Shadow (TWD Carl)

~Chapter 2~

I get off my bed, placing the book down. I decided to go outside for the rest of the day and try to do a few of my jobs around here. I here many voices, a few directed at me.

I ignore them though as I have no concerns with them and continue walking towards the gates. I see a community car rolling through the gates and notice my father with a couple of unknown faces.

The car's ignition is turned off and my father gets out with the other survivors. He picks up a conversation with his comrade until he sees me. I stand my ground as I continue to stare at the unknown survivors. By the time I stop, my father is standing 2 feet away from me, towering over me.

"Go get the infirmary ready. We need to make sure these two girls are healthy, I'll deal with the pilot. Don't try to do anything stupid and keep an eye on the blonde one." My father orders. I simply nod my head and make my way over to the infirmary, while being followed by the two curious women. Why the blonde one specifically?

I walk into the infirmary and ask the two to sit down on separate beds. Seeing as my father isn't here, I try to make some sort of a conversation between the tree of us. I should be nice, good first impression right?

"I didn't catch your name earlier. Mind if you tell me?" I manage to get out. It took them a while as I could see distrust flickering in their eyes.

"I'm Andrea, and that's Michonne." The blonde one responded.

"Nice to meet you," I argued with my self on whether I should tell them my name or not. I decide to go the safe route and tell them my nickname. "You can call me Shadow..."

I start to examine the first girl Andrea.

"Shadow? Really?" Michonne asked as she raised an eyebrow.

"Got a problem with my name?"

The room was silent at that point and I continued to do the task of searching the girls. Guess Michonne isn't one for chit chat. I finish with Andrea and start moving onto Michonne. Andrea's body was just exhausted from the time she was out there and needs some rest.

"Why are we being held here? We want to leave." Andrea demanded.

"You're not well enough. And it's dark, you should stay the night..." I drift off in response.

"Where are we?"

"That's not for me to say. He'll talk to you."

"Who?" Michonne pipes up.

As she says that, Merle walks into the room.

"Go check on your friends Shadow, I'm sure they are wondering where you are." He tells me. I walk out of the room but I stayed round the corner long enough to be able to hear his talk with Andrea and Michonne.

"Bet you was wondering if I was real! Probably hoping I wasn't. Well, here I am. I guess this old world gets a little small towards the end, huh? Ain't so many of us left to share the air right? You know, when they found me, I was near bled out, starving, thinking to myself a bullet might make a good last meal. Take myself a nice long nap after, wait for Daryl on the other side." He pauses for a few seconds. "You seen my brother?"

"Not for a long time." Andrea responds.

"Makes two of us."

"He went back for you, him and Rick. You were already gone."

I stopped listening after that and started acknowledging my thoughts.
They had a group. A group that went back for people. A group that cares. Or maybe they don't... But still, any group would be better than this place. I should ask them about it. Or maybe not. What if this is your best chance at leaving? But what if it puts us into a worse situation. It can't. Nothing is worse than this community, not even the hell we live in. If I'm going to talk to them I need to be nice, I can't be myself. Gotta put on an act to have a great show.
After quarrelling with myself for a little longer, I've decided to talk to one of them later on. I need to know more about this group. See if it'll give me a chance, an opening, to a better life for not just me, but my family.

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Hey, so chapter 2 is done. Hopefully you are enjoying it so far. I got my first comment from @NoelClarke0 , I wanted to say thank you very much for that. I'm not gonna let the story drag on about Shadow's life in Woodbury for too long. Anyways, I hope you enjoyed the chapter and any feedback would be helpful.
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~SG22~