CoralElizabeth: Hopefully everyone will keep loving the new take!
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Twilightjazz: No, no one has the old version—other than me but I'm going to be changing a couple of things in my story from the old one.
Rick, Alice and Miri were stuck in a tank that was surrounded with roamers as the guy over the radio sarcastically called them dumbasses. Were they really hearing the radio or had the adrenaline from the moment made them start hearing things?
"Hey, you guys alive in there?" the voice asked, a bit worried since the siblings haven't answered him.
Rick got up, hitting his head on the ceiling before he grabbed the walkie-talkie part of the CB radio. "Hello?"
The voice sighed. "There you are." He sounded relieved. "You had me wondering."
Miri got up and took the walkie from Rick's hand. "Hello, where are you? Can you see us right now?"
"Yeah, I can see you. You're surrounded by walkers." Walkers? It was an odd but appropriate name for the things outside. "That's the bad news."
Rick took the walkie back. "There's good news? Please tell us."
The voice went quiet for a second. "No, there isn't."
"Listen, whoever you are, I don't mind telling you that I'm more than a little concerned in here for us."
"Oh man, you should see it from here. If you did, you'd be having a major breakdown." He wasn't helping their nerves.
Miri grabbed the walkie again. "Do you have any advice for us?" She was shaking slightly from nerves. "And please say you do."
"Yeah," he sighed. "I say you guys make a run for it."
"That's it?" Rick muttered while rubbing his lips.
"You want us to run for it? Seriously?" Miri asked into the walkie. "You just basically said we're surrounded."
"It's not as dumb as it sounds. You have eyes on the outside here. There's one geek still up on the tank, but the others have climbed down and joined the feeding frenzy when the horses went down. You with me so far?"
"Yeah, so far." Miri answered, looking at Rick and saw him nod.
"Good. The street on the other side of the tank is less crowded. Now that most of them are distracted, you guys have a chance if you move now."
Rick took the walkie back as Miri went over to the bags she dragged in. She draped the sling of the duffle bag across her body and then put the backpack back on to secure the duffle. It was uncomfortable but she was going to deal with it.
"What are we gonna do?" Alice asked as she watched what Miri was doing.
"We're going to run." Miri told her quickly. "Stay close to me, okay?" Alice nodded.
"I dropped a bag, a bag with guns. Do you think I can get to it?" Rick asked the man on the radio.
"Forget the bag! It's not an option. What do you have on you?"
"Hang on." Rick told the guy. He went over to Miri and checked through the duffle. "Do you have anything, Miri?"
"My two guns with some bullets for them, but not enough to take out all of them. I also have this." Miri lifted the machete to show him. "The bow might take a while to put together and my nerves are too shot to hell to be messing with it."
Rick nodded and took out two guns, putting ammo in them and the extra in the bag. He handed her one while he kept the other.
"What's this?" They looked to Alice, who was near the dead body holding up a grenade.
"That's perfect!" Rick took the grenade and put it into his pocket.
Miri went over to the walkie quickly. "We have two Berettas, each with half a clip or less."
"That's good, just make'em count. Jump off the right side of the tank, keep going in that direction. There's an alley up the street maybe… fifty yards. Be there."
"Thank you." Miri dropped the walkie but Rick picked it up.
"Hey, what's your name?"
"Have you been listening? You're running out of time!" the voice scolded Rick.
Rick dropped the walkie and picked up a shovel. "I get out first, clear the way from the tank. Ali, you go after. Miri, I want you to watch our backs and shoot the ones who get too close."
Miri nodded and held onto her gun with one hand and the bow case in the other. She wasn't going to let go of something they could really use.
Rick took a deep breath and opened the top. There a walker greeted him with a wet growl before Rick hit it in the head with a shovel, then he jump out.
Miri carried Alice through the hole and then quickly jumped out. She saw a walker about to attack Alice, who was on the floor after she jumped from the tank but fell. She shot it and jumped down, helping Alice up once she got to her.
Miri picked her up and told her to wrap her arms around her neck and legs around her waist so she wouldn't fall. She continued shooting the walkers that got too close from behind and next to them.
"Ah! Not dead! Not dead!" said the young man that Rick pointed his gun to, throwing his hands up by instinct.
Rick took Alice from Miri since she was carrying too many things already and so they could run faster.
They all went through a gated alleyway, running until they came across a yellow ladder. The young man from the radio went up first. Rick and Miri were shooting walkers down, buying them some time.
"What are you doing?! Come on!" yelled the young man down at them when he saw they weren't climbing up after him to safety.
"Miri! Go up now!" Rick handed Miri Alice and took the bow case so she could climb up easier.
Miri shot one more walker before starting to climb up, with Rick right behind her. She quickly thanked the Asian man as he pulled her onto a platform and pulled him into a hug.
"Thank you so much!" She pulled away and started to look over Alice's knee, she had scraped it when she fell and she wanted to see if it would be a problem.
"Nice going there, Clint Eastwood and Lora Croft." He said out of breath. He looked over at Rick. "You the new Sheriff? Riding in to clean up the town? Rob some tombs?"
"Wasn't my intention." Rick was breathing hard.
"Whatever." He brushed Rick's answer off. "Yee-haw. You guys are still dumbasses."
Rick stuck out his hand. "I'm Rick, thanks."
The man looked at his hand and then shook it. "I'm Glenn, you're welcome."
Miri stood up and shuck out her hand for him to shake. "I'm Miranda, but you can call me Miri."
"Yeah, whatever-" he looked at her in shock. "Oh my God, I know who you are!"
Miri raised an eyebrow. "You do?"
He opened and closed his mouth a couple times like a fish. "Yeah! You're the SoBe water girl!"
Miri laughed. "I am but I liked to be called Miri." She patted Alice's head. "And this is Alice." Alice waved at him from behind Miri's leg, making Glenn smile and wave back. Miri looked down over the railing. "Gentlemen, we have a problem." She pointed to the horde at the bottom on the ladder. "They're trying to climb."
Glenn started to climb the next ladder but stopped and looked up, making the others look up as well. The climb was a long one with no stops to the roof. "Bright side to this, I got to meet the SoBe girl and it'll be the fall that kills us." He tilted his head to the side when the siblings gave him looks. "I'm a half glass full kind of guy." He started to climb again.
They went up in the same order again until they got onto the roof. They walked across a walkway that connected one building to the other.
"Was it you that barricaded the alley?" Rick asks as he motioned to a bus blocking the entrance to an alley underneath them, keeping the dead from getting in.
"Somebody did." Glenn said as Rick helped Alice to jump over the ledge onto the next roof. "I guess as soon as the city got over run." They quickly ran across the roof, Glenn in the lead. "Whoever did it was sinking, not too many geeks can get through." Glenn went over to a hatch and opened it, taking his bag off his back.
"Why did you save us back there at the tank? Not that I'm not thankful for what you did." Miri told him quickly.
Glenn threw the pack down the hatch and turned to them. "Call it a foolish, naïve sense of hope." He started to go down the ladder. "That if I'm ever up in shits creek, somebody might do the same for me." He stopped and turned to them. "Guess that makes me a bigger dumbass than you two."
Miri dropped the bow case and duffle bag down to Glenn before she went down with Alice in her arms, the little girl holding onto her like a baby monkey holds onto its mother. They waited until Rick came down to them before running through the door way and into a messy looking office, then through another door.
Once through the door, they were back outside, in the alleyway that the bus blocked. They rushed down the steps as Glenn spoke into a walkie-talkie radio. "I'm back, and I got three guests." He spoke quickly as they rushed down the steps. "I got four geeks in the alley!" They stopped when they saw two walkers heading towards them.
They were about to turn back when two big guys covered in military bullet proof body wear with bats busted out a door and started to smash the walkers heads in. Glenn's small group ran towards the open door as the men beat up the walkers.
As soon as they all stepped through, Rick was thrown into some boxes by a blonde woman. "You son of a bitch!" she pointed a gun at him. "We otta kill you!"
Miri quickly put Alice down, ran over to her and pulled her own gun on her. She looked at the woman's gun and saw it still had the safety on, but she kept her gun there. It seems like she doesn't really know about guns.
"Calm down, Andrea." One of the men in the bodysuit said, a Hispanic looking man.
"Ease up." A black woman told Andrea when she saw Miri had a gun pointed at Andrea's head, the air in the small space they were in growing tense.
"Ease up?!" snapped Andrea. "You're kidding me, right? We're dead because of these stupid assholes."
"I would like it very much if you put your gun down and refrain from cursing, there's a child in the room." Miri ordered her sharply.
The Hispanic man saw the look on Miri's face and went to the other side of Andrea. "Back off." Andrea didn't listen. "I said back the hell off, Andrea!"
Andrea didn't move.
"Go ahead, try to pull the trigger." Miri told her. "But I should warn you, I even see you twitch your finger, I'm pulling my trigger."
Andrea tensed up, but put the gun down. She looked like she wanted to cry. "We're dead, all of us, because of you two."
Miri put her gun down when Rick spoke. "I don't understand."
The Hispanic man grabbed Rick's arm and pulled him away. The black male came over to Miri and motioned to follow the group a lot less rough than the Hispanic man was with Rick. "Come on. We went into the city to gather supplies," he pushed Rick a bit. "Do you know what the key to salvaging is? Surviving. Do you know what the key to surviving is? Sneaking in and out. Tip toeing! Not shooting up the streets like it's the O.K. corral."
They stopped when they came across the front door of the building, a department store, and saw a lot of walkers hitting the exterior glass, trying to get in and eat the alive people inside.
"Every geek from miles around heard y'all poppin' off rounds." said the black man.
"You just rang their dinner bell." muttered Andrea next to Miri.
"Get the picture now?" the Hispanic man said as they stared at the doors in shock.
One walker got a large rock and was smashing it against the window.
Miri held Alice's hand as they ran away from the doors.
"What the hell were you doing out there anyways?" Andrea asked.
"We spotted a helicopter and we tried to flag it down." Miri told them as she kept Alice close to her.
"Helicopter?! Man that's crap, ain't no damn helicopter." the black man looked over at them like they were crazy.
The black woman lifts her hand lightly. "You were chasing a hallucination, it happens, sometimes people see things."
"I saw it, the three of us did!" Rick said pointing to his sister and Alice to him.
The Hispanic man turned to the black man. "Hey T-dog, turn on that CB, can you contact the others?"
T-dog brought up a CB radio and started to tune it.
At the word others, the new three members perked up. "Others?" asked Alice quickly, excited that there was more people. "People?"
"At the refuge center?" Rick hoped.
Everyone gave them a look of confusion.
The black woman answered sarcastically. "Yeah, at the refuge center. They got biscuits waiting at the oven for us."
Miri glared at her lightly, not liking her tone. "You don't have to talk to us like that."
"Got no signal." T-dog said as he kept tuning the radio. "Maybe the roof!"
BANG!
"What was that?" Miri asked the group as they all looked around for the source of the noise.
Andrea shook her head. "Oh man, was that Dixon?"
Another bang went off, making the group run to the roof. Four more shots sounded before they reached the roof.
The Hispanic man burst through the door yelling. "Dixon! Are you crazy?!"
Everyone turned the corner and there was a man on the edge of the roof, sniping walkers, just laughing his head off. He shot another one and laughed deeply.
Miri told Alice to stay near Glenn as she and Rick got closer to the man than the others.
The man turned around waving his gun towards everyone. "Hey." He greeted everyone with a crazed look in his eyes. "You ought to be more polite to a man with a gun, huh?" he jumped down from the ledge. "Only common sense." He smiled as them.
T-dog got angry as he jumped down from the ledge everyone but Rick and Miri was on. "Hey man! You wastin' bullets we ain't even got man!" the red neck man just laughed. "And you bringin' all of them down here on our ass, just chill man!"
The man's demeanor changed from relaxed to angry in a snap. "Hey! Bad enough I got this taco-bender on my ass all day," he pointed to the Hispanic man. "Now I gotta take orders from you?" he walked closer to T-dog. "I don't think so bro. That'll be the day."
T-dogs face scrunched in anger. "That'll be the day? You got somethin' you wanna tell me?"
"Hey T-dog," the Hispanic man called to him gently. "Just leave it." T-dog told him no. "It ain't worth it. Now Merle," he told the redneck, Merle. "Just relax. We got enough trouble."
Rick and Miri looked at Glenn, who shook his hands as if saying 'don't get into it.' The siblings looked at each other and nodded, they could tell a fight was about to break out, so they got ready.
"You wanna know the day?" Merle asked T-dog. T-dog nodded. "I'll tell you the day, Mr. Yo." He did a mocking gang sign. "It's the day I'll take orders from some nigger!"
T-dog swung at Merle. "Mother fuc-" Merle moved out the way and hit T-dog in the face with the butt of his gun.
Rick jumped over the pipe but got punched by Merle. Miri got angry and checked on Rick. He said he was alright as she helped him up. When they looked back to Merle, they saw him on top of T-dog, beating him continuously, while all the others did was scream at him to get off.
Miri went over to him and pulled on his vest, trying to get him off T-dog, but ended up getting elbowed in the stomach and punched in the jaw, knocking her over to the side a bit dazed.
Miri lifted her head and saw Alice crying while walking over to her and Merle pointing a gun at T-dog's face. Merle spat on his chest, then rubbed it in. "Yeah, alright! We're gonna have ourselves a little pow-wow." He got off T-dog. "Talk about who's in charge. I vote me." Glenn, Andrea, and the black woman dragged T-dog away from the man. "Anybody else?"
Alice reached Miri. "Miri! You okay?"
Miri sat up with a bit of Alice's help. "I'm fine, sweetheart, don't worry." She told her as she held her stomach and moved her jaw, it hurt but there won't be a bruise. Alice stayed by her as they watched Merle point a gun at everyone.
"Democracy time guys, show of hands. Huh? All in favor." Merle raised his hand. "Show them hands."
The Hispanic man raised his hand slowly, making Andrea groan.
"All in favor." Everyone that was holding T-dog raised their hands, expect the black woman, she raised her middle finger. "That's fine, yeah. That means I'm the boss right? Yeah… anybody else?" he looked at the group. "Hm? Anybody?"
Rick grabbed the gun Merle used from the corner of Miri's eye and snuck up behind Merle. "Yeah, me." He hit Merle across the face with the butt of the gun, knocking Merle down on his back. Rick put his knee on his face as he handcuffed him to a pipe. Rick picked him up so he was leaning against the pipe.
"Who the hell are you man?!" yelled Merle, surprised by the attack.
Rick sneered at Merle. "I'm Officer Friendly." He reached for the gun Merle was pointing at T-dog with. He pulled back the top of the gun and a bullet came out and he caught it in the air without looking. "Listen here Merle, things are different now. There are no 'niggers' anymore. No 'dumb as shit inbred white trash' neither. Only dark meat and white meat, there's us and the dead. We survive this by pulling together, not apart."
Merle calmly looked at Rick. "Screw you man."
Rick looked at Miri, making sure she was okay before he looked back at Merle. "I can see you make the habit of missing the point."
"Yeah? Well screw you twice."
Rick punched him in the face before pulling a gun to his head. "You outta be more polite to a man with a gun, especially since you put your hands on my sister… only common sense." He mocked.
Merle looked over at Miri then to Rick, smirking. "You wouldn't, you're a cop."
"All I am anymore is a man looking for his wife and his son. Anybody who gets in the way of that is gonna lose. I'll give you a moment to think about that."
Rick then proceeded to go through Merle's vest pockets until he pulled out a clear straw. He moved Merle's face around. "You got some on your nose there." Rick flicked his nose and stood up.
"What's that for?" whisper Alice to Miri. Miri knew what that straw was for, but she didn't tell her, just shook her head as if saying 'don't worry about it.'
Rick got up as Merle chuckled. "What you gonna do? Arrest me?" But he started yelling when Rick threw the straw over the ledge. "What are you doing man?! That's my stuff!" he started struggling against the handcuff. "When I get loose, you better pray! You hear me, you pig!"
Rick walked off with Miri and the Hispanic man following after him, she told Glenn to watch Alice. "Yeah, your voice carries."
Miri saw Rick grab his hand in pain. "You okay?"
Rick's eyes soften when he looked his sister. "Yeah, how are you? Nearly killed him when I saw him hit you." He pulled her into his side, checking her jaw.
Miri smiled at her brother's protectiveness. "I'm fine, don't worry." She swatted his hand away.
The Hispanic man looked over at them. "You guys aren't Atlanta P.D. Where you guys from?"
"Up the road a-ways." Rick told him.
"Well Officer friendly, from up the road a-ways… welcome to the big city." They looked at all the walkers stumbling around the streets.
They walked back to the group and saw Andrea and the black woman looked over the ledge too, T-dog was leaning on the ledge across from Merle, Alice was right next to Glenn as Glenn sat on the small steps that led to the door.
"How the signal T-dog?" The Hispanic man asked T-dog.
"Like Merle's brain, weak."
Merle flicked T-dog off.
The Hispanic man sighed. "Keep trying."
"Why?" asked Andrea. "Nothing they can do, not a damn thing." She walked away.
"Wow, not very optimistic." Miri mumbled.
"We have a few people outside of the city. There's no refuge center… that's just a pipe dream." The Hispanic man told Rick and Miri.
"So she was right, we're on our own." Miri ran her hand through her hair and sighed.
"That means it's up to us to find a way out of the city." Rick patted her back lightly.
"Good luck with that." Merle mumbled. "These streets ain't safe in this here part of town I hear." He looked over at Andrea and smirked. "Ain't that right sugar tits?" Andrea ignored him. "Hey! Honey buns!" he looked over at Miri and got in a pose he thought was sexy. "How about you get these handcuffs off me and we hoof it somewhere so I can kiss them boo-boos and make them all better?"
"Merle, don't make me throw you off this roof." Rick glared over to him.
Merle lifted his hands in defense. "Was just talking to the girl, officer." He smirked. "After all, I am her biggest fan." He sent a wink Mir's way and chuckled when she wore a look of disgust. "You'll come around soon."
"No thanks, rather fuck a walker."
They turned around and ignored his laugh at her comment. "The streets aren't safe."
The Hispanic man scoffed. "That's an understatement."
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Miri suddenly got an idea and turned to Rick. "I don't think if this will work but it's an idea, what about going under?"
"The sewers?" Rick asked.
"Oh man…" The Hispanic man turned to Glenn. "Hey Glenn, check the alley." Glenn nodded and ran off. "Do you see any manhole covers?"
Thunder sounded far away as Glenn checked the alley from the ledge.
He came back shaking him head. "No, must be all out in the street where the geeks are."
"Maybe not." Spoke up the black woman. "Old building like this, built in the twenties. Big structures often had drainage tunnels into the sewers, in case of flood. Should be down in the sub-basements."
"How do you know that?" Glenn asked her.
"My job." she stated. "Or was. I worked in the city zoning office."
Almost everyone went to the basement of the building, everyone but T-dog and Merle went. They saw some railing and a ladder leading down into a large hole.
Miri had pulled out her flashlight and started shining it around the room, making sure it really was safe. Once she saw it was safe, she went over to the group, who were crowding around the hole.
"This is it?" asked the Hispanic man. "You sure?" He asked Glenn.
"I've scoped the entire building; it's the only place in the building that goes down." Glenn looked at the hole nervously. "I've never gone down though. Who'd want to right?" Glenn looked over at everyone and saw they were staring right at him. "Oh… great…" he looked down sadly.
"We'll be right behind you-"
Glenn cut Andrea off. "No, not you."
Andrea looked at Glenn like she was about to slap him. "Why not me?" she snapped. "Think I can't?"
Glenn started stuttering.
Miri saw he was having trouble with what he was gonna say so she stepped in. "I don't think that's what he meant Andrea," she told her calmly. "Let him explain, don't jump him."
Rick placed a firm hand on Glenn's shoulders. "Speak your mind."
Glenn nodded. "Look, until now, I always came here by myself, in and out, no problem. First time I bring a group, everything turns to hell." He paused. "No offence." He turned back to the hole. "If you want me to go down the hole, I'll go." He looked over to the group. "But only if we do it my way, it's tight down there. If I run into something, and I have to get out quick, I don't want all of you jammed up behind me, getting me killed." He looked at each of them. "I'll take one person—not you." He told Rick. "You've got Merle's gun and I've seen you shoot."
"I'll go with you then." Miri raised her hand.
Glenn shook his head again. "You stay too. You've got great aim and a little girl to watch. I would feel better with you two out here watching our ass-" Miri glared at him, making him tense up. "I mean butts." He relaxed when her glare softened. He pointed to Andrea. "You've got the other gun in this group, you go with them." He then pointed to the Hispanic man. "You be my wingman. Jacqui stays here." He pointed to the black woman, Jacqui. "Something happens, yell down to us and get us back up here in a hurry."
Jacqui nodded. "Okay."
"Okay." Rick patted Glenn's back softly. "Everybody knows their job."
"Good luck." Miri gave Glenn a small salute as he went down the ladder. The Hispanic man went after him.
The three of them left with Andrea to the ground floor of the department store. They were calmly walking, trying to ignore the walkers trying to get in.
"People do things when they're afraid." replied Rick calmly when Andrea said sorry for pointing a gun at Rick.
"Sorry I pulled a gun on you, though you did aim a gun in my brother's face." Miri laughed as Andrea chuckled; Rick rolled his eyes with Alice playfully.
"Though pulling a gun on him wasn't entirely unjustified, you did get us into this."
"If we get us out, will it make up for it?"
Andrea smirked at Rick's question. "No… but that'll be a start."
They turned to look at the walkers that were banging on the glass.
Miri looked down at Alice and saw she was gripping the straps of her backpack tight. "Ali?" she jumped and looked at Miri with a pale face. "How about we go and look for some new clothes and stuff we need? How does that sound?"
Alice's eye sparkled a bit at the mention of new clothes. She nodded and started to jump in place.
"Hey Rick, we're going to look around here for some personal stuff."
Rick stopped talking to Andrea and nodded to Mir. "If you get in trouble, just scream."
Miri gave him a small salute as she was dragged away by an excited five year old.
"Hold on, sweetie. Let's find us a new duffel bag so we can put clothes inside, the strap on this one is starting to tear." They went over to the big bags. "Let me get a new one and we can go shop." She scanned the bags until she saw a perfect black duffel bag. It was a Texsport tactical duffel bag. She remembered using these bags when she was filming 'Man Down', where she played a CIA agent Sarah Levi.
Miri picked it up and turned to Alice. "Got the bag, let's go!"
They stayed close to each other as they stuffed their bags and new duffel bag, stuffing it with things they liked and, for Miri, certain things we needed. Miri had emptied the old bag so she could put it into the new bigger one.
"Miri? Can I get this?" Miri turned around and saw Alice holding a book. It was the book the story of Ferdinand.
"Sure, get it if you like it. I'm letting you pick your stuff." Miri helped her put it into her backpack, where she had all her crayons and notebooks. She also noticed Burnie was inside. "Let's get back to Rick and Andrea." Alice grabbed her hand and they walked back to Rick.
Andrea was looking at a pretty mermaid necklace and Rick watching around the store, giving Miri a small smile when he saw she and Alice were okay.
"Pretty." Alice gasped, making Andrea smile down at the little girl.
"Yeah, it is." Andrea looked back to the necklace fondly.
"See something you like?" Rick asked her as he walked over to them.
"Not me, but I know someone who would…"
"Sister?" Rick guessed.
Andrea looked at Rick shocked. "Yeah, how did you know?"
"I get that look when I look for gifts for this one." He pointed his thumb at Miri, making her laugh.
"The look is more confused though, since he never knows what to get me, so he makes me go with him."
They laughed lightly at the moment, forgetting about the monsters at the doors.
"You're right though, it is my sister." Andrea smiled down at the necklace. "She's still such a kid in some ways. Unicorns, dragons, she's into all that stuff, but mermaids, they rule. She loves mermaids."
"I like giraffes." Alice piped in. Miri laughed and patted her head.
"Why don't you take it? Give it to her as a gift." Miri said as she put the new duffle bag down onto the glass display table, then put Alice next to the bags. The bow case was safely upstairs under the watch of T-dog.
Andrea smirked. "Well, there's a cop staring at me." They chuckled lightly. "Would it be considered looting?"
Miri put her hands up playfully. "Don't ask us, we just filled our bags with new clothes and supplies we might need."
Andrea turned to Rick, who sighed deeply. "I don't think those rules apply anymore. Do you?"
Andrea bit her lip and looked at the necklace before taking it, giving them a small smile as she pocketed the necklace.
Glass shattering made them jump and look to the doors. The walkers had broken through the exterior doors and were now banging on the interior doors.
Rick quickly aimed his gun at the doors, when the Hispanic man, Jacqui, and Glenn showed up.
"What did you find down there?" Rick asked the Hispanic man.
He shook his head. "Not a way out."
"We need to find a way, soon." Andrea said nervously.
They decided they didn't want to be on the ground floor anymore and headed to the roof.
They were all leaning against the ledge as Rick was looking through binoculars. Miri was standing by Glenn and Alice as sitting on the ground next to her with their bags.
Rick passed the binoculars to the Hispanic man. "That construction site, the trucks, they always keep their keys close at hand."
The Hispanic man looked through the binoculars, then down to the walkers. "You'll never make it pass the walkers."
Rick took the binoculars back and turned to Glenn. "You got us out of that tank."
"Yeah, but they were feeding. They were distracted." Glenn sighed.
"Do you think we could distract them again?" Miri asked.
"Right, Honey Buns has got an idea, a diversion." Merle said, making everyone look at him. "Like on Hogan's Heroes."
"God," Jacqui snapped. "Give it a rest."
"They're drawn by sound right?" Rick looked around to the others.
"Right, like dogs. They heard a sound, they come." Glenn answered.
"What else?" Rick asked.
"Aside from they hear you? They see you, smell you, if they catch you they eat you." The Hispanic man listed off.
"And that's not a pretty sight." Miri commented as she remembered the day she got left behind and saw people getting chewed up.
"They can tell us by smell?" Rick asked shocked.
"Can't you?" Glenn asked Rick.
"They can tell cause we don't smell like them, we don't smell like we're rotting." Rick stared at Miri before grabbing her head and shaking it playfully.
"You are a genius, Miri!" He ran downstairs, yelling to her to stay on the roof.
Everyone followed him, even T-dog, leaving Miri alone with Merle, who smirked and sent her a wink.
"Just you and me baby."
Miri scrunched her nose in disgust and walked to Alice.
It had to have been close to twenty minutes of Merle trying to get Miri to go over to him so he can show her a 'good time' when suddenly the group came back without Rick and Glenn.
They ran over to the ledge as T-dog tried the CB again.
"Where's my brother and Glenn?" Miri sniffed them when she caught a stench that smelled like death. "And why do you reek?"
Andrea dragged Miri over to the ledge in between her and Jacqui. "Rick and Glenn covered themselves in walker guts to camouflage themselves amongst the walkers. They're trying to get to the trucks."
"What?! Where are they?" Miri looked down to the streets looking for them until the Hispanic man pointed to two people walking side by side wearing tan over coats.
Thunder started to sound even closer now, making everyone look at the sky.
"That asshole out in the streets got the handcuff keys?" Merle asked the group.
T-dog showed him that he had the key, which shut Merle up.
T-dog kept trying to contact their camp but Miri didn't pay attention as she watched Rick and Glenn walk amongst the walkers.
Miri looked over at Alice and saw she looked sad. She quickly went over to her. "What's wrong?"
"Are we going to die here?" her voice sounded so small and scared.
Miri looked at her in the eye. "No, I will fight to keep you alive, no matter what, alright?" Alice nodded. "Are you hungry?" Alice shook her head.
Miri looked over at T-dog as he spoke into the CB about them being surrounded by walkers and their location. She stood up when rain started to fall from the grey clouds over their heads. "Guys, it's raining…"
"Oh man…" the Hispanic man said as he went back to looking through the binoculars.
They were getting soaked. "This isn't good!" Miri told them as she watched her only brother and Glenn walk through danger.
"Don't worry, it'll be quick, we get these rains all the time!" the Hispanic man told her as he watched Rick and Glenn through the binoculars.
As he said that, Rick and Glenn suddenly started to run.
Miri could feel her heart racing as she watched her brother and the young man who saved their lives run toward the construction site. She sighed loudly and wiped her face from the rain as she saw they both made it over the gate and into the construction site.
Rick started to shoot the ones that were making it over the gate as hide disappeared from sight for a moment but returned as both he and Rick ran to a truck. They reversed as the group of walkers knocked down the gate.
The rain stopped as they drove to the side and out of sight.
Andrea looked shocked. "They're leaving us…"
Everyone started to panic.
"Calm down, he's not leaving us." No one listen to what Miri said and continued panicking. "He wouldn't leave us." She tried to tell them again.
"The garage, meet Rick there!" Glenn's voice came from the CB.
Everyone quickly picked up their bags. Alice was having trouble with hers when Andrea took it from her and the bow case.
"I got the bags, carry her down!" Andrea told Miri.
"Thank you." Miri nodded and ran down with her holding onto Miri tightly, the duffle bag strapped to her back and her pack over it. Miri was right behind Andrea as they were speeding down the steps.
Everyone made it to the ground floor and saw some cracks on the glass that the walkers were hitting. They ignored them as they made it to the garage.
Miri put Alice down as they all held onto the chain that would pull the metal door up. They were waiting for a signal saying that Rick was there.
There was an annoying beeping sound outside.
Morales, the Hispanic man that Merle called out to as they were leaving, shushed everyone's breathing.
"What is that?" Andrea asked confused.
"It's a car alarm…" Miri told them. Then alarm sounded close but then passed them.
T-dog came into the room as there was three knocks on the door. They quickly pulled the chain, making the metal doors go up quickly half way, but enough for everyone to get through without crouching. They threw the bags inside the back of the cube truck and Rick pulled Alice inside when Miri picked her up so she can step into the truck.
Rick then pulled Miri in before walking to the front so he can drive. Miri helped pull Andrea in and they pulled in Jacqui, T-dog and Morales together.
They drove away as walkers got close to the truck, but Morales closed the door.
Miri sat near the door with Alice in-between her legs, hugging her tight.
Morales went to sit in the front with Rick and everyone noticed that they were missing a certain loud redneck, everyone turned to T-dog since he had the key for the handcuffs.
"I dropped the damn key." He told everyone out of breath.
Everyone stayed quiet until Alice asked looking around. "Where's Glenn?"
Rick then explained to everyone that Glenn was way ahead of them in the car that had the alarms blasting.
The drive went quiet.
'This was a crazy day.' Miri thought as she put her chin on Alice's head, holding the little girl close to her. 'At least we're safe now.'