The Dead World

Thirteen ~ Losing The Farm

"I'll get the guns" Andrea offers already running for the bag of guns that were in the RV.

"Maybe they're just passing, like the herd on the highway, should we just go inside?" Glenn asked, Phoebe could tell he was very nervous due to the sheer amount of walkers but they all were.

"Not unless there's a tunnel downstairs I don't know about that" Daryl spoke softly not taking his eyes off the fields and Glenn looked confused.

"A herd that size will rip the house down" Phoebe explained to the man and he looked even more terrified all of a sudden.

"Carl's gone!" Lori comes out panicked.

"What!" Phoebe spun to look at her in disbelief, it seemed to Phoebe that recently Lori was so focused on other things she continued to not keep her eye on Carl who seemed to take this new found freedom and run with it.

"He...He was upstairs. I can't find him anymore" she pants hands shaking from her panic.

"Maybe he's hiding" Glenn tried to comfort the mother but it doesn't help.

"His supposed to be upstairs! I'm not leaving without my boy!" she cries out and Phoebe grabbed her shoulders.

"Lori go inside and ask Sophia if she's seen him! We will not leave without him!" Lori raced off inside to find Carol's young daughter so Phoebe turned to Maggie and Carol "We need to start gathering everything! We can't stay here, start moving things to the cars quickly but stay in pairs, minimum!" Everyone nods and splits off.

"Daryl I need you to stay here, keep an eye on everyone moving back and from the cars tell us when they're too close!" Phoebe orders and he nods taking this very seriously as they all were. Phoebe raced into the first sleeping area and quickly gathered all the sleeping beds and any pieces laying about Phoebe run them to her jeep and threw everything in the trunk then running back into the house grabbing any food she could.

Remembering that Hershel mentioned to her about rations in the basement she flew down the stairs almost rolling her ankle in the process she started grabbing the crates and she saw Beth and Jimmy run past the door at the top of the stairs.

"Beth! Jimmy!" she shouted and they ran back seeing her "We need to get this all upstairs!" she yelled and they both ran down Jimmy grabbed two of the main crates but Beth could only manage one "Get them to the cars" they all ran outside placing one crate in each vehicle.

Phoebe looked up and saw everyone running about grabbing things, the second sleeping space had been cleaned out and the cars all basically packed. Back on the porch everyone was handing out the guns even Maggie and Beth had one "You can go if you want" Hershel offers the group.

"You gonna take 'em all on?" Daryl asks in disbelief.

"We have guns, we have cars" hershel replies cocking his gun.

"Ok this is what we do, we'll split up. Two or three people in a few cars, we all drive around and take down as many as we can leading them back off to the highway, then we'll ditch them there driving back! We'll leave the RV, my jeep and Otis' truck here" Phoebe explained to the others so the others can leave worst case scenario, she saw Hershel wasn't going to take no for an answer and she wasn't going to waste time arguing.

"Hershel you stay here and hold down the house with your family. Carol, Lori and the kids will stay here with you while we do this, it isn't not safe for them out there!" he nodded turning back to the field watching as his farm was slowly taken over.

"I'm going with Glenn!" Maggie says leaving no room for arguing so Phoebe just nods.

"Now everyone in the cars, lets go!" she ordered.