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Darkness and the Dawn

Belle's eyes slowly fluttered open as she began to awake although she was tempted to close her eyes once again, especially in the darkness when it could be day or night. The young woman shivered slightly feeling the cold within the building and buried herself deeper into the thick sleeping bag only allowing the top half of her head exposed. The once very clean and beautiful girl was covered in dirt and soot, her once straight glowing hair matted and in tangles and her clothes torn. It was extremely hard to wash on a regular basis, especially now that she was by herself. When her brother Daniel was still alive one of them would take watch when the other would wash up but now Belle often was in a constant state of terror.

The last few months had really been the hardest she could ever experience and in all honesty she questioned why she kept going. Wouldn't it be so much easier to just let one zombie bite her and be done with it all? Maybe... But something inside of her still wanted to live, even if it was just a glimmer. Slowly rolling back the sleeping bag she silently crawled out and reached for her bag feeling around inside being very careful with her movements, it was incredible how the zombies had such a fixed sense of hearing and she wasn't tempted to sound off the alarms by banging around a few cans.

Pulling out a can she felt the torn label now very sure what is was but reached for the can opener and slowly sawed off the lid. Feeling into the can with her fingers she felt an almost syrupy liquid and little chunks of something that was squishy but a bit firm. Peaches Belle raised the can and took a sip followed by another and reached for a slice of peach chewing it slowly. Using one hand to rummage through her bag she realized that she only had a couple of cans left... Soon enough she would have to scavenge once again, it wasn't something she looked forward to.

Belle wasn't the same girl as she was even a month ago, she used to have more hope inside of her and would often try to make others feel better by explaining how things weren't as bad they appeared and they would be rescued... Everything would get better. Lowering her head Belle sighed quietly and set down the can before picking up something and stepping through the empty building. Moving to open the door it made a loud clank but than she saw light and cringed, her eyes closing. The room she was staying in was a broken down meat cooler and the rest of the building was long abandoned, maybe even before the apocalypse... But who knew?

Within the light if anyone were to see Belle they would see a slim pale care with a pair of ripped jean shorts and a grey tank top that was once white. Her hair fell over her shoulders and her eyes slowly opened as they adjusted to the light. Held in her hand was a worn machete stained with blood, she hadn't had extra water in a couple of days and hadn't gotten to clean the weapon but it worked well enough.

Raising her gaze to the outside of the building she saw the wasteland before her, once before this town must have looked gorgeous... The sun shining with green forestry and little houses, a nice church and the bank next to a little family diner... Now everything was blackened and dull, even the sun seemed to shine a bit duller then once before. The young woman couldn't help but wonder if there was anyone else out there... Of coarse there had to be but she hadn't seen a trace of survivors in months, she remember thinking in the first month of everything that soon they would be rescued and be taken someplace safe... but it never happened.

No wonder you barely have any food, you think too much Belle scolded herself before heading back into the cooler and grabbing her thick brown leather jacket and sliding it on. Slipping down her shorts she replaced them with a pair of dark denim jeans that were torn at the knee but overall clean enough. Followed by this she pulled on a pair of thick glasses that she had found within the warehouse. If a drop of zombie blood were to enter her blood stream, or even saliva she could become a zombie herself and with that had to be extremely careful. Walking out and closing the cooler door she pulled the bag over her shoulders and headed down the hallway of the warehouse and down it's broken steps trying to avoid knocking over any bricks.

Stealth was her main option at the moment. If she were quiet she could avoid most of them unless they came in a hoard, at one point she had several weapons but after what happened to Daniel.... She had no ammo left. There was a grocery store across the town but Belle had no desire to go inside knowing it was dark, large and she had no idea of what horrors awaited her but the little diner held some promise, it's roof had been caved in and the sun on most days kept is bright. Walking very carefully and silently she headed towards the diner, looking over her shoulder constantly and around her making sure she was prepared, for anything.

Darkness and the Dawn

Name: Belle Elizabeth Thompson

Age: 22

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Personality: TBR!

Brief history: Belle was raised in a strict household, her parents both working at lawyers and she was expected to grow up and pursue a career that her parents deemed appropriate. She was the eldest child having a younger brother by two years. She was in college studying for accounting when the zombie apocalypse hit, she and a group of students held together at the college for several weeks until they escaped to find more help when food was running low. Although Belle wasn't sure her parents were still alive or her brother she convinced them to stop at her house not finding her parents but did find her brother. The group stayed together but one by one they died and after a year and a half Belle had only her brother left. At one point during the night a zombie managed to break in through their place of hiding and bit her brother, she was forced to kill both of them and hasn't truly gotten over it.

Darkness and the Dawn

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Sounds like a good idea to me, she would be disappointed since she thought she could trust Emma but would look after her none the less :)

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"Well, I guess we'll just be a hopeless mess together." Belle giggled as they began to take down the banner and brought it was with ease. The banner was made from a thick paper that was easy enough to fold, bringing the peices together she began to tuck it into itself and raised an eyebrow. "I thought I recognized your accent," Belle commented as she put the banner into the cardboard box and rubbed her hands together getting off the bit of dust left behind. "Hmm... Social sciences, very cool. I'm actually hoping to major in art but am also looking into accounting, something to fall back onto you could say." Belle sighed heavily as she turned around not being able to help but roll her eyes. Her parents had the idea that art was a ridiculous career choice and coming from both her father that was a judge and her mother who worked as a lawyer they expected more of an academic route from her.

Turning back around Belle raised an eyebrow. "So, I hope you don't think I'm nosy but why aren't you out checking out the campus? There are a lot of extra activities you can get into," Belle shook her head with a slight chuckle, "I'm sorry, I'm being such a nag." She smiled showing off her straight white teeth, compliments of thirty six months of braces.

I'm new, fear me.

Welcome to the jungle and props for liking Fallout, it's pretty boss! Both Fallout 3 and New Vegas were badass and hope they have Fallout 4 in the works :D
Anyways, If I stay more I'll continue to geek out but have a good one! :)

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"Yeah that makes sense," Belle agreed with a smile and placed her hands on her hips as Emma asked if she needed help. "That would actually be great, I'd really like to reuse the banners for next year and don't want to tear it down by accident, I'm clumsy enough to do that." Belle laughed and reached down a hand to Emma to help her from the large chair knowing it could be exceptionally comfortable and once you sunk down into it's warmth it could be a challenge to get back up. As they headed to the middle of the room Belle couldn't help but smile, Emma's accent was really interesting to listen too and pretty cute, Belle had always had a thing for accents.

"So tell me about you, where are you from? What are you into?" Belle asked as she reached up on her tiptoes to peal back the tape from the banner hanging trying her best not to tear it. She got off the several peices of tape and lowered the banner on her side before reaching a hand to her face and tucking a lock of stray hair behind her ear.

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Belle shook her head watching as Anna left, the black haired beauty was insane as they came but in all reality Anna had been a pretty good friend to her, funny and sweet but after being together in college since first year Belle still hadn't really opened herself up to Anna, she could barely take anything seriously let alone Belle's problems and thoughts. Raising her eyes from her binder Belle caught sight of Emma sitting in one of the large chairs reading a book and raised an eyebrow, why was she still here? It wasn't that big of a deal but Belle was surprised, most of the girls were out exploring the campus, meeting other girls or settling in where this girl was in the main room reading a book, interesting.

Pulling her gaze away Bella found the cardboard box and carried it over to the side of the room beginning to reach up and pull down a couple banners and decorations, it would be easier to take them down now since the meeting was over and sometimes the girls grew restless and excitable deciding to make a mess of the decorations. Belle reached up on her tiptoes with her t shirt riding up and exposing the smooth arch of her back her skin a cross between pale and a light cream soda like tan.

Managing to pull down the banner Belle looked over her shoulders still seeing Emma sitting in the chair. Folding the banner up and putting it in the box she decided to step over to Emma. "Hey Emma, can I get your honest opinion on something?" She asked with a sweet smile. "Do you think I should leave the banner up for a few more days or take it down?" She asked referring to the banner hanging out in the middle of the room that said 'WELCOME STUDENTS' in bright colors in well done calligraphy, although Belle wouldn't admit it she painted it herself.

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Belle had waited until the room filled out quite a bit before getting to the front of the room and she gave the room a bright smile. "Hello new students and welcome to your first year of college, my name is Belle and I am your Resident Assistant. I know you all must be really excited to look around so I won't keep you long but as your RA it's my duty to tell you the rules of staying at our on campus dormitory," Belle began to explain seeing a few girls already texting and others looking completely bored.

"So to start out I think many of you know that college is a time where a lot of people let loose and that is awesome but we do have something called quiet hours. On the weekends we require you to maintain a a low level of noise from 2AM to 11AM and during the weekends 10AM to 8AM. This doesn't mean you have to sneak around but just watch how loud you play your music and such." Belle stood up and picked up a box that contained rolled up shirts.

The young blond began to walk around handing out a few shirts as Anna took over, "Hey gorgeous girls so in your rooms you have to be aware of fire hazards and not have these items in your rooms; no candles, incense, space heaters, microwaves, 6-headed lamps, smoking in your room, halogen lamps, extension cords that run under rugs or furniture, toasters, toaster ovens, electric blankets, paper lanterns,"

Anna continued to speak as Belle handed out the shirts, there were at least twenty and having one more shirt she stepped over to Emma and handed her one flashing her a warm smile, Emma seemed nice if not a little lost but at least she seemed to be paying attention. Jogging back up with the empty box Belle could see the expressions of the girls who seemed to be losing their minds with Anna's listing of the rules and Belle chuckled.

After a few minutes Anna switched out with Belle who gave another sweet smile. "Remember girls, if you need anything at all please contact either myself, Anna or one of our other RA's who will be more than happy to talk to you or help in any way, we don't bite." Belle said with a playful wink but Anna grinned. "Hard!" She added causing Belle to shoot her a playful glare laughing before turning back to the girls. "Enjoy your time here girls, you're free to go."

Watching as the girls began leaving Belle turned to Anna. "Do you always have to make everything so sexual?" She questioned shaking her head but Anna just giggled. "It's not my fault you don't let anyone see your other side, you might get a nice slice if you lightened up." Anna grinned smacking Belle from behind before jogging to the other side of the room before Belle could smack her in return. "Byee!"

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