Torn (TWD Fan-fiction)

That'll Be The Day

I stare at the radio in Glenn's hand, anxiously waiting to hear Rick's voice. I was about to grab it to talk to Rick myself when a frantic voice says, "Hello? Hello? Where are you? Can you see me right now?" I let out a sigh of relief. Glenn responds, "Yeah, I can see you. You're surrounded by walkers, that's the bad news." Ricks voice comes on again, "There's good news?" I look over to the tank, completely surrounded. Not a single way for him to get out of there alive. I shake my head at Glenn. He continues to talk to Rick as I walk farther towards the edge of the building, my mind working as fast as it can to come up with a plan to get Rick the hell out of the tank. My attention goes back to Glen as I hear him say, "I'd say make a run for it."

"What? NO. He won't make it..." I start walking towards Glenn. He looks at me, "It'll be okay, he's got eyes out here." I run over to the ledge as Glenn is giving instructions to Rick. Please make it. Please make it. I nervously clench my fists as the top of the tank opens. Rick comes face to face with a walker, he hits it in the face with a small shovel. I hear Glenn making his way down the ladder, I start to go after him to help. "No, you stay here. I'm faster alone. I need you to keep an eye on your friend." I nod my head and run back to the ledge. I see Rick running down the street shooting the walkers in the head, then he disappears into the alley with Glenn. I go over to the ladder and I see them making their way up. Once they reached the top Rick I ran over to rick and threw my arms around him. "You're alive!" He exclaimed. I chuckled, it wasn't until Glenn cleared his throat that I realized I still had my arms around Rick's neck. I felt Rick's arms loosen up around my back, I let go. Remember Ellie, Keep your distance. I go to give Glenn a hug next. "Thank you" I say as I give him a friendly hug. He smiles and says, "I should save him more often." He makes his way over to a metal looking thing on the floor and opens it. We go down inside of it and make our way through the building, exiting outside to some more stairs. Glenn talks into his radio as he's running, "I'm back. Got some guests plus four geeks in the alley."

We reach the bottom of the stairs and stop in our tracks as the walkers start to make their way towards us. I jump in surprise as two people come out from the door behind the walkers. They're carrying two bats and immediately they take the two walkers down. We run in through the open door as I hear a man behind me yell, "Morales, let's go!" As soon as we make it through the door a blonde lady grabs Rick and points her gun in his face, "Son of a bitch! We ought to kill you." One of the men with the baseball bat says, "Just chill out, Andrea. Back off." I immediately draw my gun and press it to her temple, "Andrea is it? Hi, I'm Ellie. Nice to meet you. Now seems we have a bit of a problem here, I'm going to need you to put the gun down." I hear the group of people behind me telling me to calm down. Andrea scoffs, "You're kidding me, right?" I continue holding the gun against her head, "I'm afraid not." Her hand begins to tremble as she holds the gun to Ricks face, "We're dead because of you stupid assholes." I press the gun harder into her head, "I said put the fucking gun down." She glares at Rick before dropping her arms to her side, "We're dead-- all of us-- because of you two."

"You alright?" I say to Rick as I put my gun back into my belt. He nods his head as he tries to catch his breathe. "I don't understand." The group starts to exit the room into a hallway that leads through the building. The same guy that was telling Andrea to back off grabs Rick by his arm and leads him into a hallway as he says, "We came to the city to scavenge for supplies. You wanna know what the key to scavenging is? SURVIVING. Key to surviving? Sneaking in and out. Not shooting up the streets." We enter what seems to be a store. My eyes open wide as I look at the store entrance. The other man continues, "Every geek for miles heard you popping off rounds." Then Andrea says, "You just rang the dinner bell." We stare in horror as a giant group of walkers are banging against the glass door. I look over at the man, "I'm sorry, I didn't catch your name." He extends his hand out and says, "Morales." I shake his hand, "Ellie." *BOOM* Gunshots start coming from the roof. Andrea sighs in frustration and says, "Oh no. Is that Dixon?" We follow them as they run up the stairs to the roof.

As I step onto the roof I see a redneck man holding a sniper rifle, firing off into the crowd of walkers beneath us. Morales says, "Dixon are you crazy?" The man turns to face us and starts waving his gun around, "Hey! Y'all be more polite to a man with a gun!" He jumps off the ledge and starts walking towards us. The other man in the group runs toward him, "Man. You wasting bullets we ain't even got! And you bringing even more of 'em down on our ass!" Morales follows the man, "T-dog calm down." The redneck man laughs and says, "Bad enough I've got this taco-bender on my ass all day. Now I'm gonna take orders from you? I don't think so, bro. That'll be the day." T-Dog tenses up, " 'That'll be the day?' You got something you want to tell me?" Morales starts to speak up as we can all see where this is headed, "T-Dog just leave it. Now Merle, Just relax. Okay?"

I look at Rick, he's clenching his jaw. I can tell he's upset. I reach out and squeeze his wrist a bit. He looks at me and gives me a smile to reassure me he's okay. I turn my attention back to Merle and T-Dog. Merle gets closer to T-Dogs face, "You want to know the day?" T-Dog nods his head, "Yeah." Merle spits on the ground, "I'll tell you the day, Mr. 'Yo'. It's the day I take orders from a nigger." T-Dog tries to punch Merle but he misses. Merle hits him in the face with his gun. Then chaos erupts. Rick runs up behind Merle but he's too slow, Merle hits him in the face causing Rick to fall face first onto the floor. I run and jump onto Merle's back trying to make him lose his balance. He smells like sweat and beer. I'm holding on as tight as I can but Merle reaches up over his head and grabs me by my hair. I scream in frustration. I hate my hair being pulled. I dig my nails into his meaty arms as he launches me across the floor. I squeeze my eyes tight as I feel my head hit something hard. My head starts to spin, I try to get up but I can't even see. Everything looks bright. I hear what seems to be Glenns voice, "Ellie! Stay awake. Just stay awake." I want to stay awake, but I'm so tired. I feel myself drifting into darkness. I know I should stay awake but I can't. I let the darkness surround me as I feel my body go limp.