By the time I realised what was happening, it was too late to stop it. Not that I wanted to anyway.
Andrea stood in shock, her face red with anger. She didn't say a word though.
Amy sat in the seat next to me, quite brazen all of a sudden considering her earlier blushing at my hand holding.
She sat with my hand in hers.
I was quite surprised by the development. She was a beautiful young woman so of course I was attracted to her.
That didn't mean I was gonna simp out though.
The reason I let this play out was because she was useful. With her skill I could really build her into a woman worth my time, and I could already tell she was eager to learn.
The awkward silence ensued until we pulled into the camp.
Andrea was the first to run out the back, storming off in a huff towards Dale who obviously welcomed her with a thinly veiled perverted smile on his face. They were definitely fucking already.
Morales had a touching reunion with his family and even Rick came over to greet me as I stepped out.
It was already getting quite dark so we decided to tell the story around the campfire.
Everyone was in awe when they heard how easy it seemed to get out of there. They were even more awestruck when they heard how many walkers I had killed, they obviously didn't think I was capable.
Andrea was draping herself over Dale as she sat opposite me over the campfire. She bore holes into Amy who was still holding my hand, her head resting on my shoulder.
I hadn't felt this kind of sensation in a long time. It felt nice.
Shane put Ed in his place when he tried to put a log on his fire, asserting his dominance.
What surprised me was Carol, she didn't look at all like the show.
She looked more like her comic book counterpart, stunning. She was a blonde, wide hipped woman, I don't know how Ed ever got her. Sofia and Carl seemed older as well.
They were definitely no older than 10 in the original but I swear they looked about 14 or 15 in this one.
Carl especially, he wasn't the snot nosed kid from the show, he was a young man.
I decided not to dwell on it and just asked Z to keep an eye out for anything that seemed off.
Meanwhile I appraised the remaining members of the cast and was quite surprised.
/Name: Glenn Rhee
Status: Healthy (Tired)
Skills: Stealth (Lvl2)
Traits: Scavenger, Survivor, Alive, Natural Leader/
/Stealth - Level 2 - Allows the user to cancel their aura. Makes the user harder to perceive and much quieter compared to normal people (Skill is active when the user attempts to sneak, energy consumption is proportionate to time spent sneaking)/
I stole that skill straight away. I was starting to wonder if these skills were naturally generated or not. Most of them seemed to fit the person very well.
/Name: Jim Rothwell
Status: Healthy
Skills: Technical Tinkering (Lvl1)
Traits: Mechanic, Survivor, Alive, Depressed/
/Technical Tinkering - Level 1 - Allows the user to make things out of basic materials. Gives the user the ability to fix things with unorthodox methods. (Energy cost is proportionate to skill level and complexity of task.)/
That was also a good skill, basically letting you make weapons and fix your gear. I took that too.
/Name: Andrea Harrison
Status: Healthy (Angry)
Skills: Charm (Lvl2)
Traits: Survivor, Alive, Seductress, Fisherman/
/Charm - Level 2 - Allows the user to seduce and charm their way into things. Gives immunity to charm related skills of the same level (Skill is passive but needs to be directed at the target. May cause the target to become possessive of the user)/
That one seemed about right for her. She wasn't very good looking but she still got into the pants of multiple people in both the show and the comic.
I decided to take it so that I could have the immunity, though I don't think I'm going to be using the skill anytime soon.
I also took Carl's other skill from before, Mental Boost.
It was then that I got a welcome surprise.
(Hey man congrats on being a hoarder, your skill just leveled up.)
I heard Z's voice in my head and pulled up my status screen.
/Name: Leon McKinley
Status: Healthy
Mind: 9.9
Body: 7.7
Soul: 10.0
Energy: 46.6/77
Recovery: 9.2/Min
Skills: Copy-Paste(lvl2) Intimidation (lvl1) Beastial Senses (lvl2) Heightened Regeneration (lvl1) Stealth (lvl2) Charm (Lvl2) Mental Boost (lvl1) Technical Tinkering (lvl1)
Traits: Sharpshooter, Bowman, Survivor, Alive/
The description for Copy-Paste was no different than before, its energy consumption likely went down though.
*Loud muffled shouting*
I was brought out of my thoughts by none other than Merle Dixon. I really didn't know what to do with him when we came back so I just tied him up and left him in the back of the van. I figured it would be easier to just let him stay there for the night, I was proven wrong.
"What do we do about him?" I asked, since everyone already knew what he had done.
"We can't leave him in there." Dale perked up. "We can't treat another human being that way."
I rolled my eyes at him before looking to Rick and Shane.
"We should just lock him up for the night." Rick said.
"It's what we did before. Why change now?" Shane pitched in which gained a long winded rant from Dale about morals.
I honestly felt like he was getting through to some of them, must be the effect of his skill.
"I'm sorry Dale, but this is what we're doing." I interupted before the three of us stood up to sort out Merle.
Amy followed closely behind me like a lost puppy, though I didn't mind for now.
"Let me out of here! Let. Me. Out!" Merle's voice became clearer as we approached the truck, amidst his banging and kicking.
"Shut up you rat bastard." Shane said as he opened the back door for Merle to fall out.
Rick and Shane pinned him down whilst they undid his temporary restraints and cuffed him behind his back.
He was shouting slurs at everyone he could see whilst they did so.
I followed behind them with my gun raised for if he tried anything, not that he could.
They cuffed him to the front of the RV before giving him a stern talking too.
"Alright Merle, you got two options." Shane began, "Either you stay here in relative safety and shut your shit-eating trap. Or you can spend the night tied to a tree in the woods. Your pick."
I honestly loved the complete badassery of Shane's character. If he wasn't such a dick and didn't have a major thing for his best friend's wife, he would have been a good guy to keep around. I didn't plan on it though.
Surprisingly Merle didn't say a word, he was quiet as a kitten.
The officers left him there and then continued to speak around the campfire as if nothing had happened.
I turned to Amy and asked where she was staying. She told me she had been sleeping with her sister in the RV.
We headed over there and gathered her things before going to the truck we had arrived in. I decided to claim it as my own since it seemed like a reliable vehicle and had a lot of space in the back.
The rest of the group left us alone, all except Andrea and Dale who shot almost violent looks in our direction, though that didn't stop us.
Once we were alone inside the truck I turned on the heating for a while and set up a makeshift bed on the floor.
I debated whether or not to tell Amy more about my powers for a moment. On one side she could leave me at any minute and go back to Andrea, though I doubted she would.
On the other hand if I showed her what I could do then it was more than likely that she would want to stick around, after all who wouldn't want to be with a guy who could give her infinite food and ammunition in the apocalypse?
After a moment of deliberation I made my decision.
"Amy, I want to show you something." I said to her. She gained a blush on her pretty face before answering shyly.
"I-I-I... W-wasn't expecting for this to happen s-s-so soon. But o-o-okay... We can... If you want to." She grew quieter and quieter as I watched her fidget and fuss whilst she got the wrong idea.
"No no no, not that. I wanted to show you the rest of my power. You silly girl." I laughed as I held her fidgeting arms with a grin on my face.
She lowered her head at this, even her ears and neck going beet-red.
"Hahaha!" I continued to laugh at her cuteness for a moment before calming down and showing her what I wanted to.
"Watch closely." I said to which she finally raised her head, her face still rather pink.
I then summoned a 30-06 round from my inventory before showing it to her.
She looked at the bullet with fascination before her face turned to shock as 100 more of the same bullet appeared out of thin air and clattered to the ground.
I smiled at her expression before putting them all in my inventory.
"W-what... How?" she managed to stutter.
"It's part of my ability, I can make anything so long as I've seen it, though it drains my stamina to do so." I explained before disappearing the bed spread beside us and multiplying it a few times.
She suddenly had a huge grin on her face as she dived into the comfier bed before sitting up and pulling me down.
I obliged and sat beside her on the pink and blue spotted sheets.
She looked me in my eyes before speaking. "Why did you say yes to me?" she asked as my heart almost skipped a beat.
"I'm not sure... In this crazy fucked up world we live in, I need the support of people who can survive. And you struck me as the kind of woman who would thrive in this environment. So I couldn't help but accept your advances." I poured my real thoughts into my words, hoping that she didn't flat out reject me, cause that would be awkward.
Luckily for me my answer was in a more of a physical form.
She jumped into my arms and placed a sensual kiss on my mouth, I couldn't help but reciprocate in kind.
We kissed for a few minutes and I could feel it getting hotter. I didn't want to simp out over a woman I had only known all of one day, so I stopped the horny makeout session before it went further than second base.
"What's wrong?" Amy spoke, hot air blowing on my neck as she did so, "Is it not good?"
"That's not it." I replied "I just feel exhausted. I've only known you for a few hours and, although you seem like an amazing woman, I don't want to rush into anything."
I felt like a fucking fool for not taking her right then and there, but the little voice at the back of my head said otherwise.
She seemed pretty bummed out for a minute "Do you want me to go back to the RV?" she asked with a sad look on her face.
"No of course not." I said as I grabbed her chin and pecked her luscious lips. What had this woman been through to think it was either she sleeps with me or I kick her out? "You're more than welcome to stay here with me, in fact I'd prefer it if you did."
Her smile came back to her face after my words before we finally settled down onto the sheets.
I had made sure to lock the doors so I wasn't worried about unwanted nightly visitors.
We lay in each other's embrace for a while before sleep overcame her. I watched her in my arms and couldn't help but feel happy.
She was a beautiful young woman who was becoming more dependent on me, I couldn't help but be a little excited.
Sleep alluded me for a while so I spent the time multiplying bullets until I finally succumbed to sleep with a smile on my face.