Disclaimer I don't own The Walking Dead just my OCs.It was silent for a few moments until I broke it "Hey I didn't catch your name?" I asked the Hispanic man.

"My name is Morales, that's T-Dog." He points at a dark skinned man and points to a dark skinned woman, "that's Jaqui, you already met Glenn, Andrea and Merle."

I nod at the names, "Yeah, well it's nice to meet ya Morales, my name is Emma." I smile at him and hold out my hand for him to shake.

He grips my hand firmly "Nice to meet ya Emma."

"My god it's like Times Square down there." Andrea exclaims.

"Yeah." I agree, there is a lot of them.

"How's that signal?" Morales asks T who is on the floor handling a walkie talkie, trying to contact the others.

"Like Dixon's brain... weak." T says nonchalantly.

I choke on a laugh and look over to Merle who sticks his middle finger up at him.

"Keep trying." Morales insisted.

"Why? There's nothing they can do... not a damn thing." Andrea points out to him.

Great... Optimistic much?

"Got some people outside the city that's all, there's no refugee centre... that's just a pipe dream." Morales informs me and Rick.

"She's right, we're on our own, it's up to us to find a way out." Rick speaks loudly to the group, taking the role as a leader.

"Good luck with that, these streets ain't safe. From this part of town from what I hear. Ain't that right sugar tits? Hey... honey bunch... why don't you get me out of these cuffs, we go off somewhere and bump some uglies? Gonna die anyways." Merle tries to talk to Andrea when she is sorting through her pack.

Andrea answers him "I'd rather." I rolled my eyes at him. She walks away from him and sits next to Glenn.

"Rather much, figures much. Hey hot chick... how 'bout ya? Like some of good ol' Merle."

"Nah I'm good, ya keep on sitting there." I answer with another roll of my eyes.

"How can you deal with it?" Andrea asks me.

"I'm just used to it." I answer her, she nods at my vague answer knowing I won't elaborate.

"These streets ain't safe." Morales mocks Merle. "Now there's an understatement."

"What about under the streets... the sewers?" Rick asks him.

"Oh man... hey Glenn check the alley... see any covers?" Morales informs Glenn.

Glenn's eyes open a little wider with realisation and hope. He quickly ran to the side of the roof and looked over. He turns and runs back to us, "No, the gutters must be in the streets where the geeks are."

We all mentally curse to that, none us wanting to go risk ourselves in the streets to escape.

"It might not." Jaqui blurts out.

"What do ya mean?" I imply. I wonder what she has in mind.

"Well this is an old building, they would have large drainage tunnels which lead into the sewers incase of a flooding, they were built in the 20s." She explains to us.

"How do you know that?" Glenn asks intrigued with her knowledge of that.

"It's my job... was. I worked at The City Zoning office." She mentions to us.

"Let's go." I smirk, I guess we have a way out after all.

We look down the large drainage tunnel, well this is going to be disgusting but better than being dead. There was me, Rick, Glenn, Morales, Jaqui and Andrea. T-Dog has the duty to try and contact the others... and Merle.

"This is it? Are you sure?" Morales questions Jaqui and Glenn.

Glenn answers "Yeah, it's the only thing in the building that goes down, but I never went down it, who'd want to right?" Glenn asks us while grimacing at the thought of going down there.

I gulp too, no way in hell am I going down there but if it's the only way out we might as well try. That was when I realise everyone else is looking at Glenn, silently volunteering him.

"Oh... great." Glenn mumbles to himself.

"We'll be right behind you." Andrea tries to reassure him.

"No you won't...not you."

"What do you mean, think I can't?" Andrea asks angrily.

"Uhh... Uhhh. I wasn't..." He hesitates to answer obviously trying not to offend the already pissed off blonde.

"Speak your mind." Rick encourages him. Glenn looks to me and I nod indicating him to get it off his chest.

Glenn took a deep breath "Look, until now I always came here by myself, in an' out, grab a few things, no problem. The first time I bring a group everything goes to hell. No offence." He pauses and looks down the drainage tunnel "If you want me to go down this gnarly hole, fine, but only if we do it my way. It's tight down there. If I run into something and have to get out quick, I don't want you all jammed up behind me getting me killed. I'll take one person..." He stops when Rick steps up "Not you either. You've got Merle's gun and I've seen you shoot. I'd feel better if you were out in that store watching those doors, coverinng our ass."

Glenn looked at me "You too Em, I've seen you shoot as well. Andrea you got the other gun, so you should go with them." He points at Morales, "You be my wingman. Jaqui stays here. Something happens, yell down to us, get us back up here in a hurry."

"Ok." Jaqui agrees to her part of the plan.

I smile at Glenn and nod, he knows what he is doing.

"Ok, everybody knows their jobs." Rick pats Glenn on the shoulder, he has never spoke his mind to people before or took control of a group.

We watch Glenn and Morales climb down the ladder and go into the sewers; me, Rick and Andrea jog to the store. We walk in and look at the doors and see nothing has changed. I walk away to find some hiking boots.

"Sorry for the gun in your face." I overhear Andrea apologise to Rick.

"People do things when they're afraid." Rick accepted it but not putting it into words.

"Not that it was entirely unjustified. You two did get us into this."

"If I get us out, would that make up for it?"

"No but it'd be a start."

I found the right size of the hiking boots and put it in my bag. I walk over to the pair.

"I'm sorry too, I shouldn't have put my gun in your face." I apologise to her.

"It's ok, you were protecting your friend." Andrea smiled at me.

"Next time though, take the safety off. It won't shoot otherwise." Rick informs the blonde.

"Oh." She looks sheepishly down at the weapon.

"Is that your gun?" Rick asks her.

"It was a gift. Why?" Andrea asks suspiciously.

Rick walks over to her and puts his hand out, Amdrea puts the gun in his hand for him to demomstrate.

"Little red dot means it's ready to fire. You may have occasion to use it." Rick explains to her.

"Good to know." Andrea accepts the advice given to her.

I pull my new hiking boots on after I took off the tag, I got some new socks too, I watch Andrea fiddling with a necklace on display.

"See something you like?" Rick asks her.

"Not me, but I know someone who would." She replies.

"Who?" I wonder who'll like a necklace with a mermaid on it.

"My sister." She looks at me and Rick smiling, "She's still such a kid in some ways. Unicorns, dragons, she's into all that stuff, but mermaids... they rule. She loves mermaids."

"Why not take it?" Rick queries.

"There's a cop staring at me." She tells him.

"Why not? Didn't stop me taking these boots." I reason with her smiling as I said it.

They both chuckle at my statement.

"Would it be considered looting?" Andrea requests concerned. I roll my eyes but smile at the action.

"I don't think those rules apply anymore. Do you?" Rick asks her with a raised eyebrow.

She smiles an takes it off the display and puts it in her pocket and that was when we were reminded about the walkers at the front when they smashed through the first set of doors. I take my gun out ready and both me amd Rick stand in front of Andrea protectively.

"What did you find down there?" Rick demands fearfully.

"Not a way out." Morales answers him.

"We need to find a way... and soon."

"Yeah." I say stiffely not taking my eyes off the doors.

We all take off upstairs back to the roof top, Rick takes the binoculars out of my bag an looks out to the street.

"That construction site, those trucks, they always keep keys on hand." Rick informs us. He hands the binoculars to Morales so he can have a look.

"You'll never make it past the walkers." He informs Rick of the obvious information. He hands me the binoculars and I put them back in my rucksack.

"You got me and Em out of that tank." He voices to Glenn.

"Yeah, but they were feeding. They were distracted."

"Can we distract them again?" Rick asks.

"Right. Listen to him. He's onto something. A diversion, like on Hogan's Heroes." Merle puts in.

"God. Give it a rest." Jaqui snaps at him.

"They're drawn by sound right?"

"Yeah" I nod at him.

"Like dogs. They hear a sound, they come." Glenn carries on for me.

"What else?" Rick asks

"Aside from they hear you? They see you, smell you and if they catch you they eat you." Morales puts in.

"They can tell us by smell?" He asks disgustedly.

"Can't you?" Glenn asks him quizically.

"They smell dead, we don't. It's pretty distinct." Andrea puts in.

Rick has a look on his face like he has an idea and I know what he is thinking.

"Oh come on." I groan knowing exactly what his plan is. Guts.

They all look at us confused. He walks to the stairway, I quickly follow him and the others are right at my tail.

"What's his plan?" Glenn asks me confused.

"Walker guts." I inform him.

They all heard me and all of them are visibily pale.

"Guts?!" Glenn squeaks.

Rick picks up gloves and big coats for each of us expect Merle who is still up the roof. He places each pair of gloves in each of our arms.

"If bad ideas were an olympic event this would take the gold." Glenn states.

"He's right. Just stop, ok? Take some time to think this through." Morales protests to Rick to drop the idea but Rick doesn't listen and drops some more coats for Morales to hold and he hands them out to each of us except me.

"How much time? They already got through one set of doors, that glass won't hold forever." Rick throws the last coat to me.

We all put the coats on as well as the gloves. We go to the back room where we first came in to do the chopping. The idea is that me, Glenn and Rick will walk the streets to get the truck, we'll find a car and me and Glenn will distract the walkers while Rick gets the others. Simple. Not really.

Rick and Morales quickly run out the back door and got one of the dead walkers, while me, Glenn and Andrea make sure non of the other two walkers in the alley attack them. When they carried the body in we all rush in and Glenn shut the door.

Rick pulls a mask to cover his face if the infected blood goes all over him. He smashes a crowbar to get the emergency axe out of the glass box so we can get started with the plan.

We all prepare ourselves as Rick takes a swing but he stops. He throws the axe on the floor as well as the mask and rips his gloves off, my brows furrow at this.

He pats the body down and takes out his wallet. He reads the I.D

"Wayne Dunlap. Georgia License. Born in 1979." He says to us. hands over the I.D to Glenn. "He had $28 in his pocket when he died... and a picture of a pretty girl. 'With love from Rachel.' He used to be like us; worrying about bills or the rent or the super bowl. If I ever find my family, I'm gonna tell them about Wayne."

Rick puts the wallet back in the bodies pocket, he puts the mask back on as well as the gloves and picks up the axe.

"One more thing... he was an organ donor." Glenn adds in. A bit ironic.

We all look at him and Rick takes the first swing. We all flinch and I close my eyes preparing myself for the smell.

I hear Morales mumble something in Spanish "Madre de Dios."

Second chop and that was when I opened my eyes and almost threw up, his stomach exposed in a mess. Rick brings it down a third time and chops off his leg clean from the knee down.

"Oh god!" Glenn exclaims.

I put a hand through my hair and decide to put it up in a bun to not get the guts in it.

Andrea mumbles "Oh."

Rick brings it down a fourth time and chops off his hand.

"Dios!" Morales complains.

"Oh god!" Glenn groans.

Rick brings the axe down for the fifth time "Jesus." I mumble.

I look at Rick and see he hates this as much as us. He swings the axe down for the sixth time. Rick stops and takes the mask off.

"Keep chopping." Rick orders Morales holding out the axe and his mask for him to take. He takes them and puts the mask on.

"I am so gonna hurl." Glenn says with his hands on his knees.

"Later." Rick tells him.

Morales brings the axe down on the body a few more times. I grimace at the sight.

"Everybody got gloves." Rick makes sure with us, I nod at him unable to talk at all. Morales take off the helmet.

"Don't get any on your skin or in your eyes." Rick instructs us.

I pick up some guts and smear them on myself. Morales puts guts on my back and I scrunch my nose up at the smell.

They keep on smearing guts on us three as well as us sometimes we put some on our front. They put an intestine around my neck and I breath through my mouth.

"Oh jeez. Oh,this is bad. This is really bad." Glenn rambles.

"Think about something else... puppies and kittens." Rick tries to take his mind off of it.

"Dead puppies and kittens." T mumbles.

That was the last straw and Glenn throws up.

"Oh my god." I mumble getting squeamish at the smell.

"That is just evil. What is wrong with you?" Andrea snaps at Rick.

"It's the only way." I grumble as T wipes more guts on my back. Andrea shook her head at my comment.

"Next time let the cracker beat his ass." Jaqui snaps ignoring me.

"I'm sorry, Yo" T apologises to us, I try to smile in thanks but it is a bit forced.

"You suck." Glenn spits out.

"Do we smell like them?" Rick asks scrunching up his face in disgust.

"Oh yeah." Andrea nods and scrunches her face in disgust too. "Glenn. Just in case." She hands over her gun to him an puts it in the waistband of his jeans.

"I think I might hurl too." I groan.

"If we make it back be ready." Rick instructs the rest.

"What about Merle Dixon?" T-Dog asks him.

I look over to Rick to see him pulling his glove off and digs the key out of his pocket. He throws the key to T letting him know he is in charge of him. He steps back out of the way.

"Give me the axe." Rick asks Morales.

Morales hands it over to him.

"We need... we need more guts." Rick states casually.

"Oh god!" We all groan as he takes a swing.

We walk out of the building and Morales quickly closes the door. We walk and act like walkers to not draw attention but Glenn has his crowbar, I have my machete and Rick has his axe just in case. We're a bit nervous when we walk past the last two walkers in the alley but they didn't care due to the smell.

We crawled under the bus carefully to not make any noise to attract the dead that are around us. We crawl out and get up slowly and walk with limps or drag one of our legs.

When we are walking I heard the thunder rumble. I chose to ignore it because I don't want to panic and fail this mission.

A walker goes by me and looks at me so I make a noise of a walker and it eventually goes past. I'm currently in between Glenn and Rick not squished but not too far away neither. Seperated like the dead.

We carry on walking, we're still a bit far from the construction site.

"It's gonna work.I can't believe it." Glenn whispers and I have to fought off a face palm.

"Don't.. draw.. attention." Rick snaps at him in a whisper.

A walker goes in Glenn's face so he makes a walker noise, I sigh pretty quietly.

That's when I felt a rain drop and my eyes widen. Shit. It starts to pour down.

We keep on walking though still trying to act like them. The walkers start sniffing the area, our scent slowly showing. Some slowly look at us, our scent drawing them in but the guts keeping them away for now. Confusing them.

They start growling at us and my hand tightens around my machete ready.

"The smell is washing off. Isn't it?" Glenn starts to panic. "Is it washing off?" Yeah but I keep my mouth shut.

"No, it's not." Rick tries to calm him. A walk turns and sniffs at him. "Well... maybe."

That was when hell broke loose. A walker charged at Rick but he swang his axe in his head.

"Run!" Rick shouts at us. The walkers start chasing us.

We start running away to the van, I slice a walkers head off with my machete that was in my path.

We carry on running taking out walkers as we go and finally make it out of the swarm and run to the gate of the construction site. We chuck the weapons over and I jump up halfwwy and climb over the same time as Glenn and we jumped down as Rick climbed over and hopped down too.

We strip off our coats and toss them aside and I threw my gloves on the floor too, I pick my machete and sheathe it as Rick pulls out his gun.I pull my gun out too and turn the safety off so I can help Rick take them out while Glenn gets the keys.

"Rick!" Glenn tosses the keys to Rick, "Em!" He waves his hand so I run towards him. The three of us run to the truck, Rick hops in the driving seat, I get in the passenger side and Glenn squeezes in after me.

"Go!" Me and Glenn shout at the same time.

When we are fully reversed the gate collapses from the walkers, we quickly turn around and drive away.

"Oh my god. Oh my god. They're all over that place." Glenn frantically says.

"You both need to draw them away. Those roll up doors at the front of the store? That area? I need cleared." Rick orders us.

"Yeah we will." I agree with the plan. This was our plan that we discussed.

"Tell your friends. Tell them to get down there and be ready."

I nod at him.

"And we're drawing the geeks away how? I.. I missed that part." Glenn confesses obviously forgotten due to his panic. ai did too but I didn't voice it.

"Noise." Rick says vaguely.

When we find the car Rick smashes in a window and clears the glass. He leans in and unlocks the door, he gets in and hotwires it with a screwdriver.

Glenn hops in the driving seat and I go in the passenger side. Glenn hands me the walkie talkie, I nod at Rick before he takes off and we follow.

When Rick turns a bend nicely and we swerve due to our speed.

I spoke into the walkie to inform our friends.

"Those roll-up doors at the front of the store facing the street... meet us there and be ready."

We over take Rick to clear the area.

"This is awesome!" I yell in happiness.

Glenn laughs at my reaction.

We break just around the corner, Glenn puts it into reverse and swerves into the street.

"Come on, come on." Glenn mumbles.

The walkers come towards us and slam on the car, he reverses again.

"Get closer. Get closer. Come on. Come on." Glenn speaks encouraging the walkers.

He reverses and stops to make sure the walkers keep up. He reverses again all the way and swerves to turn around.

We take off with the walkers following us.

"Come on bitches." I mumble.

"Are they still following?" Glenn questions me.

"Yeah." I nod.

We keep on driving and turn a corner, coming near the highway.

I put a CD in and music blares.

We get on the highway.

"Whoo-hoo-hoo! Yeah-hoo-hoo!" Glenn laughs.

"Whoo!! Yeah!" I yell smiling.

We drive out of the city laughing in our awesome car.