...same

...same

girls are like "I miss my boyfriend" but actually they're talking about carl grimes

Out

Aphrodite Hart was a girl known for her style. Before the world ended, she was always in dresses and bows since her parents taught her to always look put together. In this world, soulmates are a thing, only a few a year that are born get one. Aphrodite was one that was blessed to have one, she's been searching for them since she found out. But the search was put to a halt when the world ended.

Aphrodite Hart tries to keep the things she grew up with, but stopped that mentality when her parents were bitten and she had to kill them. With no siblings or friends by her side she had to take on the world by herself.

Aphrodite walked around, blood soaked and rusty knife in hand, and her favorite dress on caked in blood. The dress was to small seeing as she's grown, it's been a few years since the end so she's grown from 12 to 16. Her chest presses against the fabric tightly so tight she can barely breath, she looks around in the city she's wondered into and found a store free of walkers. She goes inside and sees no one, she holds her breath while walking around. What she doesn't notice is the person in the corner, a young man who looked at Aphrodite with hunger.

Hunger that could only be fed sexually, the man stood and slowly went to the oblivious girl. She looks around the small building and sees clothing, she goes over and picks up another dress. She shoves it into her large black bag and keeps walking around, not knowing of the strange man. She steps on glass, which hurt her bare feet, and she takes a step back to look at what she stepped on. The display case nearby was shattered and glass was strown everywhere, she looks at the bottom of her foot and sees a cut, she ignores it for the time being and straightens up.

As soon as she straightens up, she's taken to the ground and flipped onto her back. She lets out a scream, a scream that almost deafens the man on top of her. He looked crazy, bloodshot eyes and dark eye bags. He has some cuts on his face and his arm was bloody, he had been bit...

"Please no..."

"Please yes" he moves her hair out of her face and sees that she's missing an eye, no bandage, just an empty cavity. Almost like someone dug out her eye... The man ignores it and looks down at her body. The man tried to rip off her dress to have some fun...

After those excruciating 20 minutes, Aphrodite is left on the floor in pain. From the glass in her back, and from in between her legs, where blood stained her skin. She curls up onto herself, feeling disgusted. This isn't the first time an event like that has happened to her but she still felt gross. Her skin crawled, and itched like bugs were all over her body. The girl stares up at the ceiling as tears slowly fall down her cheek. She sniffles once then sits up and tries to cover herself. Dite looks around and sees a cardigan, she gets up quickly, regretting it, and grabs the cardigan. It's very big on her so she hopes it'll provide some comfort and warmth. She hugs herself and finally leaves the building with her knife in hand. She sees her reflection: long black hair with slight waves, a deep blue hue under her almond shaped eyes, some hair pulled back into a white blood stained bow hair clip, her hair was messy and her eyes were puffy.

"Gotta look good for my soulmate, no matter what" she fixes her hair and keeps walking, everything is bare, to bare, it's ominous how quiet everything is. She can hear as wind goes by and the ground beneath her feet. Her, already growing, anxiety spikes as her mind runs and she decides to leave the city. She runs out and goes into the woods, a sanctuary and has been for a while.

Aphrodite has been alone since the beginning, especially after finding out that she's immune to zombie bites. She met a doctor very early on and she explained that all those who have soulmates are immune. Speaking of soulmates, the girl looked down at her wrist, the outline of a sheriff star staring at her. She touches it gently slowing her walk creating a shiver down her spine, a pleasant one, she does this every few days since soulmates can contact each other using the mark they were born with. She does it so her soulmate knows she's alive, after a few minutes of waiting she gets the same shiver again and smiles. She continues her walking as she ventures deeper into the woods. She smiles a bit to herself and looks around, she starts to hum softly, so softly it's just above a whisper to try and not signal to anyone or anything where she is.

But, Aphrodite starts to feel light headed. She pauses her walk for a moment as the world begins to spin, her head gets heavy and her eyes feel weird. Her body feels cold as she leans and her eyes roll back as she slams against a tree. Her side stays against the tree as her head goes forward, the bark keeping her up as she passes out from blood loss.

Finally

"Carl?" Rick slowly opens the door and is greeted by the sight of his sleeping son. His arms over his eyes and snoring filled the room. Rick goes over slowly and he fly wakes up his son, Carl looks up at him now a bit grumpy,

"Ready to meet Aphrodite?" Carl perks up at the questions and gets up immediately

"Finally!" He runs out of his room and down the steps. He's greeted by Michonne who wears a soft smile. Rick catches up to Carl

"Good luck Carl" Carl nods a thanks to his mother figure and the father and son duo leave the house. As the duo walk to the Rhee residents a memory flashes through Carl's mind, he was a kid when it happened:

   "Hey Dad?"

   "Yes Carl?"

   "What's a soulmate?"

   "Well a soulmate is like a bestfriend but more. It's the one person in the world that knows you better then anyone else. It's someone who makes you a better person. Actually, they don't make you a better person, you do that yourself, because they inspire you. A soulmate is someone who you carry with you forever. It's the one person who knew you, and accepted you and believed in you before anyone else did. Or when no one else would, and no matter what happens, you'll always love them. Nothing can ever change that."

    The memory causes a small smile to appear on Carl's face, it's barely there but noticeable. They walk in a normal pace, that seems WAY to slow for Carl at the moment, and they make it to the Rhee household in 5 minutes. The first thing they see is the beautiful girl sitting in a rocking chair reading. A familiar flannel catching Carl's eye,

"Is that..."

"Aphrodite!" Rick calls out to her but she doesn't move. Maggie comes outside and kneels next to the young girl, she then smiles a bit seeing the girl asleep. Maggie stands and looks at the confused father and son pair,

"She's asleep, girl loves her naps" Carl goes over and Rick follows. He kneels in front of his soulmate and looks at her face, he can see that her eye is missing, much like his, and how beautiful she is.

"Let's get her inside" Maggie whispers and the two nod, Carl moves the book and hands it to Maggie. He then adjusts himself and picks up the young girl bridal style, Dite nuzzles her head into his shoulder. The small group goes inside and is greeted by Glenn. He smiles seeing his niece asleep but his smile drops seeing Carl carrying her in,

  "Watch your hands." Carl smirks then puts Dite down on the couch as Maggie puts down some pillows and a blanket over the young girl. Carl kneels beside her and watches her sleep, not so creepily, and he decides if he should wake her or not. The young man gently reaches out and lifts up her left wrist, where the soul mark lays, and sees a matching mark to his. His heart gets giddy as his eye locks on the mark, he gently rubs her mark with his thumb which causes her to stir from the amazing feeling she got. Her eye slowly opens and matches with Carl's, her eye widens and she sits up quickly

  "You..."

  "Hi" Carl smiles big, his child like smile showing once more at the sight of his soulmate looking him over. Dite gently reaches out and cups his cheek in her hand making him lean into her palm, the adults watching from afar. Both of the teens forget that they're there, the attention on each other,

  "I'm Aphrodite"

  "I'm Carl" they smile at each other.

Before

Aphrodite wakes up to a yummy smell filling the house. She turns her head towards the door and her face contorts into a confused expression as she slowly remembers the following day. She smiles at the thought and sits up with a small wince. She looks around, now that the sun is flooding her room with light, she can see everyone better. Her eye scans the room, it was very cozy. She sees her bag is now next to the door, Glenn or Maggie must of brought it up earlier. She gets out of bed and picks up her bag. She puts it on her bed and takes out the dresses that resided in the bag. She lays them out and looks at them to decide which to put on. She takes off the flannel, deciding to wear it as well, and puts it with the dresses. The light blue of the flannel shirt goes with the white sundress she has. She decides to change into that.

She hangs up the other 3 dresses she stuffed into her bag before putting the flannel back on. She takes out the bow in her hair and untangles her hair with her fingers before putting her hair up into a ponytail with the bow and fixes her bangs to try and hide her missing eye. She leaves her room finally but first grabs her favorite book to read in the living room or while sitting outside, and goes downstairs. She's greeted by Glenn and Maggie hugging in the kitchen with pancakes behind them. She enters the kitchen and watches him with a smile hoping she and Carl can be like that one day.

Glenn sees her and he straightens up

"Oh my" that gets Maggie's attention, she picks her head up and turns to see Aphrodite. She pulls away from Glenn and goes to Dite

"You look so pretty! Carl will faint!"

"Let's hope not"

"You look beautiful bear" Glenn smiles at his niece who smiles back,

"Thank you two" Maggie turns and grabs a plate with 3 pancakes on it,

"Here ya go sweetie" Glenn grabs two other plates with the same amount of food and they go to the dining table to eat as a family. They eat in a comfortable silence until Maggie breaks it once everyone is done,

"Are you ready for today?"

"Not really... What if he doesn't even come?"

"Sweetie, you heard what Rick said last night. That boy has been waiting since birth to meet you" Maggie smiles at her

"He'd be dumb to not come and see you, I'm amazed he hasn't forced Rick to come sooner" Glenn chirps in.

"No Carl, I told them 12."

"But now is so much better"

"How so?"

"I get to meet her now!"

"Carl. It's 7 am."

"So?"

".... Go to your room... Please"

"Dad! I just want to meet my soulmate!"

"I get that Carl, but going 5 hours to early is one thing."

"....but I want to meet her now.."

"I get that, but you have to wait, what if she's getting all pretty for you?"

"She'd look pretty in bed head"

"... You don't know that"

"I do"

"How do you know that?"

"If she looks like my dream then she will"

"Carl..."

"Yes?"

"Please go away..." Carl let's out a loud groan and walks away from his father, who he woke up, to go to Glenn's early. He's been up since the sun rose and already showered and ready to go. Michonne let's out a small laugh from beside Rick and snuggles up to go back to sleep. Rick tries to do the same but can't due to Carl's loud stomping

"When I mentioned to her that she could bring back the old Carl, I didn't mean 5 year old Carl" Michonne let's out another small laugh and shushes him.

"Very true" Maggie pitches in. The small family laughs softly. Once they all finish their food, Aphrodite gathers the plates and bring them into the kitchen to be cleaned. Glenn waves her away

"I'll clean, you go relax. I can feel your nerves from here." The younger nods, she grabs her book from the counter and goes outside. She sits on the rocking chair on the deck. She opens her book and starts from the beginning, she brings her legs up and tuck them under her.

"CARL! You can't just leave and show up!" Rick scolds his son

"Why not?"

"...it is now 8 am. 4 more hours" Carl groans and goes to his room. He opens a comic book and tries to focus on it but can't. His mind keeps drifting to the unknown beauty residing in a house only a few away from his own. His groans and tries to sleep. He throws the comic next to him and covers his eyes with his arms. The lack of sleep got to him, after barely sleeping through the night.

Part Two

Belen whips out his phone and records everything while Lyre begins to put everything back. He puts his phone away and helps her, it takes them an hour or so until every piece of furniture is where it was earlier.

"Tomorrow I will go back to the place where this started. I don't think the spirits want me to.." She closes the final kitchen cabinet as Belen puts a chair on the ground

"it seems like it." Belen replies shortly as Lyre gets the bag and takes out the equipment they bought. She puts the bag into her room containing the things she bought for herself and Belen. They tested everything out but getting no response from anything but the thermal scanner's temperature kept going up and down. Later that night Belen is waiting in the car for Lyre. He taps his foot on the side of the jeep and stares ahead of him. Lyre finally comes outside putting on her glasses and zipping up the backpack. She puts the bag into the open trunk and closes it. She gets into the passenger seat and lets out a small sigh and leans into her chair. Belen starts the jeep and starts to slow drive to Haven Reformery for part two. Lyre sets up the camera and starts to video today.

"Hello people. Good morning, night, evening, and afternoon for those around the world. Today we are going back to the place where the last few videos have started. But Belen isn't going in with me. We will be on facetime the entire time and I'm gonna have a harness go pro on. Belen, are you going to drop me off as close to the building as you can or the parking lot?"

"As close as I can obviously." He chuckles a bit and looks at Lyre for a second. He looks back at the road and keeps driving. After a while they pass the parking lot and Lyre straightens up as her anxiety raises. Belen notices but says nothing and keeps driving. After another few minutes down the dark and ominous road Belen parks on the side of the road but doesn't turn the car off, he just puts it in park.

"Should I see if I can drive closer?"

"The woods are too dense."

"true, I guess this is as far as I can get then... I'll see if I can get a bit closer while you're in there." Lyre nods and gets her phone out. It was at 100% battery with the power saver on so it stays on for as long as possible. Belen watches her silently and gets out of the jeep to get her bag. He opens the trunk and gets her bag out and opens it making sure she has everything to find a way to make them go home knowing that this wouldn't happen tonight if they did go back. She has everything.. He closes her bag and goes to her door as she opens it, the harness over her chest and a small headlamp on so she doesn't have to worry about a flashlight. They just changed the battery that night and she has extra in her bag so she has backups in case something happens.

Belen sighs softly and takes out his phone,

"When I close my door, call me so we can be on facetime the entire time you're out of this jeep. If something happens and the call stops or the camera stops out of random and you can't recall me, You come right back here as fast as you can." Lyre nods and the go pro caught all of that speech. She stays in place as Belen hands her her bag and she puts it on her back. Belen hesitates a bit before walking to his side of the jeep and goes into the jeep as Lyre gets her phone out. As soon as the door closes Lyre facetimes Belen with the camera showing in front of her using her back camera. Belen answers immediately and she keeps the phone in the camera's view. Belen starts a screen recorder so people can see his view. Lyre begins walking and watches her feet most of the time. She goes to the back of the building knowing the entrance there more than the front one. She goes inside and looks around.

Because of the darkness, the lobby looks more like a horror movie. The light from the moon shines through the windows creating a creepy fog like look around some of the floor.

"We should have come back in the morning..."

"If you want we can do that, you can come back right now and we can do this later. You having a panic attack right now is not good" Belen replies to her.

"I got this. As long as I have light, I'll be alright." Belen nods a bit and Lyre goes in the opposite direction from the morgue entering a hallway they've never been down. She looks around but focuses on the white door that looks pristine, not knowing what kind of room it is and the room right above it.

She tries to open the door but can't, she places her backpack down and puts her phone down flipping the camera so it faces her and she puts it on her bag so Belen can see her. She puts her ear to the door and hears nothing. She waits for a bit and still hears nothing so she backs up a bit and raises her leg. Belen watches in silence as Lyre slams her foot into the seam between the door making it slam open.

"If anyone is here, they definitely know I'm here.." She whispers and Looks back down the hallway. She pauses and hears nothing. Not even wind or a mouse scurrying across the floor. She picks up her phone after reaching down and putting on her backpack as she finally looks into the room. She flips her phone camera again and shows Belen the room. There were tons of body bags, hazard bins, and cabinets that looked fully stocked but were locked. Lyre goes further inside and steps on a body bag by accident. Something squishy under her feet. She freezes and lifts her food up slowly, putting it beside the squishy object. She looks at her phone and flips the camera to face her. She Kneels down and explains what just happened

"I felt someone squish under my foot....It's in a closed body bag....Belen, should I open it?"

"no, get up and leave the room. The less time you're in there the better." Lyre ignores him and opens the bag slowly, the silence between Belen and Lyre grows as she looks inside the bag. Her anxiety rushes forward as her eyes slowly focus on the object that was below her feet only moments ago. Her eyes finally focuses as she lets out a small sigh

"just a mouse...it's been there for a while.." Belen lets out a small sigh and leans back in his chair resting his head against the seat. Lyre slowly raises and slowly moves further into the room watching her feet slightly. She reaches the middle of the room and spins slowly to look around the room quickly. No windows. Only one door. A small trap door in the wall that Lyre suspected was a body shoot.

"This must have been a second morgue for when the actual morgue was full.." Lyre whispers softly and turns towards the door, she thought she saw someone so she ducks and goes to the wall quickly and scurries to the door to stay hidden. The phone camera was still facing her so Belen saw the fear in her face. No noise is heard for a minute so Lyre pokes her head out and sees nothing. She stands and goes into the hallway silently and slowly. She walks down the hallway again entering the lobby. She looks up the stairs and flips the camera around again so Belen can see the stairs. His eyes widened as he looked. The moonlight shines down the stairs creating a movie scene type feel of the room. She walks up the stairs slowly listening to every eerie creak from the stairs. As she walks up the stairs she looks around quickly and when she enters the intersection of the two hallways from the first video she looks down both hallways moving around and showing Belen the darkness.

"Which hallway are you going to go down first?" Belen breaks the silence.

"The dark one. I've already gone down the lighter one." Lyre turns to the right and goes down the darkest hallway, because the sunlight has retired for the night; the hallway seems black as night and like a neverending void. Lyre looks around keeping her phone close and ignores the doors she passes until she reaches the same Lavender door that Belen opened. It was still open from when Belen rushed out. She goes to the center of the room and sits down using the red chair as a holding place for her phone but keeping it perched up to face her. She faces the door that she left open, and gets out the spirit box and the emf recorder. She lays them in front of her and she turns on the spirit box breaking the silence with the static sound of the device. She speaks,

"Is anyone here?" no response.

"Jane Keith?" a small response that was inaudible and couldn't be understood.

"Leo Goldy?"

"Hello"

was the first intelligible response.

"Alright then, hello Mr. Goldy. How many are in this room?"

"five"

"five...you...who else?"

"Owner....innocent..... girl...... JJ."

"Leo Brain. Nando Braggi. Jane Keith. James Brian. Am I correct?"

"yes."

"alright then...can I talk to one of the others in the room?" she gets 5 different responses but all at once. She looks at the emf detector and is at the red light and doesn't look like it will stop.

"Can I talk to Jane Keith?"

"no."

she sighs and speaks

"I want to talk to her." there is no response.

"James? I have your teddy bear with me." She takes out the bear and holds it in her lap.

"buck.."

"Is it named Buck?"

"yes...stupid.."

two different voices show through. One was male and the other was female.

"don't be mean Jane." no response. That went on for a while until there was 5 minutes of no responses and the emf detector slowly went to green.

"You are welcome to come home with me James. Only James." She shuts off the spirit box and puts it both away.

"Lyre, it's almost 3am. I would recommend coming back to the car." Lyre nods and she stands gathering her belongings. She holds the bear and her phone in her hands as she quickly leaves the room and walks down the hallway. As she walks all of the doors slam open around her making her scream in fright. She quickly runs down the hallway and down the stairs as Belen watches terrified. Lyre gets down the stairs as she starts to feel like she's being watched. She looks back up at the stairs for a second and sees nothing. She runs out of the haunting building as the feeling of being watched never leaves until she's in the woods but she never stops running until she sees the car in view, that only pushes her more. She left like she was doing the mile run in the gym with the car being the final point as she finished her last lap. Lyre quickly gets in the car as Belen ends the call with her breathing heavily. Belen puts a camera on the dashboard and starts it staying quiet. Lyre looks forward as she shakes a bit as the adrenaline slowly stops pumping through her veins.

"Whenever you're ready. I'm gonna start the car and drive us home alright?" Belen speaks softly like she's a piece of fragile glass. Lyre nods and puts her backpack in front of herself by her feet and takes off the gopro putting in at her feet as well. 

the walking dead negan lineup but instead of taking Lucille to their heads he makes them run the fitness gram pacer test