Love and Death (The Walking Dead - TWD)

Randall

Following Ashlyn I headed towards the barn as I approached I heard her and Rick talking about this other group they were so concerned about. Ashlyn was telling him how many people were there, more than 30 armed men and women and children..

Walking into the barn I saw the young boy a little closer, his leg had a bandage around it and blood was seeping through, his hand were tied around his back and his blind fold was around his neck. His face was young, he had big brown eyes and was looking around at everyone.

Maggie stood in the far corner quietly observing and not getting too close, while Ashlyn and Rick stood in the middle of the barn turned away from the boy talking.

"His names Randall" Ashlyn told Rick "he seems to be one of the good guys, I was only with this group a few weeks though, I started to realise almost straight away how cruel they were so I decided to leave"

"Okay" Rick said pinching the bridge of his nose in thought "this other group will they look for you?" He asked

"I'm not sure, but I don't know where we are and I have no intention on going back there so hopefully not" Ashlyn replied

"Wait" I interrupted "how did you actually find these two?" I asked Rick

"Well after Hershel told us all to leave he went to an old abandoned bar, we didn't want him to end up being dinner for walkers so we followed him to get him home safely" he started "When we got there another group was there as well two guys called Dave and Tony, tried to shoot us when we wouldn't tell them where the farm was, Ashlyn and Randall were with them" he stated

"What happened to your leg, Randall?" I asked pointing at the bandage

"Got it caught on a fence" he said looking shocked that I spoke to him "Nice fella over there helped get it off and brought me back here" he told me and I nodded

"Could you get Hershel to give him a fresh dressing please?" I asked looking towards Maggie who nodded and went to find Hershel

"What are you going to do with Randall?" I asked Rick in a hushed voice as we headed outside the barn

"I don't wanna kill him, so since he doesn't know where we are I'll blindfold him again and take him some place else then he can find his group again or something" he told me and I nodded in agreement "we'll do it in the morning" he said before walking off

Ashlyn walked over to me, "he's not going to do that to me, is he?" She asked

"No, you can stay, your my sister he said you could yesterday, but listen Ash, he's our leader, he's kept us all safe for sometime now, so what he says goes okay?" I told her

"You mean you don't even get to question his decisions?" She asked "even if you think their wrong?"

"Some of us do, it depends on who he trusts, like Daryl, Dale, me, but for now just do your best to make him trust you okay?" I asked her "I finally get to look after you, I don't want Rick being upset with you being with us"

"Yeah sure" she said "thanks Rue"

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The next day Rick and Shane blindfolded a clearly scared Randall again and drove him to a secret location. While they were gone Carl decided to go for a walk around the farm when Lori offered to go with him he told her he wanted to go on his own.

"Be careful" Lori told him before allowing him to walk off

A little while later Carl came back looking a bit shocked and scared, just as I was about to ask what was wrong a car pulled up in the driveway and out stepped Rick and Shane, with Randall.

"What happened?" I asked "I thought you were abandoning him"

"He knows Maggie from school and knows where the farm is" Rick told me while heading back to the barn with Randall

"So what do we do now?" I asked following them

"I'm not sure" he replied "I'll keep him in the barn til we figure out what to do"

Daryl and I stayed in the barn to try and get more information out of Randall.

"What's your group done so bad?" I asked

"Nothing" Randall answered

"Don't give me that crap" I snapped "my sister wouldn't just run away for nothing"

"Your gonna have to start talkin' or I'm gonna have to start shootin'" Daryl threatened

"Okay, okay!" Randall shouted "wait, there's 30 armed men" he told us

"We already know that" I stated

"They had a history of raping women"

Daryl looked at me and I stared in horror at Randall, "out" Daryl told me before he pointed his gun at Randall

"No, no, please don't kill me, I swear I never done nothing like that, I swear please" Randall begged

"We need to tell Rick, Daryl" I whispered shocked and Daryl nodded following me out of the barn

"We can't keep him here" Daryl spat angrily "he ain't gonna get away with touching you or no one else, not on my watch"

We headed towards the RV and found Rick with Dale, we told him what Randall told us and Rick decided to declare him as a threat and execute him

Dale looked shocked "you can't be serious?" he asked

"I can't allow him to stay if he acts as a threat to our group" Rick replied

"He says he's innocent, Rick at least think about this, ask the group what they think" Dale begged

"Fine, gather the group and we'll talk about this is the house" Rick said clearly frustrated as Dale rushed off to gather the group

In the house everyone sat around Dale and Rick

"Randall says his group has a history of raping women, he swears he's innocent, Dale thinks we should have a vote on whether to kill him or not"

Various voices around the room started to talk all shocked about what Randall had told us

"All those who vote not to kill Randall?" Dale asked looking around the room when nobody sided with him he looked towards Glenn

"He's not one of us" Glenn says sympathetically

"Ruby?" Dale asked "you still have your humanity don't you"

"I do, Dale, but I don't see another way, if we let him go we risk him going back to his group and telling them where we are, if we let him stay we risk the safety of everyone here, I'm sorry" I told him

Dale looked around the room once more begging us to let Randall have a chance to prove himself, Andrea eventually sided with him but the rest of the group insisted they wouldn't feel safe with him around

"This group is broken" Dale said sadly

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