The darkest path, the walking dead

Chapter 17: falling to pieces

"I am truly sorry to hear that" Dave says taking another drink "to better days and new friends and to our dead and them being in a better place" Dave makes a toast. I drink to that, the alcohol burns, it doesn't tasted good and it makes me cough.
"The second ones always better sweetheart" Dave laughs as I make faces.
"Don't call me that" I say slowly getting over the taste.
"Not bad hu?" Dave takes his hand gun out of him waists band.
"I got it off a cop" Dave smiles.
"I'm a cop" Rick says, I know he was the sherif but obviously Dave didn't, I wonder if it makes Rick sad that he may have know the cop.
"Well this one was already dead" Dave laughs.
"You fellows are along way away from philadelphia"'Rick says.
"It feels like we are along way from anywhere" Dave says and I keep my eyes on his gun.
"What drove you south?" Rick asks.
"Well I can tell you it wasn't the weather, I must have dropped 30 pounds in sweat alone here" Dave said.
"First it was DC I heard there might be some kind if refugee camp but the roads where so jammed we never even got close then we decided to get off the highways and into the sticks and keep hauling ass, every group we came across had a new rumour about a way out of this thing" Dave finishes and tony starts talking but I'm not listening anymore because the same thought keep bugging me all the groups there talking about are probably dead.
"Wait fort bennings is gone are you for real?" Glenn asks as I constraint again.
"Sadly I am" Dave sighs.
"The ugly truth is that there is no way out of this mess" Dave says.
"That's just the way it is" I say taking a drink and Dave is right it is better the second time.
"Yeah you just pray that a mindless freak doesn't grab you in your sleep" Dave says.
"If you sleep" tony finishes.
"It really doesn't look like your guys are hanging your hats here you got a camp?" Dave asks and I stiffen.
"Not really" Rick sighs.
"Are they your cars out front?" Dave asks.
"Yeah, why?" Glenn asks.
"Well they look kind of empty, clean where is all your stuff?" Dave asks.
"Were with a larger group, we where out scouting thought we could use a drink" Hershel says and I think it's a bad idea to mention the group, I just don't want to put Carl, Daryl Lucas and Beth in danger.
"A drink Hershel I thought you quit" Dave laughs and I just made up my mind this isn't going to end well. We all looks awkwardly at each other.
"Well we are thinking about setting up around here is it safe?" Dave asks
"I-" Glenn was about to say something but I cut him off.
"No the other day we where on the highway and a massive herd of walkers came past, we had to hide under the cars like rats but we only lost one a little girl she was my friend" I say making sure they don't want to stay.
"Walkers is that what you call them?" Dave asks.
"That's good I like that, I like that better than lame brains" Dave says scratching his neck.
"So what are you guys set up on the outskirts or something?" Dave asks and I want to change the subject I don't like this.
"The new development?" Dave continues
"Trailer park or something?" Tony asks.
"Farm?" Dave asks and I freeze completely I even stop breathing for a second like everything tightened.
"Old McDonald had a farm...." Dave begins to sing and I feel uncomfortable.
"You on a farm?" Dave asks Rick and I hold my breath
"Can you stop shit head" I yell at tony as he pees on the floor but they ignore me.
"I mean a farms safe you have food and water" Dave says, Dave and tony start to say some things but I'm not listening.
"So listen Glenn-" I cut him off.
"We have said enough" I say angrily.
"Oh hang on a second this farm sounds pretty sweet doesn't it sound sweet?" Dave asks tony and he nods.
"Well we have some people back at camp who are having a real hard time I don't know why you don't have room for a few more we can pull our resources and man power-" Dave start and rick stops him.
"Look I'm sorry but that's not an option" Rick says kindly.
"So back off shit face" I say as I hold my gun tighter.
"Well it doesn't sound like it will be a problem" Dave shrugs.
"I'm sorry we can't" Hershel says kindly and I don't understand why we are being nice am I the only one who can see how this is going to go down?
"We can't take in anymore" rick states and it's true even with me and now probably Daryl up the back of the farm there's not much room and it's getting cold we might be aloud to move into the house but I will not go I don't care how cold it gets I'm not going in there.
"You guys are something else I thought we where friends" Dave says and I want to laugh.
"We have people we have to look out for two" Dave says and I don't like where this is going.
"We don't know anything about you" Rick points out.
"Well that's true you don't know anything about us" Dave says "you don't know what we had to go through out there the things we have had to do" Dave says.
"Oh you will get over it princes I was alone at age 12 for five months in Atlanta and trust me you can not imagine how bad Atlanta is" I say rudely to him.
"So I get you have had to do some awful things then?" Dave asks and I nod.
"But that's just the world now" I say emotionlessly.
"Yeah were all the same" Dave says.
"So let's take a nice friendly drive to this farm of yours" Dave smiles.
"Yeah back off that's not going to happen buddy" I say.
"This is bullshit" Tony says.
"Calm down" Rick tells him.
"Don't tell me to calm down don't ever tell me to calm down." Tony yells.
"I'll shoot you three assholes in the head and I'll leave the girl for later" tony says looking me up and down. Rick gets in his face.
"Wo wo calm down" Dave says.
"Easy no one killing anyone" Dave smiles and I can't keep my mouth shut any longer.
"You are stupid if you think we are all walking away fine and I know your not stupid so you know as well as I do how this goes down, in shots and blood it always does" I say and Dave shakes his head.
"It doesn't have to be that way" he says climbing over the counter and placing his gun down. "We're just friends having a drink"
"Where's the good stuff" he says rubbing he hands together, he bends down to grab a bottle as ricks hand flys to him gun.
"You have to understand I can't stay out here anymore" Dave says poring the alcohol into a glass cup. "You know what it's like?"
"Yeah I do" rick says, rick stands in between tony and Dave and his back to tony.
"But the farm is to crowded as it is I'm sorry" Rick says "you will have to keep looking"
"Keep looking? Where do you think we should do that?" Dave asks.
"I don't know I hear Nebraskans good" Rick says and Dave laughs.
"Nebraskan? This guy" Dave laughs, I dive for his gun so he can't shoot Rick and I shot goes of as Tony falls to the ground, I get Dave's gun before he seems to know what to do. I fire upwards into his jaw as he dives for the gun two. Blood sprays on me as I look up to see Rick was the one to shoot Tony, I'm not surprised. I can't help but keep count of how manny people I've killed and Dave makes it four. Rick walks to dead tony and begins to fire bullets into him, it's a waste but I don't stop him.
"He got blood on me" I said hopping of the counter "shame this was my favourite shirt oh wait it's my only one" I laugh and I can tell I'm scaring Glenn and Hershel. It's dark now and I no longer see the point in rushing to get back.
"You boys ok?" I ask Hershel and Glenn.
"Yeah" Glenn nods "well I mean the 12 year old just killed someone!" Glenn says.
"Glenn that's not the first person I have killed" I say and he looks more shocked.
"Great just great"'Glenn says sarcastically. I see Hershel nod and I can tell he is saying he's fine.
"Let's head back" Hershel says as Glenn grads Tonys gun. I search Dave's body as the boys search Tonys.
"Got everything" I say and we start towards the door but we see headlights.
"Car! Car get down" rick whispers. Oh god this can't end well.
"Maybe there friends with dumb and dumber over there" I point backward to the body's. A car drives strait up to the bar and I slowly get my gun out of my waist band. I hear foot steps and then voices.
"Dave? Tony?" They say and I hold my gun so tight that my fingers go white, it is a very good thing that I learnt how to shoot.
"I swear man I heard gun shots" the voices say. I see there shadows as they walk past the windows, I push my self up against the wall and search for anything that will help me and I find nothing. Rick stands and looks out a window and find nothing so he crawls over to Glenn and Hershel leaving me on the other side of the room all alone. I hear the whispering but I can't make out what there saying. They stand up when we hear banging and they duck down again. The door flys open a bit and me and Glenn both jump in front of it to stop it from opening, we put all our weight on the door as they push again.
"What?" Says a voice from the other side of the door.
"Someone pushed that shut there's someone in there" a voice says as me and Glenn push harder as we brace for impact.
"Yo is someone in there, if someone's in there we don't want no trouble" they say and I know this is a bad situation.
"Where just looking for our friends"
"We don't want any trouble" they say again as we sit quietly.
"We're just looking for our friends if something happened tell us this place is crawling with lame brains if you could help us"
"They drew on us" Rick yells and I know it's a lie they didn't Rick and I drew on them.
"Dave and Tony in there? They alive?"
"No" Rick says.
"Come on" the voices start to say.
"No I'm not going back and telling them that Dave and Tony where killed by some ass hole in a bar"
"Your men drew on us they gave us no choice" rick yells "I'm sure we've all lost enough people dumb things we wish we....we wish we didn't have to but we do it's like that now " Rick says. "So let's just chop this up to what it was, wrong place, wrong-" before rick finishes bullets start being fired near my head I scream and lean on Glenn to escape the shattering glass.
"Get out of here" rick yells standing and shooting but I don't go, Glenn and Hershel run.
"Rick come on" I yell at him.
"I'll be there in a second I swear now go!" Rick says and I run after Glenn and Hershel staying low but still running fast. Glenn and Hershel are both hiding and I don't know why this isn't helping but I get under a table two. The gun fire stops and we all look at each other breathlessly.
"Hey! We all know this isn't going to end well! There's nothing in it for any of us, you guys just back off and no one gets hurt. Rick points his head towards the back door leading towards a storage room looking thing. He's telling Glenn to go but I want to go to. I follow Glenn as he runs to the door, he opens it slowly I have my gun raised and so does he I know he is aware that I'm here but he doesn't bother arguing. Slowly we walk down the stairs flinching at every single creak. I go straight to the next door but Glenn looks around at everything, I see the shadow of a guy and I see the door handle twisting slowly. I fire and the guy runs.
"Luna Glenn!"
"Where fine!" I say as quietly as possible. Me and Glenn sneak towards the door. We stand on both sides of the door and quietly take looks out, Glenn's breathing is heavy and he has sweat dripping of his nose. Hershel comes up behind us and Glenn almost shoots him.
"Glenn calm down the twelve year old is doing better than you right now" Hershel says.
"We try for the car" Hershel orders.
"Try?" Glenn complains.
"You will try and succeed" Hershel tells him.
"We will cover you" Hershel says referring to me and him.
"No I want to go" I say and Glenn shakes his head.
"No it will be better with two people covering me" he says and I sigh but nod. Glenn slowly forwards out of the building as me and Hershel stand ready to shoot. Glenn has only walked about four steps when a guy comes and shoots at him from behind, I didn't see if it hit Glenn but I knew he wasn't responding. I shot the guy and I can see Glenn's feet he had ducked behind a dumpster and his feet are not moving and again I count that's five people I've killed.
"Glenn!" I say frantically. I run out of the building and towards Glenn but before I can reach him a gun shot goes off and I am knocked to the ground, my hole right side burns and I feel tears welling in my eyes but I pull myself up to get to Glenn holding my hand in my bullet wound not because I am scared I will bleed to death or anything but because I don't want Glenn to see the blood. I know the bullet just grazed my waist. I almost fall on top of Glenn when I jump behind the dumpster.
"Oh my god are you ok" I say, he is breathing heavily but he doesn't seem to be hurt. I slap his shoulder.
"Don't do that!" I yell but quietly.
"Come on" I stand up I would help him up but I couldn't remove my hand from my waist so I only had one hand. He wont get up. I don't know how bad the bullet hole is but I mmoe that it's bleeding a lot because there is sticky ward blood covering the hand that is pressed against the hole, it burns and a few tear stream down my cheeks but Glenn can't see them in this light.
"Are you shot?" I ask and he shakes his head.
his head.
"It's alright come on Glenn we need to do this" I said and he nods and gets up but bullets are fired and we duck down again. Rick joins us and we all watch a car drive up to a building and start to talk with the guy on the roof, I hate the guy on the roof he must have been the one who shot me. He jumps from the roof but falls wrong I can't see him but I know he is badly hurt by the way he is screaming, rick runs to the guy who jumps of the building and I follow, there is a spike from a fence through his leg and I can't imagine the pain he is in but I don't feel sorry for him because of how much pain he has caused me. I would have shot him to put him out of his misery but he was begging for us to save him. Hershel and Glenn come over and they all begin to yell about what to do with the boy who only looks about 19, it's funny how someone's age can determined how you think of them, they all yell about what to do with him but I'm honestly feeling very dizzy from blood loss. I feel like I black out for a second because one minute there arguing and the next rick is ripping the poor guys leg off the spike, we run to the car the boys carrying the enemy who had passed out and me helping them avoid walkers when we get in the car I sit in back seat in between the enemy  and Glenn. I think it's funny how they still had not noticed that I had been shot but there was no use telling them here, I move my hand away from the wound because I'm Already covered in the kid next to me's blood they wouldn't be able to tell the deference. My hole right side burns and I hold in sobs as I look out the window so they can't see the tears running down my cheeks. The car stops and I look around in confusion, rick begins to put a blind fold on the guy and then ties his hands up. I can feel my fresh blood running down my right side and I know I've lost a lot of blood and I should have my hand on it to try to stop the bleeding but it would be two obvious. Rick sits back in his seat and I black out as the darkness surrounds me, I don't think going to sleep is a good thing and to be honest I don't think this is a normal sleep I think I have passed out but I can't be sure all I know is that this sleep is not making me better it's making me worse. When I wake I see the farm house and all the tents in the distance, my shirt is caught in dry blood and it hurt extremely to pull it out but I see something that can brighten my day, Carl.