Fight The Dead, Fear The Living (Rick Grimes)

Chapter 14

After Dale's death everybody still thought it would be necessary to follow the procedure of killing him, but they claimed that they  would make sure it was a quick painless death which is better than any other death in this world, but I still don't agree.

"So what's the bets way to do this? String him up?" I asked.

"It's my first time." Rick answered, meaning he didn't know either.

"Look, I know how you feel about the death penalty, but--" I cut him off.

"After everything that's happened, you and Shane agree on this." I asked referring to Dale, Lori came over, probably to add her opinion.

"Well Rick, you have gotten us through a lot" She said.

"So you support this decision?" Rick asked her.

"If you think it's best." She stated.

I started to walk away until I heard Carol shout over to Rick and Lori.

"You need to control that boy!"

"Carl? What happened?" Rick asked, I was still walking but a lot slower to hear what happened.

"He's disrespectful." Carol said.

"Did he say something?" Lori asked.

"Something cruel about Sofia." She said.

"We'll figure it out." Rick said.

"It's okay." Carol answered.

"I--It's not okay." Lori said, stumbling on her words.

"I'll have-- I'll have a talk with him." Rick said lowering his voice, the rest was cut out because I walked away.

As I was walking, I heard Shane shouting.

 "Rick! Rick!" I looked and saw Shane emerging from the woods with blood trailing down his face.

"What happened?" I asked him as I got closer to him.

"He's armed! He's got my gun!" Shane shouted, making more attention be focused on him.

"Are you okay?" Rick asked as he walked over.

"I'm fine. Little bastard just snuck up on me. He clocked me in the face." Shane explained.

"All right, Hershel, T-Dog, get everybody back in the house." Rick made a plan.

"Glenn, Daryl, come with us." Rick said, meaning I was going in the house.

"T, I'm gonna need that gun." Shane said.

"Just let him go." I said.

"That was the plan, wasn't it, to just let him go?" Shane said, accusing me of something.

"The plan was to cut him loose far away from here, not on our front step with a gun." Rick said, defending me.

"Don't go out there. Ya'll know what can happen." Maggie said, looking at Glenn.

"Get everybody back in the house." T-Dog doing his job.

"Lock all the doors and stay put!" Rick finished.

"Let's go, back in the house." Lori said to Carl.

"Okay." Carl said as I followed him in.

 "Where's Carl!?" Lori asked, becoming frantic.

"Can you not look after your son for 5 minutes while everybody else is doing their own thing?" I asked her, she glared at me.

"You have no idea how hard it is to look after a child." She said.

"Of course I do! What was I doing while YOU were in the woods fucking my boyfriend?!" I asked her, she looked shocked but quickly recovered.

"He never really cared about you, I hope you know that because he damn well cared about my well being!" We were starting a whole new argument that could only end badly.

"If you weren't pregnant, you'd be on the floor." I said, I walked away before I did end up hitting her and looked for Carl. As I looked out the window I saw a load if walkers near the burning barn.

"WALKERS!" I shouted, everybody rushed to the windows and saw them for themselves. People were frantic getting the cars ready as Glenn and Daryl came back.

"Where's Rick and Shane?" I asked them as we ran to a car, Daryl got on his motorbike and I got in a car with Glenn and Maggie.

"No idea." Glenn answered as Maggie drove while Glenn shot walkers. I would shoot too but I didn't have a gun on me.

When the farm was getting too overrun, we drove away and Glenn told us to head for the highway.

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We arrived at saw most of the group there, hugging each other as they were reunited. I stood awkwardly to the side as people hugged until Rick came over.

"I'm really sorry Tori," He started, but I already knew.

"Shane, he's dead." He said, I don't know why but I started to cry, I hated that man but I loved him too.

Rick pulled me into a hug, with his arms around my waist and his head resting on to of mine while I cried into his shoulder. I knew I still loved Shane but I wasn't ready to jump back into the relationship after the last incident we had.