Wake the Dead

chapter 34

The word walkers made me more alert and on guard. I sat up, but not too fast that I would get dizzy again, and then grabbed my gun and knife from Daryl. He threw my bag over at me and then we both ran upstairs. I felt my head start to throb, but I ignored it as we came into the kitchen. 

People where running around, trying to pack up all the food and clothes they could while others where on the porch shooting at walkers. "We gotta go!" T-dog yelled back at everyone as he was shooting. Everybody quickly grabbed their bags and started to run out of the door. I shoot at the walkers that where getting close to us as we made a dash to the cars. 

I quickly jumped on the back of Daryl's motorcycle as he got it running, and then we sped off after the other cars. My head was throbbing like crazy now, so I rested my head on Daryl's back trying to take deep breaths and make it go away.

We head drove down for a while, but then we all started to slow. Rick got out of the car he was driving and we all met around him. I slowly lifted my leg off the motorcycle, but all of the sudden the ground started spinning, so I stumbled a little. Daryl caught me before I fell on my face and held me steady until everything started to stop spinning.

I stood up and Daryl dropped his hands from me as Rick started to talk. "We should all have at least half a tank of gas left. We can drive down to the strip mall we have gone to get supplies from and syphon some fuel out of the cars around."

"Maybe there will be another house or farm somewhere." Lori added as she held onto Carl. 

Rick just nodded while he looked to the ground, then walked back over and got into his car. Everyone followed him and I got back on the bike behind Daryl. He looked back at me for a second, but then looked forward and started to drive off with the caravan of cars. 

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After we got all the gas tanks full, we started to drive off again. It was late morning and the air was crisp as it blew my hair around on Daryl's bike. I was still pissed at what Daryl said this morning, but I was slowly getting over it, it wasn't a big deal. 

I could tell he was still upset about it and was tense as I held onto him as we drove. I ran my hands over his hips and then up to his chest, trying to get him to become less tense. He wasn't expecting my touch, but he slowly relaxed under me.

I knew he was upset about those assholes touching me, but no damage was done and there is nothing we can do about it now. I kept my hands on his chest, loving to be able to touch him. 

We passed by a few other houses, but there was too many walkers around them for comfort, so we drove on a little bit. We ended up making a stop to stretch and look at the map. People handed out a few cans of food and everyone started to eat a little bit. "Should probably go huntin before it gets too cold." Daryl said to Rick.

"Yeah. Alright, by the looks of this map there is a lot of open fields over here." Rick pointed his finger to a big green spot. "Probably some houses over there that we could check out. Once we get settled, Daryl you can go out and see if you can catch anything." Rick looked around for anyone to object, but everyone just nodded and got back in the cars.

I could tell that some people didn't like how Rick had taken over complete control and gotten darker, but it was for the best. I think he had had it with people questioning his leadership, mostly Shane, so once Shane was dead he cracked. I had respect for Rick, he was doing everything for the group and I don't think anyone could do anything better than what he has done. I let out a sigh and put my hands around Daryl as we drove off again.

We had been driving for a while, but then pulled onto some dirt roads and took them down to where we saw the open fields. The cars in front of us stopped and we both got off the bike, walking over to see what was ahead. It definitely was a ton of open fields and hills, but in the distance you could see that there was some large cabins.