VPOV
Carl and I heard a gun shot over by the fields and we rode off towards it, the gut wrenching feeling getting worse the closer we got.
I had not expected to see my dad kneeling over Shane's dead body blood everywhere...
"Dad." Carl cried out.
I looked forward, staring at my father. "Daddy?"
He looked up at us, standing up and moving towards us. "Carl. Vickie. You know... you should be back home with mum."
I looked at him and wasn't sure how to react. I knew he wouldn't do something like that for no reason, but I just couldn't understand why he had to kill him.
I grabbed my gun and raised it. "Carl, stay behind me." I told my brother who was on the ground now. He gasped and I was sure he saw what I saw.
Shane stood up, but he was no longer himself. Growling and groaning like those monster, moving towards us. But I couldn't do it. I couldn't shoot him...
"Just put the... put the gun down." dad thought I was aiming at him, and he honestly looked scared. "It's not what it seems. Please." the walker snarled and got closer to dad. I knew what I had to do.
The gun went off and the walker fell down.
Dad turned to look at it, shocked that I had done that. When he looked back at me he no longer looked scared as I let the gun fall beside me. Carl and dad walked over to the body that lay still and dead on the ground. But I just stayed there and stared at Shane's lifeless body, a million thoughts running through my mind...
DPOV
We walked into the house to where everyone was sitting around.
"Rick and Shane back?" I asked, walking through the group with Glenn behind me.
"No." Lori looked worried sick.
"We heard a shot." I told them.
"Maybe they found Randall." she shrugged.
I shook my head. "We found him."
"Is he back in the shed?"
"He's a walker."
Everyone shifted uneasily before Hershel asked, "Did you find the walker that bit him?"
"No, the weird thing is, he wasn't bit." Glenn informed them.
"His neck was broken." I added.
"So he fought back." Patricia commented.
"The thing is, Shane and Randall's tracks were right on top of each other. And Shane ain't no tracker, so he didn't come up behind him. They were together." I knew my tracks and there was no way I was wrong about this.
"Would you please get back out there and find Rick and Shane and find out what on Earth is going on?" Lori walked up to me, pleading.
"You got it." I went to walk out.
"Thank you."
I stopped and looked over at Maggie. "Did you find Victoria?" everybody looked between us and I realised then that none of them had noticed she wasn't around.
"Vickie's missing?" Lori looked between us frantically.
Maggie shook her head. "I couldn't find her in the house, and one of the horses are missing."
"My daughter is out there?" Lori pressed her hand against her chest and started falling. I caught her, the other's moved to help her too but she just looked up at me. "You heard a shot Daryl."
She was right. If we found Randall, and heard a shot, someone out there got hit. And if Shane and Rick didn't know Vic's out there then they could have shot her.
VPOV
We had been walking in silence for a while now, heading back towards the house. I held the rains of the horse, petting her gently to sooth her and me.
Carl looked up at dad, he had been doing that a lot though this was the first time he spoke. "You bit, too?"
"No." there was something dad wasn't telling us.
"Shane was." Carl looked at the ground and I could tell he was trying to act strong.
I sighed. "That wasn't Shane, Carl. Not anymore."
He nodded. "But it used to be." he looked up at dad, waiting for him to say something. But then he was left with silence he just went on talking. "What happened? You guys attacked? I mean, we heard a gun shot, but I didn't see any walkers nearby." still no reply. "How did Shane die?"
Dad stopped and looked down at Carl, who stopped as well. He was about to tell him. He was going to explain it to us. I turned and watched, waiting, when my eyes saw something behind them.
"Oh my, God." I gasped.
Dad turned to me before looking the way I was. Heading towards us was the biggest herd of walkers I had ever seen...
"Go, go, go, go, go, go, go." he grabbed Carl as he ushered us to move. We ran, trying to stay as low as possible. But with the horse that was difficult.
Hiding behind a tree dad stopped. "We gotta get to the house, tell the others." I told him. Carl nodded in agreement, our eyes darting around as we saw walkers everywhere.
"We'll never get through that. Can't go around." dad told us.
I shook my head getting on to the horse. "I'll go. You two get to safety."
"Vickie no." dad grabbed me. "If they get you-"
"At least you'll be safe. That's all I care about." I told him before riding away.
I rode as fast as I could, walkers grabbing my legs and trying to stop the horse. But I pushed through and past the herd. I saw people on the porch and I picked up the pace.
"Victoria?" Glenn and Daryl stood by the railing.
Mum came out of the house. "Carl's gone." she told them before her eyes landed on me.
I shook my head. "He snuck out. He's with dad now." they all stared at me as I went on. "There's a herd of walkers. We need guns and we need people." Andrea came out and I reached for her to give me a gun. "Dad and Carl are in the barn. Go get them."
"Where are you goin'?" Daryl asked, ready to jump over the railings and stop me.
"I gotta go help them." I rode off before anymore questions could be asked.
Riding on the horse the gun in my hands I balanced myself as I shot the walkers. Around and around the barn I kept shooting and reloading, the task hard while on a moving horse. The others drove towards the barn, shooting aswell and running the walkers over. But we weren't even making a dent...
I smelt the smoke before I saw the fire. The barn was going up in flames, I knew it was dad and Carl who lit the fire.
The RV went around and they got out of there, running for the woods. But the RV was over taken and Jimmy was gone.
A hand grabbed my foot and I screamed, aiming the gun and shooting the walker in the head. But I was out of ammo.
"Shit." I threw the gun on the ground and pulled out the pistol I had. I shot the walker but it was too late. There were already walkers heading my way, grabbing at the horse. "No!" the horse fell, walkers reaching for me.
I scurried back, shooting as many as I could. My barrel emptied so I threw the gun and pulled out my knife, slashing and swishing it around as I continued to crawl away; but they just kept coming.
A walker fell on me and I stabbed it in the head, it's blood covering me. Pushing it off I finally got to my feet and made a run for it.
The cars were heading out. Daryl and Carol were riding away. "Help!" I yelled, walkers running after me. "I'm here! Help!" I cried, still moving. But it was no use. They were gone and I was alone...
RPOV
We hid behind the car as a walker went by. Carl, Hershel and myself were on the highway waiting for the others. But we had been there for awhile and there was no sign of life...
"I don't know how much longer we can stay here." Hershel whispered.
But Carl was determined to stay. "I'm not leaving without mum and Vickie."
"So we're just gonna walk away? Not knowing if my wife and daughter, your girls, are still out there?" I questioned Hershel, not believing he would really walk away. "How do we live with that?"
"You've only got one concern, just on. Keeping him alive. Nature may be throwing us a curve ball, but that law is still true."
I sighed, knowing he was right. Even if he decided to stay, the right thing by Carl would be for us to go and find safety.
I knelt by my son, looking up at him. "Carl. It's not safe here. I'm sorry." he looked away from me and I tried to explain, but I stopped, listening as I heard noise getting louder.
Daryl and Carol on his bike. Maggie and Glenn in a car. T-Dog, Lori and Beth in the truck. I smiled up at Hershel as we went around to them.
Maggie got out of the car, running for Hershel. "Oh, thank God."
Lori run to Carl and me. Throwing her arms around us. "Oh, God." she cried happily.
"Where'd you find everyone?" I asked Daryl.
"Well, those guy's tail lights zigzagging all over the road... figured he had to be Asian, driving like that." he shrugged.
Glenn laughed. "Good, one."
"Where's the rest of us?" Daryl asked me, looking around.
"We're the only one who made it so far."
"Where's Victoria?" Lori stood.
I looked around the group, seeing my daughter missing. "Did anyone see her?"
"I saw the horse go down." T-Dog stepped forward. "But that's all. There were too many walkers for me to go get her."
Lori choked, her hand on her heart as her eyes welled up with tears. "My baby." she threw herself into my arms.
"We gotta go back for her." Daryl got on his bike.
"No." I stepped away from Lori, stopping him. "If she made it, she'd be with us. Going back now would be suicide."
"That's our daughter." Lori's voice was full of disgust. "Are you saying you're just going to leave her out there?"
"We need to stick together. Survive."
"What about Andrea, and Shane?" Glenn spoke.
"Andrea saved me, then I lost her." Carol answered.
"We saw her go down." T-Dog added.
"Shane didn't make it." was all I said. I didn't want to go into it right now.
"Patricia?" Hershel asked.
But Beth just shook her head. They got her, too. Took her right from me. I was... I was holdin' onto her, daddy. She just..." Hershel pulled his daughter into his arms. "What about Jimmy? Did you see Jimmy?"
"He was in the RV." I told her. "It got overrun."
"Did you definitely see Vickie?" Lori asked T-Dog.
He shrugged. "There were walkers everywhere."
Daryl started his bike. "I'm gonna go back."
"No." I turned to him. I knew if anything happened to Daryl, Victoria would never forgive me; dead or alive.
"We can't just leave her!" he yelled. "That's your daughter."
"We don't know if she's alive. And if she is, she'd be gone by now. There's no way to find her now."
Lori shook her head. "So we're not even gonna look for her?"
"We gotta keep moving. There've been walkers crawling all over here." I told them, needing a plan.
"I say head east." T-Dog suggested. "Stay off the main roads."
Daryl turned his bike of, still glaring at me. I could tell he wasn't gonna go anywhere, he was staying. Getting of his bike he moved to the walker Hershel, Carl and I had been hiding from before. "The bigger the road, the more walkers, the more assholes like this one. I got him." he shot the walker with his crossbow.
With the walker dead and everyone on the same page, we got into our cars and headed off.
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