rag doll | TWD

[7] nebraska

live and let die --- guns n' roses

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[POV]

It was quiet after. The shock was evident to everyone. Looks were shared throughout the group. 

"Don't look. Don't look." Daryl helped Carol off the ground. She pushed his arm off of her, took one last look, and bolted for the house. 

Beth was sobbing as she walked over to kneel next to one of the bodies. Rick tried to stop her, but she pushed past him.  

"Ma," She cried. The walker hadn't been taken down, but instead was just stuck under a pile of other walkers. It reanimated and grabbed Beth, shocking everybody. 

It took nearly all of the group to pull Beth away and end the walker. 

"We've been out combing these woods looking for her and she was in there all along?" Shane asked as Rick, Glenn and JJ followed the Greene's up to their farmhouse. "You knew."

"Leave us alone." Maggie snapped. 

"Hey, Shane, just stop man."

"Get your hands off me." He pulled away from Rick. "You knew, and you kept it from us."

"I didn't know." Hershel's voice cracked. 

"That's bullshit. I think y'all knew."

Maggie turned and shouted, "We didn't know!"

"Why was she there?!"

"Otis put those people in the barn. Maybe he found her and put her in there before he was killed." Hershel justified. 

Shane scoffed, "you expect me to believe that? Do I look like an idiot?"

Rick, once again, tried to stop him. 

"I don't care what you believe!" Hershel began to fight back. 

"Everybody just calm down." Rick put his arms out. 

"Get him off my land!"

Shane made a threatening step toward Hershel and Maggie slapped his face. "Hey, don't touch him! Haven't you done enough?"

"I mean it...off my land." Hershel got the last word before him and his family went inside.

There was a second of silence before Rick asked Shane, "What are you doing? Hey! What are you doing?"

"Daryl almost died looking for her, Rick. Any one of us could have. I'm gonna tell you right now- that son of a bitch, he knew." 

"Shane, just shut up." JJ snapped, "You're so fucking ignorant it's not even funny. Hershel's not like that. He obviously didn't know that little girl was in there. He's let the group stay here. Opened his home, when he didn't have to."

"He put us all in danger, JJ. Are you not grasping that part?" Shane aggressively pointed to his head, "He kept a barnful of walkers..."

"So, you just start insurrection, hand out guns and massacre his family?" Rick shot.

"His family's dead, Rick." Shane rubbed has hand across his face out of frustration.

"Well, he doesn't believe that. He thinks you just murdered them in cold blood."

Shane shook his head, "no, man, I don't care what he thinks."

"Clearly." JJ scoffed. "You don't care what anyone thinks except yourself. Rick was handling it."

"Your brother had us out in those woods looking for a little girl that every single one of us knew was dead! That's what your brother did! Would've gotten us all killed if I hadn't done something bout it."