Protection (Rick Grimes)

Chapter Forty

Glenn's POV

I cringe in pain as Dani helps me into another car. She's beyond pissed and beyond furious right now. She's been cursing under her breath every since we seen that the truck was gone. She's been saying things like 'I'm going to kill them' and others similar to that.

I see her clinch her jaw and fists as she shuts the passenger door and moves to the driver side. She bends down and begins to hot wire the car. I watch her and occasionally look around for walkers.

"Hold this." She suddently says. I look over at her and see her handing me her knife. I grab it and see her put her crossbow and pistol in the back seat. She bends back down and continues her work. I put the knife in the backseat along with her other weapons.

The car alarm suddently goes off making her groan.

"Fucking hell!" She curses and speeds up the process of hot wiring the car. She finally gets the car started, but the alarm is still going off. Standing up, she rolls her eyes and looks at me.

"You good?" She asks me.

"Yeah. Let's just get out of here." I sigh. She nods and begins to get in the car, but a walker grabs her arm. She pushes it away just as another comes up to her and pushes her down. Her back scraps against the door and she yelps in pain. One of the walkers spots me inside the car and crawls inside with me. I hold it back and hear Dani struggling.

"Glenn, I need you to listen to me!" She yells over the growling of the walkers. I glance past the walker trying to eat me and see that there are now three on top of her and one other trying to get into the car.

"I need you to leave! You have to get back to the others!" She yells.

"What? No way, I'm not leaving you!" I exclaim.

"You have to, damn it! The group needs you and I need you to get back to them! Can you get out of the car?"

"It doesn't matter because I'm not leaving you!"

"Can you get out of the damn car or not?!"

I sigh and look behind me just as a walker pushes itself onto the window along with several others.

"No."

I only hear a few grunts and curses from her after that.

"Can you get to a knife or gun?"

I decide to cooperate with her. I wince in pain and look into the backseat. Her knife is the closest thing to me. I reach one hand back, the other pushing the walker away from me. The knife is just out of reach.

My arm begins getting tired, but I force myself to not give up.

I finally get a hold of the knife and kill the first walker and push it off of me. I kill the next and when I look down at Dani...she's being surrounded. My eyes widen and I panic as my mind goes blank of things to do.

Only one thing comes to mind and that's what I'm going with. I slam the car door shut and put the car in drive before driving off.

Danielle's POV

I hear Glenn slam the car door shut and begin to drive away. I manage to look around and see several more walkers beginning to gather around me.

This is it, I'm dead. I'll never see Rick again. I'll never see Carl or Chelsea or Judith or Daryl ever again. I'll never see my group, my family.

The sound of a car fills my ear and some of the walkers are ran over. Several gunshots fill the air and the walkers on top of me go limp. The weight over the multiple walkers on top of me begin to basically crush me and the pain in my back doesn't help at all.