Solitary: The Walking Dead

Chapter Thirty-six.

Can't go back, Bob.

Iris sat on the floor and tied her hair up into a ponytail before putting her cap back on, everyone making something they have into a weapon, but Iris chose not to use anything. "All right, got five of them pricks coming our way." Daryl warns, the group stands "y'all know what to do. Go for their eyes first. Then their throats" Rick says.

"Put your back to the walls on either side of the car now" one of the men shouts from outside, everyone looks up to the roof opening, a grenade of some sort gets dropped into the car, "move!" Abraham shouts. Iris quickly turns, grabbing onto Carl and she moves them both covering his body with hers.

The room fills with a gas making everyone cough, the door opens and Iris is grabbed from behind she lets go of Carl and tries to fight off the person dragging her but fails, the substance in the air getting to her head. She looks around as she gets thrown onto the floor outside before blacking out again.

She opens her eyes as she gets dragged into a room, limbs bound and cloth wrapped around her head stopping her from using her mouth the sound of a saw rings through her ears, she gets placed on her knees in front of a metal tub. She looks next to her to see Rick and Bob, looking to her other side she sees Daryl and Glenn, and other people she didnt know.

She looks at the people that brought them in, her eyes stopping on one of them, son of a bitch has her hat. The men start to choose their weapons, Anger boils in Iris's blood, she's had enough. The men walk down to the other end and hit one of the men with a bat before cutting his throat, moving down the line they do the same to the next man.

Carefully without being noticed Iris grabs hold of her thumb, bitting down on the gag in her mouth she pulls it out of it's socket. Slowly she pulls her hand out of the zip ties, keeping her hands behind her back, and putting her thumb back into place, she freezes when Gareth walks into the room. "Hey, guys. What were your shot counts?" he asks "38", he says as they kill the man next to Glenn.

Before the man hits Glenn, Gareth speaks up, "hey. Your shot count?" "crap man, im sorry. This was my first round up" "after you're done here, go back to your point and count your shells. kaylee , wont be gathering them until tomorrow" "hey. Hey let me talk to you" Bob tries, his words muffled by the gag.

"Five from A, Four from D?" Gareth asks, ignoring Bob's pleads, "hey let me talk to you for a minute" Bob tries again, Gareth walks over to bob and pulls the cloth from his mouth "what?" he asks annoyed "don't do this. We can fix this" "no you cant" "you dont have to do this. We told you theres a way out of all this. You just have to take a chance. We have a man who knows how to stop it. He has a cure. We just need to get him to washington. You dont have to do this man. We can put the world, back to how it was" Bob explains.

"Can't go back, Bob." Gareth says putting the gag back into Bobs mouth, Gareth kneels down in front of Rick, lowering his gag "We saw you go into the woods with a bag and come out without it. Had to pull my spotters back before we could go look for it. What was in it? You hid it, right? In case things went bad? Smart. Still, we'll find it. But it's too dangerous to go out there right now." he explains before pulling out his knife, grabbing Bob and putting the knife to Bob.

"What was in it? I'm curious. And it was a big bag. You really gonna let me do this?" he asks when Rick doesnt answer. "Well, let me take you out there. I'll show you." Rick says "Not gonna happen. This might." he says moving his knife closer to the bob "There's guns in it. AK-47. .44 Magnum. automatic weapons. Nightscope. There's a compound bow and a machete with a red handle... That's what I'm gonna use to kill you." Rick says.

Gareth puts the knife down and puts Ricks gag back, patting him on the shoulders and standing up, "Thanks. You have two hours to get them on the driers. I'm gonna go back to public face. Now's the time we can get messy, but we need to dial it all in by sundown." he explains to his men, before turning to leave, but he stops when gunshots sound through the room.

"Hey chuck?" He says through his walkie, Iris looks down at the blood in the metal tub as it runs down in front of her, another gunshot, everyone looks around, a loud bang comes from outside causing the building to shake, Iris loses her balance falling, keeping her hands behind her back so they they dont notice she's free.

"You stay here." "Gareth, these guys aren't going anywhere." "Stay here until I know what's happening." "So we just sit here?" Iris looks at Rick and notices him getting his hands free, the men walk away to the other side of the building and Iris slips off her boots freeing her feet from the ties. She slowly stands with Rick and they creep over to the men, Rick stabs the one in the neck, and Iris grabs the other one by the head smacking it against the wall.

Iris reaches down and takes her hat from his head and takes off her gag as Rick goes over to the others freeing them, Iris walks over and takes the zip ties off her boots and puts them back on before moving to Daryl and frees him. "If they got problems, we got a chance" Rick says helping Bob.

"It sounded like a bomb" Glenn says as they walk over to the table of weapons, they all pick up a knife "dont. Let them turn" Rick says to Daryl and Glenn as they go to stab the men in the head. With Rick leading the way they make a run for it, trying to find their way out, they stop outside of a room, a human torsos hanging from the ceiling. They walk into the room and look around at all the carcass and tools scattered around.

"Cross any of these people you kill them. Don't hesitate. They wont" Rick says, Iris looks around for more weapons when she hears a man shouting outside, she quickly grabs a machete and they move to the door. " If we run, we can get by them. They're distracted." Rick says looking out at the walkers surrounding the metal container "We got to let those people out. That's still who we are. It's got to be." Glenn says.