Goner

~Chapter Thirteen~

Getting Abraham moved around was easier this time because we had the help of Rick and Glenn. Everyone asked many questions like "What happened?" Or "Are you okay?"

As soon as I made it inside Theo ran up and hugged me.

"Glad your back and safe" Theo smiled.

"Me too" I said hugging him back

He went back up to his room with Carl. We had Abraham laying on the couch, still passed out. Rick, Daryl, Maggie, and Glenn were cleaning up the cuts. I stood watching. Abe's head was no longer dirty. The long scratch was cleaned and patched. The bruises were still bad though. The cuts on his arms were also cleaned and patched. He was looking better so far and he was definitely gonna make it. I just hope he isn't out for nearly as long as I was.

I took his large boots off and set them at the end of the couch. Rick began taking Abraham's shirt off to check for any other wounds. That's when I felt my body fill with fear. There was a large gash on his right side. It resembled a walker bite.

"WHAT IN THE HELL IS THAT!?" Rick yelled as he backed away.

"Is that-" Maggie began before she covered her mouth.

Daryl was covering his face with his hands, and Glenn stood with his mouth open. I was in total shock. Tears trailed down my face. I had so many things going through my head.

I heard footsteps approaching. Out of the corner of my eye I saw Theo, Carl, and Beth coming towards us. When they saw Abraham they either covered their mouth or just simply gasped. I was on my knees in front of the couch, right next to Abe. The tears kept coming.

I felt arms wrap around me. It was Beth.

"B - Beth..." I cried harder. "It can't be... It can't BE A WALKER BITE" I screamed. More tears. Beth tried calming me but i pushed her away. I leaned over Abraham's chest.

"It's not a walker bite. It's not a walker bite....." I repeated to myself over and over. "Please don't let it be a walker bite..." I was pointlessly sobbing into Abraham's chest. Craving for him to just open his eyes and give me a huge hug.

I stood up. Drying the tears from my face.

"It's not a walker bite. Let's get it cleaned up. Now." I glanced at Daryl, Rick, Maggie, and Glenn. They stood and stared at me. Daryl had his arms crossed.

"I said now." I had no expression.

"Go on back up stairs." Rick motioned to Beth, Theo, and Carl. They obeyed and traveled back up.

"Well we are gonna have to tie him up or something. You know... Just in case." Glenn said.

"We will." Rick said as he unlatched the handcuffs from his jeans and latched one onto Abrahams wrist and the other onto the leg of the large table next to the couch.

I had gotten down on my knees next to the couch. Maggie brought some water and a rag over. Glenn helped her. Rick was dipping the rag in the water and carefully cleaning up the wound. Daryl hovered over us and watched.

The wound looked a little better when cleaned. I was still pretty positive that it wasn't a walker bite but we couldn't be sure.

We all had settled down a bit. Rick, Glenn, Daryl, and Maggie were all checking supplies like food, ammo, weapons, you know, the essentials. Me, Carl, Beth, and Theo were sitting in the main room just talking. We haven't had a response from Abraham yet and with how scared I was I had been checking his pulse every hour.

"So how did you meet Abraham?" Carl leaned in close with curiosity in his eye.

"Well, when I left you guys. Which was one of the biggest mistakes of my life. I had found a map. Following the map I got to the barn that was filled with walkers. I remember someone attacking me and asking if I knew Daryl.. I replied with no because I was scared." I paused with a slight nervous chuckle. They all seemed interested in my story. "After that, my legs were sore and my head hurt somethin' awful. I tried walking but a small group of walkers caught up to me. One knocked me down and I was struggling to keep him from biting me. That's when someone shot it, then ordered another person to get me." I paused again. Taking a few deep breaths and glancing over at Abe.
"You okay Mist?" Theo asked, putting a hand on my shoulder.

"Oh. Uh. Yeah, Sorry... Anyway. I remember waking up in a room. All my wounds had been patched up. I walked into the room next door and there were a lot of people. One person in particular walked up to me and said that if i worked for them there would be good outcomes for me. I declined but he didn't like that so much. That's when i was sent to a room, and in that room was Abraham and his group.." I paused. "Thats... That's all I can say."

"Whoa. I wonder what kind of work they wanted you to do..?" Beth looked at me.

"They mentioned something about... me being good eating. I think they were going to eat me if I didn't work. But luckily I helped Abe and his group out before anything could happen." I smiled a bit.

"Hey Theo wanna go upstairs?" Carl stood up and stretched as he asked.

"Yeah sure. I will be there in a second." Theo said to Carl as he moved over to me and hugged me. "I love you Mist." Theo whispered to me.

"I love you too.." I whispered back before he began going upstairs with Carl.