Our Extinction Event {Daryl Dixon}

Caught Up

As the day gradually began to pass and the first traces of pink began to stain the sky, Parker began to worry. Normally, Glenn never took this long to return, and since he had taken so many people, all kinds of scenarios ran through her head. The worst was the one she had to tell herself not to think about, which was that they were all dead and wouldn't come back. However, she refused to think that. 

She hung up the clothes to dry with Lori while Shane tried to show Carl how to tie different knots with a piece of rope. Parker had never gotten used to the wooden clothespins Dale had in his RV, so she would simply hold the clothes on the line for Lori to secure with the clothespins.

"Hello, base camp." Came a voice over the radio. "Can anybody out there hear me? Base camp, this is T-Dog. Can anybody hear me?" Everyone ran over to the radio.

"Hello? Hello?" Dale asked, after climbing down the ladder to the roof of the RV to get to the radio. "The reception is bad on this end. Repeat. Repeat."

"Shane, is that you?" T-Dog said back.

"Is that them?" Lori asked, hands on her hips. Carl right by her side. There was a series of glitchy, static words, and then she heard the word 'trapped.'

"He said they're trapped."

"There are geeks everywhere." T-Dog continued. "We're surrounded."

"T-Dog, repeat that last," Dale spoke into the CB. "Repeat." Parker looked at Shane.

"Let me go." She could help, Glenn had taught her the layout of the city.

"No, absolutely not." Shane quickly shot her idea down. "No."

"He said the department store," Lori stated, looking around the rest of the group to see if anyone else had caught that.

"I heard it too." Dale agreed.

"Shane!" Parker protested. "I know the way!"

"No way." Shane refused. "We do not go after them. We do not risk the rest of the group, y'all know that."

"So we're just gonna leave her there?" Amy asked, concerned for her sister who had volunteered to go on the run.

"Amy, I know that this is not easy," Shane answered calmly, using an oddly soft tone.

"She volunteered to go. To help the rest of us." Amy said shakily.

"I know, and she knew the risks, right?" Shane told her, just making it clear that everyone knew no one was forced to go. "See, if she's trapped, she's gone. So we just have to deal with that."

"No." Parker shook her head not listening to what Shane had to say. "We do not abandon the living."

"There's nothing we can do." Shane looked between both Amy and Parker.

"She's my sister, you son of a bitch." Amy spat before running off. When Amy left, Lori followed her to try and comfort her in some way. Parker turned to Shane.

"Are you serious? I know that city almost as well as Glenn. I could go in, lead the walkers away, give them a chance to-"

"I said no!" Shane snapped at her causing her to flinch. "Why don't you ever listen?"

"Because I don't agree with what you say!" Parker yelled right back at him. "We can't just leave them there."

"So you're saying you'd take a chance on someone like Merle Dixon?" Shane asked her.

"Andrea is there. T-Dog, Morales." Parker listed off to him, counting on her fingers as she continued to say names. "Glenn is there. I won't abandon them."