Is Someone Out There?

Joe's Group

Nicole's P.O.V.~

 We had been walking for days. It was night time, and we found a car, and Carl and I went into the car and tried to sleep. Rick, and Michonne were keeping watch. It was peaceful until I started hearing noises but didn't think anything of it. I was half asleep when Carl sat up, and looked out the window. He poked me telling me to look up. As I look up I see Daryl. I also see Michonne, and Rick with guns against there heads by the people we saw at the house earlier. 

"Say your peace Daryl." 

"These people you gonna let em go. These are good people."

"No. No. I think Lou would disagree with you on that. I'll of course have to speak for him because your friend here strangled him in the bathroom."

"You won't bud? I get it. Take it from me man. Come on."

"This man killed our friend. You say they are good people. See now that right there. I-I-I is a lie. It's a lie!"

"Come on."

Two guys come over to Daryl and start beating him up. 

"Nooo!" I hear Rick say. 

"Teach him fellas. Teach him all the way."

Some guy came and pulled Carl, and I out or the car. I screamed and I looked over to my left to see Carl squirming trying to get away from the man, and I doing the same. 

"You leave them be." 

This guy looks at Michonne telling her that she'll get her turn. 

"Listen it was me. It was just me."

"See now that's right. It's not some damn lie. Look we can settle this. Were good men. First were gonna beat Daryl to death, then we'll have the girl, then the kids, then i'm gonna shoot you and we'll be square." *laughs*

the guy starts pushing us to the ground. He pulls me to the ground, and flips me over so that my stomach is on the ground. He starts to unbuckle his pants, and he takes my shirt off, and starts taking my pants off. He's trying to rape me, and I'm scared out of my mind. 

"Let them go."

The guy starts telling Carl, and I to stop squirming, and so I start to squirm more. I see Carl doing the same thing too. 

"Let them go!"

I look over and see Rick fling his head back, and he hits Joe in the mouth and it makes him shoot the ground. Rick gets up and punches him and Joe hits Rick back knocking him to the ground. 

"I got him. Oh! It's gonna be so much worse now."

I look over to Michonne and she slaps the guys gun away from her and tries to take it, but the guy shoots the ground and slaps Michonne across the face. 

Rick is still on the ground trying trying to get back up again. 

"Come on get up!" 

Rick finally stands up and Joe takes a hold of him, and holds him. "What the hell are you gonna do now sport?"

The next thing I see I can't believe my eyes. Rick takes a bite out of Joe's neck. Michonne taking her chances and grabs the gun turns it around and the guy shoots himself. Daryl starts to beta up the other guy that was on Carl, the guy still on me. Daryl takes Carl's guy and smashes his face in the ground. I am being held captive still. I am in my bra and underwear and the guy lifts me up and holds a knife to my throat. 

"Let the girl go!" Michonne says. He doesn't let me go. 

"He's mine. " Rick says.

The guy lets me go, and I crawl over to Michonne where Carl is. Daryl comes over and gives me his vest so i'm not that naked. I was freezing, and Daryl noticed and picked me up, and just held me. I cried in Daryl's arms for the second time. I look back and Rick just keeps stabbing the guy over and over and over again. Daryl sets me in the car with Michonne and Carl. I start to listen to Rick, and Daryl's conversation. 

"We should save it to drink." "You can't see yourself. I didn't know what they were."

"How'd you wind up with them?" "I was with Beth. We got out together. I was with her for a while." "Is she dead?" "She's just gone. After that... that's when they found me. I knew they were bad, but they had a code. It was simple. Stupid. They were some. It was enough."

"You were alone."

"Said they were looking for some guy. Last time they said they spotted him. I was hanging back. I was gonna leave. But I stayed. That's when I saw it was you four. Right when you saw me. I did't know... what I could do."

"It's no on you Daryl. Hey? It's not on you. You being back with us here, now. That's everything. You're my brother. "

Hey, what you did last night anybody wouldn't have done that."

"No. No not that." "Something happened. I didn't choose."

"Daryl, you saw what I did to Tyreese. It ain't all that good but that's me. That's why i'm here now. That's why Carl is. *sigh* I want to keep him safe. That's all that matters."

"By this time all three of us in the car were awake and listening. We found it very sincere, and happy that Rick cares for his own son. We all got out of the car. I was covering myself up because the guy had ripped my clothes. Luckily there were a pair of pants in there, and Carl gave me his jacket to wear. After that we started walking, and beginning our long, long journey again.