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Sorry if you find any grammar mistakes. I'm still learning English because it's not my first language.
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A little over a week has passed since Rick, Chef, Chris, DJ, Glenn and Hershel brought Randall to the farm. Everyone in the group waited for the outsiders health to get better, and when it finally happened, they decided to take him as away from the farm as possible and leave him to do his own thing. Rick was the one who volunteered to take him away and Shane was the one who quickly agreed to join him.
They weren't the only ones who volunteered to go on this mission. Duncan, Harold and Tyler went with them, and the atmosphere between the three teenagers was awkward to say the least.
The situation between Tyler and Harold was really tense for the past week, especially after the jock punched the nerd in the face for mentioning Lindsay. Duncan didn't want to go with them in the first place, but Courtney was the one who signed him up for this, thinking it would good for him to leave the farm for a few hours, because the juvie became really quiet after what happened to Sophia. On the bright side he may finally get to chance to ask Randall some questions about Timothy.
They left the farm in two cars. Rick and Shane took the led of their small convoy and drove in the front, but before that, they made sure that Randall was placed in the trunk of their car and that he wasn't going to escape while Harold, Duncan and Tyler drove closely behind them. They drove through the country roads for quite some time before Rick stopped his car for some reason.
He got out from his vehicle and turned back to look at Harold, Duncan and Tyler and nodded his head at them, telling them that they're going to stop here for a moment by this gesture. Shane left the car shorty after him, holding a shotgun.
The duo took a few steps forward and Shane looked around their surroundings for a few seconds, before asking, "I thought we were going further."
"We are." Rick said, walking ahead of Shane, "18 miles out."
"So why are we stopping?" Shane asked him another question.
"I wanted to talk." Rick explained, stopping and turning to look at Shane, "Been waiting a week till we were gonna do this. I just wanna talk."
"We don't need to." Shane stated.
Rick shook his head, "We do."
"No man, we don't." Shane said, "We're doing this. I get it. He was passed out when y'all brought him here, doesn't know where the farm is."
"That isn't what I need to talk to you about. I heard what really happened at the school." RIck cut him off as Shane sighed, knowing where this was going, "Was it to survive?"
Shane nodded his head, "Yeah. I and Otis thought that we already lost Chef at that point and I knew that one of us wasn't gonna make it out. It had to be him. One shot to the leg, Carl lives. Reality is he had no business being here there."
"You don't think I would've done it?" Rick asked.
"No, man,I know you wouldn't have." Shane answered.
"You don't think I can keep Lori or Carl safe?" Rick wanted to know.
"I didn't say that." Shane pointed out.
"Or my baby?" Rick added, "Is it gonna have to be me too?"
"Rick, you can't just be the good guy and expect to live. Okay?" Shane told him, "Not anymore."
"I'm not the good guy anymore." Rick shook his head as Shane glanced down, avoiding his gaze, "To save Carl's life, I would've done anything. Anything. Now Lori says your dangerous, but you're not gonna be dangerous. Not to us, not to me, not anymore. How about you look at me?"
Shane looked up at him as Rick leaned closer to him, making sure that Shane was going to hear everything he had to say to him, "You and Lori, I get what happened. When I figured it out-and I figured it out pretty quickly-I wanted to break your jaw, let you choke on your teeth. But I didn't. That wasn't weakness. It took everything. That is my wife. That is my son. That is my unborn child. I will stay alive to keep them alive. You don't love her. You think you do, but you don't. Now the only way you and me keep on is that you accept everything I just said right here,right now,and we move forward with that understanding."
Shane bit his lips as Rick turned away from him and began to walk towards their vehicle. The sheriff deputy stopped when his best friend spoke up to him, " When it started it was just a couple of weird stories on the news. Then it was so quick. Everything, it just happened. Two weeks later I'm in the hospital and there were soldiers shooting people in the halls. They were shooting people, man, not walkers. Then the walkers came through. You know,I tried to get you out,I tried,but we weren't gonna make it. Man,there was no way and I knew it. But I couldn't live with it. I couldn't live, knowing but I had to. I didn't keep Lori and Carl alive,man. They kept me alive. I want you to know that I didn't look at her before that. Brother, if I could take it all back, I would."
Rick remained silent for a few seconds before responding, "I wanna check the ropes."
He made his way to the trunk of the car and opened it, revealing Randall who was bound, gagged and blindfolded. Shane approached him and the two of them stared at Randall. Rick made sure to check if anything was any the young man somehow loosened his bounds.
After a moment, he turned back to look at Harold, Duncan and Tyler and made a gesture with his hands, telling them that they're going to head out now.
Bridgette walked up the the stairs into the porch before entering the farm house, with Noah walking closely behind her. Bridgette came into their camp a few minutes earlier and informed him that there was something that Maggie wanted to talk with him about. It was pretty obvious for the bookworm that she meant Glenn.
"Maggie!" The surfer called out for the farm girl, "I brought Noah!"
"I'm the kitchen!" Maggie answered, "Come in!"
The blond haired girl led Noah into the kitchen where they saw Maggie and Lori who were cutting some vegetables for the dinner.
Maggie stopped what she was doing and turned to look the bookworm, "Thank you for coming."
Noah looked at the Greene and asked, "What is it about Glenn that you wanted to talk about?"
"Did he say anything when you got back from town?" Maggie asked, "I tried asking DJ and Chris earlier, but they didn't want to talk about it. I asked Chef too, but he told me that Glenn didn't tell him anything."
"Why are you asking me?" Noah asked, confused why she thought about talking with him, "I wasn't in that town during that night."
"Well, you and Glenn are friends." Maggie explained, "I thought that he may have talked with you about that night."
"Friends?" Noah raised his brow, "We barely talked with each other before we arrived at your farm. We started talking recently after he told me and Dale about the secrets within our group before they were revealed."
"It doesn'a matter when you started talking with each other. Did he tell you anything?" Maggie insisted.
"No. He didn't tell me anything." Noah shook his head.
Maggie sighed after hearing Noah's answer, "It's just, he's not the same. Says he froze. Blames me. Says I got inside his head. I'm thinking, maybe I should apologize..."
"Don't apologize to him. It was his choice to come with Rick, Chef and Chris as I recall." Noah cut her off, "And no matter what happens, don't tell him to man up. I read that this is literally one of the worst advices you can give to someone."
Maggie nodded her head and looked down at the tray filled with food. She reached down to pick it up, "I should get this to Beth."
"No. You go on." Bridgette stepped forward and stopped next to Maggie, "I got it."
Maggie send the surfer a small grateful smile to which Bridgette smiled back in return. The surfer picked the tray up and carefully made her way to Beth's room, making sure that she was not going to drop it.
"Hey, Beth." She slowly opened the door to Beth's room, and walked inside, "I brought you some food."
Beth rolled over to the other side of the bed and sat up as Bridgette placed the tray on the commode next to Beth's bed. She looked down at the younger Greene and eyed her. Beth's was a bit pale, but it was easy for her to say that she was doing a little better. At least she wasn't unresponsive to any of their calls anymore.
"So, uh." Bridgette tried to start a conversation with her, "How about after you eat up all your food, we'll get you up and out of here and go take a walk. What do you say? It'll do good to be outside."
"I've been thinking." Beth said.
Bridgette titled her head, "Thinking about what?"
"About Lori." Beth explained, "She's pregnant. How can she have a baby in such world?"
"I don't know, and I'm not the one to judge, but I think it's a good thing." Bridgette answered, offering Beth a smile. She patted her on her shoulder, adding, "You eat something, and I'll be back in a few minutes."
Harold glanced through the window of the passanger seat as they drove past the sign saying "Mert Country Department of Public Works". Duncan who sat in the drivers seat next to him made sure to follow Rick and Shane. The car in front of them stopped and Rick who came out shorty after waved his hand at them, telling them to come out.
They did as they were told. Tyler was the first one to get out of the car, resting his baseball bat on his shoulder, followed by Harold who held his shotgun in ready just in case if he'll find himself in the situation that would require him to use it and Duncan held his bow in ready for the same reason.
They approached Shane and Rick who stood in front of the fence, watching the department of public works building and a huge yard around it, the latter declaring, "This will do."
"It's more than 18." Shane stated.
"Yeah, I'm looking for a place." Rick said in response.
"A place for what?" Tyler asked him.
"Give him a fair shake. A shot." Rick explained, "This place will do. We'll leave the boy here and scavenge some supplies."
"Tyler." Shane turned to the jock, "You take Duncan and Harold and look for anything useful while Rick and I will take care of Randall."
"Will do, Shane." Tyler nodded his head.
They heard some growling coming from the other side of the fence. They turned in the direction of it and saw a walker dressed in a guard uniform walking towards them. Shane instantly took out his pistol and aimed it at it to take it out but Harold stopped him.
"Don't." The nerdy teenager told him, pulling out the knife he got a over a week ago when he went out with Daryl, Andrea and Tyler to look for Sophia, "I'll take care of it."
He pressed his knife against his thumb and gritted his teeth at the pain he felt when he did a small cut on it. He pressed the thumb against the fence and the walker focus it's attention on him only as if Rick, Shane, Tyler, and Duncan didn't exist anymore. It pressed it's face against the fence, showing it's rotting teeth to the nerdy teenager who stabbed it in the head, getting rid of it.
It was just seconds before they heard another undead heading their way. Harold was about to use the same trick on it, but Duncan loaded an arrow into his bow and made sure that the pointy end of an arrow was sticking to the other side of the fence. He released the arrow which hit the undead straight in the head, killing it instantly.
"Good work." Rick told them, "You didn't made any noise to drag more of them to us."
They opened the gate towards the area in front of them and split into two groups. Shane and Rick walked back to their car and took Randall out from the trunk and started taking him to a place where they would leave him, holding him on both of his sides to make sure he wasn't going to break off and escape which was rather unlikely to happen because the young man was still blindfolded, but it wouldn't hurt them to be cautious.
Harold, Duncan and Tyler walked into the building in order to find anything useful for their group and proceeded to walk through it. Tyler had his baseball bat raised in the air as he walked in the front. He slowly opened the entrance to one of the rooms and walked into it. He shook his head at the view of two things inside. One thing was a man, who was clearly dead for a while now and the other one was a walker who laid next to the first body. A bullet hole between it's eyes.
"You guys go check it out." Tyler told Duncan and Harold, turning back to look at them, "I'll check the other room."
The jock walked out of the room that he just took a quick peek in and headed towards another one, leaving Harold and Duncan alone. The nerd and the juvie exchanged a look with each other. These two weren't fans of each other for a long time and everyone knew it.
Duncan was the first one to enter the room. He took a good look at it, asking, "What the hell happened here?"
Harold was right behind him. He remained for a moment and looked around the room. His eyes widened when he saw an inscription at the ceiling. He pointed at it and said, "Look up."
Duncan looked at the ceiling and his eyes widened after reading the inscription that said.
"They took her away from me. I had no other reason to live for in this shitty new world."
Harold sighed, "He lost his wife and had no other reason to live for."
"Poor guy." Duncan stated, moving towards the desk. He pushed an empty pill bottle off it, assuming it to be the way how this unknown man ended his life. He started searching through the drawers, not finding anything useful as the room was engulfed in a silence, the only sound coming out of it was the sound of Duncan searching for supplies.
The silence was broken by Harold who said to the juvie, "You've changed."
Duncan looked up at him, confused. This came out of nowhere, "What's that supposed to mean, Doris?"
"I mean exactly what you think I mean, Duncan." Harold said as Duncan stopped searching the room. The juvie walked to the front of the desk and leaned against it, in front of the two bodies, not noticing that the man was starting to wake up. Harold didn't notice it either as he continued, "The Duncan I knew from Total Drama wouldn't do most of the things you did since Atlanta was bombed."
The juvie quickly shook his head, "I have no idea what are you talking about. Everything that I did had to be done."
"You risked your life when you were going out to look for Sophia with Daryl. You almost died while looking for her when you attacked by the walker by suprise and despise that you haven't given and wanted to continue to look for her." Harold said to clarify his point. Duncan sighed. Harold just like everyone else except for Chef had no idea about Timothy and that he was the same group as Randall, "I know that you did this because you didn't Carol to feel the same way as your aunt did, but it wasn't the only good thing that you did. You went with me, Chef, Rick, Glenn and T-Dog to find Merle, even though you didn't had to, and T-Dog told us that you and Daryl saved him on the highway when that herd passed by our group."
"What are you trying to say by that, Doris?" Duncan wanted to know.
"I already told you what I mean by that. You've changed for the better." Harold answered, "You're not the same Duncan I hated during the two seasons of Total Drama."
Duncan didn't had a chance to reply to Harold's words as the man rose up from the floor as a walker and attacked the one that was closer to it. Duncan clenched his teeth as he placed his hands on the walkers shoulder to push it away from himself as Harold quickly reacted to what was happening at this moment and slammed the walker right in it's head with the back of his shotgun. The walker growled as it turned it attention towards the nerdy teenager who slammed it one more time. The undead collapsed on the floor as Harold quickly finished it off by crushing it's forehead with the back of his shotgun.
"Thanks." Duncan sighed in relief. That was a close one.
"I did owned you one." Harold reminded him, "That one time when we arrived in CDC."
"Yeah." The juvie gave a short chuckle in response, recalling the situation that Harold just mentioned, "How did this guy become a walker? Didn't he overdose those pills?"
"I don't know." Harold said, kneeling in front of the now dead walker, starting to search every part of it's body, "Maybe he was bitten or scratched, which may have been another reason why he decided to end his own life."
"Are you searching his body just to find a bite?" Duncan asked.
"I want to be sure." Harold said, continuing his search. It lasted a minute or two and the results confirmed one thing. This man indeed didn't had a single bite or a scratch on his body. He searched through his body one more time and the results were the same, "I can't find anything."
"What do you mean you can't find anything? It doesn't make sense." Duncan stated, "How did he became one of those things, even though he wasn't bitten or scratched?"
"I'm confused as much as you are." Harold said, as he turned towards the exit from this room, "We need to tell Rick, Shane and Tyler about this."
Duncan nodded his head before they heard the sound of someone fighting off a walker, probably in one of the other rooms or maybe somewhere outside, followed by someone screaming. They quickly recognized this voice as Tyler's. Harold quickly readied his shotgun while Duncan took out his pistol. They ran out of the room and ran towards the doors from which the sound was coming from and it led them outside.
They saw Tyler who had just gotten rid of a walker and proceeded to smash his baseball bat on the walkers head, until there was nothing left of it. This was something that Tyler has been doing since Lindsay died, but now wasn't done it, even after it's head became nothing but a red bloody mush. The sound of his bat colliding with the ground rang through Duncan's and Harold's ears.
"That's enough, Tyler!" Harold shouted, making Tyler stop, "Can't you see that it's head is already gone."
Tyler turned back at them and showed them off his bloodied baseball bat, "I did that to make sure that it wasn't going to hurt any people."
"Tyler. This has to end." Harold said, as Tyler sighed, already knowing where this was going, "I know that you must be sick of this, but you really need to get some help. Things are only getting worse with you as the time passes..."
"Are you trying to say that you're worried about me?" Tyler cut him off. He was done with people telling him how worried they are about him, "This is the only thing that you've been talking about me since we left CDC! That you're worried about me. Even though everything is perfectly normal with me!"
Harold sighed, "Tyler. I wish I could say this, but you're not okay. Ever since Lindsay died,
Tyler glared at the nerdy teenager, "I told you already. Don't bring Lindsay into this."
"Or are you going to punch me again?" Harold asked. He knew that bringing Lindsay into this discussion was not the best idea, but it was something that had to be done.
"I punched you back there because you deserved it for using someone who is dead as an example, because you were disagreeing with me about something." Tyler pointed out, "How would you feel if the roles were reversed and I used Leshawna as an example for you?"
"I only brought Lindsay up as an example because you did first when you asked how DJ would feel is he saw his Momma as a walker." Harold pointed our in return. He couldn't blame Tyler for doing it on the day when DJ found out that his Momma was dead all along and was in the barn along with Sophia, because none of them had an idea about her being there, "Tyler. I know that you miss Lindsay. I miss her too. She was my friend and I wish that we arrived sooner at the camp when the walkers attacked, but what already happened can't be changed. What you can do now is to do what she'd want you to do. Tell me. Would she want you to act the way you did for the past weeks?"
Tyler closed his eyes and clenched his fist. He took a deep breath. He opened his eyes and looked at Harold. His expression turned into a frown which turned into a glare as Tyler raised his fist, intending to punch Harold for another time, but his fist was stopped in the mid-air by Duncan.
"What?" He asked, confused that Duncan wouldn't let him punch Harold. Duncan sometimes did worse things to Harold than a simple punch. Like the one time during Total Drama Action when he fell right on top of him while Harold was sitting on the horse during the western challenge, "Are you trying to stop me from punching him? I thought that you hated each other!"
"Just calm down, man." Duncan said to Tyler.
Tyler responded by raising his other fist, his baseball bat falling on the ground with a loud bang. Duncan didn't had a time to react as Tyler punched him straight in the face. The juvie stumbled back, letting go off Tyler's other fist. He moved towards Tyler, punching the juvie two times in the chest as Harold's eyes widened, realizing that Tyler wasn't going to stop with a single punch. He had to do something.
He dropped his shotgun and made his way to Tyler to stop him from amplying more punches on Duncan's body and Tyler quickly noticed it. He saw how Harold swung his fist at him, but because of the obvious built differences between the two teenagers, the jock easily dodged Harold's fist by simply catching it in the mid-air. He headbutted Harold who was suprised that it didn't broke his glance as he stumbled backwards.
Now that Tyler's attention was focused on Harold, Duncan finally had a chance to respond to Tyler's punches. He grabbed Tyler by the jock's shoulder, making him turn to him, and punched him straight in the face. The punch was so hard that it made Tyler fell on his knees as Harold walked over to Duncan, now that their a rather short fight with Tyler was over.
"You still can't understand." The jock shook his head, holding his jaw in pain as he slowly stood up from the ground, "You can't understand that everything I've been doing since we left the CDC was to protect our group from sharing the same fate as her!"
"Protect our group?" Duncan asked, "How was leaving Sophia behind, when we thought that she was still alive was to protect our group? Did you forget that she was a member of our group too?"
"That was hard but a right choice to make and I was right about it!" Tyler shouted, "When I realized that we will never find Sophia, I was angry at myself for even thinking like that, but this was something that our group had to face! We had to face the fact that looking for her after a few days was just putting our lives in danger for nothing! You and Daryl almost died while looking for someone who was dead for christs' sake! I, Shane and Andrea could have died when we went out to look for her! We couldn't keep risking our lives for a lost cause!"
"I and Daryl may have almost died while looking for her, but we knew the risks we were taking when we were going out!" Duncan pointed out,
"You knew the risk and yet, depise knowing how dangerous can this world be, you agreed with Rick when he made us sleep with a barn filled with walker in your backyard and made us gunless while doing so just to please some deluded guy." Tyler retorted, "You're attempting to live like we were in the old world again. The world that ended in the moment when we crashed in the forest. The world that we used to live in is long gone! It took someone the death of someone that I loved for me to understand that!"
"Hold on, Tyler." Harold said, "I know that you weren't fan of Rick's recent decisions, but he's not a weak leader. He did what he thought was right to keep everyone from our group safe."
"He did that by keeping us in danger? He doesn't know how to keep our group safe! Shane knows how to do that." Tyler told him. "He knows in what kind of a world we live in right now. He made sure to teach us how to fire a gun, and made sure that each member of our group will have a weapon. He made sure that we will not live with walkers in our backyard, despise most of our group telling him not to do it."
"Rick was about to take care of it with Chef once they'd make sure that Hershel was going to let us stay on his farm and convice him to to let us have our guns." Harold pointed out.
"And how long would that take? Would leaving us without any firearms keep us safe? Dale would hide them somewhere in the forest if I and Shane didn't caught him in time! He had the same point as you do right now! That Rick will take care of it, but he was certainly taking his time to take care of it unlike Shane instantly knew what had to be done with those walkers in the barn!" Tyler told them, "What would happen if the walkers somehow broke out from the barn and we wouldn't have idea about it until they'd attack us? I don't know about you guys but I don't want more people to die in our group."
"What did you just say?" Harold asked.
"I don't want more people to die, okay!" Tyler shouted, "We already lost so many people from our group. Lindsay, Amy, Jim, Jacqui, Sophia, many people from our camp in Atlanta, or even Drake. I don't want to see more people torn apart by those things, or even worse, become one of them!"
He sighed before continuing. Harold made sure to listen carefully to everything he had to say. Even Duncan listened carefully to the jock, "You asked me what would Lindsay want me to do. I think she'd want me prevent to keep everyone from sharing her fate. That is why I'm doing everything that has to be done to keep our group safe. That is why I'm killing every walker I can see and make sure that they will never come back. Sometimes, when I see a walker, I can see her laying on the ground with a hole in her stomach, crying..."
The jock clenched his fist in anger. Everytime when he saw a walker, he could see Lindsay crying moments before dying with a hole in her stomach, Andrea crying over bitten Amy before her younger sister bleed out, or infected them Jim sitting against a tree during his last moments. That is why he will always kill every walker that will be get even close his group and will make sure that it was never stand up ever again.
"That is why I am always destroying the skull into pieces. To make sure that it will not return. To make sure that it will not make it's way back to our group and bit off a piece off flesh from someone's neck." Tyler said, "You may not understand it now, but I'm sure that you will as the time will pass."
There was other thing Tyler was certain. If the situation would ever require him to put his life in danger to save someone that could be saved from the walkers or from something else, even if it would be someone like Heather, then he would do it. He would risk his life for this person, just to not see her or him torn into shreds by those things.
Harold and Duncan were about to respond to his words, but they were cut off when they heard some growling behind them. They turned in the direction of this growling and saw several walkers walking towards them. Their fight must have lead the undead straight to them.
Bridgette and Lori made their way back to Beth's room to take the blond haired Greene on a walk wit them. The first thing that they spotted after entering the room was Beth sobbing as she sat up on the bed.
"Hey." The surfer said to the younger Greene, earning her attention, "I know that this must be hard for you. I myself tried to reach my parents, or my boyfriend, or my friends for days after Atlanta was bombed..."
Beth cut her off by stating, "It's just so pointless."
"No, it isn.t." Lori shook her head, "You have your sister, your father, Patricia and Jimmy. And you've gotta stay strong for them. I wish I could promise you it would be all right in the end. I can't,but we can make now all right. And we have to."
The younger Greene turned to look at them, "Thank you, both of you."
"We'll be right back. We'll go take that walk." Lori said, rubbing Beth's head as Bridgette picked the tray up. They walked out of the room and made their way to the kitchen.
Ths surfer placed the tray next to the sink and noticed that something was missing when she picked a fork, "Uh, Lori?"
"Yes?" Lori asked, approaching Bridgette.
"Wasn't there a knife along with the fork?" Bridgette asked.
Lori glanced down at the tray and saw that the knife was indeed missing. They exchange a worried look as the realization of what most likely happened to it and who took it quickly popped into their minds as they quickly broke themselves into run back to Beth's room.
"Beth?" Bridgette asked Beth who didn't respond to her words as she was laying on the bed, with her back facing them both..
"You give it to me, sweetheart." Lori said shorty after, "You don't wanna do this."
Beth remained silent as she didn't even look at them. She lifted her hand up to show Lori and Bridgette the knife that she took from the tray. Lori took the knife from her and looked at the surfer who quickly realized what she should do next.
She ran out of the house towards their camp and called out to Andrea who was on the watch duty on Dale's RV, "Hey, Andrea!"
Andrea looked down at her, "Yes?"
"Have you seen Maggie or Hershel?" Bridgette asked her.
"I haven't seen Hershel, but DJ left about an hour go, telling us that he is going to do something with him and I saw Maggie and Glenn walk by maybe 20 minutes ago." Andrea answered.
"Could you find her?" Bridgette asked her another question, "I've gotta get back to the house."
Andrea nodded her head, "Of course."
"What's going on?" Gwen asked, approaching them with Leshawna.
Bridgette sighed, "Help Andrea find Maggie and I'll tell you. This is about Beth. I'll be with her and Lori in the house."
Leshawna and Gwen nodded their heads and walked off along with Andrea who climbed down the RV to find Maggie.
Randall tried to say something to Shane and Rick as they were leading him through the yard, but because of the gag in his mouth, all they could hear from him were some muffles noises. They brought him to his knees and removed the bag from his head, finally allowing him to take a good look at his surroundings.
"What the hell is this?" He asked them.
His question went without an answer as Rick and Shane started to walk away from him. He quickly realized that they were going to leave him in this place and he didn't want to be left alone in this place. He was certain that he wasn't going to last long if he'd be left all alone.
He quickly turned back to see them walking away, starting to plead him to not leave him. "Oh, come on, don't be stupid. I owe you guys. I can help protect what you've got. Why would you save my life just to kill me by leaving me here? One guy can't make it alone. That's why I was with those dudes, I was alone!"
Rick and Shane remained unresponsive to his calls. Rick pulled out a knife and shared a quick look with Shane before throwing it on the ground, a few meters away from Randall. After that, they proceeded to walk away from the young man.
He continued to plead them, "Don't be stupid! I'm not like them! I'm just some guy I used to watch football and screw around on the internet. I lived with my mom! I lost her like you lost people. I went to school with Maggie for god's sake!..."
Rick and Shane stopped after hearing him mention Maggie and that was he attending school with her. They turned around to look at him and started to walk back to the young man.
"You went to school with Maggie?" Rick asked, wanting to be sure that he didn't misheard it.
"Answer the question!" Shane demanded, "Did you go to school with Maggie?"
"I-it-she didn't know me." Randall stuttered out as Rick and Shane stopped in front of him, "Didn't even know I existed. I mean I knew her. I knew who her dad was. There is no way I would ever do anything to hurt her or her family."
"Jesus." Shane rubbed his head, "He knows where the farm is, Rick. Where we are. He knows. Say he finds his way back to his people..."
He reached out for his pistol and aimed it at Randall. Rick's eyes widened as he quickly reacted to it, moving Shane's pistol away from Randall, "Shane, no!"
The pistol fired and the bullet hit the ground right next to Randall as Shane collapsed on the ground, "Not now. Just not now."
"Well, when, Rick?" Shane wanted to know, "When?"
Shane's pistol slided across the ground after Rick kicked it, his gaze not leaving Shane, "When I've had a chance to think about it."
"Don't let him kill me." Randall pleaded, already fearing the worst, "Please don't."
"Shut up!" Rick shushed Randall, taking a quick look at him over his shoulder, before turning back to Shane, "We're going back. It's a man's life. I need a night to think it through."
"You're gonna bring this piece of garbage." Shane scoffed and pointed at Randall, "This piece of garbage who-shot at you, Rick. He ran with men who tried to kill you. You gonna bring him back to where Lori sleeps? To where Carl sleeps?"
"He'll be locked up in the barn." Rick told him, "Unless you bust it open."
Shane shook his head, "Oh, don't start that shit."
"I'm taking the night." Rick repeated himself.
"Man, you take that- you think on it, Rick. Keep struggling with it. It ain't hard,man." Shane said, beginning to raise his words as he stood up from the ground, "The right choice is the one that keeps us alive. It's always the same with you. It's like the first moment it's whenever you're put to the test."
"Stop acting like you know the way ahead, like you know the rules." Rick argued, coming closer to Shane, "There are no rules,man. We're lost."
"No, man." Shane said as Rick stopped in front of him, "I know exactly where I am."
"You don't know shit anymore." Rick stated.
" I don't think you can do it, Rick." Shane shook his head.
"It's my call, man." Rick pointed out.
" I don't think you can keep them safe." Shane stated.
Rick stopped and stared at Shane for a moment, glare forming on his face. It was when Shane finally crossed the line. He charged at him, shoving Shane against the police car that was nearby as Shane responded to it by headbutting. He stumbled back a bit, and fell on his fours as Shane started reaching for Rick's gun that was in the holster.
The sheriff deputy quickly got himself back on his feet and knocked his Python off Shane's grasp and shoved him against the police car once again. He punched him a few times before Shane wrapped his arms around him and threw him on the front of the car.
They were unaware that Randall who just watched their fight for a few seconds slowly started to make his way towards the knife that Rick threw on the ground a few moments ago
The fight between Rick and Shane continued as the latter shoved the former against a truck. Rick punched him in the face as Shane responded by elblowing him in the stomach. He grabbed Rick and threw him aside as Rick rolled across the ground for a few seconds. Shane used his opportunity and moved towards the police motorcycle and pushed it at Rick who grunted in pain as the motorcycle fell on his legs.
Shane turned away from and started moving towards his pistol that Rick kicked away and was currently under the firetruck. He reached down and picked it up, He moved towards Randall and saw the young man crawling towards the knife. He shook his head and about to take the shot, intending to take care of this problem once and for all, but was stopped.
"No!" Rick cried out, wrapping his arms around Shane. He threw himself on the ground along with Shane and the two wrestled for a few seconds before Rick got himself on Shane. He grabbed him by his shirt and started punching him straight in the face. He stopped after a few punches, thinkin that it was enough as Randall finally made his way to the knife and started to cut his bounds.
"You're not doing this! You don't get to make these calls anymore." Rick told Shane, who slowly stood up from the ground, "I won't let you."
Shane glared at him before picking up a wrench which happened to be laying nearby. He screamed as he threw right at Rick but missed it's target and hit the window next to Rick, breaking it into pieces.
It was when they heard some growling inside the building and it was just a matter of seconds before the first walker crawled through the broken window. Rick panted and quickly started to make him way away from the window, but he wasn't fast enough and the undead grabbed his shoulders. RIck's reaction was quick and he stabbed it in the forehead.
It was when more walkers started coming through the broken window as Rick placed the walker that he just killed over him, as all of the walkers walked past him, not noticing him, picking Shane as their only target who started to make him away away from them.
Andrea, Gwen and Leshawna managed to find Maggie and brought her to the house where they were informed what Beth wanted to do. Maggie quickly went to have a talk with her sister about it while Lori, Bridgette, Gwen and Leshawna stayed in the kitchen, allowing them to talk in private.
"Should we go to look for Hershel?" Gwen asked.
"He doesn't want to find out yet." Lori shook her head, "It's a family affair. We'll let them work it out."
"That's working it out?" Andrea asked, hearing the two sisters arguing.
"When Beth stops fighting, that's when it's time to worry." Lori stated.
Andrea sighed, "This could've been handled better."
"How so?" Bridgette raised her brow.
"You two shouldn't have taken the knife away." Andrea said to Lori and Bridgette, making everyone's eyes go wide in shock that she'd even say something like this.
"...What?" Gwen asked after a moment in disbelief.
"Girl, are you crazy?" Leshawna asked, not believing what Andrea just said.
"You were wrong, like Dale taking my gun. That wasn't your decision." Andrea pointed out, "She has to choose to live on her own. She has to find her own reasons."
"Like what? Letting her kill herself?" Leshawna crossed her arms.
Gwen glared at Andrea, adding, "How we'll tie a noose for her? This is what you want us to do?"
"If she's serious, she'll figure out a way." Andrea stated.
"Doesn't mean we can't stop her or let her know that we care." Bridgette pointed out to which Lori, Gwen and Leshawna nodded in agreement.
"That has nothing to do with it, guys." Andrea stated, "She only has so many choices in front of her,and she believes the best one is suicide."
"That's not an option." Lori stated.
"Of course it is." Andrea said, "She doesn't need to be yelled at or treated like a child."
"She needs a loaded gun, right?" Lori asked, "You'll understand if I don't send you in there."
"I came through it." Andrea answered.
"And became such a productive member of the group." Lori stated.
"We should just Maggie handle this her way." Bridgette added, "Then we'll see what can we do."
"I contribute. I help keep this place safe." Andrea pointed out to Lori, ignoring what Bridgette just said.
"The men can handle this on their own." Lori stated as everyone else exchanged confused look, not understanding her point right now, "They don't need your help."
"What does that have to do with anything Lori?" Gwen asked in confusion. She was on Lori's side for most of the argument. What Andrea said letting Beth decide if she wants to commit suicide or not was wrong, but what Lori just said just stupid and didn't made any sense.
"What I'm trying to say is that she doesn't about anyone but herself." Lori explained, as she shifted her attention from the goth at Andrea, "You sit up on that RV, working on your tan with a shotgun in your lap."
"This argument doesn't make any sense, girl." Leshawna stated, clearly confused why Lori even started this conversation about the way how Andrea contributes for the group, making Lori stare at her, "Everyone should contribute in the way they want to. It doesn't matter if it's doing laundry, or keeping watch."
"And this shouldn't be an important conversation right now." Gwen added, to which Leshawna nodded in agreement.
"Thank you, both of you." Andrea said to Leshawna and Gwen, before turning her attention back to Lori, "And in case if you forgot, I, Leshawna, Bridgette and Gwen were going out to the town back when we were in Atlanta to gather some supplies for our group. Does that make Gwen and Leshawna selfish too because they weren't doing laundry after that?"
"Look we are providing stability. We are trying to create a life worth living." Lori told her, as he turned to look at Bridgette, excepting her to least take her side on this one, "Bridgette?"
"I'm sorry, but I'm with them on this one." Bridgette shook her head, looking just as suprised as Gwen, Andrea and Leshawna that Lori brought this up, especially now when Beth was thinking about ending her own life, "I can't actually believe that you would bring up something like that right now. The way how Andrea contributes for our group shouldn't matter."
Seeing how the tables have turned against her, after bringing up Andrea's contribution to the coversation, Lori said, 'Look, I went after Rick. I took down two walkers."
"Of course, because killing two walkers makes you a wonderful expert." A familiar voice sounded in their ears as everyone turned to the source of it and saw Glenn and Noah standing in the entrance to the kitchen.
"Noah? Glenn?" Gwen asked, "What are you doing here?"
"I was just minding my own business in our camp when Glenn came and told me what happened with Beth. We went to this house and heard this argument." Noah explained, "That was a nice way to bring something like that to Andrea, Lori. Tell me, does coming after your husband includes crashing Maggie's car?"
"Did you even apologized for that?" Andrea added.
Lori shook her head, "You're insane."
"What are you talking about?" Noah began, "We're insane because we don't agree with you? Because Andrea is doing the work that you think only men should handle? In that case maybe we shouldn't ask Bridgette to use her medical training anymore, because this isn't a job for her? Or DJ shouldn't be making food for us, because this isn't a job for him?"
"Noah..." Lori tried to say something to him but the bookworm wouldn't let her. He wanted her to hear everything he had to say to her.
Noah cut her off and continued, "Let me finish. You say that you drove for find your husband, but your forgot to mention that your went to find him by yourself and ended up crashing Maggie's car while being pregnant, and the funniest thing about it, you thought that me, Izzy and Ezekiel lying about Rick being back at the farm was worse than what you did."
"And you're the one that's self-centered, the way you take it all for granted." Andrea added to which Noah nodded his head in agreement. Leshawna, Bridgette, Gwen and Glenn just remained silent and listened to the argument.
"My husband is out there for the hundredth time." Lori glared at them, "My son was shot. Don't you dare tell me I take this for granted."
"You don't get it, do you? Your husband came back from the dead, your son too. And now you've got a baby on the way." Andrea pointed out, returning the glare, "The rest of us have piled up our losses me, Carol, Tyler, DJ, Beth, but you just keep on keeping on."
Lori shook her head, "We have all suffered."
"But at least we're not laying rules for everybody but ourselves, like you do, and I don't even think that you're in the position to do it, only because your husband is leading our group." Noah pointed out as he returned the glare too, "We all were doing something in our camp in Atlanta. I was catching fish along with Owen and Ezekiel, Andrea was doing the same with Amy, and was going out to Atlanta. Leshawna, Bridgette and Gwen were going out too, and don't forget that Bridgette was taking care of someone when this person was wounded, despise her medical traning being just a basic one, while you just sat on your ass for most of the time and spread your legs to Shane."
With that being said, Noah turned away from Lori and walked out from the kitchen, heading towards the living room, ignoring the glare that she gave him after mentioning Shane.
"Hey, Noah." Glenn followed him and thought for a second if he should ask this question before asking, "Was that neccesary?
"Yes." Noah nodded his head as he sat down on the couch, "It was."
Rick panted as he was making his way away from the walkers. He got himself on the ground and started looking around, attempting to find his Python between the cars. He sighed in relief when he saw it laying underneath of one of the cars and quickly reaching his hand to grab it as the undead were getting closer to him. He grabbed his Python and aimed it right at the approaching walker.
He got rid of it with a simple shot in it's head, making it now lifeless body collaps on top of him. He aimed his Python at another walker, but this one unfortunely missed and the walker laid itself on the body on top of Rick as the one that was right behind it was taken out with an arrow which landed right in the back of it's head.
Rick saw the body of the walker collapsed on the ground and saw Duncan and Harold coming his way. He made sure to the the walker that was laying on top of the body laying on him as Harold and Duncan ran over to him and got the bodies off him, allowing Rick to get back on his feet.
"Thanks." Rick thanked them to which the two teenagers nodded, "Where's Tyler?"
"He went the other way." Harold explained.
"We need get out of here." Duncan stated when they heard more walkers coming their way.
Maggie walked back and forth through her sister's room. She shook her head and she she sat down on the bed, next to her sister. She tried to talk her sister out of it, but no matter what she said, Beth's mind about ending her own life stayed the same.
"Mom would be ashamed to learn she raised such a coward." She said to Beth as she sat next to her sister, "What about dad, Beth?"
"He's clueless." Beth stated, "He had us waiting for a cure."
"He knows he was wrong." Maggie pointed out.
"When has dad ever admitted he was wrong?" Beth pointed our in return, "He's just telling Rick's group what they want to hear."
"And Jimmy?" Maggie asked her, "What about him?"
"We went out for three months and now I'm married to him?" Beth asked her in return.
"And me? You could do that to me?" Maggie wanted to know, "I can't take another funeral."
"You can't avoid it." Beth stated, "What are we waiting for? We should both do it."
Maggie couldn't believe her ears. She asked "What?" in disbelief.
"At the same time. Help each other." Beth explained.
"No." Maggie shook her head.
"It's hard to do it. No wants wants to but..." Beth began.
"No, please don't." Maggie said but her sister continued as if she didn't ever heard her.
Beth continued, ignoring what her sister just said to her, "We can do it so it's peaceful, easy."
Maggie placed her hands on Beth's shoulders, "Stop talking like that."
"Our choice, and then it would be over." Beth said, "Or we'll be forced to do it when the farm and this house is overrun. No one can protect us."
"That's not true." Maggie stated, shaking her head.
"Who, Glenn or that friend of his Noah? Or that girl you've been hanging out lately? Bridgette?" Beth asked, feeling like she was seconds away from bursting into tears as Maggie went silent at the mention, "I heard what happened. Rick will save his family, the others too. We're alone. You, me, Patricia, with only dad and Jimmy against a whole world of those things. I don't wanna be gutted. I wanna go in this bed tonight with you beside me. Please..."
Shane grunted as he quickly got himself into an abandoned school bus, shutting the doors behind him to make sure that the walkers chasing him weren't going to get him. He pressed his back against the doors as the walkers continued to slam their hands against them.
"Hey!" He heard someone call out to them, earning the attention of some of the walkers, "I'm here!"
The walkers that heard him turned to the source of the voice and saw Tyler standing in front of them with his baseball bat in ready. He knew that there was too many of them for only him, but he knew that he could save Shane from them. He is going to do everything he can. He glared at the walkers as they started making their way towards them, after all, he was much an easier catch for them than Shane who locked himself in the bus. Tyler swung his baseball bat at the walker that happened to the closest one to him.
The hit was so strong that it made the undead's jaw fell off it's head as Tyler ignored it and hit the walker one more time, as it collapsed on the ground. He was about to finish it off by crushing it's skull, but was stopped by another walker from doing so. The walked growled as it practically shoved itself towards Tyler who jumped back in suprise and quickly swung his baseball bat at it, slamming it on the undead's head.
The undead stumbled back as Tyler finished it off by slamming his weapon on top of it's head. He heard how the lifeless corpse a walker collapsed on the ground before turning his attention towards another walker, but was taken by suprise when it was shot right in it's head, killing it instantly.
It was when he heard someone driving towards him and Shane. He looked over his shoulder and saw two cars heading their way. Rick and Randall were in the first one while Harold and Duncan drove closely behind them in the other one.
"Shane!" Rick cried out to Shane, "Go for the back door!"
Shane quickly jumped into his feet and started running through the school bus, heading towards the back door as Duncan and Harold stopped next to Tyler.
"Get in!" Duncan told him as Tyler did as he told and quickly hopped into the back seat of the car. Shane opened the back doors of the bus with a firm kick and quickly hopped into the car through the opened window as Duncan, Harold and Tyler broke through the gate and started driving away from this place. Randall quickly drove the car backwards, crushing the skull of the walker laying on the ground and turned it's direction the now opened gate, driving right behind the the teenagers.
The last sight they had of this place was the undead walking through the gate into the streets, chasing after them, but it was obvious that they weren't going to reach them.
Maggie walked into the room to see that her sister wasn't on the bed. She eyed the room in confusion whe she heard someone crying in the bathroom. The worst scenario immediately popped into her mind as she ran over to the doors to the bathroom and started knocking.
"Beth?" She asked, "Beth?"
"Maggie?" Bridgette asked her as she entered the room with Gwen and Leshawna, "What's going on?"
They didn't had to wait long for Maggie to reply, "She's in there. I heard glass."
Bridgette's, Gwen's and Leshawna's eyes snapped open after hearing this as they pushed themselves into run towards the bathroom to help Maggie open the door and stop her sister from doing something to herself.
Bridgette was the first one to reach Maggie and called out to the younger Greene in worry, "Beth, you all right?"
"Don't do this, girl." Leshawna was right behind Bridgette, "I know that the last few days were hard for you but we'll help you get through this."
Maggie shook her head in worry as she went over to the cupboard and started searching through the cabinets, "God, I left her with Andrea."
"Where's the key?" Gwen asked her.
"I don't know." Maggie answered, as she stopped searching through the cabinets and went back to the door as Bridgette, Gwen and Leshawna all split around the room and started searching for the key, "Beth honey, please open the door. I'm not mad. I'm not mad, Beth."
It was when Gwen saw something laying in the corner of the room. It was a crowbar. An idea what to do with it instantly popped into her head as she picked it up and walked back to the door to the bathroom. It took her only a few seconds to open it. The doors shut open, revealing the sight of crying Beth as she held her bloody wrist to everyone.
"I'm sorry." She cried as Maggie walked over to her to give her a hug, "I'm sorry."
"It's okay." Maggie assured her as she wrapped her arm around Beth's right side, beginning to lead her out from the bathroom, "It's okay."
"Let's patch you up." Bridgette said to the younger Greene, wrapping her arm around her other side, as Beth gave her a small nod in response as they took her out from the room.
Rick, Shane, Duncan, Harold and Tyler stopped their vehicles in the middle of the road to take care of one thing before they'll head back to the farm. They bounded, gagged and blindfolded Randall again who was obviously not a fan of this idea, but they didn't care about. Rick picked the young man from the ground and placed hm in the trunk of his car.
He turned away from the trunk to look at his group again and said, "Let's go back to the farm."
"Hey, Doris." Duncan said to Harold as they approached their car. The nerd turned to look at the juvie and hummed, "We cool, now?"
Harold gave him a quick nod of his head, "Yeah. We cool now."
Duncan nodded his head in response as they got themselves in the car. Duncan took the driver seat while Harold sat in the passenger seat next to him. Tyler got himself into the car shorty after, the jock taking the seats in the back.
"Hey, Tyler." Harold said to the jock.
"What?" The red clothed teenager asked him.
"I understand now why you did everything you did." Harold told him. Everything that Tyler did during the last days was because this is what the jock thought that had to be done to keep everyone safe. To prevent everyone from sharing the same fate as Lindsay.
Tyler sighed, "I just don't want to see more people from our group killed by those things."
"Don't worry." Harold gave him an assuring smile, "I assure you that more of us won't die."
"Do you believe in that?" Tyler asked, wishing to believe in what Harold just said, but a part of him didn't want to.
"There is something we all have to believe, don't we? The farm is isolated, and we barely see a walker enter it's area." Harold told him. They just had to figure out what to do with Randall.
Tyler sighed, once again, and if there will ever a situation in which he would have to risk his life to save someone that he knows can be saved, then he will do it, without hesitation, "If you say so."
Rick waited until the teenagers would get into their car and approached Shane, intending to say something to him about what happened today, If you wanna kill me,you're gonna have to do better than a wrench. Probably gonna have to kill that boy,but I am gonna think about it a night. It can't be that easy,killing someone,killing anyone. You know that. That is my wife. That is my son. That is my child. If you're gonna be with us,you gotta follow my lead,you gotta trust me."
Shane stayed silent, his gaze on the ground as he didn't reply to anything that Rick just said to him. He looked up at him and they exchanged a look with each other as Rick pulled out the pistol that Shane lost during their fight and held it out to him, "It's time for you to come back."
Shane took the pistol from Rick who got himself into the car right after, waiting for Shane to get inside as well. He didn't had to wait long. Shane got himself into the car a few seconds later and Rick made a gesture with his hand to Duncan, telling the juvie that they're heading out now. They started up their cars and started driving towards the farm.
When they drove through the country road, they could spot a lonely walker walking through the fields. Shane's gaze followed the walker for a few seconds before it disappeared from his view.
I love the soundtrack at the end of this episode so much. Only 3 more chapters left in season 2!
What are your thoughts about the finale of season 10? I personally liked it. I was happy when Connie turned to be out alive (She's my favourite from Magna's group). Seeing Maggie again after over a season and a half was great too (I wonder who is the person that came with her. Hope we'll find more about them in the next season), and I can't wait to see Maggie confronting Negan now that he was let out from his cell.
I actually liked the way how Beta went down. Him being torn to shreds by walkers with a grin of his face and without letting out a single scream was a great way for him to go. It was so much better for him than what we got in the comics. Just wish the that fight between him and Negan and Daryl was a bit longer, but let's be honest here, the fight wasn't going to last that much either way, especially with them surrounded by so many walkers,
I can't wait for season 11 and to see how they're going to deal with the Commonwealth, now that Eugene, Ezekiel, Yumiko and Princess came across the soldiers from this place in the final scene. I wonder if Rick is going to appear again in this season. I would love to see Morgan return as well. It would be awesome to see the two characters that the show started with return in it's final season.
Anyway, hope it wasn't that bad. See you in another chapter.