Healing Broken Wings [Daryl Dixon] The Walking Dead

Thirty One| Gone Again

🕉️Kara🕉️

I stare at this man as he finished his story and all I could think about was all those poor people begging him to save them, to let them in so they could live. Three of us are missing one of them is my dad. And then there's Carol.

"There's something-- there's someone outside lying in the grass." I look up at Glenn and so does Sasha. "Sasha." She doesn't wait she goes running for the door, I follow with Rick and some others, pulling my gun out. I can hear walkers snarling. Once out the door I can see Bob lying in the grass.

"Oh! Bob! Bob. His leg."

"Get Bob inside. We'll take care of them."

"Can you help me, please? Help me. Help me." Tyreese nods and picks Bob up, suddenly there's a gunshot and Rick fires back, shooting blindly. "Get inside! Go!"

I rush back inside and once Rick was in I slam and lock the door. Bob was lying on the floor and he comes to. "I was in the graveyard. Somebody knocked me out. I woke up outside this place. It looked like a school. It was that guy, Gareth. And five other ones. They were eating my leg right in front of me."

I curl my lip in disgust as I crouch down. "Like it was nothing. All proud like they had it all figured out."

"Did they have Daryl and Carol?" Rick asks and Bob looks up at him, I wait anxiously for his reply. "Gareth said they drove off." I stare at him, why would they leave. I look up at Mom and she's got a terrified look on her face. I grab her hand, giving it a comforting squeeze, she looks down at me and smiles.

Bob starts groaning as he sits up. "He's in pain. Do we have anything?"

"I think there are pill packets in the first aid kit," Rosita says and Sasha nods. "Save 'em."

"No."

"Really," he says before pulling his shirt off his shoulder to reveal a bite. I reel back in surprise and Sasha looks at him in horror and disbelief. "It happened at the food bank. It's okay."

"Bob?"

"There's a sofa in my office. I know it's not much, but..."

"Thank you."

"I got him," Tyreese says before carrying him into the office and Sasha follows close behind. "Do you know the place Bob was talking about?"

"It's an elementary school. It's close."

"How close?" He stays silent for a moment and Rick looks at him. "How close, Gabriel?"

"It's just a 10-minute walk through the woods from here, due south of the graveyard." Judith starts crying and I take her from Carl's arms, bouncing her in my arms. "Shh, shh, shh." I see Carl smiling at me from the corner of my eye as she quiets down.

"Does he have a fever?"

"He's just warm."

"Jim lasted almost two days before we left him," I hear Glenn say before Abraham speaks up. "Time for a reality check. We all need to leave for DC right now."

"Daryl and Carol are gonna be back. We're not going anywhere without them."

"Yeah, we can't leave without my Dad," I say and Abraham looks at me.

"I respect that, but there's a clear threat here to Eugene. I need to extract his ass before things get any uglier. So if y'all won't come, good luck to you. We'll go our separate ways."

"You leaving on foot?"

"We fixed that damn bus ourselves."

"There are a lot more of us."