Jestalnaker94000

Good chapter! :) also will Mr. Eko have some screen time?

Ask and you shall receive, hope you enjoy him in this chapter.

thedarkpokemaster

Damn good chapter man once again seems that Jack and Rick shall meet soon and good to know that they all hate Ed while everyone loves Hugo see where I went there lol, as for the end with Shane man I can see Sawyer saying something to him it's who he is after all.

With mine I am hoping to get it done soon, with many set ups.

Yep Jack and Rick will meet soon but not right now unfortunately, they are both a bit busy at the moment. And yes everyone hates Ed but everyone loves Hugo lol. As for Sawyer, we know holding his tongue was never Sawyer's strong suit so.

Don 77

Another good chapter U bet we are meeting Locke and Daryl two great hunters, you know something just clicked in my head this could be funny Sophia has a crush on Sawyer which Carl wouldn't like at all. The ladies do like him after the fan ladies that is.

Also its good that they all know what a prick Ed is Sayid seems to want to put him in his place then again I'm sure all of the survivors feel the same right now.

Yeah I felt that it really fit Sayid's character for him to want to stop someone who is causing pain, after all Sayid knows how much pain he has caused in the past to others. And that would be pretty funny if Sophia had a crush on Sawyer but right now I can tell you that almost everyone doesn't like Sawyer, so Sophia is definitely wary of him.

Kevinrock8899

So Rick is back with his family and Ana and Eko have meet as well it seems which shall be good as they were friends after all but they are all right Daryl is not going to be happy with what happened to his brother.

Yeah it's interesting having Ana and Eko meet in this new way and I do intend for them to have more scenes together, eventually. And as you will see in this chapter, Daryl is not a very happy camper lol.


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Rick's eyes fluttered open and he looked around his tent. He was alone but he could hear the commotion going on the outside of his tent, it seemed everyone had started the day without him. He checked his watch and saw that it was already ten in the morning. He sat up and looked in front of him and found a pair of jeans and a white shirt, his sheriff outfit was missing.

Rick got dressed and walked out of his tent stretching, "Hey there. Your name?" Jack said walking up to him,

"Uh Rick Grimes?" Rick replied confused,

"Alright Rick, you have any allergies or any health conditions?" Jack asked writing his name down on a small pad,

"Health conditions?" Rick asked taken aback, "What are you asking me this?"

"Right sorry, names Jack. I'm the doctor in the camp and I like to keep some sort of record on everyone here in case anything happens." Jack explained,

"Doctor?" Rick asked a bit surprised,

"Yeah I was a surgeon, followed in my dad's footsteps I guess." Jack said a bit hardly,

Rick let out a nod, "Okay Jack, no I don't have any allergies or health conditions."

"Alright, let me know if you need me for anything." Jack said with a nod and continued on his way,

Rick looked at him oddly as he walked away. He slowly continued until he found Carol and Claire who were in the process of hanging his sheriff outfit to dry, "You cleaned my clothes?"

"The best we could, the sun should have them dry in no time." Carol said with a bit of a smile,

"That's very kind thank you." Rick said sincerely,

"Your welcome." Claire said with a smile while Carol just stood there silent, a bit surprised to be thanked as that never happened to her,

Rick continued along his way looking for his wife when he spotted Charlie and Glenn staring at the Dodge Challenger being stripped for parts and gas, "Bloody vultures." Charlie said to Glenn as Dale and Jim continued to strip the car,

"I didn't even have it for a full day." Glenn replied sadly,

"At least you got to drive the sodding thing." Charlie shot back,

"Maybe you'll steal another one some day guys." Rick said showing up behind them, Charlie and Glenn both gave him a nod sadly as Rick walked by with a smirk on his face. Rick finally spotted Lori,

"Morning officer." Lori said with a warm smile,

"Hey." Rick replied getting closer to her. Nearby Andrea and Amy watched the two of them with smiles of their own,

"You sleep alright?" Lori asked happily,

"Better than in a long time." Rick said with a nod,

"Well I didn't want to wake you." Lori said and looked at Rick who was staring at her holding back on telling her something, "God, what?" Lori asked waiting,

"I've been thinking about that man we left in Atlanta." Rick said easily,

Lori's face turned into a frown, "You're not serious." Just then they heard a jeep driving up. They looked over and saw Shane and Ana jump out of a jeep,

"Water's here ya'll! Just a reminder to boil before use!" Shane yelled out as he walked to the back of the jeep giving Rick a nod of greeting,

"Are you asking me or telling me?" Lori asked Rick,

"Asking." Rick said firmly,

"Well I think it's the stupidest way to break your son's-" Lori began to say but quickly stopped as she heard Sophia and Carl yelling in the distance. Nearly the whole camp took off running towards the screams. Shane grabbed his shotgun and while Glenn tossed Rick a baseball bat and followed right behind. Eko, Dale and Sawyer also ran straight behind the group as well. Lori collapsed to her knees and pulled Carl into a hug as they reached the camp's limit. Carl pointed over towards the tree line as Lori held him close.

Shane, Rick, Eko, Glenn, and Sawyer all continued to head towards the tree line. They quickly found the problem, a walker feeding on a deer that had three crossbow bolts lodged in its body. The walker seemed oblivious to the group as it pulled chunks of flesh out of the deer's neck and stuffed it's face. Slowly everyone surrounded the walker, finally it took notice and pulled itself up.

The walker looked directly at Shane and let out a loud snarl but before it could react a knife came flying out of the forest and struck it straight in the head. Everyone flinched and looked to the forest in shock. Shane aimed his shotgun at the forest and Sawyer pulled out his pistol aiming towards it as well.

Just then Daryl and John emerged from the tree, "Damn you actually got the sonofabitch." Daryl said surprised. Then Daryl noticed the deer, "Sonofabitch! That's my deer!"

"Oh good it's Mr Clean and Robin Hood." Sawyer said putting his pistol away,

"Man why don't you shut your mouth before you get an arrow in the nuts!" Daryl said turning his anger towards Sawyer,

"I'd like to see you try Green Arrow." Sawyer shot back sarcastically,

"Alright that's enough guys, come on." Dale said as John pulled out his knife from the walker's head,

Daryl looked at Sawyer hardly for a few more seconds then turned back to the deer, "Was tracking this thing for days, was gonna drag it back to camp and cook us up some venison. You think we could just cut around this chewed up part? What do you think?" Daryl said pointing to the deer's neck,

"I would not risk that." Shane said firmly resting the shotgun on his shoulder,

"Damn shame, well me and Locke got a few dozen squirrel that will have to do." Daryl said with a shrug and started heading back to the camp. Rick looked around at everyone who stared at him waiting. Shane let out a nod seeing that Rick could use a little back up.

As the group walked back trying to catch up to Daryl John said, "Don't recognize you, my name's John."

"Rick Grimes." Rick said with a nod and kept moving,

"Grimes? As in Lori Grimes?" John said surprised,

"Yeah I'm her husband. Sorry we're gonna have to do this later." Rick said turning his attention back to Daryl,

"Alright." John said slowing up, He looked over at Eko who was following them close, "Hello Eko." John said with a bit of a smile. Eko just looked over at him with silent nod.

Just as Daryl got to the RV he called out, "Merle! Get your ass out here, we got us some squirrel!" Rick took a breath and walked forward with Shane and Eko flanking him,

"Daryl why don't you hold up for a minute." Shane called out, "We gotta talk for a minute."

"About what?" Daryl asked,

"About Merle, something happened in Atlanta." Shane said wiping his mouth and shifting awkwardly,

Daryl looked around at the whole group who now watched him, "He dead?"

"We're not sure." Shane said,

"He's either dead or he ain't" Daryl said walking closer to Shane aggressively,

"There's no easy way to say this so I'll just say it." Rick said walking towards him,

"Who are you?" Daryl asked,

"Rick Grimes." Rick answered,

"Rick Grimes." Daryl spat out, "You got something you want to tell me?"

"Your brother was a danger to us all, so he was handcuffed to a roof and got left behind." Rick said firmly,

"Hold on, let me process this. You handcuffed my brother to a roof and you left him there?!" Daryl yelled out into Rick's face,

"Yeah." Rick said hardly. Daryl face twisted in anger and he threw his squirrels at Rick which Rick quickly dodged. Daryl ran forward prepared to punch Rick but Shane quickly charged forward bashing him with his shoulder, sending him to the ground. Daryl still coursing with anger pulled out his large hunter knife and got back to his feet.

He swung at Rick once but Rick jumped back causing him to miss. While Shane circled him Rick grabbed his arm and twisted it causing him to drop the knife. Shane pulled Daryl to the ground in a headlock. "You best let me go!" Daryl shouted out to Shane,

"Yeah I think it's better if I don't." Shane replied holding tightly,

"Choke holding is illegal!" Daryl shouted out almost as if it mattered,

"Yeah you can file a complaint." Shane said tightening his hold, "Okay calm down now." Shane began to say as Daryl started to go limp and focus on breathing,

"Now I would like to have a calm discussion about this, think we can manage that?" Rick said kneeling in front of him. Daryl didn't reply, "You think we can manage that?" Rick asked again this time rougher. Daryl let out a small nod and Shane let go pulling himself up, "Now what I did wasn't on a whim. Your brother does not play well with others."

"It's not Rick's fault!" T-Dog called out, "I had the key and I dropped it."

"You couldn't pick it up?" Daryl asked annoyed,

"I dropped it down a drain." T-Dog replied,

Daryl scoffed and hung his head for a moment, "If you think that makes me feel better it don't." Daryl replied,

"Maybe this will, I chained the door to the roof shut. The geeks can't get at him." T-Dog explained

Daryl wiped a tear away from his eye,"Hell with all ya'll!" He shouted and pulled himself to his feet. He began to head towards the cars but Eko stopped him,

"Stop." Eko said much to everyone's shock. Daryl tried to push past him but Eko moved in front of him again, "Wait please." Daryl took a swing and punched Eko in the face though this barely faced him. Eko immediately smashed his head against Daryl sending him to the ground. Daryl laid on the ground dazed while everyone stared at Eko in shock, "I will help you find your brother." Eko said looked down at him, Daryl looked at him confused and pulled himself to his feet yet again. Daryl eyes locked with Eko's for a minute then he let out a small nod,

"Where is this building?" Eko asked Rick,

Rick looked at him for a moment then back at Lori, "I can show you. I'm going back." Rick replied causing Lori to angrily walk away into the RV while Shane looked at him annoyed. With that Daryl immediately headed to his tent to gear up as did Eko and Rick.

Ten Minutes Later…

Rick got out of his tent now suited up in his sheriff outfit. As he buttoned up his shirt Shane walked over clearly agitated, "So that's it, to hell with everybody else?"

"I'm not saying to hell with anyone Shane, not you and least of all Lori." Rick said firmly,

"Tell her that." Shane said as Rick walked towards the truck,

Rick looked back a bit surprised by his outburst, "She knows." Rick replied a bit coldly,

"Well I don't. So could you throw me a bone here, man?" Shane said walking back up to Rick, "Tell me why? Why would you risk your life for a douchebag like Merle Dixon?"

"Hey, choose your words carefully." Daryl called out to him,

"No I did, douchebag is what I met." Shane shot back to him, "Merle Dixon." Shane said in disgust, "The guy wouldn't give you a glass of water if you were dying of thirst."

"What he would or wouldn't do doesn't interest me." Rick replied, just behind him Eko let out a smile of agreement, "I can't let a man die of thirst, me. We left him like an animal caught in a trap." Rick said trying to get Shane to understand yet Shane remained unimpressed, "That's no way for anything to die, let alone a human being."

"So you, Eko and Daryl that's your big plan?" Lori jumped in,

Rick turned his head back to Charlie and Glenn, "Oh you are joking right?" Charlie said,

"I would feel safer if at least one of you came. I know she would too." Rick pleaded with them,

Glenn and Charlie looked at each other, "You got to drive the car mate, you get to go on this mission." Charlie said crossing his arms,

"Oh come on man, seriously?" Glenn said a bit distressed. Charlie just stared back at him stifling back a smile, "Fine I'll go. Next time I'm letting Charlie do the fun shit."

"Four guys that's not much of a team." Lori said remaining unimpressed,

"Five." T-Dog said stepping forward,

"My day just gets better and better." Daryl scoffed out,

"You see anyone else stepping up to save your brothers cracker ass?" T-Dog said back,

"Why?" Daryl said looking back at him,

"You wouldn't even begin to understand, you don't speak my language." T-Dog said shaking his head,

"That's five." Dale said looking around, "Anyone else?"

Sawyer who had been watching from a distance carefully folded up a letter and put it into his shirt pocket. He got up and took a step forward, "Really you are going to help?" Amy said surprised,

"I'm a complex guy, sweetheart." Sawyer said back and headed over to the large box truck along with Eko, T-Dog, Glenn and Daryl.

"Well that's just great you're gonna risk six men's lives." Shane while rubbing his head angrily, "And it's not even six lives your putting at risk. You are putting every single one of us at risk here, just know that Rick." Shane then started to almost shout, "Come on, you saw that walker it was here in camp! We need every able body here to defend camp, to protect us!"

"What it seems this camp could really need, are guns." Rick said,

"Right the guns." Ana said with a nod,

"Wait what guns?" Shane replied, his emotion clearly shifting,

"Six shotguns, two high powered rifles and over a dozen handguns." Rick replied, "Me and Ana cleaned out the station before we left. We dropped the bag in atlanta when we got swarmed. It's just sitting there on the street waiting to get picked up."

"How much ammo?" Shane asked,

Rick turned to Ana, "About seven hundred rounds, assorted."

Shane let out a long sigh, now somewhat agreeing with the plan, "You went through hell to find us. You just got here and you're gonna turn around and leave?" Lori said,

"Dad, I don't want you to go." Carl said sincerely,

"To hell with the guns Shane is right! Merle Dixon? He's not worth any of your lives even with guns thrown in." Lori said growing frustrated,

"I'm touched dimples." Sawyer said with a smirk,

Rick glared at Sawyer for a moment then turned back to his wife, "Tell me. Make me understand." Lori said standing up as Rick walked to her,

"I owe a debt to a man I met and his little boy." Lori looked down at Carl to counter Rick but he continued, "Lori, if they hadn't taken me in, I would have died. It's only because of Ana and them that I made it back to you at all. There's a radio in that bag, I gave them the other one, I need it to contact them."

"Why not use the CB?" Hugo asked,

"The CB is fine it's the radios that are crap. They're back from the seventies they only work with each other." Ana explained, "If we don't get it, they will walk into the same trap that we did."

"I need that bag." Rick said almost begging with her. Lori went silent and nodded her head. Rick knelt down in front of Carl, "Okay?" Carl let out a small smile and nodded to his father, "All right."

Finally settled the six began to load up. Rick, Sawyer and T-Dog stopped for a moment to ask Dale and Jim for something they desperately needed, "Hey Kenny Rogers, you have bolt cutters right?" Sawyer asked Dale,

Dale let a bit of a sigh, "Maybe."

"Yeah, we get to that roof, though, we gonna need to cut that chain and the handcuffs." T-Dog explained,

"I never like lending tools. The last time I did, and yes I'm talking about you." Dale said glaring at T-Dog, "Let's just say your bag of guns wasn't the only bag left behind. My bag of tools were left on the roof."

"We'll bring your tools back to gramps. Just think of the cutters as an investment." Sawyer said with his best charming smile,

"Sounds more like a gamble." Dale said picking them up, "What do I get in return?"

"What do you want?" Rick asked,

"How about one of those guns you bring back, my pick." Dale replied,

"Done." Rick said with a nod,

"Dale hold up a second, let's sweeten the deal a bit. The radiator hose on the RV is shot and that's a problem if we need to get somewhere fast. That hose on your truck is a perfect match." Jim said,

"Tell you what, we make it back you can strip it down to the bare metal." Rick said with a bit of a smirk. Dale let out a nod and handed him the cutters. Just behind them Daryl pressed his foot over Glenn and onto the truck's horn,

"Come on let's go! We're burning daylight!" Daryl shouted back at them,

Just as T-Dog and Sawyer got into the truck Shane stopped Rick, "You got any rounds in the python?"

"No." Rick admitted,

"The last time we were at the shooting range, I think I probably grabbed a couple of your rounds." Shane said with a smile as he dug through his duffel bag,

"You and that bag, like the bottom of an old lady's purse." Rick said with a grin,

"I hate that you are doing this man. I think that it's foolish and reckless. But if you're gonna go, you're taking bullets." Shane said as he searched through the bag,

"I'm not sure I'd want to fire a shot in the city. Not after what happened last time." Rick said as Shane took out a handful of rounds,

"That's up to you." Shane than paused for a moment, "Huh six men six bullets. Let's just hope six is your lucky number." Shane handed them to Rick with a nod,

"Thank you." Rick said walking away to the front of the truck. Rick got into the van and began to load the rounds into his gun. Glenn started the truck and drove off.

As they drove into the city about twenty minutes later Daryl looked over at T-Dog and said, "He better be okay, that's my only word on the matter."

"I told you the geeks can't get at him. The only thing that's gonna get through that door is us." T-Dog said confidently,

"We walk from here." Glenn said as he turned off the truck, The six of them jumped out of the truck and ran down the streets toward the department building.

Back at the camp…

Sayid made his way down towards the lake ready to test his hand at fishing. In the distance he could see Shane and Lori have an apparent argument. He couldn't make out what they were saying but he could clearly see that Lori was angry with the man.

Just as he got down to the water level he saw Ed watching the women cleaning clothes. He let out a smile as he saw them have a good time, though he could see Ed as per the usual getting angry over people's happiness. He let out a wave to the girls and they gave him a happy wave back as he began to fish nearby.

Back In Atlanta…

"Guns or Merle first?" Rick asked as he and the others got closer to the building,

"Merle! We ain't even having this conversation." Daryl immediately replied,

"We are, Glenn you know the way, it's your call." Rick said turning to him,

"Merle's closer." Glenn replied and ran forward down the mostly empty streets,

They reached the building within minutes and slowly made their way through the broken doors. Rick motioned to Daryl as he saw a walker still wandering the store. Daryl moved forward and as he raised his crossbow said, "Damn, you are one ugly skank." Just as the walker let out a growl he sent a bolt through it's head.

Back At Camp…

Sayid now was watching as Ed walked towards the girls. Ed was clearly telling them to be quiet and it wasn't sitting well with Andrea. Sayid stood up and moved closer as he saw Andrea through some wet clothes at Ed softly only for Ed to throw them back at her hardly. Sayid spotted Shane as he was walking by, little did he know that Shane was already on edge.

"Shane, we may have a problem." Sayid said as he moved over to him, Sayid pointed over to Ed who almost on cue slapped Carol across the face. Both Shane and Sayid immediately ran over with fury in their veins. Shane and Sayid grabbed Ed and began to drag him away.

"Get off me!" Ed yelled out wildly to the two men. Shane and Sayid tossed him to the ground. Sayid walked up to him as he attempted to stand up and kicked him in the face sending him to the ground again. Shane jumped ontop of Ed and began to smash his fist into his face as Sayid stomped and kicked Ed. After nearly two minutes of this harsh attack Shane grabbed Ed and pulled him closely, "You ever put your hand on your wife or your little girl again I will not stop next time. Do you understand me?"

"Yes." Ed sputtered out through his now swollen and bloodied mouth,

"I'll beat you to death Ed." Shane whispered out, "I will beat you to death!" Shane shouted as he gave him one final hit. Shane and Sayid back away as Carol ran over to her husband apologizing and in tears. Everyone else looked at the pair in shock and a bit of fear.

Back In Atlanta…

T-Dog took the bolt cutters and cut the padlock off the door. Daryl not wasting anytime kicked the door open, "Merle! Merle!" Daryl shouted out as he ran around the roof looking. Just as he got to the position that Merle was suppose to be he began to let out tearful yells, "No! No!" Rick and the others arrived only to see a bloody cuff and Merle's severed hand lying below it.

Alright so here we are yet another chapter down, as of now I am at episode three of the show. I enjoyed writing this chapter the most, mostly due to the character development for some of the losties, mainly Eko and Sawyer. I hope you all enjoyed it and if you did leave a review for me. I will respond to them at the start of each chapter.