Living with the Dead.(twd)

Bite Mark.(165)

MADISON'S POV.
I run as fast as I could and I don't stop.
Dust rises after the wall falls and it stings my eyes. I look back and see hundreds of walkers pooling in due to the new gap in the wall.
I turn quickly, anxious to find Rick and Deanna so we can run to somewhere safe.

My eyes water because of the dust as I scan the crowd of roaming corpses.
I finally see Rick and Deanna running to the left and I follow them.
As I get closer I find Carl and Ron standing together which concerns me but it's not my priority right now. I can hear Rick shouting to the other Alexandrians.
"GO! GET IN YOUR HOUSES! GO!"

I make it over to Carl and Ron, and Rick and Deanna make it over to us.
"MAGGIE!" I panic.
     Where did she go?
I look around again but the walkers are too close and Carl tugs on my shirt to make me back away.

My breath hitches when I find Maggie scrambling away from the walkers on all fours. She shoots a few and runs towards the ladder to the watch out stand. She climbs it but the ladder falls.
"MADS! COME ON! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?" Carl yells.

But I can't answer i'm stuck in a trance. I don't pay attention to the hundreds of walkers getting closer by the second. I need to know Maggie is safe but yet she still dangles from the wall.
Suddenly i'm lifted from the ground by Carl and he carries me away. I struggle in his arms to get out but he doesn't drop me.
I kick my feet wildly in the air until he has no choice but to put me down.

"Help me up on your back. I need to know she's okay."
Carl lifts me onto his back and hoists me up into the air. I'm up high enough that I can see Maggie made it safely to the top.
I climb down and nod.
"OKAY, LETS GO!" I shout to Carl over the noise.

We were a little behind everyone but when we caught up Rick was looking for us frantically, panicking that maybe he lost two of his children in the herd.
"Oh my god!" He cries and pulls us into a hug.
"We're okay, we're okay. We gotta go!" I assure him over and over.
We all run but the question is:
Where are we running to?

"Where's Judith?" I freak.
Ricks eyes bulge and his skin turns ghost white and then realisation struck him.
"I gave her to Jessie for the day. She's at our house looking after her and Sam."
"We need to go to her." Ron says.
"We will." Rick tells him.

Ron is holding Deanna upright. Her leg is cut and she's covered in blood.
"What th-"
Not important right now Mads.
"Okay, lets go to your house." Deanna suggests.

We run quickly. Ron helps Deanna limp her way along while Rick, Carl and I deal with the walkers so we can clear a path. Rick has his gun but Carl and I have to shove them away. We fight our way back to our house and close the door behind us but walkers pool around the house trapping us from the inside out. I take a deep breath.
"Oh god!"
"It'll be fine. We'll figure it out." Carl reassures me but he doesn't even sound confident saying it.

I look over at Ron. "Where's your mom ?"
He shrugs and leads the way through the house, helping Deanna limp her way along but she looks tired and pale. We walk into the kitchen. Sam sits at the table beside Judith who's wailing in her highchair.
"WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON ?" Jessie shouts in panic from beside the kitchen window looking out at all the walkers.
"SHHHHHH!" We all respond.

Rick steps forward and grabs Jessie's hand making everybody in the room cringe.
"Calm down. If they hear us they'll knock the door down for sure. The wall collapsed and we're trapped. There's hundreds outside but we can stay alive if we all just stay calm and think." Rick reassures us all.

Sam starts to cry and Jessie rips her hand from Rick's so she can rush over to him.
"Thank god, if they got any closer to each other you could forget about the walkers outside cause I think I would die of pure discomfort." Carl comments and despite the situation we're in I can't help but laugh even when Rick frowns at us both.