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Episode 3: Far

Alexa is running as fast as she can away from the herd of zombies. Every zombies she sees she pushes away. Alexa is running for about fifteen minutes long, and is now out of breath. She stops in the road where you can only see farmlands. Alexa sits on the ground and wipes the sweat off of her head.  She sits there for a moment and look in front of her at the farmlands, and then starts to cry. Suddenly a zombie grabs her through the fence, she quickly gets out her survival knife and stabs it in the head.  She stands up and climbs over the fence. She wanted to go to the farmhouse that was there. On her way she looks around the farm, and it is very quiet.

 

When she finally arrived at the house she saw that there is a dead cow lying there, with fleas all around it. There is blood on the floor in front of the door. Alexa quietly opens the door. The house was pretty ruined, the couch was flipped, broken glass everywhere, blood everywhere and full of dust. She went to the kitchen to see if there are any zombies but there was nothing. After the kitchen she went to the bedroom, but there was only a shotgun lying on the bed. Suddenly there is banging on the closed bathroom door. There are zombie noises coming from  the bathroom. She gets out her knife as she walks to the door, she then quietly opens the door, and when she opens the door the zombie immediately attacks her. Alexa pushes the zombie on the wall and stabs it in the head. "Oh god." Says Alexa as she sees that the zombie had a bite, on him and wanted to suffer.

 

Alexa opens the kitchen cabinets and search for supplies. As she opens the one door there was fully stacked beans, pudding, chips and soft drinks. Alexa goes to the bedroom and search for a bag. There was a bag in the closet. She takes the bag and puts all the food inside. When she was done with that cabinet she opens another cabinet, and she finds one box of baby formula. "Thank you Jesus." Says Alexa and puts it in the bag as well.

 

Alexa search the bedroom drawer for shotgun ammo and finds a full box of ammunition. She puts it in the bag and hangs the shotgun around her neck. She then went back outside and went to find her group.

 

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Alexa is walking searching for her group but didn't find anything yet. Suddenly she comes across a broken car with about three zombies. She gets out her knife and stabs the one that is walking towards her. She then stabs the one that crawls on the ground and then she stabs the one trapped in the car. She opens the car to see if there is anything useful but nothing but notes and driving licenses.  So after Alexa searched the car she went on walking.

 

Later that day she didn't find anything useful, but zombies to kill and she still haven't found her people. As it was getting dark she went to find a place to use for shelter. She went on looking and looking until she was in the city again. She looked, but most of the places had zombies inside. After a few more searches she finds a place called: JILL & JACKEY'S PUB AND GRILL. As Alexa opens the door, there were most zombies dead, lying on the floor, but two zombies was still alive. Alexa takes her knife and stabs them in the head. She then went to sit on the chair and opens the can of chocolate and vanilla pudding. After a while she puts the pudding on the floor, and stands up. She looks at the bar signs that are hanging against the wall. "When You Feel Sober Get Another Beer, man." "LIFE'S NOT FAIR! DEAL WITH IT." "Come sit let me serve you some beer with a burger and chips. MMMMM" Alexa walks further on when she saws bloody sign written on the bathroom wall. " NATURE WON! WE CAN'T DO NOTHING! WE ALL DIE AND WE ALL COME BACK!"  "Jesus!" says Alexa as she went back to sit on the chair. She picks up the pudding and continue to eat.

 

 

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The sun is down, it is night time, crickets are outside, zombies are walking around and it is just damn quiet. Alexa is lying in the darkness on the chair thinking. "Where can they be? Where could they have gone?" asks Alexa for herself. She stands up gets her flashlight, and went to the counter. She takes a piece of paper and pen. She starts to write down places where the group could have gone. "Pharmacy, Helicopter,  A restaurant, Rosewood." Alexa stops writing and sigs. "Please let me find them, God, please…let me…let me find my babies." Says Alexa and starts to cry. She then went back to lie on the chair and went to sleep.

 

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It is the next morning, and there is already zombies banging on the bar's doors. Alexa wakes from the noise and looks at the door. She sigs, and lies back down. A few seconds later the zombies was still banging on the door, so Alexa suddenly stands up takes out her knife and slams open the door. There were about four zombies, outside. She quickly stabs them all in the head. After that she takes the bag and her weapons and went back to find her people.

 

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"Nicole come on! Stay close to me!" yells Susan as she, Nicole, Sarah and Fabiana re running away from the zombies. "Sarah can you keep your sister close?" asks Susan. "Sure." Says Sarah as suddenly picks Nicole up. "What are you doing?" asks Nicole. I'm carrying you." Says Sarah. Suddenly a gunshot goes off. It was Fabiana shooting a zombie to clear the way. "Where are we going?" asks Susan. "Where ever we can until it is safe." Says Fabiana. So they keep running and running.

 

About ten minutes later they where finally safe, and stopped to catch their breath. "Ok Nicole, just sit tight for awhile." Says Sarah. "Ok." Says Nicole. "Shit!" says Susan, while she puts her hands on her knees and breathing deeply in and out. "Not bad for a pregnant woman, Susan." Says Fabiana. "Yeah, not bad." Says Sarah. "Thanks, oww shit." Says Susan. "What? What's wrong?" asks Fabiana. "My back, is killing me!" says Susan. "Here sit down for awhile" says Fabiana as she helps Susan to sit in the car.  "That is going to be a strong ass baby girl." Says Sarah. "You think so?" asks Susan. "Definitely." Says Sarah. "Your baby as well." Says Susan. "I hope so." Says Sarah. "What? Are you pregnant?" asks Fabiana. "Yes, I…I am." Says Sarah. "Shit, that is something you don't see everyday." Says Fabiana. "What is that suppose to mean?" asks Sarah. "No nothing it's just I never experience a teenage pregnancy before." Says Fabiana. "Tell me about it." Says Sarah. "What's wrong?" asks Nicole. "Nicole…you are becoming a aunt." Says Sarah. "Yes for Susan's baby." Says Nicole. "No, for my baby." Says Sarah. "Are you getting a baby?" asks Nicole. "Yes." Says Sarah. "Oh. Ok." Says Nicole. "Who else know?" asks Fabiana. "Just you guys and my mom." Says Sarah. "Oh ok." Says Fabiana. "But that is not important now, what important is now, is that we need to find a place to stay at least just for tonight." Says Sarah. "No we have to find the others." Says Fabiana. "We can, but Susan needs rest, we need rest." Says Sarah. Fabiana sigs and say, "Ok fine.". So they went looking for a place to stay for a bit.

 

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Susan, Fabiana, Sarah and Nicole looked around at a place to stay when they found a gas station. "This could be a nice place to stay, for the night." Says Fabiana. "Uhh, yeah." Says Sarah. "Ok come on let's go clear the place out." Says Fabiana. Fabiana gets out her gun, Susan her knife, Sarah a pocketknife, and went to the gas station. "Nicole stay right behind me, ok." Says Sarah. "Ok." Says Nicole.

 

The gas station's door opens. "Hello?" asks Fabiana. Suddenly a zombie stands up. "I got it." Says Fabiana. "Here use this, to avoid the noise." Says Sarah as she gives Fabiana her pocketknife. "Gracias." Says Fabiana and stabs the zombie in the head. "Search the rooms." Says Fabiana. Susan searched the counter and Fabiana the bathrooms. "Nothing." Says Susan. "Yeah here neither." Says Fabiana. "Thank god." Says Susan as she went to sit on the floor behind the counter table. "Here you go." Says Fabiana as she hands Sarah her pocketknife. "Thank you." Says Sarah as she takes the knife and puts it away. Fabiana smiles and went to sit with Susan. Sarah and Nicole went to sit with them.

 

"You think everybody made it out?" asks Fabiana. "I don't know, let's hope so, when we go and search tomorrow." Says Susan. "I'm sorry about Stan and your brother, Fabiana." Says Sarah. "Gracias, Sarah." Says Fabiana. "Oof." Says Susan. "No nothing it's just this baby is kicking the shit out of me." Says Susan. "Sarah, can you see if there is anything for her to drink?" asks Fabiana. Sarah stands up and went to look at the fridges. "You ok?" asks Fabiana. "Yeah thanks." Says Susan as she rubs over her tummy. While Sarah is searching thr fridges she finds all kind of stuff:

Nigerian Still Water, Coca Cola,, Sprite. Sarah takes four bottles of water, and on her way back she sees pack of cheese flavoured chips as well, with two energy bars, so she takes that as well. "There is soft drinks there, and water." Says Sarah as she hands each of them their bottle of water. "And I also found chips, and energy bars." "Thanks, Sarah." Says Susan. "Yeah, thank you Sarah."  says Nicole. So Sarah gives the energy bar to Susan and Nicole and each one had their own pack of chips. Susan drank her full bottle of water finished in about ten seconds.

 

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Later that day, they where having fun inside the gas, while zombies where roaming around outside. "Where are you going Susan?" asks Sarah. "I have to pee." Says Susan. But just when Susan wanted to stand up she immediately went to sit again, and was moaning of pain. "Susan? What's wrong?" asks Fabiana. Susan rubs her tummy and saw that her hand is wet. "My water broke." Says Susan. "What?" asks Fabiana as she sees that Susan's shirt is wet. "No, no not now." Says Fabiana. "Fabiana, listen to me you have to do something." Says Susan. "Like what? I'm not a doctor." Says Fabiana. "Well, you becoming one today." Says Susan. "I don't know how, I'm scared I might do something wrong and then the baby dies." Says Fabiana. "Fabiana, I'm already in labor, please. You have to."  Says Susan. Fabiana sigs and says, " Ok Sarah go look in the bathroom for a towel, I saw one there.". "Ok"  says Sarah as she jumps up and went to the bathroom.  "Ok Susan on the count of three you are going to have to push." Says Fabiana. Susan nods her head.  "One…two…three…PUSH Susan PUSH!!" says Fabiana as Susan starts to push.    "Ahhhh!!!!" says Susan. "PUSH! PUSH!" says Fabiana as Susan pushes harder. " Ok you can catch your breath for a few seconds." Says Fabiana. Susan is out of breath. " Sarah did you find it?" asks Fabiana. " Yeah here, there was I didn't know which one to took so I took both." Says Sarah as she hands Fabiana the towels. "That's fine, thanks." Says Fabiana. "Ok Susan, here we go again." Says Fabiana as she gets the survival knife ready so long. "Ok." Says Susan and lies back down again. "PUSH!!" says Fabiana. " MMMMMM….I'm….trying."  says Susan. After a few more pushes, Fabiana takes picks up the survival knife to cut open Susan's stomach. "Ok Susan try to stay calm, and don't pass out."  Says Fabiana. "Ok…I'll…I'll try." Says Susan. Suddenly Fabiana cuts open Susan's stomach. "AHHHHHH!!! SHIIIITTTT!!" screams Susan as her stomach is getting cut open. "I don't wanna see!" says Nicole as she turns around. Sarah went to sit with Nicole. Suddenly zombies begins to slam on the windows and doors. "Come on baby girl make this easy please." Says Fabiana and right after she said that she puts her hands in Susan's uterus to get out the baby. Susan is quiet and is trying to stay calm. After a few seconds Fabiana has the baby in her hands and the baby is crying. "Ok shhh!" says Fabiana as she is trying to calm the baby. She cuts off the umbilical cord, and puts the baby in the towel. "Sarah please hold the baby quickly." Says Fabiana. "What? But I can't…" says Sarah as Fabiana interrupts her. "Just do it please." Says Fabiana and Sarah takes the baby. Fabiana takes the other towel and put it on Susan's bleeding so that she don't bleed to death. "Ok you're fine, for now." Says Fabiana as her hands is full of blood. "Sarah?" calls Susan. "Yeah, here's she. She is beautiful." Says Sarah. "Yeah, that's what I wanted to say." Says Fabiana. "Thank you." Says Susan and starts to cry of happiness. "You have a name yet?" asks Fabiana. "Yes, I Charli-April. Charli-April Daniels." Says Susan as she holds the baby at her forehead. "That's beautiful." Says Fabiana. "Thank you." Says Susan. Suddenly Charli-April starts to cry again. "Hey, Charli don't worry, mommy is here. Ssshh." Says Susan and suddenly she stops crying.  Suddenly zombies slams at the windows again. "Fucking Muertos. I'll be right back." Says Fabiana as she takes the knife and stands up. She slams the door open, and stabs the zombies in the head. "Ok we have to do something about this windows." Says Fabiana. "You mean like a fence?" asks Sarah. "Yeah, we are probably going to be here for awhile at least until Susan is ready to go." Says Fabiana. "So what's your plan?" asks Susan. "We can block the entrance with those cars that are outside, but that can wait until tomorrow, because I'm now exhausted." Says Fabiana and went to sit down. They were all so tired and all went to sleep, and only woke up the next morning.

 

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Birds are flying in the sky, zombies are walking around, ruling the world. Susan is already awake breastfeeding Charli-April, while the other three still sleeps. Fabiana wakes up, yawn and sits up straight. "Morning." Says Fabiana. "Morning." Says Susan as she looks at Charli-April. "You are up early." Says Fabiana. "Yeah, this little girl cried early this morning, so yeah I had to feed her, and this is the second time." Says Susan. "I didn't even heard her." Says Fabiana. "You guys were out like shit, so I didn't even bothered to wake you up." Says Susan. "Oh." Says Fabiana. "I was thinking of my husband, of how happy he would have been to hold this little girl." Says Susan. Fabiana just listens to Susan's sad story. "Well, that is in the past, and now we have to focus on the future, and today and the fence we should be building today." Says Susan. "You mean that me and Sarah will." Says Fabiana. "You know I can really help." Says Susan. "No, I know you can but you are spending time with your baby today." Says Fabiana. "Ok whatever, thanks." Says Susan.

 

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There goes a knife in a zombie's head, and it fells on the ground. Alexa turns around and stabs the other zombie that is walking towards her. After the zombies was dead Alexa accidently steps on a fired bullet. She picks it up and examines it carefully. "Don't fucking move!" says a voice coming from the back of Alexa. "Put your weapon down." Says the voice. Alexa throws her knife on the ground and puts her hands in the air. "Turn around slowly." Says the voice. Alexa turns around slowly and then she sees an African American woman with short dread logs hair standing with a shotgun pointing at Alexa's face. "Who are you?" asks the woman. "Listen I don't want any trouble." Says Alexa. "Neither do I and you didn't answered my question." Says the woman. "Oh, I'm Alexa Graham and I'm only looking for my people." Says Alexa. "Did your place burn down?" asks the woman. "Yes, how do you know that?" asks Alexa. "I think one of your people may be at our camp." Says the woman. "What is his name?" asks Alexa. "His name is Peter. You know him?" asks the woman. "Yes." Says Alexa. "Ok he is at our camp. If you follow me I can take you there." Says the woman. Alexa stares at the shotgun the woman is holding. "Yes, this is your shotgun, it was leaning against the wall, you should be careful where you put your weapons." Says the woman as she hands Alexa the gun. "Thanks." Says Alexa as she hangs the shotgun around her neck, she picks up the knife and follow the woman.

 

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"So you have a name?" asks Alexa as she and the woman walks to her camp. "Yes, sorry. My name is Miranda           Harrison." Says the woman. "Well Nice to meet you, Miranda." Says Alexa. "Yeah, you too, Alexa." Says Miranda. "So where is this camp of yours?" asks Alexa. "Not far, it's just down the road, in the park." Says Miranda. "How long have you been there?" asks Alexa. "Pretty much since this all started, we are about nine in our group, and we all were working at the same building, and when we heard the news we started getting some gear and supplies and eventually wind up at the park." Says Miranda. "Oh ok." Says Alexa. "What about you?" asks Miranda. "Oh well, it's a long story short, we all come from Los Angeles, and one of my people had a helicopter and we went here because we thought in the winter it will slow the grabbers down, and then we found the hotel, and we made it our home, until some other people, Christopher and his gang destroyed everything." Says Alexa. "Geez, long road." Says Miranda. "Yeah, and now I'm trying to find my people, and I'm afraid that one of my children are out there, alone." Says Alexa. "I'm sorry." Says Miranda. "Oh, don't worry about me I will be fine." Says Alexa.

 

A few minutes later, Miranda and Alexa arrives at their camp at the park. There is a few wires attached on the trees with empty food cans, attached on the wire, for fences. Three women are washing clothes at the swamp in the park, two men are patrolling, two men are out hunting and a two other women is busy at the fences.

 

"Here we are. Welcome to the Park." Says Miranda. "Wow, it still looks good, the park." Says Alexa. "Oh hell, yeah." Says Miranda. "Wait!" says Miranda as she suddenly stops Alexa. "You should be careful, at the fence." Says Miranda. "Thanks." Says Alexa as she walks climbs over the fence. "Why do you have the cans on?" asks Alexa. "Oh so that when the dead come they will walk right in the fence and then we will here the cans moving, and that when we know there something at the fence." Says Miranda. "That's clever." Says Alexa. "Thank you." Says Miranda. "Alexa?" comes Peter's voice at the left of Alexa. Alexa turns around and sees Peter. She suddenly runs to him and give him a hug. "Oh my god, Peter I'm so glad you're ok." Says Alexa as she gives Peter another hug. "Yeah I'm glad you are ok too." Says Peter. "Did you got out alone?" asks Alexa. "No I saw Nathan come with me, but I kept running and when I looked behind me to see how far Nathan is behind, he wasn't behind me anymore…but he can't be dead because he didn't screamed or asked for help." Says Peter. "Well, don't worry we will find them, all of them." Says Alexa. "I know we will." Says Peter. Suddenly a coloured woman with long black hair stands next to Alexa and Peter with two apples. "Oh hi" says Alexa. "Hi, my name is Jolene Cooper, nice to meet you." Says the woman. "Hi, my name is Alexa, Alexa Graham, nice to meet you too." Introduce Alexa herself. "Yeah, Jolene here, is my only best friend, we know each other for about twenty seven years now." Says Miranda. "Wow, that's nice to have such a good friend for such a long time especially now." Says Alexa. "Yeah, it is, but I think the most important thing to have is a group, because in a group people are stronger." Says Jolene. "Yeah, then I think you now why I'm searching for mine." Says Alexa. "Yeah well anyway here is some apples for you two, we picked early this morning." Says Jolene as she hands them the two apples. "Oh it's really not necessary I have my own bag full of supplies, you guys can keep yours." Says Alexa. "No I insists, besides we have our own apple tree it seems to carry on just fine." Says Jolene. "It's really ok, you can take it, Alexa." Says Miranda. "Ok fine." Says Alexa as she takes the apple. "Well, why don't you and Peter bond a little and get your bearings while we go help the others." Says Miranda. "Ok thank you, but please tell me if I can help wit anything." Says Alexa. "Trust me, we will." Says Miranda and laugh.

 

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It is very quiet at the gas station with only sounds of crows, some other birds, and Fabiana that tries to start the car. "Por favor, no me digas una mierda hoy, solo hazlo sin problemas y asegúrate de que este encaje lo antes posible." Says Fabiana for herself as she gets in the first car, which is old grey Nissan Amera. As she sits on the front seat, she starts to connect the cables with each other to start the engine. It was about a few seconds when the car's engine started. "Ahh thank god" says Fabiana as she closes the car door and parks it at the left corner of the entrance wall. When Fabiana has parked the car and she gets out of the car, Sarah comes out of the shop. "Hey Fabiana." Says Sarah as she hands her a bottle of water. "Thanks, but I have just parked one car, no need to bring water already." Says Fabiana. "I know, but now you have it in anyway." Says Sarah. "Gracias." Says Fabiana. "Uhm… can I help you with anything?" asks Sarah. "Well, if one of the cars is not going to start you gonna have to help me push it." Says Fabiana. "Ok, yeah of course, I always helped my dad push his car when it was like just me and him and his car's battery was flat or whatever." Says Sarah. "Ok, well shout if I can help with anything." Says Sarah. "I will" says Fabiana. "Oh yeah before I forgot…I found three car keys, figured out it must be for these cars." Says Sarah as she hands Fabiana the car keys. "Oh thanks Sarah." Says Fabiana as she takes the keys. "No problem." Says Sarah and went back inside. So Fabiana went to the next car that was next to the petrol pump. This time it was a black Audi A3. Fabiana has the key for the Audi so she takes the keys and went to the car. She climbs in the car and starts the car, but it won't start. "Mierda." Says Fabiana as she realised the engine doesn't work. "SARAH!" calls Fabiana. Suddenly Sarah comes running out of the station. "Is everything ok?" asks Sarah. "Yes, can you just help me push this car just right behind the other one, please." Asks Fabiana. "Sure." Says Sarah and went to help Fabiana.

 

After they have pushed the car right behind the other one Fabiana went to start the other car. She gets in a Kia, and puts the keys in to start the car. The car wants to start but it doesn't starts correctly. "Ah come on, por favor." Says Fabiana. "Are you sure the battery or something isn't working?" asks Sarah. "Yes, otherwise it wouldn't start at all." Says Fabiana.  So she tries to start it about three more times when suddenly there is a loud explosion. "Son of a bitch." Says Fabiana. "What the hell was that?" asks Sarah. "That was the engine that exploded, so we better get away quickly." Says Fabiana while smoke was coming out from the front of the car. So Fabiana runs away from the car, while Sarah went to call Susan and Nicole. "What's going on?" asks Susan as she, Nicole, Sarah and Charli-April in her arms comes outside. "The engine is going to explode, we just need to get away." Says Fabiana. "Ok." Says Susan as they went about 5 meters away from the gas station to the road. Fabiana turns around and screams, "GET DOWN!". Suddenly the car explode and while it explode the 8 other petrol pumps as well. After a big explosion only the right side of the shop was on flames, but the left side where all of their supplies were, weren't. "Are you guys ok?" asks Fabiana as she gets up. "Yeah." Says Sarah as she gets up. Charli-April is crying, and Nicole has fear in her eyes. "Hey, shhh, it's okay, everything is okay."  Says Susan as she tries to calm Charli-April. "Nicole are you ok?" asks Sarah. "Yes." Says Nicole as she gives Sarah a hug. "I'm sorry guys." Says Fabiana. "For what? It wasn't your fault." Says Susan. "Yeah you didn't know that the engine will explode." Says Sarah. "Yeah, but now we don't have a shelter anymore." Says Fabiana. "Hey at least we still have our supplies." Says Susan. "Yeah, but I just wanted to make this place a safe place until you were able to go again." Says Fabiana. "I am able to go again, we can go look for the others." Says Susan. While they were talking a zombie was coming from behind them, without them noticing anything. "Ahhh!! Saraaaahhh! HELPPP!!" yells Nicole as the zombie grabs her and tries to bite her. "Shit." Says Susan, while Fabiana stands up and stabs the zombie in the head. "Thanks Fabiana." Says Sarah. "Are you ok?" asks Sarah as she gives Nicole a hug. "Yes, I thinks so Sarah." Says Nicole. "It didn't bite you did it?" asks Sarah as she check Nicole for bites. "No." says Nicole. "Oh, thank god." Says Susan. Suddenly Fabiana hears something and looks on her left side. "Ah shit." Says Fabiana as she sees that about 15 zombies are heading. "You guys stay hear, Sarah watch you sister." Says Fabiana, as she gets out her knife and stands up. "Hear hold her quickly I'll be right back." Says Susan as she gives Charli-April to Sarah. Susan gets out her knife and went to help Fabiana. "What are you doing?" asks Fabiana. "You can't kill all of them by yourself." Says Susan. After Susan told that to Fabiana she stabs one of the zombies in the head. So Susan stabs another zombie in the head. After they killed at least twelve zombies, Fabiana stabs the zombie on the right, Susan the one on the left and just when Fabiana wanted to stab the last zombie a pocketknife goes inside it's head. Fabiana and Susan stands back just for in case. When the zombie felled on the ground they saw that it was Mary. "Mary?" asks Fabiana. "It's me." Says Mary. "Oh thank god." Says Susan and gives Mary a hug. "Hey." Says Fabiana as she gives Mary a hug too. Suddenly the kids comes around the corner and sees Mary as well. "Marryyy!" yells Nicole and runs to Mary to give her a hug. "Hey, Nicole I'm so glad you are ok." Says Mary. "Hey Sarah." Says Mary. "Hey, Mary, I'm glad too see you." Says Sarah. "Yeah, Im glad you kids are ok." Says Mary as she sees Charli-April. "Ah, is that…?" asks Mary. "Yeah, that's she, Charli-April, my little girl." Says Susan in happiness. "Oh my god, but she is beautiful." Says Mary and holds Charli-April. "Yeah you come here." Says Mary and give Sarah a hug. "She is adorable." Says Mary as she gives Susan back Charli-April. "Thank you." Says Susan. "So I assume it is just you?" asks Fabiana. "Yeah, I did followed Connor when we tried to escape, but then it grabbers blocked my path and I needed to go the other way, I tried to follow him, but it just didn't work." Says Mary. "Well at least you are safe, and by the way we will go and find the others." Says Fabiana. "I know." Says Mary as she looks at the gas station that is on fire. "What happened?" asks Mary. "I was trying to cover the entrance with cars, for a fence, but one of the car's engine exploded and then yeah." Says Fabiana. "Are you guys ok?" asks Mary. "Yes we are, we still have some bottles of water, Coke and I think one bottle of Sprite left, so if you're thirsty, we have enough." Says Fabiana. "Thank you, that will be lovely. "Yeah there is also a pack of peanuts inside for you." Says Sarah. "Thank you, Sarah." Says Mary. So Mary, and Fabiana went in carefully to get the supplies.

 

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"So you guys each help with different things here?" asks Alexa as she and Miranda picks some apples from the tree. "Yeah, like two for example wash the clothes, two go hunt, one picks apples, one makes a fire, and cook, and two patrol." Says Miranda. "Oh ok, yeah we did it also in our group." Says Alexa. "Yeah it's good that each one does something, because it also teach them how to survive in the apocalypse." Says Miranda. "Yeah that's true." Says Alexa. "So you didn't talked really much about your group, except about your children." Says Miranda. "What do you mean?" asks Alexa. "I mean, how many are you, how many people are you looking for…?" asks Miranda. "Oh, ug… well in total we are eleven, but with me and Peter, I only found one of ten." Says Alexa. "Do you have like places where they can be?" asks Miranda. "Well, I thought maybe in one of these restaurants, because there is so many, but then I also thought of maybe the place where the people who destroyed our camp, community maybe." Says Alexa. "Don't worry I will talk to my people and then we can go and help you find your people." Says Miranda. "It is really not necessary I'm their leader, it's my own responsibility to find them." Says Alexa. "Hey listen this is the zombie-apocalypse you can't do anything alone anymore." Says Miranda. "I guess, but I still think that…" says Alexa when Miranda interrupts her. "But nothing we look out for each other, and that's final." Says Miranda. "Thank you so much, I really appreciate it." Says Alexa. "I love to help." Says Miranda. Suddenly the cans starts shaking. Miranda went to the fence, while Alexa follows her, and then she sees it's a zombie trying to get in. "You see so this is what, will happened if a zombie want to get in, it will shake the cans, but won't normally get in, and then you just kill it." Says Miranda and stabs the zombie in the head. "I still think it's pretty cool." Says Alexa. "Thank you, but your idea was much better, with walls." Says Miranda. "Yeah, but this is a clever idea for if you don't have the stuff to build a wall." Says Alexa. "Thank you" says Miranda. Suddenly there climbs two men over the fence with a dead sheep over one of their shoulders. "Guys look what we found." Says one of the men that has the sheep over his shoulder. "Oh this is our hunters, Benny and Craig. "Oh wow, that will make a nice meal for once, thanks guys." Says Jolene as she takes the sheep, to skin him. "Hi Miranda." Says Benny, that was holding the sheep over his shoulder. "Hi guys, thank you for the sheep, and for going out there to hunt." Says Miranda. "No problem, besides we like to hunt so we don't mind." Says the other guy, Craig. "Guys, this is Alexa Graham, the leader of Peter's group. Alexa this Benny and Craig Jackson the Park's hunters." Introduces Miranda them. "Hi nice to meet you." Says Alexa as she shakes their hands. "Hi Alexa." Says Craig in flirty way. "Craig, she's married remember that." Says Miranda as she point her pointer-finger at him. "I will." Says Craig, as Miranda and Alexa went on to go pick apples.

 

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"Ahh guys so much for giving me the last Sprite, I don't know when the last time was I had Sprite." Says Mary as she just finished her last sip of Sprite. "Yeah, no problem I don't really like it, I rather drink water, and the kids just wanted Coke, and Susan needed water for the baby, so you are welcome." Says Fabiana. Mary just giggles and smiles. "Is she sleeping?" asks Sarah. "Yeah, finally, I think the grabbers frightened her that's why she started to cry, and unfortunately noise attracts grabbers, so I need to keep her quiet." Says Susan. "This poor child will never know how the real world was." Says Mary. "Yeah that's what I'm afraid of." Says Susan. "Well, don't be Susan, we will all look after her." Says Fabiana. "I know you guys will, and I'm really grateful for that." Says Susan. "Look a colored fly!" says Nicole as she stands up to catch the butterfly. "It's a butterfly, Nicole." Says Sarah. "Whatever." Says Nicole. "Hey don't go too far." Says Sarah as she stands up to go with Nicole. Nicole followed the butterfly, trying to catch, until they were in the street. "Aww, I wanted to catch it." Says Nicole. "Hey, you'll get the chance one day." Says Sarah. "I hope so." Says Nicole as she looks at the butterfly flying away. Suddenly Sarah hears a noise coming from the right side, towards them. "It was the sound of a car. Sarah looked to see if she can she what it is until she sees Christopher's military truck coming around the corner. "Shit." Says Sarah as she picks up Nicole and runs to Fabiana. "What is it?" asks Fabiana. "We have to hide, now." Says Sarah. "Why?" asks Mary. "It's Christopher." Says Sarah. Suddenly they stands up, and went to hide behind the two cars that they used for a fence. After they had hidden Christopher stops in the middle of the road in front of the gas station. "Ok everybody just stay quiet, ok." Whispers Fabiana. "Ok." Whispers Sarah back. "And Susan." Whispers Fabiana as she knocks her head at Charli-April. "Yeah I will try." Whispers Susan back.

 

The military truck's engine stops and Christopher gets out of the truck. Angela climbs out with a gun at the other side and went to stand next to Christopher. "Ok assholes there is no need to hide, I know you are here, we saw the two kids." Says Christopher as he stands still and look around. "And we also heard and explosion and saw the smoke, so we had to come here to see what it was." Says Christopher but gets no response. "Now I know you guys probably hate me, because I burnt down your community, but you guys have to come out, you can't hide forever." Says Christopher and gets no response. He looks at Angela and says, "Listen if you don't come out, I'm going to start looking for you and if I find you then, then you know what's going to happened.". "What do we do?" whispers Mary. "We have to show ourselves." Whispers Fabiana. Suddenly Christopher takes out his gun and starts searching. "Sarah take this just for in case" whispers Fabiana as she hands her, her knife. "No I found this while searching, take this." Whispers Mary as she hands Sarah a handgun. Sarah puts the gun in the back of her pants, and then Fabiana says, "Fine, we're coming out." Says Fabiana. "You better come out with your hands in the air." Says Christopher. So they all come out with their hands in the air accept for Susan, she only hand one hand in the air, and the other hands was holding Charli-April. "Come on, hurry up." Says Christopher. So they went to stand in a row. Fabiana on the left side, next to her was Susan, Nicole, Sarah and Mary on the right side.  "Leave your weapons on the ground, now." Says Christopher. Sarah looks at Fabiana as Fabiana nods her head to give signal to put her gun on the ground. So everyone has put their weapons on the ground and are now unarmed with their hands in the air. "Ok, now I still haven't finished off my business with Fabiana, and I figured now may be the perfect time to kill her." Says Christopher. "Yeah, you keep saying that Christopher, but you never seem to do it." Says Fabiana. "Shut up, bitch!" says Angela for Fabiana as she begins to walk closer. "It's ok, babe." Says Christopher as he shows Angela to stop. "This little bitch thinks she's smart. Well today I'm going to show that she isn't that smart as she thought she was." Says Christopher as he points his gun at Fabiana. Suddenly he looks at someone else that he can shoot maybe that isn't Fabiana. So he smiles and points his gun at someone else and then he fires his gun, and the gunshot went off at someone else.