Chapter 37-The Governor
The Governor was talking with the hurt soldier. "Things were orderly. The fences held. People were protected. Food and supplies were lasting. Then one of the men inside got bit. Not sure how. He went haywire. Panic swept through the camp. Someone opened the gate to escape. Others were bitten and infected. Those people went crazy. The whole place went to hell in a few hours. My team grabbed whatever supplies and vehicles we could and abandoned our post," Welles told him.
"How many of you escaped?" The Governor asks.
"There was 10 in my group. We got maybe 60 miles from the post before getting jammed up on the highway. I took the bird up in the air to scout ahead. She took a beating in the riot, but we had no choice. My guys? No," Welles says.
"Let me go find the rest. Bring them here where they'll be safe. They're out there waiting for you exposed. Tell me where they are, and I promise, if they're still alive, I'll bring 'em in," The Governor tells him. He nods before he leaves. The Governor goes to Milton and Sam, who were looking at the walkers Michonne had. "Did you finish your homework?" The Governor asks.
"Unfortunately, the dog's eating it already," Milton says, referring to Sam.
"What the hell did you call me," Sam asks.
"Hey, where are we, back in the schoolyard? What, you want to take his lunch money while you're at it?" The Governor asks.
"Sorry Governor," Sam says
"Maybe I've wasted my time with you. Maybe you haven't learned anything at all," The Governor says. The Governor then turns towards Milton. "And you, I expect better. Keep poking the bear, and you're bound to get mauled. Remember that," The Governor tells Milton before he turns and looks at Sam again. "Tell me about the girl," The Governor says to Sam.
"Name's Andrea," Sam tells him.
"You know her?" The Milton asks.
"She's from my group before Luciana found me," Sam tells him.
"Does she know your brother Dean?" The Governor asks.
"Yeah, she does," Sam tells him.
"Then talk to her again. See what else you can find out," The Governor tells Sam, who nods and leaves. The Governor looks at the two walkers "Show me something. What do you make of it?" The Governor asks.
"Oh, pretty impressive. Major kudos for ingenuity. Take away their arms so they can't grab you. Take away their jaws so they can't bite you. Take away their ability to eat. They lose interest in doing so. They're no longer in attack mode. We can be in their presence without threat. They become docile in a sense. Lurkers. Docile. Or lurkers. You know, whatever you like," Milton tells him.
"Why keep 'em?" The Governor asks.
"Repellant," Milton says.
"Camouflage. Walk with the biters. They think you're a biter. Low profile. That's smart. They're still pretty thin. If they're not eating, why don't they starve?" The Governor asks.
"They are starving just slower than we do," Milton tells him.
"Feels like we're trying to impose logic and chaos," The Governor tells him.
"That is not a bad thing," Milton tells him.
"No, but what does it buy us? More questions, more theories, no answers," The Governor tells him.
"Not yet. If I could take to those women," Milton starts to say.
"Sam's handling it," The Governor tells him. Milton sighs.
"I don't want to question your judgment, Governor," Milton says.
"Sure, you do. That's why I need you. That and your tea," The Governor tells him.
"Ah. Well, then. Letting Sam talk to those women, unsupervised, is a mistake. Now, you've always said every tool kit needs a hammer, but do you really feel the hammer is the right tool for that job?" Milton asks.
"Let's go talk to them then," The Governor says.
With Rick
Rick groups were sitting in there camp, eating breakfast. "So Kenny, what's your story," Sasha asks.
"At the start, I was with my wife, Katjaa, and my son Duck. We found a farm shortly after. Two people came there later. A man named Lee and a little girl who he was taking care of Clementine. The farm got attacked, and I made a mistake that cost someone their life. After we were kicked out. We went to Macon. That's where we met Lily and Carley. There was also Lilly's father, Larry Doug. We stayed in a drugstore till it got overrun. Doug died. We then went to a motel, which we stayed at for a while. Me and Lee were hunting when we ran into a man with his two students. The only person of the three to make it was Ben. A few hours later. Two brothers found us. Andy and Danny. They offered gas for food. We took the deal. That night as we were about to eat Lee camp running down the stairs. They cut off one of our group members Mark. They cut off his legs. We almost ate it. They locked Me, Larry Lee Lilly and Clem, inside a freezer. Larry fell he had heart problems. Lee and I killed him to make sure he didn't turn after we killed them and left. A few months later. Bandits attacked us, and we fled. We got separated from everybody else, and Duck got bit. We stopped along the road. Lilly almost shot Carley because we had a traitor. Ben confessed to it. We left him. After we found a train. We met a man there named Chuck. We decided that we needed to see if we could find Lee and Clem before. Katjaa took Duck in the woods. She killed herself. Lilly shot Duck for me. We buried them and left. Chuck died a few weeks. He saved us. We have been looking for Lee and Clem for about ten nine months," Kenny tells them. They nod.
"I'm looking for my son and friends. Maybe one day. We'll find your friends and my family," Rick says to Kenny.
"Hopefully," Kenny says. They finish eating. They all hear footsteps behind them. They all turn. There was a man there.
"Woah. I don't want no trouble," The man says.
"Rick Grimes," Rick says to the man.
"Tom Mason," Tom says.
"You want to join us," Tyreese asks.
"For now sure," Tom tells them. They nod as they move forward.
Woodbury
Governor Andrea Michonne and Milton were eating breakfast. The Governor pulls food on their plates before he sits down. "Eight months? Hard to believe you ladies lasted so long out there," The Governor says.
"Why because were women?" Andrea asks.
"Because you were alone," The Governor says.
"We had each other," Andrea tells him.
"Two against the world. It's long odds," The Governor says.
"We managed," Andrea tells him.
"We're impressed," The Governor tells her.
"Very," Milton says.
" Survival in the wild is tough sledding. Wake up every morning on the ground, wondering if today is the day. Will it be quick and final or slow and, well, without end? Will someone have the good sense to kill my brain, or will I come back as one of them?" The Governor says.
"Do you think they remember anything? The person they once were?" Milton asks the ladies.
"I don't think about it," Andrea tells him.
"Milton believes there might be a trace of the person they were still trapped inside," The Governor tells them.
"Like an echo," Andrea questions.
"Surely it must have crossed you mine," Milton says.
"At one time, yeah, right before it tried to bite me," Andrea tells him.
"And then you killed it? I say "it" only because no one here likes to refer to them as him or her," Milton says before he looks at Michonne.
"The two you had in chains, who were they? The way you controlled them used them to your benefit. You did know them, didn't you?" Milton says to Michonne, who looks at him.
"Let them eat," The Governor tells him.
"My apologizes," Milton says.
"So what you have here, you expect it to hold? What if a herd comes through?" Andrea asks the Governor.
"It'll hold," The Governor says.
"What's your secret?" Andrea asks.
"Really big walls," The Governor tells her. They all laugh besides Michonne.
"That soldier had walls, too, and we all know how that turned out," Andrea says.
"I guess we do. The real secret is what goes on within these walls. It's about getting back to who we were. Who we really are. They're just waiting to be saved. People here have homes, medical care, kids, go to school, adults have jobs to do. There's a sense of purpose. We're a community," The Governor tells her.
"With a lot of guns and ammunition," Milton says.
"Never hurts," The Governor says,
"And Really big walls," Andrea says.
"And men willing to risk everything to defend them. Compromise our safety, destroy our community, I'll die before I'll let that happen," The Governor says.
"Looks like you're sitting pretty good at the end of the world," Andrea says.
"Do I strike you as the kind of man who sits pretty? You reap what you sow. We're the seed. Now winter has passed, it's time to harvest," The Governor tells her.
"Time to hope," Andrea says.
'We're going out there, and we're taking back what's ours. Civilization. We will rise again. Only this time we won't be eating each other," The Governor says.
"To Civilization," Andrea says. There was a knock at the door. The Governor gets up and opens the door. He comes back over a moment later.
"We want our weapons," Michonne tells him.
"Well, we can make this meal to go, and your weapons will be waiting outside, but you should take time to relax. Get your strength back. Have a look around. Who knows? You might like what you see," The Governor says before he leaves.
The Governor was driving a car down the roads to the camp that Wells told him about. He was waving a white flag. "Don't shoot," The Governor says as he stops the car and gets out.
"Identify yourself," One of them says.
"We found your guy. Wells. Lieutenant Wells. His chopper went down," The Governor tells them.
"Where is he?" One asks.
"We got a little settlement. Now, he's badly hurt. But he's alive. The other guys didn't make it, I'm sorry. But Wells, he told me I would find you here. Wants me to bring you to him," The Governor says with a smile.
"They found Wells. They got him. They found him," One of them says.
"We sure did we found you too," The Governor says before he pulls out his gun and shoots the man in the heart. Gunfire sounds out around them as the other men fall down. All of his men come out. They start to grab the guns. The Governor grabs a gun and aims at a soldier running away. He shoots the man and grabs his knife and hands it to one of his men. "Never waste a moment, son, gather all the weapons," The Governor tells them. After they get all the weapons, they drive back to Woodbury. They pull in with the cars. Everybody gathers around.
"We brought in three new people yesterday. One was a helicopter pilot with a National Guard outfit. Even though he's clinging to life, he told us about his convoy on the highway, his men. I promised I'd bring them back here alive. But they didn't have our walls or our fences. Biters got there before we did. Now, the men had trucks. The trucks had weapons, food, medicine, things we need. We didn't know them, but we'll honor their sacrifice by not taking what we have here for granted. Won't be long before dark, so go on home. Be thankful for what you have. Watch out for each other," The Governor says. Everybody leaves. The Governor walks over to Andrea. "You're still here," The Governor says to Andrea.
"Anything I can do?" Andrea asks.
"No nothing tonight," The Governor tells her.
"Long day?" Andrea asks.
"Haven't had many short ones lately. Good night," The Governor says to her.
"So, what's your real name? If it's not asking too much," Andrea says to him.
"I never tell," The Governor says to her.
"Never say never," Andrea says.
The Governor walks into a locked room and sits. He stares at the tanks of heads. Two of them were the heads of Michonne's walkers. The other one was Wells.
I'm back finally that break felt nice, and it feels so good to be writing again so refreshing. Thank you, guys, for reading. The next chapter is Killer within, and I mostly have that planned out. Later om today or maybe I have already uploaded it you will see another story from me caled sins of a family. It is an rdr2 fanfic. I have been working on it for a few weeks. It will not have a schedule and is more of a side project it will not come before this or Dying hope. It will be updated when I see fit do not worry. Go check it out if you want to. Tom was a suggestion from one of you guys. I have a few ideas for him. I hope to see more suggestions and reviews. Until next time.