Lone Wolf

Chapter Thirty-Three

"This is where it all starts tomorrow. Tobin gets in the truck, opens the exit and we're off. He hops out, catches up with his team at red, starting on the West side of the road. Daryl gets on his bike--" Rick was explaining until we heard a loud noise. We looked behind Rick and saw the truck falling.

I looked at Rick.

"It's open! We got to do this now!" He told us.

"Daryl, Stella, get ready." Rick told him.

"They're coming." Daryl said.

I took my bow off and aimed an arrow. As soon as I saw the flares go off, we took off. I fired an arrow, killing the walker, before following Rick.

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I heard knocking on the door. I placed Judith in her crib, before going downstairs. I saw Tyresse at the door. He explained what happened and we left to the infirmary.

I saw Tara awake with Rosita and Eugene next to her, while Maggie and Noah were with Glenn. I could see Nicholas in a corner.

I checked Glenn, cleaning his wounds, taking his pain away, before I checked Tara. They would both be okay. I may not like Nicholas, but I did check him too, even though I didn't want to.

They would all be okay. 

I thought back to what they told me about Reg. Pete got what he deserved.

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"You all have your assignments. You know where to rendezvous." Rick said. "Daryl leads them out. Sasha and Abraham join him at the bottom of the hill." Rick explained. "Glenn, you hit us when you take care of the walkers at the tractor place. That's the one thing we gotta get ahead of." He told him. "Everybody keep your heads up. Just keep up." He said as we ran.

Daryl, Sasha, Abraham were one group. Glenn, Nicholas, and Heath are another. Michonne, Rick, Morgan, and I are one too. We all did what we had to do.

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I explained in the morning what transpired between Pete and Rick and the death of Deanna's husband. The kids knew that things would change, we just didn't how it would.

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As we ran, Rick radioed in.

"Glenn, you there yet?" He asked.

"Almost. We'll have it handled before they get here. And we'll meet you at yellow." I heard, just as we reached yellow point.

"Copy that." He told him. "It'll hold." He told us.

"It better. We have too much to lose if it doesn't." I said.

"Michonne..." Morgan called out.

"Yeah?" She asked.

"Back then... at the place I used to live at, did you take one of my protein bars?" He asked her.

"No." She said.

"See, I could have sworn there was one more peanut butter left." Morgan said.

I laughed listening to them. We watched hoping this would work.

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I leaned on the wall next to Rick, with Judith in my arms and Athena next to me. The kids stood next to us as we listened to Rick explain what he saw.

"My team, we saw it early on, back when we were on one if those first scouts, finding out what was around here. There was a camp at the bottom. The people, they must have blocked the exits with one of those trucks back when everything started to go bad. They didn't make it. They were all roamers. Maybe a dozen of them." Heath told us.