Everyone gathered around Dale's grave and were listening to Rick's speech, well not everyone, Catherine who couldn't take her eyes away from the grave stood silently. Not hearing a single word from what Rick had been saying, instead, she thought back to the events last night.
Had she and Carl really sealed Dale's fate?
"That kind of honesty is rare..." Rick continued
Catherine fiddled nervously with her thumb, eventually, the fiddling turned into scratching, and then the scratching turned into picking until finally, she was bleeding.
Not a big cut, of course, just a small one. She hissed looking at her thumb that was throbbing from the pain
"...and brave" Catherine had been brought back to reality, she looked up seeing that the sun was starting to set
"Whenever I'd make a decision, I'd look to Dale"
Catherine then looked over to Carl who stood silently crying, Perhaps he felt the same way she did.
"He'd be looking back at me with that look he had. We've all seen it one time or another"
Ricks words were barely above a whisper to Catherine as she held onto her jacket tightly
"I couldn't always read him, but he could read us"
Catherine inhaled deeply
"He saw people for who they were"
She held onto her breath
"He knew things about us. The truth, who we really are"
Catherine couldn't take it anymore "I need to go lie down, I'm sorry" She said to Marzia before running straight towards the house.
"Hey, sweetie," Maggie says as both she and Marzia enter the room, Catherine was facing away from them curled up in the bed where Marzia had been staying
Marzia sat on the edge of the bed, stroking her younger sisters hair "You know, you've really made Katie worried"
"Where is she?" Catherine asked Marzia smiled knowing that if Katie was here, then Catherine would definitely talk about what made her run off
"I can go get her if you want?" Maggie says leaning against the door frame, Catherine nodded "Alright, me and Marzia will get her and leave you two alone. But please talk to us if you need to" Maggie says as they both leave the room.
"Knock knock"
Catherine smiled "Who's there"
"Your favourite sister" Katie snickered
"My favourite sister, who?"
"Well me of course!" Katie jumps into the room and then onto the bed landing on Catherine
"Ouch!" Catherine laughed and groaned out in pain
"Yeah, that definitely wasn't my brightest idea" Katie laughs
"I couldn't agree more," Catherine says as Katie gets into bed beside her
"So, what's up. Talk to me" Katie rests her head next to Catherine
"It's my fault..." Catherine whispered, Katie, turns facing Catherine
"What is?" Catherine starts to tear up
"Dale... If had just stopped Carl or killed the walker myself, Dale could still have been alive"
"What are you talking about?"
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I'm only human (Carl Grimes fanfic) Completed.
Fanfiction"When there's no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth. There is no hope for any of us" Catherine says as Carl sighs "I think there is hope for all of us... I started to have more faith when I met you" This story will be based on the walki...
