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Walk with the Dead

Deadly Conversation

My breath hitched in my throat... I hadn't stopped running for at least 15 minutes now. I was never good at track at school and sports were never my strong point but I couldn't let that be my downfall now. Not with how the world is now. "Alice!" I heard from about 20ft away from me. I looked towards the bellowing voice. Why the fuck would anyone scream my name in the middle of the forest while I was running away from a hoard of walkers. The voice however didn't falter there. "Alice get over here." It continued to shout. I finally looked over to see Mike coming in hot in front of me.

"What the fuck..." I said as I slid to a halt and collided with him. He wiped the sweat from his forehead and looked behind me.

"Shit." He muttered, obviously just seeing the amount of dead ones that had decided to follow me through the woods. "We gotta go." He looked at me frantically.

"Yes, that's kinda what I was doing when you popped outta nowhere." I said through heavy breaths. He nodded and we both began running in the direction of the opening.

We cleared it and it led out to a road, one not that far from camp. I looked at him and he stopped for a second, looking back and sighing heavily. I looked back too and noticed the crowd had dispersed and lost a lot of the walkers from when they begun to follow me. "We need to speak to everyone about this." Mike looked at me with worry in his eyes. I looked back at the forest and nodded.

"It's gonna be hard... But there was just too many of them to ignore it." I shook my head. "I almost didn't make it back there Mike." I ran a hand through my faded orange hair. Mike walked over and pulled me into his arms for a hug. "How did you know where I was?" I asked against the fabric of his shirt.

"Vic told me you ran off and he didn't know what to do so I came after you." He told me. I pulled back and looked up at him. Mike didn't have much behind his eyes, just sadness.

"Why didn't Vic come?" I questioned... but then the silence made me scared for the answer.

Mike looked off into the horizon, clearly unsure of how to tell me whatever he has to say. Finally though, he looked down and caught my eyes with his own. "Jenna got bitten." He said softly.

A pang of hurt washed through me... She didn't deserve to die. None of us did. But she wasn't going to make it... there was no way to pull through from something like this. "And Vic is with her?" I asked. Mike nodded and looked off behind me again.

Rustling in the bushes brought our attentions to the forest again and we both grabbed our knives and guns, bringing them to our chests. A walker pushed through the opening and we both sighed. Mike walked over to it and sunk his knife into the head of the walker and then it fell to the ground lifeless and finally at peace. He turned to me and looked me dead in the eyes.

"We need to get back okay, my car is about a mile that way." He nodded and begun walking in the direction I guess his car is in.

I followed him, hot on his tail. Mike was tall but somehow, I always ended up keeping up with him. "Why are you so distant?" I asked with a strange tone erupting within me.

He looked at me and raised an eyebrow. "I'm just trying to process how this all happened Alice. The past month and a half have been insane and I still don't really know what to think. We are gonna lose our camp and probably people along the way. Vic is losing Jenna, Tony is hitting a depressive episode a least once a week, Kellin is the only one trying to keep this shit as light hearted as possible... and you Alice." He stopped and turned to face me, causing me to stop and face him too. "You hit rock bottom last week and now you're running off into a hoard of dead ones... how can you expect me to be all there when you can't even keep yourself together?" He looked at me, his forehead scrunched up and sadness written all over his face.

"What did you expect Mike?" I shot back at him. He rolled his eyes and let out a sarcastic laugh.

"Something more human than this... You made your bed with Vic, so sleep in it." He spat.

I was shocked at his words because as much as I knew it was all my fault I didn't expect anyone to come out and say it so harshly. Not even Vic did. It stung me, worse than any injury I had sustained since the world fell to shit. It stung to know what I did to Vic. It hurt to know that he loved me with everything in his body and I told him I didn't love him back, which was the biggest lie I've ever told. It killed me to watch him move on with Jenna and for me to pretend it didn't kill me just a little bit. I looked up at Mike with tears in my eyes. "I didn't ever want him to watch me die, to get attached... I didn't want him to deal with him Mike. And he is gonna have to deal with in now, with Jenna." His expression softened and I couldn't help but let the tears fall that I'd been holding for so long.

"Shit Alice, I didn't really think." He pulled me into his arms again.

"It's easy to forget that death is now a huge part of our lives, a huge thing we all have to go through on a daily basis that it's not even a huge deal anymore. It's sorta became natural." I sobbed out into his chest. "Mike I love him so fucking much. I fucking remember everything now and it hurts." Mike pulled back and looked down at me with shock written all over his face.

"Wait you remember? Since when?" He asked.

I wiped away the tears falling all over my face. "Earlier today I was down at the lake but a log I was standing on snapped and I fell over, hitting my head. I don't know how long I was out for but when I woke up... I woke up with every memory I forgot." I told him.

He looked at me with disbelief but then a huge smile spread out across his face. "I have my Ali back." He said happily and squished me up against his chest.

"Mike!" I whined and pushed him away, a small chuckling escaping my lips as I did so.

"So that's why the whole Vic thing is hitting you now?" I looked up at him and nodded. "It's okay, we can talk about this once we get back but we need to get back before sun down." He motioned to keep walking.

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We pulled up into the camp and it looked eerily quiet. I looked at Mike and he gave me a curiously look in return. We got out of the car and shrugged at each other. I walked over towards the cabin that I shared with Jenna and Lynn, mentally preparing myself for the shit storm to come. I reached up to turn the door handle but the door suddenly flew open and I came face to face with Vic. He looked straight through me. I noticed the blood on his hands and shirt which made me feel kinda sick. I swallowed down and was about to say something when he just pushed past me and walked off into the fresh night.

I walked into the cabin and saw Lynn sitting on the floor next to Jenna's lifeless body. There was a sheet over her and a blood stain at her head, indicating she was completely dead. I walked over to Lynn and sat next to her. She looked at me and fought back even more tears.

"She deserved so much better." Lynn choked out. I nodded and pulled her into my arms, feeling so bad. I looked down at the sheet and sighed.

"Jenna was a great girl, I'm so sorry this happened to her." I whispered. Lynn let out another sob which just echoed around the room.

"Can I just be alone for a bit?" She asked through her painful sobs.

"Of course. I'll be back later and we can talk if you want... or just sit in silence. Whatever you want Lynn." I told her. She pulled back and gave me a weak smile. I got up and left the cabin, making my way towards the lake, somewhere I always went when things got a bit too much.

I made my way through the small amount of woods that led down to the opening where the lake was but when I got there I noticed Vic sitting at the spot I usually sat at. I stopped dead in my tracks and began to walk backwards to leave but I must've made a lot of noise. "You don't need to leave because I'm here." I heard him speak up.

I turned around and noticed he was looking at me. My feet didn't know what to do, so they just stayed sill. "I don't wanna intrude on me time." I said quietly. He looked at me and shrugged.

"It's fine." He mumbled and turned away again. I walked over and sat down next to him, keeping my distance. We let the silence fall until it got heavy and kinda awkward. "Why did you run away today?" He asked.

I looked at him but he didn't take his eyes off the lake where the moon lit the water in the most beautiful way. "I remembered." I said softly. He finally tore his eyes away and looked at me with confusion in his eyes. "I hit my head and then I remembered... and I freaked out." I explained.

"So you remember everything from before now?" He questioned, a strange look appearing on his face.

"Yes... I remember school, I remember getting married, I remember being so drunk at your cousins wedding that I couldn't get home so you took me to your apartment and you told me you had been in love with me since you were 19. I remember your Mike graduating high school and falling down the stairs with his diploma. I remember getting my first car and nearly knocking down you and Mike outside the mall. I fucking remember it all Vic." I rambled on. "I can remember every single fucking detail and it scares me now, it scares me to know what fucked up decisions I made in the past. It scares me to know how I ended up in that hospital Vic... So I ran." I tore my eyes away from his.

"Alice..." He whispered.

"What Vic?" I asked, still not looking at him.

"Why did you end up hospital?" He asked. I felt the tears begin to well up in my eyes but I fought hard not to let them fall. "Please?"

I wiped away the few that spilled out and took a deep breath. "He found out about you and told me to choose who I wanted. I chose you Vic." I told him looking at his expression through blurry eyes. "He didn't accept... he was gonna kill you. He ran for his gun and I begged him not to. I told him I'd do whatever to stop him. That I'd choose him and we could run away. Whatever it took so that'd wouldn't hurt you." I said as I choked on my tears a little. "He believed me for a moment but then he saw red and went insane. I tried to leave the apartment but he grabbed me and pulled me back, we lost balance and I fell into the table in my hallway. I hit my head off the corner and all I remember is seeing a lot of blood. The next thing I remember is waking up in the hospital when I met you." I told him.

He sat there with an angry expression on his face. "I'm sorry." He whispered.

"It's not your fault." I said as I wiped the tears away.

"No, I should've done something sooner... I knew this was happening and I didn't stop it." He looked away and put his head in his hands. "I wanted to just take you away from it. I wanted to just come get you and run away to fucking I don't know, Canada or something. But a part of me knew you'd never come with me." He mumbled, sounding so disappointed in himself.

"This isn't your fault Vic." I reassured him. He looked up and sighed.

"But I should've done more." He told me.

"In the end does it matter? I didn't die, I remember everything now and we are both alive... Damien isn't. He's where he belongs now." I said bitterly. Vic looked at me with an unsure face.

He pushed his bangs out of his eyes and under his snapback.

"Alice, I will never be anything but stupidly in love with you." He looked at me. His voice didn't falter and his expression was hard. "But you didn't want me then, you don't want me now. I always was just a substitute for what you couldn't get with your husband..." He looked away and pushed himself to his feet.

"Vic..." I groaned and pushed myself to my feet also. "Why would I tell you all this?" I said sternly. He stopped and looked back for a second.

"I don't know." He mumbled.

I walked over to him and grabbed his arm, turning him to face me but the look on his face told me he didn't expect me to do any of this, he was shocked. I pulled him close to me and without hesitation I kissed him, hard on the lips. He was stiff at first, unsure of how to react to my actions. But within seconds he wrapped his arms around my waist, pulling me closer to him. I snaked my arms around his neck and deepened the kiss. Our tongues met in the middle, something I didn't even realize I had been craving for so long now. He pushed me back a little until my back hit against a tree and I let out an excited groan which on earned a more hungry reaction from Vic.

Eventually though he pulled back from me and we just stared at each other. "I always wanted you Vic, I was just too scared to let myself give in to you." I mumbled, looking at him with fear in my eyes. And for the first time in a long time... I wasn't scared of dying, I was scared of love.

Notes

wow it's been a hot minute since I updated but here we go, updating a lot more now.

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Cami Cami
10/1/16

I love this story! Can't wait for a another chapter!

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7/26/16

Always love a good zombie story. Looking forward to more!

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5/13/16

Oh my, can't wait for the next chapter!!

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