"Hmm probably her" replied Teyonah, pointing at the screen as it displayed a close up of Lauren Cohan as Maggie Greene.
"Yeah she's pretty hot" agreed Christina.
"And her British accent is too sexy" added the ebony chick.
"Hmm, I'm getting a little jealous over here" replied the redhead, adopting her best English voice. Teyonah giggled and pecked her girlfriend on the cheek.
The scene cut to a dreadlocked black woman walking solo through the woods. She wore a small leather waistcoat over a damp, bloodstained white top. Black skinny jeans clung to her legs and a pair of leather boots were laced up past her ankle. A sheath holding a sword of some kind sat diagonally across her back, the front leather strap cutting between her breasts. Dried leaves crunched beneath her feet as she ventured into the forest, surveying her surroundings as she went. Suddenly a zombie lurched out from behind a tree. Its thin hair was greasy and matted, its eyes cloudy and red, its leathery skin had peeled off around its bloody mouth, exposing its rotting flesh. The woman drew the weapon from its sheath and stood holding a shiny samurai sword out before her. The undead beast hissed as it spotted her, reaching out its arms as it staggered in her direction. The mystery chick looked unperturbed by the flesh eating ghoul ambling in her direction and with one strike of her katana the zombie was decapitated. She stood over the undead corpse, the severed head still snapping its disgusting yellow teeth as it looked up at her with its murky red eyes. She stabbed her sword down towards the ground planting it into the freak's forehead, and the beheaded beast fell still. She placed a boot over the zombie's decaying mouth and yanked the sword free with a loud squelch as it sliced through the monster's flesh. She pulled a rag hanging from her belt and wiped the blade clean before re-sheathing the weapon and carrying on into the woods.
"Who's she?" asked Christina, as she stared in awe at the screen.
"Oh of course the black chick sparks your interest" smirked Teyonah.
"She's bad ass is all" replied the busty actress, feigning innocence.
"Right, sure" said the young ebony girl.
"What's her name?" Christina asked again.
"Michonne" replied Teyonah. "I'm gonna get some wine, you want some?" asked Teyonah, placing a hand on her girlfriend's thigh.
"Sure" said the ginger woman.
"Pause it babe" instructed Teyonah as she rose from the couch and headed for the kitchen.
Christina pressed pause on the remote, then picked up her phone and opened the IMDB app. She looked up
The Walking Dead
and browsed through the cast list, stopping when she saw the name Michonne. She opened the page of the actress, Danai Gurira, and scrolled down to her pictures. As well as shots of her as the sword wielding heroine, there was photos of the black actress at various premieres and awards shows looking distinctly more glamorous than in the show. The dreadlocks worn by her character, as it turned out, were a wig and in the pictures of Danai herself she sported a tightly cropped afro. Christina selected a shot of the ebony woman at a Golden Globes after party and enlarged it. The redhead looked at the photo and marvelled at Danai's beauty. Her gorgeous skin was the exact colour of chocolate, her eyes a deep soulful brown. She beamed a stunning smile which revealed her pristine pearly whites. Her body looked strong and muscular under her pretty pink dress, though still retained its femininity and sex appeal. Christina was transfixed; she hadn't been this taken with someone since she first met Teyonah, and this was just from her pictures. She almost dared not think how captivating Danai would be in the flesh, and yet part of her was itching to find out.
"You know babe, I might go to this premiere after all" Christina announced. "This show's pretty good."
"What I tell ya?" Teyonah called back from the kitchen as she poured a second glass of white.
"Yeah you were right babe" replied the ginger lady, as her girlfriend crossed the lounge with the two beverages. "Just try not to be too jealous" she smirked as Teyonah handed her a glass.
Joel breathed through a gas mask as he crept through the green smog filled university dorms. He spotted a clicker lurking in a dorm room and approached it cautiously. He grabbed the zombie around its fungus covered throat and plunged a shiv into its infected brain, killing it instantly.
"Gotcha" grinned actress Alanna Masterson, as she sat cross legged in an oversized white Deftones t-shirt, with only a pair of black panties on underneath. Her black hair was up in a bun revealing a small black plug in each ear. The raven haired beauty activated listen mode to determine how many threats were in her character's surroundings. Joel's hearing unearthed three clickers and what appeared to be one of the dreaded bloaters occupying the fungus riddled dorms of the University of Eastern Colorado.
"Oh shit" said Alanna as she realised her protagonist was out of shivs. She guided Joel around the room to look for supplies but the search came up fruitless. Well then, thought Alanna, I'm gonna have to get creative.
Danai Gurira pushed her key into the lock and pushed open the front door.
"Hey baby" she announced as she stepped into the lounge of her New York apartment. When her greeting wasn't met with a response she looked up to see her girlfriend Alanna sat at the sofa, staring at the TV screen, a black pair of Skull Candy headphones over her ears, and spotted an opportunity to play a prank on her young lover. Closing the front door softly, she crept up behind the gaming girl and waited for the opportune moment to strike.
Joel picked up a bottle off the filthy ground and Alanna aimed it at a wall in the adjacent door room; a distraction technique she'd employ to evade the clicker which stood stationary in a dilapidated en suite bathroom. She arced the bottle and was ready to release it when a firm squeeze of her shoulder nearly made her jump out of her skin. She fumbled at the PlayStation 4 controller, completely miscueing her throw and hitting the zombie clean in the face. The monster let out an almighty shriek, alerting the other infected freaks which all sprinted in Joel's direction. Panicking Alanna drew her character's revolver and fired wildly at the onrushing clicker, hitting only a splintered door frame, before the crazed beast knocked the weapon out of Joel's hands and sunk its teeth into his neck.
"Ahh fuck" cussed Alanna, pulling off her headphones. The black haired belle span around to see her girlfriend Danai smirking down at her.
"Aww babe, did you die?" asked the short haired sista, her tone rife with mock sympathy.
"Babe, you almost gave ME a heart attack" replied Alanna, placing a hand over her ticker, as it beat wildly in her chest.
"Sorry baby, couldn't resist" laughed Danai, before leaning over and kissing her traumatized girlfriend on the lips.
"Maybe I'll lose the headphones" said the young girl, pulling them from the earphone jack on her surround speakers. Alanna often played her video games with her Skull Candys in, claiming it added to the atmosphere. Danai found this to be very unsociable, to which the brunette would reply that the ebony lady didn't like to be interrupted when she was reading, which was basically the same thing.
"Probably a good idea" smirked the black beauty, removing her cream trench coat and draping it over the backrest of the couch.
Danai found Alanna's gaming hobby to be generally quite silly, though she did quite like the game she was playing now, Naughty Dog's critically acclaimed post-apocalyptic epic
The Last of Us
, in which the sexy sista saw several similarities to the show that she and her girlfriend starred in;
The Walking Dead
. Danai played Michonne; a katana-wielding, enigmatic lone-wolf who stumbles upon, and subsequently joins a group of survivors lead by former cop Rick Grimes. Alanna played Tara Chamber; a police academy student turned supply runner. The dark-haired fox had been a fan of the Robert Kirkman penned comic books since Issue #1, and when her agent informed her that the writers were introducing a lesbian character, Alanna declared that it was the role she was born to play. She impressed in the audition and won her first, and thus far only, high profile television or film role.
Contrary to what she'd told her girlfriend numerous times, Danai wasn't the first woman on set to spark Alanna's interest. The young lady was initially drawn to Sonequa Martin-Green, captivated by her pretty caramel skin and her big, cool afro. Once she found out that the mixed-race stunner had a boyfriend, Alanna turned her attention to Christina Serratos, a young plump lipped beauty of Italian and Mexican descent, but she too turned out to be straight. The black-haired girl had picked up a gay vibe from Danai during her first couple of weeks on the show. She was attracted to the ebony lady's deep brown skin, cute cropped hair and killer smile, and within a month they were dating.
"So how did the table read go babe?" asked Alanna.
"Uhh OK I guess" replied Danai, slumping down on the couch beside her girlfriend, "glad to be home though. Have you packed yet?"
"Not yet babe" said the brunette.
"Babe, we're flying first thing in the morning" complained her chocolate lover.
"I know, but I'm only gonna be in LA a few hours" replied Alanna. "Packing's gonna take five seconds."
