𝐏𝐑𝐈𝐒𝐎𝐍𝐁𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐊 ✔️- 𝑐. 𝑔𝑟𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑠

49: Promise

Everyone was panicking. Bob, Elle, Carol, and Daryl were nowhere to be found. It was like they just disappeared. Some people were outside with flashlights and looking around the church and the nearby forest, while others were inside getting weapons ready, as they figured people had taken their friends.

"Hey, there's someone in the grass." Glenn announced, looking out the window. Panicked, people rushed outside to identify the person. With the faint light from their almost dead flashlights, they learned the mystery man was in fact Bob Stooky. He had gone outside to take a breath of air but he suddenly disappeared. People assumed Gabriel had something to do with it, but could you blame them? The man had seemed shady, like he was hiding something. He revealed that people had come to his church early in the outbreak, but he locked them out and listened to their deafening screams as the undead tore them apart.

They carried Bob inside, to see less of him had come back. Bob was missing half of his leg, cut below the knee.

"Gareth..." Bob said as he started to wake up. "It was Gareth." He stated more clearly. Gareth was still alive, that must mean some other people from Terminus are as well.

"Did they have Daryl, or Carol, or Elle?" Rick questioned. Bob shook his head.

"Gareth said Daryl and Carol drove off, and that someone took Elle." He explained.

"Took her? What's that supposed to mean?" Jack asked from the back.

"I don't know," Rick sighed.

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Elle's eyes opened to see the familiar grey ceiling of the hospital. Her face hurt, and she had a pounding headache. She could hear ringing in her ears. Turning her head, she saw Doctor Edwards standing in the corner.

"You're awake." He observed.

"I wish I wasn't." Elle mumbled.

"Do you have a death wish?" Dawn asked asked quietly, entering the room. Elle raised an eyebrow in curiosity. "Pulling a stunt like that is bound to get you killed."

"Don't act like you didn't kidnap me, giving my family no way of finding me." Elle sat up, blood rushing to her head. She quickly laid back down.

"What are you talking about?"

"Don't play stupid. I remember that night. I went outside to get fresh air and grieve my dead brother, and someone hit me on the back of the head. Then I wake up here and get told some bullshit story about how I was fighting off walkers. I'm not stupid, Dawn. Let me go home, Beth and Noah too." She demanded, now standing in the center of the room.

Doctor Edwards and Dawn exchanged a look that Elle couldn't quite define. "What?" She asked. Dawn turned toward her, taking a sharp breath.

"You know her don't you? Beth?" She asked. But she didn't use her usual stern tone, it sounded like she cared. Not wanting to give the answer, Elle stood still and silent. "How long?"

"Since right after the beginning." She answered quietly. Dawn only nodded. She started to walk out of the room, but stopped to speak.

"Don't do anything stupid like that again, and you won't get a beating again." She spoke, her stern tone making its appearance. Elle looked at the ground. She hated this place, and she was going to do everything she could to help her, and Beth escape.

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The group was in shock to learn that Bob had been bit by a walker. He explained how it happened at the food bank and he didn't want to say anything because for the first time in weeks, the mood had lightened up within their - now rather larger - group.