Day 852 - Night
Kaine
*Knock*Knock
"Hey Kaine, open up. you gotta get up now it's time for your shift." A voice called from behind the door.
"Kaine you up? don't make me knock the door down man." The voice persisted knocking on the door louder.
"Just... give me a minute Wyatt." Kaine replied to the person at the door.
There was a guy in his early 20s lying down on a small mattress in a room that used to be a small office. The guy known as Kaine, was white with dark black hair, with a small scar just below his eye.
"Alright dude, that better be a pretty short minute." Wyatt sighed. "Cause Bill's gonna be coming back pretty soon and he's gonna want to be seeing you at your post."
"What? oh shit!" Kaine said, jumping out from his sleep as he grabs his clothes and puts them on as fast he could. Putting on a red hoodie, dark blue jeans and his dumb Shrek beanie, as he rushes to get out of his room fully dressed.
After a minute of waiting Kaine finally opens the door to be greeted by Wyatt, an older larger man with long messy blonde hair, a pair of glasses, and dark green jacket.
Wyatt and Kaine have been good friends for a good couple of months since Kaine first ended up coming to Howe's Hardware. Wyatt along with a couple of others helped save Kaine from a hoard of walkers that ended up surrounding him while trying to find some supplies for himself to help survive. Since then, he was brought to Howe's and put in the pen for a couple of weeks, doing a lot of heavy labor. After 2 months of having to endure that work load, Kaine managed to earn a reasonable spot as one of the members of Howe's community, taking guard duty shifts at night trading places with Wyatt at times.
"Ha! there, I'm up, how long till Bill comes back?" Kaine required.
"He called up, said it'd take around ten minutes." Wyatt answered, as they started walking over to where Kaine's post is at. "How long ago was that?" Kaine asked.
"Eight minutes ago." Wyatt chuckled. "Oh shit! why didn't you tell me sooner?! fuck!" Kaine cursed as he started running to where his post is located, leaving Wyatt laughing as he watched Kaine run.
"The others will be waiting for you by the time you get there!" Wyatt called to him as he just walked casually over to where Kaine and his other friends will be at.
Day 852 - Night
Vince
Standing at the top floor of the building looking out on the inside of the building was Vince. He was caucasian, black hair and wore a dark red flannel shirt. He was waiting with a couple of other people for their friend Kaine, who's supposed to get over here to the post that he shares with Wyatt, but was so far nowhere to be seen.
The people that Vince was some of his closet friends. The first person was Russell, black, just a little shorter than Vince, wore a dark grey hoodie and is around the same age as Kaine. The second person was Shel. She had a little pale skin, dark brown hair in a ponytail, wearing a light blue hoodie. And the last two out of the five was Benedict and his twin brother Ben. They both had scruffy ginger hair, Ben had a beard while Benedict had a goatee, Ben wore a leather jacket with a Beatles t-shirt where as Benedict wore a zip-up Deadpool hoodie.
"Dammit, where the fuck is he? doesn't he know that we've got stuff to do soon as well?" Vince wondered.
"Bill's gonna be pissed if he doesn't find him here." Russell spoke.
"He's gonna have make more of an effort to do his job or else Bill's gonna lose his shit on him." Shel remarked.
"Ha! since when has Bill not already? remember a couple weeks ago? Kaine fucked up so bad he spent a week in the pen!" Ben laughed hardily.
"Yeah well you haven't seen em now brother, he'll definitely be fliping out on him harder if he doesn't find him here now." Benedict replied.
Before the group could continue their conversation they saw Kaine running up to them with Wyatt tagging behind him. "I'm here!" Kaine called up to his friends.
"Jesus man, your lucky you got up before Bill came back, he would've kicked your ass." Vince berated Kaine.
"Hey well I'm here now... not to worry." Kaine said in between breaths, tired from running.
"You can thank me for getting your ass out of bed dude, Bill definitely wouldn't want this special occasion ruined by having to deal with you." Wyatt teased him.
"Special occasion? what for?"
"Bill's back!" Ben told the group. They all turned their attention to see two of Bill's two best men, Troy, who had shaggy brown hair, a goatee, and a camo jacket. And the other one, a woman Bonnie, who was another good friend of Vince, Wyatt, Russell and Shel. They were escorting a couple of people who had their wrists bound to the pen. There were a couple that Vince recognized, and there were a few new faces that he didn't know as well.
The first person being escorted was someone in their mid 20s, looked farm boyish, had black scruffy hair and a cap. Another was spanish man with a yellowish looking flannel on and had some bruises on his face. One was a younger girl in her teens with red glasses, who looked to be the spanish man's daughter. There was a black woman who looked like she was pregnant, and an older, fatter black man with glasses. An indian woman with dark brown hair, an old man who looked like he was in his late 40s with a green coat and a cap. And finally, a little girl with a baseball cap.
"Who are those guys?" Kaine asked his friends.
"What? you don't know?" Russell replied to him with a look of amaze.
"He wasn't around for when Luke and the other were here Rus." Wyatt commented.
"Basically before you came here, there were some others that were here, some that butted heads with Bill like Luke." Ben explained.
"They ended up leaving Howe's, they decided to leave after Bill ended up becoming... more aggressive." Russell said.
"Really? I thought they decided to leave cause Bill raped Rebecca?" Benedict told.
"What?! hey we don't even know if that's true or not." Vince shushed him.
"Wait Bill raped someone? jesus christ guys you didn't think to mention this to me sooner?!" Kaine exclaimed.
"First, we thought that you already may have know by now, a lot of people have heard the rumors." Wyatt admitted.
"Second... right now that's all they are, rumors, we don't know if it's even true." Shel spoke.
"Yeah but it still sounds pretty sketchy doesn't it?" Ben wondered.
"I don't know, I mean I know Bill can be pretty fucking scary at times but there's no way he would rape someone would he?" Kaine asked his friends.
"Like Shel said, that's all this is, rumors from people in the community." Vince told.
"But who started these rumors though?" Kaine asked.
"I think Stan was the one who started spreading them around." Vince admitted.
"Alex's brother?! you serious? he's one of Bill's best, why him?" Kaine exclaimed, marveled hearing that those kind of rumors would come from one of Bill's trusted lieutenants.
Before Vince or the others could answer more of Kaine's questions, they were interrupted by Troy, who called them over to help him with a breach.
"Hey, you bunch of chicken shits stop talking and get your ass over here and help me out here!" Troy called. "A bunch of dead broke into one of the stores and I ain't dealing with em myself!"
"We'll talk about this tomorrow I guess." Vince told Kaine. "Yeah we're coming!" Vince told him. And with that, the others followed Vince to help Troy, with one thing on Vince's mind before they started to head out. 'God, Kaine better not get himself in some shit for finding that out.' Vince thought.