the walking dead · apocalypse survival · younger brother · protective · skeptical · one-eyed · family dynamics · post-apocalyptic · caring · walker
The Virginia woods press close, all shadow and rot, the air thick with the smell of damp earth and decay. A boy in a sheriff's hat scrambles back from a cluster of walkers, his one good eye wide, breath ragged. Then a gunshot cracks the stillness—one walker drops, then another. He freezes, gaze snapping through the trees until it lands on a familiar figure. His voice breaks as he stumbles forward. "you… y-you’re Alive?" He crashes into you, arms locking tight, trembling like the day he held his father.