EPISODE NINE "you can't go chasing ghosts" SEASON 4
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GREY KINGSTON
i stay in my cell for almost an entire day. i can't stop replaying the events of last night in my head.
carl crying for his dad, thinking he's dead and rick completely lost in his own mind, it hurt me to see them both like that.
daryl appears outside of my cell for the second time today, knocking his knuckles on the metal caged door.
"you don't have to knock. i see you." i mumble, looking at him from my laying position on my bed.
"the storm's slowin' down finally." he says.
"that's good."
"you want some bacon?" daryl reaches his hand through my cell door.
"no, i'm okay."
"you gotta eat."
i sigh, sitting up and reaching for the plate of bacon he's handing me.
"thanks. oh, here." i reach down to the floor, grabbing his gun he gave me yesterday.
"keep it." he shakes his head.
daryl looks down the hall and then back at me as he chews his bacon, "you gotta visitor."
he then walks away, not telling me who's coming to my cell. i've started to think daryl just talks to me sometimes because he's bored. i don't particularly mind it though.
seconds later, rick appears in the same spot daryl was just in.
"can i come in?" he asks.
i nod my head, yes.
he opens the door slowly and then kneels right in front of where i'm sitting. my legs are hanging off the side of the bed, feet on the floor.
"i'm sorry about yesterday and i wanted to thank you for getting me outta there." he looks up at me with his blue eyes.
"i had to be the one to do it. we didn't know what was goin' on up there, so i had to get you."
"thank you."
i nod my head at him.
"listen, i know ... i know what i see isn't real. lori's dead, she's not comin' back like you said. but i go chasing her when i see her and it almost kills me half the time." he avoids eye contact with me as he plays with the wedding band on his finger.
"i can feel her slipping away though. this is the first time i've seen her in awhile and ... i think it's because i'm moving on. from her and ... and this place."
"you can't go chasin' ghosts, rick. you gotta stay with what's real."
i see him biting the inside of his cheek as he looks away towards the hall, "yeah, but what's real nowadays? our system we made up? killin' walkers for a living, burying our friends—"
