Chapter 9 – Imogen

Author's note – Thanks again for leaving a review and I'll keep on going with these chapters, this story seems to be the most popular at the moment so I'll keep it up,

Thanks – Kayleigh c:

Beth sat at the girl's bedside puzzled and irritated, she sighed and looked down.

"Bethany, right?" The girl spoke; her voice was boyish and husky, like she was tired...or had been screaming a lot. Beth looked up and smiled softly.

"Just Beth...or B" She choked out, the thoughts of Andy coursing through her mind. "So, why are you here?" She frowned and searched the girl's eyes.

"They wanted me to be" She sighed and turned her head.

"What do you mean?" Beth furrowed her brows and leant forward.

"You know what they do here right?" She turned back with a blank expression.

"Tracy told me they help people...they helped you right?"

"They made it so I needed their help" She sighed and sat up, Beth crept closer.

"What are you talking about?" Beth snapped, she hadn't meant to be so forward but she felt like whenever she spoke to someone here she'd get a whole lot of nothing.

"I managed to get out of Terminus, that man...Andy, they just shot him" She sighed. "I didn't know him well but he seemed nice enough" She shrugged and shook her head. "I ran for the highway and got out of the wire, as I crossed the road I saw a walker, I stumbled back, bewildered and tired until I felt a hard pain in my side..." She looked up with a sinister glare. "They hit me with their car"

Beth frowned, both shocked and annoyed. "They hit you with it? Accidentally?" She raised a brow and the girl scoffed in response.

"No, not accidentally...in fact they sped up" She growled.

Beth looked down in thought and sighed. "So how'd they get you to talk? You never spoke aloud back in the train car"

"Why do you think? They made me"

"Well...then why are you talking to me? I didn't make you" Beth looked up with a glare.

"Perhaps because you're the only decent one here" She looked down. "Or am I wrong?" She looked back up with a challenging stare.

"I hate to break up this little...bonding but I need to speak to Beth" A voice sounded behind her, she turned to face the boy from earlier, she frowned and glanced back at Imogen who had her eyes closed, she chewed her lip and left the room.

"What is it?" Beth asked plainly.

"Uh, well Tracy told me you could come and help me fold the clothes" He rubbed the back of his head nervously and smiled charmingly.

"I can't, I'm with my 'patient'" She shrugged and turned away but a hand turned her back, she glared at him.

"Beth..." He raised a brow and she sighed, she leant into the doorway and looked at Imogen.

"I'll be back in a minute" She told her and followed the boy into a large closet. He handed her some clothes to fold.

"So, you're from Terminus right?" He asked whilst folding a T-Shirt.

She nodded in response. "How do you know my name?" She questioned and looked up at him.

"Uh, well you're the talk here at the moment so..." He stepped back as Beth flashed a glare. "Alright, my names Noah" He smiled but it quickly disappeared as he watched her expression. "So..." His words were abruptly cut off by the sound of screaming, they both leaned out of the doorframe and watched as Imogen was being dragged out of her room, she was screaming and trying to get away but their grasp was too tight for her dainty frame. Suddenly she seemed to regain a sense of intelligence and went limp, the men and women rushed over to try and help her but within seconds she opened her eyes and kneed the first man in the face, she then spun around the nurse and kicked her forward into the other man, without hesitation she began running down the corridor. She turned back to see several people running past Beth and Noah chasing her and she jumped straight through the window., the glass smashed into shards and she landed with a thump on the floor below.

Beth gasped and turned to Noah. "I can't believe she did that..." She started towards the broken window and gazed out of it, she was gone.