Waiting For the End || Blake Dixon Book One

Chapter 11 ||Man, how many times we gonna have to do this?

Blake put her gun in the waistband of her pants as she listened to the sobs surrounding her. She looked back seeing Beth still in Jimmy's arms and Hershel still on the ground with Maggie hovering nearby.

"Don't look. Don't look." Her dad said as Carol tried to fight to Sophia. He pushed her backwards and the woman shook him off, turning the other direction away from the barn. Then Beth was pushing past her stumbling towards the corpses as she sobbed.

"Wait, wait." Rick tried but he was ignored. Beth looked around frantically before finding who she was looking for. She sobbed kneeling down in front of her now twice deceased mother, moving the other walker that had landed on top of her off.

"Ma..." She cried and Blake bit her lip, this whole thing had gone ten times worse then how she thought it would and she already knew it was going to be a disaster. The girl rolled her mother over and suddenly there was a growl and a scream. Blake was moving quickly as the walker latched onto the girl and tried to pull her in for a bite.

Blake got to her first wrapping her arms around the girl from behind and pulling her away from the walker. It was a struggle but with Rick joining her she was able to get the girl to her feet and out of the walkers grasp. Beth was sobbing, gripping Blake's bicep for dear life as they back pedaled away. Hershel was there in an instant wrapping his daughter in a hug which she gladly accepted. Blake didn't move far, still feeling the girl trying to collapse to the ground. She stood behind her hands on her waist in support as Andrea put a scythe into the walker's head.

Hershel moved to lead Beth away back to the house and Patricia took Blake's spot on her other side. The whole group of Greene's made their way back to the house, Shane, Rick and Glenn following. But Blake couldn't find it in her, the way that Beth had clinged to her sobs racking her body. It made Blake realize she had been lucky through all this, she hadn't lost a thing with the end of the world, in fact getting rid of Merle has made it better in a way. And maybe that was sad, maybe that just means she lived a pitiful life before and nothing has changed. Beth has lost her world, and now she has to grieve her mother and brother for a second time all because Shane needed to go on a power trip.

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She was on autopilot helping clean up the bodies, they covered the bodies of Sophia and with Jimmy's help Beth's mother and brother. She checked every body and made sure they were for sure dead not wanting a repeat of the Beth situation.

"Blake," Lori called as she walked by the mother and son duo sitting on the ground. "Could you take Carl up to the house?" 

Blake nodded and Lori said something to Carl but Blake couldn't listen. She felt numb as she stood there, and felt numb as they walked up towards the house. She wasn't sure how she was supposed to feel, she knew Sophia thought she was a good kid with a kind and gentle heart. She didn't know any of the others but she knew Beth, she knew the girl was hurting and hurting badly. Rick plopped his hat back on Carl's head as they passed by and sent Blake a nod.

"I'm glad you didn't tell me Sophia was going to be okay," Carl chimed up halfway up to the barn. Blake looked down at the boy in confusion. "When I asked back on the highway, you said you wouldn't lie to me and say she would be okay because you didn't know. Everyone else they kept telling me we would find her, and I kept saying it too. You were the only one who told the truth."

"It's okay to have a little hope Carl, the hope we had for Sophia it was good. I wanted to find her, I would have kept looking until we did. I wouldn't have done that if I hadn't believed somewhere deep down that she was going to be okay." She told him he nodded and they lapsed back into silence.