She had been with Rick's group for weeks now; she hadn't spoken much, but had eaten everything she could find - and returned the favor by hunting for them every day - and she was starting to feel a little less shaken and a little more alive. It was obvious that most of them, or maybe everyone, she couldn't tell, had taken pity of her, the girl who had shown up covered in blood, who was almost shot by Andrea on sight because she looked like a Dead - or a walker, as they called them - who was scared out of her mind and overreacted to touch. Lots of guesses on what was wrong with her, but they had shown her kidness and Hannah had followed them loyally, trying to help whenever she could.
She had also observed the group with the eye of a gossiper, noticing some relationships were more tense than others, that some people were unraveling and others finding love; lately, Shane was not as present with the group, from what she could tell he used to be close to Rick but wasn't anymore, and seeing how much of an outsider he was starting to be had made Hannah feel a little closer to him. She had sat next to him during meals, and quietly helped him pick firewood, especially since she was out of her depth with regular chores. And when he went to investigate one of the nearby abandoned shacks for supplies, she sneaked after him to make sure he'd have backup, because the others were busy. Which was why she was there to see him get crowded by Walkers and did what she thought any reasonable person would do, when aware a bite couldn't turn her: she charged and threw her whole body into them like a bowling ball.
It worked perfectly well, Walkers didn't have resistance against a fast, big object thrown against them, and since she wasn't particularly afraid of them she had the presence of mind of rolling off them and stomping on their heads, the standing ones left to Shane.
Okay, so, that wasn't how she had planned things to go. "You okay?" she asked as nonchalatantly as humanly possible, intensely aware that she had no authority there and deciding that her only option was to pretend she had some confidence. "It's dangerous to go alone, I'll come with you to the shack. Let's." And with that, she turned around with all intentions of leading, rubbing the arm that she had fallen onto.
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