Contagion

Chapter Eleven

Contagion Chapter Eleven

The next morning at breakfast Taylor chewed on his lip as he watched everyone. He was nervous because today was the day he was going to do it. He was going to tell the whole group about the situation in the barn. He and Dale had agreed to give it one more night and they had. They had and everyone was still safe.

Looking towards the main house he saw Maggie standing on the porch, her arms were crossed and she was shaking her head no. He knew she didn't want him to tell still even after her encounter yesterday but he had too. When he looked back at his group he saw Dale giving him a look and he knew the man was afraid that Maggie would be the reason he kept the secret.

When Dale nodded his head yes Taylor gave Dale a nervous nod back. This was the right thing even if he was nervous for what would happen after everyone knew. Standing up from where he had been sitting Taylor walked towards the group, "Umm guys.." he started feeling the nervous feeling in his stomach getting worse. "So the barns full of walkers," he stated finally spitting his words out.

From the looks of horror or shock on everyone's face Taylor knew he just knew things wouldn't turn out good and they hadn't. Eventually the whole group had made a trek down to the barn and now Shane was looking through a hole trying to see the walkers for himself.

Moving away from the barn when a walker came up to it Shane kept a straight face before turning his back and walking the few feet to where his group stood, "You can not tell me you are alright with this," he muttered to Rick as he pushed past him.

"No I'm not," Rick answered Shane his tone just as harsh's as Shane's had been. "But we're guests here. This isn't our land."

"This is our lives!" Shane yelled only to hear Glenn tell them to lower their voices.

Andrea who stood by Rick with her arms crossed turned to look at him, "We can't just sweep this under the rug."

"It ain't right. Not remote," T-Dog added in.

Shane shook his head as he looked at Rick again, "We either got to go in there, we got to make things right or we just got to go," he told Rick his voice coming out serious. "Now we have been talking about Fort Benning for a long time now..."

Rick put his hand up, "We can't go," he snapped knowing they couldn't leave. Rick had only found out yesterday that Lori was pregnant. He had found out after finding the empty package of abortion pills and then she had told him she threw them up when he confronted her. She had also told him about her affair with Shane when she had thought he was dead but he had known that. He had figured that one out on his own not long after he first arrived.

"Why Rick?" Shane asked seriously as he looked at his friend. "Why?"

Carol who had been listening silently looked at Shane before answering, "Because my daughter is still out there."

Running his hands down his face Shane sighed, "Okay....Car..Carol I think it's time we all start to just consider the other possibilities."

"Shane we're not leaving Sophia behind," Rick spoke knowing that wasn't an option.

Daryl felt angered at Shane's words when he had mentioned the other possibilities. "We're close to finding this girl," he yelled. "I just found her damn doll a few days ago."

"You found her doll Daryl, that's what you did," Shane replied his voice coming out stern. "You found a doll!"

"You don't know what the hell you're talking about!" Daryl said as he walked closer to Shane but when Rick put his arm up he stopped in his tracks.

"I'm just saying what needs to said here," Shane told Daryl honestly even as Rick did his best to calm the situation. "You get a good lead it's in the first forty-eight hours," he stated as he went back to his cop training. "Let me tell you something else man, if she was alive out there and saw you coming all methed out with your buck knife and geek ears around your neck, she would run in the other direction."