The Dead World

Fifty Seven ~ Pretty Blue Eyes

Phoebe was taking a walk around Hilltop when she saw her brother getting into a truck so she jogged over and tapped on his window "Where are you going?"

"One of the hostages said there's a dive bar not far out, i'm going to see if they're held up there"

"Sounds fun" she moved around the front and opened the passenger side door.

"No, no, you're not coming"

Phoebe chuckled as she belted herself in "Just drive Ricky"

"Phoebe, i'm being serious" Rick stared at her but she just stared blankly out of the front screen "Phoebe!" after nothing Rick growled "I hated it when you pulled this shit as kids and you are still doing the same stunts!"

"But it works so why would i stop" she shrugged "Just drive Rick" Her older brother sighed and put the truck into gear before heading to the gates which opened for him.

After about 40 minutes he stopped the truck and climbed out making Phoebe follow him "You hear that?"

"Walkers, a lot of 'em" she nodded as they moved slowly by foot "You think they would have come this way?"

"I think so" They both spun when they heard rustling behind them but lowered their guns when they saw it was only Morgan but the man in question did not lower his stick "Morgan, Morgan hey, you know me, you know us"

"I...I'm not right" Morgan frowned looking between the siblings.

"Maybe, maybe you shouldn't be out here" Rick moved forward putting his hand on the stick but Morgan flinched back from the touch.

"I ain't going anywhere"

"You're out here for them" Rick pointed out "Me too...Then we finish it, you, me and Phoebe" he glanced back at his sister who nodded once, if this is how they had to be to kill Negan then so be it.

So she lead the way, she found tracks but there was no way of knowing if it was who they were searching for...That was until they came to a large puddle of blood, someone had cut of a hand and also a foot both sporting walker bites.

Rick looked at her with a smirk but before he could utter a word all three where hit by something hard making all three lose consciousness.

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Phoebe woke when someone kicked her foot, looking to the side she saw it was her brother, she was placed in between Rick and Morgan all three tied up.

"We had to get off the road, out of the forest and still, maybe we didn't do it in time" a random man stated as a few of the hostages stood over one of their own who was not looking too hot.

"Yeah but maybe we did" a guy with dark hair threw his hand up "Maybe they don't look too hot because we hacked off part of them, we're not just gonna leave them here"

A man with long greasy hair strutted forward "Look at them, they're dead already"

"He's right, he knew the rules, you pooch it nobody's carries you" the first man shook his head.

"After everything we've been through? Things are shaky man, let's not..."

"Look, we got rules so somebody going down doesn't take the rest of us with them. Case in point we could have been halfway home by now"

"How long were we out?" Rick whispered towards Morgan.

"Long enough to end up here"

"Say we make it, what then?" the dark hair man asked.

"He's right Jared, what do we got waiting for us back there?" another guy spoke up gently "Maybe we go our own way, be done with the Saviours, we pooched it. Simon wasn't gonna carry us"