My Hunter || D. Dixon (On Hold)

Twenty-Six - What Lies Inside

After what happened at the barn Daryl helped me to the house. Herschel fixed up, thank the Gods. I sat on the porch with Daryl, holding an ice pack to my jaw. Shane can hit hard. Any harder I'm positive that he would have broken my jaw.

Now we were waiting for Rick who was nowhere to be seen. By now he would be coming back with a group of people from looking for Sophia on the trail that Daryl found. But he hasn't shown up to take the group.

Andrea finally got up. "Where is he? We were supposed to leave hours ago." She was right we were losing time and daylight. For all, we know she's dead and's a walker. She could be gone and taken somewhere. To Hell if any of us know.

I nod my head in agreement with Andrea. "Yeah, where the hell is he?" Daryl asked standing up. He'd torn his stitches in a fit he had with Carol while I was being looked at. She told me that he was going to go off and look and he yelled at her.

Shane walked up carrying, the bag of guns and some rifles. Causing us to get up and off of the porch. "Are you with me?" He asked Daryl. Now that I didn't get. This morning they were at each other's throats, ready to kill each other. Now he's asking if Daryl's 'with him'? Shane started passing guns to our people and some of Herschel's people.

I raised an eyebrow, taking the rifle that he hands me. "What are you doing?" Maggie asked coming out of the house.

Shane looks to her. "We're gonna kill the walkers in the barn, to protect our people." Lori stepped up to stop him before we were made to leave. Not only for having guns on his property but vandalizing his property.

They started an argument, one I wanted no part in. The last thing I need is to get hit again because I can't stay out of things like with Ed and this morning. One thing caught my eye from the argument, the sight ahead made me put the ice pack down. Rick, Herschel, and Jimmy, I think the boy was. They were holding walkers on restraints like they were rabid dogs and that they needed to be put down.

I'm beginning to question who's side Rick was on. Maybe he's starting to go crazy and think they these the walkers are sick too. We all took off running to them to stop them from putting them in the barn. If Rick knew we had a problem with the walkers in the barn then why is he helping him put more in?

The group stayed to the side watching them as Daryl and I pointed our guns to the walkers in case one of them breaks loose. Jessica was back with Lori and Carl, Caleb next to me firing shots from his pistol. Shane yelled at Rick while Daryl and I kept our weapons aimed. "These are the things that killed Amy! They killed Otis!" Shane yelled trying to get through to Rick.

Something about the way he said the last part made me doubt what happened that night. Not to mention the fact that he had come back with Otis' gun and bag. Yeah, they totally killed him you lying son of a bitch.

He started to shoot the walkers that Herschel has in leashes to prove to him that they were not human. No matter how many times you shoot them they'll keep coming. "Shane enough!" Rick yelled as Shane killed one of the walkers.

Shane went off at what Rick said. "Enough? Riskin' our lives for a little girl that's gone? Enough! Living next to a barn that's full of things that are trying to kill us. ENOUGH! Rick, it ain't like it was before!" He yelled, anger across his face.

He ran up to the barn and started taking off the boards, with the tools to the side of the barn. Eventually, he got them all off and the door open as walkers started to pour out. Gunshots came from all around. Our group killed them one by one.

When the last one went down I looked to Shane. He had this look on his face along with his shit eating grin. I looked around to the group who looked scared and confused.

All of our eyes shifted to the barn door, only one walker was left to slowly come out. A small, blond haired girl stumbled out of the walker barn. A bite mark sat on her shoulder, showing us that everything we'd done was for nothing.

Sophia walked out.

Sophia was in the barn the whole time.

Everything we've done to find this girl was pointless. She'd been dead long before Jessica was shot.