I Can't Put My finger On It, But You're The One.

20. Shane Mess

Rosabeth's POV

After Maggie and I get all of the things we need we go into a bathroom and get started. As she does my hair we talk.

"So, got your eyes on anyone?" She asks.

"Yeah, but he doesn't like me, he's also taken." I say, sighing. She momentarily stops then keeps going. "Let me guess, Rick?" She asks.

"You knew?" I ask shocked. If she knows then others might. And if the others do then I have a problem with Lori.

"The way you look at him, and I just guessed." Maggie explains with a huge grin on her face. We quickly finish dyeing it and I ask if she could cut it.

"Here you go, all done." Maggie says smiling widely. I look in the mirror and gasp. It's beautiful. "Thank you Maggie, oh my gosh, it's perfect." I say hugging her. My hair is now a little longer than shoulder length, and light brown. I quickly walk downstairs, going to go show Glenn, he didn't even know I wanted to dye my hair.

"Hiya Glenn. What's up?" I ask casually. He is turned away from me so it's perfect.

"I'm just think--Your hair! Oh my god it's so pretty, why did you do it?" He asks getting excited. He knew about my crush on Rick and all already.

"You know, I needed change." I say smiling. I wink playfully and walk away. I run into someone and look up and see Rick. He is looking down and thinking. He looks up and stops, looking at me.

"Rose, what did you do? I mean it's beautiful and all but what?" He says messing with a strand of my hair. I smile and swat his hand away. He starts messing with my hair and I keep swatting his hand away.

"Stop it! Glenn? Help, Rick is attacking me!" I yell, laughing. Glenn walks by and laughs shaking his head.

Rick's POV

I was walking just thinking and run into someone. I look up and see Rosabeth. She dyed her hair?! it is beautiful. After talking with her and messing with her I ask her if I can speak to her in private. She nods. We walk to the barn and I ask her something that has been bugging me.

"Do you like Glenn?" I ask as casually as I can. I'm not going to lie, she is gorgeous. I think I like her. She looks at me and looks confused for a minute. Damnit she does. Lori and I are having trouble in our relationship, she doesn't like Rose, mainly because she thinks I'll choose Rose over her.

Rosabeth's POV

I look at Rick and think. Why'd he ask me?! "No, he isn't the one I like." I say smiling. He asks who I like and I just blush and mumble a 'you'. I quickly say goodbye and walk away. God that's horrible.

Apparently Hershel is letting us stay in his house. I still have my bow and arrows on my back and my gun on my waist. Rick asked if I would help him with Randall. Shane doesn't want Randall to live and I just don't care what he wants. He is crazy. Dale told me Shane was going to kill Rick.

~~Time skip~~

We are just about to go and leave Randall. T-dog runs back to us saying he's gone. Daryl, Rick, T-dog, Andrea and I go and check it out. Everything was how it was supposed to be. Everyone comes over and asks what's going on. Shane comes running out of the woods and yelling that Randall has his gun. Carl asks if he's okay.

"I'm fine, little bastard just snuck up on me. He clocked me in the face." Shane yells walking to us. Rick takes action and tells Glenn, Daryl, and I to go with him and Shane. We walk to the woods and Shane explains what happened. We split up and I go with Shane and Rick. I walk off with Rick beside me. I grab my gun out of its holster and aim it at the ground.

A while later it's dark and we've been walking for hours. "Look like its busted pretty bad." Rick comments. I look back and see Shane's face. He's bleeding still. We keep walking and there are trees everywhere. We keep walking and stop to talk some. Shane tells us both to go on and we do. I look at Rick and he looks at me. I look forward and see a clearing.

"So, he got you with a rock?" I ask unsure. "That's what I said." Shane comments. "Inside the shed? Cause that door was shut when T-dog rolled up." Rick asks. Oh god Shane led us out here to kill us. That or he is going to kill Rick.

"I saw that too. Must've slipped through the rafters in the roof." Shane says stoping a few feet behind us. Me and Rick stop a few feet away. I see Rick holster his gun and I do the same. "So this is where you planed to do it?" Rick asks. I close my eyes trying to calm down. Rick won't let him kill either one of us.

"It's a good place as any." Shane says. I scoff. "At least have the balls to call this what it is--murder." I say turning around an emotionless face on. Rick turns too at the sound of Shane grabbing his gun.

"You really believe that if you walk back onto that farm alone--no me, no Rose--" Rick starts but is cut off. "I want you to hush up." Shane says to Rick.

"You really believe they're gonna buy whatever sob story you tell? I didn't believe the one about Otis." I say, scoffing.

"That's just it. It ain't no story. I saw that prisoner shoot you both down. I ran after him. I snapped his neck. It ain't gonna be easy, but Lori and Carl--they'll get over you both. They done it before with you, Rick. They just gonna have to." Shane says aiming his gun at me. Rick walks in front of me and I grab my gun ready to use it if need be. Rick asks why now and Shane says that they tried to kill each other.

"You gonna kill us in cold blood? Screw my wife, have my children--my children--call you daddy? Is that what you want? That life won't be worth a damn. I know you, you won't be able to live with this." Rick says, trying to reason with him. Shane starts yelling and taunts Rick to make him kill Shane. I walk away thinking. A few minutes later I hear sobbing. I look over and see Rick crying over Shane's dying body. I start crying quietly. I walk over and sit down next to Rick and hug him. He sobs into my chest and I close my eyes whispering that it'll be okay. We sit there and we don't talk.

"Dad? Rose?" I hear Carl say. We turn and see Carl with his gun. We get up and walk to him. He raises his gun and I collapse and sob. I hear footsteps and get up and turn around grabbing my gun. I see walker Shane walking to us. I aim it and me and Carl shoot. Rick turns and sees Shane dead. Carl runs up to us and hugs Rick. I walk over and hug them both. We start walking back and Carl asks if we were but. We both say no and they talk. We stop and I look at Rick.

"Oh shit!" I say looking behind Rick.

ANYWAY LET'S DO THISSSSS

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