This episode isn't quite my best work, I apologize but I'm going to make the rest better
Episode 6. Leadership.
No one could answer when a pale man with brown hair and green eyes walked in,"now, he said casually before flashing a smile,"I'm back"
Everyone stood there in silence, but Mark had to break it,"besides all the problems", he stated,"his timing is incredible", a few laughs where shared among the table. This leader, David guy raised an eyebrow at his comment, everyone must've had a heavy conversation while he was away.
"Kyle tells me we have...", David trailed off trying to find a word he was looking for,"...guests", he hesitated before aging that, Philip and Carl was already disliking this guy, the was he said guests was the closest he could get to 'peasants'.
"yeah we do, what's it to ya?", Sally shot back raising a mocking eyebrow back at David, they probably never got along in the first place.
"well, someone should've run it through me before letting these strangers in!", he shot back.
"why?", asked most of the table.
David seemed dumb founded by this,"because I'm the-"
"leader?", asked Joe pitching in,"no, your not"
"what are you guys talking about?", questioned David.
"where talking about the right leadership, and your not it"
"what! I'm the leader-"
"who even made you leader, hmm?", shot Sally with anger dripping like poison over her words,"we sure didn't, so why don't ya fuckin sit down, shut up, and let us decide who should really be the leader"
David stared at his group, his posture held shock and fear, he then turned to the two guests that where sitting quietly watching the conversation unfold."you he pointed to Philip,"this hasn't been a problem before, and now to new people show up and rebel against me", he pointed an accusing finger at him,"was this you!"
"don't go blaming other people that your a shitty leader", Mark said defending Philip.
"so this was him, I knew it"
"hey!", Came a voice of a boy that sat close to him,"don't go blaming my dad that 'your' group thinks your a shitty leader, and if your going to blame someone, blame me!", the group was shocked by Carl's foul language, they turned to Philip expecting him to scold his boy, but instead sat there with a murderous stare at Philip.
Philip smiled and said,"what? It's true"
Mark turned to face Carl and Philip,"would you excuse us while we sort this...issue out", Carl and Philip nodded and got to their feet and walked over to the lounge area.
Carl stopped halfway and turned his head,"thank you for the dinner, we enjoyed it", he said and followed Philip to the next room.
They sat down on the couch they sat on earlier, they listened to the mumbling going on in the other room, they sat in silence until Carl noticed Philip smiling at him,"what?"
"you can really surprise me at times", he said continuing to smile.
"what?"
"your little rebellion you started", he said indicating to the other room,"I never thought you would be able to turn people against their leader"
Carl couldn't help but put a huge smile on his face and feel a bit of pride and confidence rise within him,"I didn't really do much", he said.
"and yet you still managed to get them to kick out their own leader", Philip also felt pride in Carl, he had done something most men even Philips age couldn't have done, he was proud at what he's done.
"well I...its the rest of jakes group", he said looking at Philip,"I...had to do something, its those 'things' that wanted to rape me and kill you"
"so you want to kill them", questioned Philip, Carl remained silent rethinking his approach.
"if we don't stop them, then they'll kill and rape more people", Philip raised a questioning eyebrow at Carl, he knew he wasn't telling the full story. Carl sighed in defeat,"I want them to suffer, not just for me, but for them as well", he said indicating to the dining room where the mumbling continued,"they almost succeeded twice at trying to rape someone"
"are you sure you can handle something like this, you can't start something without finishing it", Philip said, he wasn't a man of wise sayings, but he felt it nessasary to remind Carl that he can't quit what he starts.
"and I don't plan to quit, but look at me", he said pointing to himself,"I can't do this on my own"
"and you won't", pointed out Philip,"but if you are going to lead these people into a fight you cannot run away, although they won't say your leading, it has to be you to finish what you begin"
"you think I'll 'run', I'm no coward, and I will finish what Jake and his group started, sure I'm a kid but I'm hard to kill", he said with a grin, with that said a silence fell on the two.
"So your the guy that started that in the other room?", came a voice from the doorway, both Philip and Carl looked to the door and five men in national guard uniforms walked in,"I'm Jhon", he said pointing to himself.
"Philip Governor", introduced himself,"and no, that wasn't me"
"huh?"
"it was my boy here", he said looking at Carl,"this is my son Carl"
"your son did that?", said another man pointing towards the dining room. Philip nodded as the four men found a place to sit, but one just leaned against the doorway.
Jhon leaned towards Philip and Carl,"well I'm Jhon as you know", he pointed to a man with blonde hair and blue eyes,"this is Trevor", he moved his finger to a man that sat on the opposite couch, the man had brown hair, eyes and starting to grow a beard,"that's Micheal", he moved his finger to the man that sat next to him, he too had brown hair, green eyes and was shaven,"that's Codey", he pointed to the last man leaning against the doorway, he had black hair, grey eyes and had the slightest bit of facial hair,"that's Addam"
"nice to meet you all", Philip said.
"yeah, we don't see much army now", Carl added.
"don't see many kids doing what you did back there", he indicated behind him,"did you really do that"
"yeah, just sorta happened", Carl said shrugging.
"we'll I guess a thank you is in order", said Trevor who sat next to him, Carl and Philip looked confused towards him so he continued,"the boy David, he's a momma s boy, ain't fit for leader"
"why didn't you say anything before", asked Philip, it confused him to think that these men knew he was a crap leader but decided to keep it to themselves.
"well", started Micheal,"we ain't exactly the 'decision' making guys, we just waited for the group to figure it out for themselves so that they could put someone else in charge", a small grin plastered on his face,"when we where out there, he didn't do shit, he would command us to do all the dirty jobs, risky shit, ya know"
"guess he won't be joining you again", said Carl.
"so how did you start the rebellion in the other room?", asked Jhon.
"your group mentioned a guy named Jake", Carl said, when he did a look of anger and sorrow washed over the men's faces.
Philip continued from where Carl left off,"we met him and some of his buddies before, they tried to kill me and rape my boy", Philip saw Carl lower his head,"I got mad and killed him along with three of his friends, but by the looks of it there are more of them still out there, so Carl offered us to help you find them, and that's how it led up to David"
"Dammn", Jhon said,"we'll done kid, you getting shit done better than that asshole David ever did"
Carl lifted his head and smiled at the comment.
"yeah, watta badass", was the first words they heard from Codey.
"well I heard that they also tried it on a girl here", Carl started,"I know how she feels, and these guys have to be stopped, they might attack you again"
"and its a way we could also get some revenge", added Philip.
"I agree", Trevor said,"these folks here are good people, but they don't know how to defend themselves, they don't see the danger we are in if those guys are still out there"
"I like you guys", Jhon said to Carl and Philip,"you two don't take shit, your strong, physically and mentally, you decide to get rid of the threat instead of ignoring it", he nodded at his words,"we could really use a guy like you and your boy, ive been told you two where out there all this time, so you know how to survive. And I doubt your boy would want us to be having all the fun"
"that's true", Philip said,"my boy is already grown up, he wants to fight, he's small but not all men are big"
"true", the men nodded.
"reminds me of my boy", said Codey,"have you already met him, his name's Jack"
"yeah",replied Carl,"he asked about our eyes"
"what happened to you two?", asked Micheal.
"Jakes group shot at my dad, the bullet went through him and a shard nicked me", Carl said," didn't even know I was hurt until I realized I couldn't see out of my left eye"
"badass", Commented Jhon.
"I lost mine when a group attacked our town, they killed my daughter and took my eye. Our leader went crazy, and our town betrayed us, they moved in with the group that attacked us, then they burnt the town, now it's just Carl and me"
"Joe told us some of your story, I think you should've been in charge, by the looks of ya your a good man, good leader"
Joe came into the room,"okay, we made a decision"
Mark turned to face Carl and Philip,"would you excuse us while we sort this...issue out", Carl and Philip nodded and got to their feet and walked over to the lounge area.
"David", he said turning his attention back to David,"like it or not, your not the leader so get over with it, now we have to decide who is leader material"
"but I've been leader for this dammn group for so long, why kick me out!"
"A, your decisions have not improved any situation and B, you are kind of a mammals boy, don't like getting your hands dirty, and getting your hands dirty is something a leader always has to do", replied Joe as calmly as he could.
"what's going on in here?"
"Jhon", Joe said in relief,"thank god you guys are okay", he said as the rest of his group of five came in.
"so what's going on"
some new fuckers got everyone to kick me out as leader!", David yelled.
"about time"
"WHAT!", David was shocked at what he was hearing.
"well not to say your a bad leader but..", a huge grin made its way onto Jhons face,"..but your a shitty guy to be leader' so who's these new guys"
"Joe, why don't you fill him in on what's going on", Sally said,"we'll handle who's leader", Joe nodded and began to explain what went down while Jhon and his team where gone."alright", Sally said clapping her hand together,"lets go over the details shall we, and David", David shot a glare towards her,"you can help us vote for a leader"
"fuck you", he spat while stomping away out the room. Soon Jhon and his team moved towards the living room while Joe made his way back to the table.
"their going to greet our guests", he said rejoining the group,"they don't want to vote for a leader, their leaving it to us"
"what now", asked a woman further down the table.
"now we decide on who is capable of being leader, we all have a fair vote"
"can it be anyone?", asked Joe.
"sure"
"I vote Philip then", the table turned to him,"he has experience in leadership, he and his boy are good, strong fighters, and we wouldn't be having this conversation if it weren't for them"
"but we hardly know them", someone at the back said,"they aren't even part of this group"
"all I'm asking is for us to give him a chance, he will stay with us a few more days to allow us all to get to know them better, and if you want to have someone else, we can always choose later", everyone seemed to agree with what Joe had said, it wasn't a good idea but it wasn't a bad one either, they could get to know them better, maybe he could be their better leader,"everyone okay with that", after a moment everybody nodded,"good, we don't tell him yet, only in a few days when we will decide again. Okay I say everybody go and get some shut-eye it's getting late, and we have a very important day ahead of us"
Everyone got up and said their good nights, Joe went into the living room, he saw Carl and Philip getting to know Jhon and his team,"we made a decision, we will choose over the next few days on who is to be leader, but for now we will all be making some group decisions"
"good with us", Jhon replied for his mates.
"Carl and Philip, we have an extra room for you to bunk in if your going to be helping us"
"sure", replied Philip before him and Carl got up.
"follow me, I'll show you to your room"