Solitary: The Walking Dead

Chapter Forty-six.

Little Sheriff.

Iris grabs her backpack and walks into one of the closed off rooms, changing into her shorts and and her white top, slipping on her boots again and walking back out to the rest of the group, "hey kid" she says walking over to Carl while he holds Judith, "i'm gonna need you to look after this" she says taking off her hat and placing it on top of Judith's head "of course" Carl replies.

She walks over to Daryl and Tyrese, glancing back at Sasha as she takes all her anger out of the pews, "It was-- it was good you weren't here for it." Tyrese says "She hanging in there?" Daryl asks as the man places the organ pipes in his arms. "No."

The group worked together making the church safer for when they leave. Iris worked on making sure all the weapons were ready, clean, sharp and fully loaded. Once she was done with that job she went back to the lorry, lifting up the hood and making sure it could still get them back to Carol and Beth.

Iris walks back into the church after finishing up with the lorry, she says goodbye to Bear and then she hugs Carl, holding onto him and saying goodbye, while Rick says goodbye to Judith, "be strong. Little sheriff" she says pulling away from the kid, she turns to Judith in Michonnes arms "be brave. Little deputy" Iris says to the baby, turning and walking out to Daryl and Tyrese "you ready?" Daryl asks "yeah. Are you?" she asks "yeah".

They make their way over to the lorry, Daryl getting into the driver's seat, Iris sitting in the middle with Rick next to her, Tyrese and Sasha in the back by the door, and Noah sitting against the chairs. They make it into the city and into an empty building and start setting a plan "At sundown we fire a shot into the air. Get two of them out on patrol. Then once it's dark enough that the rooftop spotter won't see us, we go. We cut the locks on one of the stairways, take it to the fifth floor. I open the door, Daryl takes the guard out." Rick explains to the group.

"How?" Tyrese asks "He slits his throat. This is all about us doing this quiet, keeping the upper hand. They're not expecting us. From there, we fan out. Knives and silenced weapons. We need to be fast. Tyreese, Sasha, take them. Daryl and Iris, you take care of whoever is in the kitchen. I got Dawn. If they're smart, the rest of them will give up. Then it'll be five on three." Rick says.

"Six on three once we get a weapon to Beth." Iris says "12 on three. The wards will help." Noah says "That's best case. What's worst case? All it takes is one of those cops going down the hall at the wrong time. Then it's not quiet. All hands on deck. We're talking about a lot of bullets flying around." Tyrese explains "If that's what it takes." Sasha says "It's not. If we get a couple of her cops alive out here, we do an even trade. Theirs for ours. Everybody goes home." Tyrese suggests "Yeah, I get it. And it might work. This will work." Rick says "Nah, that'll work, too." Daryl says.

"You say this Dawn, she's just trying to keep it together, right?" he asks Noah "Trying and doing are two different things." Noah says "You take two of her cops away, what choices does she have? Everybody goes home. Like he says." Daryl explains. And the group starts their plan.

The group stays hidden in their spot, watching as the cops start to arrest Noah, Iris keeps her gun high as they sneak their way out of their spot, "Where are those rotters you were shooting at?" one of the cops asks, looking around but neither of them noticing the group of people with their guns pointed at them, Rick whistles and they turn their heads to the group, "hands" Iris orders.

"What do you want?" the woman asks, "Whatever this is, we can help." the man says "You do what we say, we don't hurt you." Rick says, "okay" the man says holding out his hands in surrender, his partner doing the same "Good." Rick says "Now turn around." Iris orders as she moves closer to them with Rick "Put your guns on the floor and kneel." Rick orders, and the cops do as they are told, Iris walks over to the man with Daryl, taking a zip tie from Shasha and bringing his hands behind his back, tying them together, while Daryl takes his weapons.

"We need to talk. There's water if you need some and food." Rick says, Iris moves to stand next to Rick once again, "Mind if I ask you something? The way you two talk... the way you carry yourselfs... were you cop's?" the man asks, looking at Rick and Iris as Daryl lifts him to his feet, Sasha doing the same with the woman, "Believe it or not, I was, too." he adds "That's Lamson. He'll be down for this. He's one of the good ones." Noah says quietly to Iris and Rick.

Suddenly the sound of tires screeching gets Iris's attention, a car speeds around the corner and drives at them shooting, Iris starts firing her gun at the car, Rick grabbing her and pulling her out of the way before the car hits her, they duck behind whatever they could find and start shooting at the car again. The car drives off with the cops they had, Iris stands back up and runs after the car shooting at its tires, she hits the back right one, a cloud of air coming out of the tire, she follows the car, Rick and Daryl speeding up to catch up to her. They stop when they find the car abandoned, Iris looks up at the water tank and reads 'evac here'.