It's Never Too Late

Chapter 22: Time and Fate

Doc's POV:
As we drive down this drawn-out road, I look over to see Heather beginning to cry in her sleep. I wake her up quickly by holding her hand. "Darling, you alright?" I ask her. She grabs my hand tighter.

"I just had a bad dream is all." She told me. She gave me a kiss on the hand to reassure me everything was alright. "You dreamt about your daughter, Abby. I've known you since the very beginning of all this mess. I understand honey it must be hard. But listen to me, we are going to get through this,"

I look back and then say "all of us will." Just as I look forward I notice a fallen semi in the way. I slam the break hard and look around. "Is everyone okay?" I ask. "Yeah we're okay." Heather says. At this point everyone is out of their vehicles. Paul gets up on our car and announces

"Ok everyone we have an obvious problem here. We don't have much to move this semi so we may have to take foot from here. It isn't too much farther, another seven miles down this road. Maybe another hour and a half but-" he gets cut off by a man screaming and running out of the woods. He has a machete in his hand and right as he steps into the road we put our guns to him. "Hey hey buddy, drop your weapon alright?" I say to him. "Please help! They-" just as he's finishing his word an arrow comes right through his skull. About six men come through the woods on one side and six on the other, all guns raised. Just as I thought we were surrounded three trucks come down the road from both sides. The semi was only half blocking the road and our cars were too big to fit through but they made their way through.

James's POV:
"Shit." Is all I say as they surround us. Moly hugs me tight as they force us to our knees. Out of the trucks come many men with even more weapons. There had to be at least 50 of them. We can't fight our way out. Then out of the final truck a man walks out. A very familiar face. He looks up and speaks to us. "Hello assholes. My name is Tomas, but you can call me the devil if you feel that's easier. And trust me, you'll be calling me worse in a few minutes." He starts to step around and begins laughing a little bit. That's when I recognized him. He was the prick who killed Jones a while back. I immediately recognized him but knew I couldn't say a god damn thing. "So I just want to start out by saying that it's pretty obvious who the bad guys are here. You killed so many men of mine. You crippled our military. And now, the Garnets shall have their revenge. See I want to kill all of you right here and right now. And I very well might do that." Molly holds me tighter. Tomas walks over to Dad. "So, you're the leader huh? It would make no sense whatsoever to kill you first. Think of this as the Wizard of Oz, you're Dorothy and these people here are your Scarecrow, Tin Man, and Lion. And your life is the ruby red slippers." Molly holds me tighter then ever. Tomas notices her and walks over. "What the hell are you doing?" He asks her. "..." She says nothing "Nothing huh? Pathetic. You should be the first to go" Tomas looks at the sky, looks down, then looks up again. "No, killing a little girl is too much. There's no way I could just blow her brains out." I sigh in relief. I look up to see his gun pointed at her chest. BAM! BAM! BAM!

Paul's POV:
I couldn't stop it. Nobody could. James had to sit there's and just watch. Lisa is crying, Doc, Heather, Layne, and overall the crying, I couldn't not listen to James screaming his eyes out. I look over to see Molly lying dead on the ground with three bullet holes in her, one in her arm, another in her sternum, and the final bullet shot through her skull. She's dead.
Tomas then looked down at her and started laughing. "Hahahaha, it's funny how you assholes think I'm done. Oh I'm far from done. I'll need at least three more of you people dead. Then we can call it even so you know that you are SCREWING WITH THE WRONG PEOPLE!!!" He begins screaming. He looks over at James and realizes Molly was close to him. "I feel kind of bad tho, this boy will have to live on his whole life knowing I murdered this girl. I really don't care if she was his sister or his girlfriend or just a really close friend, either way I feel bad." He pulls out his gun slowly. "I really don't like feeling bad. I want this feeling of guilt to disperse from my body." He points his gun at James and right as he does...BAM BAM! Two shots from down the road kill two of his men. A third shot shoots Tomas in the arm causing him to drop the gun. "Oh shit, more of them." He says. Right after that a bunch of walkers appear just down the road behind another group of people who were shooting at the Garnets. I look over to see one of them get bitten but then that person kills the walkers quickly. They then proceed to mow shoot at the Garnets.  "There are too many! Retreat!" Tomas and his people get in the cars as more and more of his people are mowed down and killed. Probably 12 people were shot. Mostly head shots too. Then I hear a familiar voice. "Get the hell out of here!" The voice screams. The person walks up to me after the Garnets run off and untied my whole group. He looks down at Molly and says "Damn, I'm sorry man."

•Author's Note•
Hey guys sorry for the short chapter and for the awful death 😭. Thanks for the constant support with reads!