"Lauren?" That voice. It feels like I'm hallucinating. She's dead. They're all dead. They aren't alive. They can't be alive. I lost them months ago. 

I turn around and am met with the faces of those who I thought dead. 

"Zainab?" I can see her dark figure in the dim lighting. Along with three others. "Morgan? Oscar?" I don't recognize the other person from our previous group, I can't really see the face since they're in the shadows. I hug my friends and am in shock that they're still alive. 

"How'd you get here?"Morgan asks me. 

I sigh. "We thought it was a safe zone,my group and I. They separated me from the others." I look at my three friends. "These are the people that tortured us right?" 

"Yea, the ones we got away from. " Oscar replies. "Apparently they think we let the walkers in to attack them." 

"Which I think is complete bullcrap." The third person says and gasp as I realize who it is. 

"Christian? " He was my crush back at camp and I thought he died. I saw a group of walkers gain on him. 

"Hey Lauren." He comes up to me and hugs me. 

"I thought you were dead. " I whispered to him. 

"Running has never failed me." He smirks. 

"What group are you with now?" Zainab asks me. 

I didn't have the chance to respond before the top of the box car opens and a can is tossed down. Green spray starts pouring  out and fills my throat and lungs. Ican't breath and try to cough out the spray that is filling my head. 

"I need both boys to step out of the car." One guard says as the door to the box car opens. 

Christian and Oscar stay put. 

"I said, I need both boys to step out!" The guard says again, a bit sterner. 

When they don't go out, a couple guards enter. They have masks so the gas doesn't affect them. 

My vision is blurry, but I can still see the outline of one of the guards and swing at him. I hit him in the mask, causing it to slip off of his face and my knuckles to split. He gags as the gas chokes him. 

Another guard comes running over to her partner. I grab her weakly by the ponytail and try to yank her away, but she is stronger than me cause she is not inhaling the gas like I am. She punches me in the ear, causing a ringing sound to erupt inside my ear.

She pulls a gun out and points it to my head. "Move and I shoot." Her voice muffled by the gas mask.

The gas starts to clear up and I can see two guards with their guns pointed at Zainab and Morgan who both are sitting on their knees with their hands up. Oscar and Christian struggle with the two guards that  hold their arms behind their back.

Gareth yells from outside the car. "Bring the two boys out."

"Oscar!" Zainab yells. 

"Shut up girl." The guard to the left of her scolds and then punches her.

"Don't touch her!" Oscar yells and is thrown out of the car to the ground.

The guards get up to leave and close the train car door.

I immediately get up, blood drips from my ear but I don't pay any attention to it.

Two of my friends are gone.

Again.

"What's gonna happen to them?" I ask in a panicked voice.

Morgan comforts a crying Zainab. "They take them to kill and that's the food." She looks at me. "That's how they got Eric and Julian."

I gasp. Eric was Morgan's boyfriend even before the apocalypse and Julian was the jerk of the group.  We got separated from them when we got attacked at camp. I knew they were alive, but we never found them.  

My rebellious side turns on and I am determined to find a way out of this boxed hell. I find a chunk of rock in the corner of the car and pound on the handle of the door. 

"I-it won't work," Zainab says in between sobs. "We tried already. " 

I don't listen as always and eventually wear out and slide to the ground. 

After sitting there for what felt like hours, an explosionmakes the car lurch forward, causing me to hit my head on the siding. Black threatens to take over my vision but I fight it and put a hand to my head. It's wet and I know I'm bleeding.  

"Zainab? Morgan? Are you guys alright?" I call out to my best friends. 

"All good!" Morgan respondes. "I think I broke my wrist though." 

The door to the top had busted open and smoke surrounds it. 

"Come on!" I yell to the other girls and we stumble out of the musty old red train car. 

There is chaos everywhere. Walkers were eating people and people fought of both walkers and eachother.  

I need to find Carl.

"I know where our weapons were stored." A familiar voice calls out to us. Christian comes running out of the smoke along with Oscar. 

"Oscar!" Zainab yells and kisses him. 

"Escape now, kiss later?" Christian rolls his eyes and runs off with us tagging along. 

We make it to a small building and inside is rows of foldable tables with weapons. I scan the tables for my axe and spot Daryl's crossbow and Michonne's sword. My axe laying near them. I pick it up and make sure it's mine. My initials are sloppily carved into it, but it's mine alright.  

"Let's go!" Oscar yells. 

Panic rises in me. I have to find the others. 

"The others, they-"

Zainab grabs my elbow ans drags me along. "They can make it out on their own,Lauren! We have to go!" 

I grab a random gun and leg Hollister and run out with the others, back into the gunshot, smoke filled, camp. I quickly strap the gun to my belt and mid thigh. 

I hear a scream behind me and look back to see a Walker grab Morgan. I run over to her and slice the Walker in the head before it can close its teeth around her shoulder. 

I grab her arm and catch up with the others. We make our way to what looks like an exit in the fence. But it's too late to notice the Walkers tha pour into it. 

"Crap!" I swear and hear the others curse loudly. 

We turn around and start running, my head pounds from the injury and I can barely stay conscious.  But the adrenaline pumping through my veins keeps me going. 

We finally find a hole in the fence, killing a dozen walkers that surround it. We all push through it and take off into the forest. I look bac at the horrible sight of smoke and fire. I swear I saw a glimps of a familiar sheriff's hat, but it soon disappears. 

They notice I stopped and all looked at me. "Come on, we have to go." Oscar tells me. 

I don't listen again and start to run back for Carl. I didn't get very far till someone's arms wrap around my waist from behind and I kick away from them. They drag me back from Terminus. 

"Let me go! I have to find him!" I scream and kick Christian in the balls. He lets go of me and I try to run again before he grabs me again. 

"They're gone Lauren! You'll end up killing yourself!" He holds me back and I finally fall to my knees, crying into my hands. 

"I promised him." I whisper. I lost Carl. 

"Promised who?" Zainab kneels down next to me. 

"Uhhh...guys?" Morgan calls to us.I look up and see her pointing to a giant Walker heard.

I am being pulled up and forced to run again by Zainab. We run away from the heard and don't stop till we are far away from the smoking ruble. 

My head wound just got worse and the trees started to spin. The thing I see is Zainab and Oscar hugging eachother. It seems kinda stupid, but the last thought I had before I passed out was: They're dating. Finally.  

And then the world went dark. 

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A/N: Hey guys! Sorry this chapter kinda sucks, but my phone got rid of the app and won't let me re download it,  but that should be solved when I get my SD Card! 

@maccasweirdfriend and @disturbanceduck, you guys are in his one! (And if it didn't tag you guys, Morgan can you please tag Z? Thanks!) 

I also can't bold or italicize.  So this sucks! 

Till next time!

Stay in the salt circle Niall, so the Walkers don't get ya!

~Zombiefighter01