Broken Trust ( Daryl Dixon x Shane Walsh's!Sister Reader )

Chapter 13

"I think you're lying." You suddenly said, looking back down at Jenner as he titled his head towards you in confusion. "You're lying about there being no hope. If that was true then you would've bolted with the rest or taken the easy way out. You didn't. Why?"

"It doesn't matter." He answered, looking away from you.

"I swear to God, if you keep testing me like this you will end up with a bullet through your skull. Now answer the God damn question." You threatened, not in the mood for his shit anymore.

"I didn't stay because I wanted to. I made a promise to her. My wife." He answered, pointing towards one of the blank screens on the wall.

"Test subject 19 was your wife?" Lori suddenly asked.

It took you a second to catch on before you realised what she was talking about.

"She begged me to keep going as long as I could. How could I say no? She was dying. It should've been me on that table. I wouldn't have mattered to anybody. She was a loss to the world. Hell, she ran this place. I just worked here. In our field, she was an Einstein. Me? I'm just Edwin Jenner. She could've done something about this. Not me."

You weren't sure when you had lowered your gun or when Daryl had gone back to hitting the door with the axe, but your gun was now back in your holster as you stared at the doctor not expecting that backstory.

"Your wife didn't have a choice. You do. That's all we want, a choice, a chance. Let us keep trying as long as we can." Rick said desperately.

"I told you topside is locked down. I can't open those."

You watched as he scanned his ID card on some sort of devise and suddenly all the doors opened.

Oh, thank God.

"Come on!" Daryl shouted from the now open door.

The others all began to shout and run towards the door with what bags they had with them.

"Everyone, let's go! We got four minutes left!" You yelled, watching as Jacqui let go of T-Dogs hand and began backing away from the door.

"No, no, I'm staying. I'm staying, sweetie." She explained and your eyes widened in shock.

"But, that's insane!" T-Dog responded.

"No, it's completely sane. For the first time in a long time. I'm not ending up like Jim and Amy. There's no time to argue and no point, not if you want to get out. Just get out."

Jacqui walked away as you stared at her in disbelief before Shane grabbed T-Dog and began to pull him away. But, as you were about to leave, you realised that Andrea hadn't moved from where she was sitting on the ground.

Oh, for fuck sake. She wasn't leaving either?

"Just go! Go!" Dale suddenly shouted, motioning for the rest of you to go.

You fought the urge to go over there and try talk them out of it. There was no time. You had to get your family to safety.

You all ran out the door and up the stairs to the ground floor, but like Jenner had said, everything topside was locked down.

Shane's shotgun and your handgun barely even scratched the glass when you took a few shots at it. Daryl's axe did absolutely nothing too before Carol pulled a grenade from her bag that she had taken from your uniform pants when she washed them back at the camp.

You had completely forgotten about the grenade that you took off the dead army man in the tank.

Wait, had Carol been carrying around a damn hand grenade this whole time?