Chapter Twenty Three: Fighting for the Right Reason

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We all congregated into the main area of the prison this morning. Only missing person was Rick. Michi told me how he was outside the fence and petting something that wasn't there. 

Comforting.

Mason and Ava sat in front of me and Michi, watching what was going on. Carl and Glenn got on the ground and started to draw the prison layout with chalk.

"Right, Now you said you found Tyreese's group here?" Glenn asked Carl as he pointed to a spot they drew out.

"Yeah."

"We secured this." Glenn stated.

"He thought he came through here." Carl told him as he pointed to another square.

"Means there's another breach." Glenn sighed. "Okay. The whole front of the prison in unsecure. If walkers just strolled in, then it's gonna be cake for a group of armed men."

"Why are we even so sure he's going to attack?" Beth asks. "Maybe you scared him off."

"He had fish tanks filled with heads." I told them, making them all look at me. "Walker and human heads as trophies. He is gonna come back."

"We should hit him now." Glenn said.

"What?" Beth asked confused.

"He won't be expecting it." Glenn explains. "We'll sneak back in and put a bullet in his head."

"We're not assassins." Carol pointed out. Glenn got up and walked towards me.

"You know where his apartment is.You and I could end this tonight."

"Have you seen yourself, you can barley stand for a long period of time." I tell him.

"We can do this." He pleaded. "I'll do it myself."

I pinch the bridge of my nose in frustration.

"Fine, but I get to kill him." I tell him sternly.

"Okay." Glenn nodded and walked back to the center.

"He didn't know you were coming last time and look what happened." Hershel pointed out."You were almost killed. Daryl and Mikayla were captured. And you and Maggie were almost executed."

"You can't stop me." Glenn growled as he came closer to Hershel.

"Rick would never allow this."

"You really think he's in any position to make that choice?"

"And you are?" I ask him.

"Think this through clearly. T-Dog lost his life here. Lori too. The men that were here. It isn't worth any more killing. What are we waiting for? If he's really on his way, we should be out of here by now."

"And go where?" Glenn asked.

"We lived on the road all winter."

"Back when you had two legs and we didn't have a baby crying for walkers every four hours. And  another little kid that can't protect themselves." Glenn snapped. I was about to go strangle him but Michi grabbed my arm.

"We can't stay here." Hershel stated.

"We can't run." Glenn growled.

"And I need a damn cigarette." I said, trying to ease the tension. It didn't work. Maggie walked away, and Glenn looked at her with pain.

"All right, We'll stay put." Glenn decided. "We're gonna defend this place. We're making a stand. Carl, you and I will go down to the tombs. We need to figure out where the breach is."

"You got it." Carl said.

"You'll need some help." Michi said stepping up to the plate.

"No, in case anything happens, I need you and Mikayla out here." Glenn said, then looked around. "Who's on watch?"

No one was. Glenn groaned and quickly went out to go for watch. I walked around Mason and head towards the direction Glenn went. He wasn't thinking straight.

"Oi, Chinaman!" I call to him, making him stop in his tracks.

"I'm Korean, jeez you're just like the Dixions I swear." He groans.

"You sure about this? Going on our own?" I ask him.

"He needs to go, to protect our people." Glenn growled.

"Not cause you think he touched your girl?" That made him stop. "I can put tow and two together when she wearing a shirt and your not."

"He touched her." He whispered with guilt.

"She tell ya that?" I asked him. He doesn't awnser. "Don't go and screw up what ya'll have just cause you think he did that. It is killin' her, and you need to grow a pari and talk to her."

"What do you know about that, huh?" HE snapped.

"Cause he touched me and I know what that looks like." I snapped back. His face dropped and his eyes were heavy. "I know I wouldn't be here if Michi wasn't there. Go be there for Maggie. Go comfort ya girl."

I left him to deal with his thoughts and headed up the guard tower. Once I got to the top, the breeze it my face. It was times like this where you really see the beauty in the world. The forests climbing for miles and greener than the puke for the Exorcist. The world of nature that was beautiful.

I glance down and my smile grows. Mason and Ava are playing in the field with the dolls and putting flowers in their hair. Michonne was watching from the buss with a small smile. Carol and Axel were talking and laughing together. Rick was wandering outside with Hershel calling him back.

But it all ended with a gunshot through Axel's head.

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