𝐁𝐔𝐋𝐋𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐓 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐁𝐔𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐅𝐋𝐘'𝐒

OO4. Enemies within the walls.

ENEMIES WITHIN THE WALLS
ACT FOUR
WORDS:
2974
Date:
August, 19th, 2012

Sadie and Tommy sat at a small, rickety table in the eating room of the prison, their breakfast laid out before them. The room was sparse, with only a few other tables and chairs scattered around, but the morning light streaming through the barred windows gave it a slightly less oppressive feel.

Sadie picked at her piece of food, glancing over at Tommy, who was slowly eating his meal. She tried to keep her worries at bay, focusing on the simple act of eating. It wasn't much, but at least they had food and a moment of peace.

The door to the eating room creaked open, and Sadie's heart skipped a beat. Rick walked in, his presence commanding and intense. He scanned the room before his eyes settled on Sadie and Tommy. With purposeful strides, he was covered in blood, he has been for a few days.
"Every body okay?" Rick said still outside the room.

All the eyes in the room went to Rick. Everyone was silent as Rick walked into the room stopping at the boy with the cowboy hat. Maggie was the first to speak.
"Yeah, we are" Her mouth half full with food.

"What about you?" The old man with the cut off leg asked Rick who was now fully in the room with everyone.

"I was cleanin' out the boiler block." He looked down then left then turned his head left to look at his son.

"How many where there?" The man sitting on the short stairs asked while licking off his spoon.

Rick sighs thinking for a second "I don't know a dozen, two dozen." his gaze moving back to the floof. "I have to get back. I just wanted to check on carl." He patted his sons back a few times before turning to leave.

"Rick, we can handle taking out the body's" Glenn got up from his seat stopping Rick from leaving."you don't have to"

"No I do" Rick fought back his tone normal but hard.He walked across the room to the guy sitting on the steps. "Everyone have a gun and a knife?"

"Yeah." The man started "we're runin' low on ammo though"

"Maggie and me were planning on making a run this afternoon." Glenn turned around to look at Rick and the other guy. "We found a phone book with some places we can hit, look for bullets and formula"

"We cleared out the generator room" The man leaned to his left to look past Rick. "Axle's there trying to fix it" He made some circular motion with his pointer finger. "In case of emergency..We're gonna sweep up the lower level as well"

Rick responded with two simple 'Good' as he started to walk to the door he came in from.

"Rick!" The man with no leg shouted at Rick as he closed the door, but Rick didn't respond; he just left.

The room fell silent again. Everyone focused on the food in their bowl.

"Tommy, you need to eat," Sadie said softly, her voice barely above a whisper. She reached across the table, her hand trembling as she nudged his arm. "Not eating wont help you."

Tommy sighed, his shoulders slumping under the weight of their circumstances. "I'm just not hungry, Sadie."

Sadie frowned, "I don't care if your not hungry you still need to eat to live"

Tommy glanced at his sister, noticing the determined look in her eyes. She was always the strong one, the one who kept them all together. He admired her for that, even if he didn't always show it.

"Fine," he muttered, picking up his spoon.

Sadie managed a small smile, relief washing over her face.