Swallowed By Fear

Chapter seventeen

Samantha left early in the morning when Siddiq was still sleeping, she left a note on the pavement from some old chalk that she found. The little girl at the time honestly had no idea how much she worried her family back in Alexandria. The walk back to Alexandria was quite long and pretty scary, Sam didn't have anything to arm herself with.
          "Sammy!" Carl ran towards his baby sister, he picked her up and held her as tight as he could.
          "Where did you go? You scared the crap out of all of us" Carl tried to stop the tears that were threatening to leave his eyes.
          "I'm sorry" the little girl started to cry, she didn't mean to worry her brother. Samantha buried her face in Carl's flannel.
          "Who made this?" He asked curiously, for all he knew his baby sister could of made it
          "Did you make it?" She shook her head.
          "Siddiq did" Carl's eyes widened at what she said, who the hell was Siddiq and what did he want with his baby sister. Carl's breathing picked up slightly.
          "Who is Siddiq?" He was silently hoping that this man was only in Sam's imagination.

Sammy pointed behind her older brother's shoulder, Carl froze in his spot, he took deep breaths trying to calm himself down.
          "Wait-" Samantha cut herself off, this wasn't Siddiq, she thought that it was, Carl turned around fully, he pulled out his gun and pointed it to the man. Neither Sam nor Carl had a clue who this man was .
          "Put the gun down kid!" he spat out angrily raising his gun to Sammy's face.
          "I'll blow her goddamn head off. Put the f*cking gun down!" Samantha buried her head into Carl's shoulder, she closed her eyes wishing that this would just be over already. Carl dropped his gun to the ground, he kicked it over the stranger.
          "Good" the man gesture for Carl to let go of his sister.
          "no" Carl gritted out, teeth grinding against each other in anger.
          "No?" The man moved his finger towards the trigger of the gun
          "Put her down or I'll shot" Carl growled under his breathe, he slowly placed his little sister on the ground. A smirk spread across the mans face
          "Good, now-" two shot got fired, Carl couldn't tell where they were coming from or if they hit anyone. The man dropped dead.
          "I think I got him"
Shane walked out of some tall bushes with a gun in his hand, Carl let out a sigh of relief but something was off.
          "Shit!" Shane's face dropped, he rushed over to Carl but it wasn't because Carl was hurt, he hadn't been touched by a bullet luckily. Carl's eyes followed Shane, that's when he spotted it, the thing that made his uncle's face drop, Sam laid almost completely still on the ground, blood surrounding her. His face dropped completely, the world around him started spinning, Shane was yelling things at him but he couldn't understand any of it. The world around him started to go black, it kept getting darker and darker, until it was too dark to see anything, Carl felt himself hit the ground hard.

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Siddiq squinted his eyes open a tiny bit, the sun shined bright in his face, he lifted up his hand and covered up the sun slightly.
          "Sammy?" He looked around the abandoned gas station for any sign of the little girl who had accompanied him home yesterday. Seemed like she's left already, Siddiq spotted something written in chalk on the gravel outside. Siddiq groaned while getting up, his bones cracked and popped loudly.
          "Can you stop" he mumbled quietly to himself. He walked towards the broken sliding glass doors, Siddiq stepped through the left door, glass crunching under his feet. A note was written in pink chalk right in front of the entrance.
          "Sorry I hav to leave but I hav to go back to my mommy and daddy, look for the signs, Samantha" Siddiq laughed at the way she tried to spell Alexandria, he wiped away the chalk with his hands hoping that no one else saw this.
          "Alexandria it is than"

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Siddiq didn't have anything with him besides a stick that was pretty pointy, he was walking through the forest but stayed somewhat by the road so he could see the signs. His thoughts got interrupted by two gunshots, they weren't too far from him either, Siddiq didn't even think, he sprinted towards the gunshots. Almost immediately he spotted the boy that was at the gas station with his father, another man was with them. It took a minute or two but Siddiq spotted Sam laying completely still on the ground, a puddle of blood getting bigger and bigger around her.
          "Do you need help?" He asked the new man, Shane nodded without even thinking that this man could potentially be dangerous. Siddiq picked up Carl who had passed out
          "Where to?" He asked trying not to stutter due to how nervous he was at the moment. Shane picked up Sammy.
          "Alexandria, we gotta run there" Siddiq nodded, he watched the new man run off, quickly he followed behind him.

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They made it to a tall metal gate
          "Open the gate!" Shane shouted up to a lady, the gate immediately opened and the running started again. Siddiq sprinted again, he heard the gate closed behind him, they kept running until a white building came into view.
          "This is the medical building" Shane explained.
          "Do you have a doctor?" Siddiq asked hoping that the answer was yes, Shane nodded his head, thankfully Alexandria managed to save a survivor who used to be a doctor. Shane slammed open the door, luckily the place was practically empty.
          "I need help!" Graham rushes out of his office in the back. He grabbed the little girl from Shane tight grip.
          "What happened out there?" The doctor asked already starting to work on the child. Siddiq set Carl down on a bed.
          "She got shot" Shane said anger still somewhat dripping from his voice, Graham nodded his head.
          "She lost too much blood, we need someone to give some blood to her, anyone in mind?" Shane sighed defeated, then he remembered something, Daryl gave Samantha blood when she was just a baby. He nodded.
          "Yeah, Daryl, is he here?" Graham nodded his head, he pointed towards the gate where Rick and Daryl where.
          "You're lucky, they just got back" Siddiq ran out of the building without saying a word, he sprinted for what felt like the tenth time today. Siddiq slowed down when he got closer to the gate.
          "Who's Daryl?" He asked out loud, Rick turned around and immediately recognized the new guys face. He pulled out his gun.
          "What are you doing here?" Siddiq raises his hands carefully, this definitely was not the time to do this, he pointed to the other man.
          "Are you Daryl?" Siddiq asked ignoring the gun pointed at his face, the man with the crossbow nodded.
          "Ye, why?" Rick lowered his gun slightly nodding his head for Siddiq to speak. Siddiq nodded over to the medical building
          "Sam got shot, she needs blood" Rick dropped his gun to the ground, within a blink of an eye he took off towards the white building. Daryl stood still for a second before following after Rick.
          "Screw that, I'm walking back" Siddiq mumbled to himself, he had enough of running today.