Shadow (TWD Carl)

~Chapter 21~

"Everyone stay in your cells!" Hershel orders but a woman and a man came out and tried to help him. A little boy came out of his cell and I wanted to scream at him but I noticed he was a walker. I couldn't think of anything else but to jump over the railings and land on the bottom floor.

The boy bit the man trying to save Hershel while I was killing the walker. The man shot his gun and the bullet hit the woman in the head. A girl's scream echoes the block, probably loud enough to alert the whole prison, and a walker outbreak erupted.

I run to the other room and grab one of my swords. I come back and try to kill the walkers in the cells. I look upstairs to realize I forgot about Lizzie and saw her walking backwards, luring a reanimated Henry. It was smart to get him away from Glenn but she was walking into a dead end.

"Just follow me, Henry. Down here, away from Glenn. Come on. Come on, Henry. Here we go. This way." I run up the stairs as fast as I could but realized I couldn't kill Henry because we need the oxygen bag and tube for Glenn. "Come on, boy. Come on, Henry. Just a little more. Keep coming. Come on, boy. Let's go. Come on." I kill all the other walkers on the top floor as I'm trying to way up my options on what to do with Henry.

I look down over the railings to see a net in one of the sections above the lower floor. I heard Lizzie screaming for help as she tripped over and Henry was on top of her. I run over to them as quick as I could and picked up Henry with all my strength, chucking him over the railings and onto the net. I check to make sure he couldn't come back over and then bend down to Lizzie.

"You okay?" I ask.

"I called him nice. He didn't scratch Glenn. I thought maybe he listens."

"Lizzy, is Glenn still in his cell?"

"Yeah."

I help Lizzie stand up and push her back into an empty cell. I close the door and tell her to stay and not to come out no matter what. I run over to Glenn's cell to see him in the same place gagging.

Hershel finished up with killing more walkers and he came into Glenn's cell.

"Stay here with Glenn, please take care of him as much as you can. I'm going to get the oxygen bag." He nods and I run over to Henry. I hear gunshots inside the block and more coming from outside. So much was going on but I had to concentrate on getting the bag for Glenn.

The walkers must have broken through the fencing outside. That's not your problem right now though. First task: get the bag and tube.

I reach for the bag and tube in Henry's mouth but he was too far away and my position was too awkward. I did the only thing I could and jumped over the rails and onto the net with Henry. I fell over and I was fighting against Henry who had crawled over and was trying to feast on me. The bag was blocking him from doing that luckily but I was having trouble trying to pry him off and grab the equipment.

I heard a click of a gun and I looked up to see Maggie. She was raising her gun to Henry, ready to shoot.

"No! You could hit the bag. We need it for Glenn." She doesn't listen to me and shoots the gun anyway. I was grateful that it didn't hit the bag as Henry's fighting ceased. I remove the bag and tube from Henry's throat and get up to jump over the railings again.

"Where is he?"

"He's up here. In Henry's cell." I state and I run with Maggie back to Hershel and Glenn. Glenn was still gasping for air and Hershel was trying to turn him over to clear his airway. I hand Hershel the bag and tube.

"Hold his arms down." He ordered and Maggie and I do just that. Glenn tries to fight against us but our grip only tightened.

"Come on, son. Come on. You know how this works. Just relax." Hershel tried to calm him down. It was working luckily.