groans from the walkers. When I turned around a walker got on me and tried to get a piece of me. I struggled with it for a minute until someone shot it's head off, it was Rick. Rick pulled me up to my feet and I began to babble to him, "Kira's gone, Rick! She only left for a moment to go to the bathroom and now she's gone! I have to find her, Rick!"
"We have to get you someplace safe first, follow me."
I shook my head vigorously, "Not until I find Kira." I saw that he had a few guns on him, "Give me a gun, Rick."
He looked at me for a moment, deciding whether or not he should let me have one. He sighed and handed me one of his guns.
I began running all around the campgrounds looking for Kira. I've killed about five or six walkers until I got around to the outermost part of the camp, it was silent except for the silent gun fires and few screams. I heard a tiny whimper, I looked around to see what it was. When my eyes got to the thing that was whimpering I fell to my knees and tears started to flow out of my like a faucet. I crawled to her and started crying out loud, "No, no, no, no. . !" Kira was bitten on the arm, sides, and one of her legs. She tried to talk but she was in too much pain to. I tried to pick her up but she yelped in pain, so I decided to stay with her. I began to stroke her hair and wipe the tears from her face. "I'm so sorry, Kira. . ." I whispered. My tears fell onto Kira's face, she grabbed my hand and gave me a weak smile. My heart broke watching her.
I rested my forehead against hers and kept crying, I couldn't lose her. . . I had to get help but I couldn't leave her either. There was no help for her anyways, but I had to try. I tried to pick her one on more time, "Come on. . . We have to get to the others." She screamed out in pain again. "I know, Monkey. . . I know. ." I tried not to choke on my tears as I talked. I managed to lift her up into my arms, bridal style and started walking towards camp where everyone would be. After a few yards I couldn't hear her whimpering anymore, I looked down at her and she looked at me blankly. "No, no, no. . . !" I set her on the ground and tried to look for a pulse. Nothing. "No!" I screamed at the top of my lungs and began crying into her chest.
Still crying, I picked Kira up again and headed towards camp. My whole body was shaking from crying. When I arrived back to where everyone was I saw that Andrea was crying over Amy's body. Everybody didn't notice me until I accidently let out a gasp of tears. "She's dead. . ." I managed to croak out. MY knees turned into jelly and I fell onto the ground, still holding onto her. They all looked shocked. I heard someone running towards me. I looked up to see it was Trevor, he looked distraught and out of breath, "I tried to look for you. . ! I saw Kira lying there and I tried to look for you but I couldn't. ." He started to cry a little, something he rarely did. "You should've stayed with her, you idiot!" I yelled. I looked back down at her body, she looked and felt so cold. I wrapped her into a hug and didn't let go. I rocked her back and forth while still weeping. Trevor came to my side and hugged her with me as he was crying.
After a long while of holding onto her, Trevor pulls me away from her and I start crying into his neck. He rubs my back soothingly, "We all should get some rest. . We'll give her a proper burial in the morning." I shook my head and gave a shaky sigh. I stood up, grabbed a shovel, walked around the campgrounds to find a nice place to bury Kira and starting digging. Hours later, or at least it seemed that way, Rick found me. "You know you can do this in the morning," He sighed.
I didn't respond.
"Come on. . Get out of the hole. . You need your rest, Jade."
I ignored him and kept digging like I was in a trance.
He sighed and left me for the time being, knowing I didn't want to be disturbed.
After I was pretty sure I had a good six feet in the ground I sat down in the hole to take a break and closed my eyes. When I opened my eyes I was inside a tent I haven't been inside before and it was morning out. I didn't feel like getting up and out of the tent so I drifted in and out of sleep for a while until Rick comes in, "You awake?" I say nothing, but sit up and look at him. "If you want we can give her a proper burial now." I stared at him blankly for a moment and got up. He tried to talk to me again but I didn't respond.
When we got to Kira's body I guess nobody tried to take her out yet and she was one of them. I felt so disgusted in myself for not doing it soon enough, I was only thinking of myself! I should've known she wouldn't want to be one of those things. The others noticed her and Shane pointed his gun at her, seeing him do that made my blood boil. I went up to him and yanked the gun out of his hand, "If you EVER point a gun at my sister again I'll beat the living shit out of you!" Those were the first words I've spoken since last night and everyone looked at me, obviously shocked. I don't think I'll ever forgive myself for making her one of them. Kira hears the noise of me yelling and makes her way towards me. I wait till she's close enough to me and I point Shane's gun at her head. The gun begins to shake but I take a shaky breath in, "I'm sorry, Kira," take a breath out and pull the trigger.
The ringing echoed throughout the camp and I watched her as she fell to the ground, it shattered my heart into a million pieces. I dropped the gun onto the ground, went over to her body, picked her up and walked to her grave. As I walked to her grave I kept whispering 'I'm sorry' over and over again. I set her inside the hole and I tried to put dirt on her, but I couldn't bring myself to do it. I sink to the ground and start crying again, and then I feel someone's hand on my shoulder. I look up to see Rick. I get up, hug him tightly and weep into his chest. "Do you want me to help you bury her?" He whispered. I nodded. "Do you want people to come here to watch?" I shrugged. He hugged me tighter, "I'll get everybody, just stay here." He squeezed my shoulder before he went to get them.
While I wanted him to get everyone I began to pick flowers to put on her grave. When I got done I started looking at Kira's body, she was wearing a lime green tank top with black shorts and a pair of running shoes. My eyes stopped at her wrist, her charm bracelet. I knew that she would've wanted me to have it in case something were to have happened to her, so I gently slipped it off of her wrist it onto mine so that I could have something to always remind me of her. Once everybody was here Rick started putting the dirty over her body and everybody said nice things about here, even only knowing her for a day the things they said about her were sincere and true. I laid the flowers on the grave and Rick had given me a little wooden headstone with her name and everything, I gave him a weak smile and set it on there.
When everyone had left Trevor came to me, "I'm sorry." I looked at him for a moment but then returned my attention to her grave. "You have to talk sometime. . ." He said. I didn't answer and he sighed in frustration and walked away, leaving me alone. Rick come back to check in on me, "How are you holding up?" I shrug. "We're leaving this place to head towards CDC, to see if they have a cure. . . Jim's bit so we're running out of time. I nodded. Rick and I went back to the others and Shane started talking about what was going to go on, "Everybody, listen up," Shane began, "Those of you with CB's we're going to be on channel 40. Let's keep the chatter down, okay? Now you got a problem and don't have a CB or can't get a signal,or whatever, you're gonna hit your horn one time. That'll stop the caravan. Any questions?"
"We're. . . um, we're not going." Morales said, stepping away from the group with his family.
"We have family in Birmingham. We want to we want to be with our people." His wife, Miranda, said.
"You go on your own, you won't have anyone to watch your back," Shane warned.
"We'll take the chance. I got to do what's best for my family." Morales spoke.
"You sure?" Rick asks, stepping closer to him.
"We talked about it. We're sure." Morales stated.
"Alright, Shane," Rick said, turning towards Shane.
"Yeah, alright."
".357?" Rick asks Shane.
"Yeah." Rick pulled out a gun and handed it over to Morales while Shane handed over some ammo for it.
"The box is half full," Shane said, pulling away from Morales.
"Thank you all. . . For everything." Miranda said, smiling weakly.
"Come here." Lori pulled Miranda in for a hug.
"Good luck, man," Shane said, smiling.
"Appreciate it."
Everybody started to hug them and said their goodbyes.
"Channel 40, if you change your minds. Alright?" Rick said.
"Yeah."
"What makes you think our odds are any better?" Shane asked. Shane and Rick locked eyes for a moment. "Common, let's move out." He ordered as he got into his jeep. I decided to go into the truck with Daryl, I would've gone in the R.V. but it made me uneasy with Jim being bitten.