Jungkook never thought that he'd find a home behind a four metre tall fence and concrete walls, but with the help of the Woodburians, the growing group turned the place into a sanctuary for all. That's until the group was tested by a deadly virus an...
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Carol wasn't the one Daryl had brought with him, neither had it been Beth. Rather a man unknown to both Jungkook and Michonne had stepped out from behind Daryl and had introduced himself as Noah. He was around Beth's age and the shimmer of innocence in his eye represented his inexperience in this world. This theory was confirmed when Noah started telling them his story after they brought him inside and started bandaging his sprained ankle.
Noah had went on a supply run with his father when police officers from the Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta found them and took them. Noah wasn't sure how the entire thing went down but said that his father hadn't survived. After that, the police officers in charge of the hospital revealed that the medicine they had used on Noah to save him, needed to be paid for in labour. And while the police force guarding the hospital didn't outright state that he was a captive, they didn't allow him to leave until the debt was paid.
It was clear to everyone in the church that the system was set up in a way that ensured that Noah would never pay his debt. All the food he ate, the clothing they gave him and the protection the officers provided all needed to be paid for, hence Noah's debt kept accumulating. There wasn't even a proper way to know how much Noah had paid off with his labour and how they even counted it, Jungkook just knew it was a load of bullshit to keep them there.
The worst part is that Beth had also been captured by them and was now being held captive in the hospital. Noah revealed that the two of them had developed a plan to escape but as they were doing so, Beth had been caught and taken back at the last moment. Noah hadn't left the city after that and had been roaming around, trying to avoid the patrolling officers as he tried to devise a plan to rescue Beth. That's until he ran into Daryl and Carol. That situation ended up with Carol being hit by one of the hospital's cars and taken to the hospital.
Lucky Noah no longer was the only one devising a rescue plan, an entire group of armed, experienced and protective people was ready to storm the building. And Jungkook, he had already helped take down one community, what's another on that list?
But before they dealt with that, they had to do something else first. Taehyung picked up one of the metal pipes Daryl had torn down from the church organ. The group couldn't take Judith and Carl with them since it was too dangerous for them, hence before they left for the hospital, they had to ensure the church was protected. Taehyung stabbed the pipe into the ground next to the others, continuing to add to the sharpened, spear-like circle they were building around the entrance.
"Are you going to take the cross too?" Gabriel, who was hovering behind Taehyung asked with caution.
Daryl and Taehyung shared a glance before the latter gruffed, "If we need to." With that Daryl stepped back into the church to continue breaking it apart.
