Deadland

Chapter 10- Cars

(TW!!! Mentions of drug usage and S/A!)

It's already been almost two days since we left the CDC. We've been holing up in random stores for the past two nights. The plan is to go to Fort Benning but by the way everything's been playing out, I don't think we're gonna make it that far. 

Shane had to leave the jeep, so we're all piled into the R.V. We're driving down a highway that's littered with abandoned and flipped over cars.

Shane's sitting across from Andrea at the table, cleaning his gun and Alyssa and I are sitting on the bed in the bedroom. T-dog is leaning up against the nightstand. 

Alyssa and I are making bracelets out of string, her idea. 

"Adrian?" Alyssa says, without looking up from her bracelet. 

"Yes'm?" I look at her, setting my half-completed bracelet on my thighs. 

"How are you so brave?" I smile lightly at her words. "What do you mean?" 

"I mean, you're not afraid of any of the Walkers, you're willing to kill any animal, and you were willing to rip Dr. Jenner's head off when we found out that he was trying to kill us...kind of." 

I shrug and look back down at my bracelet, weaving the shades of red, yellow, and blue string around each other. 

"Well, I'm not afraid of the Walkers because if it gets down to it, they walk, we run. Killing animals is easy as long as it's not in any pain. Just one shot to the head and they didn't know what hit 'em." Alyssa winces at my words. "And for the Dr. Jenner thing, I can't go to jail for it. He needed to know that what he did was wrong, and I was willing to show him-well, me and Daryl." 

Alyssa didn't get a chance to respond before Dale says, "Oh jeez." Catching everyone's attention. T-dog steps out of the bedroom to see what Dale was talking about. 

"Aw, no." He groans, looking at a fallen semi-truck. 

Daryl turns his motorcycle around and pulls up to Dale's driver's side window. "See a way through?" Dale asks. Daryl nods and cocks his head to the side, driving off. 

Glenn begins talking to Dale about possibly just turning back but Dale shuts his offer down by saying how we can't spare the fuel for that trip. 

Dale begins to drive and weave around cars, there's so much suspense in the air I could cut it with my dagger. 

A loud bang noise comes from the grate on the front of the R.V and thick, white smoke starts to spew out of it. 

Dale groans and stops the R.V while Alyssa covers her ears. 

"Jesus, that's not gonna attract Walkers." I murmur.

Everyone steps out of the R.V and out of Ricks car and walks to the front of the R.V to inspect it. 

"I said it a thousand times, didn't I say it? Dead in the water." 

"Problem, Dale?" Shane retorts. 

"Just a small matter of being stuck in the middle of nowhere with no hope of-" Dale stops abruptly and looks around at all of the thousands of cars surrounding us.

"Okay, that was dumb."

"If you can't find a radiator hose here-" My dad starts, looking around. 

"There's a whole bunch of stuff we can find." Daryl says, looking through the trunk of a car. 

"I can siphon more fuel from these cars for a start." T-dog says, walking away.

"Maybe some water." Carol speaks up. "Or food." Glenn adds. "I like that idea. I'm pretty sure my stomach is going to start eating itself here shortly." "Ew, Adrian." Alyssa gags.