The Girl With The Red Bandana (TWD FANFIC)

Cannibalism at Terminus

Daryl's POV
The sun beat down on us. It was getting hotter and Rose was still unconscious. We made at least 8 pit stops since leaving. Rick and I taking turns to carry Rose like we promised.

We stopped again. Rick handed water to Carl and Michonne,while I took Rose. Rick looked us over a concerned look on his face. "Anything ?" I glance up and shake my head. "We gotta move on I don't think she can take the heat." Rick nods slowly and helps Carl up.

Carl and Rick walk a little way in front while Michonne walks beside me. "Want me to take her ?" I shake my head."No its my fault she's like this. If I'd have just stayed with her-" Michonne cuts in. "Daryl if you stayed she'd likely be dead."

I nod. It's the only thing I can do. We walk along the tracks making small talk. Rick stops and holds up his hand. "I think we've arrived. But let's go round the back just in case."

We quickly follow him making sure no one saw us. Rick finds a rusty red door and holds his gun ready to shoot if needs be. He opens the door and we file through. I carefully walk over the threshold making sure Rose's head doesn't hit off anything.

We look about. There's a small scattered group of people all working at desks. A couple of people are working on signs while the rest are on radio stations repeating the same broadcast. "Terminus is a sanctuary for all , those who arrive,survive."

Rick clears his throat. Nothing happens. "Hello ? Anyone? " a guy with brown hair looks up and sees us. He smiles to himself while everyone else looks in shock.
"Well looks like George is on perimeter watch again." He opens his arms in a welcoming gesture.

Let's just skip the happy go lucky welcome since you all came in thd back which was sneaky but anyway welcome to terminus, where those who arrive, survive." He glanced around at us. His eyes following along the line until he stops on me and Rose. I hold her closer.

He walks towards us. "Is she okay ? We have a medic who could take a look at her." I shake my head. "No. She's fine. Really." He smiles and walks back a couple steps. "Okay then, if you please remove you're weapons as this is a safe environment, you understand right ?"

We all nod. I slowly and carefully place Rose on the ground and start placing our weapons on the ground. I reach over to Rose and pull out her hunting knife , and her eyes shoot open and she breathes heavily. Her hands fly to either side of her head and shakes.

I immediatley calm her down by looking her in the eyes and breathing with her. "Hey, hey its okay, it's okay, look rose we're all here, we're ok, look at me, he's dead, bill is dead and so is Mike. They're not gonna hurt you. I'm here."

Her breathing evens out and she nods. "I'm ok I'm good." I hold out my hand and pull her up. The rest of the group nod or hug her. Gareth claps his hands together. "Well looks like sleeping beauty woke up." She moves closer to me. "Who the hell is that ?" I chuckle.

"That's Gareth he's welcoming us to terminus , Rose,we made it." Gareth smiles and gestures for us to follow him. We walk outside and a plump woman standing behind a barbecue smiles at us. "This is Mary. She'll fix you up with a plate of food you all look hungry." We nod our thanks.

I hang back and Daryl looks into my eyes. "What's wrong ? Are you ok ?" I nod. "Yea I'm good just trust me when I say don't trust these people." Daryl nods. "I'll tell Rick to be visual." He walks off to Rick and I follow keeping an eye out for anything suspicious.

We get to the barbecue and it hits me. They're cannibals. The way they look at us like they're measuring us, ready to pounce. I nudge Daryl and he nods. Good he knows. Rick is talking to Gareth and they begin arguing.

Next minute Rick and the rest of the group are aiming their guns at any one who moved. Gareth started threatening us and ordered our weapons down or Carl dies. I didn't like this one bit. We were all herded to a red rusty train container.

Daryl gripped my hand. I squeezed his, I was scared they knew me and what I could do. Gareth looked pissed. "OK sheriff go first, then the redneck and the brunette with the scar on her neck, then the samurai."

My hands fly up to my neck. Daryl swings around." What scar ?" I quickly covered it. "Um nothing it was probably a trick of the light." I looked around for my bandana. It was lying on the ground in front of me. I quickly pinned it in place.

We all filtered in to the container and Rick called out to Gareth. "OK we're in. Now give me my son." I put my hand on the wall. I closed my eyes, and I could see Carl being escorted by a henchman to the container and it was over.

The container was locked and we were in complete darkness. Rick started telling us we were the only survivors of our group. He kept going on telling us we had to stay strong. But I could feel other people in the container.

"Rick shut up. We have company."
I looked to the back of the container. "We're ok guys it's us we're ok." After reassuring the 'figures' at the back. Glenn appears and so does the rest of our group bar Carol, Tyreese and Judith.

Rick starts huffing." What's wrong now Rick ?" I huff. Getting bored of his attitude. "They're gonna be sorry." I blinked a couple times.

"What ?" He looks at us a crazed look in his eyes. Like the look he had before he killed Jim.

"They're gonna be sorry." Glenn looks around. "Why ?" Rick looks up once again. He looks around the group taking in our weary faces.

"When they find out they're fucking with the wrong people."