The Swan Verse: A Walking Dead Fanfiction

Chapter 12 - Pretty Much Dead Already

The next day the Swan siblings alongside Harper decided to head over to have breakfast with Rick's group, seeing as they may not have much more time with them. Harper was becoming good friends with Beth, the pair seemed to chat quite a lot, seeing as they had similar interests and were always put on the same chores.

Breakfast was rather quiet, no one really having anything to say but at least the food was good. While everyone was eating Glenn stood himself up and headed towards the middle of the group before speaking. "Um, guys" Everyone turned their attention to him, them noticing he was clearly somewhat on edge. Some of them however, those of which didn't treat Glenn with the respect he deserved turned back to their food.

"So...erm..." Glenn tried to speak but there was a long silence "The barn is full of Walkers"

Everyone's face dropped as the words entered their ears, same as the Swans, none of them knew. After a moment of shock and silence, Rick turned to the Swans with a look of anger before walking down towards the barn alongside a few others. Lucy, with her throwing knives at hand, was one of the first to arrive down at the barn.

Before anyone else got the chance, she peered in, Glenn was right. She walked over to her siblings, "He was right, there's quite a lot of them in there" She spoke looking over at Rick's group, Shane of course being the one to see for himself.

Ali walked as close to the barn as she felt comfortable before chewing her lip slightly, contemplating what to do next "Surely, we need to get rid of them?" She commented.

Shane pulled away from the barn and turned to Rick "You cannot tell me you're okay with this" He spoke with an angered tone before turning to Ali "And you cannot tell me that none of you knew about this"

RIck responded to Shane, matching the same level of anger "No, I'm not, but we're guests here. This isn't our land"

"Oh, god! This is our lives, man!" Shane became more aggravated.

"Lower your voices guys" William spoke looking between him and the barn, knowing it could likely rile them up.

"We can't just sweep this under the rug" Andrea spoke, with her usual somewhat bitchy tone.

The group proceeded to argue about what was to be done. Dale made the case that Hershel simply viewed the walkers as sick people, while Shane grew increasingly hostile and argued to bust the barn open and shoot them all. However, the noise that the argument was causing only meant that the walkers on the other side of the barn began to get more agitated and began to cause some commotion.

Alison froze, in a sense. She turned to her sister and arched her brow, it was obvious that daggers were being stared at both of them, even though this was just as shocking to them as it was to everyone else.

Everyone began to disperse and go about their days in an attempt to forget what they had just found out but Shane stayed put, somewhat posing as a sentry outside of the barn and Alison eventually worked up the courage to go and speak to him about what was happening.

"You have some real nerve, showing up like you had no idea. You can stop playin' dumb now because we all know exactly what is going on." Shane almost spat at Alison, who was dumbfounded at his hostility.

"Shane..." Ali began "Those things, the walkers, they terrify me. Do you really think I would want them anywhere near me?" She reasoned. "I promise, my family and I knew nothing about this" She added, stepping forward to try and calm him down.

"Do you really expect me to believe that?" He responded in a cold tone "You and the farmer's daughter are thick as thieves, she would have told you" Shane added, grabbing her wrist "So stop playing dumb with me. Might fool everyone else, but not me" He spoke, tightening his grip.