Destruction ||| Glenn Rhee x Reader (TWD X Reader)

Chapter 7) Mermaids

Y/N, Andrea, and Rick go up to the main level where the glass doors are. Mannequins surround them and clothes litter the floor.

Y/N taps Andrea on the shoulder while Rick is checking ammo levels in his gun.

"You should apologize to him... He didn't deserve to have a gun shoved in his face."

Andrea gives a half nod. "I know. You're right."

Y/N gives her a thumbs up as she walks over to Rick.

Andrea and Rick engage in some small conversation and Y/N steps away to give them a moment.

A few minutes later as the trio searches for anything useful, Y/N hears a soft gasp come from Andrea and she walks over to her friend standing over a counter.

Rick also takes notice and walks over. "See something you like?"

"Not me, but I know someone who would... My sister. She's still such a kid in some ways. Unicorns, dragons... She's into all that stuff. But mermaids... They rule. She loves mermaids."

Y/N smiles at that. She remembers that last year, she went over to Amy's house for her birthday. She put together a whole mermaid themed basket.

"Why not take it?" Rick asks her.

Andrea looks up almost shamefully. "There's a cop staring at me."

Rick laughs at that and Y/N nudges Andreas arm playfully.

Andrea smiles and takes it off the display.

"She'll love it." Y/N says with a grin.

Andrea goes to say something when suddenly they hear shattering glass. The first set of doors have broken and the rotters are closer than before. Glenn and Morales join them just in time.

"Anything down there?" Y/N asks Glenn.

He shakes his head. "Not a way out."
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Back on the roof, the group is getting more distraught. Rick is looking deeply over the edge trying to think of anything to help them get out of this.

Rick looks over his shoulder at Morales. "That construction site, those trucks... They always keep keys on hand."

Jacqui glances down at the site. "You'll never make it past the walkers."

Rick considers this. "You got me out of the tank."

Glenn nods at this. "Yeah, but they were feeding. They were distracted."

"Can we distract them again?" Rick asks.

Some members of the group shrug at that.

Rick nods at Glenn. "They're drawn by sound right?"

Glenn nods and scratches his head. "Right, like dogs. They hear a sound, they come."

"What else?"

"Aside from they hear you? They see you, smell you and if they catch you, they eat you." Morales answers.

"They can tell us by smell?" Rick questions.

"You can't?" Y/N asks.

"They smell dead, we don't. It's pretty distinct." Andrea replies.

The group heads downstairs to the main level and Rick explains his plan.

"If bad ideas were an Olympic event, this would take the gold." Glenn shudders.

"We need time to think this through Rick." Y/N agrees stepping closer to Glenn.

"How much time? They already got through one set of doors, that glass won't hold forever."

Y/N takes a breath. "What if it doesn't work?"

Rick pauses. "One way to find out."
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Morales and Rick run outside and grab one of the rotters that was killed earlier. They drag it's body in so it's in the middle of the group.

Rick and the group cover up to protect themselves from what's to come. He grabs a fire axe and is prepared to chop into the dead man but he hesitates.

He reaches down and searches the man's pockets. He pulls out a wallet and opens it.

"Wayne Dunlap. Georgia license. Born in 1979. He had $28 in his pocket when he died... And a picture of a pretty girl. 'With love, from Rachel.' He used to be like us... Worrying about bills or the rent or the Super Bowl. If I ever find my family, I'm gonna tell them about Wayne."

Glenn takes the wallet out of Ricks hands. "One more thing. He was an organ donor."

After a brief pause, Rick brings the axe down onto the rotter. Y/N immediately looks away in horror and Glenn grabs onto her.

Everyone is gagging and freaking out.

"I'm gonna hurl." Glenn says digging his face into Y/N's shoulder.

"Don't because i'll throw up too." Y/N says with a cough.

The group decided that Y/N, Glenn, and Rick would go through the herd. Glenn tried to argue that Y/N should stay with the others but she refused. If Glenn was going, she was going too.

They cover themselves head to toe in rotter guts to mask the scent of their human flesh.

"Oh God! Oh jeez. Oh, this is bad. This is really bad." Glenn says covering his mouth.

"Think about something else... Puppies and kittens." Rick says, obvious he's trying to hold his breath.

"Yeah. Dead puppies and kittens." T-Dog says.

Glenn leans over and pukes on the concrete floor. Y/N gags and looks away.

Andrea claps her hand on T-Dogs back. "That is just evil. What is wrong with you?"

"Next time let the cracker beat his ass." Jacqui says to Rick.

"My bad yo." T says apologetically.

"You suck." Glenn says wiping his mouth.

Andrea hands her gun to Y/N. "Just in case."

Y/N nods and takes a deep breath.

"If we make it back, be ready." Rick tells the others.

"What about Merle Dixon?" T-Dog asks.

Rick tosses the handcuff keys to him and they head out the door.
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