The walking dead Fanfic: The Estate

Trial One (The trail) - Carol

Carol blinks hearing the whistling and shifts around feeling her hands tied tight and shifts around eyeing the small backpack with a note and reads it.

"follow the map...."

She moves around getting to her feet and stumbles to the bag opening it quickly struggling to get a knife and grips it slowly cutting the ropes tied around her hands. She hears a loud siren and glances around as she eyes the walkers getting closer she quickly moves forward gripping her knife and smashes it into a walkers skull and watches it fall to the ground. 

Aston eyes carol in the distance and smiles to himself as he comments sitting down next to the murder twins.

"well, she's pretty good."

Sally holds out a candy piece and smiles to Aston.

"do you want some uncle?"

He stares down the candy and shakes his head as he eyes Carol move forward and nods to himself.

"she can read a map..."

Carol runs forward and presses her hand to her waist feeling for her gun and notices its missing as she comments.

"not surprising"

She reaches into the pack eyeing the gun and opens it eyeing the five bullets as she whispers to herself again.

"what is this?"

She places the gun in the holster and grips the knife jamming it into another walkers skull and watching it fall to the ground. She comes to an opening and eyes an old dirt bike, and two walkers hanging from trees. She eyes their clothing and stares them down and glances to the bike and to the boys commenting.

"only one bike and two of you?"

Aston looks on and smiles to himself as he comments.

"she thinks it's a good idea to use the bike?"

Sally comments as she smiles.

"it will attract the herd, won't it?"

Aston nods his head as he sits back watching.

"yes its a quick escape but the noise and amount of gas won't get her far...."

Carol eyes the dirt bike and kicks the pedal hearing the motor start and hears a loud sound as she looks around her commenting.

"so it was part of the test?"

She quickly pulls the bike around and takes off as Aston looks on commenting.

"it will get her to the road and give her a lead but I doubt she will make it back to the estate alive."

Sally smiles as she eats more candy and asks calmly.

"so uncle does that mean we get to hang her?"

Aston stares her over and shakes his head.

"we can't let her die sally this is just a test we aren't monsters."

Aston grips his radio calling in.

"I want the team to keep eyes on Carol report in if anything goes wrong and step in when needed."

He hears a voice reply.

"affirmative general"

 Sally looks to Aston as she smiles and comments.

"can we get more candy?"

Aston looks over sally and her brother as he shakes his head disagreeing.

"you'll spoil your dinner..."

Carol rides forward but stops seeing a large group of walkers and feels her bike stall. She tries to hit the pedal again but the motor roars and fades as the bike dies. Carol gets off the bike and looks around her and shifts to the side of the road eyeing the dirt path under the bridge. Slowly she makes her way down the road and pushes her back against a wall hearing the walkers whisper and catches one speaking.

"they....are....testing.....them?"

She shifts and remains quiet as a walker replies.

"trials....."

She shifts and walks forward climbing up the hill but remains hidden as she slowly walks off to the left. Carol stops eyeing a small store with three walkers outside of it and walks forward. She jams her knife into the skull of one and easily kills the other two. Slowly she opens the door and eyes the body on the floor with a gun in his hand and turns her head eyeing the words written in blood and whispers to herself.

"salvation..."

Carol walks forward eyeing the dead body and leans down checking the gun and comments.

"the last bullet is for yourself..."

She stares around the store and hears a sound and raises her gun eyeing the little girl. Sally looks carol over and smiles as she comments.

"you shouldn't stay here too long the walkers come through here daily..."

Carol turns her head eyeing the little girl and comments.

"you're with them?"

Sally nods her head and takes out some candy and hands it to Carol as she smiles.

"keep moving."

Sally goes to walk away and Carol asks.

"who looks out for you?"

Sally stops and hugs herself as she thinks the question over and thinks of Mason frowning to herself as she closes her eyes but then shakes her head as she comments.

"I look out for me."

She walks out of the door and Carol stands still for a second but comes out of the store and looks around noticing the girl is gone. Carol grips her bag and slowly makes her way in the right direction of the estate and down a long block as she gets to a large opening she stops eyeing the large field coming into her view and stops on a hill overlooking the estate and takes in the view. Carol stops hearing some bushes rustling and turns back eyeing Aston make his way out of the woods as he comments.

"beautiful isn't it?"

She stares it down and Aston nods his head towards Carol as he stares her over.

"you've seen some bad stuff I assume?"

Carol questions not looking at Aston.

"that little girl."

Aston comments as he stares over his home.

"isn't your business and we won't discuss it. congratulation though you passed the trial and now we can begin Daryl's test. If you like you can join me and we can watch it together?"

A few men come out of the woods and one grips carol's gun talking it away as Aston motions to his men.

"let her keep it she's proven useful you never know when a gun is needed"

Ash nods to Carol as he comments.

"I trust you won't do anything stupid. it would just mean bad things for you."

Carol walks with Aston in silence as the small group behind them follows and they stop as they get closer to a crowd of yelling kids and slowly the crowd parts showing the pool and Carol and Aston move closer. Carol stops looking over Daryl as he is surrounded by walkers and she goes to step forward as Ash motions to her.

"it's his time now, steady your hand carol. I won't let anyone die..."