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

Chapter 6: "Maybe"

Rick and Michonne walk across the street of this walled community toward the homes along the right side of the round-about. "Let's try and clearing one of the smaller homes. Preferably, one with a pool," Rick says. Michonne quickly says, "Why one with a pool?" Rick says, "Let me see something." He says motioning Michonne to follow him.

They walk very cautiously over to the right of the round-about where another row of homes began. They reached the third house along the left side of the street that was much smaller than the mini mansion nightmare they had just come from. Rick walks along the side of the house watching for hidden walkers in the bushes. They reach the backyard and they both see that there's no pool just grass and a shed. As with the other backyards, there is a bike rack with 4 or 5 bikes in the rack. Rick drops his bags on the ground, "Keep watch while I knock on the door." He tells her. She drops her bags and takes the safety of the machine gun.

Rick quietly walks up the back steps to the door. He opens the screen door and knocks. No movement. So he opens the backdoor and walks in while easing the screen door close. Again he is in the kitchen, no dishes in the sink nothing out of place. He reaches up to a cabinet trying to find something loud to throw against the wall in the house. Rick finds a glass cup and throws it at the front door that directly across from the back door so that it shatters loudly. He starts to hear walkers waking up and walking toward the front door. In a matter of seconds 6-8 walkers young and old crowd around the front door.

Rick quickly steps back out the back door and shuts it closed then he again eases the screen door closed. "I think this some kind of compound you know like the one in Waco, Texas. Except this is one is on a much deeper, sicker scale. The houses with pools are probably filled with families of walkers. The smaller the house with a pool, I am thinking that those houses that may be empty." He says. "Let's try that house two door up."

They get to the house with same setup as the mini mansion yard. A little patch of grass and a modest magnolia tree with all its leaves from the past few years in the pool, grill, and a shed, but this yard had an above ground pool. Like kind you buy at Wal-Mart or Big Lots. Michonne walks over to the pool and takes her katana out and pokes around the inside of the pool. Suddenly her katana pierces something and out of nowhere she woke up the pool of zombies or the zombie soup.

Michonne steps back in disgust as she sees the bloated zombies climbing on each other in the pool. As Rick watches the zombies in the pools he sees that there are enough of them to bust the pool so he quickly pulls Michonne back away from the pool. "Come on I saw house that closer to those stores that were smaller than these." He tells her.

Rick pulls out his Carol's watch and sees that its noon he looks at Michonne and says, "We'll try and clear this house if it's good we'll take a break so you can change clothes."

As they get closer to the smaller house it happens to be closer to the stores than Rick thought. In fact it wasn't a house at all. "Elysium Fields Library" the sign said on the window. It was a tiny store front library. Rick walks up to the front door and taps on the front window. Then he walks over to the door and knocks. He walks back down the steps and lays his bags by some bushes on the side of the building. Michonne lays her bags down too and follows Rick to the front door again. Her pulls out the key labeled "Elysium Fields Library" and unlocks the door. He walks in with Michonne close behind. Rick says to Michonne, "Grab a book and throw it across the store making sure it loud." She grabs the first book she sees and throws in the direction of a book stand. The book hits the stand knocking it over making a crashing noise to the floor. They both get ready for anything. But nothing happens.

Rick closes the door quietly. They both begin to walk through store quietly waiting for something to wake up and startle them but nothing happened. As they walk through store they notice that it's not set up like a traditional library. All the books had the same cover and were the same height. Rick grabs a book off the shelf. It's a picture of that guy that was on the wall in that classroom at the mini mansion the book reads, "The Church of Elysium Fields guide to Obedience written by Longinus." "What the hell?" Rick whispers.

As they move deeper in to this tiny library Rick sees some stair on the far right back corner. Rick and Michonne walk toward the stairs. Rick grabs plastic mug hanging on a revolving counter display and throws it up the stair so that it hits the wall. They get quiet listening for that horrible moaning and heavy breathing sound. But there was no noise. They both walk up stairs and as they get to the floor Rick signs to Michonne to clear the right side of the floor and he will do the left.

As Michonne walk with stealth to the right she knocks on the doors and when there was no noise she opened the door and inspected all corners of each room she entered. She came across a couple of rooms that had clothes and shoes another room had cleaning supplies and brooms and mops. Then she came to a room that was an office. As she cleared this room she saw an office desk with a small laptop and two large laser jet printers sitting on another desk by the window. She began following the cords of everything to see where they to. The cords lead to a utility closest. Buts there no door there's only a dark blue curtain. So she grabs a cup of pencils and throws it in to curtain. She held the gun up ready to blast but nothing happens. Michonne walks over to the curtain and pulls it back and sees the corpse of a man in khakis and a white shirt and with a shot gun hanging in his hand. She could see the dried blood, brains and skull left on the dark stained wall and the ceiling skylight. Making the room dark and cold, all the other rooms with skylights felt warm to her.

As she came to the last she door she knocked. She started to get nervous about opening the door given the time when she are little walkers scratching the door in the mini mansion. She opens the door very slowly and again the room had a skylight lining the ceiling. She looks around and sees it's a bathroom with a sink, toilet and shower with a shower door. She begins to look under the sink and there are a couple of towels and washcloths. Then she grins ear to ear over the fact that there is some toothpaste, ivory soap and a half a bottle of shampoo in a medium size tray, "Yes!" she whispers. She stands up and turns the faucet on. After a few seconds water started to come out. Not a full stream of water but just enough, "I'll take it", she says.

Rick walks back down the hall in Michonne's direction while she is pulling the door closed. As he walks down he peeks in the same rooms that she just cleared. Then he walks over to her, "It all clear on that end, just a room with a couple of chairs a couch and a wall shelf with some cd's. The other two doors lead to the same bedroom. How about you?", he says.

"Some clothes and shoes, cleaning supply closet. An office with a corpse in the utility closet," then Michonne walks closer to Rick with a mischievous grin on her face and says, "and a clean bathroom with towels, soap, shampoo and drum roll please…it has running water." Michonne closes her eyes and lightly tongues her top lip from top to bottom and looks Rick in the eyes then starts walking to the stair, "Just the thought of getting that pool water and the last couple of weeks off me make me feel so excited." Rick laughs a little through his grin and shakes head while watching Michonne walk toward the stairs. "Well, I never knew it was that easy to please a woman, maybe we should take stroll down to the water tower at the other end of the road." Michonne stops going down the stairs with Rick right behind her and she turns her head to the left slightly enough for Rick to see her lips and hear her say in a seductive low voice, "Maybe." Then she keeps walking down the steps back in to the library. Rick grins at her response and stands on the stairs a few seconds before shaking his head then going down the rest of the stairs back in to the library.