I always wondered what would happen if Beth and Noah made it out of Grady and Maggie and Glenn took on the consumed story line.
Beth made it though the chain link running after Noah who was trying to move as fast as he could. They had the clothes on their back and about 7 bullets between them. They had to do something and fast. The officers from Grady would be after them before sun down and between now and then they had to get as far from their as possible. Their plan hadn't gone exactly to plan, thinking about it now they really didn't have a plan they didn't think they would even make it out. They made it out now they were just running trying to get as far away as possible before they got caught by human's or walkers.
'Keep going,' Beth encouraged Noah to keep going.
He wasn't very fit, he had told her they had injured his ankle on purpose and his exercise was limited for the time he had been at the hospital working with Dawn. His foot recovery mean he had a limp and running wasn't something that come easy. At the moment they were out running any walkers that were near the hospital. The walkers couldn't run as fast as they could but Beth knew that walkers never tired. She saw a metal pipe lying on the side of the road she slowed to pick it up and saw it had blood on one end and she past it to Noah.
He was slowing, she knew they didn't have much time before it would know they had left. She reached her hand out behind her and took his hand and basically towed him along behind her. She was looking left and right for anything that she could use as a weapon. Her brother inlaw had taught her that in an emergency anything could be used to kill a walker, anything could be used to survive, including her arm's and legs. She just wished she paid more attention to what he was trying to teach her.
Surviving and living, she didn't know where they were going to do or where they were going to spend the night, but they had about 2 hours before it started getting dark they had to do something. Find somewhere that didn't look like somewhere they would be hiding over night. They had no supplies or weapons or anything except now a pipe and bullets and a gun. Noah was starting to lag and slow her down, she pulled him along anyway.
'Noah, we made it... we made it, we have to keep going,' she told him.
'I'm trying,' He panted.
She looked back, she could still see Grady in the distance that meant they could still see them, she turned the corner, walking they turned down a side street. She looked around and then Noah pointed out a heavy metal door that looked like the back of a restaurant. Noah had some skills he had from before the ZA but for the past year he'd been held prisoner at the hospital. He did know how to pick a lock.
Beth looked at him with a big question in her eyes, 'Where did you learn that?'
'I ummmmm... used to hang out with some guys who used to ... um... detention at school, I used to break into the school and steal exam papers and stuff,' Noah told her. 'I wasn't really a geek I used to cheat,'
She banged on the door before he opened it, 'Wait... Glenn and Daryl used to do that, it makes them come out, no surprises,'
Noah banged on the door like she did, one lonely walker come towards them. They had the pipe or the gun, she grabbed its shirt and Noah stabbed it through its head.
'Drag it out,' she told him.
He shook his head, 'No if they drive around and see a dead walker lying there just freshly dead they will investigate,'
They pushed the door open more, it was dark inside. It was a upscale restaurant, it was dark inside. Beth pulled out the torch they had used getting out through the tombs of Grady to shine it around. They pushed the door shut and locked it behind them. They now had to face what was inside, hopefully it wasn't a restaurant full of walkers.
'We should stay together and sweep,' she told him, she sounded more confident than she was, 'Make sure there are not any more,'
They crept through the back of the restaurant and looked everywhere. The first place they swept was the kitchen. Noah broke the fire emergency glass taking the little axe from in there. Beth tested the weight on some knives. She tried to remember what Carol told told her about knives, Knives need to feel comfortable in your hand, become an extension to your limbs, too big you won't be able to control it, too small you won't do the damage. Beth went through the knives testing their weight of them before finding one that felt just right.
They had knives, she looked around the kitchen, Noah one step behind her the whole way, there was a whole store of tins, they had food, they just needed water. Noah tripped over trays and trays of bottled water on the floor. They could stay here for a while without leaving, rest up. Eat, build up Noah's strength, think about a plan. Beth thought she might know where they were, she gone on a school trip near here. She knew how to get back to the farm from here. It would take them weeks though unless they found a car.
She knew she would never see her family again. Never see Maggie or Glenn, her Dad was dead. No Carol or Daryl, No Rick or Michonne or Judith or Carl. Just her and Noah. Until they were just gone too. They had to keep making it. Use their skills and their heads. Be smart, don't take risks. Keep quiet and keep low.
Staff room, no one was there, there was back packs and shoes, clothes. They looked down at their blue scrubs, it would be nice to have normal clothes, hopefully something fitted, boots would be better than the trainers they wore, they might pass a shoe store, they needed packs to carry water and food. They needed stuff to survive.
'They must of changed their clothes, wore a uniform,' Noah whispered.
They could hear a thump thump of a noise. They both looked out of the staff room and down the hall, they walked slowly down, pipe raised and knife at the ready. They could hear the low groans of walkers. They looked at each other suddenly not brave and stepped back.
'Is it...' Beth whispered.
'I think so,' he bravely took a step forward and a hand come smashing through the glass of the managers door as walkers scrambled against the door, they both stepped back with fright.
'Put it down!' Beth whispered.
The face of a walker snapping at them trying to get through the small triangle gap teeth barred at them, biting and snapping around. Beth too Noah's pipe and whacked the arms which fell off, then stabbed it. It fell inside the door. Another walker took its place, then another until they had put down 7 walkers in uniform who no doubt were workers from here.
'We need to be really careful,' Noah branded his pipe and together they pushed through the doors to the restaurant. Chairs were over turned. There were high windows that they could see out of. They looked around and cleared it, the next stop was the toilets. They banged on the doors and cracked the door a little waiting for any. The toilets were clear and the restaurant. They checked the front door was locked and decided that they probably should try to sleep in the staff room. Change their clothes and eat and rest.
There was no gas, they ate cold food straight out of the can. By candle light from the candles they put on the table. Sitting across from each other in the staff room.
'We can eat heaps build up strength, you can do some exercise on your foot an we can leave the city, we can ...' Beth told Noah.
'You just want to eat your way through all the can's of condensed milk?' Noah teased her as she took another spoonful.
'Do you think everyone else is dead?' Beth asked him. 'My sister and brother inlaw I mean, they might of made it, Daryl and I did until they took me,'
'I don't know, also where would you look... by the time we got to the prison they would be long gone,'
They both sat staring at the candle, they decided they should both sleep. They set up nose makers for anyone who tried to breach the door, they didn't think anyone would no one had been in here since the turn. They felt safe, no one would ever think to look here surely.