Hope//C.G *Finished*

Heads Up

I stood in the bathroom without a shirt on gawking at my collarbone. I chuckled at the purple bruises on my collar bone, one on my neck, and a couple on my boobs. I looked down and seen one on my side that hurt really bad. I pulled my shirt on, checking to make sure they're all covered, and went back into our room where Carl sat on the end of the end putting his shoes on.

"Carl Grimes" I said through my teeth going over and lifting my shirt up to reveal the hickie on my side. Carl chuckled and poked it making me wince. "What'd you do Chloe?" Rick asked suddenly appearing in the door way. "I was in the shower and fell getting out. I landed pretty hard" I said and he nodded. "Well stop by the infirmary and see if Denise can do anything about it" I nodded and he left. Carl started chuckling and I pushed him making him laugh more.

Carl stood up and I smiled as he leaned down and kissed me sweetly. "Come on Love, we have things to do" I said and took his hand, as I pulled him from the room. Carl and I sat on the porch steps. His arm was around my waist, as I sat sideways with my legs over his. Rick came for us and we stood up, and walked after him. We reached a little ways when Ron came after us to. We were teaching him how to shoot again today.

We walked up to the gazebo to see Gabriel hanging up signs 'Prayer Circle at the Solar Panels 1:00'. I watched as Rick reached up and ripped it off the poll. He did the same to the other, as we past it. I chuckled as Carl just calls out "Dad" before giving me a look. We reached the area where we were going to be teaching Ron. "Chloe" Rick said and I smiled stepping up. I grabbed the handgun from my jeans and help it up "Handguns will be a little better for your first go." I said and leaned forward showing him the release buttons "Magazine release. Slide release. Thumb safety." Ron nodded, and Carl then called out "That stuff's easy, right, Chlo?" I nodded with a smile remembering our safety course 101 as Shane would call it. "Yeah." I nodded, and watched Ron give Carl a look I released the magazine and held it up "Empty magazine. Empty chamber. See it?" I asked and he nodded "Yeah." I took a couple steps back and said "Someone's in front of you, they have a gun."

Carl nodded "You're gonna be scared. You will be." Ron looked from him to me, as I said "We all are, and we all will be. You just have to swallow the fear, and keep going. Your body's gonna tense, you won't have time to think. You're just gonna want to pull the trigger when you get it in front of you." I held the gun up and pulled the trigger. Course with no ammo in it the gun just clicked. "But you'll miss and you'll be dead. You have to get it up to your eye." Carl then added "Chloe has taught me alot of things one of the most important ones is that you've got to be strong enough to wait for your moment." I smiled at Carl's words as Ron asks "Can I, uh...?" He cleared his throat and I looked at Rick who nodded. "Okay, but your finger doesn't touch the trigger until you're ready to shoot." I told him handing him the gun. "We can work on your aim later. It does take time, and then you'll be a pro like me" I smirked and Carl scoffed "Someones cocky" I shrugged smiling causing Rick to chuckle.

Ron stepped up and I took a couple steps back letting Rick take over. Carl wrapped an arm around my waist making me smile. Ron aimed and pulled the trigger making the gun clicked.  "Keep that one with you. Get a feel of what it's like to carry one around." Rick said and Ron turned to him "Can I shoot it? Maybe like down at the walkers?" Rick just instantly says "No, with things how they are, the walls are strong, but we're lucky the walkers are spread out. We don't want to pull them all to one spot." Ron then looked from Rick to us and back to Rick. "Well, what about, like, target practice in the center of town? 'Cause then the sound will spread out in each direction. Or maybe we could use, like, silencers or something like that. But, uh... I mean, we probably don't want to waste bullets right now, huh? Just want to learn more." I smiled and called out "You will." Rick then added "Chloe's right. You have a great teacher"

After having Ron do more aim and clicks as I like to call them. Carl walked me to the armory so I can do my shift. He kissed me goodbye and I walked in to see a smiling Olivia. "Afternoon Chloe" She said smiling. "Hey" I called out and grabbed the clip board from the desk. "I'll just do some counts before I leave" I said and she nodded turning to go upstairs to the pantry. I went around double checking the gun count. "Chloe can you come help me for a second?" Olivia called out and I set the clipboard down before heading to see Olivia who was trying to clean up the cans.

I jogged over and helped her pick up some of the things putting it where it goes. "Thanks sweety" she said and I smiled. I walked out from behind a shelf only to bump into Ron. "Oh hey" I said and he nodded "Hey" before leaving. "That was weird" I said before heading back to the armory to continue my counts.

After Olivia left I was doing counts in the pantry. "Six" I said and wrote it down before moving to the next item. "Five. Cool" Next. "Six" Arms then went around my waist and I smirked sinking into them. "You shouldn't be here" I said and a kiss was planted on my neck. "Is Olivia gone?" Carl asked and I chuckled "Yeah but she'll be back in five to let me leave" Carl nodded. "I can wait five minutes"

I chuckled "No you can't because I told Denise I'd help her in the infirmary" Carl nodded into my neck basically pulling a kola move. "Hmm. I love you" he said and I smiled "I love you too."

When Olivia came back I took a number of things Denise needed signing them out myself. "I'll be back tomorrow Liv" I said and she smiled at me while I was letting Carl tug me out of the pantry. He walked me to the infirmary where I left him with a kiss before going inside. A note was taped to the door.

'Chloe. Go on in and check on the patients. Be back ASAP ~Denise'

I nodded and restocked the things she needed stocked and checked on the patients. Everything was good and quiet until I heard a loud crash. I rushed to the door throwing it open to see the bell tower crashed through the walls.

Oh. No.