𝔽𝕒𝕞𝕚𝕝𝕪 𝕃𝕚𝕟𝕖 -𝕋𝕎𝔻 {𝟙}

ℂ𝕙𝕒𝕡𝕥𝕖𝕣 𝟙𝟞: 𝕁𝕦𝕕𝕘𝕖, 𝕁𝕦𝕣𝕪, 𝔼𝕩𝕖𝕔𝕦𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟𝕖𝕣

The group waited patiently for Daryl to come back from interrogating Randal.

"Boy, there's for a gang, 30 men," Daryl said as he came back from the shed. He then turned to look at Keeley. "He keeps asking for you, though."

"I don't care, what else did he say?"

"They have heavy artillery and they ain't looking to make friends. They roll through here, our boys are dead. And out women, they're gonna- they're gonna wish they were." Keeley tried to wrap her head around the fact that her brother was a part of this group.

"What did you do?" Carol asked as she looked down at his fist. "Had a little chat." Everyone looked worried on edge. "No one goes near this guy." Rick announced, then he looked at her, "Understood?"

"I understand you perfectly, don't worry about me." Keeley didn't hear Glenn coming up behind her as she mumbled, " Worry about Deputy Dickhead over there." The sound of someone choking made Keeley turn her head to see Glenn choking on his saliva..

Lori walked up to Rick, "What are you gonna do?" He took a breath, "We have no choice. He's a threat. We have to eliminate the threat." It was Dale who stepped forward this time. "You're just gonna kill him? I mean he's a kid. A kid who Keeley knows."

"I don't know him anymore, Dale." Everyone looked at her. "My brothers gone because of him"

"It's settled. I'll do it today." Rick spoke for the last time, not wanting anyone else to add a comment. He walked away and Dale followed.

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Dale had tried to talk to Keeley about the whole Randal situation. He told her that he had Andrea guarding him so he could have more time to try to convince people not to let Rick kill Randal.

"Dale, He didn't even try to help my brothe.  I'm glad that's he going to die, it's karma for what he did. So stop trying to convince me otherwise. I'm sorry, but I'm not gonna help you."

She left before Dale could say any more.

Keeley needed to find something to distract her so she decided to pay a visit to Beth. When she walked into the room, Maggie was sitting on the bed with her holding her hand.

"How is she?" Keeley asked breaking the silence. Maggie didn't look up at her, "She's getting better. Dad said that her scar won't even be noticeable in a few years."

Keeley sat on the opposite side of Maggie and grabbed Beth's other hand. "I'm sorry that I haven't been up here lately, but I'm here now, okay? When you get better I'll take you up on that offer to teach me how to braid hair correctly."

Beth laughed for the first time in a long time, and it was music to both girls' ears.

Keeley left both of them so they could enjoy their peace together.

She went to go look for Carl so we could spend some time together, to try to take her mind off of Randall, but she couldn't find him anywhere. So the search began for Carl.

Keeley checked everywhere. Behind the house, by the barn, but he was nowhere to be seen.

Keeley started searching by the shed, thinking maybe Carl went to go take a peek at Randal but no one was there, not Andrea guarding the door. Randal must've heard her footsteps because he started calling out.

"Hello?"

Shit

"Hello, I know you're there, you have to help me I promise I won't come back."

She didn't answer.

"Are you still there?" Keeley tried to turn around and walk away but she stepped on a leaf and it crunched so loudly. "Hello? Keeley, is that you? Look I'm sorry about Manny, I had to think about me and my survival. I never meant to hurt you or Manny."

Keeley clenched her fist so hard, her knuckles turned white," It's too late for that, Randall. I hope you see my Dad in hell."

By the time Keeley made it back to the house, she saw Carl standing on the porch with Lori, who seemed to be looking for her. "Carl, I want you to stay with Jimmy, okay? Keeley, stay with Beth. Keep an eye on her." She gave her a fake smile, Keeley was hoping she would've been to hear about Randall's fate.

Keeley walked upstairs to see Beth in a new pair of clothes and wet hair. "It's good that you took a shower, to be honest, you kinda smelled but I kept my mouth shut. Because you know... Common courtesy." The blonde threw a pillow at her, before sitting on the bed. "Sit down in front of me I'm gonna teach you to braid."

"Oh, you know I didn't mean like today," Keeley said.

"Sit down."

"Yes ma'am."

For the last hour, Beth and Keeley laughed and talked, and it for nice for the two after everything they went through the last. They enjoyed each others company while trying to ignore the others arguing downstairs. After a couple of more tries, Keeley finally made a decent braid.

That was when Maggie came up to tell them that they made a decision.

Randal was going to die.

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Rick told the rest of them to wait in the house while he, Daryl, and Shane did what had to be done. They all waited patiently until Rick came back with Carl.

Keeley sat with Carl, while Rick told Lori what happened. "He followed us. He wanted to watch." She looked at the young boy and could tell he heard the conversation too, but when she looked at him, there was no hint of remorse on his face.

It was quiet at the campfire, everyone felt uncomfortable as they thought about their consequences. Then they heard screams. Dale's screams.

Rick started yelling. "Get the kids. T-Dog, get a shotgun now!"

Lori started pulling them towards the house, "I want both of you to go in the house, lock the door and stay inside." Keeley took Carl's arm and ran towards the house dragging him with her while Beth, Jimmy, and Keeley didn't know what was going on, but from out the window, she could see the group gathered around something. Then she saw a small figure running towards them.

Keeley turned around and saw the front door was wide open and Carl was gone. She took off running after him, yelling his name.

"Carl! Carl! Get back here!" By the time Keeley reached Carl, he was already there staring at the scene in front of him. "Carl, what are-" She wasn't able to finish her sentence as she was cut off by Dale's groans. His stomach ripped open and blood everywhere. There was a walker next to him and a corpse of a cow.

Carl looked at the walker's body and started crying into his mother's arms. Lori sat in the front, frozen looking down at Dale's body. Tears fell down Keeley's face as she looked anywhere except Dale's body.

"Do something!" Andrea cried out, not wanting Dale to suffer anymore. Rick took out his gun but couldn't do it. "Come on, " Shane said softly. No one moved, all you could hear was the cries of everyone. Daryl stepped forward and took the gun from Rick's hand. He bent down and put the gun to Dale's temple, all Dale did was shake his head in approval.

"Sorry, brother," Daryl said before pulling the trigger.