Don't Close Your Eyes [TWD]

°•twenty five•°

"I'm worried about him. I overheard him telling Rick how bad it was.. What he saw.. I'm worried," Maggie explains from where she sat on the edge of the bed.

I sigh, leaning my head against the door frame with my arms crossed, "He's been staying strong for us. I'm afraid this is the thing that'll make him snap."

"Yeah, I thought the same," she slowly nods.

Glenn hadn't been too expressive to us about just how the Noah situation went down yesterday. But, it was evident in his eyes and the way Rick has been acting that it was something brutal to witness and unforgivable on Nicholas' side.

"He was there for us.. We gotta be there for him now," Maggie says, a concerned look on her face.

I can only agree with what seemed so obvious.

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Another blow came later that day when Maggie and I found out that while we were discussing our worries about Glenn, Rick had gotten into a fight with the doctor, Pete. Also known as Jessie's husband.

Which then made a lot of sense as to why he told me to stay away from him..

I vowed to not leave Glenn's side after Maggie and I talked. Which made the two cross paths as Glenn, Carol, Abraham, and I end up in the small house Deanna had placed Rick in for the time being.

"Where'd you get the gun?" Carol asks, "You took it, right? From the armory? That was stupid. Why'd you do it?"

Rick lets out a breath of disbelief, confusing me, "Just in case."

"Deanna's planning on having a meeting tonight. For anyone who wants to-" Glenn is cut off.

"To kick Rick out?" Abraham asks.

"To try," Carol rephrases.

"We don't know that," Glenn defends, "Maggie's with Deanna right now. She's gonna find out what it is."

"At the meeting, you say you were worried about someone being abused. And no one was doing anything about it. You say you took a gun just to be sure that Jessie was safe from a man that wound up attacking you. You say you'll do whatever they want you to. Just tell them a story that they want to hear. That's what Ive been doing since I got here," Carol runs down her own plan.

"Why?" Michonne asks from her seat where she'd been since everything happened.

"Because these people are children and children like stories," Carol shrugs.

"What happens after all the nice words and they still try to kick him out?" Abraham questions.

"They're guarding the armory now," Glenn adds.

"We still have knives. That's all we'll need against them," Carol says.

"Tonight at the meeting.. If it looks like it's going bad, I whistle. Carol grabs Deanna, I take Spencer," Rick pauses to motion to Michonne, "You grab Reg. Glenn and Abraham cover us, watch the crowd."

"We can talk to them," Michonne snaps.

"And we will. If we cant get through, we take the three of them and say well slit their throats," Rick nonchalantly executes.

I felt nauseous with how easily he said it.

"Like at Terminus?" Glenn asks, a frustrated face to match his tone.

"No, we just tell them. They give us the armory and it's over."

After few beats of silence, Glenn questions, "Did you want this?"