For You // R.G.

Chapter 72

Rick was digging a bag of weapons in the ground to make sure if shit goes down, we'll be able to have back ups somewhere. He had told us the plan, it was to hop the fence that surrounded terminus and to sneak in, make sure that nothing fishy was going down. Once he had buried the weapons, he stood up and walked over to me where I was watching the building and seeing if it was clear. He touched the small of my back,

"You could always stay back here if you wanted." He says. I huffed, I was offended, I looked back at him,

"When are you going to stop underestimating me?" I asked, he looked confused, like that wasn't what he meant,

"No, I know you can do this, it's just I don't want you to get hurt-"

"No, everything you do, I do. You have to understand that we're a package deal, I go if you go." I explained, as I did, he started to smile. He was amused by me,

"Stop it, I used to be so badass before I met you." I say as serious as possible but he still laughed, and before we all went to hop the fence, I kissed his cheek, he helped me up the fence.

"Keep an eye open." He says to all of us, and then we were off. We entered through a door, we paused when there were people across the large room which seemed more like a warehouse, but the few of them were sitting down and one had a radio device, she was talking into it while staring at us. We already had our weapons out, a man stood up. He was younger looking, he had dark hair and a boyish figure. He stood still, he seemed nervous at first but he groaned, he shifted on his feet.

"Looks like Albert isn't keeping watch..." He says, as if we were stray cats who snuck in here, not like dangerous people who were capable of killing people.

"Hi," he situated himself from the whole Albert situation and took a step forward towards us. He wasn't intimidated by us at all which ticked me off, "I'm Gareth. I guess front entrances are too mainstream now." He sounded a little annoyed. Rick stood up to make sure he looked all tough,

"We wanted to see you before you saw us." He says. Gareth nods, seeing the logic in it, he smiles again.

"Well, welcome to Terminus. Since you got your way in arriving, I get my way when checking for weapons." He says. We all looked at one another, seeing how the idea settled.

"You guys can't stay here without us checking, I promise we won't take them." He says. Rick finally stepped forward, we all followed him and lined up. Rick looked at me while he took his machine gun off his shoulder and laid it on the ground. He wanted me to take mine off too, knowing that I was going to be difficult with following these directions. I finally bit my tongue and started to rid my weapons. Gareth and another dude, who I assumed was his brother since they looked alike, started to frisk us. I looked to the side as Gareth frisked me, I looked over at Rick as he was getting checked too. Once Gareth was done, I held my smirk back when he didn't catch that I had a dagger in my boot, where I always kept it.

"Okay, thank guys. Now we'll give the tour of the place, maybe Mary is making some burgers..." He says, he starts to walk towards a door where it would lead outside. We all gathered our weapons and came together as a group again.

"Somethin' weird about this place." Daryl mutters.

"I need some food." Michonne says. Carl started talking to Rick about something. Once we were outside, I smelled burning meat. The sun shown through the sky, it was a beautiful day, but I barely noticed when I saw a familiar looking shirt on a clothes rack. I stared at it long and hard until Rick tapped me, I looked at him,

"We're gonna eat, what's wrong?" He asks, I looked back at the shirt and shook my head, I walked with him and spoke quietly so no one could hear,

"That shirt on the clothes rack looks familiar." I say. Rick looked back at it, he had his hand on the small of my back to make sure I stayed close to him.

"Just keep an eye out for anything else."

"I'll whistle if something's wrong." I say, he nods. We both reached where Michonne, Daryl, and Carl were standing and talking to a stocky lady who was cooking meat on a grill. The meat didn't smell right to me, and I didn't know if it was just because I was being protective so I was paranoid or maybe I was right, but I wasn't going to eat the meat either way.

"You folks look hungry, you've been on the road for awhile?" She asks, I was looking around at the people sitting and eating. I saw someone wearing a poncho, the same exact one Daryl used to wear back at the prison. Before I did anything stupid, I looked at gareth's brother and saw him wearing some of Glenn's things. I felt an adrenaline rush, I went over to the guy and before he could do anything, I put him in a headlock and pressed my gun to his head. I whistled just then, Rick got his gun out and pointed it at the man on the roof who already had his aim on me. The guy in my headlock didn't try to escape, but everyone was drawn towards me,

"What are you doing-" Gareth asked tiredly,

"Where did you get this watch?" I asked the guy, he didn't answer. My group had their weapons drawn,

"We have a sniper aiming at your head as we speak, I suggest that you let him go and we can talk." Gareth tried to reason with me,

"No. Where did you get the armor? How about the poncho?" I asked,

"The armor was off a dead cop and the poncho... I don't know, I just found it one day." Gareth brushed it off like it was nothing. I didn't believe him though.

"Where are our people?" Rick asked, he caught on to what I was saying. The sniper on the roof yelled something but Gareth held a hand out to make sure the sniper didn't shoot us.

"Let us go." Gareth asked calmly,

"Where are our people?" Michonne asked again. I knew he wasn't going to answer but I saw that the sniper shot the guy instead. I let his body fall, we all started shooting up the place but we started to run when more and more snipers shot at us.

"Come on!" Rick yelled as we ran, we ran between alleyways and ducked gunfire from above. Daryl hollered from afar, he had a door held open. We all entered inside and saw a room with words written all over and candles set along the floor. It looked like some creepy voodoo shit ritual place.

"They're hiding something." Carl says, we all heard yelling come from outside meaning people chasing after us. We all ran towards another door to escape from them. We were in another room, looking for a door to let us out,

"They weren't shooting at us, why?" I asked,

"They're herding us somewhere. They shot that Alex guy right away with no problem." Rick says. Michonne led us over to another open area outside where it seemed safe, but once we heard guns cock and Gareth yell from afar, we saw that we were cornered.

"Put your weapons down." Gareth says from the roof. He had about six snipers lined up on the roof with him, they all had us in aim.

We were in some deep shit.