Chapter 3:
Chad's eyes slowly fluttered open, and he tried to sit up. But much to his surprise, pain rushed through his shoulder, and he flopped down, letting out a groan. He slowly opened his eyes again, and stared up at the...ceiling. Where in the hell was he? He looked to his right. There was a window without any blinds. Sunlight filtered through, bathing him in warmth. There was a small bedside table next to the bed he was lying on. It was littered with what looked like medical supplies, but Chad was still half asleep, and unable to tell for sure. He looked to his left, and sitting there in one of the two chairs next to the bed was Angel. Laying asleep by her feet was Fang.
"Hey sweetcheeks." Chad said, gently poking her with his fingers. Angel must have been dozing, because when he poked her, she jerked awake, her hand flying down to where her gun was. Chad laughed at this. Angel flipped him off. Chad laughed again. He looked around himself for several more seconds.
"So where the hell are we?" He asked. Angel shrugged her shoulders. "No clue. There's a lot of people here though." Chad could see the uneasiness in Angel's face. He inhaled deeply, and exhaled. "It'll be alright...what happened to..." Chad couldn't remember the guy's name for a second. "Tommy. What happened to Tommy?" Angel shook her head.
"Some guy shot you yesterday. Tommy said he was his brother. They took us here." Chad looked down at his bare torso and his shoulder, which was wrapped heavily with gauze. He gently prodded at it. "You know," He said, looking back at Angel. "You don't have to stay here. You could go anytime. I don't know about me though." Angel quirked an eyebrow at him. Chad smiled. "I thought you hate people."
Angel shook her head and flipped him off once more. "So you do like people?" Angel shook her head.
"So it's just me you like?"
"Fuck you." She replied. Chad waved a hand at Angel, and looked on both sides of the bed. "Where the hell is my shirt?"
Joel slid into his shanty to find Devin Ellie and Rebecca munching on what looked like a stash of blueberries. Ellie waved to Joel, who walked over and picked one of the blueberries up before tossing it up into the air and catching it in his mouth. "Excuse me ladies," He said, moving around Rebecca and Ellie before plopping down onto his bed and putting his arm behind his head. "How's that guy?" Ellie asked, popping a few more blueberries into her mouth. Joel shrugged. "He'll make it. At least, that's what the Doc says."
"So why did you shoot him?" Rebecca asked calmly, a grin on her face. Joel furrowed his brows. "Why do I feel like that's a loaded question?" Rebecca laughed. "He pulled a crossbow on me." Devin looked at Joel. "He had a crossbow?" Joel nodded. "Why?" Devin shrugged.
"Just never seen one is all." He answered truthfully. Joel shook his head and rubbed at his forehead. It had been a busy couple of days, and he was wiped out. He just wanted to drift off and sleep for several hours before Ellie started bothering him about food. But luck wasn't with him. Rebecca stood and flopped down onto his legs. Joel sat up slowly and looked at her. "What are you doin'?" Rebecca shrugged her shoulders.
"Trying to entertain myself. Jamie's boring." Joel huffed, and pulled his legs out from underneath Rebecca and sitting up. They all sat there in silence for awhile. Devin and Ellie eating blueberries, Devin laughing at Ellie's few attempts to catch blueberries with her mouth. Rebecca staring at a wall as if it were the most interesting thing in the world, and Joel, lost in his own thoughts.
Then there was a knock on the door. Joel opened his mouth to ask who it was, but Rebecca spoke first. "Speak your name mortal!" From outside the door came the voice of Jamie. "Don't be a weirdo Rebecca." Then he was sliding inside with a handful of comics. "Got these for Ellie, thought I'd come drop them off before I forgot." He dropped the comic books down on Ellie's lap, and looked up at Joel. "I was also kind of wondering if I could borrow you and Rebecca for something." Joel exhaled loudly before pushing himself up onto his feet and motioning for Rebecca to follow. "I'll be back in just a bit. Don't cause any trouble." He said to Ellie and Devin.
"No promises." They both called back. Joel grinned and followed Jamie out of the door. The three of them moved calmly through the Hilltop. When they reached the front gate, Jamie called up to Jesus. "I'm gonna' show him the note! You didn't move it did you?"
"Nope!" Jamie then pulled the gate open, ushered Joel and Rebecca through, before closing it behind him. Jamie took a sharp left, and walked about a hundred yards down, almost to the end of the front wall, and tapped a knife that was stabbed into the sheet metal. Joel's eyebrows furrowed. "Who the hell did this?"
"Why don't you read the note?" Rebecca held the note by the bottom corner and silently read it. When she was finished, her eyebrows shot up. "What the fuck?" Joel walked up next to her and read it as well. What it said made both anger, and a bit of fear flow through him.
Give us your land. If you don't, you'll pay the price. We've got both the firepower, and the manpower to take you down. Don't fuck with us.
Joel felt his grip on the piece of paper tighten and he ripped the paper off of the knife. He looked at Jamie with flaming eyes. "Someone better find out who the hell put this on our wall, and they had better do it fast. Or there'll be hell to pay." He tossed the paper onto the floor. Then he pulled the knife out of the wall and threw it down, the blade embedding into the dirt.
"They're gonna' feel pretty stupid when they find out." Joel said, turning and looking at the trees off in the distance. Jamie quirked an eyebrow. "When they find out what?"
Joel looked at Jamie, and said unblinkingly: "They're fucking with the wrong people."
AN: Ooooohhh boy, Joel does not sound happy. So what did you think? Do you guys like Angel and Chad and Fang? Who's fucking with the wrong people? What do you think Joel's going to do if anybody directly threatens the Hilltop-especially with the problems they had with Devlin (the Wolf)? Well, we'll find out soon enough. Thanks for reading the third chapter (I'm proud of myself, I wrote the second and third chapter all in one day-a lot of work considering school is back on), are you excited for the next chapter? Well, if you're not, you should still read it.
~Exangellion
