A/N: Sorry about the wait for this one, I had to make sure it was perfect! Thank you for the follows and just for generally reading this story!
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Chapter 4 - No one gets left behind
Rick stepped back, his hand tightening around the hand gun in his hand.
"She's comes with us" he said coldly.
Gareth took a step backwards and tilted his head to the side "then you will all die."
As he finished speaking the man next to him fired the first shot and from there all hell broke loose.
Rick grabbed hold of Carl as the rest of the group scattered around the room, Bob took a shot to his shoulder and was helped by Glenn and Sasha as they ran for one of the doors.
Daryl charged the man closest to him, they needed more guns, Abraham was firing and managing to take down a number of Gareth's men which Glenn and Maggie had managed to pick up some guns. It was pure luck that Bob was the only injury so far on Rick's side and with the gun situation starting to even up Rick grabbed hold of Kara.
"We need to get out of here" he shouted at the scared girl as she ducked behind the bearded man.
"Ok" she said quietly "this way" she said nearly dragging Rick behind her.
"Daryl, Glenn!" Rick shouted and motioned to the pair that they were going to make a run for it out of the shrined room.
Kara hugged the wall and ran for the door that she was originally running for, she knew that Rick was right behind her and closed her eyes and pushed out of the door. To her surprise she was not met with a barrage of bullets, in fact the fact that there was no-one waiting for them worried her.
"Go go go!" Abraham pushed past them and out to the court yard "which way?" he demanded of Kara.
Kara pointed to another building "through there, straight through and that takes us to the front gates."
"That's the way we go" Rick shouted, firing at a small group that had come around the side of the building "get clean out of here, go!"
Rick saw that most members of his group had guns now, which evened out the fight, but he also knew that Terminus had way more people, somewhere, the ones that were outside the fence when they were first caught.
"We need to split up" Abraham shouted in between shots.
"Ok" Kara said ""you need to go 'round that way" she said pointing around the side of the building "keep following the building and then you bust through the fence."
Abraham nodded and grabbed hold of Eugene "you do not leave my side" he ordered the scientist, Rosita followed Abraham with Tara, Sasha, Bob and Michonne following close behind them.
Rick's group now consisted of Carl, Daryl, Glenn and Maggie and of course Kara, they all had guns except Kara who tried her hardest to stay hidden behind Rick and Daryl. She had her knives and was capable of using them but using a gun was something she was just not good at doing, the kick back always knocked her off her feet and that was something that could just not happen right now.
Abrahams group had disappeared around the building, Rick could hear gunshots and hoped that the soldier had made it out "we move now" he said grabbing hold of Kara and dragging her along to the buildings and carefully opening the door.
There was silence, except for the gun battle on the other side of Terminus, where Abe was fighting his group out.
"You know this can end" Gareth shouted from the roof of one of the buildings, out of view.
Rick fired wildly up at the rooftops, emptying the hand guns bullets "in" he said pushing Kara into the building and waiting for the rest of the group to enter before slipping in there himself.
"You go through there" Kara said pointing to another door in the empty room.
"Wait" Carl shouted at his father.
"We don't have time to wait Carl" Rick said pushing his son towards the door.
"We need more amo" the youngster whined.
Daryl looked down at his gun "he's right" he said gruffly looking at Kara "there was a weapons room on your map."
Kara's eyes widened "we don't have time to get there" she said, her hand on the door to their freedom.
"I need some to" Maggie added "I've got half a clip left."
"We need to move" Kara put her hand on Rick's arm, once again pleading with him "please, it's just out there, the gates and then you can use the forest as cover to get away."
Rick bit his lip, did he really want to get away from here though and leave this place for some other poor group to stumble upon?
"They'll be surrounding us" Kara said through gritted teeth.
Rick looked at the people left following him, hoping like hell that Abraham made it out, would Michonne go and find the buried gun bag and come back for them if they didn't follow?
"We can't leave this place for someone else to find" he said quietly, taking hold of Kara's shoulders and staring into her eyes "take us to the weapons room, from memory it wasn't far from here. We had guns hidden outside, Michonne will find them and she will come and when she does we can attack from both sides."
"Why?" Kara pleaded with him again "you can just leave, forget this place."
"Rick" Daryl said "we gotta move if we doin' this."
Rick nodded and looked back down at Kara "I let a man go once, thought he was gone, but came back and he destroyed our home, killed family, I'm not leaving anything open this time."
Kara went to protest again but thought better of it, the fact that this man did not just give her over to Gareth in return for their own freedom meant a great deal to her. It wasn't that she did not care for anyone else but herself but she had been so hell bent on getting out of there, she just didn't think about anyone else.
"Ok" she said finally, pulling away from Rick and running towards and up a set of stairs "this is probably the quickest way from here" she said taking two steps at a time. "We go straight down the hall, down the stairs at the end and its the third door on the right" she said quickly "With any luck everyone is still out side surrounding that building, we may be able to get out another way."
Rick nodded and took the lead down the short hallway and down the stairs, luck was on their side for once as the building seemed empty.
Michonne knew exactly what was needed, the group she had made it out with were now without any ammunition but it seemed they had made it out of the area relitivley unharmed, except for Bob's shoulder wound.
"It will heal" he said "we can treat it, in and out."
Abraham nodded "They didn't make it out did they?"
Michonne shook her head "there's a bag of guns, just over there, we get them and we go back for our people."
"I'm not risking Eugene's life going back in there" Abraham stood tall in front of the dreadlocked woman "no way."
"You don't have to come" Michonne said looking at the ground, trying to find the spot where Rick had buried the bag "but I'm going back in there, you do what you have to do."
Abraham shifted his feet "we need to stick together, safety in numbers and we need to get Eugene to Washington..."
He trailed off as they all heard leaves rustling from behind them, Michonne grabbed her katana and walked quietly to the left of the group while Sasha and Tara split to the right.
"Sasha?" came a deep voice from the trees, a voice that Sasha immediately recognised.
"Tyreese?" she said back, lowering her gun and arching her back to try and see where the voice had come from, a smile escaping her lips as the frame of her brother appeared from the thicket.
"Oh my..." Sasha ran to her brother, wrapping her arms tightly around him "I thought you were dead" she whispered into his shoulder, tears welling in her eyes.
"We made it" he said leaning back from her with a smile as a babies laugh cut through the group and Carol stepped out from behind the man.
Michonne went straight to Carol and Judith "how?"
Carol gave the group a thin lipped smile, her eyes though betraying the happiness at being reunited with at least some of the group.
"We heard gunshots" she said handing the baby to Michonne "what happened in there?"
"We need to move, Rick, Carl, Maggie, Glenn and Daryl are trapped in there" Sasha said "we need to help them out."
"Why? The signs said it was a Sanctuary" Carol frowned looking over into the area and hearing more gunshots.
"It wasn't" Tara said stepping forward "we need to get them out."
"Introductions later" Michonne said handing Judith back to Carol and going back to where she had just found the bag of guns before they heard the pair's approach "who is coming with me? Bob you have to stay, you're injured" she said to the former medic.
Sasha stepped forward followed by her brother, Tara and Rosita both stepped up. Rosita looked over at Abraham and gave him a look telling him he needed to come with them, he rolled his eyes at her.
"Ok, but you're staying here" he said to Rosita and pointed to Eugene "to watch over his ass, we can't go in with a baby so you stay here as well" he said to Carol.
"The hell I am" she said holding the baby out to Bob who took the cooing child "those are my friends in there, count me in" she said to Michonne and picking up one of the guns from the bag.
Abe licked his lips "well then, lets get this done so we can get moving to DC" he said leaning down and picking up one of the assault rifles in the duffle bag and another round of ammunition.
Michonne took Rick's colt and shoved it into her belt, he will need that when they get in there and every took a gun and spare ammunition, leaving some guns for Rosita, Bob and Eugene, should they need to protect themselves.
"Ready?" Tara said nervously, gripping the gun tightly and following Michonne along the fence line.
"We leave the gate open" Michonne whispered "let walkers in, they can take care of anyone we leave behind."
Abraham nodded from the back of the group "we find our people, we kill the eaters and we get the hell outta there" he said clicking the safety off his gun and they headed to where the shots were being fired.