Song: Serpents- Sharon Van Etten
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"Rick? Michonne?" I ask. They both turn around so that I see their faces. Rick walked to me and hugged me.
"Carl, get in here." Rick says. "You told me to keep watch so- Alex?" Carl says.
He ran to me and hugged me. "You were here? This whole time?" Carl asks. I nod my head.
"We've been living on the road. And we've passed this house twice and the doors were boarded shut so we didn't even try." Michonne said.
"But the we saw the back door and we opened it. We broke the chain, sorry." Rick added.
"It's fine." I smiled.
"Alex, you talkin' to yourself down here?" Daryl asks, coming down the stairs.
He sees Rick, Michonne and Carl. "Not really." I say. "The good thing is, Daryl's been keeping me safe. The bad thing is, I've been eating fish for the past 2 weeks." I laugh.
"What's so bad about that?" Michonne laughs. "I hate fish." I laugh.
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We all sat on the two couches, just talking about things.
"Before we left the prison, the guard tower blew up. Do you guys have any idea who did that?" I ask.
"It was Grace." Rick says. "Really?" I ask. Rick and Michonne nod.
"All I remember is when Glenn, Carol and I were cutting the wood, we all just passed out. I have no idea why. And then when we woke up, we were in the boiler room of the prison." Rick says.
"Grace had two other goons. They took Rick, Carl, Glenn, Carol, Maggie, Beth, and I." Michonne added.
"What about Judith?" I ask. Rick and Carl looked down.
"They had her in a separate room, alone. When we escaped, she wasn't there. The room was empty." Carl said.
"We took down her side men, but Grace escaped. That must've been when she blew up the guard tower." Michonne said.
"They were gonna eat us." Rick says.
"Eat?!" I ask, trying to make sure I heard him correctly
"Yep. They're cannibals." They all nod. "We split up because there were too many walkers. We told them to meet up in the woods." Rick says.
"When we got back with everyone, Carol said that Glenn went to look for you, and that he wouldn't leave without you." Rick added.
"Aw, that's so sweet but he's so stupid." I say. Everyone giggled.
"So where's everyone else now?" Daryl asked. "Beth...Maggie was holding on to her and she-she was bit. Maggie said that she could save her but Beth said that she didn't want to be saved." Rick says.
"There was a herd of walkers heading toward us. We got lost. Now, we have no idea where Carol, Maggie and Glenn are." Michonne said.
"And Judith." Carl adds, looking down.
Soon, we all began hearing walker grunts and moans.
I peeped out of a peek in the wood that we used to board the windows. There was a herd of walkers coming our way.
"Walkers." I say. "We can take em' down." Daryl says, standing up.
"No. There's way too many. Maybe we should just stay in here and let it pass." I said.
"Let's-" Rick started but he was cut off by walkers that started banging on the doors.
"Bad news is, we broke the lock and they could tear down the doors." Michonne says. "Good news is, well, there is none." She adds.
"How are we gonna get out of this?" Carl asks. "We have to take risks. That's what you do to survive, take risks." Rick says.
"What kind of risks?" Daryl asked.
"I found this on the road one day." Rick says, taking something out of his back pocket.
A flare gun.
"We can use that to distract the walkers!" I said. "You can shoot it out of the window upstairs." Daryl says.
"Look- I fire this, the walkers get distracted. When they go towards the flare, you guys do your best to escape. Run South into the woods and we'll meet you there." Rick explains as he and Daryl walk upstairs.
I look through the peek in the wood and Michonne looks through the one in the kitchen.
We wait for the flare and then-it happens. "Wait till' they go towards it." Michonne says.
As the walkers walk to the flare, we go out through the back door.
"Carl, have your knife out." I whisper.
I took my knife out of my pocket and we take down any walkers the we saw while we were going south into the woods.
"So we just wait here?" I ask. "I guess. But keep an eye out for walkers." Michonne instructs.
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"....and we saw this." Rick says as we walked on some train tracks.
He pointed to a sign.
"Sanctuary For All
Community For All
Those Who Arrive
Survive."
Under the sign was a map. It had a big dot and the words "Terminus" written on it.
"So are we going?" I asked them. "That's the plan. But we need to have some backup, just incase this 'Terminus' doesn't go so well." Rick says.
We had a bag full of weapons and we buried them.
"Wait," I call as we were about to leave the spot. "How do we know where to look when we need the weapons? We need like an 'x marks the spot' or something."
Daryl walks over to where we buried the bag. "Happy?" He asks, using sticks to make an x.
"Very." I answer.
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"You went through the back door?" A guy asks us at Terminus. He was standing on a roof with 4 other guys. None of us answer.
Then we all spot something that is suspicious.
A guy had on Daryl's poncho, the one that he gave to Maggie.
Rick put the guy in a headlock and pointed a gun at his head, causing the man at Terminus to point a gun at Rick.
"Where'd you get the poncho?" Rick asks. The man doesn't answer. "GARETH!" The man that Rick had in a headlock said.
"Let him go!" The Gareth says. "Not until you tell me where you got that!" Rick yelled.
Gareth and other people he was with started shooting at us. We took our guns out and shot back at them, running.
"Wait-" Michonne said to us as we stopped. The kept shooting. "They're shooting at the ground. They're not trying to shoot us." She says.
They finally stopped shooting.
"Drop your weapons." Gareth yells.
We do as told, putting our weapons on the ground and our hands up.
"You, ring leader. Go over to the trailer, on the stairs." Gareth instructs. "Then the archer. The samurai. And the pretty one." He says.
We all do as told, walking up to the stairs. "Now go inside." Gareth said.
"Not without my boy." Rick says. "You want the boy, you go inside." Gareth said.
We all walk into the trailer, Gareth telling Carl to go in soon after.
They closed the trailer, locking us in there.
"Rick?" Someone said.
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