Rick looked to Shane who looked back at him. They both kind of knew what happened but maybe not the whole story. " I don't understand." Jenner said. " Why did she..."
"Shane is she alright?" Carol asked.
" Yeah... she just needs a second."
" Maybe more than that Shane. We should go..." Rick started.
" No. Rick leave her be." Shane said sternly and everyone just stared at them. Shane looked back to Jenner and walked over to the board. he torn the clipping down and read the title. "Local hero attacked and hospitalized. Another dead." the paper read and he showed it to Rick.
" What just happened?" Jenner asked. " She is..."
" Famous?" Jackie asked. Shane and Rick looked over to her and the group who all looked to them.
"It may not be our business but Shane... why doesn't your sister talk?" Dale asked he got an angry look. "Sooner or later its going to get her killed." Dale said. " Maybe we could help in someway."
Rick huffed. " I doubt that." He said as he sat down with his family and Shane sat down taking a drink. Shane took a swig of his whiskey and sat back. "I shouldn't be telling you this but I will give you the just." Rick sighed looking to Shane. " A few years back our small community of King County had a major problem. A man was breaking into single women's homes and killing them after keeping them for a few hours. The whole police force was on this one case."
" I keep telling you man we wasted too much time..." Shane spat at Rick. " We had every man out looking for a creepy guy looking onto windows." He rolled his eyes as he drank more. " Finally took it upon myself to search the bars and ask around. Had my handful of suspects, but by the time we interview everyone two more were killed and we had no idea what to do." Shane said rolling his eyes again.
" How does Juliet have anything to do with that?" Jackie asked.
" Well my curios little sister fresh out of college with her fancy Journalism degree wanted to write an article about it for her editor so she could move along in her career." Shane said taking another drink. "She spent so much time in our police station people started to think she would never leave. Some how she got access to all the files and wrote an amazing piece on the horrible job the police force was doing to protect the people." Shane huffed.
" We begged her not to print it in the local paper but she did. You would never know it but Juliet could talk a mile a minute and prove someone wrong in ten seconds flat. She is smarter than she appears." Rick smiled proudly. Everyone seemed to smile. " Said people had a right to know what was going on." he sighed. " Only she added a paragraph about the killer. Called him a coward and pathetic. She said she wanted to help by pulling him out and making him slip up..." Rick sighed and looked round to the whole group who were listening intently.
" What happened?" Carol asked holding her daughter close.
" She called him out alright!" Shane said. " Got him to come out of hiding.. right to her front step." he took a swig. Everyone's eyes grew. " But for the first few weeks it was just blood on the door step or letters of anger explaining how he would eventually kill her." Shane said.
" But the blood was animal and the letters were written in such poor writing the investigating officers believed it was just young kids trying to get her to stop asking so many questions." Rick said. " She was very though, she asked just about everyone on the whole town hundreds of questions. People complained but she was just helping and trying to save people." Rick said defending Juliet.
" How long did the threats go on for?" Dale asked.
" About a month." Rick answered. " She wasn't scared but she begged us to double our patrols and look at single men with a bad history on the town... We didn't listen. She started to investigate herself. She looked into all the murders, all the victims... like I said Juliet could talk a mile a minute and could convince anyone of anything." Rick said looking down. " Eventually she narrowed it down and when she came to us with her suspects we waved her off. " Rick said.
" She had no actual proof... just..." he sighed. " Feelings and circumstances." Shane said taking another drink. " So we sent her home." he said and it was the signal worst mistake of my life." Shane said running his hand through his hair.
" Why?" Andrea asked.
" because he was waiting for her." Rick said looking around as everyone seemed to gasp and look down. " He surprised her, attacked her from behind and knocked her unconscious." Rick said looking to Shane and they both took a drink.
" How did she get away?" Carl asked and Rick looked to his son.
" Carl maybe you and Sophia should go get some sleep." Rick said. Carl was about to talk back but Rick looked at him. " Now please." Rick said and Carl got up and Carol told Sophia to go with him.
" How did she get away Rick?" Andrea asked leaning closer.
" I got a call at 3 in the morning from her cell. There were no words just screaming and the sound of gunshots." Shane said looking up to Rick. " Rick and I were first on the scene and it was unlike anything we had ever seen." He said.
" All the crime scenes in my entire career... nothing this brutal. It's different when it's someone you care about." Rick said. " Blood all other her house, bedroom was a wreck of torn sheets and blood, living room looked like someone had gone through everything and every signal knife from the kitchen was missing." Rick sighed. The group gasped again.
" Door wide open, boot prints and foot prints scattered. The investigating officers said she put up one hell of a fight." Shane huffed. "They found two bodies about a half a block from her door. One dead and one flat-lining on the way to the hospital." Shane said. " I found her first. She was trying to crawl back to the house. She had my secondary firearm in her hand and her eyes were swollen shut. When I came close to her she flipped and started to hit me. I called to her it was me but she didn't stop. When the EMT's finally arrived they had to give her a sedative to get her to the hospital." Shane said. " Quinton Redding. Was his name. The guy that Juliet knew was killing all these women laying out on the street with two gun shots to his back. Dead on arrival." Shane sighed as he took his bottle and took a swig. " Attacked, beaten, stabbed and God knows what else and she chased him down the street so he couldn't hurt anyone else." Shane said as he stood. " next time someone says women are weak, they are liars." Shane said with a laugh as he walked away from the group.
The group watched as he walked away. Carol and Andrea shared a sympathetic look, Lori and Jackie sat in silence, Glenn and Dale's mouths hung open, T-Dog shook his head, and Daryl stood in the back with his arm crossed trying not to listen. He had no idea what it was with this girl but when she was around he had to look and had to ask questions. She did the same. She always talked to him like he was just anyone else. She didn't treat him like an outcast like the others and now he knew how tough she could be.
" and the talking?" Dale asked.
" Written on the walls of her house he wrote in her blood She told you so... You didn't listen... He actually took the time and wrote it on all the walls." Rick shook his head. " She was considered a hero for catching and killing the man who killed so many young women but she was also seen as dangerous." Rick said with a sigh. " Self defense plea got her out of any jail time and she spent a good year and half in the Atlanta hospital, in the ICU. Comma for three months and ever since then she hasn't talked, not a sentence, not a signal word." Rick said as he stood. " Don't say anything to her... she can't know I or Shane told you...She still hasn't talked about it, or told us what really happened." Rick said. " Just leave it be. Please." he said looking to everyone and the took Lori's hand as they walked away.
OKAY so more of Juliet's past will be revealed later I just wanted y'all to know what Shane and Rick know. She has kept things to herself but she will share soon! :) Thanks xo
