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Psycho
The next morning, Rick went to confront Deanna about Pete.
"She trusts you more than she trusts me. I need you to be there. Will you come?" Rick asked Katie.
Katie nodded and grabbed her leather jacket off the hook.
She had worn that brown leather jacket since the beginning of the apocalypse. She refused to part with it. Considering how much it had been through, it had held up really well.
Katie and Rick walked arm in arm towards where they knew Deanna would be: the cemetery.
"Deanna, we're very sorry for your loss. I know what you're going through. It's so hard to lose a son. I get it. But we are having a problem with Pete," Katie said softly, taking a step in front of Rick.
"I thought that it would get better," Deanna said, without looking at them.
"You knew?" Rick asked.
Katie could feel the anger and frustration radiating from him.
"Pete's a surgeon. He's saved lives. He's saving Tara's life right now," Deanna said.
"Deanna, he's beating his wife," Rick said, frustrated.
"Have you ever been beat, Deanna?" Katie asked angrily.
"No. I haven't," Deanna answered.
"Exactly. You don't know how it feels. You need to stop this," Katie said.
"You got beat?" Deanna asked.
"I've had my fair share of bad luck. But that's not the point. I wish that someone would have stopped my boyfriend. I wish that someone would've intervened. We need to do that for Jessie. For those kids," Katie said.
"What am I supposed to do?" Deanna asked.
"We could separate them," Rick suggested.
"And then what happens when he doesn't want to do that?" Deanna asked.
"I'll kill him. We'll kill him," Rick said.
"I'll exile him before it comes to that," Deanna said.
"And then what happens when he comes back? Because he will come back. He won't just stop at unconsciousness. He won't stop till they're dead. They never do," Katie said.
Deanna stepped closer to Rick.
"If you beat her up, I wouldn't kill you. I would just send you away," Deanna said, walking away.
"She's not going to help us," Katie said.
Rick sighed in agreement.
"We have to take this into our own hands. I told you not to kill him until we had another plan-- there is no other plan. Not anymore. Do what you have to do," Katie said, walking away from him.
