Ruin Me So You Can Save Yourself (Daryl Dixon X Male OC)

68. Raise Your Rifle, Kill Your Enemy

Samuel

"We're close." Carol says as we stare at another one of these signs. "I'm gonna get you there, make sure you're safe. But I'm not gonna stay."

"Yes you will. Why would you leave? Even Tyrese forgiven you about Karen, we're okay, why would you go?" I ask as I hold onto Judith.

"Because I have to. The rest of the group..." she shakes her head.

"Don't be ridiculous. It'll be fine. I don't want you to go. Please." I say as I stare at her but she doesn't meet my gaze. "Please Carol. I've lost enough. We go there and we stay there. All of us."

She doesn't answer again and Tyreese doesn't stand on either side of the argument.

"Please, tell me you'll think about it. Think about staying." I place a hand on her shoulder.

"I'll think about it." She mutters looking up at me and I nod.

I hear snarling behind us and we turn, seeing a walker.

"I got it." Carol says pulling out her knife and walks over stabbing it in the head, falling into the ground with it. "There's more." She says and I eyeball where she was looking seeing full herd moving towards us from the forest.

I nod towards the other side of the woods and Ty and Carol follow me as we move away, hiding in the bushes, away from walkers' sight. Praying for them to go away without noticing us.

Then we hear distant gunshots that catch the attention of walkers, moving them up the tracks. We wait it out until they're far away out of sight and gunshots stop before getting out of the bushes back to the tracks.

"It's from Terminus." I say and adjust my grip on Judith m. "Someone's attacking them."

"Or they were attacking someone." Carol says and we start walking again.

"Do we even want to find out?" Ty speaks up.

"Yes." I answer.

"There's another track due east. It'll get us there. We'll be real careful. We gonna get answers."

We move off the tracks and cut through the woods, eventually we walk out to the small cabin, some guy kneeling on the ground with fireworks in his hands, he's armed, speaking to someone on the radio.

"Alex didn't get it. See, I knew the chick with the sword was bad news. Bitch looked like a weapon with a weapon." The man speaks.

"He was always a sloppy-ass mother" Woman's voice sounds from the walkie talkie..

"And that dude with a hook?" The guy laughs.

I jerk forward out out of the bushes but Carol grabs my shoulder, keeping me in place and moves out herself.

"Fucking hillbillies."

"I told Albert I want the kid's hat after they bleed him out."

Carol sneaks up behind the man and puts a gun to his head. Smart. I don't have a gun. Me and Ty who's the one holding Judith now move out behind her.

"Keep your finger off the button and drop it." Carol speaks calmly and the guy does as she says.

"Listen, y'all don't have to do this. Whatever you want, we got a place where everyone's welcome."

"Shut up, man." Ty speaks.

"Okay."

"Chick with the sword, kid in the hat, hillbilly with hook. That's our friend's, buddy, so you're fucked up with the whole happy place story." I hiss as I walk around him.