Chapter 5 Making Friends

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A blonde woman draws her gun on Rick, “Come on, Andrea, calm down.” A Hispanic man said to the blonde.

“Besides, if you're going to point a gun at someone, make sure the safety is off,” Kagome said.

The minute Andrea looked down at the safety, Kagome punched her in the face and took her gun and put it to her head, “Whoa, whoa, we need to all calm down,” The Korean boy said trying to calm the situation.

“Kagome, it's alright, put the gun down,” Rick said to Kagome.

Kagome lowers the gun and steps away from Andrea, “Now is not the time to be fighting, we need to figure out a way to get out of here,” Rick said to the others.

“He's right. I'm Miguel; this is Glenn, Jacqui, T-Dog, and you've already met Andrea.”

Rick nodded, and lowered his gun, “I'm Rick, this is my friend Kagome.”

Kagome nods but never takes her eyes off of Andrea.

“Can I have my gun back,” Andrea asked

“No, I don't think so,” Kagome told her.

“It's my gun.”

“That you obviously don't know how to use.”

Andrea was about to argue with her, when Rick put his hand on Kagome's shoulder, “Give her the gun back, Kagome. At this point, we all need to be armed.”

Kagome sighed and handed the pistol back to Andrea, “Point it at me again, and I'll give you more than a black eye.”

Andrea snatched the gun out of Kagome's hand. The group suddenly looked alarmed when they heard gunshots coming from the other side of the rooftop. They hurried across and saw an older man taking shots at the Walkers down on the street below, “Hey Dixon, are you crazy?!” The man named T-Dog yells at the other man.

Dixon only looks at him and laughs; he continues to shoot at the Walkers, getting the attention of more of them. The street begins to fill once more, “Hey, you ought to be more polite to the man holding a gun.”

“Man, you're wasting bullets that we don't have.”

The man named Merle continues to laugh.

“And you're bringing even more of them down on our ass! Man, just chill.” T-Dog told Merle.

“Hey! Bad enough, I've got this taco-bender on my ass all day. Now I'm gonna take orders from you? I don't think so, bro. That'll be the day.”

T-Dog and Merle get into an argument that Morales tries to break up, but it eventually deteriorates into a fistfight with Merle hitting T-Dog repeatedly in the face. Merle then threatens the T-Dog and the others with his rifle, “Yeah! All right! We're gonna have ourselves a little powwow, huh? Talk about who's in charge. I vote me. Anybody else? Huh? Democracy time, y'all. Show of hands, huh? All in favor? Huh? Come on. Let's see 'em. Oh, come on. All in favor? Yeah. That's good. Now that means I'm the boss, right? Yeah. Anybody else? Hmm? Anybody?”

Rick and Kagome look at each other, then Rick comes up behind Merle, “Yeah,” Then Rick hits him in the head with a pipe. Rick proceeded to handcuff Merle to a pipe.

“Who the hell are you, man?”

“Officer Friendly Look here, Merle. Things are different now. There are no niggers anymore. No dumb-as-shit, inbred white-trash fools either. Only dark meat and white meat. There's the dead and us. We survive this by pulling together, not apart.”

“Screw you, man.”

“I can see you make a habit of missing the point.”

“Yeah? Well, screw you twice.”

“Ought to be polite to a man with a gun.”

Rick cocks his gun, “Only common sense.”

“You wouldn't. You're a cop.”

“All I am anymore is a man looking for his wife and son. Anybody that gets in the way of that is gonna lose. I'll give you a moment to think about that. Got some on your nose there.”

“What are you gonna do? Arrest me?”

Rick takes his stash of cocaine and throws it over the side, while Merle is yelling at him to stop. Kagome walked over to Rick, “What are we going to do?”

“Can you do that trick with that energy arrow or whatever that was again?”

“Yeah, why?”

“Because I have a plan. If we can make it to that moving van at the construction site, we can back it up to the loading dock and get these people out of here. How many of those arrow things can you shoot?”

Kagome looks over the side, and saw that the streets have stopped filling with Walkers, “It's been a while since I've had to do that, but I could manage of few shots before I run out of energy. That should clear at least half of the Walkers down there.”

“Well, don't weaken yourself too much,” Rick whispered.

“You'll need to disguise your self against the remaining Walkers.”

“How do you propose we do that?”

“Camouflage.”

At that moment, Morales walks over towards Kagome and Rick, “So, what's the plan, Officer Friendly?”

Rick doesn't go into a whole lot of detail with the others about what they are going to do, but he does tell them that they're going to need two dead Walkers. They all head downstairs, leaving a screaming Merle locked on the roof, and make their way to the loading dock. T-Dog and Morales peek out and see two walkers standing nearby. They run out and kill them then drag their bodies inside.

While they do that, Kagome slips out and walks closer to the street, she has her bow ready and quickly looses three spiritual arrows towards the herd of Walkers causing more than half of them to turn to ash. Once she's done that Kagome shrinks her bow and goes back inside with the others.

“I checked the streets; it looks like a lot of the Walker have wandered off,” Kagome said, looking into Rick's eyes.

He gives her a subtle nod then explains the rest of the plan, “We need to mask our scent with the entrails of the Walkers. So that they don't pay any attention to us, Kagome, and I will then go down to the construction site and grab the moving van and meet you guys back here. T-Dog here's the key to Merle's handcuffs go unlock him and then meet us back down here.”

T-Dog nods and races up to the roof.

Glenn grabbed an axe and began to chop up the walkers. Andrea and Jacqui go back into the store and grab two raincoats so that they can smear the blood and guts over the raincoats. When the raincoats are ready, Kagome and Rick step out of the store through that back and hobble their way towards the construction site.

They squeeze into the fence and get into the truck. Rick flips the visor down, and the keys to the car fall into his hands. He starts the truck, and he and Kagome bust through the gate and quickly make their way into the loading dock. Rick honks the horn, and the others come running out. They wait a few seconds, and T-Dog comes running out alone and jumps in.

“Where's Merle?”

“He's still on the roof, handcuffed, I, uh, dropped the key down the drainpipe. But I chained the door so the Walkers can't get to him.”

“We have to go get him,” Rick said as he's about to jump out.

“Rick, we don't have time,” Kagome said and pointed ahead.

The Walkers are started to gather at the entrance and are making their way towards them. Rick swears and closes the door. He put the truck in gear and ran over the Walkers. They drove out of Atlanta, never looking back.

**A/N ALL RECOGNIZABLE DIALOGUE IS FROM EPISODE TWO OF THE WALKING DEAD- GUTS.**

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