Chapter 4 Letting Down Our Guard

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The convoy had reached their destination; Y/n hops out of Daryl's truck to see bodies littering the ground in and around the CDC. Some wear civilian clothes while others have military uniforms, the smell of decay and death fills the air.

Y/n walks to one of the nearby bodies that holds a military styled shotgun, he hops the sandbag barrier to see more bodies with other guns in their hands. Rick glances back at the group to see Y/n looting the corpses and whistles.

"Y/n, what are you doin?" He questions, everyone turns to see him slide a M1911 in the small of his back.

"We could use all of this.. look at it all." He says motioning around, they glance to see weapons in the hands of dead bodies.

"This area isn't safe, come on, Y/n. Everyone stay quiet, and keep moving. Let's go." Shane says as he racks a shell into his shotgun.

The young man hops the sandbag barrier and grabs the shotgun he found, he pulls the pump back to see if there's any shells loaded in, and to his surprise a shell racks ready to fire.

The stench of death permeates the air as they get closer to the CDC, Y/n keeps looking around as he tightly holds his shotgun. Daryl next to him glances at him before looking in the other direction.

"You know how to use that thing?" Daryl whispers.

"I know a thing or two. It's way too quiet." He whispers back as they walk forward, Daryl nods his head in agreement as he slings his crossbow over his back and racks a shell into his shotgun.

"Eye's like a hawk. See any of them undead bastards, we kill 'em."

As they walk through the valley of death; they reach a giant door that's sealed up tight. Rick and Shane try some of the shutters but they don't budge. Y/n walks over and tries to help them, it shifts but remains locked tight.

"Nothing?" Shane asks walking over to the group, Y/n sighs and shakes his head frustrated.

"Nah, it's locked tighter than a nun's chastity belt." Y/n says, Shane kneels down again and tries to pull the shutter open but it doesn't budge. Frustrated he punches the door.

"There's nobody here." T-Dog whisper shouts, Rick points at the door.

"Then why are these shutters down?" He says looking between the doors with a panicked expression.

"Walkers!" Daryl shouts alerting the group, he unslings his crossbow and shoots the walker clean through the head. He turns with and growls with anger at dumb enough to follow along with Rick's suicidal plan.

"You led us into a graveyard!" Daryl shouts as he walks towards Rick with a glare, Y/n steps Infront of him and holds him back.

"D, now's not the time. We gotta protect the group!" He says loudly as lightly pushes him back, he aims his shotgun at another walker that appeared and fires off a shot. The walkers face disappears as it falls backwards dead.

"He made a call." Dale says trying to keep the peace, he aims his rifle ready to fire it. Daryl glares at them as he paces back and fourth.

"IT WAS THE WRONG DAMN CALL!" He shouts drawing more attention, Shane walks over to him with his own glare and lightly pushes him back.

"Just shut up. You hear me? Shut up. Shut up!" He shouts quietly before turning to Rick with a worried expression on his face.

"Rick, this is a dead end." He says trying to make him see the logical side, Rick shakes his head as he stares at the shuttered doors.

"Where are we gonna go?" Carol cries out while tightly holding onto Sophia.

"Do you hear me? No blame."

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