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Chapter 9: Killer Found
"Let go of her!" Andrea screamed out as she slammed her fist into Thomas's face sending him tumbling back. Clem ran away behind Andrea as Thomas walked up to her, "I'm going to blow your fucking brains out!" Andrea spat out as she reached for her holster,
"Please don't struggle." Thomas said as he wiped his mouth from a small trickle of blood before grabbing onto Andrea's wrist stopping her ability to aim at him,
"Fuck you psycho!" Andrea shouted out wildly while she struggled against Thomas's grip,
"Such language from such a pretty girl…" Thomas said calmly as he slammed her face with her own pistol before shoving her to the ground. Clem jumped back and watched wide eyed as he tossed her gun away, "We won't be needing this, now let's get started."
Meanwhile outside the prison Rick sat in the center of the courtyard holding his head in his hands. He lifted his head seeing Carly and Kenny, who watched over the children with a stony expression. Nearby Julie helped Ben walk around the yard and Chuck relaxed in a lawn chair. He knew Hershel and his children were inside along with Doug who watched over Lee. Lori came walking up behind him and stopped as she saw him nearly in tears, "Rick?" She asked tentatively as she stepped towards him,
"They're dead because of me Lori." Rick said as he turned back to her with watery eyes, "Kenny's wife is dead, Hershel's daughters are dead, I brought them here. Told them that we'd be safe and now they're dead. Kenny wanted to leave with his family, Hershel wanted to stay on his farm but I convinced them to stay here. They believed in me, they trusted me and I let them down." Rick took a long pause and stared off into the distance before staying, "I killed them."
Lori ran up to him and put her hand on his shoulder, "Rick that is bullshit! You know what it's like out there, with winter ending the roamers are moving again. We haven't even heard from Otis or Mark in days! We don't know what's going on out there. You have no way of knowing what could have happened, so stop blaming yourself."
"I-I'm sorry Lori. I'm not all here right now, I haven't been sleeping too well since Chris died. I can barely think straight." Rick said slowly as he sniffed a bit,
"I know Rick, i've seen you. Where did you go yesterday? What did you do?" She asked kneeling down next to him,
Rick stared at the ground for a moment, his face going from emotional to dry, "I went back, dug Shane up and shot him in the head." He said looking her in the eye. Lori quickly stood up looking at him in a mixture of disgust and fear before turning away.
Nearby Chuck lazily sat on his lawn chair almost falling asleep when Ben and Julie came walking by, "Look at him Chuck, he's doing great!" Julie said with a pleased smile as Ben limped forward a few steps,
"I-I don't know about great…" Ben coughed out to her,
Chuck's right eye opened looked Ben over before he shut it again, "It's get's easier, but you gotta keep going. That's the hard part but it get's easier." Chuck murmured to the teens as he went back to trying to nap.
"What's going on over there?" Julie suddenly asked causing Chuck to open his eyes once more,
"Yeah Dale, Axel and Glenn are going to the outer fence. I hope they aren't leaving with that killer still around." Ben said as he slowly leaned forward and held his arm to his chest. Julie walked over to Ben and helped support him very quickly.
"Don't ya worry 'bout that, you just get him moving again." Chuck said as he got to his feet. He headed over to the three men now curious what they were doing. He caught up to them just as they began to walk the perimeter to a large build up of walkers, "Whatcha y'all doing?"
Glenn looked over to Chuck and let out a toothy smile, "Oh hey man! It's the walkers building up at the fence's, we think we've figured out how to handle them safely."
"Handle 'em?" Chuck asked as he scratched his head, "Ain't the fence already handling them?"
Dale looked back to him and shook his head, "If these things keep piling up, it's not impossible for the sheer weight of them to push the fences over. We could have thousands out here. Eventually." Dale looked back to Chuck and said, "Since we're low on bullets we can't just shoot them from this side, so hopefully this will work." Dale slowly walked down the fence, "First we get a corpse, a nice close one. Next we put a knife to its skull, like so." Dale explained as he pulled out his kitchen knife and lined it up through a chain link, "Now the chain links aren't big enough for a machete or anything so we have to make due with our kitchen cutlery. After we are lined up just bang the handle with your hammer…" Dale continued as he drove the knife into a walker's skull, "Then...pull...it..out...agh!" Dale said as he tried to pull the knife out as the walker fell back dead causing his hand to become smashed against the chainlinks and the knife to slip through his hand.
Glenn ran over and grabbed Dale as he stumbled back holding his hand in pain, "Well shit, I mashed my hand up to shit on the fence." Dale grumbled out,
Axel looked over to Chuck and both shared a confused look, "You...uh, couldn't just hold onto the knife and let them slide off. You follow me?" Axel while rubbing the back of his head,
"I don't know if you were watching Axel but I just smashed my hand up and it hurt like a bitch. Also that knife didn't feel like it was gonna fucking budge. I think it's back to the drawing board on this one kids." Dale said as he shook his head angrily,
"I don't know Dale this could work. What if we put a piece of wood in between the handle and the blade. That was the wood would slam against the fence as the walker slid off." Glenn explained with a smile,
"I think y'all are making it too complicated, what if we-" Chuck tried to say only for Dale to overtake him,
"Glenn that sounds smart, let's go take a look for tools in the garage." Dale interrupted before leading Glenn away.
Axel looked back to Chuck and threw his hands up, "I don't see why holding the knife tighter wouldn't work."
Chuck shook his head, "These boys are making a whole mess outta something simple, follow me Axel." Chuck said as he motioned him over, Axel let out a shrug before following him.
Meanwhile Carl and Sophia sat a little distance away from Kenny and Duck talking about them, "I don't really like him anymore, he was nice but now he's kinda scary." Sophia whispered as she looked at Kenny,
"Yeah and Duck is so sad, I know how bad it is to lose a dad but to lose my mom...that must be horrible." Carl said sadly while they watched him sit by his father staring at the ground. After a moment Carl looked back to Sophia and said, "Um Sophia…"
"Huh?" She asked looking back to him,
"I changed my mind, I want to be your boyfriend. I think your pretty and stuff and we can hold hands." He grumbled out a bit embarrassed,
"Really!" Sophia exclaimed with joy as she planted a kiss on his cheek,
"Gah! I said we could hold hands!" Carl said as he wiped his cheek.
Back inside the prison Lee and Doug were slowly walking around the bottom floor of the cell block, "Wow Lee you're making amazing progress, you're already walking pretty normal." Doug said with a grin,
"Yeah...well," Lee said with a little grunt while rolling his head, "I'm sick of being this cellblock already, faster I get moving the faster I can get outside again."
"Can't argue with that." Doug said with a smile.
Just then they both heard a high pitched scream coming deep from the prison, "What the hell? Did you hear that?" Lee asked turning to Doug,
"I-I don't know, what did you hear?" Doug stammered back as his heart rate picked up,
The pair heard another scream, "Okay I heard that one, that's down by the laundry. Who's down there Doug?!"
"Uh, uh, It's um...Andrea! Andrea was grabbing fresh clothes for us!" Doug exclaimed,
Lee moved towards the hallway and quickly looked back to Doug, "Doug who's nearby?"
"Tyreese and Carol were cleaning the gym." He replied quickly and wide eyed,
"You get him, you get him and send him down to help me. Go!" Lee shouted as he ran down towards the laundry, his speed was impeded by his limp and overall stiffness but the adrenaline that was going through veins pushed him past that.
He heard a distinct voice yell out, "Let us go you fuck! Clementine run!" Andrea screamed out. Lee picked up the pace and finally pulled himself through the door into the laundry room. He immediately saw Clementine crying on the floor watching in horror as Thomas sliced his blade along Andrea's cheek, cutting all the was up until her earlobe was sliced clean off. Her eyes went wide and she pushed away from Thomas while holding her ear in fear,
"Hey!" Lee shouted out causing Thomas to look back at him. Thomas' eye's seemed crazed, almost delusional. He scoffed and turned back to the girls, this time grabbing Clementine's arm. "Not happening you sonofabitch!" Lee shouted out as he lunged at Thomas grabbing his jumpsuit.
Thomas let out a wild yell and spun around slashing Lee's left forearm with his knife, "I will not be interrupted!" Thomas screamed at the top of his lungs. Thomas raised his knife and tried to plunge it into Lee's neck, Lee was just able to reach his hand out quick enough to stop the plunge. He took his other hand and quickly punched Thomas in the face sending him stumbling towards the washing machines.
Lee turned to Andrea and shouted, "Andrea, get Clem and go!" Just as he said this Thomas jumped at Lee slamming his back into a dryer. The wind was knocked out of him but quickly moved his right leg behind Thomas tripping him to the ground. Thomas held onto Lee's collar bringing him down with him,
"Lee!" Clementine exclaimed. She ran over to the washers and started to search around quickly as Andrea got to her feet moving past the two struggling men,
"Clementine come on, we have to go!" Andrea shouted as the little girl squeezed behind the machines, "Clementine now!" Andrea shouted out as Lee and Thomas one again fought over the knife.
Clementine finally felt the small grip of Andrea's pistol and pulled it towards her. With the gun now in her hand she crawled her way back out. Thomas continued to scream as he tried to press the knife into Lee's chest. "Lee! Here!" Clementine screamed as she slid the gun over to him. Lee quickly picked the gun up just as Thomas pulled his wrist out of his grip and started to plunge the knife down again. Lee quickly pulled the trigger sending a round through Thomas' shoulder. Thomas let out a pained yell as he finished his attack driving his knife deep into Lee's shoulder blade.
Thomas rolled off of Lee holding his arm that spurted blood out, Andrea took hold of Clementine's hand slowly backing out of the room, "Where are you going slut?" Thomas asked with heavy breaths, "You still need your medicine." He finished as he pulled the knife out of Lee's arm and got to his feet, walking straight towards the pair once again.
As the three ran out of the room Lee let out a slow agonizing breath. The whole room spun around him, he quickly blinked a few times then shook his head. He reached over taking hold of Andrea's pistol before getting back to his feet. He supported himself on the washing machine before stumbling out of the room in pursuit of Thomas.
As this happened Doug was doing just as Lee told him, running to get Tyreese and Carol from the gym. In the gym the pair were working on cleaning it up from the puddles of gunk and blood all over the floors and walls. "This is going to be great once it's all cleaned up, we got an indoor court, weights, workout machines, it's going to be nice." Tyreese said as he mopped the floor quickly,
"What'll be nice is when we get the other cell blocks cleared out, finally spread out and get some privacy in here." Carol said with a little giddy grin,
"I hear you on that, I'm due for some alone time." Tyreese said with a little chuckle,
Carol slowly put down her mop, "Is that so Tyreese, Kenny and Carly are watching Sophia. And that clean part of the floor looks pretty comfy." Carol said as she slowly unbuttoned her blouse,
Tyreese dropped his mop and smirked, "Who am I to deny a woman what she wants." He said as he walked up to her slowly lowering her to the floor.
As he straddled her Carol wrapped her arms around his neck and said, "Just be quick this floor is cold."
"You be quick, i'm going to take my time." Tyreese whispered out as he moved his lips closer to hers,
"Yes sir." Carol replied with lust filled eyes before pressing her lips to his.
Just as they shared a passionate kiss Doug burst through the doors, "Guys! We need-Oh! I-Oh my god I am so sorry!" Doug exclaimed as he turned away turning beat red,
As Carol covered herself up Tyreese let out a little sigh and sat up, "What's up Doug?"
"We heard screams." Doug replied turning around to face him,
Tyreese jumped to his feet, "Screams? What screams, who? Where is my daughter?"
"She's outside, it was coming from the laundry room. Andrea was last there, Lee went to find out what was happening but he told me to get you!" Doug exclaimed quickly,
Tyreese looked back to Carol, "You and Doug get yourselves back to the cell block, stay together and stay hidden. Go, now!" He said firmly as he sprinted out of the gym.
Tyreese sprinted through the halls of the prison looking into each room or hallway for Lee or anyone for that matter. As he started to reach the exit of the prison he spotted Lee limping towards the exit, "Lee! Holy hell man are you okay?!" Tyreese exclaimed as he saw the blood dripping from him,
"Thomas, he's after Clem and Andrea." Lee shot back to him as he continued to move forward.
"Come on, let's move." Tyreese said as he took the gun from Lee's hand and slung and his arm around his neck, now mostly dragging Lee along he headed right towards the exit of the prison.
Just then Andrea burst through the door with Clem right next to her, "Help! Help! Someone help us!" She screamed out as they sprinted towards the rest of the group. Everyone jumped to their feet in shock, most unable to even process what was happening right now,
Thomas emerged from the door holding his bloody knife, he wiped his mouth leaving a streak of his own blood across it, "Come back here you whores! Come and get your fucking medicine!" Thomas howled out as he sprinted towards them,
Rick narrowed his eyes and took two steps ready to chase Thomas down yet Kenny tackled Thomas to the ground straddling him fist clenched and wide eyed with fury. Rick pulled out his gun and ran over as Thomas attempted to stab Kenny. Kenny however grabbed his hand twisting it until a audible crack was heard. Thomas yelled out in pain as Kenny took the knife and tossed it away, "It was you! You killed my wife you sick fuck!" Kenny bellowed out as he grabbed his throat with one hand and with the other began cracking his face. "GRAAGH!" Kenny howled out as he continued to punch Thomas merciolusly, "MY WIFE AND TWO INCOCENT GIRLS! YOU KILLED THE MOTHER OF MY FUCKING CHILD!" He continued to shout as he smashed Thomas' face. Rick slowly put his gun away and watched ready and willing to allow Kenny to kill this man. "ADMIT IT, FUCKING SAY THE WORDS!" Kenny screeched out as Carly came running over along with Dale. Dale grabbed Andrea and held her tightly while Clem ran to Lori's arms for protection.
Carly reached out and grabbed Kenny's arms, "Kenny stop! You're killing him!" She exclaimed as he struggled against her,
Rick ran over and pulled Carly off of him to her shock, "No, don't stop him." Rick said coldly as Kenny resumed his assault on Thomas,
"HE DESERVES THIS, EVERY FUCKING BIT!" Kenny screamed out as he made five more punches.
Just then Tyreese and Lee walked out the door, both shocked at the scene. Tyreese let go of Lee and ran over to Kenny quickly pulling him away, "Jesus Kenny what the hell are you doing!" Tyreese exclaimed,
"He killed my wife Tyreese, he killed my wife and Hershel's girls! They did nothing wrong, they were innocent, but he killed them! He killed them!" Kenny shouted as he looked up to him then back to the others, "He killed them." He said quietly, more to himself this time.
Tyreese slowly let go of Kenny who took his right hand into his left, "Kenny, your hand…" Rick said a bit shocked. Kenny looked down seeing about thirty percent of his skin tore off, teeth from Thomas stuck in a few fingers as well as his own bones, which stuck out broken. He curled it slightly and looked around slowly. He saw Julie and Ben leading the kids inside away while the others just stared at him stunned.
Lee limped over and looked down at Thomas' crushed face, "Is he dead?"
"No, not yet." Rick replied coldly,
"What do you mean by that? What are you going to do Rick?" Lori asked with a shocked tone,
"What would you have me do Lori?! Let him go, let him kill someone else out there?! I seem to remember you were horrified and pretty fucking angry when you thought it was Dexter. Is one day all it takes for you to forget the crime?! You're not concerned with this now?! We have to do what's right so that he can never hurt someone again!" Rick shouted back wildly,
"Damn right, he has to pay!" Kenny snarled out,
"So that's how things work now, do as you say? You the fucking king around here? We've got a chance to change things, put a stop to the killing. If we kill him we're no better, hell putting outside the fences is basically a death sentence, at least then we wouldn't have blood on our hands! Or we could lock him up, we're in a fucking prison!" Lori shouted back trying to convince everyone of other options,
"No way, you even try it and I'll kill the fucker myself!" Kenny exclaimed,
"I'm not letting that happen either, I won't allow him to stay here after what he tried to do to me and Clem! He deserves to die for what he did!" Andrea added on,
"We haven't made rules for this situation, we have no direction to go on." Tyreese butted in,
"He's right we need a system. If we are trying to rebuild life here then we need rules. We all have to decide what we do." Carly added on in agreeance,
"You Kill? You Die. That simple." Rick said with an icy tone. Kenny looked at him and nodded firmly,
"That's fine with me." Dale said sternly,
"He was so...nice." Patricia whispered out as she weeped into her hands,
"So that's it?! What you say goes!" Lori screamed in pure resentment,
Rick put his hand to his forehead rubbing it with agitation dripping off him, "Lori i'm trying to do what's right. I was put in charge after Atlanta, i'm a cop I was trained to make decisions. I'm the only one here in a position of authority. I'm making the choice that's best for us in the end. I'm in charge."
"You're my husband not my father you prick!" Lori spat out,
"Lori-" Rick said as he turned to her glaring hardly to her, "Shut the fuck up." Lori shook her head angrily before storming away back into the prison.
Rick watched her leave, "Anyone else got anything to say about this or are we in agreement about capital punishment?"
"You're right, we have to set an example. We do not kill, if you do then you forfeit your life." Lee said with a nod,
"That's our rule, our pledge. You kill you die." Rick said looking at Lee with a respectful nod.
"Then how we doing it." Kenny finally asked,
Rick looked down at Thomas then back to a guard tower, "We're going to hang him." Rick replied stoically.
Well that was an amazingly fun chapter to write, I hope you all liked it as I know this was a massive improvement compared to the last one. If you did like it, tell me your thought on your favorite scene or character this chapter. Regardless I will see you all in the next one, seeya!
