Solitary: The Walking Dead

Chapter Eight.

Shut The Hell Up.

"Holy shit" Glenn whispers as we all stand around the man i just killed "you alright?" Rick asks him "yeah" "hershal?" Rick asks "lets head back" hershal replies after a minute of silence.

Rick and Glen search the bodies for anything useful, "car" rick whispers and we all drop down behind the wall, "we got to sneak out the back" I whisper, "Dave? Tony? They said over here?" a voice says outside the bar, i look out the window and see three men.

"Theres three of them" I whisper to Rick, "one of thems gone that way" I say pointing in Rick direction "the other two are still stood outside" I add, "we could go out the back, catch them off guard" I say.

"Yo is someone in there?" one of the men question "yo if someones in there, we dont want trouble. we're just looking for our friends" he adds "what do we do?" the other one asks, i look at the window and see three shadows now, i look to Rick and hold up three fingers.

I slowly slide my gun out of the holster and check my ammo, "we don't know how many are there. Just relax. We don't want any trouble." the men say, "We're just looking for our friends. If something happened, tell us. This place is crawling with corpses. If you can help us not get killed, I'd appreciate it." he adds

"Dude, you're bugging. I'm telling you nobody's in there." another man says "Someone guard the door. If they're in there, they might know where Dave and Tony are."

"They drew on us!" Rick shouts, "Dave and Tony in there? They alive?" on of the questions "no!" Rick answers "they killed Dave and Tony" "come on man lets go" "no man im not leaving, im not telling Jane" they all argue.

"I'm not gonna go back and tell them that Dave and Tony got shot by some assholes in a bar." the last guy adds, "your friends drew on us! They gave us no choice!" rick yells trying to reason with them.

I slowly walk towards the back crouched down. "Iris" Rick whispers, I look back at him and put my finger on my lips to tell him to stay quiet, I make it the the back door and slowly open it, they haven't made it back here yet, I grab my gun and shut the door quietly behind me.

I move towards the dumpsters and crouch down behind them, i hear gunshots coming from the front of the building, I quickly get up from my spot and quietly make my way to the side of the building, i wait at the corner and quickly step around and start shooting at the men, walkers start to make their way closer so i shoot at them as well.

I hear gunshots coming from behind me, I quickly make my way over to the back and see Glenns feet poking out of behind the dumpster, i look at the door and see rick and Hershal trying to figure out a plan. Out of the corner of my eye i see something move and i quickly shoot at it.

"Rick get them out of here!" I shout over the gunshots, Rick quickly runs to Glenn, all of a sudden the only gunshots are from my gun, i crouch down and start reloading my gun when shots start again, i look up to see a guy on the roof in front of me. A car pulls up in front and the man driving starts yelling for his friend to get down.

I shoot at the car and he starts to drive off, Glenn and Rick run to the car but im distracted by someone screaming, i run in the direction of the screams and find a boy, much younger then me, he has part of the metal fence going through his leg.

"Shut up" I say trying to get him to stop screaming, "you want the walkers to get you?" I question, "what is it?" Rick asks "moron jumped of the roof and landed on the fence" I say, i cut part of his top and tie it around his leg, above the wound, but theres nothing else I can do.

"we have to go" I say "we cant" Rick argues "there's nothin we can do" I say, "he's a kid" Rick says "he was grown enough to shoot at us" I say, "please help me" the kid cries "shut the hell up" I order.

"The fence went clean through, there's no way we can the leg off in one piece" Hershal says, the kid starts to scream louder "shut up or I will shoot you" Rick threatens.

"That may be the answer. We're not gonna get that leg off without tearing the muscle to shreds." I say "He certainly can't run. He may bleed out." Hershal adds "Maybe we should put him down. I don't wanna see any more killing, but this is cruel." Hershel says agreeing with me.

I walk to the car and grab the hatchet out of trunk of the car, "take this to Rick" I say handing it to Glenn, I sit down in the drivers seat and wait for them to get done.

I reach into my coat pocket and grab out the pack of cigarettes and lighter, I light the stick and inhale the smoke, I lean my head out the window and let the smoke leave my lungs.

I watch the others come out of the ally and towards the car, I hold the stick between my lips and put the car in drive, once everyone is in I start driving back to the farm.

....

I pull the car up outside the farmhouse and everyone comes out, "dad!" Carl shouts running and giving his dad a hug, I get out of the car and head to my tent, ignoring everyone else.

As I walk I hear the thumbing of Bear running up behind me, I look over and see daryl sat at his camp, I sit down on the floor with my back leant against a log, I close my eyes and let sleep take over.