𝐒𝐀𝐘 𝐘𝐎𝐔'𝐋𝐋 𝐁𝐄 𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐄 || the walking dead

3 | come back this time

THE WALKING DEAD
( season one episode three )

"DISORIENTED" rick muttered, glancing toward his two kids beside him. The group was sat surrounding a small crackling fire as rick explained what had happened out there. Alana rested her head on her fathers shoulder while Carl lay in between their parents. "I guess that's what came closest. Disoriented. fear, confusion, all of those things but... disoriented came closest"

Dale leaned forward in his camp chair, he began to speak from beside Amy and Andrea "words can merge things. Sometimes they fall short"

"I'd felt like I'd been ripped out of my life" Rick admitted, eyes glimpsing to Dale "put somewhere else. For a while, I thought I was trapped in some coma dream, something I might not wake up from ever"

Carl lifted his head up to see Rick properly just as rick looked down to him so their gaze met one and another's. "Mom said you died"

Rick turned to his wife, slightly smiling before his glance went back to Carl "she had every reason to believe that. Don't you ever doubt it"

Alana's eyes flickered to her mother who made eye contact with Shane. She hoped that their 'relationship' would be over now but Shane wasn't good at letting things go.

Lori's eyes darted to rick, she slowly wrapped her hand around his "when things started to get real bad, they told me at the hospital that they were gonna medevac you and the other patients to Atlanta but it never happened"

"I'm not surprised after Atlanta fell" Rick responded "and from the looks of that hospital, it got overrun"

"yeah, looks don't deceive" Shane spoke up from across the family. He had his knees up to his chest and was picking at a small piece of wood "I barely got them out"

Rick met his gaze and smiled at him "I can't tell you how grateful I am to you, Shane. I can't begin to express it"

Alana's eyes flickered to her mother. She was the only one in camp who knew about Lori and Shane and keeping secrets wasn't Alana's specialty. she knew it would damage her parents relationship if Rick found out. So she swore to herself that she wouldn't tell anyone. Lori was grieving and Shane took advantage of her. That's what Alana believed.

All of a sudden, a loud thump came from across the camp. It was ed Peletier chucking more firewood into his fire. Carol, his wife and Sophia were sat opposite him, both of them silent. It was known and talked about in camp. They called ed 'abusive' but carol always denied the rumours.

Shane spun around and sighed at the man before shouting to him "hey ed! You wanna rethink that log?"

"It's cold man" ed yelled back as the flames of his fire got bigger. It was like a calling for walkers. As soon as they saw the fire, they would run straight for it meaning it was putting all their lives in danger.