𝐁𝐄𝐒𝐈𝐃𝐄 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐃𝐘𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐅𝐈𝐑𝐄

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DARYL, Glenn, and I walked through the front door of the house to see everyone gathered around. "Rick and Shane ain't back?" Daryl questioned from in front of me. "No." Lori answered. "We heard a shot." Daryl informed them. "Maybe they found Randall." Lori suggested. "We found Randall, and he's very dead." I told them casually. "He was a walker." Daryl added on. "Did you find the walker that bit him?" Hershel asked. "No, the weird thing is he wasn't bit." Glenn answered. "His neck was broke." Daryl added on.

"So he fought back." Patricia stated. "The thing is, Shane and Randall's tracks were right on top of each other. And Shane ain't no tracker, so he didn't come up behind him. They were together." Daryl informed. "Would you please get back out there, find Rick and Shane and find out what on Earth is going on?" Lori pleaded walking you to Daryl. "You got it." Daryl nodded before turning around to walk back out the door. Glenn and I followed him along with everyone else.

We were all on the front porch and looked to see a whole herd of walkers heading toward us. Holy shit, we're all gonna die. "Patricia, kill the lights." Hershel whispered. "I'll get the guns." Andrea said before walking off. "Maybe they're just passing, like the herd on the highway. Should we just go inside?" Glenn suggested before asking. "Not unless there's a tunnel downstairs I don't know about. A herd that size would rip the house down." Daryl advised against it. "We might have to kick some ass today." I said looking at Glenn.

"Carl's gone." Lori told us frantically. "What?" Daryl questioned as we all looked at Lori worriedly. "He-he was upstairs. I can't find him anymore." Lori stuttered putting her hand over her heart. "Maybe he's hiding." Glenn suggested trying to look on the bright side. "He's supposed to be upstairs. I'm not leaving without my boy." Lori shook her head frantically. "We're not. We're gonna look again. We're gonna find him." Carol assured as she grabbed Lori's hand and went back in the house. Glenn put his arm on top of his heart while muttering something I couldn't quite hear. We cannot lose another kid, especially not right now. I patted my back to make sure I had my sword, before I patted around my body to see if I had all my daggers because from the looks of it, I was gonna need it if I was gonna get out of here alive and breathing.

Andrea brought back the bag of guns and they started to distribute the guns out to everyone. I even grabbed a gun. "Maggie." Glenn breathed out as Maggie gave him a shotgun. "You grow up country, you pick up a thing or two." Maggie told him. "Yeah we can work with that." I said nodding me head. "I got the number , it's no use." Daryl said. "You can go if you want." Hershel told Daryl as he put the bullets in the shotgun and cocked it. "You gonna take 'em all on?" Daryl questioned.

"We have guns. We have cars." Hershel answered. "Kill as many as we can, and we'll use the cars to lead the rest of them off the farm." Andrea said. "Are you serious?" Daryl questioned. "This is my farm. I'll die here." Hershel stated sternly. "All right. It's as good a night as any." Daryl said before he hopped over the porch. "This should be fun." I said.

A bunch of us got in different vehicles to attempt at leading the walkers elsewhere or shooting them down. I walked up to Daryl who had got on his motorcycle. "Lemme help you." I said. "Nah, you need to stay by the house." He declined. "I need to be with you." I confessed. He looked at me, clenched his jaw and sighed. "Come on." He ushered me on the bike. I got on and held onto him so I wouldn't fall.

He rode over to the barn to see it in a blaze of fire. He stopped and got off the motorcycle as I did the same. We shot down the ones closest to us, as the others were riding around and shooting at the walkers from the cars. As more walkers were heading towards us and breaking the fence, we hurriedly got on the motorcycle and drove over to where Jimmy was shooting down walkers from the R.V.

"Yo! Must've been Rick or Shane who started that fire. Maybe they're trying to get out back! Why don't you circle around? Go!" Daryl shouted towards Jimmy. "Got it!" Jimmy shouted back before driving off in the R.V as we drove in the opposite direction.

We had been sat a few yards away from the farm, watching the barn fall apart until we heard Carol scream. Daryl looked back at me we headed in Carol's direction. Daryl had rode up the road and saw Carol running away from a large group of walkers. She was slacking behind. "Come on, I ain't got all day!" He yelled as she sat behind me and Daryl revved the engine again as we rode off. I held on to Daryl tightly and had my head against his back as Carol did the same in turn to me. I don't think three people to a motorcycle is smart but somehow we made it work.

As we were driving further away from the farm we had been in the forest now and a bunch of walkers had been there too, but Daryl got us through not even paying attention to the walkers who were trailing behind us. I had wondered what the hell happened to everyone. Where the hell was my brother or Maggie, Rick, T-Dog, Carl, Hershel, Beth, Lori, Andrea, Patricia, Jimmy, even freaking Shane for crying out loud. I had hoped they made it out alive, I needed them too.

"I think they went back to the highway." I voiced to both of them. "If they made it out alive and we all got separated, I think that that'd be where they would go." I suggested. I think that would be a good of a start as any. It's not safe for all of us to be separated like this, especially not with those things. "That's what I was thinkin'." Daryl told me as he had already been making his way there.

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Of course we had been right. When we pulled up to the highway we saw Hershel, Carl and Rick already there. Behind us were Maggie and Glenn and T-Dog, Beth, and Lori. Daryl killed the engine on the motorcycle and Carol and I got off. Rick, Carl, and Hershel came up to us as Maggie and Glenn ran over. So had Lori at the sight of Carl. I ran up to Glenn and threw my arms around him. We squeezed each other tightly before pulling apart and putting our hands on each other's shoulders.

Everyone had been happy to see one another, we were laughing and smiling at each other. When we all pulled apart and looked around at each other. "Where'd you find everyone?" Rick questioned while facing Daryl. "Well, those guys tail lights zigzagging all over the road figured he had to be Asian, driving like that." Daryl answered. Glenn and I chuckled before Glenn said good one. "Where's the rest of us?" Daryl asked. "We're the only ones who made it so far." Rick answered. "Shane?" Lori questioned as Rick shook his head no as an answer. Good riddance.

"Andrea?" Glenn questioned. "She saved me, then I lost her." Carol answered. "We saw her go down." T-Dog added. "Patricia?" Hershel asked. "They got her too, took her right in front of me. I was-I was holdin' onto her, Daddy. She just-." Beth cut herself off as she started crying into Hershel's chest. "What about Jimmy? Did you see Jimmy?" Beth asked looking at Maggie. Rick then nodded before he answered Beth's question.

"He was in the R.V. It got overrun."

"You definitely saw Andrea?" Carol asked in disbelief.

"There were walkers everywhere." Lori stated.

"Did you see her?" Carol questioned again.

"I'm gonna go back." Daryl said before making his way to his motorcycle until Rick stopped him.

"No." Rick ordered.

"We can't just leave her." Daryl said.

"We don't even know is she's there." Lori chimed in.

"She isn't there. She isn't. She's somewhere else or she's dead. There's no way to find her." Rick stated, but wanting any of us to go back to the farm.

"How do you know that?" I questioned him.

"So we're not even gonna look for her?" Glenn questioned also in disbelief.

"We gotta keep moving. There have been walkers crawling all over here." Rick said.

"I say we head east." T-Dog suggested. I heard a walker and saw it heading toward us so I threw my dagger at it's head.

"Stay off the main roads. The bigger the road, the more walkers. More assholes like that one." Daryl said referring to the walker I had just put down. I walked over to it and took my dagger out of its brain. I wiped the contents of its brain on the walkers pants before walking back to the group.

We all just opted to take the big red truck, the car Maggie and Glenn rode in and obviously Daryl's motorcycle. Carol rode in one of the other vehicles while I stayed with Daryl on his motorcycle. We had also taken the food we had left for Sophia. We were riding down the rode in an order, Daryl and I, Maggie, Glenn, Hershel, and Beth, and last but not least, Rick, Lori, T-Dog, and Carol. As we were heading down the rode one of the two cars honked their horn. I turned around to see what the hold up was.

Both of the cars stopped and so did Daryl and I. I got off of the motorcycle as the others started to get out of their cars. Rick then jogged up to the front to tell us what was going on. "You out?" Daryl asked referring to how much has Rick had left. "Running on fumes." Rick answered.

"We can't stay here." Maggie said.

"We can't all fit in one car." Glenn inputted, stating the obvious.

"We'll have to make a run for some gas in the morning." Rick told us.

"Spend the night here?" Carol questioned while furrowing her eyebrows to see if she heard Rick right.

"I'm freezing." Carl commented.

We'll build a fire, yeah?" Lori suggested while rubbing Carl's chest in attempt to making him warm.

"You go out looking for firewood, stay close. Only got so many arrows. How you doing on ammo?" Daryl asked.

"Not enough." Rick answered.

"We can't just sit here with our asses hanging out." Maggie stated.

"Watch your mouth." Hershel scolded Maggie before continuing. "Everyone stop panicking and listen to Rick." Hershel advised.

"All right, we'll set up a perimeter. In the morning, we'll find gas and some supplies. We'll keep pushing on." Rick set the game plan.

"Glenn and I can go make a run now, try and scrounge up some gas." Maggie suggested.

"No, we stay together. God forbid something happens and people get stranded without a car." Rick disagreed firmly.

"Rick, we're stranded now." Glenn said softly.

"I know it looks bad, we've all been through hell and worse, but at least we found each other. I wasn't sure—I really wasn't—but we did. We're together. We keep it that way. We'll find shelter somewhere. There's gotta be a place." Rick asserted. Yeah Rick it looks very bad.

"Rick, look around. Okay? There's walkers everywhere. They're- they're migrating or something." Glenn tried reasoning with him.

"There's gotta be a place not just where we hole up, but that we fortify, hunker down, pull ourselves together, build a life for each other. I know it's out there. We just have to find it." Rick gritted out.

"Even if we do find a place and we think it's safe, we can never be sure. For how long? Look what happened with the farm. We fooled ourselves into thinking that that was safe." Maggie said.

"We won't make that mistake again." Hershel disagreed.

"She's right. How do we know? Nothings guaranteed anymore, not in this new world." I questioned softly. There was no way of knowing anything. Hershel remained quiet at my words and turned around. Rick then faced the group.

"We'll make camp tonight over there, get on the road at the break of day." Rick changers the subject.

"Does this feel right to you?" Carol asked looking in Daryl and I's direction.

"What if walkers come through, or another group like Randall's?" Beth questioned to Rick with concern revolving around our situation.

"You know I found Randall, right? He had turned, but he wasn't bit." Daryl told Rick as we were all in a circle.

Rick didn't even look shocked, he had just turned and looked elsewhere.

"How's that possible?" Beth asked looking at Rick.

"Rick, what the hell happened?" Lori questioned.

"Shane killed Randall. Just like he always wanted to." Daryl answered.

"And the the herd got him?" Lori questioned as she looked at Rick, expecting him to answer.

Rick paused before telling us that we were all infected.

"I'm sorry, what?" I questioned drowsily.

"At the C.D.C, Jenner told me. Whatever it is, we all carry it." Rick answered.

"And your just now deciding to tell us?" I asked looking at him in disbelief.

"Would it have made a difference?" Rick questioned looking at me.

"Hell yeah." I said walking up to him.

"You knew this whole time?" Glenn questioned.

"How could I have known for sure? You saw how crazy that mo-." Rick tried to defend himself before Glenn cut him off.

"That isn't your call. Okay, when I found out about the walkers in the barn, I told, for the good of everyone." Glenn said visibly getting angry.

"Well, I though it best that people didn't know." Rick said, his face stone cold.

"Screw you Rick." I told him while shaking my head.

Rick had stayed quiet in response and walked further down the road. Lori than looked over at Hershel who had been next to her and I'm assuming asked him to watch Carl as she followed Rick.

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Night had fallen. We were all gathered around each other and we had made a fire. I was helping Daryl put more wood into the fire as Carol whispered something to us.

"We're not safe with him, keeping something like that from us. Why do you need him? He's just gonna pull you down." She whispered but directed that last part to Daryl.

"No, Rick's done alright by me." Daryl disagreed.

"You're his henchmen and I'm a burden. You deserve better." Carol said.

"Daryl isn't his henchmen, he's no one's henchmen and your not a burden so stop it. I'm just as mad at him as you are, but it's Rick. So stop." I whispered.

"What do you want?" Daryl questioned Carol, sounding slightly irritated.

"A man of honor." Carol answered.

"Rick has honor." Daryl defended Rick as he put more woods into the fire.

We all heard the leaves rustling and sprang up in alert. "What was that?" Beth asked.

"Could be anything. Could be a raccoon, could be a possum." Daryl suggested.

"Walker." Glenn chimed in.

"We need to leave. I mean what are we waiting for?" Carol questioned, her paranoia getting the best of her.

"Which way?" Glenn asked.

"It came from over there." Maggie answered holding the shotgun firmly in her hands.

"Back from where we came." Beth said.

"Yeah." Maggie agreed.

"The last thing we need is for everyone to be running off in the dark. We don't have the vehicles. No one's traveling on foot." Rick ordered as we all heard a branch snap.

"Don't panic." Hershel advised.

"I'm not-I'm not sitting here, waiting for another herd to blow through. We need to move, now." Maggie said.

"No one is going anywhere." Rick gritted.

"Do something." Carol looked towards Rick.

"I am doing something! I'm keeping this group together, alive. I've been doing that all along, no matter what. I didn't ask for this. I killed my best friend for you people, for Christ's sake!" Rick exclaimed as we all stood in silence at his declaration.

"You saw what he was like, how he pushed me, how he compromised us, how he threatened us. He staged the whole Randall thing, led me out to put a bullet in my back. He gave me no choice. He was my friend, but he came after me. My hands are clean." Rick continued as we all heard Carl start to cry and Lori shushing him.

"Maybe you people are better off without me. Go ahead. I say there's a place for us, but maybe-maybe it's just another pipe dream. Maybe-maybe I'm fooling myself again. Why don't you-why don't you go and find out yourself? Send me a postcard. Go on, there's the door. You can do better? Let's see how far you get. No takers? Fine. But get one thing straight, you're staying, this isn't a democracy anymore." Rick continued ranting, looking similar to what Shane was.

We all just stood in silence as we processed his words, each and every one of us. He stood there and looked us all over before he walked off away from us. Our group was gonna go through some changes in dynamics. I guess this is our new way of proving Dale wrong. Only time will tell.

ITS OFFICIAL. WE ARE A RICKTATORSHIP NOW!! SEASON THREE IS COMINGGGGGG. You'll obviously get some new characters and lose some old ones but it's gonna be good. Shane is officially gone, which was inevitable. Lori is looking at Rick in utter disgust at this point and judging him like she is holier than thou. She's a hypocrite she can't help it. Anywho, Daryl and Ara will flourish next season, which is exciting😏😏. I love you guys 3000. See you in act 3
-brayla❤️❤️