Jessamine Dixon lives in the apocalypse

I Ain't A Judas

"We're not leaving." Rick told us as he cocked his gun.

"We can't stay here." Hershel told Rick.

"What if there's another sniper? A wood pallet won't stop one of those rounds." Maggie said and I remembered how that's where I was during the attack. I remembered how with every gunshot I thought it was coming through the wood and medal at me.

"It barely did." I backed Maggie up.

"We can't even go outside." Beth told Rick.

"Not in the day light." Carol clarified.

"Rick says we're not running, we're not running." Glenn told us.

"No, better to live like rats." I turned around and Merle was locked up behind the doors by the tables.

"Shut up!" I yelled and scolded him.

"You got a better idea?" Rick asked.

"Yeah, we should have slid out of here last night and lived to fight another day. But we lost that window, didn't we?-"

"There's no we! There's us-" I signaled to everybody but Merle.

"-But no we." I signaled to everybody plus him.

"For somebody who wasn't even here yesterday you sure do got a lot to say about it. Just remember your the one who ran off that roof and your the one who was helping the governor until we showed up and Daryl ran away with you." I scolded him and everybody was quiet about it.

"Okay, I'm sure he's got scouts on every road out of this place by now." Merle said after considering what I said.

"We ain't scared of that prick." Daryl spoke up from the second floor.

"Y'all should be. That truck through the fence thing, that's just him ringing the doorbell. We might have some thick walls to hide behind, but he's got the guns and the numbers. And if he takes the high ground around this place, shoot, he could just starve us out if he wanted to." Merle said and it sounded like he was threatening us.

"Let's put him in the other cell block." Maggie said and I nodded my head with her.

"Agreed." I said.

"No. He's got a point." Daryl said and Maggie turned back towards Merle.

"This is all you. You started this." She raised her voice and he looked like it was nothing.

"What difference whose fault it is? What do we do?" Beth asked and walked to the top of the stair case looking for Rick's word.

"I said we should leave. Now Axel's dead. We can't just sit here." Hershel told Rick. Except Rick didn't say anything and walked towards the door.

"Get back here!" Hershel yelled at him and we all froze. We all watched Hershel go to Rick and even Rick froze.

"You're slipping, Rick. We've all seen it. We understand why. But now is not the time. You once said this isn't a democracy. Now you have to own up to that. I put my family's life in your hands. So get your head clear and do something." Hershel told him and that was the end of it.

I saw Daryl was in one of the cells. Either I could ignore him or I could know the burning question I had. I'm gonna go with the burning question.

I walked into the doorway and stood there. I leaned against the side and looked at Daryl while he sat down on the bed.

"Why'd you come back?" I asked and he looked up at me.

"I obviously came back at a good time." He told me and I scoffed at him. Was that really what he thought, that he just came back and saved the day for everybody. Especially Rick, because that's not what happened out there.