My Hunter || D. Dixon (On Hold)

Four - Escape Plan

My hand runs through my hair at the sight of the walker build up at the front of the store. One of which, had a death grip on a brick or a rock of some sorts. "How the Hell are we going to get out of here?" I ask no one specifically. I glance beside me to Glenn and Rick.

Rick looked like he has a good plan in the making in his head. "Here's the plan." He says after a moment of watching the walkers. "We need to find the sewers, are there any potholes on the street?" He questions and I shake my head.

Rick sighs, "the only one close enough is right beside the tank." Jessica hugged Caleb when the walker's pounding got louder. I glare at the animated corpses. The poor girl's scared out of mind at this being the end of everything that she knows. Not if we can help it.

Jacque steps up a bit, looking at us. "There should be another level below the bottom floor. There should be a hole that leads down to the sewer." We all give looks of curiosity. "I was a building zoner, I know everything about buildings."

It's amazing that we used to be someone's in this world. How we're here now after everything that we once were. How Caleb and I served and as far as I'm concerned Rick's a real sheriff. It's fascinating how who we're still made up who are now. It all plays a part.

Glenn takes the lead, taking us downstairs of the building and exactly to the spot that Jacque was talking about. "Rick, you and Andrea are going to stay on the bottom floor just in case any geeks get in." He looked at me. "You and Jacque are staying here, but first tell T-dog that he's watching Merle." He turned to Morales, "You're coming with me. Those walkers are going to break the glass, we don't have a lot of time."

Nodding, I run upstairs and grab Andrea after telling T-dog that he's babysitting Merle. "Caleb, Jess, get ready to leave." They both nod and run off to our stuff. When I got back I saw that Glenn and Morales had gone down leaving their footsteps to echo to silence.

After a while, I heard the sound of glass shattering and ran to the next room. The walkers had gotten through one set of the glass. "Shit," I mutter under my breath and to make it worse Glenn came up.

His look of fear said everything that I didn't want to believe. "There's no way out." Rick rubbed his forehead in thought as I looked around for a moment. My attention though was stuck on the walkers, an idea ticking in my head at the plan.

"I have an idea." Rick and Glenn both look at me. The next move was bringing in two walker bodies to make my genius plan work. The plan, of course, is to cover up Rick and Glenn with walker blood and guts to mask the scent. The only flaw with the plan is if they can't get out and get caught that they aren't really walkers.

The pair walk in with white lab coats on, Rick with an ax in his hand to cut open the walkers. What surprised all of us was when Rick kneels down and patted the body, pulling out a wallet. I raised an eyebrow, watching as he opened it, pulling out a driver's license.

He started to talk about what was in the wallet. "This man's name is Wayne Dunlap. He had a picture of a pretty girl, he was an organ donor, he had fifteen dollars in his wallet when he died. He used to be a person just like everyone, just like us." He stood up, all of us staring at the body. Without a warning, he brought down the ax on the body.

Once they were both cut open he tossed the keys to T-dog and we started to cover them. Smearing blood and hanging intestines around both of their necks. The whole back room reeked with the rotting corpses. It got to the point where Glenn had to lean over and throw up on the floor. I pat his back as we finish covering them. I pull off my gloves, opening the door with one and pinching my nose with the other. The pair slip out and into the city. Once the door is closed again we rush upstairs.

Caleb and Jessica already have our bags packed and ready to go. On the roof, Merle starts to yell for the keys while we look over the side of the building. His attempts at getting our attention were outmatched by Andrea, who had pointed off the side. "There they are." The pair that we sent out were stumbling along, weapons clutched in their hands.

I held my breath, watching as they were no more than halfway to their destination. By then it started to get dark, clouds rolling in with the accompaniment of water falling from the sky. It started raining all over my plan. No way in Hell could I have seen that coming, damn you Atlanta.

I started to panic a bit, keeping my eyes lock on the pair as they started to move a little bit faster. "Don't worry, it's just a freak storm. It'll go away any minute." Morales pats my shoulder in reassurance. Much to our dismay, the rain just started to come down harder than before. Rick and Glenn soon broke out into a run, killing walkers before making it over the fence quickly.

I let out the breath I was holding in. "They made it." A smile came to my face, watching them carry out the plan as they disappear from our site. "Alright let's go, T unlock Merle," I shout as we start to rush without bags to the loading dock where Rick was with the transport truck. We all rushed in, me making sure that Jess and Caleb were inside before getting in myself.

We all got settled as T came running up, walkers hot on his trail. He scrambled in, Morales and I closing the back after him. We all fell silent as Rick drove us out of Atlanta, Morales now in the front giving him directions on where to go. I stood by the front, watching the road ahead while Caleb and Jess seemed to fall asleep where they were sitting by me.

I smile at the pair, glancing over to T for a moment before opening my mouth to say something. "I dropped the key down the drain." I close my mouth, him already having answered my question. I just left a man behind for the first time in my life without even a try at saving him.

I zoned out a bit, listening partly to Rick as he talked about him just having woken up from a coma and was looking for his family. I set my hand on his shoulder with a smile. "I'll help you find them, Rick. I swear on that." He glances back at me with a similar smile on his face.

Rick turns his attention back to the road. "Thank you, Luna." I nod my head, settling down beside Caleb and Jessica.

I swear on that.