The darkest path, the walking dead

Chapter 11: Witnessed

I avoid the room Lucas is in fully, I can't see him like that it just not right to operate on someone while they are awake. I walk into a living room, Shane and Rick are having a conversation about how strong Lori was or something, a girl with short brown hair sits next to the guy who shot Lucas. I give the guy a dirty look as I walk past him. I sit on a seat as the old man comes into the room. Everyone including me sits up when the old man enters the room.
"He is out of danger for the moment but I need to remove these remaining fragments" the old man finishes.
"How? You saw how we was" Rick questions, Rick looks awful, he looks pale and around his eyes are an awful red colour.
"I know and that was the shallowest one, I need to go deeper to get the others"  the old guy states. I feel sick listening to this. Rick and the old guy start to talk about what they need and I zone out I don't want to hear this but I do know I was going to help them get all the things,I have to help. When I listen into the conversation again there naming things we need, I don't listen to what their saying carefully enough to hear what there saying all I know is that there naming thing they will need.
"The nearest hospital went up in flames a month ago" the guy who shot Lucas interrupts the conversation. The old guy gives him a look and he realises what he's thinking.
"The high school" he breathes out.
"That's what I was thinking, they set up a shelter there, they would have everything we need" the old guy says the last bit to Rick.
"The place we overrun last time I saw it, you couldn't get near it but maybe it's better now" the guy who shot Lucas says and I get the feeling that it's not better.
"I said leave the rest to me is it to late to take that back" Shane laughs a little.
"I hate you going alone" Rick says.
"I'm going too" I say stepping closer to Shane.
"What no, your just a little girl" Rick says to me.
"Well your choices aren't so good right now and also I'm a trouble in the group,no one likes me being here, so if I die then you don't have to deal with me and if I don't then there's another pair of hands to carry supplies" I say, Rick rolls his eyes but he sighs in defeat.
"Ok but you listen to Shane,he will keep you safe" Rick says and I roll my eyes.
"Don't make promises you can't keep Rick" I say smiling.
"Come on someone draw us a map and a list or something" I smile.
"You won't need a map" the guy who shot Lucas starts "I'll take you there" he finishes.
"Odis no" a lady with blonde hair walks in.
"Honey we don't have time for this and I'm responsible, I ain't gunna sit here while this fella and this little girl takes this on. I'll be alright"
"Are you sure about this, I mean the help would be great but she might not look like much but Luna can kick butt." Shane says messing my hair up with his hand.
"Do you pair even know what any of the stuff he's talking about looks like?" Odis asks smiling.
"I can take note" Shane says smiling.
"I've been a volunteer EMT I do, we can talk about this till next Sunday or we can just go do it real quick." Odis says looking around the room for any complaints.
"I'll be real quick, i'll meet you guys in the car." I say walking out the door, I walk to the bin and throw the bloody cloth in it and walk back to the car. I am almost at a blue ute when someone yells my name and I turn to see Carl, oh no.
"Where are you going?" He says as I throw my bag into the car.
"I'm going to a run to get some medicine for Lucas bye Carl" I say emotionlessly.
"What? You can't your just a little kid you could get hurt" I give Carl a dirty look for calling me a little girl.
"Carl to be honest the chances of all of us getting back alive is very small but like I said to Rick, if I die the group doesn't lose anything I'm just a trouble to this group and if I live then another hand to carry medicine" I whisper getting into the car all the way.
"You can't go Luna" Carl say frantically.
"Goodbye Carl" I say closing the door, I see tears in his eyes as he turns and runs towards the house to complain to his dad. He walks  the door and then walks straight  back out with his dad, Odis, Odis's wife, the old guy and Shane all pile out the door. I move over and sit in the middle and wait. Odis and Shane get in on either side of me, Odis is driving. They were about to have a meaningful conversation so I stop it right away.
"Stop can we just get to this place and get back without having a chick flick moment" I sign shaking my head and they both grin at me. Odis starts the car.
"Why would you want to come if you have a choice?" Odis says keeping his eyes on the road.
"I didn't have a choice, that kid you shot is my friend and I'm the only one in our group that will not be missed" I say getting a little sad because I know it's true.
"Hey I'm sure that little boy would miss you, you know the sheriffs son, he seemed pretty upset that you where leaving he was trying to beg his father to make you stay but his dad said the more people the better" Odis sighs.
"Well it's none of his business what I do anyway and I never asked him to care, I actually told him not to care" I tell them looking angrily at my wrist.
"Well its not your choice if people care about you, you don't have a say in it" Shane smiles at me.
"I don't care, he will not care for long, he will hate me soon like everyone else" I say pulling my knees to my chest.
"Yeah why is that?" Shane asks smiling.
"Because I have a feeling that he's going to hate me once he finds out what happened to my family" I frown.
"What happened to your family?" Shane asks.
"The same thing as everyone else, they died the only difference is that it's my fault"  I say emotionlessly, even before the dead started walking I had to learn to control my emotions and not let them show.
"Yeah, well how is it your fault?" Shane asks smiling at me.
"It was my fault my sister go shot, I didn't shut up and it was my fault my other sister was killed because I let a walker get her and it was my fault my mum died and I killed my dad" I say looking at my hands finding it difficult to find the words to explain so it probably doesn't make much sense to them at all.
"That doesn't mean any of that was your fault Luna and besides your wrong not everyone
in the group hates you I know rick doesn't he just can't act like it around Lori and I don't hate you" Shane grins at me and I force a smile to him. We drive in silence for a while until we reach the high school, we park a little bit away from it and I'm afraid that it will be harder to get back to the car but I know why we have to. We crawl around a police car being as quiet as possible and I know, we all know that this place is still overrun. We go a bit further and I hear the loud growls the noise makes my stomach twist and turn. I swallow hard trying to ignore my instincts to run. I think Shane has made a plan that me and Odis don't know about. Shane slowly opens the car door trying to be quite, me and Odis wait behind the car. Slowly Shane crawls into the front of the police car and boot lifts open slowly, I flinch as it creaks open. Shane climbs out of the car keeping low to the ground. I get what he's doing as he smiles down at the flares, he pulls a couple of flares out of the boot. We wait for it to get dark to throw the flares, they glow pink as they fall to the ground and all the walkers  start to walk over to the glowing flares.  I realise just how many of them there are and I'm starting to feel uncomfortable not having walker blood on me, it makes me feel naked. Shane and me run for the door as Odis runs for the other one, I pull on the door because I was the first one to reach the door and nothing happens, it's locked or stuck I can't tell. Me and Shane run towards Odis as the door he pushes swings open. We run around grabbing anything that looks like it will help while Odis get things that are actually important. We spend at least two minutes looking, then we forward towards the door. Shane's hand hovers over the handle before getting the courage to push down on the handle and open the door. Over a hundred walkers stand wondering aimlessly around, only a few see us at first, but after a second hundreds of them start  heading towards us. Shane runs as I follow him and Odis stumbles behind me but I'm faster than Shane and Odis. I run in front of Shane up a set of stairs and around a corner I slam into a walker sending me and the walker flying to the ground, Shane stabs the walker in the head and I pull myself off the pavement following Shane but a walker jumps in front of me blocking my path so I turn and run. I hear gun shots from behind me as I run into a building and pull a chair to the door. I breathe loudly as I run my fingers through my hair, I walk backwards, slowly and fall on a walker with no legs. I gasp as I fall on my back and the walker grabs my foot, I slide backward and grab my knife shoving it into the walkers eye. I cut open the walker as I cover myself in it's blood and guts. I walk out of the building and only a few walkers wander past me but they don't notice me.

I look around for the boys but I can't find them, after almost an hour of wandering around the school following gun shots. I don't even know how to think about what I'm seeing Odis and Shane wrestling for a bag, I don't understand why. Odis rips a chunk out of Shane's hair, Shane punches Odis in the face multiple times. I watch as their fight unravels in front of me, Shane finally wins and grabs the bag and hobbles away not ever seeming to care that Odis is being torn apart in front of me. I wait to regain any feeling in my legs but when I go I run off towards Shane, he doesn't see me until he reaches the car, he raises his gun at me but I put my hands up.
"Wow not a dead person" I say and I keep forwarding towards the door. He laughs a little.
"How did you get out of there alive" he laughs and I point to the blood on my pants and shirt and he nods.
"Your a tough little kid" he smiles but I can tell that what happened to Odis was bothering him and it was bothering me to be honest I don't know why he would do that. I don't know what to think. We get into the car and I don't say anything. We get to the farm and I don't get out, I don't want to tell them what happened to Odis, so I pull my knees to my chest and rock back and fort. I sob into my knees until I hear the car door open.
"It smells funny in here" Carl says and I can tell he doesn't know what else to say.
"Please Carl just go" I sob.
"No Luna you can't push people away, I need you to know that I'm here and that I'm not going anywhere and also I need you to know that your not alone and I would have care if you died." Carl finishes and I look up him. He looks like he need a hug as much as I do.
"I would hug you but I've got walker blood on me" I smile slightly as tear continue to stream down my cheeks. He leans and wraps his arms around my waist and I wrap my arms around his neck, I rest my head on his shoulder as he plays with a piece of hair that has not been covered in walker blood.
"Carl I'm sorry" I cry.
"What for?" He asks but neither of us pull out of the hug.
"I promised I wouldn't push you away and I did" I sob into his shoulder. I feel safe when I'm in his arms and I am happy.... Well not completely I mean I'm still a mess but I'm not a totally miserable, I feel loved.