"Technically, I'm the only person living…..eh whatever." Quinn talked to herself as she took food from the shelves and threw them onto her shopping cart. Quinn thought that she might as well take the food anyway, it was gonna go bad soon since no one was going to eat it, well except for her. Sure being alone was really really lonely, but she used to it.. ish. No she didn't have a car, no she didn't really have a house, but she had her pack of cards!
Nadia, being extremely careful, placed the girl in the back seat of her car after moving a few things out of the way. She was trying her best no to freak out and jump for joy, but she couldn't help but be excited. There was someone else. Nadia wasn't the only one left on Earth. She grinned to herself, sitting in the front seat of her car. She wanted to wait for the girl to wake up, but sitting in the middle of a street wasn't ideal. She started the car and began driving again, slowly, not wanting the girl to bounce around too much. Nadia needed this girl to live.
When Cat woke up the world was moving and everything hurt. She looked out a window and saw things passing by, and looked around. She looked to her left and saw a girl sitting in the driver's seat. "Oh my god!" she muttered and scooted back in her seat, trying to distance herself from the girl. She started to look for something she could use as a weapon but realized that the girl had already taken notice of her.
Nadia let out a sigh of relief. The girl was alive and well. "Finally, you woke up. I was starting to think you were dead."
"Who are you?" Cat demanded. "Where are we? And where the bloody hell is my bag?" she exclaimed, starting to look around the car for her precious bag full of medical supplies.
Kias walked along the side of an abandoned road, looking in through broken car windows for anything useful for them to steal. They sighed, kicking a piece of rubble out of their way as they boredly continued their task of searching for supplies. Occasionally, they'd pop open a door or a trunk in a car that looked promising and not already ransacked by hungry animals.
"Bag? Sorry, I didn't know you had one. I probably left it." Nadia responded, driving a little slower. "I'm Nadia. If I'm being one hundred percent honest, I have no clue where we are. Somewhere on the east coast maybe?"
"Alright well, would you mind stopping the car please, then?" Cat asked, her demeanor quickly switching from slightly freaking out, to calm and commanding. Her grandmother had called it her doctor voice.
"Alright…" Nadia trailed off, slightly surprised by the girl's sudden mood change. She gently pushed her foot against the break pedal, stopping the car in the middle of the road. "Hey…whatever your name is. Are there any other survivors? I thought I was the only one."
"You haven't come across anyone? Where have you been?" Cat looked concerned. "I've come across a few people, but they all preferred to be on their own and left. My name's Catriona, by the way. But you can call me Cat."
"Maybe I've just been unlucky. I haven't seen anyone since…" Nadia bit her lip, deciding not to share any more. "Well, Cat, I've stopped the car. Do what you want to do, but hurry."
After finishing her shopping, Quinn pushed her cart on the way to her hideout while listening to music. However, her eyes scanned every building she came across, on the lookout for any people even though she knew she was the only one.
"Erm, yes well the thing is, I really need that bag. And I'm getting it back no matter what. Which I'm terribly sorry about because you obviously crave human company so you can either come with me, or I'm walking." She sighed and unbuckled her seatbelt. "Though I do understand if you don't want to come with, gas is probably not easy to come by."
Nadia paused for a moment, weighing her options. "I'll go with you, but I won't bring the car. Just let me grab a few things." She took her small pistol and a bag of random supplies before exiting the car. She took her keys and waited for Cat to leave before locking it.
"Alright then. Do you know the way?" she asked, following the girl. "And I don't know your name, by the way."
"It's Nadia. We haven't been driving for too long. I found you on the ground somewhere that way." She replied, pointing down the road. "It was a straight road, no turns or anything. It should be easy to find your bag."
"Okay good. Once we find the general direction of where I was I'm sure I can find my bag." They walked in silence for a moment before she said, "Thank you for stopping for me and going with me. And for taking me." She stopped paused. "What happened to me anyways? Did you happen to see?"
Nadia shrugged. "I heard a loud thump, but I stayed in my car for a while because I thought it was an animal. After a few minutes I decided to see what it was and found you lying on the ground passed out." She explained. "I was kind of shocked to see another living person."
"How long has it been since you've seen someone else?" she asked. 'Probably fell out of the tree somehow and hit my head,' she thought, her mind going a mile a minute.
"Eight months, just about. Well, I've seen plenty of people since then but they've all been dead." Nadia muttered the last part quietly.
"Wow," Cat breathed, her eyes wide. "That's a while." She stepped on a rock that slipped and caused her to go sprawling, her hip hitting the ground. She winced but got up quickly. "Whoops. I'm fine." She looked at Nadia carefully. "That's a long time to go without human interaction, you know. Or alive human interaction."
She nodded, looking back and forth for any signs of Cat's bag. As much as she hated to admit it, Nadia was a little freaked out being so exposed. That's why she loved her car so much. It was a place to stay that had everything she needed. "Let's just hurry up."
"Alright." She walked up to the trees and snuck quietly through them, looking for the marker she had made in the trees. She saw one and kept walking then stopped when she saw a large tree branch with lots of leaves on it. She circled around it and found an imprint of a body in the leaves. She bent down and shuffled through the leaves, where she found her bag. She brushed it off and quickly looked through it, making sure nothing was misplaced or stolen. She breathed a sigh of relief and stood up, turning to face Nadia who was looking nervous. "Got it, let's go."
Nadia hurriedly left as soon as Cat got her bag, wanting to return to the safety of her car as soon as possible. "What's in your bag anyway? Why is it so important?"
(hey if anyone else is on their character can find Nadia's car so we can all meet up)
“Medical supplies and tools,” she said, falling into step beside Nadia’s quick strides. “When things got really bad I raided the first hospital I could find. At the point we’re at the contents of my bag are priceless. What’s even more priceless is that I actually know how to use them.”