Thedarkpokemaster-Yes Duck is going through a loss that hits him just as hard if not harder than Kenny but he'll get through it over time but now onto dealing with Thomas. Hope you like it bud.
Smeake-Thanks man, as per the usual.
Guest-Don't worry in a chapter or so things will start to slow down and relationship building will return and CarLee is a big one.
The Good The Bad The X-boy-I loved having Kenny getting to do that to the person who hurt his wife. With him having taken his rage out on the person who killed her and with Duck still around he should stay more leveled.
White Tiger-Glad you enjoyed it, hope you like this one too.
Don 77-Oh that's great glad to have you here for it and hope you like it.
KevinRock8899-Well all I can say is things are finally taking a darker turn in this world.
Worker72-Yeah Clem did her best, but it just wasn't the best option she had. Regardless it all worked out right? Or well not for Dexter...or Thomas for that matter.
Enjoy
Chapter 10: Judge, Jury, Executioner
"Psst, Dex. Yo, Dex." Andrew whispered from the outside of Dexter's cell, "How you doing man?"
Dexter sat up from his bed with a furrowed brow, "How the hell you think? I'm in here, locked up, I feel like a goddamn prisoner again."
"Is there anything I can do? You just ask and i'll find a way to get it done." Andrew said sincerely,
"Well if you're serious…" Dexter said as he peered through the bars trying to see if anyone was listening, "Look these people here ain't good. They fucking crazy, they locking us up and blaming us for killing them when it's really them." Dexter explained, "If they keep thinking I killed those girls then i'm fucking dead, and if i'm dead how long til they blame you for something? So what I need is for you to get into A block, that's where the armory is. You get us some guns, some suits if you can swing it and we get these fuckers out of here while we still can. Think you can do it?"
Andrew let out an easy smile, "Brother, I can find a way."
Back out in the yard people slowly started to separate, some heading inside other just away from the Thomas. Minutes later the only who remained with Thomas were Tyreese, Glenn, and Chuck. "What should we do with him?" Glenn asked as the two men stared at the crippled Thomas,
"I got an idea, grab his legs." Tyreese replied as he reached down and grabbed his arms.
Both Glenn and Chuck shared a glance before looking back to Tyreese, "Glenn come on, Chuck…look man I know you spent almost a year with this guy so I get it if you don't want to be a part of this."
Chuck glared down at Thomas, his eyes narrowing at the man, "This fucker killed two little ones, got nothing but contempt for 'em. Where we taking him?"
Tyreese let out a nod with a smirk, "To the cafe, time to put the waste with the waste."
Back inside the cell block Carly quickly lead Lee into his cell, "Sit down." She said firmly as she grabbed the first aid kit still sitting next to his bed,
"Carly, i'm fine." Lee said with a low voice,
"Sit." She said with a hard glare, Lee let out a slow nod and moved in front of her on his bed. She put the kit down next to him and moved over to his shoulder to inspect his arm, "Jesus…" She muttered out as she unbuttoned his suit and moved it out of the way,
"It's not as bad as it looks." Lee replied with a little wince as she checked it over a second time,
"Yeah, you just got stabbed, nothing to worry about huh?" She replied sarcastically as she began to clean the wound. Lee took a sharp inhale and his face twisted in some pain, "Sorry, but if you get infected, it won't be good."
"I mean i've been beaten, stabbed, all I need is to be shot or infected and that'd complete the trifecta." He said with a little weak smile,
Carly shook her head clearly annoyed, "You don't deserve this, you've been with us less than a week and it's almost cost you your life." She said as she picked up a needle and thread, "Even after everything that's been done for you some of this people still think you're a monster."
"I didn't save Andrea and Clem for points Carly, people here don't want to trust me, that's fine. I'm alright with it, i'm sure they'll come around soon enough." He replied,
"That's if they don't kill you before then." She muttered back, "You ask me you hold onto Andrea's gun. You may just need it." The two went silent as Carly carefully stitched his shoulder up, as she finished she quickly picked up some gauze and wrapped his arm up. "There, i've done what I can. Probably not as great as Hershel or Doug but you'll survive."
"Thank you." Lee replied sincerely while putting his suit back over his arm,
"Of course." She said with a smile as she closed the first aid kit back up. "Lee you've got to take it easy and be careful. You're body has been going through a lot and I don't know how much more you can take." She said sternly to him,
"Okay, okay, i'll try and stop hunting murders but I can't make any promises." He said with a little smirk while standing up,
"I'm being serious here." She shot back frowning at him,
Lee looked down at her and put his hands on her shoulders, "Alright, I hear you. I'll take it easy."
Carly looked up at him holding a look while, subconsciously, enjoying soft hold he had on her. "Good." She said finally before heading out of the cell quickly trying to hide her blushing cheeks.
As Carly quickly left the area Clementine slowly peeked around the corner into Lee's cell, "Um, Lee…" She peeped out,
Lee slowly rolled his arm before looking over to her, "Huh?" He grunted before spotting the small girl almost hiding, "Clementine? Are you okay sweetie?" He asked looking down at her,
"Yes." She mumbled back while still watching him,
Lee looked at her and raised his brow in confusion, "Okay...did you need something?" He asked while watching her,
"Um, yes." She said again with a nod,
Lee's eyes slowly drifted down and he looked at the girl amused, "Well i'll never know what it is unless you get in here and tell me." He said holding back a chuckle,
"Oh, sorry." She said with a little nervous laugh as she walked in, "I just wanted to say thank you. You saved me and Andrea from that man."
"You don't need to thank me for that," Lee said as he took a seat on his bed, "It's everyone's job to look out for each other." He explained with a little smile,
"Lee, are you a bad man?" She asked as she rubbed her arm nervously,
"What?" Lee asked taken aback,
"My dad always said bad people went to jail but you don't act like a bad man." She explained in a bit of confusion,
"I-i'm not a bad guy, I made some mistakes, did some bad things and I was put here to pay for it." Lee tried to explain,
"So it's like you're grounded?" Clem asked with a little cock of her head,
"Uh, yeah." Lee said with a little nod, "Something like that."
"Oh." Clementine replied as she began to understand, "My mom grounded me for stealing cookies at night, she made me stay in my room for a week with no T.V." She said with a little smile, "And you're in jail because you did something bad but you're not a bad person, right?" She asked him once more,
"Right." Lee replied with a nod,
"Okay, good but that man he was bad and he was in here." Clem said with a frown,
"Yeah, not everyone just makes mistakes. Some of them are bad people and they are put in here to protect other people...it's kinda complicated." Lee said with a little sigh hoping to end this little lesson,
Clementine nodded before turning around to leave his cell, yet she stopped and turned back to him, "Lee...could you do that more. Protect me from the bad people?"
Lee looked over to the little girl and let out a warm smile, "Like I said, it's my job to look out for everyone. That means you too, so you got Clem."
Clem let out a wide smile before leaving his cell and heading back towards Ben and Julie, who had opted to watch over the kids. As Clementine slipped back into the cell she saw Ben and Billy sitting on the bed with Ben and Julie, while Duck sat against the far wall staring at the floor and Carl hugged Sophia as the two cried in fear. Clementine slowly stepped to the side and stared at the floor unsure what she should be doing, yet seconds later Lori came into the room, "Ben, Julie, thank you for getting the kids out of there." She said quickly before walking towards Carl, "Carl! Are you okay, baby?"
"Is Kenny crazy?!" Carl exclaimed as he held Sophia tightly,
"Is he going to kill us?!" Sophia asked as she trembled wildly,
"No Carl-No! Come here." Lori said as she brought Carl into a comforting hug,
"He just attacked that man, he wouldn't stop hitting him and dad didn't stop him! Why did he do that?" Carl asked Lori through his tears,
Lori pulled back and looked Carl in the eye, "They had a reason, Carl. That man kill Katjaa and Hershel's girls, he was trying to kill Andrea and Clem too. He was a bad man." Lori explained with a firm tone,
Carl's breathing slowed as he wiped his eyes, "Bad like Shane?"
Lori looked at him a little shocked but slowly nodded, "Yeah...a lot like Shane." She said a bit weakly,
"Only…" Carl started to say as he lowered his head, "I killed Shane before he killed anyone."
Lori looked at her son, he face sunk in, "Yeah but-but you-but you did the right thing." She forced herself to say,
"So did I." A voice said from the cell door,
Just below them on the first floor Doug lead Kenny into his cell and pulled him a over a chair, "Here, we need to look at you hand." Doug said to him as he grabbed his bag and pulled out the first aid kit,
"Fine, but make this quick. I need to go and talk to my boy." Kenny said gruffly to him,
Doug pulled out a bottle of peroxide and gauze before turning back to Kenny. Kenny slowly moved his other hand off of his left hand and stuck it out to Doug, Doug looked down at the hand and quickly diverted his gaze doing his best not to throw up from the sight. "K-Kenny, I don't know if I can do anything about this actually. Your hand...it's destroyed."
"Yeah Doug, I noticed that. Just clean the fucking thing and wrap it up for me." Kenny retorted,
Doug took a deep breath and nodded a few times, "Okay, okay, I can do that." He said reassuring himself as he reached over to the first aid kit and took out some tweezers. He carefully pulled out Thomas's teeth that stuck in Kenny's hand. Doug was unable to bring himself to set any of Kenny's fingers so next he pour the peroxide liberally on his hand. Kenny sucked in a sharp breath a gritted his teeth as the peroxide bubbled and cleaned his wound. As the burning sensation wore off, he took to deep breaths while Doug began to wrap his hand up. "Kenny, I don't know if you'll ever be able to use this again."
"It don't matter." Kenny replied lowly as looked down at his bandaged hand, "I don't regret what I did." Doug looked up at him nervously before looking away unsure what to say to that, "Thanks Doug." Kenny said dryly to him as he got up and walked out of the cell.
Back upstairs Rick stood in the doorway looking at both Carl and Lori, "You guys think we could have a minute here." Rick said with a quick look to Ben and Julie,
"Uh, yeah. Come on kids, let's give the Grimes family some privacy." Julie said as she and Ben lead the kids out of the cell,
As they turned the corner Rick walked over and sat down on the bed, "Listen, I'm not making these decisions lightly Lori. I'm thinking everything through, I know things got heated out there and I may not have seemed rational, but I was." He said sternly, "I am an officer of the law, I may not have anyone to answer to anymore but these people look to me to keep them safe. I need to do everything in my power to do that. Where I see justice, you see murder but I need you to back me up more than ever. I need you to see my side of things."
Lori glared at him weakly before saying, "I...I don't know what I see anymore Rick." She let out a slow sigh, "I don't know if it's because of exhaustion or pregnancy but I can barely think straight. I see myself overreacting, letting things get to me, jumping to conclusions. I know i'm doing it and I can't stop myself. I've never had this much stress in my life, I guess it's getting to me." She slowly turned to look him in the eye, "I'm sorry Rick, I really am. I know he's a killer, no doubt about it. I would've shot Dexter myself the day I thought he had done it, I would've shot any of the prisoners that day if I found out they did it. We can't leave him in here, and letting him go could be worse." She took a slow breath and he face hardened, "We have to kill him."
"He's not dead?" Carl asked in some confusion,
"Not yet. But to protect the others he has to die, do you understand that Carl?" Rick asked him with a firm look,
"Yeah, he's bad like Shane. He could kill us." Carl replied blankly,
"He won't son, I promise." Rick said to him sincerely.
As Rick finished his conversation with his family Kenny spotted Duck walking along with Clem on the second floor, "Duck, Ken c'mere! We need to talk." He called out to him causing him to stop. Kenny quickly jogged up the stairs and reached him within seconds, he knelt down and put his good hand on his shoulder, "You okay?"
"Yes." Duck replied with a hollow voice,
Kenny diverted his eyes and let out a slow sigh, searching for the right words, "Listen, what I did out there. You understand why I did it right?"
"He killed mom, and you want to kill him now." Duck replied as he stared at his father blankly,
"No it's-I mean, you not wrong but you ain't right either." Kenny replied as he pursed his lips, "I want him dead, but what I did and what we're going to do is for the best. Is someone kills another person they gotta die, it's no different from the walkers, they are animals, monsters, they ain't even human." He spit out, "You get me?"
"I do, killers deserve to die." Duck repeated his father's words back to him, "Dad…" He said as he hung his head,
"What is it?" Kenny asked as he looked at him sincerely,
"Is it...is it bad that I want him to die?" Duck asked his eyes welling up a bit,
"No." Kenny said very coldly, "Ain't a damn thing with wanting that fucker dead." He said holding Duck's gaze. "And he's gonna be dead real quick, me and Rick are gonna deal with that right now." Kenny gave Duck a little pat on his shoulder before standing up, "Now you go on, stay with Ben and Julie. I'll get you once this all over." Duck let out a slow nod before turning away and walking towards Julie's cell.
In the meantime Dale had met with Doug and took the first aid kit from him, he quickly found Andrea and brought her right into their cell, "Alright, you sit right there and let me take a look at you." Dale said to her as he popped open the kit, "Hershel would probably be better at this than me but he's in no shape to help anyone after this day."
"I'm not in a good mood either. That fucker tried to kill me. Jesus! This fucking hurts!" Andrea exclaimed as she held her sliced cheek,
Dale ignored her little outburst and put his hand on her chin turning it, "Keep your head forward, I need to see if it's still bleeding." He said as he moved her hand away, after a moment he clicked his tongue, "No, most of it's fine. This will mostly be clean up."
"Did he cut my ear? Please tell me he didn't cut my ear. It felt like he did but I didn't get a chance to check yet." Andrea asked quickly as Dale slowly ran a swab over her wound disinfecting it,
"You're lobe is gone, but you'll still be able to hear." Dale replied plainly,
"I couldn't care less about hearing. I just don't want to look like a fucking freak!" Andrea exclaimed while Dale began to put small stitch bandages that would hold her wound together.
"You got nothing to worry about. Clean you up, give it a little time and you'll be looking as pretty as ever." Dale said with a warm smile to her, Andrea gave him a little eye before she smirked to him.
Meanwhile Rick exited his cell and started to walk down the stairs, he had two things he had to do before he could finally deal with Thomas. First was the least pressing matter, cutting Dexter loose. Kenny spotted Rick from the second floor and slowly headed over to follow him, as Rick reached Dexter's cell he grabbed the cell block keys and began to unlock his cell to Dexter's surprise, "You're off the hook, it wasn't you." Rick said with a monotone voice,
Dexter got up from his bunk as Rick pulled the door open and eyed the man for a moment before frowning, "That all you gonna say?"
Rick narrowed his eyes, "That's it." He replied icily, "You going to start trouble?"
"You still got the guns?" Dexter asked with a little cock of his head,
Kenny who had reached the cell quickly interjected, "Every last fucking one, and after the day we've had the last thing we want to do is use them."
"That so? Good news I guess." Dexter replied as he slowly moved past the men, "Who was it? The killer I mean. Tyresse? That's his name right? After what he did to that kid, seemed crazy enough."
"No, one yours. Thomas, that 'tax evader' or so you said." Rick shot back with a hard glare,
"Hmph." Dexter grunted to him as he began to walk away, "Never knew what he was in for, knew it wasn't tax evasion. Never did trust him. Don't trust a lot of people now."
"Motherfucker." Kenny growled out while taking a step forward, Rick quickly moved his hand out stopping him, "He knew, he had to."
"Later. We have something more important to deal with." Rick replied firmly. Kenny took a slow sigh and nodded to him.
The pair started to walk forward yet Rick began to walk up the flight of stairs once again, "Wait, where the hell we going?"
"There's someone else who needs to know we caught the man who ruined his life." Rick retorted before continuing to walk up the stairs.
Kenny however stopped, his heart started to beat a little more rapidly and he let out a low sigh. Hershel, he forgot all about him. He had been keeping his distance ever since he showed up in the prison, he couldn't bring himself to face the man after how he cowardly ran away when his son was in desperate need of help. Even now, when faced with simply being in the same room with the man his mind paralyzed him. Kenny lowered his head and his face tightened in anger, no. Nothing was going to stop him from seeing justice brought to the man who killed Katjaa, surely not him.
As Kenny and Rick both made their way to Hershel's cell, Hershel sat with his last two children Billy and Maggie. Within a month he had gone from having seven children to only two, his heart was broken and his sanity was all but gone. Hours the three Greene's had sat on that bed, Maggie laying her head on her father's lap, weeping. Billy sitting next to Hershel crying for the death of his baby sisters and Hershel, who stared into the distance with barely any emotion showing, just in utter shock.
It was only now that Hershel was able speak up, yet he spoke to neither of his children. Rather he whispered, barely audible, to his two girls, "I'm sorry."
Suddenly Billy jumped to his feet, his face twisted in anger, "Shut up dad! Just shut the fuck up! It's you're fault! You brought us here, you said we'd be safe and now they're dead! You got them killed!" Billy screamed out, searching wildly for someone to blame, for some reason why this would happen,
Suddenly Hershel's eyes flared up and he jumped to his feet in an instant and smacked Billy sharply across the face, "Watch your tongue boy!" He bellowed out sending Billy stumbling back while Maggie watched in fear. Hershel walked up to Billy grabbing his collar and pulling right to his face, "I lose two more daughters and I have to put up with this! I raised you better! Bible says, 'Honor thy mother and father' you gonna get into heaven telling me I killed my daughters!? Telling me, doing what I can to make our lives better is killing us!?" He spat out as he shoved Billy to the floor, "You want to go to hell son!?"
Billy cowered on the floor, he did his best to shield himself as Hershel began to punch him, "No! Ack-No! Dad stop hitting me! Dad stop hitting me!" Billy pleaded out,
Hershel slowly took a step back breathing heavily, "Don't talk back to me again." He hissed out.
"Hershel?" Rick asked from the cell block, both he and Kenny looking at him in some worry as they arrived right at the end of that event,
Hershel lowered his hands and looked over to the two men, "We found him." Kenny said firmly,
"Show me." Hershel said as he walked towards them,
"It's this way." Rick said as he turned, giving a final glance to both Maggie and Billy, who had just gotten to his feet. Billy slowly rubbed his head before shuffling out of his cell following the three men.
As they walked, Rick spotted Chuck who had just entered the cell block. The man walked over to Rick and explained they had taken Thomas from the yard to the cafe. As this happened Hershel glanced back to Kenny who had kept his distance from the group, and kept his eyes on the floor. "Kenny." Hershel said relatively soft, "You don't have to do that. I hold no animosity towards you." Kenny quickly looked over to the man in shock, "I've had time and other losses since Shawn. The dead, the living, they've killed my children. You...you saved your son, you didn't kill Shawn." He said as he turned to face him,
Kenny lowered his head and licked his lips before shaking his head, "No...I-I could've saved him, I could have done something. I ran, I let that happen to you. I put your son in the ground."
"The bible teaches us forgiveness." Hershel said firmly, "I forgive you for that day, now you have to forgive yourself." Kenny looked at the man, holding his eye for a moment before nodding slowly. "Kenny." Hershel said as he began to look away, causing him to quickly snap back to him, "I am truly, sorry for your loss." Kenny gave him a thankful nod, Hershel then turned forward as Rick started to lead the group forward once again.
As they left the cell block Doug and Carly watched from the far side of the cell block, Carly suddenly turned to her and sighed, "So you think things are going to die down soon?"
"Haven't they? I mean at least we don't have the dead lurking around every corner." Doug said with a little shrug,
"True, but do you really feel any safer? Rick bounces back and forth from sickening optimism to complete enragement. Meanwhile you have Kenny, beating people halfway to death everyday and Lori locking up innocent people while threatening their lives. The death toll sure hasn't slowed down." Carly replied with a clear irritation in her voice,
Doug let out a nod, "I mean we are secure here but for how long?" He asked causing her to turn towards him in some surprise, "This place is a big target, what would happen if someone bigger and organized showed up and wanted to take it. Dale hold told me that he figured there must be a group of people out there just waiting in a store, eating canned food a playing cards. He thought that there must be a group that doesn't deal with this many problems on the daily." Doug explained a bit absentminded,
"Wait, are you saying Dale wants to leave and find a new group?" Carly asked in some shock,
"No, well I don't know really but I could see the appeal. I mean a small group could live off the land easier, have less loses when things do go wrong. Yet with all the roamers out there, it'd be pretty dangerous." Doug explained as he thought it over,
"Working all the angles, eh Doug?" Carly said with a little smirk,
"Of course." Doug replied with a toothy smile.
In the meantime, Rick and the others entered the cafe and looked around for Tyreese and Glenn, Chuck had told Rick they had Thomas under watch. As they made their way into the pantry they spotted the two, both with a smirk and leaned up by the freezer, "Guys, where the fuck is he?!" Kenny exclaimed as he walked towards them,
Glenn grinned as he crossed his arms, "Put the waste with the waste. We figured, his wait should be as unpleasant as possible."
"Just getting him in there was killing me, if Kenny didn't break his nose too bad he's probably having a real shit time right about now." Tyreese said with a little snort,
Rick narrowed his eyes, "There's no ventilation in there! He could suffocate before we even get to hang him!" Rick exclaimed to the pair,
"That's too good for that piece of shit." Kenny added on coldly,
"Shit, didn't think of that. I just liked the thought of him wallowing in his own shit." Tyreese said as he pulled open the door to the freezer,
As Tyreese and Glenn pulled him out of the freezer, Rick and Kenny quickly began to close the door of the freezer. "Take him to a cell, lock him up. That'll give us time to gather what we need, we'll toss him from a guard tower. That'll handle him." Rick said to them,
Hershel walked over and knelt down to Thomas, "I will let the lord be your judge. I want you to know, that I forgive you." He said to everyone's surprise,
"Hershel," Rick said with a little pause, "we're still going to hang him."
"I know." Hershel said as he stood back up and turned towards him, "I want to watch."
Minutes later Tyreese and Glenn had Thomas shoved into a second floor cell, as Tyreese locked up the door Glenn started to walk away, "I'm gonna go check on Maggie, you cool?"
"Yeah, I'm gonna go check on Carol and Julie anyway. Want to see how they're holding up." Tyreese replied as he walked away from the cell. Yet both of the men seemed to miss Patricia who stood by the stairs watching them quietly, waiting patiently for them to leave the cell unguarded.
As Glenn slowly walked down the walkway and into Maggie's cell he spoke up softly to her, "Hey Mags, um, how are you holding up?"
Maggie looked up to him, her eyes void of almost any emotion, "I don't think i'm going to love you anymore." She said causing Glenn to look at her in a mixture of shock and hurt, "What's the point? You'll just die like everyone else." She said with a small shrug before looking away from him.
Back at Thomas's cell Patricia slowly snuck up to the door and with a set of stolen keys quietly unlocked his cell. Thomas, lifted his head from the floor and glared at the woman hardly, "Come on." Patricia whispered to him as she moved towards him, "I've got to get you out of here. I can't let them just kill you. I won't." Patricia knelt down and put his arm around her neck, "Stand up, we have to do this now. Before they get back." As she helped him out of the cell she spoke in his defence, "You're not evil, you're crazy. You don't just kill crazy people, it's wrong."
Suddenly Thomas's hand clamped around Patricia's neck with a new found strength. She looked at him in horror as he sputtered out unintelligible words while forcing her to the ground. She tried to struggle out of his grasp yet her wouldn't budge. She quickly shot her hand out and dug her nails into his face digging three deep marks down his face. Thomas howled in pain as he jumped off her, clutching his face once more. "Why!?" Patricia yelled as she killed him away, "Why did you have to do that? I was going to help you!" Thomas leaning against the cell door for support looked at her and muffled some more words, the last being very clear, 'whore'.
Lee came limping up the stairs with his pistol drawn and quickly aimed at the man, Tyreese to came running over quickly aiming his gun to Thomas's head, "Take one step and I'll blow you deranged brains out!" Lee shouted as he cocked his pistol,
"Do not test me!" Tyreese added on.
Thomas took a step forward facing them men, then suddenly three rounds were put in his chest. Lee and Tyreese looked at him in shock, neither being the shooter. They looked around and right next to Tyreese stood Duck holding a pistol. As Thomas fell to his knees, Duck took a quick step forward and fired the rest of the clip into him wildly, hitting his upper chest and head. The men slowly lowered their guns staring at the boy in shock as Rick and the others came sprinting up the stairs to them, "Jesus H. Christ." Kenny whispered out as he saw his son.
As everyone stood unsure of what to do Kenny slowly walked towards him, pushing past Tyreese and Lee, "Son, son give me the gun." He said softly yet Duck continued to hold the gun at Thomas's dead body. His hands began to tremble as tears started to pour down his face, "It's alright, it's alright, just give me the gun Ken." Kenny whispered out as he reached him. Duck turned back to his father just as Kenny put his hand on the top of his gun and took it from his limp hands. Duck burst into tears and jumped into his father's arms, Kenny quickly handed the gun to Tyreese and wrapped his arms around his son carrying him away back towards their cell silently.
An hour past as everyone came to terms with what happened, there was also the discussion on what to do with Thomas's body. Burying it was out of the question, and Hershel had a thought that he felt he needed to take. With his loss and without the justice he was promised Rick agreed that whatever he wanted to do with the body is what they'd do. Minutes later, Rick, Hershel, Billy, Tyreese and Lee all carried Thomas to the front gates of the prison. Rick and Tyreese held onto him while Lee, Hershel and Billy pulled open the gate for them. The men with a great heave tossed the body as far as they could before pulling the gate closed once more.
The walkers outside, smelling the fresh scent of blood quickly crowded around Thomas's body. "This...I don't need to see." Rick said in some disgust as he, Lee and Tyreese walked away. Hershel and Billy stood, watching as the walkers began to tear Thomas's body apart. Gnarled hands plunged into his body, ripping out intestines and organs. Blood, and spinal flood flowed out onto the ground as the walkers soon ripped his limbs from his torso. Billy unable to watch anymore turned away. Hershel kept a sharp eye on the whole even, unmoving, not blink yet finally after moment a single tear flowed from his eye and down his cheek.
As Rick and the others reached the yard once more, Lori and most of the others came outside. "Is it over? Is it safe for us to come out?" She asked while holding onto Carl's hand,
"Yeah, just don't let them near the front gate." Rick said with a quick glance back towards Hershel and Billy,
"Of course." Lori said with a nod as she let go of Carl's hand. She slowly moved towards Rick and in a low whisper asked, "So he's just...watching?"
"It was his idea, I think it's some form of closure. I'd prefer just not to think about it." Rick admitted,
Just then Kenny came walked out the door, his eyes red and puffy. He wiped his face and gave a large sniff before walking right over to Lee. "Lee, right?" He asked causing Lee to turn back to him,
"Kenny." Lee replied with a little nod, he looked at the man unsure what he was looking for,
"I need to apologize for what I did to you." Kenny said hardly,
Lee sighed and shook his head, "No man, it's-"
"No." He said firmly, "Lee I almost beat you to death. If Chuck and Axel didn't stop me, you'd be dead right now and I'd have the blood of an innocent man on my hands. I had no fucking right to do that to you."
"Kenny, you just lost your wife." Lee said in his defense,
"I know." Kenny said as he lowered his face, "I know." He said pausing to compose himself, "I don't expect you to just forgive me, but just know I'm sorry alright?"
"I do forgive you man, I know what it's like to just react. You aren't in control-you aren't you. So don't worry, you and I are good." Lee said with a firm reassurance. Kenny's face lightened up a bit and he gave a very small smile. After a moment of silence Lee moved his hand up and rubbed the back of his neck, "How's your son, man?"
"Sleeping." Kenny replied with a sigh, "After everything and all the crying he just passed out. Honestly, I take that as a blessing. I don't know what the fuck to say." Kenny admitted, "Just hope he sleeps long enough for me to figure that out."
Lee nodded to him, "What about that woman...you know the girl who tried to free Thomas?"
"Patricia? No one's seen her since everything went down. I honestly ain't got a fucking clue what Rick's gonna do about that. Ain't like we are gonna beat her or lock her up, we aren't animals. Maybe we'll just have to talk with her." Kenny replied with some indifference,
"No need, she's with us." Dexter's voice said as he rounded the corner of the cellblock. Everyone turned in shock only to see Dexter, Andrew and Patricia each armed to the teeth. "You ain't going to be talking to nobody. Or bossing anyone around, big man. Not after we're done with you." He said menacingly as he pumped his shotgun,
"Jesus what are you doing!?" Lori exclaimed as she jumped in front of Carl,
"Where the fuck did you get the guns?!" Rick asked as he reached for his side arm,
"Dex!? What the fuck man, why are you doing this?!" Lee asked wide eyed as Andrew aimed to Rick forcing him to drop his gun.
"Because he's a demented piece of shit." Kenny said with a cold glare towards him.
Dexter took a step forward towards Kenny, "You best keep your old racist ass quiet or I swear I will blow your brains all over the ground, bitch." Dexter spat out. Dexter pressed his shotgun to Kenny's temple and turned to Rick, "I'll make this real simple farm boy. We were here first and you wore out your welcome real quick. Get the fuck outta my house."
Okay here we are, chapter ten! Just moving right along in this crossover, and I am loving it! Hope you are all too, this chapter was wild, everyone had something to do or say this time around which is nice. I also hope you all like Duck shooting down Thomas and of course the set up for Dexter's revolt next chapter. After that things should settle down for awhile but we have more characters next chapter coming in and all that fun stuff. So anyway leave me a review, let me know how I did and what you favorite part of the chapter was! See you all in the next one!