The walking dead Fanfic: The Estate

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A walker is shot in the head and the man looking through the scope smiles to himself as he takes aim at another and eases his fingers on the trigger. He goes to aim but hears a voice behind him.

"sir."

The man places up his hand and positions his sniper rifle as he grins to himself and eyes the walker smiling. He licks his lips and whispers.

"ain't she pretty."

Slowly he eases his finger on the trigger and hears the loud bang of his rifle as the walker drops to its knees. The man ignores the younger boy standing to his right and comments.

"what is rule one?"

The boy shifts in place and the man takes aim at another walker as he comments.

"I don't have all day."

the boy rolls his eyes back thinking as he nods his head commenting.

"ugh."

The man lifts his eyes away from his scope as he mocks the kid.

"ugh? That is your answer? no wonder the estate wouldn't keep your ass."

He takes aim again killing another walker as he laughs and the boy comments.

"Mason, Mason sent a message sir."

The man lines up his shot and the boy speaks from his right.

"a new van will be arriving today from TSH."

The boy watches in amazement as the man nails a walker far off in the distance and the man comments.

"you bothered me with that? a new van comes every month. you really are useless kid aren't you?"

the kid looks down and the man rolls to his back pressing a cigar to his lips as he feels for a match. he goes to light the cigar and coughs out eyeing it as he smiles to himself. the kid watches and the man motions away.

"is there something else?"

the man remains on his back smoking his cigar as the kid looks him over and blurts out the rest.

"Mason is coming with the van."

The man coughs loudly as he comments.

"you didn't think to lead with that?"

The boy steps back and the man grins as he puts out the cigar and gets to his feet. he motions tot he refile and the kid grabs it holding it clumsily in his hands. he follows silently behind the man and the man walks down a large flight of stairs and comes to a large opening eyeing the boys in military attire sitting around casually. he stops eyeing the boys over and screams out.

"why the fuck do you not look busy!"

the boys all jump to their feet standing at attention ad the man shakes his head disgusted.

"this is a fine operation. we are not relaxed like at TSH or the estate. none of you have proven you deserve that time. you are all cowards, weak and you only serve one purpose to the community. you work and you earn your keep, your beds, and your ability to live. the Reids have given you all a home, have given you all safety and you all think it is just fine to sit on your ass? we all have jobs to do."

The man walks down the line eyeing the boys over and stops at the end of one bed eyeing a boy laying in it. He turns his head sideways and eyes the boy just laying there sleeping. the man stops staring the boy down and raises his hand slapping the sleeping boy hard in the face. the boy flinches awake and the man stares him down asking.

"who told you that you had the right to sleep?"

The boy shifts in the bed and the man shakes his head in disappointment as he yells loudly.

"what do we do with rule breakers?"

The man glances around as he motions to the large crowd of boys standing at attention as he asks again.

"I said, what do we do with rule breakers!"

All the boys glance around to each other and the man nods his head as the boy in the bed whispers.

"I'm, I'm sorry."

The man fixes his hair as he comments mocking the kid laying down.

"you're sorry? All it takes is one nap and all of this, all of this could be gone. walkers are right there, right outside these walls and your dinner that's all you are to them just fresh, delicious dinner. one nap can kill everyone, your nap could kill any one of these boys."

the man whistles loudly as he motions to the boy on the bed and a few boys run forward dragging him out and down the hall as he yells out the boys.

"he's on bait duty."

the younger boy stands close to the man as he motions to the rest of the boys.

"Mason is coming here today. I won't have any of you making the den look bad. you all do your job and you do it right. if Mason is impressed one week vacation for everyone but boys if Mason is disappointed."

The man walks down the aisle eyeing the boys over and smiles to himself as he states coldly.

"if he is disappointed then double shifts with no food for three days."

The man stops at the head of the aisle and motions to the boys.

"let's not have that happen because someone will be responsible."