Dead Man Walking

xlvi.

When Hunter walked through the gates of Alexandria he was crushed in a tight embrace. His shoulders relax when he saw it was Carl. He hugged his nephew as tightly as he could, "Are you okay? Is Judith okay?"

Carl nods in his uncle's chest, "I'm okay, Judith is okay. We were attacked by these guys."

Hunter nodded as he took in this information, "Okay, I need you to go back to Judith, okay? I'll come get you when I need your help. Okay?"

Carl nods, "I'm glad you're okay."

"I'm glad you're okay, now get out of here and keep your gun and knife on you at all times," Carl nodded and walked back to the house.

Hunter's eyes roamed around the street trying to find Rosita, he was starting to freak out when he didn't see her. Hunter walked over to Michonne, "Do you see her? Do you see Rosita?"

Michonne nods behind him, "Turn around."

Hunter runs his head and sees Rosita and Maggie walking over to them. He sighed in relief as he started walking over to her. He opened his arms and pulled her into his embrace.

"Shit didn't go right out there. Everything went to shit ten minutes after we got there, I thought I was going to die."

Rosita breaks away from his hold and places her hand on his cheek, "We'll talk about everything when we get everything fixed."

Hunter nods and turns his attention to Maggie. He smiles sadly at her, "The town was overrun. He split off with Nicholas. He had this idea that if he lit a fire, it would stop the walkers from coming here. I tried to go instead. I really wanted to, Maggie. The fire never got lit. We had to keep going. I'm so sorry."

Hunter wiped the tears that had escaped his eyes, He took a deep breath before continuing, "He said if he got stuck, he would find a way to send us a signal."

"A signal?" Maggies asks, her eyes glistening with unfallen tears.

"Open the gate! Open the gate!" Hunter recognized that voice from anywhere as muffled as it was he knew it was Rick. He turned on his feet and ran over to the gate and immediately opened it up. Rick wasn't alone, he was followed by the herd.

As soon as Rick crossed the gate, Hunter and Michonne shut it quickly. They were screwed. That herd can take down these walls if they don't figure out how to kill all the walkers.

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"I don't know how we're gonna deal with all of them," Hunter confesses to his brother, "Those walkers will have these walls surrounded and half the people here don't know how to fight."

"We will figure this out. We have a bit of time until those walls come down and we will have a plan before that," Rick responds as they start walking to the gates where everyone was waiting for them.

"Rick, I've come to realize that god, or whatever is not on our side," Hunter says, "We had a plan for that herd and it went downhill the moment we got there. I would also like to add these people barely trust us."

Rick stopped and turned to his brother, "Listen, Hunter, I'm gonna need you to calm down. 'Cause, we're about to go in front of all of 'em and tell them we have a plan. Okay?"

Hunter let out a deep and shut his eyes. Hunter nods, "Okay, I'm calm. Let's do this."

"You can hear it," Rick exclaims as they walked to the front, "Some of you saw it. They got back here, half of them. Still enough to surround us 20 deep. Look, I know you're scared. You haven't seen anything like this. You haven't been through anything like this. But we're safe for now. The panel the truck hit seems intact. We reinforced it just in case. Either way, the wall's gonna hold together. Can you?