The Sheriff and The Archer

Chapter Twenty-Five: Borderline Hell

I nearly dropped Judith. Thank God I wasn't drinking anything because I would have spit it out. Tom always had this will to live. It was quite exquisite how much he wanted to live. It was like he was waiting for somebody to show up at Terminus.

"I need you to kill me. I don't want to be a biter, and I can't do it myself. Please, I don't want to be here and I have no where else to go. None of you will take me where ever you're going."

"I-I don't know." I mean, sure, I'd killed people before (not including the deaths I was responsible for in Terminus), but I had never killed someone unless I was about to die. I told him about maybe taking him with us and in exchange, instead of him giving me information, he'd have to help me with Operation SHOT.

"Are you sure? The information I'm trying to give you is -"

"Not more important than saving my groups life. They're all I have now."

I told him what we would now be doing during Operation SHOT. He got this smile on his face before he said, "No. I have a better idea, but we have to do this tonight. Gareth is planning on killing some of them tonight. And I have a better plan."

When he told me that whole plan I nearly said no because it was so insane, but he told me he already had all of the supplies, and that it could be ready in an hour. I closed my eyes and uttered the word yes. He smiled and  turned to leave, but I called his name.

"We're coming with you. I'm not leaving your side until this is all over." He could be a spy, and tell Gareth what I'm planning. Then I'll be with the rest of my group in borderline hell.

"Fine. You can help me," I slung my bow over my shoulder as well as my quiver and left with Tom and Judith.

It took us a few minutes to get to Tom's room. His room was two floors above mine and he was the only person living on that floor. I had never been inside, I don't think anyone had. But we had all seen his door. He had this huge lock on it, you had to enter six number to get in and every time you got it wrong there would be this really loud alarm, like a siren going off. (One time a few of us tried to get in. Yeah, it was bad.)

When Tom entered the code he walked straight in, I pulled Judith a little closer and carefully stepped onto the carpeted floor. I looked around to see him pull a string in the middle of the room. Something made a click sound before the room was filled with light. Tom walked around me to shut the door. I took my surroundings in in the mean time.

There were scrap pieces of metal everywhere. Wires littered the many tables, hazard bags were thrown about, and something smelled. Bad. I crinkled my nose and willed Judith not to cry. There was another thing screaming out at me however. There was no furniture in here, only a plethora of tables that had barely any vacant space.

Before I could start to ask the question, Tom provided the answer, "I sleep in the room next door. A few weeks after I got here I moved all of the furniture out and started making different weapons, but what we're making has to be stronger than anything I've ever done. Which is why I'll need about an hour to fix it all up."

"Oh, okay. Do you need me to help you with anything?"

"If I need you at all I'll ask you for help. Now sit," he turned to one the the tables filled with concoctions and got to work mixing things together.

I took the chair he wasn't using and sat down with Judith in my lap. I did many things to keep her entertained and then I started to sing to get her to fall asleep.

(This is The Scientist by Coldplay. Great song, you guys should check it out.) "Come up to meet you. Tell you I'm sorry. You don't know how lovely you are. I had to find you. Tell you I need you. Tell you I'll set you apart. Tell me your secrets, and ask me your questions. Oh let's go back to the start. Running in circles, coming up tails. It's all a science apart. Nobody said -"

"Would you shut up? I'm trying to save your family right now," Tom slammed his tool down and glared at me. I nodded because I didn't want to wake up the newly sleeping Judith. He turned again and got back to work, but I just smiled.

About thirty minutes later he finally turned around with something in his hands. Three grenades.

"What the hell? You weren't supposed to make grenades!"

He shook his head. "They're not grenades, although they look the same. They're what we planned to make, just in a different casing. Now come on. We have to do this right now."

I agreed. Tom picked up his bag and I tightened mine. I pulled my brown hair back into a ponytail while Judith was in my lap and picked her up. Tom said we had to go to his room for a moment to get a few things. We walked a few doors down to the right before Tom opened the door again.

You would barely be able to tell that someone lived here. It was really clean and didn't have any personality to it. I guess he wanted to make it look like he lived in the padlocked room though. He went to his desk drawer and pulled out three pictures, but I couldn't see any of them. Tom carefully put them in the pocket of his backpack and then walked to the closet. I gasped when he pulled it out.

"Don't ask me why I have it, Jade. Just... take it."

It was one of those baby carriers where you could hold the baby on your chest. It would let me shoot my bow if I needed to and take care of Judith at the same time. Score!

"Let's do this," I said, slipping on the carrier and locking Judith in.

LAST NIGHT WAS AMAZING THE WHOLE EPISODE MADE MY HEART FREAK OUT! DARYL AND CAROL'S HUG OH MY GOD IT WAS PERFECT