Between Arrows and Hearts - Daryl Dixon

Crazy sheriff on town

Notes:

In case anyone decided to skip the last two chapters:

- Cass found Lori and Shane in the woods. They both talked to her, and she swore not to say anything. 

- Daryl overheard an interesting conversation between Cass and a guy at camp (It will be mentioned again later, so no worries.) 

- Merle told Daryl that they were leaving and should rob the camp.

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Going into town for supplies had been Glenn's job from the beginning, Cass had only accompanied him twice, the first after the group decided it wasn't safe to risk sending just one and another time when she was sent in order to bring more supplies than the boy could bring on his own.

She didn't like going to the city, Cass preferred to stay taking care of the children or doing any work that was needed at the camp, but she couldn't refuse to accompany Glenn when the group asked her, especially after he and T-Dog were the reason Cass managed to escape from Atlanta.

"You were right." Cass quietly approached Glenn. "If you and I had come alone we might have already been returning." After thinking a little she added. "If it were just you, you'd be back by now."

"That doesn't matter anymore, what we need now is to focus on getting them to stop fighting so we can get out of here now." Glenn continued looking at the city from the rooftop of the building. After Morales and Merle began to argue, for the tenth time, the young man went out to look for a quick way to escape and return to the camp safely.

"I know...but you have to start talking when you have an opinion Glenn." The girl placed a hand on her friend's shoulder, trying to get him to pay attention to her words. "You're the expert on coming to town, if Shane thinks it's better for us to come in a group and you don't, you should say so, because otherwise we end up stuck in situations like this where..." Cass couldn't finish her sentence when she saw Glenn run to a corner of the rooftop.

"Come on! I heard something!" Glenn began to point a specific place on the street, Cass looked without understanding what her friend was trying to show her, until she saw it. A man dressed as a Sheriff on horseback was surrounded by walkers.

"We have to help him! Cass watched as the man fell off his horse and crawled under a tank, gunshots rang out but they couldn't see what happened. "Is he dead? The panic in the girl's voice was notable, she thought dying that way must be one of the worst things that could happen to someone. She looked to Glenn for answers, as if his friend could solve the problem.

"No, no." Glenn said. "Look, he's still alive." Cass watched as the unknown man peeked out of the top of the tank. "Do you have the walkie-talkie?"

Cass never thought she would appreciate Glenn's quick thinking so much. She quickly took out the walkie that she had clipped to her pants and handed it to the men. While he was trying to connect the correct signal, Cass began to mentally pray that this would work.

"Hey, you! Dumbass." Cass smiled at Glenn's eloquent way of communicating with the stranger. "Yeah, you, in the tank. Cozy in there?" Not having an immediate answer, Cass took the walkie from the boy's hands. "Please tell me you're still alive."

"Hello? Hello?" When the stranger's voice sounded on the walkie Cass felt like she could almost breathe again. "God you scared us." 

"Where are you? Outside? Can you see me right now? " Cass felt sorry, the man's voice sounded desperate, and how could it not be, he had just been chased by the largest horde Cass had ever seen and was locked in a tank without many options for escape.