Brianna's eyes flickered as she could hear faint thumping against the glass of the window of her car. She couldn't make out where the sound was coming from as there was a loud buzzing in her ear. Her eyes slowly opened as she found herself upside down strapped in. What the hell happened? She thought as she started to struggle against the grip of her seatbelt. The continued banging on the window as she turned to her left to see what looked like a deputy as her vision was slightly blurred so she couldn't completely make out the figure. "Are you okay? Do you need help?" His calls became clearer as the ringing begins to soften. She groaned gripping her head as she felt blood dripping down her forehead. "I'm going to get you out, stay still" he ordered as he stood up and grabbed a crowbar from his car while she looked at her surroundings.
As she started to become more conscious she began to panic as she started to remember the crash. "Hold on, I'm coming" he called as he rushed to her side of the car. He bent down after opening the door. "Can you move your legs?" He questioned.
She began to move her legs but could feel something in her right leg "I can't move my right leg. I think there is something stuck in there" she cried in pain as she began to touch the piece of metal that was trapped in her leg.
Rick lowered his head to see what was trapped in her leg "Okay I can see whats caught in your leg, I am going to try and get you out. This may hurt a little but you need to promise to be quiet. Don't want to be attracting anymore of those things" Rick said looking over his shoulder for any walkers that were passing, but none were in sight. His attention returned back to Brie who was still strapped in.
She nodded her head "Okay I promise" she covered her mouth so she wouldn't make too much sound as Rick began to pull at the piece of metal that was trapped in her leg. Brie muffled against her hand as a tear dropped down her face. The pain was unbearable as she tightened her eyes shut, biting the inside of her cheek to help her concentrate on something besides the pain. Rick managed to pull the bit of metal out of her leg as Brie sighs in relief that it's over even though there is now a constant ringing of pain in her leg.
Rick smiles at her "Real trooper there" he says as Brie turns her head to him and gives him a small smile, thankful that he was there to help her.
"Thank you" she says, grateful that she now has someone. She turns to take her seatbelt off as Rick gives her a hand and pulls her out of the car and onto the side of the road. She clutches at her leg which is still in pain from Rick taking out the metal from her leg.
"I would take you to the hospital but I've just came from there and I don't think they will be much help" He sits down next to her as he watches Brie rub lightly next to her now opened wound.
"Don't think anyone is going to be much help these days. Where have you been? You not heard the news of the women who was found eating her son" Brie questioned as she looked up at Rick, who looked a little squeamish. She began to laugh "Seriously where have you been?"
"Woke up from a coma" Rick looked back at Brie then looked down at his hands "Whatever's been happening I've been sleeping through it. Don't know where my family is or if they are even alive"
Brie looked down as well as she was in the same predicament "Me too. I was looking for my Brother T before the car crash happened" Rick raised an eyebrow at her brother's name. She smiles at his reaction "His name is actually Theodore but he likes to go by the name T Dogg so you can understand why I call him T. Not being seen calling him T Dogg" Rick chuckles before she continues her story "So yeah looking for him the last few days" she sighs "Still no sign of him...or anyone for that matter" She looks at Rick "Your the first person I have came across" she hears groaning coming from the woods and appears a walker "Besides them" She grabs Rick's gun from his pocket and points in the direction of the walker. She aims for his head and shoots it down with one bullet.
Rick watched on as he looked impressed with her aim "Good shot, where did you learn to shoot like that?"
Brie shrugged "If I learned anything from being out here myself is that you need to protect yourself" she looked at the walkers body on the road "If you don't you become one of them"
"Noted" Rick said as Brie passed him the gun back "You keep it, I've got another one in the car"
Brie insisted on him keeping it "You'll need more than one Rick. Besides I've got my own stash" Brie stood up as Rick followed in pursuit as she limped towards the upside down vehicle. She reached for the back door and reached in for her bag which was now on the floor. She threw it on the floor as she closed the door and kneeled down and unzipped the bag which revealed 2 shot guns, 3 pistols and a couple of knives. If Rick wasn't impressed before with her aim then he was seriously impressed with her stash of equipment. "I am sure we can find more, just need to look in the right places, what have you got?" She looked up at Rick.
"Not as much as you but I've got 2 pistols and a grenade" Rick walked over towards his car as Brie zipped her bag up and threw it over her shoulder as she limps towards Rick.
"Great you have a car" Brie smiles as she walks round the car and opens the passengers door and sets her bag down. "We getting in or what?" She questions.
"Out of gas" Rick says as he gazes at his surroundings.
"Great" Brie groans as she picks up her bag before closing the door and walks round and leans against the bonnet of the police car "So what now?"
"My house isn't far from here, can freshen up and see if we have any food?" Rick suggests as he looks at Brie who is thinking about his offer.
"Sure, why not" She shrugged and sat up from the bonnet "Lead the way" she puts her hands on her hips waiting for Rick to start walking in a direction.
"This way" He begins walking as she follows in pursuit. It takes them about 20 minutes before they get to an entrance of a street. They both walk down the street and stop when they find a bicycle. Rick picks it up and notices a mutilated corpse near it. When he moves the bike, the corpse actually turns on him. It's a dead woman that is missing her legs. She crawls towards Rick, he walks a few paces back as the corpse is still crawling after him.
Brie puts her bag down and grabs a knife out the bag and follows in the direction of the corpse chasing as Rick. As she catches up to them as turns the walker over and stabs her in the head. "Was that so hard?" Brie looks up at Rick who now clears his throat pretending that, that didn't happen. Brie chuckles as she watches Rick regains himself.
They eventually reach his house and Rick starts running around yelling for Lori and Carl "Lori! Lori! Carl! Carl! Lori! Carl!" They are nowhere to be found and Rick falls onto the ground sobbing. Brie rushes in after him as fast as she could with her leg and see's him on the ground with his head in his hands. She kneels down next to him and puts her arm around him as he leans against her for comfort. She notices he starts to panic. "Is this real? Am I here?" He starts to smack himself. "Wake, wake up!"
"Hey, Hey, Hey" she protests as she grabs his wrists to prevent him hitting himself again. "It's going to be fine" she tries comforting him "We will find them, I promise. They are going to be okay"
He looks up at Brie and nods slowly as he wipes his tears. He's only just met Brie and feels like he can be himself around her. I mean he's already cried in front of her. Brie is going to be one of the closest people he will have to family, he can already see it. "I'm just going to get some air" He walks out onto the steps of his house and sits down in frustration. He has no idea how to take all of this in. He looks over and sees a man walking down the street. Rick stares at him, confused, and starts to motion for him to come over. Someone comes up behind Rick. He turns around to take a shovel to the face. Duane who is a a kid has hit Rick.
"Daddy, daddy!" By that point Brie came out to see what the shouting was about.
"Carl… Carl? I found you" Rick calls Duane by the name of Carl thinking that it's his son.
"Daddy, I got this sumbitch. I'm gonna smack him dead"
Morgan, Duane's father, runs over and shoots the other man in the street in the head "He say something? I thought I heard him say something"
"He called me Carl"
"Son, you know they don't talk" Morgan notices the bandage. "Hey, mister! What's that bandage for? What kind of wound? You answer me, damn you! What's your wound" Rick doesn't respond. "You tell me! Or I will kill you" Brie runs over just before Rick passes out.
Rick wakes up in a house and sees Duane with a baseball bat.
"Got that bandage changed out. It was pretty rank. What was the wound?" Rick looks up at Brie who was holding a cold compress against his forehead, she smiles as she can see he is okay, Morgan watched on as he began to become impatient "Look, I ask and you answer. It's common courtesy, right? Did you get bit?"
"No, I got shot" Rick shakes his head as he answers Morgan's question.
"Just shot?" Morgan feels his forehead. "Feels cooler now. Fever would have killed you by now"
Brie rolled her eyes "He's cooler now because I put a compress on him, did you not see me put it on him?"
Morgan pulls out a knife and shows it to Rick "Take a moment, eh? Look how sharp it is. You try anything and I will kill you with it, and don't you think I won't" Rick stays still and Morgan cuts him free. "Come on up when you're able" Morgan looks at his son "Come on" Morgan and his son leave the room.
"Are you okay?" Brie asks as she sits down next to Rick.
"I will be once I can get out of here and I can finally know that my family are out there alive" Rick sits up.
Brie rubs his arm "I will help you find them Rick, lets just get ourselves fed and come up with a plan and we can head out and find your family"
"Not just my family, T Dogg too" Rick gives her a small smile as she returns one.
Rick and Brie walk down the stairs to find Morgan and Duane getting their supper ready. Rick looks around the house, it looks familiar "This place… It's Fred and Cindy Drake's"
Morgan just shrugs it off "Never met them"
"I've been here. This is their place"
"It was empty when we got here" Rick goes to peel the blankets on the windows back. "Don't do that. They'll see the light. There's more of them out there than usual. I never should have fired that gun today. The sound draws them, now they're all over the street. I didn't think, Anyways sit down, before you fall down. Here. Eat"
Rick and Brie both sit down as Morgan and Duane begin to hold hands as they were about to say grace "Yeah. All of us hold hands" Brie and Rick hold each others hand as Morgan takes Ricks and Duane takes Bri/ other hand "Father, we thank thee for this food… Thy blessings… We ask you to watch over us in these crazy days. Amen"
"Amen" they all say as they began eating.
"Hey, mister, do you even know what is going on?"
"I woke up today. In a hospital. Rescued Brie. Came home" Rick shrugged.
"But you know about the dead people, right?"
"Who doesn't? Well I say that but don't actually know who's alive anymore" Brie pointed out before taking a sip of her water.
"Yeah, I saw a lot of that. Out on the loading dock, hauling trucks
Morgan shakes his head "No… Not the one's they put down… The one's they didn't. The walkers. Like the one I shot today. Cause he would have ripped into you. Try to eat you, take him some flesh at least. But I guess if this is the first you're hearing, I know how it must sound… "
"They're out there now, in the street?" Rick looks at Brie who nods her head, she seems to know more than what shes letting on.
"Yeah. They're even more active after dark sometimes or maybe it's just this guy firing up that gun today" Brie glared at Morgan "But we'll be fine long as we stay quiet. Probably wander off by morning but one thing to know is you can't get bit! Morgan saw your bandage and that's why they were afraid of. Bites kill you. The fever burns you out. But then after a while you come back"
A car alarm outside starts going off Morgan calms Duane down, who woke up in panic. "Hey, it's ok, daddy's here. It's nothing. One of them must've bumped a car" Rick began to look unsure so Morgan gave him piece of mind "Happened once before. Went off a few minutes. Get the light, Dwayne" They dim the lights and look outside. There are several of them walking around outside "It's the blue one, down the street. Same one as last time. I think we're ok"
Brie stood up "But noise, it bring more of them"
Morgan shrugs Brie off "Nothing to do about it now. Just have to wait 'em out till morning"
Duane looks outside and sees a female walking close to the house "She's here"
"Don't look. Get away from the windows. I said go! Come on!" Duane starts to cry and Morgan comforts him. We realize this is Duane's mother and Morgan's wife. "Come on, quiet. Shh, shh"
Rick walks towards the door and looks out the peephole, Morgan is on the couch comforting his crying son as Rick is still looking through the peephole as Brie walks over to him "What's going on?" She asks as Rick moves out the way so Brie can have a look.
The woman looks at the door in confusion and seems to be staring at Brie. She then starts to turn the doorknob left and right, but it doesn't open since it's shut. Rick sits next to Morgan "She died in the other room on that bed. Nothin' I can do about it, here that fever, man. Her skin gave off heat like a furnace. Should have put her down, I should have put her down, I know that, but I just didn't have it in me. She's the mother of my child" They look at the doorknob and it continues to turn left and right.