The Walking Dead (Carl Grimes x Jamie Dabbs)

Chapter 5: A Prisoner and a Horrible Secret

Preview of Season 2 Part 3

Episode 10

Rick and Shane left to let Randall go, but I think it was more than that. Rick probably needed to talk to him about Shane and Lori. Beth was doing better physically, but after Lori gave her lunch and she took the knife, I knew she wanted to commit suicide. She said how it was pointless to continue living. Lori told Maggie, who tried to talk her out of it. Actually, it was more like yelling. Lori and Andrea had a little argument that I hated to hear. When Andrea looked after her, she left her for Beth to make her own choice. She cut her wrist, but she chose to live. Maggie was beyond mad, but in the end, Andrea had a point. Rick and Shane brought Randall back; so what's gonna happen now?

Episode 11

Daryl was interrogating Randall, and by "interrogating", I mean "beating him until he talked". Rick didn't want anyone near him and I wasn't going to debate on that. Rick wanted to kill him, but Dale talked him into having a debate about Randall's fate. Carl wanted to see the guy. I didn't want that to happen, but Carl snuck in there anyway.

"Carl. Please don't," I begged.

"Jamie, I want to see real quick. I'll be back," Carl replied.

He went in and I didn't know what to do.

"What are you doing?" Andrea asked.

"Nothing. But can you get Carl?" I requested.

"Where is he?" she wondered.

I pointed where Randall was. She and Shane hurried in there quickly and got him out. After he left, I felt bad for doing that to him. He even called Carol an idiot for believing in heaven. Rick talked to him about it, but I felt like I needed to talk to him too.

"Hey, Carl. I'm sorry about the Randall thing," I said.

"It's okay. I shouldn't have done that anyway," he replied.

"What you did to Randall or Carol?" I asked.

"Either one. I'm going for a walk. I'll be back later. If my parents ask, just tell them that," he requested.

"Okay. Be careful though. Like I said, I'm not losing you again," I responded.

"You haven't and you never will," Carl pointed out.

We smiled and went our separate ways. I wondered where he went. Dale went around asking everyone to side with him about keeping Randall alive. It was almost time for the debate, so Carl and I went upstairs to hang out since we weren't old enough to listen.

Once it was nightfall, Rick, Shane, and Daryl brought him to the barn. I could see someone else from the window. I looked to see Carl. I ran out of the house and ran like crazy. But they didn't get to kill Randall. I walked up to Carl as we headed back to camp.

"Carl, I'm gonna try and be calm when I ask you this, but what the heck were you thinking?" I asked.

"I wanted to watch," he answered.

"Why? It makes sense when it's a walker because of this screwed up world we live in, but why when it's a human? I wouldn't be able to watch it; I just don't understand why you would," I replied.

We went into the tent and just sat in silence. That is until we heard a scream. We ran to see what happened. Dale was gutted by a walker. We couldn't save him so he had to be put down. Rick was going to do it, but Daryl did it.

"Sorry, brother," he said, then fired.

I noticed Carl looking at the walker then sobbed into Lori. What happened when he went out on his walk?