Jay

531 6 0
                                    

"The hell are we still around here for?" We stopped in the woods as Rick kneels down and digs up a bag. I look around for my surroundings to find where the shots was coming from. They were still going but could be from Gareth.

"Guns, some supplies. Go along the fences. Use the rifles. Take out the rest of 'em." Rick tells them. I like his plan. He throws me my bag as I sling it around my shoulder.

"What?" Glenn asked.

"They don't get to live." Rick snarls at the word 'live'.

"Rick, we got out. It's over."

"It's not over till they're all dead." Rick grabs the weapons and hands them out.

"The hell it isn't. That place is on fire.
Full of walkers." Rosita puts a hand on her hip.

"If you let them live, they'll track you down and kill you. They attack you at your weakest point." I say out loud.

"I'm not dicking around with this crap. We just made it out." Abraham says.

"The fences are down. They'll run or die." Maggie insist.

A woman reveals herself in scrubs holding a gun up. I hold my gun up to her as the group turns around and faces her. Daryl glances and runs and hugs her. I felt a ping of hurt.

"Hey, she is with us." Rick walks up to stop me as if I was going to harm her. Rick lets go of me as he walks up to the woman with Carl and Maggie.

"Did you do that?" Rick smiles.

"With help." She nods her head. Another girl appears out of the Woods. I look at her more closely. I know that face.

"Harls?" I nod my head, run up and hug her closely. There's no space between us.

"Jay."

"Jasmine?" Rick walks up to me as I let go of Jay and nod my head yes.

"Jay?" Daryl asked. I nod my head and smile like a lunatic.

"This was the help?" Rick turns to Carol as she nods her head.

"Not going to lie when I saw her I was going to shoot her. Then she started shooting near the Terminus people and give some ideas out. Smart girl you got there and a good shot. I don't think she missed one."

"Yeah, she is something. Trained her well." I smile at her.

"Don't ever play hero again. Your lucky I kept the scope when we split." She punches me in the arm playfully.

"I knew I heard the gun. Can't believe you found me. Good job kid." I punch her back but not as hard as she did to me.

"Wait, I know you." Jay staeted to say as Rick went into shock again.

"Honey, let me talk to you for a second." I pull her away from the group off to the side.

"Whats going on?" She asked.

"Its Rick. Rick Grimes. Shane best friend." I tell as she starts to smile but then it fades.

"Hes not ehre?" She asked.

"No, something happened to him. Rick had to take care of it. He's gone." I shook my head and start to tear up again. Jay held her tears in.

"Oh. Well. I guess its just you and me." She gasp quietly from hold her emotions. I bring her into a hug.

"Its you and me." i hug her tightly. Eventually we head back tot he group and walk over to Rick.

"Those questions you had, are you still open for taking Jay into your group?" I look into his eyes and see hope. He turns and faces Jay who was standing still and unsure of these people.

"How many walkers have you killed?"

"Including from what just happened? 124." She says confidently.

"How many people have you killed?"

"1." She says quietly.

"Why?"

"He was gonna kill Harley." Her eyes shut for a few minutes then cut to me.

"Welcome to the group." He reaches out his hand for her to shake it, she looks at me. I nod my head in approval as she takes out her hand and shakes his. Rick walked back to Carol hugs her again. They pull away Carol looks at him.

"You have to come with me." We walk up the mountain to a house. Looks like one of the Terminus hide outs.

A large man appears out of the house with a small child latched onto his hip. Rick throws down his supplies and runs up to the baby followed by Sasha and Carl. Rick takes the baby off of the large man and Carl goes up and pats the baby. Lori's baby. Which means she was alive not too long ago. Sasha walked up to the large man and hugs him crying. This is beautiful. I looked down at Jay. She's all I've got close to family now. I wrap my arm around her as she hugs me tightly.

We settle down outside of the house. Trying to figure out where to go. Which place is safe. Jay and I sit on a large rock watching the woods. To make sure that if any Walker comes we'll take them out. I told her everyone's name and what I went through when we split.

"How was it being on your own?" Jay reaches into her backpack handing me a hunting knife.

"Its tough. I knew you would go to Terminus. We talked about it. So I watched everyday for you. Slept in a tree." Jay looks at her hands. I wrap a arm around her bringing her to my chest.

"I don't know if the fire is still burning." Rick tells us as we see the black smoke in the air.

"It is." Carol response.

"Yeah. We need to go." Rick says as he stands up. Jay and I stand up and load our guns.

"Yeah, but where?" Daryl walks up to Rick.

"Not here." I chuckle. He looks back at me as his lips twitch into a smile.

"Somewhere far away from there." We start walking onto the train tracks and follow them. They come across a Terminus sign. But we kept walking past it. Rick stops at it for a few seconds then continues on with us. I knew he did something to the sign but it didn't matter. That place is no sanctuary. We continued off the tracks. Hoping to find something.

The startWhere stories live. Discover now