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Her eyes begin to flutter open. What is going on? Where am I? Why does it smell like horse shit? These are the questions she asks herself. After she gets her bearings, she finally sits up. The woman had been lying in a wheat field. Scanning her surroundings, the disgruntled girl sees a nice, but abandoned sized house and what looks to be the ruins of a burned down farm. The rest is forest and a road. As she continues looking around, she tries to stand up, working through the dizziness, and realizes her head is bleeding. Great. Just peachy.

She taps into her memories to see just what the hell she has gotten herself into. Her name is...think harder, Ross! Oh…well my name is Ross I suppose. She thought she was a girl…*checks*…still a girl, just a boy name. Why would her mother use such a name? A flash of kind blue eyes, a few gray hairs in a head full of unruly blond curls, and an infectious smile goes through Ross' mind. A pang of sadness fills her heart, and she realizes her mother is dead. How? In her heart she knows, but she pushes those memories out of her mind. As it all starts to come back, she realizes the last thing she remembers is throwing her college cap in the air. After that, all she hears are the piercing screams of her peers.

Ross starts to wander aimlessly in the field, when she sees where the smell is coming from. It's a beautiful brown and white horse. As she walks towards it, the stallion begins to get nervous. Slowly Ross calms it down and begins to stroke its neck. Fortunately, she begins to realize that this is her horse, Carpus. Now the name does have a story; however, that story is for another day when she is not worried about her lack of memories. He looks at her with that exasperated face of I can't believe it took you this long to figure out who I am. Usually when Ross rides a horse, she doesn't bring camping supplies, a machete, and her dad's rifle. Desperate times call for desperate measures? She hopes she hasn't become some kind of serial killer; that would be such a drag. After the could be serial killer mounts Carp, she begins to trot along the road, away from the eerie burnt farm.

Ross rides for about twenty minutes, when she realizes there are no cars or people anywhere. Did her serial killer alter ego murder everyone? Eh…too farfetched even for Ross. The only logical explanation is she is the only one left on good ole Earth. And that's when she hears the moaning and the stench of dead flesh. Ross whips her head behind her to see five apparent cannibals desperately trying to get to her. So scratch that point about her being the last one on good ole Earth. She seems to attract only unwanted attention. It is then that when Ross looks into the soulless, yellow eyes of the supposed cannibal, it all comes flooding back.

This will most definitely be a Rick/OC. Constructive criticism is always welcome and much appreciated. Thanks so much for reading.