𝘎𝘙𝘈𝘝𝘐𝘛𝘠, 𝘥𝘢𝘳𝘺𝘭 𝘥𝘪𝘹𝘰𝘯

𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘵𝘦𝘳 6

"It's not fair Harper. I just got this car." Glenn told the women. Harper let out a laugh just as Rick walked up beside them, "Look at them. Vultures." Harper rubbed her eyebrow with a smile on her lips. The men taking the car apart looked up at him, "Yeah, go on, strip in clean," Glenn told them. 

Dale walked by with a gas can that he took from the car, "Generators need every drop of fuel they can get. Got no power without it. Sorry, Glenn." When Dale walked away, Glenn looked over at Rick, "Thought I'd get to drive it at least a few more days." 

Harper couldn't believe how dramatic he was being. It was kind of funny. Rick patted the man on the back, "Maybe we'll get to steal another one someday." Glenn nodded and Rick walked away and towards his wife. Harper and Glenn were bickering back and forth, but it didn't last very long.

The sound of Shane's Jeep pulling up took everyone's attention. "Water's here y'all. Just a reminder to boil before use." Harper's brows pulled into a furrow as she looked at the man, then her wrist. 

All of a sudden, children's screams were heard coming from into the woods. Harper, Glenn, Rick, Shane and Lori took off. "Ella!" Harper yelled as she was sprinting to the scream. She took her knife out of her thigh holder, being prepared. Rick was the first to be there, making sure Carl was safe and then took off further to see what they were yelling at. 

Harper took Ella by her shoulders, "Oh my god. Are you okay? Are you bit?" Ella hugged her sister tightly and shaking her head 'no'. Harper gave her one last squeeze before telling her younger sister to stay with Lori. Once Ella was safely in Lori's care, Harper followed Rick.

Pass a few trees, a walking eating a deer could be found. Harper stood back, believing that the 5 men that were surrounding it could take care of it, but she had mistaken. When the walker realised there was people around, he stood up and started to walk near them. Shane hit it in the face with the butt of his gun and everyone else joined in on beating it. 

Harper stood dumbfounded. They were doing everything but killing it. Dale threw an axe over his shoulder and swung it done, decapitating the walker. Everyone was breathing heavily when Dale spoke, "It's the first one we've had up here. They never come this far up the mountain." 

"Well, they're running out of food in the city, that's what." Jim implied. Harper realised they haven't struck the walker's brain, so she started to move towards. But, she was stopped by rustling in the trees. Glenn put his arm in front of the girl to stop her. 

Everyone held there there weapons up, but stopped when Daryl Dixon came into view. "Son of a bitch. That's my deer!" Daryl walked closer to the animal, "Look at it. All gnawed on by this... filthy." Kick. "Disease-bearing" Kick. "Motherless poxy bastard." 

"Calm down, son. That's not helping." Daryl got into the old mans face, "What do you know about it, old man?" Shane held his gun between the two men, but Daryl kept throwing insults. "Why don't you take that stupid hat and go back to 'on golden pond.'" 

Daryl lets out a sigh and pulls out his arrows from the deer, "I've been tracking this deer for miles. Gonna drag it back to camp, cook us up some venison. What do you think? Do you think we can cut around this chewed up part right here?" Shane responded, "I would not risk that." 

"That's a damn shame. I got some squirrel- about a dozen or so. That'll have to do." The walker head started to move it's mouth, making Harper remember what she was about to do before she was rudely interrupted. The women walked over to it and stabbed it with her knife. Harper pulled her knife out and walked back to camp. "Come on, people what the hell? Nobody but that chick knows it's gotta be the brain?" Daryl said as he too walked back to camp, everyone following. 

"Merle! Merle! Get your ugly ass out here! Got us some squirrel! Let's stew 'em up!" Daryl yelled out as he walked over the middle of camp. Harper made sure Ella was close by, things were definitely going to get messy. 

Shane put his shotgun into his jeep and spoke to the redneck. "Daryl, just slow up a bit. I need to talk to you." Daryl stopped and turned to him, "About what?" "About Merle. There was a-there was a problem in Atlanta." Everyone was silent and watching closely. "He dead?" Daryl asked quietly.

Shane sighed, "We're not sure." Daryl walked closer to the former officer, "He either is or he ain't!" Rick walked forward to the angry man, "No easy way to say this, so I'll just say it." Daryl looked at the man he didn't recognized. "Who are you?"

"Rick Grimes."

"Rick Grimes." Daryl said mockingly. "You got something you want to tell me?"

"Your brother was a danger to us all, so I handcuffed him to a roof, hooked him to a piece of metal. He's still there."

Daryl walked away before turning back, "Hold on. Let me process this. You're saying you handcuffed my brother to a roof, and you left him there?!" Rick's head fell, "Yeah." Daryl threw his bag at the man who quickly dodged it. Shane wasted no time in tackling the man. Daryl took out his knife and tried to swing at the two officers. "Watch the knife!" 

Harper held Ella close as Rick dodged the swing from Daryl and Shane came behind him, putting him in a headlock. "You'd best let me go!" Shane lowered him to the ground, "Nah, I think it's better if I don't." Daryl was grunting and struggling, "Choke hold's illegal!" Shane's arms stayed in place, "You can file a complaint. Come on, man. We can keep this up all day." 

Rick kneeled in front of the man, I'd like to have a calm discussion on this topic. Do you think we can manage that?" Daryl stayed quiet, but Shane threw him to the ground anyways. "What I did was not on a whim. Your brother does not work and play well with others."

T-dog walks towards the two men on the ground, "It's not Rick's fault. I had the key. I dropped it." Daryl looked at him dumbfounded and said, "You couldn't pick it up?" Harper tried very hard to contain her laughter, but a low giggle escaped. Daryl looked at her with a dirty look before his attention was pulled away but the key dropper. "Well, I dropped it in a drain."

Daryl scoffed and go up going to walk away, "If it's supposed to make me feel better, it don't." "Well maybe this will." T-dog said, making Daryl stop to hear him out. "Look, I chained the door to the roof so the geeks couldn't get at him with a pad lock." 

"It's gotta count for something." Rick said. The redneck started to tear up. He threw his hand in the air, "Hell with all y'all. Just tell me where he is. So I can go get him." Lori looked over at her husband before speaking, "He'll show you. Isn't that right?" Rick looked at her. Just looked. "I'm going back." he confirmed. Lori shook her head and walked into the RV. 

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