Their Innocent Baby Girl (The Walking Dead)

Bar fight

Rick's POV

Glenn and I went to the bar to see if Hershel was alright and if we would get him home to care for Beth and Maggie.

"Hershel." I call out to him.

"Who's with you." He spoke with out turning to look at us.

"Glenn." I told him. there was a no response coming from him so I took a step forward. then he Spoke out.

"Maggie sent him?" Hershel asked.

"He volunteered. He's good like that." I took a set next to Hershel to co-operate with me.

"How many have you had?" I asked.

"Not enough." He came out with. I returned my gaze to Hershel after glancing at Glenn.

"Let's finish this up back at home. Beth collapsed, she's in some sort of state. Must be in shock I...I think you are too."

"Maggie's with her?" He asked.

"Yeah. But Beth needs you." I told him hopping he would come with us.

"What could I do. She needs her mother, a rather to mourn. Like she should of done weeks ago.I robbed her of that, I see that now." He dose and say to us.

"You thought there was a cure. You can't blame yourself for holding out for hope." I told him.

"Hope.When I first saw you running across my field with your boy in your arms. I had a little hope he'd survive." Hershel told me.

"But he did."

"He did. Even though we lost Otis. Your man Shane made it back and we saved your boy. That was the miracle that proved to me that miracles do exist. Only it was a sham a bait and switch. I was a fool Rick and you people saw that.' We just sat there not knowing what to say to him.

"My daughters deserve better then that." He told us this as he sipped his final swig of his drink and refilling it.

"Just go, just go." Hershel shouted at us. I turn around and walked back to him.

"I promise Maggie I'd bring you home safe."

"Like you promised that little girl."

"So what's your plane finish that bottle. Drink yourself to death and leave your girls alone."

"Stop telling me how to care for my family, my farm you people are like a plague. I do the christian thing give you shelter and you destroyed it all." He goes yelling at me.

"The world was already in a bad shape when we met."

"And you take no responsibility. You're supposed to be there leader."

"Well I'm here now. All right."I have a go at him for telling me I'm not doing my job as a leader right. I'm doing the beast I know how.

"Yes, yes, yes you are." He goes and says. He returns to the bar and grabs a second drink. I make my way back yo to him.

"Come on. Your girls need you know more then over." I try and grab on to his arm but he pulls away from he.

"I didn't want to believe you. You told me there was no cure that these people where dead not sick I chose not to believe that. But when Shane shot Lou in the chest and she just kept going. That's when I knew what an ass I'd been that Annette had been dead long ago and I was feeding her rotten corpse. That's when I know there was no hope and when that little girl came out of the barn the look on your face. I knew you knew it to.. Right? .... There's no hope and you know it now like I do. Don't you?I couldn't look him in the face but I knew he was right about Sophia being long gone.