Lilly Jennings
Michonne and 2 others came back and everyone else hasn't. I'm talking with Maggie and Michonne. She said Glenn and Nicholas got broken off from them but Glenn would give a signal if he's stuck. We then hear Rick yelling to Open the Gate and a bunch of walkers following him. Half of the herd apparently.
"You can hear it. Some of you saw it" Rick says to the people of the community that are standing around. "They got back here, half of them. Still enough to surround us 20 deep. Look I know you're scared. You haven't seen anything like this. You haven't been through anything like this. But we're safe for now. The panel the truck hit seems intact. We reinforced it just in case. Either way, the wall's gonna hold together. Can you? The others they're gonna be back. Daryl, Abraham, Sasha, they have vehicles. They're gonna lead them away just like the others. And Glenn and Nicholas are gonna walk back through the front gate after. They knew what they're doing, and we know what we need to do. We keep noise to a minimum. Pull our blinds at night. Even better keep the lights out. We'll try to make this place quite as a graveyard see if they move on"
"This place is a graveyard" a woman says
"The quarry broke open and those walkers were having this way. All of them. The plan that Rick put into place stopped that from happening. He got half of them away. I was out there recruiting with Daryl. I wanted to try to get into a cannery and scavenge, and Daryl wanted to keep looking for people. We did what I wanted, and we wound up in a trap set by those people. And I lost my pack. They must've followed our tracks. Those people who attacked us, they found their way back her because of me." Aaron says
"There'll be more to talk about" Rick says
Deanna starts waking away. People call out her name but she keeps walking. Everyone cleans up from the attack. Burying loved ones and keeping the killers off to the side to wait till the walkers are gone to bury them outside the walls. We walk to the edge of the walls.
"I thought you said we weren't going over" Maggie says
"We're not. We're going under" Aaron says
He stops at a sewer drain and kneels down to open.
"This leads to a sewer that was part of the old neighborhood that was here before they built this up. It will take us under the wall and hopefully past the walkers" Aaron says
"Thanks" Maggie says "but I'm going on my own from here. This is to you too Lilly"
"Maggie" I say
"No"
"Please" Aaron says "I can't, I can't watch anymore names go up on that wall"
Maggie gives in and let's us go with her. We get down there and walk we are walking in sewer watch something I never thought I would have to do.
"This is disgusting" I say
"Well it's better than getting eaten by walkers right" Aaron says
"Right"
We walk down more turning on our flashlights so we can see because it's getting dark.
"If he's alive..." Maggie says
"If" I ask
"He told Michonne he would've found some way to signal us if he got out. If he's alive or he's hurt or trapped or maybe taken. If he's alive he needs my help. That's why I'm doing this and if he's dead I don't want to be waiting on him. None of this is your fault. You don't need to do this" she says the last part to Aaron
"People are dead. I was a part of that. And I have to live with that" he says and continues walking.
We walk a lot more shining our flashlights so nothing pops out at us or trip over anything.
"I haven't been down here since the beginning." Aaron says "this latter must've fallen a long time ago"
"Let's try and get out of here" Maggie says
There's a ladder in our way so we have to move it. We try and move but Aaron falls back and gets hurt.
"Aaron are you okay" I ask going over to him
"I'm okay. The ladder caught me" he says
"You're bleeding" I say
We here walker growls and look over to where the ladder is and one pops up Maggie goes to kill it and another one comes out of nowhere and pins her against the wall. The other crawls to where me and Aaron are and he kills it The gets up and kills the one going at Maggie.
"You okay" Aaron ask
"Yeah. Thank you" Maggie says and looks up at Aaron "Aaron your head" she takes a Cotten pad out from he pocket and places it in Aaron's head. "This could need stitches. Aaron just go back. Lilly go with him"
"No" I say
"Yes"
"I was just there for you" Aaron say
"I could have done it"
"Just lead the way"
Aaron hold the Cotten pad to his head as we continue walking through the sewer. We find the end and we can see the walkers still.
"We're still to close" Maggie says
"We just have to get through a few of them then we're gone" Aaron says
"No"
"You ready"
"No we can't"
"You can stay I'll go"
"No. No! It's over" Maggie yells attracting walkers making us step back. "I burned his last picture of him because I said I wasn't gonna need it anymore because I was never gonna be away from him again. I'm pregnant"
I look over at Maggie she has tears in her eyes.
"He didn't want me to go out there and I said yes. And if I would've gone, if I was with him maybe I could've helped him" she says
"Maggie" I say
"I don't know if he's alive. He would've shown me by now. That's what Michonne said. I just want to see his face. I can't. I don't get to know what will happen, I won't get to know why it happened, what I did right or wrong. Not now, I have to live with that. You do too Aaron."
Aaron goes and hugs her. I join the hug. Maggie is like a mom to me knowing that she is pregnant makes me feel like I'm having a sibling or something. But with Glenn not being her right now or if he's ever going to be here makes me scared for Maggie having to raise a kid on her own with no husband. But that won't be the case because Glenn will come back he always does.
We get back and I go home and shower. I walk out and see Carl there on the bed reading a comic.
"Hey how was your day" he ask
"Fine how was yours" I ask
"Fine"
I lay down with me head in his chest. He wraps his arm around me waist and pulls me close to him and kisses my head and I fall asleep.
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HOPELESS || carl grimes
FanfictionLilly Jennings. 14 years old alone in a world were the dead are walking and trying to eat you. She's been alone for 3 months since her brother died. She ends up walking along a dirt road and comes across a prison. {Season 4 - Season 8}