Readers POV
The cold barrel of a rifle is pressed against your forehead as scout is picked up by the scruff of his neck as he wriggles about trying to escape.
When you do not follow his command he looks agitated and you feel the pressure of the metal increase as he presses down.
???: stand up or we snap your dogs neck.
You: fine. Jesus Christ.
You slowly bring yourself to your feet as he doesn't remove the rifle.
You: I would be a bit more of a listener if didn't have a massive fuck off rifle aimed at my head first thing in the morning!
???: you little shit.
He slaps you so hard your ear rings and your face burns.
He grabs you by your hood and drags you outside as you stand up. They take your axe and crossbow but leave your knife as they don't know you had it. He punches you knocking you over.
A woman stands in front of.
Woman: Sam what are you doing. We don't know it's them.
You guess that the man is Sam.
Sam: who else lives in these mountains.
You: quite a lot of peop-
Sam: shut the fuck up.
Woman: leave him alone.
Sam: no lucy.
And the woman is called lucy.
Lucy: we should ask him.
You can't help but realise that scout is whimpering and wriggling trying to get out of the other mans grip. You feel sparks shoot from your eye and look at him.
You: drop him!
Sam: what!?
You: drop the dog or I kill you!
Lucy: just drop him John.
The man drops scout as he gets ready to attack.
You: no scout just run there is to many.
Scout listens and runs off into the forest.
Sam: why did you do that he will go and get the others.
You: there are no others in the next 30 miles radius.
Sam: so you are with them.
He punches you square in the face and your nose bleeds.
You: with who?
Sam: you know who.
You: the whitetails.
Sam: what? No. The hall gang.
You: no I'm not with them. They killed 2 of our member 2 days ago and burnt down our armoury. They held a gun to my boys head. To be fair that is what you are doing right now.
Sam: he lying.
Lucy: you have a kid?
He punches you straight in the gut and kicks you as you fall you the ground. You feel your ribs flex in your chest as he pulls back and kicks again.
You spit blood as lucy and John pull him away as the other 3 men looked in shock as you begin to laugh.
You: do you think I feel that. I've been though to much already. Even before this apocalypse started.
Sam: ok if pain won't make you talk maybe the cold will. Strip him boy.
They pick you up and take off your jacket and then your shirt. You hang your head as they notice the shear number of scars covering your body.
Lucy: oh god.
John: Jesus, Mary and Joseph.
Sam: fuck.
You've never felt more different.
Sam: this doesn't change anything. He still needs to be punished.
Lucy: he's only a kid and by the looks of it he's had enough.
Sam: bury him in the snow and freeze him up a little.
You: go ahead I won't feel it.
They drop you in the snow and begin to cover your body leaving your head out of it.
They stand around you and stare in silence. When you don't react and you don't even move they look at each other.
You: this isn't working. What do you want me to say.
Sam: I want you to tell us the truth about you and those raiders. You bastards took my daughter from me.
You: I'm sorry to hear that but that wasn't us I'm with the whitetails.
Sam: you fucker.
He pulls out his knife and begins to walk towards you.
John: woah Sam lets look into this first before we kill him.
He doesn't listen and drops on one knee as you lay on the floor and begins to cut into your body. You scream as the others try to pull him back and you feel a sharp pain all along your chest.
Lucy: shit!
You see the expression on her face change and you look down at your chest seeing a cut from you right shoulder all the way down you your left hip. You start to panic.
You:fuuuuuuuuuck! Fuck fuck fuck shit. Shit on it!
You become very dizzy at the sight of this as people start to attempt to stop the bleeding.
You start seeing people stand around you. Mum, dad, susie, the man at the lab and lee.
Mum and dad: come join us love.
Susie: I always liked you. Your so funny. Come and join us.
Lee: you did good with clementine kid. Now it's your turn.
The man: I saved you kid. You've had a good run.
You: I will guys. I will.
You look at lucy and John as they look at the wound trying to fix it. You grab Lucy's arm.
You: if you find a girl called clementine. Shirt, brown hair and always wears a dust old cap with a D on it. Tell her I love her.
Lucy: you can tell her that yourself.
You look at the 5 figures standing over you as they walk out of view and you spot Sam looking a little shocked.
You: why?
He looks at you and looks scared. Your words had a big impact on him.
The wound gushes blood as you spot scout running over and nestling his head under your arm and looks up at you.
You are scared.
You don't want to die...
Silence...
Everything goes black...
You suddenly wake up gasping for air with your shirt still off and you lay on the ground chained to a tree.
You stare at the wound that had been stitched up by an amateur and has scraps of cloths hanging off it to stop the bleeding.
Better than an open wound.
You take in a big breath of air and feel something sharp dig into the top of your leg.
It was scout's claws as he rests his paws on your lap and licks your face.
You: hey boy.
He barks which makes the group of people sitting around a campfire notice and turn around.
You: shhhhhh. Be quiet boy. I'm going to need you to go and find clementine. You think you can catch a sent boy.
He barks again and runs into the forest.
Lucy: so your awake.
You: hmm.
Lucy: look I'm sorry on behalf of everyone but we had a run in with the hall gang. Killed a few people.
You: well your not the only one.
You say this with an annoyed tone.
Lucy: your annoyed. I get it. I would be to but I need to know where you are from so we can check and see if you are hall gang or not.
You sigh and take a long pause.
You: we are at an old holiday home in the mountains but I've lost my sense of direction when I was attacked.
Lucy: we've got food.
You: I don't need your shit.
Lucy: ok. But Sam is still angry so this...
She points at the large cut running down your body.
Lucy: this might not be the end of it.
You: it's just more scars to add to the lists and another experience. Child abuse, experiments, killing innocent people and now we've got torture. I'm so excited.
You say this with the most sarcastic voice you can muster but your voice is dried out so it you just crooked instead.
Lucy: I'm sorry about anything that happens or has happened.
There is a long pause as the silence is deafening.
Lucy: experiments? I can tell you are different by the changing eyes and the sparks shooting out of them. What happened?
You: when the outbreak first started some people took me and experimented on me. They where trying to make an antidote. That didn't work and I was left with different coloured eyes, only having one body temperature and being treat like a freak. It's not a walk in the park.
You spot Sam walking over to you and he had clearly not learned his lesson as he removes his belt and gets ready to hit you with it.
Sam: so the fucker is alive.
You: here we go again...