Safe haven, Rick Grimes

010. GET BACK TO FINDING SOPHIA

Chapter ten

"Get back to finding Sophia."

The rest of that night, Scarlett had slept in a chair in Carl's room just incase something had gone wrong after surgery and since they didn't have pagers and she was the only real doctor here, she only trusted herself, but he slept soundly through the rest of the night and she checked on him a few times, where the next morning, Rick and Lori were in there, were Rick kept looking at Scarlett seeing as she had cut her hair, Scarlett had her hand on Carl's head "good news is his fever's gone down." she shared.

As Carl began to stir awake, Lori and Rick stood up "baby?" Lori asked "Carl?" Rick asked, as Carl opened his eyes "Sophia? Is she okay?" he asked "don't you worry about her, okay? You just get lots of rest. Doctors orders." Scarlett told him "okay." Carl said, closing his eyes, the door then opened as they all looked to it, T Dog walked in "there here." he told them.

As the four of them headed outside along with Hershel and Patricia, while Maggie, Beth, Jimmy, Glenn and Shane had been outside preparing for Otis's funeral, Daryl, Dale and Andrea had arrived from the highway "how is he?" Dale asked "he'll pull through. Thanks to Hershel and his people." Lori shared "and Scarlett and Shane. We'd have lost Carl if not for them." Rick shared, as Dale walked forward hugging Rick, Carol went and hugged Lori "we were so worried." she told her "how'd it happen?" Dale asked "hunting accident. That's all..just a stupid accident." Rick shared.

They all had then walked over to these tree's where there was a wheel barrow full of rocks, as they all began piling them up in honor of Otis, Hershel stood there in a full suit holding a bible, as Beth put one of the rocks down "blessed be god, father of our lord jesus christ." Hershel said, as Jimmy went up and grabbed a rock "praise be to him for the gift of our brother Otis, for his span of years, for his abundance of character. Otis, who gave his life to save a child's, now more than ever, our most precious asset. We thank you, god, for the peace he enjoys in your embrace. He died as he lived, in grace." Hershel said.

And when he did, Scarlett remembered how Shane threw her to the side and shot Otis in the leg, and how him and Otis began fighting each other, where with the blood loss from the gunshot she wasn't entirely sure if killing him was in cold blooded murder or a way to show him mercy so he wouldn't be alive to be torn apart by walkers "Scarlett, Shane." Hershel said, as the two looked at him "will one of you speak for Otis?" Hershel asked "I'm not good at it. Scar, why..why don't you give it a go." Shane told her, putting his arm around her, Rick looked at them seeing how Shane's arm lingered.

Scarlett began going through her mind on how she learned to talk to family members when their patients had died "you were the last one with him. You shared his final moments. Please. I need to hear. I need to know his death had meaning." Patricia told her, crying, Scarlett took a deep breath "all we had to do was just get out of there. We only had a few bullets left. I was practically dragging the two of them the rest of the way. Walkers were on us. Shane decided to throw me ahead knowing out of everyone I was the one who could make it back. And when I looked back to see if they were still behind me, Otis was on the ground." she shared.

Which wasn't a lie, he was, but in this moment seeing Patricia crying, she remembered the kind of person she was, she wasn't the kind of person to kill someone in cold blood, she saved people's lives and she knew she couldn't save Otis's and Shane was gonna leave him there to be ripped apart while they got away "so.." Scarlett told them, letting out a shaky breath "I decided to put him out his misery so he didn't have to be alive to watch himself be torn apart by walkers." she shared, looking down as everyone's eyes were on her.