Don't Dream It's Over // Glenn Rhee

Chapter 10

"Two hours, one minute...seven seconds." 

 Kira

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Jenner sat in front of me, using needle and thread to stitch up my collarbone from the glass cutting me up. I used a baggie of ice for my eye, which will actually need restitching since Link had opened it back up. The same stitching I did when Ed punched me in the face. It wasn't fully healed.

Rick sat off to the side, waiting for me to explain to him what happened. Daryl sat right next to me, Glenn right behind me. Shane and T are with Link, keeping him locked and secured. Jenner has determined that Link would be fine, but that he's just beaten pretty well from Daryl. 

"All I know is I heard him yell out and I didn't think nothing of it. I figured he probably was talkin' to himself." Daryl explains. "He does it a lot. I heard it do it at camp."

"Did he show anything else? Any odd behavior?" Rick asks.

"He got jealous around Kira anytime she was talking to Glenn." Daryl shrugs. "I thought that maybe it was an innocent obsession, nothing major since he didn't pull anything on her. But there was a night that, uh..." Daryl falls short and he glances at me. I shake my head.

"Just say it." I say softly, though my voice is already raspy and going out. Daryl let's out a sigh and shakes his head.

"Kira was showering one night and I caught him watching her." He explains. "But...you know, he wasn't just watching her." Everyone in the room shifts uncomfortably. 

"He was..." Glenn softly trails.

"Yeah." Daryl nods. Rick shakes his head, looking down. 

"And you didn't do anything? Say anything to him?" Jenner questions.

"You really think I'd let some jackass wank off to a woman without her knowing?" Daryl growls. "Of course I said something. I threatened his ass. His junk out and everything, I slammed his ass against the tree, pulled my knife on 'em and threatened I'd kill him if I ever caught him doing that shit again. It seemed to work. He was afraid. Said he wasn't gonna do it." Daryl shrugs. I hear Glenn letting out a sigh behind me. Rick lowers his head and pinches the bridge of his nose.

"If I'd have known what he was gonna do, I would've said something. Done something." Daryl adds. 

"Some people are just good at masking themselves." Rick explains. "I've...well, Kira and I, we've dealt with people like Link before."

"How's that?" Daryl asks.

"If someone's been caught in the act, they put on this whole show of promising they wouldn't do it again. I've had some people piss their pants to make it seem like I scared them into submission. But then another day, their back to doing the same bullshit." I explain. "Their good liars. They can manipulate the system."

"Even if I did everything possible, maybe not killed him, but maybe tortured his ass, he would've still done it?" Daryl asks. Rick and I nod our heads.

"Pretty much." Rick says. "They'll do everything they can to get back to it. He's a sick man. Much less of a man of having to force himself on a woman to get what he wants."

"It's disgusting." Glenn says behind me. I bring my free hand up and tuck a strand of hair behind my ear, letting out a sigh.

"So, what do we do?" I ask. I turn to Jenner. "Do you have some sort of place to hold people if they've been caught doing something and wait for police?"