It had been a few days since Cas had joined them, and He was stretched out on the front pew as the group listened to what Gabriel was telling them, about how he had locked his congregation out of the church, because he always locked the door at night and didn't want to open it to save his congregation from the walkers. Bob, Carol and Daryl had disappeared, and after accusing Gabriel of having something to do with it, Rick had asked him about the words on the side of church, 'you will burn for this.'

"You'll burn for this." Cas mused, Gabriel looked at him and nodded.

"Yes, that's why it says that." He said after finishing his story.

"I wouldn't worry, we've all done bad things." Cas shrugged.

"He could have let them in." Bryce said.

"The past is the past, so long as he doesn't do it to us, I don't care." Bryce glared at the dark haired boy, who patted his brown curls, causing Bryce to glare at him harder.

"You have problems." Bryce sighed at the boy he was sat next to.

"Don't we all." Cas got up, swinging his knife in his hand.

"Where are you going?" Rick asked.

"I'll be back." Cas shrugged.

"Hold up." Glenn sighed before following him out the door. The sounds of the two talking rapidly made them all stop, before Glenn walked back into the church.

"We found Bob." He said. Sasha ran out the door and the group followed, Cas was shining his torch on the man, looking at him in confusion.

"Carry him inside." Rick said, he was staring at the forest, an unreadable expression on his face.

"Do you think they're here?" Bryce asked him, before Rick could answer, gunshots rang out from the forest.

"Inside! Now!" Rick yelled, firing wildly at the trees as the group ran inside.

The group promptly closed the doors and they looked at Bob, listening to what he had to say. Cas sat by the door, and Bryce joined him.

"They've been watching us, maybe for a while." He said, Bryce stared at him.

"Can I ask you something?" Bryce asked.

"Sure."

"Why don't you like me?" Bryce asked.

"We've known each other for a few days, how am I supposed to like you?" Cas asked.

"You said I won't survive, why not?" Bryce asked, Cas sighed and looked at him.

"I didn't mean to be rude, I was honestly confused, it's been a long time and you haven't really had to fight. Kinda pissed me off." He confessed.

"Can you teach me, teach me how to fight, like you can." Bryce asked.

"Okay, we'll start later, but I'll tell you something now, even if you recognise them, you can't hesitate, they have no mercy, neither can you." Cas answered.

"What do you think happened to him?" Bryce asked, Cas looked at Bob with a frown.

"Cannibals got him and he's missing a limb, he's also bleeding on the right shoulder and it's slightly swollen." Cas said. "He's been eaten, twice."

"They ate him, and he's bit, how do you know?" Bryce was amazed.

"it's obvious." Cas shrugged.

It turned out that Cas was right, and Bob had indeed been bitten and had his leg amputated and eaten by the cannibals. They had moved the dying man to a sofa in Gabriel's office and were now talking about the location he had described, albeit badly. Gabriel revealed that it was an elementary school that was within walking distance from the church, and also revealed how Bob had been taken and brought back.

"Bob was a warning, right?" Bryce asked, earning a nod from Cas and Rick.

"We need to get them before they get us." Rick said.

"I'm in, what are we going to do?" Cas asked.

"A group of us will go to the elementary school, the rest stay here, hide in case they come here." Rick told the group.

It was decided that Rick, Cas, Michonne, Sasha, Glenn, Maggie, Tara and Abraham would go to the elementary school, whilst the others would stay behind, but be ready for the worst.

"Cas, teach me how to use this." Bryce held up the gun Rick had given him, Cas sighed, but showed him what to do, luckily it was just a handgun, and a simple one at that, so it took little time.

"You'll be fine." Cas told him, surprisingly encouraging.

"What if they come here?" Bryce asked, he was warming to the strange boy.

"kill them." Cas answered. Bryce sighed, but nodded.

Using the cover of darkness, the group left and the remaining eight of them crouched in Gabriel's office, in case of attack.

Judith, the baby was awake, Bryce had hoped she would sleep, so that she wouldn't fuss or make a noise, Carl stood beside her, and Eugene and Gabriel hid by the back of the room, both terrified. Tyreese and Rosita were on either side of the door, guns at the ready, whilst Bryce was simply sat on the floor, wondering what he would have to do if worst came to worst.

Unfortunately, it did.

The cannibals had come, and they knew exactly what they were doing. As soon as the leader, Gareth started talking, Bryce blocked him out, he didn't want to listen to the murderer sweet-talking them, but some of his words still got through, and when Judith made a large amount of noise, it was clear that they knew where they were, and they were coming. Then the guns sounded.

When Tyreese opened the door, the group that had left had returned and all but two cannibals were dead, one was trying to run, but Cas was chasing him down, before pulling him to the floor and breaking his neck with a nasty crack. And then he proceeded to bash his head in.

Rick talked to the leader, before killing him also, and they quickly moved the bodies out of the church. Gabriel looked like he was going to be sick, and Bryce couldn't blame him, the blood on the floor and on the walls by the door made him want to throw up.

"This is the lord's house." Gabriel exclaimed as he surveyed the destruction. Cas snorted, Maggie looked at him and then looked at Gabriel, coldly.

"No, it's just four walls and a roof." She answered.

Bryce sighed and looked around, when the group had first found him, he had hope for the world, but now he wasn't so sure, people eating each other, people brutally killing, it terrified him. Was this what the world was now, was this all that was left?