The Walking Dead

You Know What Lori, Just Tell It To The Frogs!

 ( Dani's P.O.V.) 

It's like the Walkers could read our minds. We escaped the department store, but thanks to his behavior, Merle was left on the roof, handcuffed to a pipe. Atlanta was pretty overrun now, I have no fucking idea how we're going to get him back. 

His brother Daryl wasn't very happy when Rick confronted him and told him that his brother was and cuffed in the roof of a department store, and he lost it. 

Once he calmed down, Rick explained the situation and pointed at my blackened right eye.

" Just tell me where he is so I can go get em." Daryl said.

" Atlanta's has to be full of Walkers now," I pointed out. " The only way we're going to get in there is the exact way we got in."

" No. No way." Andrea said. "I'm not doing that again." 

" Neither am I," T-Dog said. " Fucking disgusting man."  

" Then I guess it's just me and-" 

" I'll come to," Glenn said, regret instantly fulling his voice. " I don't want you guys to get lost." 

" I never needed help bailing him out before, sure as hell don't need it now." Daryl said, passing everyone, the headed towards the woods. 

" We still need more supplies." Glenn said. 

" Did you clear out all the house's around Atlanta?" I asked Rick. 

" Not all of them," Rick told me. " Just the ones coming towards Atlanta." 

" There's a crafting store a few miles north of King County. You guys could probably get the supplies to make a warning sign for Atlanta."

I pecked her on the forehead while Glenn got a map of Atlanta out, marking places Lucy and Rick named off. 

" You wanna come with us this time?" I asked her. 

" I need to stay with the kids. Lori just leaves Carl to do her thing." She said in a low voice. 

" Does Rick know?" 

" I'll tell him later. I don't want him thinking about this while you guys are out." 

" Alright. Just stay away from her."

" OK." 

We kissed and I got ready to go.  

( Lucy's P.O.V.) 

I have hand signals that I use to communicate with the Asian teens Dani and I rescued. I don't feel like I should rename them because I feel like that's not my place. So when I need their attention, I pat them on the shoulder or something. 

Lori and Shane have been doing their thing. Fighting then making up. I swear, they're bipolar. 

" Are you my Aunt?" Carl asked. 

I didn't know what to say. " I-" 

" She said Rick was like a brother to her, so I guess she is." Sophia said.

" Aunt Lucy, can we go get some blackberries? There right over the hill, it's still in the area were allowed to go." 

" Let me go ask your Mom's, OK. Stay here." 

I asked Carol first, and she said she would go with me. Lori trusted Carl with her so she figured it would help not start any drama. 

Before we even got started, I saw a Walker lunge for us and Carol screamed, leading everyone to our spot.

I grabbed a nearby tree branch and rammed it into its skull, surprising everyone, including myself. I have filled with fear just a second ago, and in a blink, there was a tree branch in my hand and the end of it was in a corpse's head. 

The good feeling that filled me disappeared when Lori started yelling at me. " You almost got him killed!"  

" What do you mean? I was keeping watch while they were picking blackberries." 

" That Walker nearly killed him. I saw it."   

" You know what Lori, just tell it to the frogs!" I yelled.

With everything handled and knowing Lori was just being Lori, everyone left. 

" Mom, Aunt Lucy protected me." Carl told her. 

" She isn't your Aunt, alright. She's someone you need to stay away from alright?" 

" Mom, you're not being nice." Carl said. 

Lori picked him up and left, leaving Sophia and Carol watching her leave.

" I'm sorry Carol." 

" You don't need to apologize. She needs a stern talking to." 

" Dani said she would talk to Rick about his...Lori." I told her. 

" I thank you're a wonderful young lady. I would trust you with Sophia any day."

" You wanna go say " Hi" to Lucky?" I asked Sophia. 

She was still sad. " I want Carl to come." 

I squatted down. " Carl will be able to join us when his Dad gets back. Is that OK?" 

" I guess."   

" Stay with her. Mommy has to go do some laundry." Carol said. 

" Can I call you Aunt Lucy too?" 

I glanced at Carol and she shook her head " Yes". 

" Sure. I don't mind." 

( Rick's P.O.V.) 

( Sylvan Hills) 

We had hit the jackpot. There were so many supplies left that would last us a long time.

" This place his so many advantages, its perfect," Dani said. " And it's further away from Atlanta, it's way safer. We can make a community here as we have in every state so far. Those kids need more room to grow."  

" I think it's better than the camp too, but Shane's not going to like it." 

" We have seen it with our own eyes. Atlanta is overrun, and after they're done, they will venture into the woods. If they come through here, we can hide out in here for however long it takes." 

" Is it alright if I stay here and you guys go back? I don't want to be there when Dani goes off on Shane. It's nothing personal, it's just she has your back better in those situations."

" No offense taken," Dani said. " I get it. I'm very intimidating." 

Dani and I left and went back to the camp, and everyone agreed it was a better plan than staying here, even Shane and Lori.  Lucy left a note for Daryl and we made our way to our new home. When we arrived, Gleen had the supplies divided and ready to go and everyone got settled in.

Ed was thrown into the basement so no one would hear his yelling and gave Lori and Shane there own rooms, and put Carl in Carol and Sophia's room where he was safe. 

That night was the night Lori and I got into it for the final time. I told her if she didn't change her ways, she would be but in the new psyche ward with Ed in the basement. She thought I was joking, but proven wrong when I dragged her ass down there. We did installments to make sure that their voices wouldn't be too loud for the Walkers to hear and installed camera's when we got the generator running. 

We lived normal lives again. And we were prepared for trouble if it ever came.