Chapter 14
Gareth walked into the arsenal, not to count shells or clean weapons. That was not his job anymore. After Aiden, Glenn, Noah and Nicholas had been killed and Tara was still in a bad condition, he volunteered. Today they would get some medical supplies for the infirmary.
Gareth grabbed a Norinco type 56 and his Beretta 92FS and put it in his holster. Then he walked to the van where the rest of the team was waiting. It was Aaron, Spencer, Rosita, Kent and a man named Heath. Maggie was there as well.
"Do you have to go?" she insisted her boyfriend.
"Maggie, I want to do something more use full than keep a book of bullets and food. Come on, I'll be home for lunch. I love you" he said and kissed her on the cheek.
"I love you too" she replied.
"Let's go!" shouted Aaron.
Gareth walked to the van and stepped in. It drove off.
"What is the funniest roamer you have seen?" asked Spencer to pass some time on the journey to the city.
"I once saw one in a nightgown. It looked hilarious!" said Kent.
"I saw one that had a bicycle-helmet on!" said Rosita.
"I saw one that was a bride!" said Aaron.
"You're turn, Gareth!" said Spencer.
"Well, I saw one dressed as a Star Treck-fan" said Gareth to the other son of the congresswoman.
"What about you, Heath?" asked Spencer.
"Is it really that funny to make jokes about people who might have died a horrible death?" asked the man the others.
Everyone was silent.
Meanwhile in the infirmary of Alexandria
Maggie had a check up for her baby. She was a little nervous, since she was already a month pregnant. A young woman with glasses and red hair approached her.
"Hello Maggie! I'm Denise! I'm here toady instead of Kaylee!" said she to the Maggie.
"Why?" asked Maggie the young woman.
"She was needed somewhere else. Bruce cut his arm badly. Can you now please come with me?" explained Denise.
Maggie nodded and followed the woman in the room and was surprised how advanced it was. There was a monitor for keeping track on the baby and a lot off other equipment.
"Could please lay down?" asked Denise pointing at a bed.
Maggie did as the doctor asked and. Denise started and soon Maggie saw a tiny spot on the monitor. It just a spot, but for Maggie it was the most beautiful thing she ever had seen in her life.
"It's…beautiful! My little Peanut!" she exclaimed at the sight. "Can you tell the gender already?"
"Actually…" Denise started, but Maggie interrupted her.
"Don't tell! I want it to be a surprise!" she said. "But it is healthy?"
"Yes" said Denise.
"Good! That is all what matters to me!" said Maggie.
Back to the supply run
Gareth and the others checked a shopping-mall for medical supplies. There where tow pharmacies, so Aaron, Spencer and Kent checked the first one as Gareth, Heath and Rosita checked out the other one.
Gareth and the two other supply-runners entered the pharmacy and started to gather supplies. Gareth started to take a certain type of meds, but Rosita stopped him.
"Don't take those! They're addicting! Take those over there!" pointed the Hispanic woman to an other shelf with supplies.
Gareth walked over and packed his backpack full of the supplies.
"Alright, people!" said Heath "We come back tomorrow with more people and get more! This place is a gold-mine!"
"Can I come with you?" came a small voice behind Gareth.
The former leader of Terminus turned around immediately and aimed at the person with his Norinco.
It was a little girl, maybe eight or nine years old. She immediately started to cry when she was pointed with a gun.
"Don't shoot me! Please!" she cried at Gareth.
"Put your fucking gun down, Gareth!" shouted Rosita at the former leader of Terminus.
"Sorry!" mumbled Gareth. What had he done? Aimed at a little scared girl with a gun.
"What is your name?" asked Rosita the little girl.
"Emma" sniffled the little girl.
"Alright, Emma, where are your parents? Or your group?" asked Rosita.
"They're all dead! Bad people shot them" said the little girl. "Can I come with you?"
"Of course! We have a safe place where you can sleep and shower without having to fear to be eaten by walkers" explained Rosita.
"Does the bad man come also?" asked Emma. She meant Gareth.
"Yes. But he has to apologize, right?" said Rosita.
"Yeah! Sorry for aiming at you. I thought you were a walker! I don't shoot children! I'm really sorry!" said Gareth.
Later at the Safe-Zone
Emma joined the community without a question. She was a little girl and they needed children for future generations. She stayed with Rosita, who she seemed to like a lot. She also told as good as she could about the 'bad people' that killed her parents and uncle who she was traveling with to rick and Deanna. Rick wanted immediately tighten security in the Safe-Zone. He was grumpy after they had not found the killer of Gabriel.
Gareth returned to his home where Maggie was already in bed. He kissed her forehead and started to ask about the check-up.
"It went good. The baby is healthy and everything is seems to be alright!" she says smiling.
"Sounds great!"
"We have to start to make names for the child. Peanut can't be forever"
"Well how about Beth for a girl or Alex for a boy? After the aunt and uncle she never met?"
"Sounds good, but I don't want to name our child after dead people"
"Well we will figure something out" said Gareth.
Meanwhile, back at D.C
Five men and one woman were sitting in a store in the shopping-mall where Gareth and the others were getting supplies and found Emma. They had seen the group leave, but were trapped in the store, surrounded by walkers.
"We have been here long enough!" said one of the men and grabbed an other man of his group.
"Derek, what are you doing?" asked the man, but Derek threw him out of the window to the walkers. The undead creatures immediately attacked the man and devoured him alive.
"We have a chance now!" said Derek as he ran out of the mall with his people.
"Let's track down those people we saw" said the woman as they found the tracks of the van.
Scavengers not far! And soon there will be no way out! Also three comic-characters appeared in this fic!