Stay With Me [Carl Grimes]

Chapter 10: On Edge

For the past few days, everyone's been snappy, I guess you could say on edge. Although we're all in a horrible mood the universe seems to think thats a good idea to make our lives even worse.

I walked into the room Lori was in, to be surprised with Lori sweating and passed out. "HERSHEL! COME QUICK!" I called out finding her pulse. "What is it?" He asked running in, along with Carl and Rick. "She's passed out, sweating but has a pulse" I quickly explained. He nodded and got to work. "Is she gonna be okay?" Rick asked Hershel, who ignored him. Oh no, usually that's not a good sign. "I bet she's be fine" I told the two guys on edge.

"If she dies, then so does the baby" Glenn's eyes widened. "What?" Everyone in the room said in unison glancing at Glenn including Hershel. Highly rare for Hershel to stop his work because of something someone said. "I thought you guys knew!" Glenn explained.

"You're telling me, that my wife is carrying my baby and you didn't have the nerve to tell me?" Rick's voice grew louder with each word, as he stepped closer to Glenn with each word. "Stop! She's alive!" Hershel screamed. Well, Lori was a good person, I thought. "I'll shot her, if neither of you two want to" Daryl said

"No, no, no, no, no! I meant she's actually alive! It's how this works when they're scratched and they wait out to turn, it seems as if they're about to turn and she didn't turn!" Hershel explained. We all gathered around Lori and talked to her ans hugged her.

"You're able to get up now, its over" Hershel once again told her. She nodded her thanks as everyone made their way out of her room.

"She's pregnant?" Rick asked Glenn, who just nodddd. I assumed he was too afraid to speak. "Did she tell you herself?" Rick continued. "Well on a run to the store, she asked me to get a pregnancy test for herself, she asked me to keep it between us so I did" Glenn explained to Rick, who seemed to calm down, along with everyone else. Rick glanced at all of us, walking away. "How could you keep this a secret?" Maggie's country accent roared with anger. "I had to, she wanted me to. I don't understand why you're all so upset!" Glenn stormed off. "Two down" I muttered under my breath, catching a smile from Carl.

"Well, I'm happy your moms alright" I told Carl as we went to look for Glenn along with Daryl, and Maggie. "Yeah me too" He told me. "Alright lets see, I can see tracks" Daryl crouched down and touched the ground. "See anything?" Maggie asked. "Yup, this way" Daryl pointed in the direction in front of him.

After 10 minutes of walking Daryl abruptly stopped, causing me to slam into his back. "What gives?" I asked him. "His tracks, stopped there's nothing here of him like he just disappeared.." Daryl trailed off, concentrating on finding a trail to lead us to Glenn. "Uh guys, I think we have bigger problems right now.." Carl said. We all glanced up noticing the herd of about 25 walkers coming towards us. "We can do kill them all easily, just no guns just knives and I'll make an exception for the crossbow but if we use guns it'll just attract more" I explained, mostly eyeing Carl for guns. I handed everyone a knife because I have quite a few in my belt. "Liz!" Maggie pointed behind me. I tried to grab at my knife but it jumped on me.

"Don't scream" I whispered to myself as the vicious, flesh eating monster inched its mouth towards my neck, drooling all over me. I glanced to the side and saw my knife. "Don't worry about me any of you! I can handle this guy, just work on killing off the rest of them!" I shouted over the moans and groans of the walkers.

Reaching out, I barely got my knife. My right hand was getting tired from holding up the slobbery beast above me. I grabbed the knife, stabbing it in the head, ending it. I pushed it off, just in time to notice everyone just finishing off a few walkers. "Did it really take me that long to kill it?" I asked sheepishly, embarrassed a little. "Eh, kinda but don't worry about it as long as your okay" Daryl smiled. "Well, I wouldn't say okay, I am a little shaken up and have its disgusting slobber and blood all over me" I replied.

"Wait, Glenn's trail was going the way of the walkers, correct? But stopped, maybe he started going backwards or something because it looks a little like he trailed backwards and the walkers had to be attracted to something, right?" Carl spoke up, he hasn't really said anything this whole time.

"He has a point" Maggie agreed. Daryl crouched next to the tracks, dusting the dirt off them. "Jolly good mate, I think you're right" Daryl impersonated a british person. "Hey, do you wonder if this is going on somewhere else but here as well? Like London or something? Maybe it's okay over there" I pondered, mostly to myself but everyone else heard. "That's a good point but we are kind of looking for a missing Glenn so maybe we can talk about this later" Daryl growled and walked ahead, motioning us to follow.

"Damn, what's his problem?" I whispered to Carl, to he could only hear. "God only knows, one minute he's okay, the next he's pissed it's just Daryl's nature but to do it to you that's a little weird" Carl replied as we came to a small area with some stores. "Hey, we all have backpacks, maybe if Glenn's alright when we find him we could go on a little run?" I suggested to them as we scoped out the area.

"Yeah maybe" Daryl muttered.

"Put your weapons down, and your hands up" A voice shot out from behind us. We all slowly turned around to face the men. There were 5 of them, all very strong and buff. "Oh my oh my, lookey here boys we have two very pretty ladies here as well" The guy came over caressing my cheek which I slapped away. "Oh feisty, I like feisty" He winked then made his way to Maggie, who was silently sobbing.

"Hey baby doll, don't cry we'll take good care of you" He whispered in her ear, though loud enough for us 3 to hear, then kissed her neck.

"Tie em' up! All of em! We'll use the girls and kill the guys!" The one who I assumed the leader was "By the way, I'm Mikey. That's Josh, Max, Ray, Frank. Just so you know" He smirked. "Oh and we must take their weapons away too, silly me" He took my belt off, touching my ass in the process, making Carl and Daryl growl at him.

I tried grabbing my weapon, but it all went black.