We Are Survivors - The Last of Us & The Walking Dead

➳ chapter 23

「 chapter 23 」
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I swear my ears are going to start bleeding soon. A headache had grown on me and I'm sure Rick too. Judith just wouldn't stop crying.

I heard Aaron telling something at Rick, not sure what it was but I lift my head to listen when he starts talking again.

"Listen, if infected hears her screaming it will get in here and I know I'll be the first one to go, so please, the apple sauce in my bag, give it to her." Aaron pleads, his eyes meet mine, I don't know why, he knows it's not up to me.

I look to Rick, he nods after a few seconds of thinking and get off the floor and reach into Aaron's bag to search it, finding the small jar of yellow mush. She'll love this.

I place it on the table and unscrew the cap, sticking the dented metal spoon inside it also from his pack.

"Wait." Rick stops me suddenly as he heads towards me, he takes the jar and scoops a spoonful out, then kneels in front of Aaron with Judith still in his arms, he sticks the spoon in front of his face.

Aaron shoots him a disgusted look, "You don't think I'm trying to poison your baby?"
I raise an eyebrow, I wouldn't have thought so either, but Rick holds his place, waiting.

"Listen, you knocked me out, punched me across the face, sent your entire group out there and threatened to stab me in the head, what possibly would convince you that I would want to poison your daughter?" Aaron yells out, almost frustrated.

I fold my arms across my chest, curious. If it's not poisoned then why can't he just eat it instead of arguing?

"If it's not poison, you have some." Rick says with a low voice, challenging him.

Aaron shakes his head and Rick cocks his head to the side dangerously. "Eat it."
"I only brought that to show you that we have a source of apples near by."

"I don't care."

Rick shoves the spoon in his face again as Aaron pushes his face away, "I hate apple sauce! My mum made me eat it when I was a child, please don't!"

"Like you said, you'll be the first to go." Rick puts the spoon in front of Aaron, and he finally, hesitantly eats it with a of disgust spreading onto his face.

Rick pops the empty spoon in his mouth, satisfied. He stands again and heads back to the jar next to me.

"The community is big enough, it's so protective and you'll be as to live in a house, live somewhere not even a roamer will hear her cry." Aaron yells to Rick.

"Well, you've got forty three minutes." Rick shrugs.

Relief washes over me when Rick shovels the food into Judith's mouth, silencing her cries as she eats happily.