Conquer

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Michonne was the one that would be staying with Rick. He was in a house nobody lived in. Rosita and I had patched him up and Carl had stopped by. Michonne sent him home. I'm shocked he even wanted to see his dad.

Not only did Rick fight his friends dad in front of everybody. But his dad shoved him to the ground.

They had me watch Pete for a little while but then I changed shifts. I assumed that they would want me back to babysitting.

I felt no remorse for him. He hits his wife, he hits his kids. He's lucky I don't hit him until he stops breathing. Or better yet torture him until his last breath.

Michonne was upset about the gun along with everything else. I never grabbed one that day. But Rick did and he pulled it out at a very bad time.


I walked into the house after Glenn. The others behind me.

"Where'd you get the gun?" Michonne asked.

"You took it, right? From the armory? That was stupid. Why did you do it?" Carol asked and Rick flicked his wrist after looking at her for a second.

"Just in case." Rick told us.

"Deanna's planning to have a meeting tonight. For anyone who wants to." Glenn told us.

"To kick Rick out?" Abraham asked.

"That's the plan." I told them and glared at Rick for a second.

"To try." Carol said.

"We don't know that. Maggie's with Deanna right now. She's gonna find out what it is." Glenn informed us. 

"We can only save you from so much, Rick. I'm not sure about this one." I told him.

"At the meeting, you say you were worried about someone being abused and no one was doing anything about it. You say you took a gun just to be sure that Jessie was safe from a man who wound up attacking you. You say you'll do whatever you want them to. Just tell them a story that they want to hear. It's what I've been doing since I got here." Carol told us.

"If that'll even work." I pointed out.

"Why?" Michonne asked Carol.

"Because these people are children and children like stories." Carol told her.

"What happens after all the nice words and they still try to kick him out?" Abraham asked.

"We can't do much more at that point." I said.

"They're guarding the armory now." Glenn told him.

"We still have knives. That's all we'll need against them." Carol said.

"Great, so now we're attacking them with knives." I pointed out.

"We need you for this. Your the best when it comes to knives." Carol told me and I shook my head.

"These people gave my family a home, there's only one person here that I would actually plunge a knife inside of." I told her.

"Well, tonight at the meeting, if it looks like it's going bad, I whistle. Carol grabs Deanna, I take Spencer, you grab Reg, Glenn, Abraham, and Jess cover us, watch the crowd." Rick told us and I shook my head.

"We can talk to them." Michonne told him.

"Yeah, we will. If we can't get through, we take the three of them and say we'll slit their throats." Rick told her.

"Like at Terminus?" Glenn asked.

"No, we just tell em. They give us the armory and it's over." Rick told us.

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