Carson turns to me. I give him a emotionless stare, keeping myself together. Then he takes a deep breath, leaving me to wonder how he is not suffocating because of what they were cooking over the fire.

"No hard feelings darlin'." Carson said turning to me, the men surround me, I stay calm. I'm not going down without a fight. Although these men seem strong, I remember Dad teaching me how to take down a bigger man because he knew how to whenever he did drug busts or arresting some tall drunk guy who tries to pick a fight with him.

"But you were going to kill Connie, and although Beatrice was a threat she was still one of us." He adds.

"When do we stop?" The man asks, walking closer to me.

"At least when she's throwing up, or just knock her out once you're done." Carson said, turning around and walking into the trailer. The men surround me, I ball up my fists as one of the men got closer to me, he charges, I kick him by the knee, bringing him down, then I knee him under the jaw, a woman jumps onto my back trying to gouge my eyes out, I quickly backed up against the trailer, trying to slam her head against the wall.

She collapses, a man bigger than me punches me in the face. I stagger to the side but someone gets behind me, grabbing my arms then the man punches me in the stomach. I could feel the urge to puke but I take a deep breath as he throws another punch to my stomach then the person behind me lets go of me and the bigger man throws another punch closer to my eye, I stagger backwards.

The punches are hard, they're stronger than me, but I won't let them see it.

I could barely see who is punching me anymore but I grimace as I kept punching wildly at the person in front of me, but someone rams their fist in my face, my head snaps backwards causing my head to hit something hard, then everything blacked out.

Aurei....my dumbass is running around and getting knocked out but I can't even take the time to find her....I'm acting like I'm tough shit but now I'm knocked out....my thoughts go back to Joe. He had a point, there is always going to be someone stronger than me, no matter what I do and for that....I'll respect him....but I don't respect Joe completely....just for saying that.

I've been knocked out before....that's why I took Joe's word for what he said....even though he's a sick bastard.

Dad also said I'm strong, not just physically but mentally. But many people just say I'm a heartless asswhole who is just too blunt, but the way I see it, I'm speaking the truth, because whether you like it or not, you're going to hear the truth and you're going to have to accept it. It's not anyone's choice to decide who's strong.

I will not bow. I won't let myself break because I've just been knocked on my ass.

And that's something I don't take lightly.

And if I am to kill someone, they would have to try and kill me or Aurei....and usually I don't show mercy.

I have to outsmart them somehow.....I know I'm smart.

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"She's breathing." I hear a voice say.

I slowly open my eyes, to see blurs of people huddling close together, I wipe the sweat from my forehead. I keep blinking to see five people, they were all against the wall, with dirty clothes and they were covered in blood.

I sit up to see only a flashlight lighting up the place. They must've thought I was dead.

"How long was I out?" I ask wearily, one man gets closer, holding the flashlight over my face.

"It's dark." He said quietly.

"What do they do?" I ask, he sits down next to me, he looks like he's not a day over thirty. But he shakes his head, closing his eyes.

"They gather a couple of people....and we don't see them anymore, but the strangest part is....in a hour we smell something weird getting cooked...." He said. That's strange.....I have to find out what happened.....

Someone opens the door, I turn around to see a man pointing his gun down at me. I look up at him silently.

"Consider yourself lucky, you're getting your cuts treated, out." He said, I stand up, avoiding eye contact with him and walking past him, a man looks at me, he wore thick glasses and had everything tucked in and cleaned, he becons for me to come over.

I walk towards the trailer, he steps inside and begun to take out his kit.

"You're tough as nails, I've seen you take out about three people." He said as he pours alcohol onto the cloth and dabbing the side of my jaw.

I stay silent, he just slightly presses it deeper, it stung the side of my face, I close my eyes.

"Usually that's surprising for a woman like you, but I'm not sexist." He said, pulling my arm close to him and checking it, pressing his cold fingers to check for broken bones.

"Do you know any little girl named Aurei?" I ask matter-of-factly. He shrugs.

"No....even if I had...she's as good as dead." He said heartlessly, looking at my eyes, his were greyish-blue.

"You can go to hell." I said with my emotionless stare.

"Well, now to think about it, Avery you're a mess. Soon you'll lose whatever sanity you have in your body and instantly become a ruthless killer." He said, leaning against the cabinet.

"Coming from a man who chose to stay here with cruel people." j shot back.

"People need me here, the vermin, the vipers....Carson. I'm the most valuable person in here. I didn't have a choice." He argues.

"Then stop being judgmental and do your job." I said sourly, shooting him a blank stare.

A woman steps inside, she just looks at me and stands behind the door.

"Carson wants you to eat with us, if you're on your best behavior you can have a chance to be one of us." She said with a smirk. She's lucky she's the one with the gun because I would've slapped it off.

I get up, then left the trailer with the woman behind me, there was a fire burning, seven pull out chairs were surrounding the fire. I sit down, Carson holds a bottle of beer, he takes a huge chug then he shoots me a look. I ignore him and someone passes me a plate full of unfamiliar meat.

"Go ahead and eat." He said with a smile, everyone around me begins to shovel down food.

The meat looks odd, then everyone looks at the other trailer, Connie tumbles out, but her whole arm is missing. My eyes flicker down at the plate. I threw the plate on the ground, everyone stares at me as I stand up.

The meat that was on the plate was Connie's arm.

"Avery sit the fuck down!" Carson yells. I ignore him, I look over to the truck that has my bag.

"Just kill her." Carson said carelessly. Everyone gets up, the woman who led me out runs towards me, I dodge her and she falls into the pit of fire, she thrashes her body wildly as her clothes start getting caught on fire as she lets out blood curdling screams.

Roamers start coming in, I run towards the truck but someone pulls me down, it's the man who knocked me out, I grab a huge rock and hit him in the face, everyone else starts grabbing guns and begun shooting at the roamers, making it worse.

He slashes me in the arm, I grimace and kept pelting him with the rock, I roll on top of him as I continue to beat him until his eye socket begun to bleed, I stop and ran towards the truck grabbing my bag and next my revolver.

I turn around to see Carson charging towards me, I dodge him.

"You destroyed this place." He growls.

"This place is full of sick cannibals!" I shout, he walks towards me.

I point my revolver to his legs, pulling the trigger and shooting both of them, he falls down, dragging himself around but I turn around, walking away from him.

"Go ahead! Let's see how long you live bitch!" He yells after me, I turn around to see the truck. I have to get those people out of here, they could've killed me and believed I was dead the whole time.

I run towards the truck, opening it up, the people just stare at me with pure shock in their eyes.

"Come on! Run!" I yell, they all took a hint and ran out of the truck, the roamers walk behind Carson as he desperately tries to crawl away. He's a traitor to his own kind....now he's going to feel what it's like to be eaten.

I walk away with my bag slungover my shoulder as the roamers corrupted the whole camp site. I could hear Carson's screams behind me but I shake my head.

I didn't look back at that camp and I don't have to.