Destruction ||| Glenn Rhee x Reader (TWD X Reader)

Chapter 96) W

"Marshall and Redding. We force them west here." Rick says pointing at a map.

"How?" Deanna asks.

A few others stand around outside on the porch.

"We block it off so they can only go one way, west, away from the community."

"Block it off with what?" Carter asks.

"Cars. We'll use the RVs, some of the bigger trucks, park them end to end."

Michonne nods. "We'll be drawing them away. They're gonna keep moving."

"Yeah, but that many? Just bouncing off some sedans?" Carter says. "And then when they start slipping through and the ones that walk away start distracting the rest and you stop drawing them away?"

"Man's got a point." Heath says.

Suddenly Eugene speaks. "We got plates. The big-ass metal ones from the construction site. We can use them to fortify the whip wall. It'd help disperse the force of impact and direct the walkers clean."

Y/N nods her head at him in approval. He continues. "Like a pool table. Eight ball, corner pocket."

Carter raises his voice. "That's an army out there. And what happens when this doesn't hold? And they push through. The curve in this hillside is gonna send them right back east. Right back here. You seriously wanna risk that?"

Y/N crosses her arms. "You have a better idea, genius?"

"Y/N." Rick warns.

"No, I'm serious. Do you have a better idea Carter? Because as of right now, this is the best thing we've got. But please, if you have something, by all means, go ahead."

He doesn't say anything and she shrugs. "No? Then shut the hell up."
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"It's just a dry run."

"I know."

"Then why are you pacing?"

Y/N stops moving and turns to look at Glenn who watches her from the door to their bedroom.

"I'm not pacing."

He huffs, walking up to her and pulling her into a hug. "Everything is going to be fine. We are just gonna go over the plan so that way everything goes smoothly tomorrow."

She nods. "I know."

He furrows his brows and she sighs. "I wish I could go."

"You'll be safer here." He replies.

She nods but deep down she feels a sense of dread. The last time she felt this, Noah died.

"I know." She whispers, although she doesn't believe it.
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Y/N sits in the kitchen with Carol.

Carl and Judith are upstairs.

Carol is cooking something out of old stuff from the food pantry. Y/N rests her chin on the palm of her hands. "Carol?"

The older woman hums in response.

"How long are you gonna keep up this act?"

"As long as it takes." Carol says.

Y/N nods, looking out the window. She sees a woman, named Shelly outside smoking.

Suddenly the woman screams and gets knocked down by a machete-wielding man.

Y/N jumps up from her seated position. Carol saw it too. The two rush for the stairs when Carl comes into view at the top, holding a gun.

"I saw." He says. "They're coming in from all over."

Carol turns to Y/N. "You have to stay here and keep Judith safe."

With that, she turns and rushes out of the house.

Y/N looks at Carl and he takes a deep breath. "Go. But don't get yourself killed."

She nods, grabbing her katana and leaving the house.

Carl locks the doors and windows behind her. She glances around. People are screaming. There are loads of men running around with various weapons.

Y/N hides behind the staircase to the porch as she tries to think up a plan. She has to find Deanna.

She bites back a gasp as she witnesses a man murder a fellow neighbor just fifteen feet away. Brutally. He stabs her repeatedly in the chest.

Then he does something unexpected. He sticks his finger into her wound and uses her blood to trace a singular letter onto his forehead.

W.

She thinks back to just a few days ago when Daryl and Rick mentioned people with W's on their foreheads.

The group found them.

How did they get in?

She brings herself to a squat and makes her way through the overgrown ferns.

Maggie told her earlier that her and Deanna were going to spend some time outside.

She finds herself running behind the cover of the houses. Nearby, she hears a whimper.

"No. No, please don't."

She turns the corner and sees a masked man, slicing open a woman's stomach.

Y/N sneaks up behind him, thrusting her sword through his chest. He falls to the ground and she stabs him again, in the head.

She collapses onto the steps where the woman named Erin, cries, bleeding out onto the brick.

She cradles the woman in her arms, shushing her. After a moment, Erin stops moving and Y/N is forced to put her down.

She wipes her bloody hands on her shirt, when she suddenly has an idea.

She traces a W on her own forehead using a mixture of blood and dirt. Then she steals the masked man's cloak and mask, putting it on.

It'll help her sneak past the other attackers. She can only hope that one of her own people doesn't kill her first.

All of a sudden, the situation gets worse. There's a loud crash at the front wall and a loud air horn begins blowing.

It doesn't stop. The sound will only attract walkers.

She stands up, grinding her teeth. She thinks about everyone who didn't go on the run. The people who are still here, in Alexandria.

Rosita. Eric. Aaron. Carol. Carl. Judith. Maggie. Tara. Eugene. Even Gabe.

She exits from her cover on the porch. Near the front gate, where the horn sound has finally stopped blaring, stands Morgan.

She doesn't know how he got back here so quickly, but she has no time to think as she sees one of the attackers try to kill him.

She runs up, stabbing the man in the chest. He falls to the ground.

Morgan lifts his staff defensively, but lowers it when Y/N removes the bandana from her mouth.

"I could've stopped him." He says.

"I'm sorry." She glances around. "The others back?"

"No. It's happening out there."

Her eyes widen. "They're doing it now?"

"We had to."

"Get to the armory. These people don't use guns. Get to it before they do and pass out as many as you can to our people."

"We don't have to kill people."

She turns, placing the bandana over her mouth once more. "We do."
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