✓ | the boy at the hospital

we need him

Y/ns pov

That night I go back to Glenn and Maggie's house. "What did he just start" I say. "I heard that Pete was abusing jessie" maggie says "he must've retaliated". I go to bed. "Princess wake up" glenn says. I hate it when he calls me that. "No". "We are going to see rick come on". I get up and change. We head out the door and head to where rick is. We walk through the doors and michonnes already there. It's me, glenn, carol and abraham.

"Deanna is planning on a meeting tonight" glenn says. "To kick me out" rick nods. "We dont know that" I say. "Maggie is with deanna right now. Seeing what this is about" he finishes. "At the meeting you said you were worried about someone being abused. And that noone was doing anything about it. You say you took the gun to be safe and he ended up attacking you" carol says. I dont know how she comes up with these plans so fast.

"Just tell them what they want to hear" I say. "I've been doing that all along" carol says. "Why?" Michonne asks. "These people are like children. They want to hear stories".  "What happens after all the nice words and stories they still wanna kick rick out?" Abraham asks. "They're guarding the armory" glenn says. "We still have knives. That's all we need against them" Carol says. "Tonight at the meeting, if things go south, we take spencer, deanna and reg and say we'll slit their throats" rick plans.

"Rick we cant always resort to violence!" I say. "We arent going to. They give us the armory then its over" rick finishes. Glenn looks at me before looking back at rick "did you want this?" He asks "no. I hit my limit. I screwed up. And here we are. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm just gonna sleep some more" he finishes. We leave. Me and glenn sit on the porch. "I hope he dosent say anything stupid" I say. "Me too". "I just want some peace. I want time to deal with noah without everything else going on" I say. Glenn wraps his arm around my shoulder. "I'm sure it will be fine. Just give rick a chance". He says as maggie walks up. "You figure it out?" I ask.

"Its what we thought" she says. "I'm gonna talk to people. Talk to as many people as I can before the meeting starts." She says. "I'll help you" I say. "Thanks y/n" she smiles. I walk up to a random old lady. "Hey miss can I speak to you for a second?" She nods. "Have you heard about the meeting with rick Grimes tonight?" She nods again. "A couple of us are convincing people to not vote him out. We need him. Back in the beginning he travelled to Atlanta by himself, to find his son and wife. When people were coming after us he took control and made sure we didnt get hurt" I say. "What he did last night? He was trying to protect this town from a dangerous person like Pete. He cares about this town. So would you please give him one more chance?" I ask. The lady shakes her head "I suppose it's for the greater good to give someone a chance in this world." She says. "Thank you miss!" I smile

I talk to a few more people before heading back to the house. Maggie is already in there "any luck?" She asks me. "Yep! I got quite a few people to change their mind. You?" "I convinced a couple people as well. I think we've got a pretty good chance" she says. "Have you seen glenn?" She asks. "Not since before we started talking to people. He might've gone hunting or something" I say.

A couple more hours go bye and its time for the meeting. Everyone is there besides Glenn, nicholas and rick? Why isnt rick here?! Hes the reason for this meeting. "We are going to start" deanna says. "But theres still people-" I begin before she interrupts me "we are going to start". "We're gonna talk about what happened. Not the fight. Not What initiated it. We're gonna talk about one of our constables, rick Grimes" this woman is so dumb. How can we talk about kicking out rick if we cant talk about the fight?!

"We're gonna talk about how he stole a pistol from the armory, and what he said". Yeah what he said after the fight, which is something that we need to do."I'm sure he'll be here" carol says.  They keep talking but I'm not listening. Where is rick glenn and nicholas?

Then rick walks in and plops a walker down on the ground. Really helping your case rick. "They got inside. The dead and living want to be in here. Because we're here. And out there, they hunt us. They find us. They try to use us. They try to kill us. But we'll kill them. We'll survive. And I was thinking, how many of you do I have to kill to save your lives? But I'm not gonna di that. You're gonna change. I'm not sorry about last night. I'm sorry for not saying earlier. You're not ready. But right now, you have to be. Luck runs out." Rick finishes. Quite a speech he gave there.

Then we here footsteps "you're not one of us! You're not one of us!" Pete screams. Reg goes to calm him down but pete sticks the knife he has in his throat. Rick punches him down and holds the gun to his head. Deanna looks up at him "do it" and he pulls the trigger. We look up at the entrance and see aaron, Daryl and morgan. Great way to meet and old friend.

End of book 1.

End of season 5.