G.I. Jane

Forget

Shaylee's POV

Daryl, Carol, my dad, and I are a couple miles away from Alexandria, outside of the walls at some abandoned house. We just took out three walkers and hear a walker growling and leaves rustling in the distance

"I don't see it, but it's close. There's just one of 'em." Daryl says

"We won't be here long. So whatta you think?" My dad asks

"We can go in when it's empty." Carol says

"Well, how is that? It's locked up at night." My dad says

"The window. It's just a latch. I can leave it open." Carol explains

"A latch?" My dad asks

"Yeah." Carol replies

"What if one of those pricks shuts it?" Daryl asks

"Wait a couple of days, leave it open again." Carol says as the walker growls some more

"It's gettin' closer." Daryl says as he looks around for the walker

"We need to do it sooner than later. Right now, they're not watchin' us. Not worrying about meetings like this. We may need the guns, we may not." My dad says

"We will whatever way it goes." Carol says

"They're the luckiest damn people I ever met. And they just keep getting luckier." My dad says with a smirk

"Ain't that the damn truth." I say with a small smirk matching my dad's

"How's that?" Daryl asks

"We're here now." My dad says

"They've got a couple footlockers just full of nine-millimeter autos, Rugers, Kel-Tecs. Just tossed in there. They don't use them. They're never gonna know they're gone." Carol says

"Someone's got one now, right?" Daryl says as he looks over at the blender that my dad hid a pistol in before we entered Alexandria

"Listen, the others, we want them to try." My dad says

"You, too." Carol says to Daryl

"So we keep it quiet. Just us." My dad says as the walker growls from right behind us

"Here it comes." He says

"I got him." Daryl says

"No, wait. Carol empty your mag on it." I say before she steps closer to the ugly walker and she unloads her clips on the walker, using her last shot to hit the walker in the head

"We did say we were takin' Carol out shooting. She couldn't go back with a full mag." I state

"Lucky he came by." Daryl says

"We should get back." My dad says

"You'll pull the latch, we'll pick our moment. Us, we don't need to be lucky." My dad says as we approach the dead walker

"What the hell's that?" Daryl asks as he points to a 'W' carved into the walker's head

"It's a W." I say

"Yeah." Daryl replies

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"You protect and serve. You patrol, walk the wall, watch out for the kids. If there's a conflict you solve it. And people will listen to you." Deanna tells my dad and Michonne as they now wear their uniforms

"Because we're wearing windbreakers?" Michonne asks

"Because they believe in this. Because I'm telling them to. A police officer used to live here." Deanna says as she sits down on a barstool