Survive ( twd carlgrimes)

Chapter 102

Bare with me this chapter will probs be long but the next two chapters are big so stay with me. 😂💓🎉
Carls pov.
We ran together staying close while we ran from the fast moving monsters behind us. I ran beside Luke as Abbie ran ahead with Maggie, Michonne, Daryl and that new girl.
"Hey Carl?" Luke asks between breaths
"Yeah?"
"We should run into the forest now. We could loose track of the walkers and we can search for Madison together." He amends. It sounds to me like he has thought about this for a long time.
"What? I, can't do that. I love Madison, I do. But I also love my family and i'm not using them as bait to get away. We need to think straight. Madison is the strongest person I know, she's ok. She is fine and so is my sister. We'll find them." I assure him.
"You don't know she's fine. Nobody does, Judith could give her away if they're hiding. It just takes one small cry and shes a gonner. Both of them are." He haunts.
"DON'T THINK LIKE THAT!" I yell.
"I have no other way to see it. I've grown up with this girl. She's my best friend. I need her beside me. I-" he cuts off.
"You what?" I ask
"I, I love her. Always have, always will." He tells me.
I don't think twice before I hurdle myself ontop of him and connect my fist to his jaw. Rage pulses through my veins and I love that he's defenceless and I love the satisfaction of blood dripping from his nose and mouth. I don't even notice the herd coming closer and closer until Daryl pulls me off of Luke. The new girl helps Luke up but the herd is to close and a walker grabs a hold of her. Luke grabs her hand pulling her toward him as she screams for help. The walkers have caught her. They peel back the flesh from her neck, face, shoulders. Everywhere. She belongs to the dead now. Luke has no other choice but to let go of the screaming girl or he would be taken too. Her scream is so earsplitting that it sends shivers down our spines and goosebumps to prickle our skin. No doubt the whole forest heard it. Maybe even Mads heard it. The herd are right up our asses. We sprint but the dead keep coming. They just don't get tired and I feel my muscles burning out for running so long. The walkers still come, at a faster pace might I add. Dad looks back to check where I am and he hauls me forward so i'm beside him.
"Keep moving, come on!" He yells, not just to me but to everyone.
People are getting tired and are falling behind. I'm nearly one of them. A walker grabs Maggies hair and pulls her back.
"MAGGIE!!" Everyone screams in unison but Glenns is the loudest. Luke jumps forward on a suicide mission and hauls an unscratched or bitten Maggie away. Glenn holds her and sprints forward with her, glancing over her to check for scratches or bites. Meanwhile Luke battles a herd of walkers shooting at the close ones and tripping backwards. He looks up to see that the whole herd is targeting him but when he joins us there isn't a chance we'll make it. Theres too many and they're too close. We're already dead. But something changed, his face hardened like a mask and he nods to me before leading the herd out into the forest and leading himself to his own death. He knew good and well what he was doing and what he was sacrificing and no matter how many times I call for him, he never looked back. The herd follows him and Dad and Daryl forces us to keep running forward. We get a few yards ahead until we hear the piercing scream of Luke being torn to shreads by the monsters. I feel my chest get heavy and my breaths become quick and uneven as I realised the man who confessed his love for my girl was still my friend and now he is dead. Luke is dead.
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MADISONS POV.
I sit on the gravel on the same road next to Will corpse. I hold Judith in my arms giving her the bottle. Its been a few minutes after the earspliting scream. I consider trying to follow the sound of the scream but last time I did that one of them died. The proof is in the dead body lying next to me. I sit for another fifteen minutes trying to figure myself out. I have Carl's hat on my head trying to figure out if he went in the forest or stayed along the road. The only clue I have is his hat. But it's like looking for a needle in a haystack but you don't even know what the needle looks like. I have no idea where to start on how to find him. I think to myself as Judith finishes her bottle.
If they stayed along the road its kinda stupid, your most likely to run into an unfriendly group of people or a herd of walkers. They must have gone into the forest, it's the only safe bet they have. I get off the ground and prepare for another days journey as I look into the forest but a voice in the back of my head keeps telling me to stay on the road. I ignore it.
Suddenly I hear screaming coming from the same direction as last time except this time its more manly and deeper. I decide to ignore it also so I put Judith in her pouch and put her bottle away. I grab my bow and keep it on me handy in case I need it quick. I have an idea as I use my mothers knife to cut off a piece of walker Will's shirt. I put the material on the wet blood on its head. I walk upto a signpost that told cars where to go. I wrote over it with the blood.