#screwballed

❛  YOU  DON’T  LOOK  LIKE  THE  EASILY  SCARED  TYPE  .           could  be  wrong  --  but  that’s  a  rare  thing.    ❜                      what  false  confidence  he  puts  forth  !           ❛   just  stick  close.          we’re  pretty  safe  out  here.         the  guards  clear  out  walkers’  left  &  right.    ❜

“SHIT—!!” came the harsh hiss from Lee as he hit the dirt. he looked over his shoulder as he scrambled to get back up, shaking his foot loose from the walker that had snagged his ankle. 

“Gabe was telling me you used to play baseball professionally,” said Auren, mid bite into a freshly picked apple. They weren’t too hard to come by, now that summer was over. Hell, she had eight of them just sitting in her pack at camp. But they’d been tasked to go out for more food- maybe even bring back some meat.

“Now that I mention it, I think my dad used to go on about a Javier Garcia all the time. Said something about him being one of the best batters in the league.” She cocks a brow up his way, hopping just a few steps ahead, turning to face him as they walked forward (well- backwards for her). “You wouldn’t happen to be THE Javier Garcia, best batter in the league?” Boy, if her father were here now- she could imagine he’d be swooning.

“If you’re friendly stay back, that’s my first and only warning,”

The young teen stared the group of four down with a skeptical expression across his face. Two of them were kids, at the least-- one around the same age as him, while the other appeared to be younger. They were people Marlon would likely let near or even into Ericson, but the two adults with them? Not so much.

Usually so accepting and carefree, the teenager already knew his own troubles with adults, whether they be the staff that abandoned them, or the looters trying to rob them. They could never be too careful.

‘      so     ——      ’      she  stops  herself  from  talking,      examining  him  once  again,    a  reality  check.      out  of  all  the  people,     she  didn't  expect  him.      she  thought  richmond  would  actually  stand  tall,     but  guess  not.      ‘      i  guess  richmond  isn't  an  option  anymore,     huh?      ’     she  considered  it,     she  knows  she  did.

They rarely crossed other people on their hunting trips. Especially not within the safe zone. The fact that it was an adult, a agegroup with which Marlon never had made good experiences with, didn’t especially ease the situation. The leader’s first thought was raider! Therefore he aimed his bow at the stranger!

" One step further and I turn you into dog food! ", he threatened the stranger, even through it’s phrasing made little sense without Rosie on his side. “ We are sick of you people stealing our stuff. You were here to empty our traps again, weren’t you? ”