Apocalypse

Eleven

~A Week Later~

"The best place we could be" I tell them "is New York of Virginia" for the last week I've been going over the basics of what we need in the compound that I'm building. I've decided to call it Elysium, you know? After the Elysian Fields from Greek Mythology "we can start off their then once we've got things under control we can expand"

"Um" Glen comes over all nervous, why? "The barn is filled with walkers" we stare at him. I'm sorry? What?

Going to the barn, I check and it definitely is filled with walkers. Why would he have a barn filled with walkers? Just when I think I have humans understood they do something like this. After some time Rick goes to check along with Shane who is pissed.

Once Shane sees them he storms over to Rick and me, we're kind of like the leaders of the group or I am and Rick is my second "You cannot tell me you're all right with this" ever since he and that Otis went into town to this high school, Shane came back differently. More chaotic.

"No" shaking my head "why does he keep them locked up?"

"So they won't eat him or his family!" Shane yells at me

I slap him across the face that he falls holding his cheek howling "I have had it with your shit, one more word from you of disrespect and I will kill you" looking at the barn "I meant who are these people to him?"

"His stepson" Dale tells me "his wife...they view them as sick people"

"We need to do something" Shane says standing up

"This is his land" Rick harshly says to Shane "we can't just go in and start killing"

"This is out lives!" Shane yells

"Lower your voices" Glen pleads, I see Bryce consoling him. Oh yes, my daughter has a crush on him that she thinks I don't notice.

"We can't" Andrea waves her arm holding Amy behind her "just sweep this under the rug"

"It ain't right" Shane agreed with Andrea "not remotely. We've either got to go in there and make things right or we've just got to go—we've talked about Fort Benning for a long time" I do not remember this.

Looking at Rick, he whispers to me "We can't leave, Lori's pregnant"

"And?" Whispering back "was that a secret?" Bryce and I have been hearing the baby's heartbeat for a week now.

"What are you two whispering about?" Shane demands "I need to be part of the loop"

"Give Rick and I some time to talk this over" I say to Shane "and remember" pointing my finger at him "I kill you if you show one more sign of disrespect to me"

"We can't leave" Rick tells him

"Why?" Shane demands "why the hell not?"

"Cause my daughter" Carol says "is still out there"

Shane throws his hands up and I look at Bryce "Bryce? Glen? Lori? You three take Carl, Amy, Aisha and Amelia to the camp"

"We want to stay" Amy protests

"She's right" Lori ushers them away "they need to figure out what to do and us here isn't helping" the three deal with the complaining bunch while I look at the barn.

"I think" Shane looks at Carol "start facing some facts. A week ago Phoenix here said that if she couldn't find Sophia it's because she's dead"

"Or" Carol protests "she found something a witch left behind that is making I hard to find her!"

"Phoenix?" Shane asks, oh for once he isn't being a complete jackass "how likely is it that Sophia found a witch's item?" I didn't want to say anything since I don't want Carol to have no hope but...I only gave her the second option as a form of hope when I knew no witch would leave anything behind.

"Look!" Daryl says "I'm close to finding this little girl! I found her fucking doll two days ago!"

Shane laughs "A doll? A doll!  You found a doll! You know what? If you get a good leads, it's in"

"Shane!" Rick tries to get him to lower his voice "Shane!" I zone out these idiots and think.

"I'm talking to Hershel" I say going to the house, not needing to listen anymore to these idiots. Shane starts yelling again but I don't pay any mind to them.

Going to the house, I find Hershel eating at the dinner table with a Bible by his side "My daughter and Glen found something quite concerning" I say walking over, my hip leaning against the table as Hershel is silent "she heard noises from the barn" he looks my way "so she and Glen went to check it out. Your daughter Maggie caught up to them" I'm spinning a lie here.

"I want you and your people gone by the end of the week" Hershel says looking up at me.

Nodding my head "So we won't even discuss?"

"No"

Clicking my tongue "Alright" moving outside, I go to the group who are by the tent and I shake my head "Hershel isn't discussing, we've got to leave"

"We can't leave" Rick shakes his head "let me talk to him" he goes inside and I look at everyone. I see Amy and Carl playing with the puppies who are eagerly loving the attention.

"What will we do" Carol asks "about Sophia?"

I'm silent as I stare at them all "We can't stay here, not with the walkers in the barn. It's high risk and if he's bringing the walkers into the barn then it's putting everyone of you in jeopardy"

"See" Shane waves to me "at least one of you has the right sense"

"We are not going to Fort Benning" I state "but we are going north, as I said to either New York or Virginia"

After a few hours of debating where to go with Dale, Lori and Shane we agree that Virginia will be the best choice but we need to figure out where in Virginia to go. For that we need a map of Virginia specifically so we'll need to drive up that way.

Just then we see Rick bringing in walkers. What the fuck? I understand that he needs to keep Lori and the baby safe but this isn't right "What are you doing?" I ask Rick as Shane demands it

I see who is here and I order "Lori, Carol, Glen and Bryce keep Aisha, Amy, Amelia, and Carl back to the tents" I don't have a good feeling of what Shane is about to do.

"No" they start to protest but Amelia and Aisha since their thinking of their unborn children. Shane then starts to shoot one of the walkers multiple times then kills them both.

He goes to the barn and opens it up having all the walkers come out. He, T-Dog, Daryl and Andrea start to shoot "Look away!" I order

"No!" Shane challenges my authority by yelling "No! No! They—he" pointing at Hershel "needs to see!"

Rubbing my brows, I can't believe this is actually happening. There has got to be more than three dozen who came out of that barn. People start to shoot and Rick begs to stop but they can't.

Just when we thought it was over, we see one more walkers come out of the barn. Oh my god. "Sophia!" Carol yells, I go over to her and hold her as she cries to her daughter.

"Sh! Sh!" I rub her back as I look at Rick who has a pained look, I mouth "kill her" to him and Rick kills Sophia.