A.N.: I cried so hard during the premier on Sunday. I wanted to get this chapter out of the way because I've got ideas for another fanfic. I know I shouldn't, but I can't stop thinking about what would happen in it. Anyways, enjoy!
"When do you think they're gonna come back?" Carl asked Carol. After everyone left she got him to come inside instead of beating himself up about what happened. "Maybe tomorrow, day after," she replied. "They're gonna come back,"
"We need to kill Shane," he said, "I should've done it,"
"Look, you need to stop that. You're not gonna get anywhere acting like that."
"But it's my-"
"No. It happened, there was nothing you could do to save her. I'm angry too, but it happened,"
Jesus, he was an orphan now. She could try to comfort him, but he would probably just think she wanted to replace Lori.
Carol was about to head outside when she said, "You're gonna be fine," and gave Carl a weak smile.
He got up to go to the tombs. He just needed to "get away" from everything. Maybe going there would help him. It was no better than the first time they were there. The concrete was still cold and damp. The entire place smelled of walker guts. Of course, they'd been around it long enough to where it wasn't as bad.
He came across the boiler room where Lori died. Where the baby was born. He went to go open the door but he stopped himself.
A very loud scream echoed through the walls.
Carl walked away from the door and began to run towards the screaming. In what looked like the laundry area there was people. About five. "Come on!" He shouted at them. This could either go really good or really bad. They took notice of him and followed him, killing walkers as they went.
He led them to the cell block and shut the gate. One of their members had been bitten. She seemed to be slipping away.
When she seemed to stop breathing a man with a beanie placed a bandana over the woman's face. A boy, who was probably a bit older than Carl, began to cry.
"I'll do it," Carl said. He had his gun out already. "No," the man with the beanie said, "we take care of our own." He had a hammer out.
CRACK!
The bandana was now soaked in her blood. Mushy bits of her brain were now splattered in a few areas.
The boy was now sobbing into his father's shoulder. At least it looked like his father.
Carl shut the gate on them. Leaving the group of now four to grieve. A woman went up to the gate and began to shout.
"Let us out! You can't do this!"
"Sasha, this is the best we've had in a while," the man with the beanie said, "Let the boy be."
The voices grew quieter as Carl walked further away. He went outside to see Carol keeping watch. He walked towards her.
"I found some people," he said. "What!?" Carol asked.
"They just lost one of their people. I locked them in with each other,"
"And you just let them in? They're strangers. They could be dangerous,"
"That's why I locked them up,"
Carol sighed and walked away. She wanted to get a look at these people.
She entered the prison with Carl behind her.
The people acknowledged her. "So you're getting your mom involved?" The woman who yelled at him, Sasha, said.
"She's not-"
"What do you want?" Carol asked.
"We just need a place to stay for a little while," the man with the beanie said, "I'm Tyreese," He extended his hand for her to shake, she didn't. "This is my sister, Sasha. That's Allen and his son Ben," Tyreese said.
"We have more people coming back. You might not want to try anything,"
"We're good people-"
"I bet you are. We just...Can't take chances,"
Carol took notice of the corpse on the other side of the room.
"Your friend, you can bury her if you like,"
"Thank you," another man, Allen, said.
A.N.: So I'm sorry if it's shorter than normal, I just wanted to get this part out of the way. Of course, I'm going to be doing that a lot until we hit a more comfortable spot. I do intend to publish another story soon. It's also going to be a Walking Dead one, but I know it'll be harder to work on two stories at once for me. I dunno, I tried reading two books at the same time and quickly regretted it. Anyways, I'll update soon and please review!