You were awoken from a fitful sleep by a pair of fists pounding at the door of your temporary home. You scrambled to get up and rush to the second floor's window, grabbing the sniper against the wall on your way up. You opened the grimy window - which made a loud creaking sound - and looked down at the door, readying the gun and training it on the spot. You gasped when you noticed a pretty lady troll. Not only that, the horde of infected shuffling into the overgrown yard eager to get her.

"Damn... Damn it!" You shot a handful of them and almost sprinted down the stairs. Throwing the door open, you watched as the female troll seemed to prance inside. You slammed the door closed and began to pack up your things as fast as possible. As you did so, the troll watched you taking it all in with her emerald eyes. As you finished your dash to grab all of your stuff, you swung your backpack over your shoulder.

"I'd introduce myself but-" an infected broke one of the wooden planks covering the winows. "- you know, I don't want to die. Lets go out the back, there's a hidden hole in the hedge, it leads to a highschool." You jogged to the backdoor and swung, the old hinges creaking in protest. You looked into the backyard, there was an infected or two out there last night, pretty much dormant. You crept to the corner, gun in hand and peered around it. No infected there. You lowered your gun but still kept it ready, just in case. You moved the hedge back as the troll closed the back door. You motioned to go through the gap and she nodded to you as she walked past, bending slightly so as not to mess up her hair. You snorted slightly and she gave you a clipped look. Holding your hands up as you finally noticed the chainsaw in her hands. How had you not noticed that?

You made it to the back of the old highschool. It had been your own but that doesn't matter right now. You went through one of the smashed doors. If you recalled correctly, that broken glass door was your own doing. You had been in school at the time of the outbreak and in an idea to escape you broke the glass to get you and your friends out. You returned home, your family had already turned. You wept for a few hours after killing them, they wouldn't have wanted to stay like that. One of your friends, Vivian, ran into a crowd of infected to save her baby brother who had already turned. She was joined by another one of your friends, Lucas as he tried to stop her. However, they didn't emerge alive. In a daze of horror and despair at losing her boyfriend (Lucas), your third friend, Clarissa, wandered away and you heard her screams barely five minutes later. You sprinted to her and when she noticed you she was on her front an infected ripping through the small of her back to get at her organs. She reached out for you, tears pouring down her face. You watched the infected grapple with some of her intestines before you managed to shoot it and her. She thanked you when you did it.

Bringing yourself back to the present you looked around... hearing - but not seeing - infected. You slowly and quietly opened the doors to a few classrooms not coming across any of them.

"My name is Kanaya Maryam, it is nice to meet you." The female troll spoke up.
"Likewise, I'm (y/n) (l/n)." Just at that moment an infected rounded the corner. You pointed your gun at it but nearly dropped it when you recognized that it was Vivian. You let out an anguished cry as you emptied your gun, shooting at it. You managed to hit it in the head at some point. Lucas' corpse ran around the corner and screeched at you. You cried harder and Kanaya stepped up slashing him in half as he ran at you. He dragged his upper body towards you and Kanaya stepped on his back before lodging the blade of her chainsaw in his head. You fell to the ground and covered your face as you cried. Kanaya helped you stand and took you out of the high school and hid on the field before more of them came.

"Darling, I know you are hurting, those two must have been close to you, but you must calm down. If we attract any more attention to ourselves we won't be able to handle them." You nodded, hiccuping, tears still falling but you were significantly quieter. Kanaya took your face into her pale grey hands and wiped away some dirt on your cheek, as well as some tears.
"You are very pretty..." She said running her thumbs soothingly across your flushing cheeks.
"Thank you, so are you..." You looked away and avoided eye contact. Kanaya entwined her hands with yours and, as you looked at her, she flashed a closed eye smile. She started to drag you away from the school, you stumbled behind her.

That night you both cuddled together on an old matress in a house you found. Your hearts beat in sync as you both slipped away from awareness for the night.

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