The walking dead Fanfic: The Estate

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Mason walks ahead of Rick and Michonne as he whistles to himself. He hears Rick asks.

"how close are we?"

Mason stops on a small hill that overlooks a field of dying grass and whispers to himself.

"I can hear them."

He flinches feeling Rick place his hand on his shoulder and looks up to him and shakes his head feeling the pain in his ankle. Michonne looks him over and asks.

"you okay?"

Mason shakes his head and nods.

"just a headache."

He points across the field and to a row of houses.

"there, that was the community most of it burnt down but a few houses survived."

Rick nods his head looking over the field.

"it looks pretty clear-"

Mason interrupts him and motions to the trees.

"no, we should duck through the woods it provides more cover and gives us a better vantage point if anyone else has made camp there we don't want to go a direct route."

  Michonne nods towards Mason and turns to Rick.

"he has a good point."

She looks over Mason and nods to him.

"why don't you go first."

Mason nods his head and leads them slowly into the woods he stops seeing Michonne come in front of him and she eyes him up and down gripping the handle of her katanna. She looks around and Mason stands still hearing voices behind him. He shakes his head and feels himself pulled to the side, he looks over the person drenched in blood and hears them whisper.

"alpha, will get you, you will pay for what you have done to us"

He feels the person squeeze his throat and hears them say.

"Make this right by her, bring her what she wants."

He feels himself pushed out into the open and hears Michonne.

"you alright?"

Mason grips his head and hears the sounds of whispers and hears Rick.

"are you alright?"

Mason leans down to his knees and whispers to himself.

"i'll do it, stop."

He hears the voices quiet down and looks across the forest at Rick and Michonne staring at him. He grips his ankle and rubs it whispering.

"I'm sorry I need a rest for a bit my ankle gave out."

Michonne nods to him and glances around. She hears a sound from behind her and turns but doesn't see anything. Rick comes up besides her and whispers.

"do you think something isn't right here?"

She glances forward eyeing the moving bushes and whispers.

"something doesn't feel right."

Rick glances back to Mason and notices he is gone and whispers to Michonne.

"its a trap."

He turns back watching Michonne pull out her blade and slice a walkers head off and hears the sounds of screaming.

"you will pay!"

Rick yells out in the direction of the voice.

"who are you!"

The voice answers.

"you will all pay in blood for the traitor-"

A scream is heard and the sound of whispering silences. Mason walks out of the bushes covered in blood holding up a severed head and screaming out towards the bushes.

"go home! I do not fear you, I will silence every single whisper that i hear. You know what i am capable of."

He drops the head down and yells.

"and tell Alpha, this isn't over."

Mason hears some whispered and turns hearing a yell.

"traitor!"

He turns towards it and a knife shoots out from some bushes and slams him in the shoulder. He steps back staring at the knife sticking out of his arm and up towards the area it was thrown from. Mason stares down at the knife again and slowly grips it and he tares it out of his arm. He begins laughing holding up the knife.

"try again!"

A walker comes out of the bushes and Michonne grips her blade walking towards it and Mason yells.

"no, he's not a walker."

The boy stops in front of Mason and holds out his hand looking up to him. Mason stares down at the leather flesh enveloping the kids face and takes the knife wiping it off on his shirt. He holds the knife out to the kid and Michonne looks between them gripping her blade. Mason glances to her and nods.

"don't worry he is accepting it, aren't you?"

The boy slowly removes the dead walker skin from his face and glances up to Mason.

"on one condition."

The kid points to the severed head and smiles up to Mason.

"can i keep it?"

Mason glances to Michonne and then to Rick then back to the kid. He nods his head towards it.

"i don't need it."

The kids walk over to the head picking it up and Mason hands the kid the knife. The kids slit a small cut into his hand and nods to Mason. Mason places out his hand and the boy cuts it. The boy places his hand in Mason's and nods to him.

"ill deliver your message."

The boy goes to walk away but Mason grabs him by the neck and leans forward whispering something into his ear. The kid backs up eyeing Mason over and slowly places back on the walker skin covering his face.  Mason stands there and Rick comes up to him asking.

"what the hell was that?"

Mason stares slowly around him and looks into the bushes. He turns his head and feels Rick grab him asking.

"who the hell are you?"

Mason begins laughing and pushes Rick a bit and Michonne eyes Mason over who turns to her.

"you know I can tell it, you both have been out here but you still haven't seen it. All of it."

Mason laughs to himself again holding his bleeding shoulder and glances around hearing some whispers and shakes his head.

"can't you hear it? The fucking voices!'

Mason screams out.

"I can hear you!"

Mason laughs to himself and feels the pain in his ankle and drops to the grass laughing to himself. Rick comes over looking down at Mason and Michonne comes over as well. They both remain quiet and Mason shakes his head laughing.

"you don't know. You have seen shit I can tell, but it is just starting. They are moving those pieces and no one will live."

Mason laughs again and Michonne turns her head sideways and rams the handle of her blade into Mason's face knocking him out. Rick turns to her and she nods down.

"he is losing his mind."