Dixon's Daughter

Chapter 9: Glenn

Third Person's POV

"Hey, are you alive in there?" The voice spoke through the tanks radio. Rick scrambled over to the walkie-talkie to answer. "Hello? Hello?"

"There you are. You had me wondering." The voice spoke and Sadie quickly crawled over beside Rick. "Where are you? Outside? Can you see us right now?" Rick asked the stranger.

"Yeah, I can see you. You're surrounded by walkers. That's the bad news." The voice told him. Bad news means there's good news, right?, Sadie thought as she intently watched Rick and the radio.

"There's good news?" Rick questioned. "No." The guy answered. Oh, never mind, then, Sadie thought.

"Listen, whoever you are, I don't mind telling you I'm a little concerned in here." Rick spoke. "Oh, man. You should see it from over here. You'd be having a major freak-out." The guy responded.

Sadie grabbed the walkie from Rick. "Yeah, well, we're not exactly chilling out in here, so if you have any advice, please..." She trailed off.

"Yeah, I'd say make a run for it." The voice answered her. "Make a run for it?' That's all you got?" Sadie questioned.

My way's not as stupid as it seems. You've got eyes on the outside here. There's one geek still up on the tank but the others have climbed down and joined the feeding frenzy where the horse went down. You guys with me so far?" The stranger explained.

"So far." Rick responded and Sadie nodded, despite the fact that she knew he couldn't see her. "Okay, the street on the other side of the tank is less crowded. If you move now while they're distracted, you stand a chance. Got ammo?" The stranger questioned and Sadie passed Rick the walkie.

"In that duffel bag I dropped out there, and guns. Can I get to it?" Rick asked him. "Forget the bag, okay? It's not an option. What do you have on you?" The guy questioned.

"Hold on." Rick said and checked how many rounds were left in the soldier's gun. After that he quickly went over to the soldier to check if he had anything else on him. Sadie watched as he found a grenade. Then Rick came back to her and the radio.

"Rick, I've got this gun, which only has one bullet left – but in my bag I have a box of extra ammo and a knife. I couldn't reach my bag while we were down there, but I managed to grab it when you pulled me up." Sadie told him and he nodded.

"We've got a beretta with one clip – fifteen rounds –, a .45, a knife, and one box of ammo." Rick answered him. "Make what you have count. Jump off the right side of the tank, keep going in that direction. There's an alley up the street, maybe 50 yards. Be there." The guy instructed them.

"Hey, what's your name?" Rick asked the stranger as Sadie grabbed her knife and put it in her flannel's inside pocket. "Have you been listening? You're running out of time." The voice responded as Sadie grabbed the box of ammo out of her bag.

She dumped out a handful into her palm and then passed the handful to Rick, who put it in his shirt pocket. Then she dumped out a handful for herself and put it in her flannel's pocket.

Quickly, she put the box back in her bag and then put her bag on her back. She picked up her gun off the floor and then looked at Rick.

"Ready?" He asked her and she nodded. She noticed he had grabbed a shovel only when he started climbing up to the hatch and opened it. He stuck his top half of his body out and immediately hit a walker with his gun, knocking him off the roof.

Then Rick pulled himself up and onto the roof and Sadie quickly followed. By the time she pulled herself out of the tank, Rick was jumping off of it. He fell to the ground when he landed and Sadie started climbing down as far as she could down the tank.

Rick quickly stood up and held out his arms. Sadie, realizing what Rick was doing, jumped down into them. He caught her easily and then set her down on the ground. That's when they started heading to where the guy told them to.

Rick was in the lead, clearing a path with his gun while Sadie took up the rear, trying to thin out the group of walkers that had gathered behind them.

When they got to the alley that the stranger had told them about, they turned into it. There they met the stranger for the first time. "Whoa, not dead!" The young Asian man cried as Rick accidentally pointed his gun at his head.

"Come on, get back here!" The stranger led Rick and Sadie, who followed him while continuing to shoot the walkers behind them.

"Come on, come on!" The stranger shouted and Sadie and Rick stopped shooting and just started following him. He led them to a ladder, which they started to climb. At the ledge at the top of one ladder, they stopped to catch their breath.

"Nice moves there, Clint Eastwood. You the new sheriff come riding in to clean up the town?" The guy asked Rick. "It wasn't my intention." Rick answered. "Yeah, whatever. Yeehaw. You two are still dumbasses." The guy said and Sadie nodded.

"Yeah, I can live with that. I'm Sadie." The young girl introduced herself. "And I'm Rick. Thanks." Rick added on, holding out his hand for him to shake. "Glenn. You're welcome." He responded, shaking his hand.

Then Rick and Sadie put their weapons in her bag, except for Sadie's knife which she kept in her flannel's inside pocket, hidden.

"Oh no." Glenn said, seeing the walkers start to try and pull themselves up the first ladder. So Glenn looked up at the second ladder. That ladder led from the ledge to the roof of the building, but it didn't have a cage around it to keep you from falling.

"Bright side: it'll be the fall that kills us. I'm a glass half-full kind of guy." Glenn said before he started climbing. Rick motioned for Sadie to go next, so she did, and then he took up the rear. So the three of them climbed up the tall and dangerous ladder, praying that they wouldn't fall to their deaths.