Jestalnaker94000

Good chapter! :) I liked how Eko told Rick a little about his past. He was my favorite Lost character, and it was a shame he died; also is Amy and Andrea gonna make up in later chapters?

Glad you liked Eko's and Rick's scene, I enjoyed writing it and as you can probably guess Eko was absolutely my favorite character in Lost only one to stand up against smokey. As for Amy and Andrea, you will find out soon.

thedarkpokemaster

Damn this was a good chapter and now Rick knows a lot more on who Eko is and his past as well I mean all of the Lost guys have a bad past after all which is what made Lost so good after all, and now Carl has been shot which is needed.

And I agree makes me wonder who would be a better leader Jack or Rick I mean I just remember season 6 when Rick killed that guy he and the others captured that worked for Negan, now while Rick shot him Jack would want to get any information off from him.

Yeah everyone in Lost had a broken life and to be honest it seems that as well in the walking dead. I mean Dale became spiteful after his wife died, Rick and Lori were having bad marriage troubles, Andrea neglected her family until it was too late and much more. Also with Rick Vs Jack I feel Rick has it because in the end Jack wasn't a good leader. He was always so conflicted in the show, as expected. Rick always knows what to do next while Jack can be lost, no pun intended lol.

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Daryl Eko and sawyer

Decent choices to be sure. Btw thanks for everyone who is voting on my poll always like seeing who is loved most.

Don 77

First of all this was another good chapter and well worth it as well, I wonder what Sawyer us going to nickname everyone at the farm as well it's who he is after all and be funny,

With the Others sad to see them all go as I think, this is me they would be a good group to have Rick and co fight and later work together when fighting Negan, does make me wonder how you will work many of them in now.

Glad you liked the chapter! More Sawyer nicknames to come, to be honest I've had a few in mind. As for the others I understand that the group against/with Rick sounds cool and it does but it doesn't really fit in this world. I mean the others were together under Jacob and defending an island but in this story I don't think that group really makes sense to be together. Just seems a bit to 'mystical' if that makes sense.

Kevinrock8899

Whoa Desmond has shown up thought he would at least shown up much later on in the story man that was a big twist.

lol wonder if Jacob will show up as he will be hard to do and he is a good guy unlike his brother.

Yes Desmond is here and the big thing about this, he will be the only new character I introduce this season so I figured it should be a good one. So get comfy with this cast for now. Also got a bit of an idea for Jacob but that's a long way off.


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"CARL!" Rick cried out as he dropped to his knees,

"I didn't see him! I'm so sorry brotha!" The scottish man yelled as he ran over to him,

"You know what you did? I'll kill you!" Shane said pumping his shotgun,

"Shane No!" Eko yelled out and ran over to him as he pushed the man to the ground,

"He's alive! He's alive!" Rick yelled out causing all three of the men to look over,

"Jack! We gotta get him to Jack." Shane said running over to Rick,

"Wait! Come with me, we've got a doctor back at the farm. He can patch your boy up." The man said jumping to his feet,

"No Jack can help him, c'mon Rick pick him up." Shane quickly replied,

"He's only two miles away brotha, you boy can't make it long without help." The man insisted,

"Rick, Rick look at me." Eko said kneeling down in front of him. Rick looked at him as he shook in fear for his son, "You need to go with this man to the farm."

"Eko you don't know what you're talking about!" Shane shouted,

"This is not your business." Eko said not looking up at him, "Jack does not have the supplies to save him." Rick let out some quick nods and picked Carl up. Shane shook his head angrily and the four men took off running through the woods.

Minutes passed and they finally broke out of the forest, Desmond was running ahead of the group and having to stop as they couldn't keep up. Finally he stopped and ran over to Rick, "Look give 'em here. I can move quicker than you."

"You shot him! You ain't taking him!" Shane shouted out,

"Look mate," The man said looking right at Rick, "He's losing a lot of blood, his best shot is to get their quick give him to me." Rick slowly passed Carl into the man's arm and the four men took off again, Rick without Carl was able to keep up. Rick and the man sprinted quickly down the field eventually leaving Eko and Shane in the dust.

"How far?!' Rick shouted as they ran,

"Five minutes, Hershel can help you boy I swear it!" Desmond shouted back as they reached the final field and saw the farm house in the distance

At the farm house a young girl sat on the porch and saw the two men in the distance running to the house. She took out her binoculars and as soon as she saw Carl she yelled for her dad. As they reached the front of the house the members all walked outside, "Hershel! We need you!" The man shouted out,

"Desmond?" One of the woman asked from behind him,

"Was he bit?" An older gentlemen asked,

"No shot by your man." Rick immediately replied, "Are you Hershel?" The old man nodded and walked towards the pair, "Help me. Please help me boy!" Rick cried out,

"Desmond get him inside." Hershel commanded and lead them into the house into a bedroom. "Patricia get the medical kit, Maggie grab painkillers-just grab everything." Hershel said as he tossed the covers away and Desmond quickly laid him down, "Pillow case!" Hershel shouted to Rick while everyone else began to grab medical equipment,

"Is he-Is he alive? Is he alright?" Rick asked fearfully,

"Pillow Case Now!" Hershel shouted again causing Rick to snap back into action. He grabbed a pillow and ripped its case off, "Fold it and put pressure on the wound." Hershel said and Rick quickly did as told. As Rick pressed against Carl's gunshot Hershel listened for a heartbeat, "I got a heartbeat, it's faint." Hershel said causing Rick to let out a minor breath and look of relief,

"Step back we've got this." Patricia said making Rick back away,

"We need some room." Maggie added making Rick now back away,

"Your Name?" Hershel asked,

"Rick." Rick replied shakily,

"Rick?" Hershel asked,

"I'm-I'm Rick." Rick replied nodding and shaking uncontrollably,

"Rick, we're gonna do everything we can, okay? You need to give us some room." Hershel said, "Now." He said a bit more forcefully finally making Rick back away from the bed. He turned his head and looked out the window seeing Eko and Shane running up the driveway towards the house. Rick slowly lumbered out of the room with a glazed look towards the porch.

Rick walked out onto the porch with a pale face and took of his sheriff hat, "Is he alive? Rick is he okay?" Eko asked a he took some deep breaths. Rick couldn't respond he wiped his brow causing Carl's blood to smear across his face. Shane stepped forward pulling out a rag and wiping off Rick's face. He handed it to Rick and Rick began to wipe his hands while looking at the blood in almost confusion. Finally he looked at Shane and began to weep, he turned back to the house and the three walked inside quickly.

Rick lead them back into Carl's room where Hershel started to get things under some sort of control. "You know his blood type?" Hershel asked,

"A positive, same as mine." Rick replied,

"That's fortunate. Don't go far i'm gonna need you." Hershel then turned to Desmond, "What happened?"

"I was hunting a deer, I took the shot and the bullet went through it into him. I-I didn't see him til he was on the ground." Desmond explained in sadness and shock,

"The deer slowed the bullet down, which most certainly saved his life. But it did not go through clean. It shattered, I can get the bullet fragments out...I count six." Hershel said looking at Carl's wound,

"Lori doesn't know. My wife she doesn't know. My wife doesn't know." Rick said starting to cry, Shane put his arm around him and tried to support him.

Back in the woods Lori stopped and looked behind her yet again, "You still worried about it?" Ana asked looking back to her,

"It was just one gunshot, why just one?" Lori asked a bit worried,

"Maybe they took down a walker." Daryl said with a shrug,

"Please don't patronize me, you know Rick wouldn't risk a gunshot to put down one walker. Him or Shane, they'd do it quiet." Lori immediately said growing more fearful as she talked about it,

"Nothing we can do about it, we gotta keep moving. Plan don't change." Daryl replied,

"He's right." Ana said with a nod, "Up the creekbed back to the highway."

"But shouldn't they have caught up with us by now?" Carol asked,

"Could be ahead up us by now, Eko could have bypassed us. I would have." Daryl replied with another shrug to the group, "Not like we can start running around these woods chasing them."

As the group began to walk away Sayid walked over to Ana and Amy walked over to Carol. Sayid pulled Ana to the side away from the others and whispered out, "That was a rifle round, we both know that Shane carried a shotgun and Rick a revolver. They did not make that shot."

"I know, but we can't stop now. Once we get back to camp if they aren't there then we come back looking." Ana replied

Meanwhile Amy walked over to Carol and said, "I'm sorry what you're going through right now."

"Thank you." Carol said and began to tear up, "I just pray to god she doesn't end up like Shannon or Boone." Amy's jaw dropped slightly at the comment, "Oh god that's the worse thing i've ever said." Carol said burying her face into her hands,

"No." Amy said supportively, "We're all hoping and praying with you, for what it's worth."

"I'll tell you what it's worth, not a damn thing." Daryl said walking over, "Hoping and praying won't do anything 'cause we're gonna locate that little girl, and she's gonna be just fine." Daryl began to turn back and shake his head, "Am I the only one zen around here? Good Lord." Lori let out a small smile at Daryl as the group moved on.

Hours after Jack started to help Charlie with his detox he started to get better, ever so slightly. At the very least his fever broke and he started to help out slightly. Jack stayed close to him not wanting to stray to far from him or T-Dog for that matter who was starting to act a bit off. Dale had been going from car to car taking off different parts they might need later, "I'll tell you what, we are going to have a lot of spare parts where were done." Dale said to T-Dog who was walking by,

"Shouldn't they be back by now?" T-Dog asked as he wandered by,

"It's still light out. Let's not worry just yet." Dale said as Jack walked over,

"Hey how you feeling T-Dog?" Jack asked only for T-Dog to look over at him and not respond,

Dale looked over at Jack concerned, "T-Dog? Jack just asked how you were, please do not blow that question off."

The two men walked over to T-Dog who leaned against a car, "It really really hurts. It's throbbing something awful." T-Dog replied as he looked down at his arm,

Jack took hold of his arm and carefully lifted the bandage up revealing the wound now festering as well as T-Dog's veins clearly becoming discolored. "Dammit." Jack said as he lowered the bandage,

"What?" Dale asked concerned,

"His wound is festering and his veins are turning dark." Jack looked over to Dale and put his hands on his hips, "It's infected." He said with a nod, "And I don't have any antibiotics. So that means if we don't get him some soon, he'll die from blood poisoning."

T-Dog began to laugh crazily, "Oh man. Wouldn't that be the way? All this shit going on, the dead have risen to eat the living and Theodore Douglas gets killed by a cut on his arm?" T-Dog said ending cackling madly,

"We've been ransacking these cars the whole time. I can't believe that we have not found some ampicillin." Jack said shaking his head as he looked at all the cars, "Or at least something."

"Seems like there would be." T-Dog said in agreement,

"Yeah." Dale said nodding, "Well, we just haven't been thorough enough." Dale said looking back to Jack, "We need to go through them again."

"Alright." Jack said with a nod, "Claire!" Jack called out as he walked away, "Keep an eye out for us."

"Okay." Claire said with a nod from atop the RV,

"Charlie." Jack called out to him as he walked over,

"Yeah?" Charlie replied as he wiped his eyes trying to get alert,

"We need to check through all these cars again, we need medicine especially antibiotics." Jack said firmly,

"Right, alright i'm on it Jack." Charlie said nodding quickly then he quickly ran to the nearest car and pulled the door open as Dale and T-Dog did the same. Jack did the same and walked over to the nearest car. T-Dog however nearly stopped as he searched through a car only to find a gore covered car seat in the back shaking him to his core making him wander back to the RV in shock and fear.

Back at Hershel's Farm Eko, Shane and Rick sat in the living room. Eko sat silently on the couch carving into his stick as Rick started to talk to the both him and Shane, "I should have sent him with Lori."

"You know, you start that, you'll never get that monkey off your back." Shane replied,

Rick peered up at Eko who did not say anything, "Little girl goes missing, you look for her. Simple. You said call it, I didn't."

"Doesn't matter what I said." Shane replied,

"Carl got shot because I worried about someone else's kid." Rick said sadly,

"Did you ever hear the story of the family men?" Eko asked softly,

"What?" Rick asked as he and Shane both looked up at him,

"Christ visited two men and told them that they could be of his chosen disciples. These men both replied that they had family matters to take care of first." Eko continued to etch words into his stick, "You see Christ wanted them to see that they had a calling that was above family, he needed them to see that family can not stop your fate."

"So you're saying that my son getting shot was fate?" Rick asked bewildered,

Eko looked up at him, "No. I am saying that unlike those men you put your calling ahead of your family and that calling was saving an innocent girl. How can you be sorry for this?"

"It should have been me." Rick said shaking his head,

Shane let out a halfhearted chuckle, "You've been there partner, right? You made it, Carl will too."

"Is this why I got out of that hospital? Found my family for it to end here like this? This some kind of sick joke?" Rick said bitterly,

"Rick look where you are." Eko said softly, "Your son is shot, yet here we are in a safe place with a doctor working to save his life."

Rick looked back at Eko and said, "A little girl goes missing…" Rick let out a long pause, "You look for her. You don't sacrifice anything Eko, it's plain and simple. This wasn't anything like your story, it's just coincidence. A horrible coincidence that my choice lead to this."

"Don't mistake coincidence for fate." Eko said softly to him. Just then the bedroom door opened and Maggie stepped out.

"Rick." Maggie called out causing the three men to walk into the room. Inside Carl cried out for his dad as well as in pain as Hershel was trying to pull out a fragment.

"He needs blood. You two, hold him down." Hershel said looking to Shane and Eko who ran over quickly. Eko held Carl's legs in place as Shane put his arm over his chest. Carl began to scream even louder as Rick got his arm cleaned and Hershel pulled the fragment, "Almost there." Hershel said as Carl let out a heart wrenching scream,

"Stop! You're killing him!" Rick screamed out,

"Rick, you want him to live?" Hershel asked,

"He needs blood." Patricia said quickly,

"Do it now!" Shane screamed,

"Now!" Eko Shouted at the same time snapping Rick back into action as Patricia pushed a needle into his arm. Carl suddenly went limp and his head fell to the side the three men looked to Carl in shock and fear.

"He just passed out." Hershel said to their relief as he pulled out a fragment, "One down five to go."

Minutes later Rick finished the transfusion and once again thought of Lori, "I have to get Lori, she needs to know. I have to go get her."

"You can't do that." Hershel explained,

"Carl needs you here." Eko said as he leaned against the wall,

"She's his mother she needs to know!" Rick shouted getting defensive,

"And he's going to need more blood, you can't go further than fifty feet from this bed." Hershel said firmly to him,

The three walked out of the bedroom, Eko pulled out a chair for the now weak Rick who's body already turned pale from blood loss. Desmond and Otis sat on the other side of the room. "How-How is he?" Desmond asked,

"He's stable for now." Shane replied

"Shane, Eko, Lori needs to be here. Please she has to know." Rick pleaded

"She will, but you need to be here. For him." Eko said as he knelt down and looked at the door,

"Listen to him Rick, we can handle the rest of this but you, you have to handle you end." Shane said in agreement,

"My end?" Rick asked,

"Being here, even if you didn't have to give him blood. You need to be here for him. You know that if you'd try to leave I'd break your legs right?" Shane said sincerely making Rick let out a small nod.

"We will do whatever we have to to save your son." Eko said putting his hand on Rick's shoulder. Rick put his hand on Eko's and squeezed it while giving him a thankful look. Just then Hershel opened the door and walked out,

Everyone got up and walked over to him as he began to speak, "He's out of danger for the moment but I need to remove those remaining fragments."

"How? You saw how he was." Rick asked,

"I know, and that was the shallowest one. For the others I have to go deeper to get the others." Hershel said making everyone murmured worriedly, "There's more. His belly's distended, his pressure is dropping, which means there's internal bleeding. A fragment must have nicked one of the blood vessels. Which means I have to open him up, find the bleeder and stitch it up. And he can't move during that and I mean at all. If he does I'll hit an artery and he'll be dead in minutes." Rick's face turned sicked as he nodded, "To even try this I need to put him under but that mean he won't be able to breath on his own."

"You need a respirator." Desmond said walking forward,

"Are you a doctor?" Shane asked confused,

"Aye, well not exactly. I trained for a bit but I know about the procedures. You'll need the tube along with all the missing equipment for the surgery." Desmond added while he thought hard about the procedure, "Bloody hell, the nearest hospital burnt down a month ago." Desmond said as he hung his head and pinched the bridge of his nose,

"The high school." Otis interjected,

"That's what I was thinking." Hershel said with a nod,

"What are you on about?" Desmond asked,

"They set up a fema center but it got overrun. Last I checked that placed was crawling with the dead but maybe it's better now." Otis explained,

"You know what we need to do? We need to get Jack down here." Shane said firmly,

"Jack?" Hershel asked,

"He's our doctor, he was a surgeon." Eko explained,

"While he would immensely help that doesn't stop the fact we still need the supplies." Hershel said to the group,

"Well Eko, looks like we gotta handle some things." Shane said with a smirk, "You get Jack I'll get the stuff."

"I hate you going alone." Rick said to Shane,

"He won't be alone, I'll go." Desmond said,

"Are you sure?" Shane asked,

"Do you even know what any of this looks like brotha?" Desmond asked,

"Come to think of it no." Shane said with a smirk,

"Alright, then let's get to it." Desmond turned to Otis, "Where is this high school brotha?"

"I'll show you." Otis said with a nod,

"Otis no." Patricia said,

"Honey we don't have time, that boy needs help and if I just drive them their it will be ten times quicker." Otis said sternly to her making Patricia let out a tearful nod,

"Enough talk yeah? Let's get this done." Desmond interjected,

"I should thank you." Rick said to Desmond,

"After, alright? Then we can talk." Desmond said as he along with Shane and Otis walked out the door. Rick along with Patricia, Eko and Hershel followed behind them as the walked towards Otis' truck. Otis gave one last hug to Patricia and grabbed his hunting rifle. Rick reached into his holster and pulled out his revolver and handed it to Desmond, "It's nice brotha, I'll be sure to get it back to you in one piece."

With that the three men squeezed into the truck, Shane looked over and saw Otis' hunting rifle and he gave him a bit of an odd look, "It's the only gun I got." Otis said with a shrug,

"This turned into one weird day." Shane said shaking his head,

"You could say that again mate." Desmond said running his fingers through his hair. Rick watched as the three of them drove off down the road away from the farm. He peered back and saw Eko slip his stick into his belt and begin to walk down the road,

"Sir! Sir wait!" Maggie called out,

Eko turned back, "My name is Mr Eko" He said with a smile,

"Oh, okay Mr Eko You're going to your group come with me I can saddle you up a horse should get you to them quicker than walking." Maggie said,

"Thank you." Eko said with a nod and followed her towards the barn. With that Rick followed Hershel and Patricia back into the house towards Carl's bed.

Alright so we have it all set up guys! Desmond, Otis and Shane onto the supply run. Eko doing a solo run to get Jack. No word from Locke's group or Andrea for that matter. And lastly Charlie and T-Dog both in states of illness, things could be better for sure. Let me know what you thought of this chapter!