RIDE OR DIE | DARYL DIXON

blinded

"EVERYONE," Rick screamed to those in the street, "get back! Get into your houses, go!"

Willow stumbled backwards, coughing and covering her mouth with her shirt. The crumpled and destroyed bell tower left a cloud of dust hanging in the air.

Rick began firing shot after shot as the people of Alexandria panicked and maneuvered their way through the streets. Willow got the gun off her back, firing at a few walkers as her legs moved fast to keep up with Rick.

"Rick!" Deanna yelled from behind both of them.

"You need to get back." Rick yelled back at her, firing another shot at a walker right in front of them.

"We need to get back!" Deanna shouted, firing a small gun a few times before dropping a walker.

Willow jammed the butt of her gun against one of them, knocking them back enough for her to fire a few shots.

They heard Deanna yell again, this time from the ground with two walkers on top of her.

Rick threw the first one off and Willow grabbed the second, slamming it's head into the brick wall of a close by building. They looked at the blood that already soaked through her pants when they noticed her leg on top of a saw blade.

"Shit!" Willow grabbed Deanna's hand, lifting her off the blade gently yet quickly. "It's her leg, help me-"

"Rick!" Michonne called out to him, jogging up beside him with a few others in their group.

"Good, you're safe. Come on!" He responded, glancing at the few of them before slinging Deanna's arm over his shoulder.

They ran at a steady pace, taking out walkers swiftly with their blades and guns, keeping a safe distance between the herd that was behind them. 

"There!" Deanna called out, aiming her gun ahead of them.

They looked ahead, slowing down when another part of the herd began to merge in front of them. 

Willow and Rick began shooting again, and more shots came from beside them, the walkers closest to them dropping like flies.

"Come on, I have Judith and Sienna!" Jessie yelled, still firing her gun.

They ran up her porch, jamming through her door and shutting it fast.

"Put her on the couch-" Rick told Willow as they moved Deanna around.

"Upstairs, first room on the left!" Jessie told them instead.

They grunted as they supported her up the stairs.

"Which room?!" Rick asked impatiently.

"In here-" Jessie shoved past them pointing to a room ahead of them and barging into another room. "Sam, I need you to turn off the music and shut the blinds."

They laid Deanna down on the bed, noticing more blood on her shirt. Michonne lifted her shirt up slightly, blood oozing from her side making it nearly impossible to locate the actual wound.

"Rick-" Willow turned to him, keeping a firm hand on Deanna's leg. "check the kids."

Rick nodded, running out of the room and down the hallway where one of the children had been crying.

She reached behind her towards the dresser at the end of the bed, pulling open its drawer and grabbing a thin t-shirt before tearing it into even thinner strips. She worked on tying it tightly above the wound on Deanna's leg while Michonne wiped away the blood on her side. Deanna's body flinched when Willow gave the cloth one final tug.