God Forgive Us

Green Balloons-9

Ana's POV
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  Some asshole took all of our shit. Now we're with Sasha and Abraham who we found yesterday. We're driving a huge truck that Daryl discovered in the burned down forest. Daryl slams on brakes and I pop my head up to see why. I look at the road in front of me only to see a group of men on motorcycles blocking the fucking path. The guy in the front bike decides to be the first on to talk, "Why don't y'all come on out, join us in the road." He stops the car and looks at us, before we all begin to pile out. "That's great, going well right out of the gate." The idiot really doesn't know when to shut his mouth. "Now step two, hand over your weapons." I look at Daryl as he begins to speak up in a raspy voice, "Why should we." The man begins to laugh, "Well they're not yours." I look over at Sasha who looked extremely pissed. "Who's are they?" He stays quiet for a minute before leisurely walking over towards us. "Your property, now belongs to Negan." A moment of silence hits both groups before this arsehole continues to run his mouth, "If you can get your hands on a tanker, your people our people want to know. So let's get those sidearms shall we? Right now." Daryl reaches back into his back pockets and pulls out a gun. "Thank you." He moves over towards me and I angrily hand him my gun, "Chin up sweetheart." He makes his way to Sasha and Abraham, Sasha hands him her gun but Abraham doesn't move a muscle. "If you have to eat shit, best not to nibble, bite chew swallow repeat, it goes quicker." Finally coming to his senses, he too hands over his weapon. "Who are you people." Sasha does not look like a hammy camper at this point in time. "I get the curiosity but we have questions ourselves and we'll be the ones asking them while we drive you back to wherever it is you call home. Take a gander where you hang your hats, first though, your shit. What have you got for us." He looks at Daryl, who finally speaks up. "Yeah you just took it." The man shakes his head slowly, "Come on, I mean can we not, okay? There's more, there's always more." He sighs before turning to one of his little minions. "T, take my mane to the back of the truck, start inside the back bumper and work your way to the front." The other man pushes Daryl back and they disappear behind the truck, then the first man sits back down on the motorcycle he got off of. "Bite chew swallow repeat." Abraham looks at the ground before looking back at the dumb piece of shit. "Who's Negan?"  He pulls out the guns he just took from us and points one at me and in Sasha and Abraham's direction. "Ding Dong, hells bells. You see usually, we introduce ourselves by popping one of you right of the bat. But you seem like reasonable people, you sport are dressed in blues for Christ's sakes." He points at Abraham' s outfit. "Now like I said, we're going to drive you back to where you were, and do you know how awkward it is carpooling with some who's friend you just killed?" He makes a face of disgust, "But I told you, not to ask any questions. And then what does this ginger do? So that's that, I don't want you to get the wrong impression of me." He cocks our guns towards them but before he can do anything Sasha interrupts him, "Wait! Wait, you don't have to do this," this time it's Abraham's turn to interrupt her, "shut up." She switches her gaze over to him, "I am talking to the man." I roll my eyes at both of them knowing that the are only making the situation at hand worse. "No," the man chimes in. "You're not." He suddenly drops his guns and we all let out a sigh of relief. "I'm not gonna kill you. Wait, you know what? Yes I am-" With out further ado we are thrown to the ground as the men on the motorcycles are blown into many different pieces.we all just laid there awe stricken for a moment before Daryl comes out with a Bazooka in his hands. We all push ourselves off the ground and walk back over towards the truck. Daryl turns around revealing the stab wound he has on the back of his jacket, "The son of a bitch was tufter than he looked." I decided not to say anything because if you knew him like I do, you would know not to say anything either. But of course, Sasha had to say something, "Did he cut you?" He softly sighs looking at the dead man in front of him. "A little. What a bunch of assholes." I grin at him, "Let's get you fixed up at home," He looks up and returns with a soft smile. "Yes Ma'am." I laugh as we all head back inside the huge truck, making our way back to the peaceful quite Alexandria.

Ericka's POV
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  "Hey Max," I say entering his room in one of the vacant houses that Rick let us live in for now. "You wanna go on a walk around with me?" He nods and goes to pick up his gun. "No, you won't need that." He stares at me for a little bit and I finally give in. "Just take the damn thing and let's go already." I say giving him a signature eye roll. He lightly smiles at me and tucks his gun into his gun into his gun loop then attached it to him. We head outside and begin to slowly walk, I look over to see Ryan glaring at Max and I, with Rainy standing right behind him trying to pull him along. I turn around to avoid that asshole and try to continue our walk. I see Rick a short distance from Rainy looking up at the sky laughing, I wonder what he's looking at? I look up and see green balloons high in the air as if they are trying to escape this hell we call home. In that very moment, the unthinkable happens. A tower near the wall falls, breaking down part of the wall that protected all this people, allowing all the walkers on the outside of the to enter freely. Max picks me up and drags my over to the infirmary, and we shut the door behind us wondering if we'll ever see any of them again.

Rainy's POV
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  The wall just collapsed and thousands of roamers were currently pouring inside of the once well protected community. I turn and see Rick carrying a bleeding Diana and on instinct I rush over to help them. "Cover us!" He shouts to me and I begin to shoot the walkers that were following close behind them. We get inside Jesse's house quickly, and he turns to the girl. "Where the hell is Carl." She points to the garage and he runs over to it only to find the door locked and sealed shut. He repeatedly bangs on it and yells for him to open it. Finally he smashes through the door and Carl and Ron both race out as quickly as they possibly can while we all realize that walkers are coming in through the now broken garage door. "Upstairs, now!" We all begin to go up the second floor of the house blocking the only edit at the foot of the staircase. After laying Diana down, we quickly saw she had a bite mark on the left side of her hip. She looks down and sees the thing that is going to kill her in less than twenty-four hours. "Well crap."

Max's POV///About an Hour Later
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  Rick came barging into holding his son in his arms. Carl had a bullet hole where his left eye once was. "Please, help him!" Rick places the boy my age onto one of the beds inside of the small building currently used as a hospital. People immediately jump over and help the boy doing everything they possibly can to save his life. I watch Rick grab his axe and head outside. I look throw the window and see him killing walker after walker. I grab my gun and a knife off of the table and decide to join him in the killing spree. As I'm out there  go to help someone who's desperately trying to get to safety, I grab there arm and push them away from a hoard taking there place. I shoot until I'm all out of bullets, the grab my knife and stab only as quick as I can, but I know that it's not quick enough. I was about to give up when a gun goes off taking out three walkers with one shot. I look up and see Mack laying on one of the platforms against the wall shooting a sniper rifle. She continues to shoot until the walkers surrounding me are laying on the concrete ground. I turn around to see the lake in the middle of the town is now on fire, how? I have no fucking idea. I run back towards the infirmary, look back at Mack only to see that she is now gone, why didn't she stay? All that matters is that now she knows where I'm at.

Rick's POV///The Next Morning
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  "I was wrong Carl. I want to show you the new world." He gently squeezes my hand and I look up with tears filling my eyes. I look up at Denise who comes over to Carl and checks on his vitals to make sure nothing is wrong. "Hey," Denise says to me, "Why don't you go outside for a minute and get some fresh air. I'll give go out and give everyone an update in a minute." I nod standing up and look back at my son before turning to walk out. We're going to have a lot of work to do in the upcoming weeks.