Alone

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"Carl, Fatima, come on." Rick called for us. I smiled at Carl and we walk inside the room. We put the cloths on and I started to help put walker blood on Carl. Carl then started to put walker blood on me too. After we were all done, we all went outside. Judith was under Carl's cloth, so she was safe. As we got outside, it was filled with walkers left and right. I haven't seen this many since the prison. I reach my hand out and grab Carl's hand. He looks at me and smiles softly. I look back at Jesse and hold my hand out, she grabs it. We all form a line holding onto each other's hands as we walked through the sea of walkers. Rick stopped us at the lake.
"All right, new plan. Flares from a few guns aren't enough." Rick says to us. Michonne and Carl stood point as the rest of us listened to Rick.
"Too many walkers. Too spraed out. We're not going to the armory. We need our vehicles back at the quarry." He mentioned behind him.
"All of us drive, we need to round them up. We leave, we come back."
"Okay," Jesse says, looking worried.
"But, Judith... to the quarry and back, I..." Rick looks back at Carl.
"I'll take her." Gabriel said. I give him the are-you-serious look. Rick stares at him.
"I'll keep her safe in my church until you all lead the walkers away."
"Can you do this?" Michonne asked.
"I'm suppose too. I have too." Gabriel says, he looks at Rick.
"I will." Rick nods and Carl lifts up the cloths and hands Judith over to Gabriel, who hid her under his cloth. I still don't trust him.
"Take Sam." Jesse said.
"No." Sam said, sounding scared.
"Yes, Sam, it'll be safer." Jesse said.
"No, I'm not leaving you." Sam said.
"Sam -"
"No, I'm not. I can do this. I can keep going." Sam said. I smiled. He's growing up.
"Okay." Jesse said, smiling softly.
"I'm going to keep her safe." Gabriel said to Rick.
"Thank you." Rick said. He better. Gabriel started off towards the church. Please be careful. Jesse reassured Rick that Judith was going to be fine. I grab Carl's hand and reach my hand out for Ron's, he hesitates and grabs it.

Night fell as we continued to slowly walk through the sea of walkers. We've been walking for hours and we were almost to our target. All around us was growls coming from walkers passing - or rather pushing through us. Sam suddenly stopped, making us stop.
"Sam? Sweetheart, come on." Jesse said, trying to get him to walk. Sam was staring at something. I follow his eyes and see a kid walker. I sigh and look back at Sam.
"Sam, it's okay, you don't need to be afraid anymore." I whispered quietly, so that no walker in hearing distance could hear me, but also making sure Sam could hear me. Everyone started calling Sam to get his attention, but his eyes wouldn't break. He began whimpering. Suddenly out of nowhere walkers grabbed Sam and started biting him. He screams so loudly. My eyes widen. Oh god. Jesse started crying out and then she started screaming in terror. The walkers around us started going after her and attacking her. Oh no. She let them. I felt Ron's hand tighten mine. I look back at him and he had tears coming down his cheeks. I heard Carl call out for Rick, I look back at Carl and see him trying to pulling his hand off Jesse, who was still getting eaten. I let go of Ron's hand and started helping Carl. Rick came over with his axe and started chopping Jesse's hand off. Carl and I fell to the ground and we quickly got up. I heard a gun glock, Carl and I both turn around, him being behind me. Ron was holding up a gun at Rick, I look at Ron shocked.
"Ron, calm down." I whispered, trying to stop him. He ignores me and stares at Rick with a look of anger.
"You." He says. He was about to shoot but Michonne stuck her katana through him, but I heard his gun go off and I felt the bullet graze my cheek. I grab my cheek in pain and saw Ron get swamped with walkers. I shake my head.
"Carl." I heard Rick say from behind me, then I heard something thud on the ground. My eyes widen as I turned around slowly to see Carl on the ground passed out. Rick ran over to him and turned him over. His eye. I felt tears forming. Rick picked him up and Michonne and him started running. I stood there still staring at the ground that had Carl's blood on it. Tears quickly now falling down my cheek. Not again. Walkers were passing by me. I could feel myself slipping. Everything felt like time was slowing down. My head was spinning. I started walking who knows where. I felt something grab my arm and pull me in somewhere. I felt someone shaking me and call my name out. I shake my head and everything went back to normal. Dominic was in my face with a worried look. I push him away and look around. I was at the house, Avie was standing next to Dominic with the same expression.
"Are you okay?" Avie asked.
"What happened? Why are you crying?" Dominic asked. I looked at the ground. Carl. I let out a sob and fell to the ground. I just continued to sob.
"Carl - h-he got s-shot." I sobbed out. I felt someone grab my shoulders. I look up from the ground and see Dominic.
"Where is he?" He asked. I shake my head.
"The infirmary." I choked out. Dominic lifts me up.
"Let's go." He said. I look at him confused.
"What?" I sniffed.
"We're going." Dominic said. I nodded. I started rubbing some of the walker blood onto them and we run passed the walkers to the infirmary. As we got there I could see Rick fighting off the walkers. Dominic stops making Avie and I stop.
"What are you doing, we're almost there." Avie whispered. Dominic was looking at Rick and looks back at us.
"I'm going to go help Rick." He said. I shake my head.
"I'll be fine, go to Carl." Dominic said. A walker started toward me. I pushed it away and Dominic yells for us to go. Avie grabs my hand and pulls me toward the infirmary. Everyone comes out of the infirmary and rushes over to help them. I hurry inside and Avie closes the door. I felt my heart drop when I saw him laying on the table.
"Fatima, he's going to be okay." Denise says. I let out a sob in relief.

They cleared out the walkers. All of them. Daryl and the other came back, so did Glenn and Enid. Carl hasn't woken up yet. I left Rick to talk to Carl. I haven't said a word to anyone, Denise stitched my cut. Finally, Rick came out of the room they put Carl in. I look at him mentally asking him if anything happen. He shakes his head no.
"Nothing." He said. I sighed and get up. I walk in the room and shut the door. He had a bandage around his eyes. I shut my eyes and take a deep breath, I open my eyes and walk over to the side of his bed.
"Carl, babe, can you hear me?" I asked, but he didn't answer. I sighed.
"I love you." Still nothing. Tears started forming in my eyes.
"Carl, please, wake up, I need you." I grab his hand and started playing with his ring.
"You made me a promise remember." My voice cracked as tears flowed down my face.
"You said we would be together until the end of time." I said smiling.
"You have to keep that promise, Carl."
"I need you, I can't do this without you."

Yay! We're back. I'm so happy! So I wanted to wait until next week to do this but I thought fuck that. Please comment it's makes my day and ask me questions and I'll answer them here! ~ Poppy