Hey! Here's chapter 10. I hope you enjoy it!

And to address really quick a reviewer: No I am not trying to rewrite the whole show. There are some things that have to go the way they did but other things are going to change. I want to make this story interesting and captivating. Not just a rewriting the show with a few new characters.

Anyways, on to the story!

Chapter 10: Down the rabbit hole

Just as I expected, everyone enter in panic mode. They all rushed to the barn to make sure Glenn wasn't lying. I was extremely weary of the barn now, but I knew if there was any way of those walkers getting out, Shippo would have known about it by now. Shane was extremely angry as he yelled at Rick.

"Do you think this is ok?!" He angrily yelled.

"It's his land, his rules Shane!"

"We have been here for days Shane, it hasn't been an issue." I tried to reason. His seething eyes turned to me.

"You knew?"

"She just found out Shane," Shippo intervened, "I have known about this since I found Sophia."

"You guys are fucking insane! We have to get rid of them! We have to protect what's ours!"

"Let me just talk to Hershel," Rick started, "We can work something out. But we cannot do anything about this."

"You are insane Rick. You, Hershel, Shippo, and this stupid bitch!"

Daryl shoved Shane the moment he said that about me. His muscles were tense and he was angrily looking at Shane.

"You better watch you fucking mouth!"

"Or what?!"

"ENOUGH!" I angrily yelled at them. In that instant, the doors of the barn were being pushed as the walkers reacted to all of the screaming. The children were becoming terrified as they clung to their mothers. I didn't blame them. Seeing everyone acting in pure anger and riling up the walkers must be terrifying.

"We will talk to Hershel," I said firmly, "No one will do anything with this. We open those doors and we'll be out of here."

"Wouldn't that be better?" T-Dog asked, "Maybe we should leave and try Fort Benning. I don't feel comfortable having walkers in my backyard."

"We can't leave." I said.

"Why, why can't we leave? There is nothing for us here! It's dangerous!" Andrea desperately cried out.

"I'm pregnant!" Lori announced as she held on to Carl. Those that didn't know quickly looked at the woman in disbelief.

"We cannot leave," she continued, "I need Hershel's help. We can't leave."

I could totally feel the shock coming from Shane at the news. I already knew what he was thinking, but he didn't make a scene. He seemed happy, but that seemed to fuel his anger more.

"Then with more reason we have to get rid of the threat."

And with that, he stormed off towards the direction of the RV. No one paid him no mind. As long as he wasn't coming near the barn, there shouldn't be much for us to worry. Everyone went on their own ways. Sophia had started to cry with all the yelling that Shippo went to help Carol with her. Soon after, it was just me and Daryl.

I could tell he was still angry for what Shane had called me. I thought it was sweet though, him defending me that way.

"He shouldn't have called you that," he muttered after he was done glaring at the direction where Shane had gone off to.

"He's an idiot," I answered, "But thank you, for defending me."

"Shut up. I need to blow off some steam. Let's go see who can get the most squirrels."

"Seriously Daryl? This happens and you want to go hunting?"

"Walkers ain't gonna go anywhere. Besides, those eggs didn't fill me up."

Our hunt had actually been pleasant. We had been out in the woods for a while already. The bow he had made me turned out to be great. So far he was only up by one squirrel, and he would not stop teasing me about it.

"What happened Kagome? I thought you were amazing at this," He teasingly said as he removed the arrow on his third squirrel.

I rolled my eyes at his cockiness. Just then, I heard a slight sound coming from a branch a couple yards away. I readied my arrow (I had few spares in my tent) and let go. My arrow caught the squirrel in mid air and landed on the dirt with a soft thud. Daryl looked at me, and then at the squirrel. He muttered something under his breath that I couldn't catch.

"You were saying?" I asked with a smirk. He rolled his eyes at me and retrieved the squirrel for me.

We were going to continue further until we heard some yelling coming from the direction of the farm. We did not waste any time and ran as fast as we could. Shock radiated from my body when I saw Shane screaming nonsense carrying the bag of guns. He was angry and desperate as he started handing them out.

"What are you doing?" I yelled at him as he was trying to coach Carl into carry a gun. Shippo was extremely angry as he stood in front of Carol, Sophia, Beth, and Maggie.

Shane turned to us and marched up to Daryl with a shotgun in his hand.

"What about you? Huh Daryl? Are you gonna protect what's yours?" and as he said that, he pointedly looked at me.

"This isn't the way!" I tried to reason as Daryl took the gun.

"My dad will kick you guys out if you do this!" Maggie added in.

"Oh shit," I heard T-Dog say. We all turned in the direction to where he was staring and we were astonished to see Rick and Hershel guiding two walkers with poles, Jimmy helping them.

All of us took off towards the barn, Shane continuing with his yelling at Rick and Hershel. He then fired his gun at the female walker that Hershel had. She was still moving like nothing happened. Hershel was beyond disbelief since he knew that a normal person could not continue moving after several shots. Specially after being shot in the heart and lungs.

He marched forward towards the barn doors and I went pale.

"If you want to survive you gotta fight for it!" He screamed as he broke the doors open.

Slowly but surely, over a dozen walkers started coming out of the farm, their snarls sending pure fear around everyone.

T-Dog, Shane, Glenn, Daryl, and Andrea formed a formation in front of everyone as they fired away. The smell of gunpowder heavily reached my nose. The sobs of Beth and Patricia echoed in my ears as they saw people that they knew fall to the floor. Hershel's expression was heartbreaking as he held on to Maggie. I couldn't bring myself to raise my bow and arrow. Shane's way of doing this was extremely traumatic for the Greene's family.

Just when I thought every walker was done for, disturbing groans were coming from the barn. Everyone froze as we saw a female walker appeared. She might have changed but it was clear who she was. There were pictures of her all over their house.

Hershel's wife.

Beth let out a choking sob and scream as she tried running forward to stop them from shooting her mother. Before I could reach her, Shippo got to her first and held her tenderly as she sobbed and begged them to not shoot her. T-Dog stopped hesitating and shot her, the body falling heavily to the ground.

Beth ripped Shippo's arms off of her as she rushed forward, cradling the body of her mom. As she turned her over, I could only see some blood from the side of her head and my eyes widened.

"Watch out!" I warned.

Sure enough, Beth's mom reached and grabbed her. Beth started frantically screaming as she was trying to pull away. Some of the guys were trying to pull her away and I saw an opening. I fired an arrow and hit her mother straight on. Her sobs were making me shiver and guilty at the same time.

"Kagome, are you ok?" Shippo softly asked.

"I-I shot her… she was going to kill Beth."

Shippo pulled me in his arms and held me as I tried calming down.

This was a horrible day.

The burial of the family members of the Greene family was painful. After, everyone had gone off to do their own things. I was starting to relax when Maggie approached me asking if I had seen her dad.

No one saw Hershel leave so now more stress had been added. Beth had fallen into shock and there was nothing I could do for now. If it hadn't been for Shane's reckless actions, this wouldn't be happening. The girl needed her dad with her right now, so I told Rick I would be going with him to find him.

However, neither Shippo or Daryl were pleased when I told them what I was planning on doing.

"Well what do you want me to do? I can't let Rick go by himself."

"Glenn is going with him," Daryl pointed out. I rolled my eyes at his comment.

"So? They need someone else to talk to Hershel. I'll do it."

Shippo had already given up arguing with me, so he just crossed his arms and pouted. The only one that was still arguing with me was Daryl.

He finally cursed and stormed off. I shook my head at him. I don't get why he was getting like that with me.

"He's just worried. The group is falling apart. I'll go with you. The rest can make sure the farm is safe."

I went to my tent and grabbed what I might need and then we ended up meeting Rick and Glenn by the car. Maggie had mentioned that the local bar had been Hershel's best friend a couple years ago so we had somewhere to look.

It didn't take us long when we finally found it. So far there was no walkers around but I knew if any approached, Shippo would hear them.

Inside the bar, Hershel was sitting drinking his sorrows away.

"Hershel?" I said softly, "Beth needs you. She's in shock."

"Is Maggie there?"

I looked back at the others and Glenn answered, "She's with her."

"Then she doesn't need my help."

I sighed and approached him, "Please, don't say that. Beth needs her Daddy back home Hershel. You're the only one that can help her. She lost her mother, she can't lose you too."

I could tell Rick was trying to keep his emotions in check as he stared at Hershel.

However, Hershel seemed to have given up.

"There is no hope," Hershel says. "And you know it now. Like I do. Don't you? There is no hope for any of us."

Before I could say something, I felt Shippo pushing me behind him and staring at the door. I was confused, but then two men marched in.

We all drew our weapons and them and they did to us. In that moment, I was grateful that Shippo had given me his spare. One had a good built while the other one was on the heavy side. The younger looking one raised his hands in a form of surrender.

"Woah! Take it easy there! We don' want any trouble. I'm Dave and the skinny fella is Tommy. How bout we all sit together and have a drink?"

Rick and the others lowered their weapon but not me and Shippo. There was something off with these guys. Like if I had seen them from somewhere. Shippo cautiously put his gun down and nudge me to do the same.

The two newcomers made themselves at home. Talking and pouring drinks. I couldn't help but notice that Tommy was giving me some unsettling looks. I kept my hand on the handgun just in case. I could feel that they were trouble.

Dave went on how they've been having a hard time finding a set place and other things. He then started asking Rick where we were at and how many of us were they. I took a glance at Hershel and Glenn. Hershel was calmly as ever but I knew him and Glenn were worried about the women back in camp. I glanced at Shippo and I knew he was flexing his claws if they were visible. This was my first time that I have ever seen him this serious and it worried me.

"And my, who knew beautiful women were still around," Dave casually commented as he stared at me up and down. I kept my face neutral but on the inside I was cringing. Tommy was giving me a smirk as well. I swear I wanted to throw up.

"So!" Dave started, "Why don't we all get back to the farm? I'm sure with our man power we can keep it safe."

"I'm sorry but that can't happen. There's already too many of us," Rick quickly intervened. Before Dave could say something, the door opened again and two more guys walked in. One was wearing sunglasses and he looked extremely weary of us and gave questioning looks to the other two.

"I thought y'all were looking for food."

"Hey Will! And Gabe! We found these good fellas here, they seem to have a farm near here."

The man named Will looked at us again but his gaze lingered longer on me. He removed his sunglasses and stared at me. I felt my eyes widened as I saw the scar in his left eye and realization hit me.

I knew where I had seen them before. They were some of the men I had encountered a few weeks after the outbreak started. I had met them but as they were taking me back to their camp something was off, specially the way one of them suddenly grabbed my upper arm. He wouldn't let go of me so I had reached for my knife and sliced his face in order to get away. As I was running and looked behind me, I saw the other guys tending to him and trying to run after me, but I was faster.

I felt my heart drop to my stomach as he realized who I was.

"Well, you guys not only found people with a farm, y'all found the bitch that sliced me," he angrily said as he drew his weapon.

Everyone drew their weapons and the tension grew ten fold. Shippo had now directly put himself in front of me as a shield. Dave was surprised to say the least.

"Woah! Can't we all get along?"

"How bout this, y'all give us the girl and we'll leave you alone," Will sneered.

Rick shook his head, "That's not going to happen."

I knew if something wasn't done, we were going to be in so much trouble. I then noticed that the man named Gabe had just sneaked outside. Most likely warn others about us.

"Get away from the girl," Will demanded Shippo.

Since Shippo was so close to me, I could feel the rumbling from him and I knew he was growling. I could feel a shift in his aura and I knew if something wasn't done fast, he was going to attack and risk his identity.

"I said!" Will yelled, "Give me that girl!"

I walked away from Shippo with my arms raised as I walked towards Will. I could hear the rest of my friends trying to tell me to get back with Shippo. Will wrapped his arm around me and continued pointing his gun at the rest of my friends. Glenn and Rick looked horrified for seeing me voluntarily go with Will. But I knew I could take him down. The others were going to have to be fast to get the other two.

"We are gonna have a lot of fun with this one, huh Will? The last one only lasted two days."

Just hearing Tommy say that, I felt a shiver run down my spine. I wasn't going to be their toy. Shippo took a step forward and that's all I needed. Will fired his weapon at Shippo but Shippo was already anticipating it and he ducked. I grabbed his arm that held the gun and twisted my whole body and his arm. He cried out in pain. I heard two more gunshots and I knew Rick and Shippo had taken out Dave and Tommy. I kicked Will in the gut and sent him flying against the wall. He dropped his gun, and without blinking, I fired mine.

There was an eerie feel in the air as I lowered the gun. I'm the type of person that gives second chances to people. But not this time. I had just killed a person.

"Kagome, are you alright?" I heard Hershel asking. I seemed to snap out of it and took a big breath.

"Yes… it had to be done."

Shippo came to my side to check me over when I heard Glenn commenting.

"Nice reflexes there Shippo! I don't think I know anyone that can dodge a bullet like that!"

Shippo's hand slightly froze on my shoulder but relaxed in an instant.

"Years of training Glenn. I've been taught to fight since I was just a kid."

"We needed to get out of here before the others come," Rick cut in quickly, "It's already dark so we will use that to our advantage."

We then heard a car pull up and quickly ducked. We were by the doors as we heard them getting out of the car and talking. Just as one was about to open the door, Glenn jumped from my side and used his body weight to shut the door.

"Where are our friends? We know they were in there!" the first guy asked.

We didn't know what to say until Rick replied, "Your friends drew on us! We didn't have a choice!"

Not even thirty seconds later, they started firing.

I was able to grab a chair to maintain the door closed and went to the back of the bar. Bullets were flying everywhere. Two were from the roof and other two were coming from the ground. I fired as I tried to cover Glenn so he could get the car to get back. Hershel surprised me with his aim and accuracy as he shot one in the roof on the leg. We continued firing and I felt a bullet graze my arm. I ignored the pain and continued shooting. Shippo or Rick brought down one of the ones on the ground. The other one quickly got in his truck and waited as the other guy jumped from the roof. However, the guy lost his footing and we heard him scream.

The guy in the truck quickly took off. Glenn had the car ready and warned us that he saw some walkers coming our way. As we were about to get ready in the car, I heard someone yelling for help.

Fuck me.

I jumped out of the car and quickly went to where the second guy on the roof had landed. Part of his body was on top of a trash can, but his leg had been impaled by the gate.

His screaming was attracting all the walkers in our direction.

"We can't just leave him here!" I said to the others as they ran my way.

"Oh shit!" Glenn exclaimed as he saw the damage on the kid's leg.

"Is the hatchet still in the car?" Rick asked Shippo who nodded and went to the car.

The kid was hysterical at the thought of losing his leg. I had just killed someone but for some reason I could not let this kid die to the walkers. Hershel was looking at the damage with Rick's help as Shippo, Glenn, and myself covered them against the walkers. I quickly ran out of bullets and I had to resort to my bow and the few arrows I had.

"They're getting too close!" I informed the other two.

"We have to leave, now!" Shippo exclaimed as he took out another one.

I wanted to throw up the moment that Rick pushed the kid's leg upwards to get it off the wrought. The sound was nauseating as I heard the flesh rip. I ripped part of my shirt (seems like that's what I always do when someone is bleeding nowadays) and put pressure on his leg. Shippo finished helping Hershel and Rick carrying the kid as he passed out from the shock back into the car.

Soon after, we were on our way back to the farm and I was not looking forward to the shit hole we were gonna be walking into.

We had to take a few back roads in order to get back to the farm. We could not risk someone following us the way we had first come from. Hershel and myself tried to help the kid as much as we could. My whole arms were covered in blood by this point. He had finally woken up an hour before dawn and he had been screaming. Shippo was gripping the wheel tightly since I knew he was on the verge to turn around and snap the kid's neck in half if he didn't shut up.

Rick finally threatened the kid to shut up or else we would leave him on the side of the road as walker food. That seemed to work.

"What's your name?" I finally asked him.

He was quiet for a second and then responded, "Randall."

After that, the rest of the ride was quiet.

I can't describe the feelings I had once we were reaching the farm. Everyone came out as soon as they heard the car approaching. I couldn't help but notice a bruise on Daryl's face and Shane's.

What the hell happened while we were gone?

Maggie immediately hugged her father as we stepped out of the car and then Maggie went to Glenn's arms. Carl and Lori quickly approached Rick. Sophia ran into my arms, but I couldn't keep my eyes off of Daryl. With his arms crossed I could just feel how mad he was.

"What happened to all of you?" Carol worriedly asked as she looked at us, especially myself. Before I could open my mouth, I was interrupted.

"Who the fuck is that?" I heard Shane demanding.

We were all sitting around the living room trying to figure out what to do with Randall. Hershel had performed surgery on the kid and now we were trying to figure out what to do. I noticed that Rick was taking all the blame for bringing him here. I couldn't let him do that.

"It was my idea to help the kid. I'm the one that got out of the car."

"Then since it was your idea Kagome, then what are you planning on doing?" Shane asked as he pointedly looked at me.

"Well, we can't just let him go, that kid needs to heal," I heard Patricia quietly say.

Rick could see behind Patricia's logic, "Unfortunately we have to get rid of him as soon as possible. The longer he's here the more danger he becomes."

"How can you let Kagome do that man? What if the rest of his group come here to find him? That was such a stupid decision." Shane's attitude was getting on my nerves, especially seeing Andrea nodding at every single thing he was saying. Shippo kept giving Shane nasty looks. Daryl was by the doorway with his arms crossed as he kept staring at Shane.

Can this be over already...

Some wanted Randall dead. Others wanted to set him free.

"We have to be smart about this," Rick started, "They recognized Kagome from the beginning of the outbreak. From what it seems like, they're up to no good."

The moment he said that, I could feel Daryl looking at me and I knew I was gonna have to explain.

"Then with more reason he has to die," Shane said.

"Hold on! That's a young boy that we are talking about in there!"

"What more proof do you want Dale? We have to get rid of him. Permanently."

Hershel finally had enough and he rose from his seat.

"Let me make something perfectly clear once and for all," he started, "this is MY farm. Now I wanted you gone but Rick talked me out of it. So do us a favor and keep your mouth shut."

"We will drive him out in the opposite direction and leave him there once his leg is somewhat better," Rick said with a final tone.

As soon as he said that, Shane stormed off with Andrea right behind him.

Slowly everyone started leaving the house or going to different areas.

I was exhausted to say the least. I had yet to catch some sleep after this whole thing. As I was walking towards my tent, I felt someone grabbing my forearm. I turned around with a closed fist but stopped to see Daryl right in front of me. I let out a sigh since I knew what it was about.

We walked for a bit in complete silence. It was a bit uncomfortable. I thought that by now he would have said something.

"What happened to your face?" I finally asked as I came to a stop and stood right in front of him.

"What all happened at the bar?"

I looked at him confused, "What do you mean? We told you guys everything."

"No you didn' girl."

I bit my lip. Damn him.

"Like Rick said, I had already seen some of them after the outbreak. They weren't the friendliest. I should have known better. When they invited me back to their camp that's when I finally felt something was off. A guy grabbed my arm and I sliced his face and took off. I didn't know it was them at the bar until one of them removed their sunglasses. Then they basically demanded me to go to them. I did but then Shippo did what I thought he would do and we took them out."

"Until Rick gets rid of the kid, you ain't goin' near the shed, ya hear me?"

"Excuse me?"

"I'm serious Kagome. I don't care if he's just a kid. Ya ain't goin' near him."

I narrowed my eyes as I looked up at him. Seriously? He was demanding me? I decided to turn this towards him.

"What happened to your face Daryl?"

He was silent for a second.

"Lori wanted me to go with her to look for y'all since y'all were taking forever. We were gonna take the farmer's daughter's car but then Shane found out and got pissed."

"Then?"

"We got into it, clearly"

I knew he was annoyed with me, but it didn't mean I would take his attitude. Then I heard him say something that if I hadn't paid attention, I would've missed it.

"I was worried about you."

And in that moment as I stared into his intense blue eyes, I knew I was in deep trouble by the way my heart started beating in my chest.

There it is, the end of Chapter 10! I hope everyone enjoyed the scene at the bar.

Am I the only one still in shock for the season 7 premier? Agh. The feels!

Anyways, I will be posting the next chapter soon, it's almost done. Thank you for the support. Please don't forget to review!