Gregoryham99-Hey glad you like the story rewrite so far! Answer to your first question is yes, this is only comic universe so no TV only characters. While I like a lot of them I think we have more than enough to hold this story together, haha. As to your second question, No Spoilers! All I'll say Katjaa just like everyone else is living on borrowed time so who knows when she'll die.

Smeake-Glad you liked it bud, hope you like this one.

Thedarkpokemaster-Yeah Rick has to find something out and settle his conscious along the way.

Don77-Well I'm going to try and expand each of the characters this time around, really make people care about them and not just be mildly surprised/upset when they die. Also this time around I'll try to show the kids hanging around more often as last time they were glossed over often.

Gracie Miserables-Wouldn't that be a lovely world where everyone lives? Unfortunately I can say the will not happen and over time some characters will die. Gotta say I do love the cast I have right now and I will enjoy each of them while they are here.

Worker72-Yeah we are going to be delving into a lot of what you are talking about and I hope you like each of the outcomes.


Enjoy

Chapter 7: Killer Within

Hershel spotted Maggie walking out of the cell block and waved to her as she walked over, "How are the girls enjoying the barbershop?" Hershel asked with a little smile,

"Well they are talking a mile a minute about everything but what they really want is for you to cut their hair." Maggie said with a little roll of her eyes,

"Me?" Hershel replied with a little chuckle,

"Well mom always used to cut their hair and...well I think they feel you're the next best thing." Maggie said a bit sadly,

"I see." Hershel said with a small nod, "Well you go on and tell them i'll be there in a few minutes."

"Oh come on dad, they're really excited about this." Maggie said with an annoyed tone,

"I know they are but I have to finish outlining the fields." Hershel replied,

"Dad it can wait!" Maggie said as firmly as she could,

Hershel looked back up at her then back down a bit torn, "'Scuse me, but you can go on with yer daughters. I can finish this up for ya, no problem." Chuck pipped in,

"Charles are you sure? I can stay and help." Hershel replied,

"Naw, you go on. Spend some time with the young ones." Chuck replied as he lowered his head going back to his work,

"Well thank you, I appreciate it." Hershel replied as he got up and dusted off his pants,

"Don't mention it." Chuck mumbled back,

"Alright Maggie where is this barber shop?" Hershel asked with a little smile,

"Just head down this hallway and take your first right, you'll see it." Maggie said as she turned around,

"Wait where are you going? I thought this was some family time?" Hershel asked with a raised eyebrow,

"Just grabbing some water, I'll be right there." Maggie said with a little laugh as she lightly jogged back towards the cafeteria.

Hershel let out a little nod and began to walk down the hallway. In the distance he could hear the gunshots coming from the group clearing out the gym. As he turned into the right hallway he let out a little yell, "Girls? Hello? Maggie said it was down this way but I don't know which door!" Hershel began to slowly walk down the hallway looking into each doorway, slowly growing frustrated by the silence, "Rachel? Susie? Say something if you can hear me! If you're hiding because of the gunshots don't worry! They're just clearing out the gym! We're still safe, you don't have to hide!" Hershel waited a moment yet still heard nothing. With fear slowly setting in he shouted out angrily, "Dammit! This isn't funny! Where are you?!" Hershel reached the last door down the hall and slowly opened the door, "Alright I found it, you two are in big trouble! You better have a good reason to be-" Hershel started to say only to freeze in place.

The whole barber room was splattered with blood and the beheaded corpses of his young twin daughters laid on the floor. He fell to hit knees and let out a heart wrenching scream as tears poured from his eyes. His howls of anguish painted the hallways four minutes until her could no longer scream, he slowly lowered his head and let his body rest as all thought left his mind and only pain remained.

Mere moments later Maggie came down the halls and found her father still kneeling in the doorway, he was unable to move, unable to do anything but cry and take sharp breaths. "Dad?! Dad what happened!? Are you okay?! What happened?!" Maggie called out frantically as she ran to his side grabbing onto him. Hershel looked up to her with puffy eyes that continued to weep, and slowly pointed into the room. Maggie looked over and let out a horrified gasp and too began to cry. Hershel unable to look turned away and held onto Maggie, almost for dear life at that point. Yet the two suddenly heard the most unsettling sound in their lives, Rachel's and Susie's heads started to let out little hacks and gurgled. Maggie let out a terrified scream and jumped away from the door, Hershel stared into the room unable to bring himself to put his daughters down once and for all.

As Maggie and Hershel embraced and sat on the floor, things in the gym went from bad to worse far too quickly. Tyreese was now so far into the horde that no one could even make him out from the walkers. "Tyreese!" Andrea screamed out horrified as she put up her pistol to start firing,

"Andrea you can't!" Carly exclaimed and reached out forcing her to put her arm down, "If he isn't dead now, you could shoot him dead!" Carly quickly explained,

"Let the fuck go of me! Let go!" Andrea shouted out as Glenn grabbed onto her too,

"Andrea you can't save him, we have to go. There's too many of them!" Glenn exclaimed as he started pulling her back,

"We gotta get the fuck out of here! Now!" Kenny boomed out as he took shots at the nearest dead,

Billy, thinking quickly, turned around and fired at the dead around the door and quickly kicked them open, "If we're leaving we have to do it now!" He shouted out above the gunfire,

"We have to leave him!" Carly shouted out hardly as she began to back away,

"No! We can't leave Tyreese!" Andrea shouted out wildly,

"Fuck Tyreese godammnit! We need to get our asses out of here!" Kenny shouted out as he turned and ran out of the gym.

Glenn pulled Andrea out of the door and she finally turned around running away from the horde, "What did we do!? What the fuck did we just do?!" She asked in tears as Billy and Kenny closed the doors, chaining them shut keeping Tyreese locked inside.

In the meantime Lori and Carol had gone to the showers and were pleased to see them running and still working with hot water. As they showered they talked about the state of the prison itself and slightly about Rick, since he still hadn't returned. Suddenly they heard some heavy footsteps and when they turned to the doorway they were shocked to see Axel. They let out a shout and covered themselves as Axel spun around, "I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I didn't know anyone was in here I swear! I'll just go!" Axel exclaimed with a huge grin on his face as he ran back towards his cell.

As Axel returned to the cell block he passed Lee while chuckling, "What's so funny?" Lee asked sitting up in his bed,

"Where's Dex at? All y'all should head to the showers and get an eye full. Lori and Carol, all wet and soapy. It's a mighty fine sight." Axel said with a smirk,

"Oh please tell me you are joking." Lee said with a frown,

"What?" Axel replied with a shrug,

"These people are already wary of us, I think peeping on naked woman would get our asses kicked right out of here." Lee said shaking his head,

"Doubt it." Axel said with another shrug, "But if you want to miss the show that's your choice. I gotta get back to my cell before I lose these mental images." He added on as he continued to walk past Lee's cell.

Lee let out a little grumble and laid back down on his bed, last thing he wanted was the prisoners to get an even worse rap than they already had.

Back outside Lori and Carol returned to Dale who had been watching over the kids for them along with Doug. "Mom!" Carl exclaimed as both he and Sophia ran to their parents. Lori knelt down and gave him a warm hug, "You smell really good." Carl said with a grin,

"Were you good for uncle Dale?" Lori asked with a smile,

"Yeah, Doug helped me and Sophia build a big tower out of domino's!" Carl said with a huge smile,

"You should have seen it mom, it was awesome!" Sophia added on,

"Now I'll tell you what young man, when your dad gets back you are going to need to take a shower too. Then you'll-" Lori started to say only to stop when she saw Carl's eyes go wide, 'Carl? What's wrong sweetie?" Lori asked as she turned around only to see the gym crew walking out each in a state of guilt and sorrow. Kenny took a step forward and ran his hand along his chin slowly, "Jesus Kenny, what happened?!"

"Oh God! Where is Tyreese!" Carol exclaimed with wide eyes,

"He got ahead of us, got himself surrounded in the gym. He lost his fucking mind, wouldn't listen to us, telling him to get back. There were too many of them...we had to leave him." Kenny said a bit gruffly,

"What?" Lori said visibly shocked with a break in her voice as Carol broke down into tears behind her hugging Sophia,

"We couldn't shoot them off of him, he just kept pushing further into them. We had to, we had no choice." Carly said with a defeated tone,

Andrea ran over to Dale and buried her face into his shoulder crying hardly. Dale slowly stroked her hair as Duck walked over to his father, "Dad? Are you okay?" He asked with a worried tone,

Kenny knelt down and put a hand on his shoulder, "I'm fine buddy." He said reassuringly, "Where's your mom?"

"She went inside to make lunch, I think." Duck replied as he hugged his father,

"Okay." Kenny said with a nod. He noticed that Duck was continuing to hold onto him tightly, "Hey it's all okay, everything is fine."

Billy had been scanning the area and couldn't find the rest of his family, "Hey, you know where Maggie or my Dad is?" He asked the group,

"Yeah." Glenn said softly, "Maggie was bringing your sisters to the barber shop when we left, follow me." He added on as he lead him onwards.

Carly stood there watching the group and let out a slow sigh, someone was going to have to tell Julie about her father. She turned around and started to head back towards the cell block to take a moment and to steel herself to tell a young girl that her father is dead. As she reached the door Dexter opened it and walked out of the cell block with a stretch. He walked over to the group with a confused look, "What's going on? Something happen?" Lori looked up at him with a cold glare as tears ran down her cheeks, "That a yes?" Dexter asked with a slightly concerned look.

As Carly reached the cell block Lee walked out of his cell, "Hey there." Lee said with a little wave and a smile that dropped as he saw her face. He walked up to her visibly concerned, "You okay?"

"Not really." Carly mumbled back,

"What happened?" Lee asked as he followed her to her cell,

"It's Tyreese. He-" Carly said with a crack in her voice, "Fuck!" She yelled out as she began to cry. Lee stood watching her for a moment with soft eyes as she took a seat on her bunk and lowered her head, "We had to leave him behind in the gym with all those walkers. Now...now I have to figure out how to tell his daughter that he's dead." She said as she sniffled and shook her head. She looked up at Lee and asked, "How do you do that? How do I tell her that her father is dead and I let it happen."

Lee walked over and sat down next to her on the bed, "This isn't your fault, things happen that we can't control." Lee said supportively, "I can't tell you what to say to Julie but I'll go with you if you want."

"You wouldn't mind?" Carly asked a bit surprised,

"Not at all." Lee said firmly,

"Thank you." Carly said wiping her eyes and cheeks before taking a slow breath, "Come on I want to get this over with." Carly said getting to her feet. Lee nodded and got up following her out of the cell and up to the top row of cells. They entered Ben's cell as he and Julie were talking, "Julie? I have to talk to you."

Julie looked over to her with a look of surprise, "Um, okay. What's up Carly?"

Carly took a deep breath and rubbed the back of her neck. Julie looked at her confused and Carly continued to hold a lingering silence, "Julie, there's no easy way to say this. Your father was helping clear out the gym and had to be left behind." Lee said taking control of the conversation,

"What?!" She said in pure horror,

"I'm so sorry Julie, he was surrounded." Carly said with a sniffle, "We all tried but there were too many of them. We couldn't stay or else we'd get killed too. We had to lock the door back up." Carly explained quickly as Julie began to cry hardly. Ben sat up and put his arm around her pulling her in closely,

Lee and Carly stood there for a moment, "I'm so sorry Julie." Lee said softly as he looked back over to Carly and motioned for them to leave. Carly gave a small nod and the two slowly back out of the cell leaving the teen to mourn in peace.

Meanwhile Billy and Glenn had both went looking for Maggie and Hershel and came upon the two still sitting outside the barber room. Billy ran over and Maggie quickly jumped up clutching him tightly, "Oh fuck, what happened now?" Glenn asked in fear. He slowly looked into the room and his eyes went wide, as his stomach turned. "O-oh Christ." He whispered out. Billy let out a few tears while Glenn slowly pulled out his pistol. Glenn wiped his eyes and walked into the room putting to the girls to rest with a shot to their heads.

Outside Kenny was a bit concerned that Katjaa hadn't been seen in awhile. "Hey Doug do me a favor, keep an eye on Duck for me."

"Sure Kenny, where you going?" Doug asked while scratching his head,

"Gonna go see where Kat went off to." Kenny replied as he got up and headed back towards the cafe,

Kenny walked into the cell block and quickly heading into the cafe, "Katjaa! Where are you darling?!" He called out from the door, "People are getting mighty hungry, you need some help?" He asked with a raised eyebrow as he began to walk towards the back storage. He waited a few moments and still heard nothing from his wife. He looked back towards the exit then back to the storage shelves, "Kat? Kat this ain't funny." Kenny said growing irritated. Kenny made his way towards the back of the room and when he glanced to the right he saw his wife, decapitated. Kenny's eyes went wide and he let out a window breaking shout, "NO!"

Lee who had been heading to the cafeteria to grab Carly some water, as well as giving her a moment to collect herself. As he reached the doors he heard Kenny's yell and he quickly burst through the door ready for anything. He looked around and could hear whimpering coming from the storage room. He quickly moved to the storage and looked around only to find Kenny knelt down over his wife's body crying hardly, "Oh my god." Lee whispered out as he covered his mouth,

"Kat, Kat, Katjaa, honey, oh fucking Christ." He said with a drop of his head as he slowly pushed a knife into her skull.

"Kenny…" Lee whispered out as he took a step towards him.

Kenny clenched his fists and looked back at Lee with fury in his eyes. "You." He said with an icy tone, "You did this didn't you. Breaking and entering my ass, you're a murder." He said slowly walking towards him,

"Kenny I didn't do this." Lee said as he raised his hands trying to calm him,

"You fucking lying piece of shit!" Kenny shouted out and slammed his fist in Lee's face.

Lee whirled back stumbling into a shelf and knocking a bunch of cans onto the floor. "Kenny plea-" He tried to say only for another punch to send him to the floor. The room seemed to spin around him as he laid flat on the floor. He reached out and took hold of a shelf trying to pull himself up. He got to his feet and immediately Kenny grabbed his shirt with one hand and with the other began to punch him ferociously. Three hits connected as Lee struggled to get out of his grasp as well as stay conscious.

Lee's lip was split and the right side of his face was already swelling up when he finally broke away from Kenny's grasp. He stumbled back and fell onto his back, "K-Kenny s-st-" Lee stuttered out only for Kenny to kick him in the face sending him onto his back. Kenny jumped onto Lee's chest and grabbed his shirt and began to slam his fist into his face relentlessly. Lee was sputtering out blood from his mouth as his right eye swelled shut.

Kenny began to lose all control over himself and started to yell at Lee as he beat him within an inch of his life, "You killed my wife! My wife! I'll fucking kill you, you sick fuck!"

Lee was now limp under Kenny and felt the darkness wrapping around him. Suddenly and faintly he heard Chuck and Axel yelling from the entrance of the cafeteria. "Jesus Christ what the fuck is going on in here!" Chuck shouted out as the two charged in,

"Kenny stop! You're gonna kill him you follow me!?" Axel exclaimed right before he tackled Kenny off of Lee.

Chuck took hold of Lee's arms and started to pull him away as Axel pushed his knee onto Kenny's back forcing onto the floor as he struggled, "Let me go! Let me fucking go you fuckers! He killed my wife! He killed my fucking wife!"

Chuck took hold of Lee's face and lightly tapped it, "Son?! Son, you still with us?! Can you hear me?!" He asked frantically,

Axel took hold of Kenny's arm and bent it backwards stopping Kenny's struggling with pain. "IS he all right?" Axel asked as Chuck lowered his ear to his mouth trying to hear breathing, "Chuck talk to me." Axel asked again,

"I got a breath, he's breathing." Chuck said quickly,

"What do we do?" Axel asked,

"Hell if I know." Chuck replied wracking his brain,

Carly had heard the commotion and ran into the room. She looked around and at first she thought that Axel was attacking Kenny yet when she saw Lee laying on the floor with blood pooling from his mouth on the floor she ran to Chuck's side, "Jesus fucking Christ what happened?!" She exclaimed,

"Walked in on Kenny beating the holy hell outta him." Chuck replied,

"He killed my wife! I fucking know it!" Kenny spat out,

"What are you talking about?!" Carly replied wide eyed,

"She's laying in there with her fucking head cut off!" Kenny shouted out wildly while thrashing around slightly. Axel quickly pulled his arm back harder stopping his thrashing,

"What do we do?" Axel asked again now directed to Carly,

Carly paused and thought for a moment, with Rick and Tyreese gone and Kenny part of the problem she had no one to divert direction to. She took a slow breath and looked to Chuck, "We're going to carry Lee back to the cell block. Once we do that you go find Hershel or Doug, we need someone who can help him. Axel you take Kenny to a cell and lock him in." She said firmly,

"What!? Are you fucking kidding me!?" Kenny shouted out angrily,

Axel looked down at Kenny then back to Carly a bit unsure with the order, "Do it!" She shouted out firmly. Axel nodded and got up dragging Kenny out of the room, "Alright Chuck I'll grab his legs you get his arms." She said as she moved over and took hold of his ankles, "Hang on Lee, just stay with us." She said softly as they lifted him up.

Well it took a bit of time but I finally got another chapter out, I hope you all liked it and are looking forward to the next one. I also hope you found this whole, overall depressing, chapter to be good. I look forward to all your reviews and I'll catch you into the next one.