Rick's POV
I sat down on my bed in my own cell and fidgeted with the watch on my wrist. I dropped my hands to my sides and rested my back against the cinder blocks behind me. My eyes shut and I began to think about what my life was like before the apocalypse, like me and Shane going on cop chases before he had sex with my wife...
My thoughts were soon interrupted by Beth entering my room.
"Um, hey Rick." She spoke, easing her way into my room. "Me and Carol have been noticing that little bits of our food have been disappearing. Not much though, maybe like enough food each day for one person." She informed me.
"How long has this been going on?" I asked her as she finally stopped walking around and planted her feet by the wall.
"Well, it's been going on since we first got here I think, but it's just now become really obvious." She said, staring down at her feet and rubbing her hands. She looked nervous as if she was about to be punished even though this wasn't her fault.
"I'll go check it out." I breathed as I stood up and followed her to the kitchen. She let out a slight gasp as we entered the kitchen doors.
"What is it?" I asked her, not knowing what had happened. She turned around to face me as she began to explain.
"Whoever has been stealing food just did it again. I set out a can of beans just before I went to go get you as bait for whoever has been stealing stuff and they took it! I know it couldn't have been Carol putting it back in place because she is asleep." Beth informed me, motioning towards an empty spot on the counter.
Bang!
A shelf of food fell behind Beth, causing her to jump and run backwards.
"Well whoever this thief is, I think we've caught 'em." I said, holding onto my gun in my holster and walking towards the fallen shelf.
"I'll give you three seconds to come out." I said, pulling out my gun and holding it in front of my chest, pointing towards a door that had been left open. "One..." Nothing. "Two..." Still nothing. "Thr-" I was cut off my a man rising up from behind the door. It was too late though, I had already pulled the trigger but yanked my hand in the other direction, causing my bullet to go through a loaf of bread.
"Fine, fine. It has been me." A muscular man said, raising his hands in the air.
"Who are you?" Beth questioned, walking out from beside me. I already knew who this man was.
"Roger Smiket." I said, lowering my gun and staring him strait in the eyes.
Lainie's POV
Bang!
A gun was fired in the prison and had awoken me and Carl.
"Awh, shit. What's happened now?" Carl said as he rose out of bed, putting on a pair of pants that lay in the floor.
"I don't know." I said, rising out of the bed. "But I want to go check it out." I finished, walking out of the door, soon followed by Carl.
"It sounded like it came from the eating area." Carl groaned as he rubbed his hands over his eyes, obviously tired.
"I think so too," I agreed as we jogged towards the dining room. "By the way," I began to tell him. "I grabbed my knife on the way out in case shit gets real."
"Shit gets real," he repeated in a laugh back at me. "Nice terminology." He laughed again just before we reached the eating room.
"Not here, maybe the kitchen." Carl shrugged as I looked over at him. "I think so too." I agreed as we walked through the kitchen doors.
I gasped so loud that it caused Beth and Rick to turn around and look at me and Carl. The man on the ground's face lit up and almost smiled.
"Roger!" I boarder line screamed. "I thought you were dead."
"Wait! If you're here then where is Derek?" Roger questioned, standing up and walking over to me.
"He tried to kill me so someone in our group killed him." I explained as I backed away from him, he almost had me pinned up against a wall before he finally stopped walking.
"Picking up after daddy's traits huh." Roger smiled as he turned back around to face the rest of the group.
"Who the hell are you and what the hell is happening?" Carl asked, pointing at Roger as he spoke.
"We'd like to know the same thing." I heard Daryl say as he and Michonne emerged from the doorway.
"Well," Rick began. "You have one hell of a story to hear."
Really short chapter, ik, sorry😬 I just really wanted a chapter that ended on sort of a cliff hanger. Btw, if you haven't read my story Prior To The Pain you really want to because it will explain majority of the events that happened in this chapters and how the characters know each other.
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Macy <3
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