When The World Caves In |C.G.

fifty five

"Uh, hey guys?" Beau says, calling our attention to him. He's peeking between one of the wooden panels nailed to the window. "Not to cause any alarm, but that freaky Priest is screaming outside." 

"I thought he was in his office?" The statement leaves my mouth like more of a question. Gabriel, begins to pound loudly on the door. 

"Please don't leave me out here!" Gabriel begs. "Please! Don't leave me out here! Carl! Michonne! I had to see it! I know now! Let me live with it!" 

Carl, ever the hero he is, runs to the church doors that are boarded up nice and tight. He begins to pulls at the wooden plank keeping it shut as Gabriel's cries grow more and more frantic. 

"Wait!" Michonne calls, but Carl isn't listening. He continues to yank on the wooden panel, Beau grabs his buck knife and my crossbow is aimed at the door. We're ready for a fight. "Get back." 

Michonne then begins to hack away at the wooden board with an ax. It chips away slowly, but we can tell the Father is still alive out there because he's still screaming. Carl raises his own gun, and with one final swing Michonne is able to get the door open. 

"Come on!" Carl says, yanking the priest inside. 

Walkers begin to stream in through the doors as Michonne yells at us to get back. She swings her sword, slicing the heads of the undead clean off. I shoot one in the head with my crossbow, and it goes tumbling to the ground. 

"The rectory, come on!" Gabriel yells over the sounds of the undead. There's so many of them in here now, in no way will we be able to take them all on like this. 

Gabriel and Michonne make a move to shut the door to the room but walkers hands keep the door from shutting entirely. 

"That's how I got out," Gabriel says, his voice is hoarse as he points towards a hole in the floor. "Crawl under to the back. Just go. Take the little one and go." 

"Let me go first, make sure it's cleared." I tell Carl, hopping down into the crawl space. 

"Hey, hey." Michonne says calling the attention of Beau, Carl and I. "You all wait for me."

The three of us crawl out, Judith crying on Carl's back in a makeshift baby sling. Soon, Michonne and Gabriel both make their way out of the crawl space. 

"I can't run anymore." Gabriel says, panting. 

"We're not running." Michonne tells him.

Carl, Beau and I make quick work of the undead stuck on the organ pipes that are blocking the doors. Michonne creeps up the stairways, ever so stealthy and pulls the doors shut. Gabriel grabs a stray piece of wood and we block the doors off, trapping the walkers inside. 

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"This Beth, she got out with you and Beau?" Eliza asks Daryl watching as he chews on his thumb nervously. It's been a nasty habit of his since they were teens. Probably younger even. 

"Yeah," Daryl says nodding. "Honestly, I think Beau only stayed with me cause of her. I was a real dick." 

"Nothing new then." Eliza says, laughing softly. They're in some abandoned warehouse as Rick questions two of Dawn's people. "Listen, I think we should talk about Rory." 

"What do you mean?" Daryl asks, checking over his shoulder to make sure that Rick doesn't need his assistance. 

"I'm worried about her." The woman tells him, leaning against an old concrete beam. "She won't talk to me, even when she's hurting."