Death Of Me

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JUDGE, JURY, EXECUTIONER

Venus sat with the rest of the group with Arrow in between her legs. Her skilled fingers formed long braids in her younger sisters hair. As she was finishing the last braid, Daryl made his way to the group from the shed where Randall was held. Venus' eyes glance up to him, noting the blood on his knuckles. Caspian stood next to Maggie, holding her hand.

"Boy there's got a gang, 30 men. They have heavy artillery and they ain't looking to make friends. They roll through here, our boys are dead. Our women, they're gonna- they're gonna wish they were." Daryl speaks as soon as he gets close enough. Venus felt chills run through her body. She made her mind up then and there. To protect her family and the group, Randall dies.

"What did you do?" Carol asked

"Had a little chat." Daryl dismisses, walking to the side, away from the attention.

"No one goes near this guy." Rick demands, turning to look at Lori as she talks to him.

"Rick, what are you gonna do?"

"We have no choice. He's a threat. We have to eliminate the threat." Rick decides.

"You're just gonna kill him?" Dale questions, his face scrunched up in slight disgust. His morals were too intact to allow that.

"It's settled. I'll do it today." Rick announces as he walks away from the group, Dale following him to talk him out of it. Arrow looks up at her sister, nervous.

"Venus, what did Daryl mean when he said the women wished they were?" Venus freezes, eyes widening. She didn't expect that question to come from her baby sister. Lori turns to look at her friend, eyes just as wide.

"Umm." Venus pauses, looking at her brother. Caspian shrugs. Venus narrows her eyes at him in annoyance before standing up.

"Let's go on a walk and we can talk about it, okay?" Arrow nods and stands up to follow her sister. Glenn watches as the duo walks away.

As they walked away from the camp, Venus thought of ways to start the conversation. She knew that her baby sister had a vague sense of intimacy. Which is basically how babies are made, 'When two people are in love..' She wished Lori had walked with her to help her out.

    "Well, I didn't expect to be giving you the sex talk so soon." Venus started off, slightly shuddering at the fact. Arrow made a face before gesturing for her to go on.

      "Unfortunately, as you can tell, what Daryl was talking about is not good." Venus bites her lip as she tries to gather her words.

     "Vee, just tell me already." Arrow snapped. She was tired of people beating around the bush.

     "Okay, okay!" Venus chuckled. "You already know sort of how babies are made."

      "Yeah, yeah. When two people love each other blah blah blah." Arrow rolled her eyes. Venus chuckles again.

       "Yes, indeed. Though it doesn't always happen when two people love each other." Venus carried on in explaining the heinous acts that occur in certain situations. They had to stop walking as Arrow looked at her sister with slight disgust and another emotion that Venus couldn't decipher.