A Dead World.. • G. Rhee

Chapter Twelve

(I need a Doctor)

Our vehicles approach the building and the stench of it is horrendous and can be smelt from at least 40 miles away.

We all get out the cars and start to edge closer to the building, I hear Glenn gag behind me and I clench my teeth to avoid doing the same. It looked like an orgy but for dead people.

"Alright everybody. Keep moving. Go on. Stay quiet and stay close. Let's go."

We all walked up the middle of the pavement that was riddled with dead bodies. Rick being at the front leading the group through the mess, Lori was behind him with Carl at her side, Shane behind Lori, Me behind Shane, Glenn behind me and the rest behind him. The idea being that the kids had people infront of and behind them to keep them safe. Glenn with his left hand was holding onto my sleeve as if to say if I go down so do you. That was just how we had always done it on our runs into the city.

Shane continued to usher us past the walkers, not forgetting to shush us at any point.

"Oh, God." I heard Glenn whisper form behind me as his grip on my sleeve tightened. I slid my hand to the end of my sleeve and help onto his hand so he didn't lose his grip on my sleeve at some point.

"Keep it together. Come on." Shane tells everyone as I look behind me to do a quick head count. Making sure we hadn't lost anyone on accident.

Rick runs up to the roll down security doors.
"Nothing?" Shane asks his voice making him sound even more on-edge than he was a second ago.

Rick pushes against and pounds on the door with the palm of his hand.

"There's no one here." T-dog states the obvious as Rick continues to try the doors.
"Then why are these shutters down?!" He says through gritted teeth, getting aggravated with the whole situation.

"Walkers!" Daryl shouts and I raise my gun sigh one hand as Glenn lets go of my left hand to raise his as well.

"You led us into a graveyard!" Daryl shouts as more walkers begin to move in on us.

"He made a call!" I shout back, defending Rick.

"Well it was the wrong damn call!"

"Just shut up you hear me? Shut up. Shut up! Rick this is a dead end." Shane tries to get Rick to leave the doors.

"Where are we gonna go?" Carol asks sounding really scared as Sophia makes a noise out of fear.

I look around my surroundings making sure nobody was getting jumped by any walkers as Daryl and I try to keep them at a distance from our group.

"Fort Benning Rick! Still an option." Shane tries again.

"On what?! Andrea shouts in distress. "No food, no fuel, that's 100 miles."

"125. I checked the map." I send Glenn a look of disbelief and shake my head, silently telling him that now was most definitely not the time.

"Forget Fort Benning! We need answers tonight. Now." Lori contradicts Shane's suggestion and much like everyone else she turns to Rick.

"We'll think of something." Rick says still eyeing the door up and down as if he were going to open it with his mind or something.