×settling in×
season one chapter two

      Kiara is her name. After Lynn had helped her walk back to the group it wasn’t a surprise that El had taken care of the young girl so quickly. Mother instinct. Lynn and Roy had stayed back as the two women interacted, Kiara a bit more hesitant and quiet compared to El’s soft and motherly tone.

     But Kiara got the help she needed, Roy had bandaged her ankle after El had stopped worrying about the poor girl and had given her some extra medicine El didn’t need. “Think you can walk kid?” By now the group had moved inside a somewhat empty house, blocking off the windows that seemed to be broken through and the front and back door.

      Kiara stares at her ankle for a moment, her shoulders tense as she faintly nods. “Here.” Lynn offers the young girl a hand after making sure El could stand from her crouched position. Kiara continues to stare at her ankle for a moment, her eyes darting faintly from Lynn’s hand to the ground.

    “We need to get a car soon.. Hey Roy?” Lynn turns to look at the older man as she lets her hand drop to the side, not bothered that Kiara doesn’t seem to trust any one yet. “Hm?” The man looks up from the magazine he seemed to get from the pharmacy. “Check the garage for anything useful, I’ll check upstairs..”

    Lynn bites the inside of her cheek as she rubs above her eyebrow. “Kiara..” The girl looks up softly at her name, fiddling with the tie dye shirt she got from Roy since her old one was no good anymore. “Keep a lookout on the bottom floor, will you?”

     Kiara seems a bit shocked by the sudden command as Lynn leaves the room not waiting for either women to answer her. El smiles gently as she pats Kiara’s thigh, resting her other hand on her stomach.

    “Don’t worry about her.. She means well, really. She’s just a bit.. Stressed right now.” Kiara nods, absentmindedly running a hand through her curly hair. “Who isn’t.” El’s smile grows a bit more at the girl’s first words.

     “I’m sure we can find weapons for you down here, at least until we find another shop somewhere.” Kiara once again nods as she slowly walks behind the woman, trying not the stand so much on her twisted ankle.

      Lynn huffs as she kicks a door open with force after finding the room to be locked. The room reeks of the dead, rotten flesh. God Lynn hopes she doesn’t find a zombie in here becau-

   “God dammit!” Lynn curses as a hand suddenly grabs her ankle from behind, the zombie emitting a loud growl from their slacked jaw.

     Lynn kicks the hand away with ease before bringing her machete down on their neck, hearing the cruel tearing of flesh echo in the room.

   “Lynn are you okay up there?!” A voice calls out from the bottom of the stairs. Lynn scrunches her nose as she steps over the now headless zombie, peeking her head out of the room.

    “Yeah I’m okay!” Poor guy.. Lynn thinks as she steps back into the room, making sure to avoid the body as much as she can. Most people committed suicide after they leanred about the outbreak, hoping to just make a straight way to whatever is after living.

    Unfortunately for them, no matter how you die, you will always come back a zombie.

    Lynn shakes her head as she makes her way into the bathroom, pulling drawers out and searching behind the mirror. So far all she found was more ibuprofen and some hair ties Lynn knows either her or Kiara will appreciate seeing as they have the most hair to keep up with.

    “Okay since the first time Lynn went to get a car on her own she ended up adopting a kid into our group, so..” Lynn glares as she flips the man off, her other hand resting on El’s back gently.

   “We can all go together! Plus knowing Lynn she’d get a fuc- i mean freaking bus.” Kiara raises an eyebrow as she walks beside Roy, a half offended look on her face as amusement shines in her eyes. “Hey, I’m not that young..” Roy snorts at this, waving his free hand.

    “Whatever you say, kid.” Kiara huffs as she turns her head away from the group. It’s been at least a day since Kiara has joined and while she is still in her shell, she seems to be opening up to the small gang, slowly cracking jokes with Roy. “Whatever, old man.”

    It’s El’s turn to make a snort from behind her hand, tossing her head back as she laughs at the look Roy gives Kiara. Lynn cracks a smile as they continue down the street, Roy and Kiara going back and forth- commenting how old and young each other are.

     Lynn finally felt at ease for a moment, sure the occasional zombie would appear around the corner, blood and dirt smearing their torn, rotting flesh but other than that Lynn felt happy for once.

   Maybe it was the new girl, while a bit hesitant at first, carried a lively energy around her that just made everyone around her feel relaxed and comfortable or maybe it was the fact no one has gotten severely hurt these past few days (minus Kiara but her injuries don’t count). Though, Lynn never seems to be happy for long. The world has a cruel way of torturing the people that roam it.

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  wow short chapter but :') the next will be longer i promise i just felt i needed to update soon so i just wrote a bunch of filler, ALSO as said before (tv show series, slow burn) so characters will start to show a a little later than some but don't worry your oc's will appear before the first season is done. im thinking about atleast 15-20 episodes for season one so yes your ocs will be in the gang before then please dont worry !!! <3333