Fight To Live

(OLD) Chapter 14: Attacked (OLD)

Carl's POV

"Come on you lazy ass. That meat is gonna rot if you leave it there, you said you'd do it earlier. Do you want us all, you included, to starve?" I asked.

"I wouldn't mind if you starved." Damian mumbled angrily.

"Yeah, I get it, you don't like me. But I'm not the only person here, and I know that you care about the people that were part of your group before you joined us, so butcher the damn meat so we can cook it before it goes bad." I said.

"Whatever kid. Just go play with your boyfriend and leave me the hell alone." He responded.

"Get it done or get off the farm. If you're not gonna do your job, play your part, I don't want you here. It's your choice. I can find someone else to take this job." I said as I walked towards the door and left, slamming it behind me.

I was walking towards the shooting range we had made here to start teaching people how to use guns. Ethan would be there teaching some of the younger kids whose parents finally agreed that their children needed to be able to protect themselves.

"Hey!" I heard someone shout from the left. I looked over and saw Cain and Abel running towards me.

"When are we going out hunting again? There's nothing to do here and it's boring." Abel asked.

"We'll go out again tomorrow, we have enough food for now with what we got today so we don't really need to, and we need to save as much ammo as possible so we can't just go out hunting because we want to. Sorry." I answered.

"Yeah... we know... there's just so little to do here." Cain said.

"I know. If you want, there's an Xbox in the room Ethan and I share, you can play on it." I said.

"Really?! That sounds awesome! You'd let us?" Abel asked.

"Yeah, come on, I bet you can't beat me at any of the games up there. Want to try?" I asked.

"Yeah!" They both said together.

We turned towards the houses and started walking.

"What games are the-" Abel started to ask before he was cut off by gunshots coming from behind us.

That's not from the shooting range, we only use silenced weapons there so we don't attract walkers!

"Run!" I shouted as I pushed the boys in front of me and towards the closest building, the barn.

They ran ahead of me, I drew my pistol from it's holster and shot towards the forest, which is where the shots came from, as I ran. All around us people were trying to get into buildings or nearby vehicles, I saw a few get shot down before they could.

I was about to tell Cain and Abel to run faster when Abel stumbled and fell, crying out in pain, I saw blood seeping out of his leg. I holstered my gun and picked the boy up, he was still conscious and I saw tears streaming down his face. Cain had already reached the barn and was waiting for us. I ran in and Cain closed the door.

"W-What happened t-to him?" Cain asked, I saw him looking at his brother.

"He's alive. He got shot in the leg, it went clean through so he'll be ok, we just need to get pressure on it and get him to Talia." I said as I set Abel down and looked at the gunshot wound. It was in his upper calf, just below his knee, the bullet had gone straight through his leg so blood was coming out of both sides. I wrapped my hands around his leg and immediately they started to get covered in blood.