(Temp hiatus) Observe (the walking dead)

Sickly

   Ava and Roman were startled awake at the sound of gunshots and screaming. The two teens looked at each other in horror as Roman booked it over the girl and out of the room. Ava shoved her feet into her boots and ran after him after grabbing her pistol from her desk.

   She listened for where the screams were coming from and quickly ran to D block, assuming it was there. When she burst into the cell block, her face fell even more in horror at the sight.

   Blood was everywhere. People were being torn apart, bullets were flying all over the place. It was pure chaos. She lifted her gun and pointed it towards all the immediate threats, shooting what she could. She spotted Roman, Tyrese, and Karen in Karen's cell. The woman was sobbing, her nephew and boyfriend holding her close.

   Ava kept shooting at what she could before eventually the screaming and movement stopped, all that was left was the sound of panting.

   She looked up to see Rick and Daryl on the perch. They share a knowing look and nod once at each other. Ava begins checking the bottom floor cells, plunging her knife into the base of the skull of those who had passed but not yet turned. She swung a curtain back to see Carol knelt down next to a man. She couldn't remember his name, but she knew he had two daughters.

   Carol looked up at her. Ava looked at her expectantly. The woman looked at the ground and shook her head. Ava took this answer and nodded, running out of the cell and the block and out towards the courtyard; she wanted to get the girls to their father before he changed.

   She spots the two blonde girls amongst the crowd of people and walks up to them. "Girls, come with me." She holsters her gun and holds both hands out to the kids.

    "What happened, Ava?" The younger of the sisters asked her as the girl walked them into D block.

   She sucked in a shaky breath before pausing and squatting down to their level. "Something's happened to your father. He was bit. You have to go say goodbye." She looks at them with soft apologetic eyes before standing up and walking into the block with the now teary-eyed girls.

   Carol is waiting outside the cell and Ava ushers them towards the woman, the three of them ducking into the cell. Ava sighs and marches up to the perch where Hershel, Rick, Daryl, and Dr. S were.

   "Do we know what caused this?" She questions, placing her hands on her hips as she peers down at Dr. S, Glenn, and Hershel knelt down next to a body.

   "We're thinking there's a sickness. There was blood coming from their eyes, ears, nose, and mouth." Caleb, Dr. S, explained to her. "It usually comes from animals. Pigs, birds, that kind of thing."

   She shakes her head with an exasperated look, "so what does this mean? We're all exposed?" She crosses her arms.

   The men look down at the ground, "yeah," Rick mumbles. Ava scoffs, shaking her head.

    Ava looks to Glenn and he looks at her sadly before nodding over to speak to her a few feet away. She follows as he walks over to the edge of the perch, turning to look at her once they're far enough away.

   "Patrick— he, uh... he and Charlie are the ones that started this. They died in their sleep." Glenn explains to her.

   "What?— no that's— that's impossible. Patrick was fine yesterday, he gave Roman and I some pork—" she cuts herself off, mouth falling open and eyes going wide. "Oh."

   "Aves, Glenn. C'mon." Daryl nods for the two to follow, and they jog down the stairs as Hershel waits by the block door with Carol.

   "Meeting?" Ava questions, speeding up her pace to catch up to Hershel.