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RICK GRIMES STORY
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the walking dead
rick grimes x fem!oc
season 1 - season 3
part i. - when the dead come knocking
part ii. - there is no hope anywhere
part iii. - remember me happy
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CARL HAD BEEN GLUED TO HER SIDE SINCE DAY ONE. The two had some sort of routine down. Carl stayed in Shane's tent, while Silas and Emerson stayed in another.
When Emerson woke up, she would get dressed, brush her teeth, tie her shoelaces, and then go to get Carl up for the day.
At first, most people thought that Carl was Emerson and Shane's child. The two shut the rumor down, explaining that the boy was an orphan.
Emerson, Silas, and Shane all tried to make life as normal as possible for the four kids that were in camp.
They had chores that were assigned. Maria and Carol gave them school lessons, and sometimes, they'd go swimming on the hotter days.
What more could four kids who had no understanding of what was going on want?
Until food ran low. That's when the children finally figured out that this wasn't a camping trip that was going to end in a few weeks. Instead, they would go to bed hungrier than the night before.
This would become their new reality.
Silas offered to go into the city after the first couple weeks of barely surviving on canned goods. They could only make canned corn and green beans last for so long.
Glenn Rhee, another stranger they picked up, offered to go with him. Claiming he knew the city better than any of them that littered the campground.
Of course, Emerson had to argue. She was an Atlanta cop. She knew the city like the back of her hand and she wasn't going to let a pizza delivery boy tell her otherwise.
Glenn just laughed at this while Silas called her an argumentative brat.
Emerson went with Glenn and Silas the first time. But after seeing how tore up Carl had become when the three of them arrived a day later than they should have returned, Emerson swore off going on runs into the city.
In her mind, the boy had been through enough pain to last a lifetime. All of the children have. She refused become another cause of it.
So Emerson sat around the camp for 60 days.
She cut Carl's hair, played the role of mother in his life, but she was growing restless.
