Chapter 7

The next morning I climb out of my tent to see Andrea hadn't moved from her sister's side, and everyone was moving the dead bodies around. Taking a seat next to Shane I watched as Lori went to go talk to Andrea.
"Has she been there all night?"
"Yeah. Lori's gonna try to convince her to let us kill her."
I sighed, taking in the camp.
Wincing when Daryl slammed a pick Ax threw a dead walkers head, walking over to me I watched T dog and Glenn move the body to the burn pile.
Offering me a hand up me followed Daryl as Rick was walking up to the group.
"So this is your job huh?"
"Yeah."
I sighed as I noticed Rick walking over to Andrea o see her pull a gun on him. Turning to Daryl I sighed and walked to words Andrea; sitting next to her I placed my hand on Amy's cold forehead.
"Even though I didn't know her for very long, she was one of my best friends. I'll miss her too. Jus remember you can always come talk to me ok?"
Andrea turned to me with a light smile on her face.
"Thank you Cobra, for not trying to take her away."
I smiled and gave her a light hug, before standing up and walking over to the group. Where almost everyone had formed.
"Yall can't be serious, let that girl hamstring us, the dead girls a time bomb."
I glared at Daryl as I stood next to Dale.
"What do you suggest?"
"Take the shot. Clean in the brain from here. I can hit a turkey between the eyes from this distance."
"No. God's sakes let her be."
I nodded at Lori.
"Just for a bit longer guys, what's it gonna hurt?"
Daryl fixed me with a look of loathing, before walking off, Talking to Jim as he walked by.
"Look up bubba still got some work to do."
Shaking my head, Shane walked over to me and inspected my cheek.
"Your gonna have a bruise for awhile Cobra."
I nodded as everyone went about their business.
I followed after Daryl, figuring I would be of more use with him.
Shaking my head I watched Glenn tell Moles and Daryl that our people went in a different pile before Daryl started yelling again.
"Yall had this commin, leavin my brother for dead."

Before I could say anything to him I heard someone yell that Jim had been bit by a walker, quickly turning on my heels I walked back up to the group, Daryl rushing past me.
"I'm ok."
"Show it to us. Show it to us."
I sighed as Jim grabbed a shovel, causing everyone to yell at him to put the shovel down and T dog to grab him from behind, and Daryl to lift up his shirt to see that Jim had a fairly fresh bite on em.
As Jim started chanting "I'm ok."
T dog and Daryl stepped away from him, a look of shock on their faces.
We all stared at him, not knowing what to do. Finally I stepped forward and made him sit down behind the RV.
A few minutes later the group was in discussion again.
"I say we put a pickax in his head, and the dead girls and be done with it."
I stared at shock at Daryl as Shane turned to him.
"That what you'd want, if it were you?"
Daryl nodded, with a smartass look on his face.
"Yeah, I'd thank you while you did it."
Dale sighed and shook his head.
"I hate to say, I never thought I would but maybe Daryl's right."
That made Rick start in on Dale.
"Jim's not a monster Dale, or some rabid dog."
"That's not what I."
Dale looked shock and tried to defend himself before Rick shot him down.
"He's a sick, sick, man. If we do that were do we draw the line?"
Daryl scoffed at him while looking around, obviously working something out in his head.
"The lines pretty clear, zero tolerance for walkers, or to be."
I sighed as Rick and Shane started arguing with each other.
"What if we can get him help? Heard the CDC was working on a cure."
"I heard that to, herd a lot of things before the world went to hell."
"If the CDCs still up and running."
"That's a stretch right there."
"Why? If there's any government left any structure at all. They'd protect the CDC at all costs, I think it's our best shot, food, shelter, protection."
"You want those things I do to. Ok? Now if they exists, there at the army base Fort Benning."
"That's a hundred miles in the opposite direction."
"That is right. If that place is operational it would be heavily armed and operational."
"Their at the front lines in all this, they could have gotten over run, we've all seen that."
"The CDC's our best choice, and Jims only chance."
I watched Daryl with curiosity.
"You go looking for aspirin, do what you need to do, some of us have some balls and do what we need to do!"
Thinking fast, I ran in front of Daryl and placed myself between him and Jim.
"Hey, hey, hey! We do not kill the living."
"That's funny coming from a man that just put a gun to my head."
"We may disagree on some things, but not on this, put it down, go on."
Pissed off Daryl threw the pickax into the ground.
Shane grabbed the ax before turning to me.
"That was stupid."
"How? He won't hurt me."
Shane scoffed as he walked off. With a quick decision, I decided to stay next to Carol.
I had befriended the woman, over the past twenty four hours.
"What am I gonna do Carol?"
"What's wrong hun?"
"Now they're both pissed at me."
She sighed, and pulled me into a hug.
"It'll be ok hun. They'll get over it."
I nodded as we walked over to Daryl who was about to hit Ed with the pickax.
"I'll do it, he was my husband."
I watched as Daryl handed her the ax almost unsure, as she started crying.
I stood next to him to not get hit.
We both watched as she repeatedly struck Ed's face, after about the third hit I clung to Daryl as Carol landed one more hit, before handing the Ax back. Walking over to her I made her look at me.
"You ok?"
"Yeah. I'll be fine."
I smiled and hugged her.
"You still have Sophia, and me, and the rest of the camp."
"I know."
We walked over to sit with Dale when Amy came back to life, everything stopped as we watched Andrea apologize to her sister, and send a bullet threw her head, I jumped at the sound.
Finally after hours of work we were ready to bury our friends. I watched as Rick and Shane filled in the graves.
I kept my face void of emotion, feeling that I needed to be strong for Carol.
I glared Daryl as he was talking to Rick.
"There are no rules."
"Well, that's a problem, we haven't had one minute to hold on to anything of our old self's, we need time to morn, and we need to burry our dead, that's what people do."
I nodded in agreement to Lori.
We watched as Andrea put Amy's body in one of the graves, staying close to Daryl I let a few tears slip. He wrapped an arm around my shoulders, turning my body to him.
With a sigh I waited behind everyone as they started making there way back to camp. Daryl left me to morn on my own as he walked back. After about five minutes Shane walked up to me.
"How you holding up Cobra?"
"I'm not."
He sighed as I watched him look around before turning me to look a him, as he pressed his lips to mine in a quick kiss; pulling back he smiled at me and made his way back to camp. With a groan I walked down the hill distracted by my thoughts, I saw Shane walking with Lori and I felt a little bit hurt.
Walking into camp I could tell a decision had been made.
Ignoring everyone I walked to my tent and crawled inside, feeling the need to be alone.
Looking around I realized my cat was gone, looking everywhere I realized someone had taken it.
Pissed off, I walked over to Daryl's tent.
"Dixon! Get yer ass out here!"
I saw him laugh as he opened his tent.
"Looking for this?"
He asked holding up my cat.
I made a grab for it, but he pulled me into his tent. Landing on my back, I wasn't surprised when he climbed on top of me and captured my lips in a heated kiss.
With a slight smirk he let me stand up, and handed me my cat, which I sat neatly on his bed, before we both walked out to see Rick and Shane walking back to camp.
"I've been thinkin about Ricks plan, look, there are no guarantees. Either way I'll be the first one to admit that. I've known this man for a long time, I trust his instincts, I say the most important thing is that we need to stick together, for those of you who agree, we leave first thing in the morning. Ok?"
We nodded as the camp split up to do whatever to prepare for tomorrow. Walking over to my truck, I thought about what to do. Feeling arms wrap around my waist I looked to see Daryl looking at me with a look of concern.
"Whatcha thinkin bout?"
"What to do."
"Oh?"
"Yeah."
"You're ridin with me."
"Oh I am?"
"Yeah."
I smiled as he walked back to his tent; I walked to mine and started taking it apart, causing Shane to question me.
"You know we leave tomorrow, what are you gonna do about shelter?"
"If anything I'll sleep in my truck."
"You could sleep in my tent tonight."
I gave him a look before he laughed at me.
"Just a friendly suggestion, it's gonna be cold tonight."
I sighed as I finished with my tent; I walked over to Carol to get her advice.
"So what should I do?"
"Did Daryl ask you to stay in his tent tonight?"
"No, he just said I'm ridin with him tomorrow."
"I say, stay with Shane. See what happens."
I laughed with her, looking around I noticed everyone had turned in for the night, taking a deep breath I walked over to Shane's tent. Shane looked up as I crawled in.
"So you took me up on my offer?"
"Well…Daryl's mad at me, and it's to cold for my truck…soooo, can I sleep here?"
Shane laughed at me as he made room on the makeshift bed for me. Sitting down I looked around and smiled at Shane, who smiled back.
"Thanks."
"You're welcome."
I smiled as I laid back, looking at Shane I realized he was shirtless. Blushing I looked at his face, to see him smirking at me.
"Like what you see?"
"Maybe, Maybe not."
He laughed at me, I quickly ignored him, rolling over to face away from him. Next thing I knew I felt Shane grab my ass, looking behind me I could see the lust in his eyes. Smiling at him I moved his hand to my waist, which he dragged up to my breast. Lightly grabbing my left boob, I suppressed a moan, rolling onto my back, I looked at him. He was sitting up and reaching to grab me when we heard the door zip open. Sitting up I came face to face with Daryl, who didn't look happy. Grabbing my hand he pulled me out of the tent, throwing a look at Shane, who was laughing. Standing up, I followed him back to his tent, trying to keep up. Reaching his tent he pushed me inside before he zipped it closed behind him. Quickly I grabbed my cat and sat in the middle of his bed. Watching him turn to look at me I gulped.
Taking a deep breathe he looked down at me.
"Why were you in his tent?"
"I thought you were mad at me, and it's to cold for my truck."
He sat down in front of me, eyes locked on my cheek. Reaching out he grabbed my face and looked closely at it.
"Who hit you?"
"Ed."
Turning my face again he kissed me, lightly he moved my cat out of my hands, and forced me to lay down, wrapping my arms around his neck, sitting back I could tell he was debating on something, coming to a decision, he got off me and laid down on his side watching me. Looking at him confused, I rolled over facing away from him, until I felt Daryl grab my ass, the same way Shane had. Turning I looked at him. Smiling I kissed him on the cheek, causing him to laugh.
"I don't want you in his tent again, aright?"
"Alright."
He smiled as I stared up at him.
Curling into a ball, he wrapped an arm around me as we fell asleep.

The next morning, everyone gathered around the vehicles, as Shane began a small speech.
"Alright yall, those of you with CB's were gonna be on channel 40, let's keep the chatter down, now if you have problems, don't have a CB, don't have a signal all you have to do is honk your horn once, that'll stop the caravan. Any questions?"
"We're uh, We're not going."
Everyone turned to look at Moles. I sighed as I leaned against Daryl's truck, ready to head out.
"We have family in Birmingham, we wanna be with our people."
"You know on your own you won't have anyone to watch your back."
"We'll take our chance. I gotta do what's best for my family."
"You sure?"
"We talked about it, we're sure."
"Alright, Shane?"
"Yeah."
I watched as Rick pulled out a gun while Shane pulled out a box of amo.
"Box is have full."
I sighed again as Daryl scoffed next to me.
While everyone was saying there goodbyes, I climbed into the truck as Shane told everyone to head out. Glancing behind us as we pulled onto the main road I realized Shane's Jeep was behind us.
After a few miles we pulled over because of the RV.
Jumping out of the truck I heard Dale mention something about being out of Duck tape.
Shane said it looked like a gas station ahead.
That's when Jacqui came out of the RV saying that Jim couldn't take anymore.
"Hey Rick you wanna hold down the fort while I scot ahead see what I can pick up?"
"Yeah."
"I'm coming along to back ya up."
"Yall keep your eyes opened now, we'll be right back."
I nodded at Shan as he hopped in his Jeep, turning to Daryl I realized he had gone into the RV and came back out.
"How is he?"
"Bad, fever settin in."
I sighed as Rick called everyone around the RV, after Shane and T Dog returned.
He explained to us that Jim wanted to be left where we were.
"An he's lucid?"
"He's ah, I would say he is yes."
"Back in the camp when I said Daryl might be right and you shot me down, you misunderstood, I would never go along with callously killing a man, I was just gonna suggest that we ask Jim what he wants, and I think we have the answer."
"We just leave him here? Take off? Man I'm not sure if I can live with that."
I sighed pushing myself from the RV catching everyone's attention.
"It's not our choice. We are putting him in so much pain, wouldn't it be better for him if we left him here?"
After a few minutes everyone agreed with me, and Rick and Shane moved Jim up the hill, under a tree. I decided to hang back, as everyone said goodbye to him. I waited for everyone to finish before I walked up to him.
"I'm sorry Jim."
"Don't be Shelby."
"Call me Cobra, please."
He smiled at me.
"Cobra. Pay attention to those two, they both care about you."
"I know."
We smiled at each other as I hopped into the truck, and we continued on our way to the CDC.
All I could do was pray that everything was gonna be ok.

After hours and hours of driving the sun started to set as we finally saw the CDC.
Coming to a stop, we hopped out to see bodies littered every where, I started to gag at the smell, so did everyone else.
Opting for my recurve I kept it at the ready. Finally reaching the locked doors, I kept my back to the group. Until Shane yelled walker, turning quickly I shot it in the head. Walking over to pull out my arrow, I could hear the panic in everyones voice, it was getting dark and we had no shelter.
Everyone started walking back to the cars until Rick started shouting that the camera had moved, just as walkers were appearing the door opened, blinding us with the sudden light.

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