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Chapter 74

Ruby's P.O.V~

My eyes flutter open and my head spins at the effort.

I go to spew but I see I've already got it all down the front of my shirt.

I try to move my hands to wipe it off but they're chained together behind my back.

As I turn to see what sort of situation I'm in with the ties but my eyes rest on Bob, who looks worse than me.

He's sweating profusely and still isn't awake.

Oh and his leg is gone.

I hear a laugh and look straight ahead of me to see Gareth and his group from Terminus having a great old time by the fire.

I panic and slowly reach my leg out to my right and nudge Bob awake.

His eyes blink open and he lets out a cry at the state of his leg but it quickly subsides into a grimaced laugh.

He's watching as Gareth and his men eat his flesh and he's laughing?

"That's tainted meat!" He yells out manically.

I turn to him.

"What do you mean, tainted?" I ask quietly.

"I was bit!" He yells for Gareth and I to hear.

The terminus folk splutter and cough out the meat in their mouths but they've swallowed a fair bit already.

As Bob laughs harder I join in, relishing in the karmic retribution.

"You've really fucked it up this time!" I cackle maliciously.

Gareth stands up and cocks his gun at me, turning off the safety and aiming at my head.

I get ready for the shot, closing my eyes and gritting my teeth, but seconds pass feeling like minutes and I hear Gareth sigh in defeat.

I look up, eyes open, and smile with so much raw, pure evil in my eyes that it scares even me.

Gareth's eyes blink before he swings his right arm across his body before flinging it back down across the side of my head, gun butt to my temple.

Everything is, once again, gone.

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Glenn's P.O.V~

"Glenn?" Someone calls me inside as I sit and wait for Ruby to return.

Max walks outside and sits down beside me.

"Take a two minute break to feed Daisy?" He asks me.

I look over to him and he smiles at me like a son would smile at his father and I feel proud knowing that he feels the way he does about me.

"Sure, come on." I tell him.

He's becoming more and more normal everyday, less cold and calculating and more of a kid rather than a tiny adult.

He is still incredibly intelligent though, as I spoon some formula into a baby bottle I watch him read 'Lord of the Flies' as if it were a simple picture book.

I pick Daisy up and watch her suck happily on the bottle, her hair already so long and her eyes so deep and brown like her moms'.

My two kids... It feels unreal to say it.

I never imagined that I would be a Dad... At least not until I was like 40.

Daisy's little head rolls back in a deep sleep and I put her down in her baby-bag bed.

I look up and see Sasha walking out to keep an eye out for things.

I turn back to Daisy a split second before I here her scream.

I jump to my feet and power out the door, Max close behind me.

I burst through the doors and see both Bob and Ruby laying asleep on the ground.

My arms wrap tightly around Ruby and I pick her up bridal-style.

"They're going to lose... They're weak..." Ruby mumbles into my shirt sleeve.

"Bob's leg doomed them."