-ITS BEEN A DAY BTW-
Rick, Glenn, T-Dog, Daryl and I stood out in the yard.
"We need to clear this yard. It's about time"
Rick says
"Before we start, where are Glenn and Maggie?" I say
"Up the in the guard tower"
"Glenn! Maggie!" Daryl yells
Glenn comes out without a shirt and is adjusting his pants. We laugh at his clumsiness and then also knowing what happened the night before.
"You comin?" Daryl yells
"What?" He squinted due to the bright sun.
"You comin?" Daryl repeats
"Um, yeah. We'll be down" he says and goes back inside.
"We got company" T-Dog speaks and our attention is turned to Axel and Oscar.
Rick is angry as he walks to them. We all follow behind, Glenn and Maggie joining us.
"We can't stay in there anymore, man" Axel whines "I think there's ghosts"
"You know the agreement. We got you that cell block and you stay away from my people" Rick says
"But it's scary. And dark and lonely"
"We have an agreement, if you don't want to follow it, you leave" Rick turns to Glenn "get them a weeks worth of supplies and send them on their way, for now they can stay here"
Oscar stood at the gate, Glenn jogged away to get them supplies. Daryl walked away to work on his bike and Axel seemed to have a interest in his bike and followed him. Maggie, T-Dog, Rick and I all stood around.
"So what's the plan?" I ask breaking the silence
"Move the walkers onto trucks, pile them outside the gates and burn them" Rick tells us.
•••
Glenn sent Oscar and Axel off and now we were working on the yard. Maggie and T-Dog had left to help around inside.
I stood up to wipe some sweat from my forehead, and when I did I saw Dad was up. Lori and Beth steadied him while Carl walked behind them. Maggie watched him, as did Carol and T-Dog. I saw Lori staring at something and I turned to see what it was, it was Rick. He stared right at her, smile on his face and a sparkle in his eye. Something in me was glad that they worked things out but another made me upset that they were working out.
"Walkers!' Carl yells and I change my vision to see walkers flooding the yard.
Glenn drops the pile of logs he had and we all start to run.
"Get inside! Everyone inside! Lori!" Rick yelled as we ran through the yard.
I heard gunshots and looked up to see where everyone was. In the process I tripped over my own feet and everyone else was too focused on saving the ones they loved and I was left behind. Glenn had Maggie, Daryl had Carol and Rick had Lori and Carl. I had to pick myself up, when I set pressure down on my right foot I felt pain run up my leg. But then I remembered that our group was being attacked and I continued to run without caring how much pain I was in. Adrenaline had me running for my life.
•••
Everyone was still inside when we cleared the walkers in the courtyard. Everyone was covered in another layer of blood. Glenn investigated the area to find the breach.
"The fence was cut open" he says showing us a hole in a fence.
Axel and Oscar seemed to appear as soon as that happened.
"You guys are messing with this?" Rick says angrily but before anyone could respond or make any moves, an alarm sounds.
Walkers gather around the outer fences, panic is created once again. The alarm rang over and over, loud and consistent.
"What is that?" I yell over the alarms
"Someone must've set them off from inside, in the generator room!" Oscar replies
"Do you know how to turn them off?" Rick yells
"I do, I used to w-" Axel starts
"Let's fucking go!" I interrupted
•••
We all went to the generator room where Andrew stood ready to attack. Rick charged at him, knocking him over. Axel and I went to shut down the alarms while Daryl, Glenn and Oscar stayed with Rick and Andrew.
Axel fixed the alarm, turning it off. The alarm ended but the ringing in my ears continued.
"Thank you" I smiled at him.
When we met up with the others, Andrew was dead. We move back through the tombs to try and meet up with the others. We came across T-Dogs remains, and killed the walker who got to him. A few feet away from his body was Carols scarf but no Carol. Daryl picked it up and put it in his back pocket.
We arrived in the courtyard. Dad and Beth are there. I run to hug them both.
"Where are the others?" Dad asks
"T-Dog and Carol didn't make it, have you seen Lori, Carl and Maggie?" I reply
A baby's cry erupts and echoes through the courtyard. I turn to see Maggie walking out, distress on her face, holding a crying baby with her arms covered in blood. Carl stood away from everyone else, he looked at the ground.
I then realized that Lori didn't make it.
"W-where is she?" Rick stutters
Maggie shook her head.
"No" Rick shakes his head "no, no, no" he rests his hands on his knees and looks at Carl but he doesn't look back. I was shocked. I didn't want Lori in the picture, but I didn't want her dead either.
"No!" Rick cries and he falls to the ground.
Maggie cried as she held the baby and Glenn goes to comfort her. I looked at Dad who stood with the same expression as everyone else. I felt a tear fall down my face. In pain for Rick, feeling whatever he was feeling on top of guilt. Seeing him hurt, hurt me.
Rick stands up and grabs his hatchet from his belt.
"Rick, no" Maggie tries to stop him but he walks past her.
He was going to find her body and take on whatever walkers he has to, alone. No one dared to speak up and stop him or even follow after him, not even Daryl. I shook my head. This was a day full of loss and it wasn't fair.
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