What Can You Do?
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Thank you to Darkangelfirekitsune for being my beta.
There are going to be straight, gay, and lesbian pairings in this story. Don't like, Don't read.
Chapter 12
What Can You Do?
"WHAT THE FUCK!" Merle shouted; Harry turned to see what caused the outburst. What he saw was an empty clearing. No vehicles, no people, nothing.
"STOP THE TRUCK!" Merle shouted again, causing Arika to slam on the breaks. Harry was slammed forward, hitting his right shoulder into the back of the truck right below the windows.
"Fuck," Harry said rubbing his shoulder, standing up, he jumped out of the bed of the truck and landed on the ground on Merle's side. Walking up to his door, Harry stopped him from getting out.
"Stay in the car," he said looking Merle in the eyes. Sometime during the ride, Merle had lowered down his window.
"You are still hurt. Let me take a look around to make sure the coast is clear," Harry continued. Getting a nod from Arika and a pissed off grunt from Merle, Harry walked into the empty clearing. Looking around, all he saw was a dismantled red muscle car on the side of the road. It looked as if the previous group had taken it apart for parts, but other than that nothing out of the ordinary. Walking a little further he saw a couple of burned spots on the ground until a closer look had Harry realized that they were not burnt grass, as he first thought, but bloodstains. Taking a more detailed look at his surroundings, he noticed the signs of a horde making their way thru. Bent branches trample grass along with footprints over top of footprints.
With a heavy sigh, Harry started to make his way back to the truck to let them know the bad news. He did not know Merle's brother but if he was anything like Merle then he was alive, and him and his group were on the move. Without knowing when the attacked had happened or which way they went they were at a dead end. Looking at Merle he knows that this might be the end of him traveling with them. They could not wait around long to help him find his brother nor did he believe that Merle was going to abandoned his brother.
"A horde came though at some point," Harry said once he was in hearing distance of the truck. Before the last word left his mouth, Merle had thrown his door opened and was out of the truck. He started to run the slight hill and to the right, towards a clearing by the edge of the woods. Once there, he started looking around and then fell to his knees. Arika and Harry seeing this let him go. Walking around, they saw signs of the attacked but other than that, it looked as if it was a decent spot to set up camp. As long as they had the right set up, it was a good place to rest. Nothing long term, but a base to rest and plan for the next move. So, what had happened to make the inferi wonder this far into the woods, away from the city? The reason why was one that troubled Harry and he was hoping that he was wrong.
"It seems that they are moving on their own. No noise or light starting them. It seems that they are actively looking for food and if that is the case them, we are in for even more complications," Harry said once he saw Arika stopping next to him.
"Actively looking for food. Fuck," Arika said a disbelieving laugh making its way out of her throat. Taking her hand, he rubbed her forehead and could not believe what she was hearing but it was making sense. With what the signs were saying happen here and what had happened to them, it was just their luck.
"This is just fucking perfect. So, what do we do now?"
"Try and find out what we can then move on. He is going to look for his brother and we will help him as long as we can before we have to move on. That is the only thing I can think of to do," Harry said. Nodding her head Arika started to make her way into the forest to make sure it was clear and to get a better idea on what had happened here.
Harry watching Arika leave turned to look at the red car. It was nice and he was hoping that there was a note or a clue on where the group had moved to. Walking up looking around he ended up finding nothing and made his way back to look at the ground. He wished that Merle was not here so that he could use his magic to help them out, but he no idea if the group had stayed together or if they parted ways, and if they did which one was Merle's brothers. Letting out another sigh Harry just did not know what to do anymore.
After walking and looking at everything that he could Harry went back to the truck and waited for Arika to come back. It was going to be dark soon and he did not want to sleep with anything but a truck as shelter.
Hearing branches snapped and footsteps heading his way, Harry turned his hand going to his knife on his belt, getting ready to attack if need be, when Arika stepped out of the clearing knife in hand, with a thoughtful look on her face.
"It looked as if it was only a small one, and the dead deer over there in that clearing lead them here," She said pointing to a bunch of trees to the left of them. Lowering the tailgate, she turned and jumping up on it to sit. Once down she took off her backpack and reached in taking out her water bottle drinking the rest of it. Once done she let out a relieved sigh before putting it back in her pack, to refill later.
"What did you find?"
"The graves." Hearing this Arika eyes went wide and her mouth opened a little.
"They buried their dead?" she asked in disbelief.
"I believe so. There were only a couple of graves, so I do not believe that they buried the inferi, but either way we are going to have to unbury them and have Merle double-check that none of them are his brother, then burn them," Harry said leaning his head back against the side of the truck with his eyes closed. Why could nothing in his life be simple? Just once he wanted things to go the way they had planned, but then again there was his potter luck making its appearances. Straightening back up Harry started to make his way to Merle, who was frantically looking around.
"It looks as if they were attacked and left while we were waiting for you to heal," Harry said walking up to Merle's. He stopped a few feet away waited for Merle to finish what he was doing.
"Found whatever you were looking for?"
"No. Ther's nutin'. Nutin' letin'me no w'ere they were goin' or when they left. I knew Officer Friendly told 'im I were dead. That'd be the only reason that he didn't leave anything. While he can go fuck himself. When I meet him again, he is going to regr…"
"Enough. I understand that you are pissed but you do not know what happened. Anything could have happened while you were away. It looks as if they were attacked and lost some people. They might have had to move to be safe. We do not know. Arika and I are going to go and dig up the graves and we need you to come to make sure none of them are your brother. Once we are done, we are going to burn them and then all of us are going to head back into town before it gets dark. We will spend the night in a building and plan on what we are going to do tomorrow."
"Fine. Do what ya need ta, but I ain't leaving until ay find out where they went."
"There is no clue. You just said that this Officer Friendly probably told the others that you were dead. We go find a place to crush and then continue to look for him. I told you that I would help you find your brother and I meant it. I will help as long as I can, but I will tell you this now. It will only be for a few days. I can't and won't put the rest of the group in trouble for him. If at the end, we still have not found him then we will be on our way and at that time you can decide if you want to leave or stay with us. Is that fair to you?"
Letting out a growl Merle turned and kicked at the ground letting out a growl. Turning back around he glared at Harry before taking in a deep breath and nodding his head reluctantly. Nodding back Harry started to walk back towards the truck with Merle following behind him. Once their backs were turned a plastic sleeve holding a piece of paper tumble by. It kept going until it was stopped by a tree with the words facing out. It read
'MORGAN
GOING TO CDC
THIS AREA
NOT SAFE
RICK'
~~~~~~~~Slytherin~~~~~~~~
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