What Happens Next

Somethings Changed

I slowly crept out of the room and slowly went downstairs holding the knife tight in my hand against my chest. As I got downstairs, I looked around the corner when I saw a tall man, he was dirty along with messy clothes. He turned around as I saw more of this dirty face and a W on his forehead in blood. I quickly hid around the wall staring at the other one across from me.

"I hear you," the man says, I took a deep, quiet breath as I stared at the wall as I heard him slowly getting closer. I looked a little and saw his shadow, I clenched the knife as hard as I could. I crept around the stairs and went into a hall that circled back into the room he was in, now I was behind him.

I got ready to attack as I started running at him, I jumped onto his back when he smashed me into a wall. I grunted in pain as I stabbed him in the arm as he yelled and threw me over his shoulder as I hit the ground.

I yelled in pain, I looked up him as his foot slammed down on my back. I grunted in pain and stabbed him in his ankle, I pulled the knife out and pushed him to the ground and quickly got up and ran for the door. He chased me quickly got to me and tackled me. We fell the downstairs of the porch.

The man pinned me down and took the knife and threw it when a gun shot went off. The body fell towards me as I pushed it away before it could fall on me. I crawled away from it panting softly as I looked to the direction from the gun shot.

I looked to a boy about my age as he went over and helped me up, "you ok?" he asks looking at me, I nod as Rick came running, "who the hell fired that gun shot?! There's walkers against the walls and you fire a gun?!" Rick yelled as he came running to us, "dad, I know, I'm sorry, I had to, that dude was gonna kill her." the boy explained to Rick as he looked at the dead body and then me. I was calming down as Rick sighed, "no more guns, we don't need those walls coming down." he says as he walks away.

"You sure you're ok?" the boy looked at me, I nodded again as I looked to see if I had anymore scratches on me. "I'm Carl," he says being able to tell I'm new, "Jessica," I say softly looking at him. I looked away as he looked at me, "that bell tower is gonna fall soon." I say softly looking at it, "it should be fine until we can get the walkers away from the walls." he says as he looked at me causing me to look back at him, "want to come with me? I could show you around a bit," he offers looking at me, "uh, sure," I say softly as he starts walking towards the front, having me follow behind him. As we got to the front of the community, I looked around seeing more people than there was when I first was up there, I looked over seeing Rick talking to someone when I looked at the bell tower as I saw some pieces of wood breaking off of the tower as I saw it start leaning, "WATCH OUT!" I yelled pointing to the tower, everyone looked to it and saw it leaning and starting to fall over the wall.

Dust bursted up from the ground as the wall hit the ground. In just a few seconds, walkers were coming in as Rick yelled telling everyone to get inside. Carl grabbed my arm and started running. I followed him as a blonde woman came out onto her porch, "guys! Judith is in here!" she yelled as Carl pulled me into that house followed by Rick who was carrying an older woman, an African woman, a boy about mine and Carl's age, and an African man. I panted a little and looked at Carl as he had let go of my arm as Rick carried the woman upstairs.

I looked away as Carl walked over to me, "we'll be safe here," he says looking at me. I nodded looking back to him as he went upstairs. I stayed downstairs and sat down on the couch looking at the window seeing the dead walking down the street.

I looked over seeing the boy around mine and Carl's age, he stared at me and walked over, "stay away from him," he says looking right at me, "away from who? Carl?" I ask standing up looking at him. "yeah. It'll be your best bet," he says, looking quite serious. "Why do you say that?" I ask as we stood right in front of each other, "his dad is a killer, and he's no different. His dad killed mine, he almost killed me." He said looking at me. I chuckled a little shaking my head. "Well, I'm no better, I am a killer, I've killed so many people, it's not even funny, it never was. Don't come crying to me because daddy is dead, you don't want me talking to the man who did it or his son. I don't care about what happened to you, you should be happy you saw your dad before he died, I don't even know if mine is alive, along with my mom, or even my brother. Be happy you still have your family," I glared at him and walked away.

I went alone and stood in the garage when I heard the door open, I looked over and saw the boy walking in with Carl. I looked at them confused when Carl looked at me, "Jessica, you should leave." he says, "why..?" I ask even more confused, "you should listen to him," the boy said, "no, what are you doing?" I ask looking at them.

I heard the boy letting out a sigh as he went to the door locking it and threw the key, "Ron, what the hell are you doing?!" Carl said louder looking at him, I looked to the dead things outside, they had yet to notice us.

I looked at Carl and then to Ron, I saw he had turned around and started running towards Carl, I gasp seeing them as they started fighting I saw Ron throw Carl into a glass door, I saw the dead ones coming as I ran over throwing Ron off of Carl and quickly pulled Carl away from the door. I grunted a bit in pain from the stitches. I saw Carl moved a cart in front of the door as he looked at me as I heard Rick and a woman trying to get in.

I got up and ran over looking for the key when I heard a sudden bangs on the door. The door was busted down as Rick had the three of us run back inside as the dead came inside of the garage. As we got back in the house, they tried blocking the door to the best of their ability with it now broken.

After they got something in front of the door, I went upstairs alone and sat in a room looking out the window, seeing them walking down the street and some walking to the house. I heard the door open when I looked to it, I saw Carl walk in and sit down next to me. "Glenn?" he says confused, my heart skipped a beat as I looked at him, "what?" I ask looking at him. He pointed down at my arm that was carved with cuts from a blade that read Glenn. "Oh, that's my brother, half-brother." I say softly looking at my arm with a faint smile, "we have someone named Glenn," he says as he gripped the bed, "had," he corrected himself, "what happened?" I looked to him confused, "we made a plan to get rid a horde of walkers, these ones were only half of them, he got split from his small group of people, him and another man never made it back. This was about a day ago." He says looking out the window, "they could be out there, just because he's been gone for a day," I say softly looking to him, "is your brother dead?" He asks looking at me, "I don't know, I haven't seen him since about a month before this all happened, I was with my dad when it all started, I ended up getting separated from him." My voice was soft and gentle as I spoke to Carl, I looked to him and then away out the window when we heard yelling and bumps up the stairs.

We ran over as we saw Rick blocking the stairs with a couch, "we need to start finding a way out of here." he says as we go into a room, "Rick," the African woman says as she came out with white sheets, Rick nodded as they went over and killed two of the dead things.

Carl grabbed a knife and ripped head holes and handed me one, "we're gonna-" he says as I interrupted, "I know," I say softly as I put the sheet over me and put the blood on me. He looked at me as I looked back to him as everyone put the blood on each other.

Carl grabbed the baby that was there and hid her underneath his sheet as the older woman was staying as she was bitten. Rick moved the couch from in front of the stairs as we slowly moved down the stairs and made out way outside.