Cross of heart

Seven

"Your not listening to me Shane; he had tanks of severed walker heads. One of them wasn't even a walker, it was that man that they brought back when you came along. The soldier, and I completely remembered him. I never forget a face.Then to think it can be worse I looked into another door and their was a walker in chains. It was a little girl in the closet and you know who it was?"

"Who?" Shane seemed to be caring but was annoyed by now.

"It was his daughter. His fucking daughter! How can he do this." Jen was pacing back and forth replaying everything she saw in her mind,"God the Gov is fucking crazy!"

Shane got up and held Jen,"Look you need to calm down, the neighbors can probably hear you."

"Oh my god..You're right, i shouldnt have been so loud now the gov's secret is out." Jen started freaking out more and Shane brought her into a hug trying to calm her down," Look babe, I know everything you said may seem like the gov is crazy but everything he's doing is quite normal."

Normal? Jen pushed away from his grasp," normal? What the fuck! That is not normal."

"Yes, it is. Think about it Jennifer, he has those heads as souvenirs, it the fucking apocalypse, he probably has those heads to Remind him of the accomplishments he has made; and his daughter... Well, he probably kept her because he doesn't want to lose that bit of his family left."

"God I can't believe you're saying that. I thought you would agree with me."

"Well I don't, you're going way out of your head trying to pin this guy for being the worst person in this community. Plus if it was Rick who turned into a walker I bet you wouldn't kill him, you'd try and do the same thing the gov did."

Then Jen snapped. "Are you seriously bringing Rick into this conversation. How dare you! You're also implying that if I saw Rick as a walker I wouldn't be able to kill him. It's like you're implying that I'm a weak little bitch. God, I can't even believe you're trying to protect the gov when you know all these crazy things he does! God, you know what...im fucking done with you and this argument." Jen stormed off and locked herself in the bedroom.

Shane ran his fingers through his hair furiously and knocked the lap off the small table.

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Next morning.

"God I love that woman but she needs to get off his back."

"At Least she didn't know you killed that man we brought back with you." The sun beamed in Merle's eyes and Shane lowered the visor protecting his eyes.

"I had to, I needed for The gov to trust me, if I didn't then I wouldn't be here right now. I'd be one of those guys in the damn fish tank." Joked Shane

"Me and Martinez had to do that to get into council officially. Wait till your little girlfriend has to do that."

"You know what, Your brother, he did this weird thing where he cut off the ears of walkers as a reward. Showed how tough he was, how much of a survivalist he was."

"Damn what a way to live."

"Yea than after the argument She made me sleep on the couch like I was the bad guy."

"What a crazy bitch." Merle laughed, he hated Jen's guts.
Just then the two drove by a small marker with a red truck parked in front with its doors open. Normally they would drive by but that truck wasn't there when they drove by three hours ago.

"Slow down Shane lets go check it out."
Shane opened the door slowly and drew his weapon. Merle did the same but laid his knife up, he didn't need any gun but just for safe keeping he hovered his other hand off his gun in his belt buckle.