We're Falling Apart
And now I'm caught up on season 3. Rick is a serious badass! I love it!
"Do you want to go for a walk?" Shane's voice made Anna turn around. She had been watching Daryl storm around looking more miserable then ever before. Ever since Bo had returned with him and Hershel had patched up the hunter, things seemed to have fallen into a much worse shape then it was before. Bo, much to the displeasure of Lori but because of Rick's asking, had turned her attention for the last couple of hours to Carl, teaching him a few things that she had learned in medical school. After the first half hour, she had gone into the woods and come back a while later with a dead walker body and had started teaching the boy some anatomy tips. That hadn't exactly gone over well with Hershel and his family either after everyone had found out about the walkers the Greenes had locked up in their barn.
"Uh...sure." Anna agreed, rising from her spot on the ground and slipping a knife through her belt. Shane looked grateful and the two of them circled around the property quietly. The silence started to grate on her nerves after a while and she tilted her head curiously as she examined the deputy out the corner of her eye. "Are you okay? Was there something you wanted to talk about?"
"Lori's pregnant." Shane spat out instantly. They stopped walking and Anna turned to him. "She's...she's pregnant. It's gotta be mine...right? I mean...with everything..."
"Do you want it to be?" Anna asked. "I mean, this is your best friend's wife, Shane. I realize you probably love her, or at least think you do, and obviously with everything going on, following some obvious trouble that they've been having in their marriage, things aren't so great for them, but...he's still your best friend."
"Rick can't handle the world these days." Shane muttered, although he barely sounded convinced himself. Anna just watched him. "And...she said...she said even if it was mine, it's not going to be mine."
"You and Rick need to work together." Anna stated firmly. She held up her hands when Shane opened his mouth to argue and he sighed, keeping quiet but frowning. "You have different views on things. You always have and obviously it worked well before. You need to work together and you need to stay friends. I've heard a lot of stories of the things you guys have accomplished before together and I'd hate to never get to see something like that because of some woman and the state of the world."
"It's not that easy." Shane pointed out. "We don't agree anymore."
"Listen to him." Anna instructed. "If you don't like what he thinks then at least tell him and offer another suggestion. Overall though, you guys need to reconcile. Sit, talk, relive your old days, rediscovery how you were friends in the first place. Get over Lori."
Shane paused and frowned at the last bit of advice then sighed a heavy breath. Anna reached out and patted his shoulder then let her hand rest there and rubbed her thumb back and forward a few times in a comforting gesture. Shane lifted his hand and patted hers before removing it from his shoulder with a slight smile of gratitude.
"There's something I gotta do." Shane muttered. Anna tilted her head, mildly curious. "It ain't gonna be good but...I really think it has to be done."
"Okay." Anna agreed, nodding. "If you can back it up...I'll back you on it." Shane looked mildly surprised for a moment then smiled and nodded. They returned to the camp and Anna hurried off to find Rick. She followed his voice through the woods a bit, listening to the fact that he was likely just ahead of her.
"If your folks are gonna stay in my farm, you all need to follow my rules." Hershel's voice joined Rick's as well as the sound of groaning walkers. Anna frowned slightly and paused when her foot fell on a twig and snapped it.
"Who's out there?" Rick asked cautiously.
"Sorry." Anna replied, stepping out to them. "Kinda saw you guys coming this way and I really really needed to ask Rick something." Hershel frowned but Rick nodded, giving Anna a semi smile.
"Can it wait?" The sheriff asked. Anna glanced at the walkers and nodded, not entirely sure if she liked the situation that seemed to be about to talk place. She stood back and watched with fearful eyes as Rick made his progress at capturing and subduing the walkers. She shot a glare at Hershel as the old man stood there with a critiquing look. He was hopelessly deluded and she didn't think it was going to work out well for anyone.
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Bo rubbed her arm across her forehead before grabbing the ankles of another body. The group was shaken up after the impromptu demolition of the barn walkers which was ended with a shock as Sophia stumbled out of the barn as one of them, leading to Rick shooting her in the head. Everyone had gone off different ways, the dead Greene's were taken to get buried, as was Sophia (despite Carol's statement of the girl no longer being her daughter in that state). The rest Bo was helping T-Dog move in order to burn.
She had been surprised. After Shane's big speech that had started the massacre, he shut up afterwards once he was slapped by Maggie for getting on Hershel's case about endangering everyone with the walkers in the barn. Shane had just looked at the young woman in surprise then walked off. He was currently sitting in front of his tent, examining his gun. Rick was in what looked to be a quiet argument with Anna. Both of them threw looks and gestures in Shane's direction and after a while, it looked to be that Anna was winning. It seemed like the argument went on hold as Maggie suddenly called outside to Rick and the sheriff went to the house to see what was wrong.
"You all good here T?" Bo asked, straightening up and sighing.
"Yeah I got it Bo, thanks." T-Dog replied with a smile. The blonde returned it and went towards the farm house to see how the girls were. She had made friends of sort with Beth and since the girl's undead mother had attempted to attack her, Bo wanted to make sure she was getting looked after.
"He gave up drinking the day I was born." Maggie explained as Bo walked through the door.
"I'll go into town, see if he's there." Rick assured the young woman. "Won't be a problem, just stay with your sister."
"What's going on?" Bo asked quietly, approaching Rick and Glenn who looked ready to head out.
"Hershel's not here but the girls think he's gone to the bar in town." Glenn explained. He paused and considered the blonde for a moment before looking at her hopefully. "You know anything about talking to drunk people?" Bo just gave him a smile and a nod.
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"You have to go and help them!" Lori demanded, staring at the hunter as he casually worked on his arrows.
"I don't have to do anything, woman." Daryl stated simply.
"So you're not even worried about Bo?" Lori asked, a snarky tone to her voice. Daryl thought for a moment that maybe if she had been nice about it, he might have considered. Bringing up Bo darkened his expression somewhat. He hadn't said a work to her since the night at the church and she had been equally as quiet. He had been allowed a bed in the house for the first night but the next he was back out, discovering that Bo had bunked in with Andrea. The other blonde had looked at the hunter with a confused expression as if she wanted to ask where her new tent mate had come from but Daryl had just turned away and ignored it.
Just as he was ignoring the questions and demands coming from the brunette before him.
"Lori, relax." Anna stated, walking over. "Rick and Glenn are good shots and Bo's just as good, the three of them will be fine."
"He needs to go after them!" Lori declared. Anna sighed and rubbed her head.
"Now you listen here!" Daryl snapped, getting to his feet. "I don't NEED to do anything. You best be backing your ass away from me before I ram one of these up in it!" He thrust the arrow he was working on into the pregnant woman's face, making her jump back in fear. Anna grabbed the other brunette's arm and pulled her away from the angry redneck.
"Somebody has to go after them!" Lori snapped, yanking her arm out of Anna's hold. "They can't just..."
"They haven't even been gone for an hour!" Anna cut in harshly. "Will you just chill the fuck out! Jesus Christ woman, you go into a wild enough streak there and you're going to freak out the whole damn camp. Causing a fuss like you are when they've barely even had time to get into the town just makes you look like a lunatic."
Lori was silent, staring in bewilderment at what was getting said to her. She frowned, narrowing her eyes to glare harshly at the woman who was vastly becoming an apparent confidant to both Rick and Shane and, in her mind anyways, driving both of them away from her.
"Maybe instead of demanding people to go after the ones who actually know what they're doing, you should pay attention to that kid of yours." Anna pointed out, crossing her arms. "Afterall, he did just see his only friend as a walker, that might have done something to him." With that said, Anna turned and walked away, leaving the pregnant woman to just stare after her. At that moment, Anna really couldn't care less what the other woman did anymore just as long as it didn't disturb anybody else. It would have made more sense if the trio had been gone for several hours but not after only a short amount of time.
She was surprised to find Carl and Shane sitting with each other, a piece of wood on the ground between them, holding cards while both of guys held a few in their hands. Shane looked beyond bored, his cards in one hand, his head in the other, elbow resting on his knee as he glanced at the twelve year old.
"Got a six?" Carl asked, apparently just as bored as the adult.
"Go...fish." Shane muttered.
"This is sad." Anna pointed out, walking over and sitting down with them. "Why don't you guys play something else?"
"Like what?" Carl asked. He looked hopefully at the woman. She smiled at him and gathered the cards from them before shuffling them and setting everything up.
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"I promised your daughter I'd bring you back." Rick pointed out, sighing. Bo kept her eyes on Hershel and wondered just how much booze he had consumed so far.
"Like you promised that little girl?" Hershel asked. He turned in his seat and looked at Rick. "There is no hope. You know it now, like I do, don't you? There is no hope for any of us."
"Okay, the pity party is great and all but this is helping no one." Bo stepped in, tired of the men doing things their way. "Look you guys, hope or no hope, whether you think you can do it or not, all those people back at the farm, they rely on you. You need to show them that there's a point to all of this, all the running, all the living. You can't go giving up once you start realizing that things are hard." All eyes fell to her and the med student just sighed and put her hands on her hips. She took a deep breath and readied up her most stern expression, one she only used in certain situations. "Now...we can all sit here, drinking away our pain and sorrow, or we can suck it up, put on the big boy panties, and face the world and beat down what it throws at us."
"Big boy panties?" Glenn asked, bewildered. Out of the whole group, he had known Bo the longest, just for the fact that they had joined the group together after she picked him up when hell broke loose. That didn't mean that he was any closer to understanding her anymore than the rest of them were.
"Just work with me on this, okay?" Bo stated with a heavy sigh. Rick couldn't help but smile, a small feeling of warmth and some sense of pride going through him as he surveyed Bo. She looked at him and smiled back, apparently happy that she met some sort of approval with him.
"Girl makes...a point." Hershel finally agreed. He picked up his last drink and paused before dumping it out and rising to his feet. "Let's go home."
None of them had the time to move before the door flew open and two men walked in.
So this got a few things covered in it. Managed this one in about an hour. Since I'm turning Shane in a different direction, a lot of things for the next for episode stuff is gonna be different. I have a few different scenarios in my head for things to happen so we'll see how stuff goes before I make my decisions.