Solitary: The Walking Dead

Chapter Seventy-two.

Hey fellas.

Iris walks into the house after doing her rounds and finds Carol in the kitchen eating, "hey" she says, "hey, how were your rounds?" Carol asks "it's fine, i'm just gonna get changed quickly" Iris says, looking down at her oil covered clothes "what happened?" Carol asks, looking at the woman, "I took a quick look at one of the cars and managed to fix it" Iris says, placing her hat on the island counter.

She walks upstairs and into her room, she takes off her coat and throws it on her bed, she kicks of her shoes and takes of her socks noticing the holes getting too big, she takes off her belt setting it on her bed and then unclips her gun holster from her thigh and putting it on top of the draws, leaving her gun clipped in. Iris unbuttons her shorts and lets them fall to the floor before grabbing her clean green cargo shorts and pulling them on, she takes off her top before putting the vest she usually wears on, knowing that her scars cant be seen with it on.

Iris suddenly freezes when she hears a scream from outside, she runs to the draws and takes her gun out of the holster and she quickly runs down the stairs, forgetting about her shoes, more screams sound through the community. Iris runs past Carol in the kitchen, quickly making her way outside, she carefully makes her way around the back of the houses, she slowly creeps up behind one of the intruders, using the handle of her handgun she hits the man in the back of the head, he falls to the floor unconscious and Iris takes his knife and stabs him in the head with his blade.

Holding her gun in one hand and the knife in the other she keeps walking, she comes across two men a few feet in front of her, "hey fellas" she says, they turn and look at her, smiling down at her, quickly she throws the knife, the blade lands in one of the mens chest and Iris shoots the other in the head. As they both fall to the ground, Iris moves closer and pulls the knife out of the man's chest, she looks into his eyes as the life slowly drains from them, and she drives the knife into his head.

She runs between the houses and makes her way to the street, she tucks her gun into the back of her shorts and one of the intruders notices her, he starts running towards her, a sinister smile etched on his face. Iris holds up her knife as the man runs towards her. As the man swings for her she ducks, cutting his stomach and making him double over, "please" he begs looking up at her, blood spilling out of his mouth, she looks at him for a minute before stabbing him in the head.

As he drops to the floor more of his friends make their way over to her, surrounding her and waiting for their turn, one of the larger men step forward first "come on then big guy" she says, holding her fists up and keeping her blade out the side of her right fist, the man screams and starts running at her, she quickly punches the man in the face, driving the blade into his stomach.

Pulling it out she punches him again, the man manages to punch her arm, making her drop her knife, Iris smiles and reaches up, grabbing both sides of his face and pulling his head down to meet her knee, as the man falters she pushes him down to the ground, straddling him she keeps her grip on his face and smashes the back of his head into the concrete until he is no longer fighting.

Iris looks up and his friends surrounding them, blood covering her arms, clothes and face, she slowly stands up, grabbing her knife as she does. "Who's next then?" she asks, they all run towards her, she quickly slices the throat of one of them before pulling out her gun and shooting the other two. She looks down at the intruders bodies, all of them have 'w's on their foreheads, Iris reaches into the pockets of them all, finding a pack of cigarettes and a small pack of matches, Iris pulls out one of the sticks and puts it between her lips, shoving the pack in her back pocket, she uses the matches and lights the cigarette, before putting the matches with the cigarettes.

As she smokes the cigarette she continues making her way through the community, her knife and gun in her hands, she sees one of the intruders attacking one of their own and she quickly shoots him in the head, nodding to the community member and walking away. A man jumps Iris from behind, grabbing her hair, she lets him take her weapons and watches as he starts putting a chain around her wrists, she smiles and looks up at the man, he looks down at her confused why she's smiling.

Iris grabs the chain and wraps it around the man's throat, moving behind him and pulling with all her strength, she lifts her leg onto his back and uses it to push the man away from her when his body drops to the ground. Iris pulls the chain off her wrists and takes her weapons off the man, she quickly runs back to the house, shooting any of the intruders she sees, she whistles loudly and Carl opens the door, she quickly steps inside locking the door behind her, "you okay?" Iris asks, looking the boy over.

"I'm okay. What's going on out there?" he asks, looking at the blood covering Iris, "nothing we can't handle" Iris says, suddenly a loud horn starts sounding throughout the area, "stay here. Be strong. I'll be back for you guys" Iris says looking over at Enid. "lock the door behind me" she says running out of the house again, "was she barefoot?" Enid asks while watching Carl lock the door, "yep" he says, going back to guarding the house.