Fanfiction The Walking Dead: Rick, Michonne and Karl reach Terminus

Chapter 4: HTH Shock Treatment

"Shit, shit, shit!" Rick cried! "No, Nooo! Rick! Pull me up! Pull me up! Michonne shouted as tried to push through flailing arms grabbing at her hair, arms, and legs. She quickly pushes her way to the side of the in-ground pool and lifts her arm for Rick to pull her out. "I gotcha', I gotcha'", he said pulling Michonne out of the pool with her extended arm. Just as Michonne legs are coming out of the water a dark green water bloated arm reaches out of the filthy water and grabs Michonne's leg. "No, No!" She says while trying to kick the head of the walker attached to the arm.

Rick finally pulls her all the way out the pool and stands her up. Rick immediately grabs and embraces her, "Shit, are you alright?" he says rubbing Michonne's back. Michonne can't speak she can't move, due to shock. Then Rick takes his hands and gently grabs Michonne's face then leans in and looks in to her rich brown eyes and whispers, "Are you alright, you o.k.?" Michonne, still in shock, immediately snaps out of it and looks in to Rick's deep blue eyes. Out of nowhere Michonne gets a sudden chill and says, "Yea, I'm alright." Seeing that she had a chill Rick gently embraces her again rubbing her back calmingly, "Alright." He says again with a crack in his voice, "You're alright." Michonne does something that she hasn't done sense she was with her boyfriend at the camp…hug another man. She wraps her arms around Rick's waste and lays her head right under his chin as while closing her eyes. In her mind, she knew that this perfect moment of security wasn't going to last so she just laid there on Rick's chest soaking up whatever affection she could get at this moment.

After a minute or two they both realized that their embrace was long than that of a just a partner in survival mode. They both release each other then look at one another. Rick starts blushing at the fact that he embraced Michonne so long. But to him, again he felt so alive and grateful at the fact that he could save her life.

Rick starts to look down at the walkers in the pool while Michonne takes her hand and wipes her eyes. Michonne then looks at the pool. The walkers are climb over each other but making no progress because they are in the deep end of the pool. Time seemed to stand still as Michonne and Rick watched what looked like a large pot of boiling live crabs trying to get out of the hot water. But it was really just about 30-40 zombies rotten and bloated from sitting in water for who knows how long.

Michonne moves to the grassy area of the backyard and begins to hop on her right leg while patting and patting her ear on the left side. She stops hopping and begin to move her jaw around trying to clear her ear that's clogged. Then she takes the finger on her right hand and shakes her right ear. "That's better. My ear was clogged." She says looking at Rick. "Is it clear now?" he replied. "Most of it, I can hear a lot better now." Michonne in a panic remember about her grabbing her katana right before falling in the pool. So she quickly reaches back to feel for her sword and it is there. She pulls it out of the holster and look at it closely like examining it for first time. Michonne hated being attached to anyone or anything but there was a sense of calming knowing that she had not lost her katana.

Rick turns away from the pool and looks at the walker he killed right before Michonne fell in then looks at the house to the right. It is very neat. The same bike rack with four bikes in four metal slots, however this backyard didn't have a pool. The backyard 3 houses over had one and so on all the way up the block. "You ready?" Rick said. "Yea," Michonne responded.

They start walking up the back steps to the mini mansion rick opens the screen door. He knocks on the window with his left hand right three times hoping while holding the crowbar with his right. No activity. No one or no-thing comes to the door. Rick knocks again but nothing happens so he slowly turns the knob of the backdoor then turns to Michonne and nods his head telling her to get ready.

As Rick walks in to the house he realizes he is in the kitchen. And he quickly notices that nothing is out of place. He leans toward the kitchen sink and sees that there are no dishes in it. Michonne comes up behind Rick and places her hand on the screen door allowing the screen to slowly close. They begin to walk to the right towards what appears to be the dining room. The dining room is in pristine condition, there's a plastic floral center piece on the dining room table and all the chairs are neatly pushed in.

As they quietly and slowly move through to another room beyond the dining room they look at the walls and they are all empty. No family pictures and no wall decorations. They start to approach a room that looks like a den or social area. But everything was set in its place. Rick starts to walk in to the front of the house by the front door and look up the stairs that curve to the right. Rick walks past the front door and the stair and pops his head in to the next room. He sees around 12 empty folding chairs and they are all facing a white wall with a large flat screen television. The room was setup like a classroom. In the far right hand corner of the room there is a picture on the wall. Rick looks at Michonne and nods his head toward the inside of the room. He quietly walks over to the picture in the far right corner and looks at the picture. It shows a strange looking white man. Nearly pale white, his hair was all white and he was wearing what looked like a white suit with a white tie against a completely black back drop. Michonne walks next to Rick and looks at the picture then shakes her head disapprovingly.

"Come on let go upstairs. I have got to find some clothes this shit feels disgusting and it stinks", Michonne whispered. Rick turns to her and shakes his head with a smile in agreement.

As they move back toward the stair case Rick grabs the TV remote off one of the end tables in the classroom. He then throws it up the stairs so that it hits the wall creating a loud enough noise to wake up any walkers. No movement. Rick and Michonne start walking up the semi-winding staircase. Once they get to the top they peak in to an open door immediately to their right. When they look in they see a master bed room.