Author Note: I do not own The Walking Dead or any of its characters.

Axel Dixon and Cath Carver belongs to me.

Emily Carver belong to HiddenTruthandLies2.

WARNING: SPOILERS about This is Survival's main antagonist's fate!

Chapter 19

Lee, Axel and Kenny came to Katjaa and see the teacher who don't breath anymore. Three of them have already guess why Katjaa call them over.

Axel: "He didn't make it, did he?"

Katjaa: "He… lost too much blood."

Axel sighed out his breath while Kenny scowled at the news and walks off.

Axel: "Fuck."

Kenny: "Goddamn it. I'm getting sick of this shit!"

He throws the pipe on the ground so hard that it ricochets to the side of the RV and walk back to the sofa.

Katjaa: "Ken, come back, there's nothing-"

Axel: "No offense, but I'm sick of this shit for today."

Katjaa: "You don't think I am? I don't know... Maybe it's for the best. We're already struggling to feed to the kids."

Axel look down with a frowned.

Lee: "Katjaa's right, kid. It's been a rough morning."

Axel: "Okay, I'm sorry... I'm just feel... it was my fault."

Lee: "It's not your fault and I'm happy this guy didn't suffer by those walkers in the woods."

Katjaa: "That man you brought… I tried, but he was never going to survive."

Axel: "Well... at least he ain't our problem anymore."

Katjaa looked at the students to see that they was talking to her son and the two girls.

Katjaa: "What's gonna happen with the other kids?"

Axel: "They're gonna stays here and-"

Before Axel could finish his last words, he saw the teacher reach up and somehow he came back as a walker. The teacher-walker was going to grab Katjaa but Axel running quickly straight to them.

Axel: "Katjaa! BEHIND YOU!"

David-Walker already grab Katjaa's head, but Axel took the monster's arms and lose the grip on the woman. Then suddenly it grab Axel's long hair and try to drag to himself to eat the teenager.

Lee: "Shit! Axel!"

He came between of them and putting one hand on teacher's face, the other on Axel's forehead and pushes both of them away from each other. He did manage to separates the teenager from the walker's grip. Lee turns around quickly and raised his hand up towards Mark and Larry.

Lee: "The axe! Hurry!"

Suddenly, the teacher-walker grab Lee's left shoulder and drag him to the back of the old truck. Lee places his hands on the walker's shoulders to keep it from getting any closer to his face since they were already inches away from each other. Lee desperately slams its head to the left side of the pickup, and then slams it again on the right side and then back to the left. But there was no use and the walker still keep going to try to get Lee and eat him. Then Mark who finally shows up with the axe and came right to right of the truck.

Mark: "Move! Move!"

Lee shoves the walker off of him straight to the back window of the pickup and Mark takes a swing at it, but he was too slow since the walker leaned down and missed it instead hitting it, he hitting on the window. He try to drag it out, but it looks like it is stuck at the window.

Mark: "SHIT! It's stuck!"

The walker trying crawling to Lee as he hold it with his foot to stop getting him closer as Doug shows up with a piece flat timber right on the left side of the truck.

Doug: "I GOT 'EM!"

Doug hit with the flat timber at walker's head but it was like nothing and keep forcing to get Lee and he start to kick it away from, but it made that thing to grabbed his foot. Lee kick then at the walkers face couple times quickly until it send back to the window as he started to crawling back and land on the ground, but suddenly the walker came right on him of the truck and trying to bite him. Lee place both of his hands on the walker's face and starting to push his thumbs on the eyes. It leaking bloods over his hands then and finally Axel shows up with his hidden blade and stab it right to the head. The walker stop move and Axel move the dead corpse from Lee as Carley came the straight to them and bends down to check on her love-interest.

Carley: "Oh my god, Lee. Are you okay?"

Lee: "Yeah... don't worry, Carley. I'm okay. Thanks kid."

Axel haven't answered because he was little chocked over that walker who almost got him and Katjaa killed while Larry shows up and frowned at Lee and Axel.

Larry: "Why'd you bring em here in the first place, assholes?!"

Lilly shows up and was between her dad and Lee.

Lilly: "Dad, calm down!"

Larry: "You're gonna get us all killed!"

Cath frowned at the old man.

Cath: "Hey, you can't just put on your finger at them over this!"

Larry: "It would never happened if they never have brought these dirty people into this place!"

Cath: "Go to hell, asshole!"

Emily came to them and put her hand on Cath's shoulder to calm her down.

Emily: "Cath! Don't talk him like that. You don't wanna fight with him."

Cath looking at him with a confused look and nods slowly while Kenny was comforting his wife for what she just went through and he looking at with a glare Emily and the boys who look sympathy at their teacher who didn't make it. Axel by the way, he look almost furious at them.

Axel: "What the fuck was that for?!"

Emily, Travis and Ben looking surprised by the teenager hunter's outburst as everybody look at him with a chock.

Travis: "What?"

Axel: "You heard me, kiddo! Your teacher was bitten and you three even try to save him back in the woods before we shows up and you didn't say a goddamn word!"

Emily: "B-but?"

Ben: "He wasn't bitten! I swear!"

Axel: "Your fucking "not-bitten" teacher came back and almost got Katjaa, trying to kill me and now you telling me that you swear?!"

Emily: "Wait, Axel! We wouldn't never hide kind of like that."

Travis: "Yeah, we telling the truth that-"

Ben: "Eh, guys... I don't think they don't know."

Axel looking at Ben with a curious glare, but still keeping his temper as everyone including Emily and Travis looking at Ben and they two know what their friend talking about and looking at the other.

Emily: "I guess y'all don't know."

Axel: "What the hell are you two talking about?"

Travis: "It's not the bite that does it!"

Everyone was confusion and not fully understanding what Travis talking about as Axel lose his temper and focus on listen the students.

Ben: "You come back no matter how you die."

Travis: "If you don't destroy the brain, that's just what happens. It's gonna happen to all of us."

Emily: "With or... without bite, it will still gonna happen to all of us."

Their expressions instantly went from confused to shock after what the teenagers were just told to them. Even they're scare to be bitten, still afraid what's gonna happen in the future when they get old and die in peace just a while until they'll came back without their brain is destroyed just like what happened with the teacher.

Lee: "We're all infected? Everyone?"

Ben: "I-I guess so…"

Axel: "They've maybe right, I didn't seen any bite on the walkers in those first days. That it explained why there is so many of 'em. Car accidents. Suicide. And maybe that's why the military was going to execute all of patients from every hospitals on this country because they think those poor people ain't gonna make it."

Axel started to remember that lieutenant who was responsible of his family and his friends death, Rina Archer. It explain why when she fell down off the roof and her leg was caught and trapping her on the ladder. Before the walkers could get her alive, she took her gun and pop her brain out, not because just she didn't wanna fall into suffer, but don't wanna came back as a walker.

Cath: "Wait a minute, if we are already infected. Then how come we be still normal and no effects until we die?"

Emily: "We don't know, Cath. All we know is we've seen people turn who we know who were never was bitten."

Ben: "When we first saw it happen, we were all hiding out in the gym and everybody thought we were finally safe."

Emily look down with a sad face and it appear a tear from her eye.

Emily: "I told everyone that everything it's gonna be alright, but one of my best friends, J-Jenny... Jenny Pitcher... she c-couldn't take it. She took some pills, a lot of them… I try to stop her, but... she was so depressed after she lost her parents... Then next morning, I went into the girls's room to check on her and… she was just standing there and then turned around...god."

Cath: "I'm so sorry to hear that, Em."

Everybody was little depression and shock over about the walkers that everyone will came back with bitten or not. Then Axel looking at the teacher's corpse for a few seconds.

Axel: "We should bury that poor bastard while we have a little talk."

Lee and the other look at him with a curious look.

Lilly: "What's the talk about?"

Axel: "It is between you, me, Lee and Kenny. Mark and Doug, can you two help with Emily and boys to..."

He refers about the teacher's corpse to move away and bury outside.

Larry: "Fuck this shit, we burn that asshole into ash!"

Travis: "That's inhumanity and you know that."

Larry starting getting closer to Travis with a threat glance which the teenager getting nervous.

Larry: "You want to make me pissed off?!"

Emily: "Leave him alone, dammit! You're the only one who wanna kick us out!"

Everybody was chocked by Emily's outburst who was always kind and calm. Until Lilly get between the students and her dad.

Lilly: "Dad, please. Why won't you get back to work so I can handle them, okay?"

Larry look at his daughter with a convinced look and then sent a glare to students.

Larry: "This isn't over, your pricks"

He went away to get back to work on the wall.

Doug: "I can help with you to bury your teacher, I know a good place outside the walls."

Axel: "It would be better to take someone to watch your backs. Who knows there is some assholes like those people who raid the camp will find you."

Mark: "I can go."

Emily smiled at those people who are nice to her and her friends to help bury their teacher.

Emily: "Thanks, guys. Me, Ben and Travis are really appreciated."

Cath: "Let me help too."

Emily: "No, it's too dangerous out there, you've never meet those people as I and my friends did."

Cath: "Please, sis.

Cath turned around and looking at Axel with a fake sad eyes to try convince the teenager hunter.

Cath: "Dix, can you please tell her that I can go with them and help bury their friend?"

Axel: "No. You stays here with the other kids. Plus, bury a lost friend ain't kind of your thing yet."

Cath frowned and sink her head down.

Cath: "Fine, boss."

Cath walk away with the other kids and Katjaa. Carley climb up the top of RV and take the watch. While the students, Doug and Mark carrying the body and getting outside of the walls. Before Axel close the gate.

Axel: "Wait, Emily!"

Emily got attention from the teenager hunter and look at him.

Axel: "I'm... sorry for... you know."

Axel apologies to Emily for being angry at her because of the unexpected attack by her teacher as he and the group didn't knew it that everyone will come back no matter how you die and be bitten or not. Emily frowned him in a second but smile and nods then as she forgives him. She walk again to follow after Doug who guiding her and her friends to where they can bury their teacher while Mark was behind them and watch their backs. Axel close the gate and turned around. He saw Lilly, Kenny and Lee have already start to argue.

Lilly: "We don't have a problem with those people in the woods... whatever they are. We have a good routine here for now."

Kenny: "Look, Lilly. I think it's time to realize that this place isn't safe no more. We have to thinking about to leaving. We had already to try working on it, but it just didn't work out."

Lee: "Look, you two. I don't know if we have to leave now, but if gonna do it then we need food and fresh water. I don't think we'll survive out there longer without any supplies."

Axel join into their argument.

Axel: "Hey, who said you three can start without me?"

Lilly: "For the first: You always to be an asshole to my dad. And the second: Why can't you just walk away with your own damn business?!"

Axel: "Because I don't give any shit what you think about me. Now we have to talk about the students and your dad."

Lilly frowned at him.

Lilly: "Are you gonna bring this shit about my dad again?!"

Axel: "I wish I could, but this time it's not about his goddamn behavior. But let's talk about Emily and those boys."

Lee: "We can't just kick them out, Lilly. One of them is Cath's sister and she is one of us. You don't think it's gonna be easy to separate them both from each other."

Lilly: "I don't like it either, but we have to focus on ourselves for now. They will not give anything to us except problems with those people on the woods. And I thought you were angry at them."

Axel: "That's because I was over the edge by being chock and surprised of an unexpected terrible event and you would've did the same thing."

Kenny: "Well then, focus on the reasons why we have to stay here, for god's sake."

Axel: "They stays here, Lilly and you can't just follow your own damn circumstance instead our group's own. No one of us except you and your dad get used it"

Lilly: "Well, except you and Cath, that's not our responsibly."

Axel scowled at Lilly.

Axel: "Screw you, Lilly. If you sending them out and then they'll die later, that will be your own responsibility."

Lee: "Look, Lilly. They might be not handful to protect us, but we can learn them how we deal with those walkers and it's not the big deal."

Axel: "At least, Emily have some medical experience as she and her mom who always helps her siblings when they got injury by an accidents. Katjaa might need a couple hands to help her."

Lilly looking at him with a skeptical look and then she huff.

Lilly: "Fine, but if they screws up something and got one of us killed, that will be on you."

Kenny: "Hey, we've agree with him. Don't put him into that shit. My wife was almost killed by that poor bastard."

Axel: "Speaking about that teacher, but now we have ticking heart-attack who can die and come back without anyone notice it."

Lee and Kenny look at him with a questionable look while Lilly sent a skeptical glare. He talking about Larry and his heart problem that that it can kill him and then came back.

Lilly: "What the hell did you say?"

Axel: "I say now we know that we will turn back no matter how we die. We try to survive, but Larry's heart problem is a matter of time when he..."

Lilly: "He's going to be fine. We're close to the drugstore, so what's the problem with him?"

Axel: "We barely got some supplies from that place for a long time ago and we've barely survived from there."

Lee: "Axel! What the hell are you suggest? Just give him up?"

Axel: "I'm just saying we have to keeping eye on Larry and I don't wanna have Cath or anyone being stuck with him in a room."

Kenny: "I know we were scared after we've learned more about the walkers, but Axel might have a point there."

Lee: "So what's the option?"

Axel: "We keeping kids away from him, especially Cath."

Lilly: "He will be fine than you know, asshole!"

Lilly walk away after snapped at Axel.

Axel: "You know what, Lilly?! I guess you should've thanking to Emily and the boys for the warning. If we didn't knew it about we're are all infected, then one day your dad will not make it by another heart attack and then you sitting on the ground right front of his corpse and giving him your pity. Then he turns back and attack and eat you!"

Lilly stand and give Axel a death glance. Then she walk away. Lee shake his head and Kenny sighed.

Lee: "Axel..."

Axel: "What? She's just snippy with me. She or anyone could have die if we didn't knew it."

Lee sink his head down with a disappointing look. While Axel sighed out his breath.

Kenny: "Guys, have we forgot about these... assholes or whatever they are who raid student's camp?"

Lee: "No, we don't know who they are. But those guys gives me a reason why we have to leave this motel."

Axel: "I can say they're not friendly. They don't want having new friends. We don't know what kind of weapons they have. Girls and women wish they are dead."

Those words from teenager made Lee and Kenny getting worry about their families.

Lee: "We have to be prepare against someone or something."

Axel and Kenny nods and agree with him. They split out and walk to their own business.

20 minutes later

Axel and Lee opened the gate for Doug, Mark and the students. They see the students look sympathy over their teacher's death.

Lee: "How is going with 'em?"

Doug looking at them and shaking his head.

Doug: "Well, they have much been through it, otherwise the burial; It was peaceful and quiet."

Axel: "There was no one outside of the walls who might trying to attack or watched you?"

Mark: "I don't think so. If it someone was there, we shouldn't have be here just now, I guess."

Axel: "Your right. Good to hear it."

Axel walk to check with Emily.

Axel: "Hey, are you okay?"

Emily cleaned her tears from her eyes and take a breath. She looking at Axel.

Emily: "I am... fine. It just... Mr Parker was one of good teachers than ever I've had. And I can't imagine... that... sorry."

Axel: "It's okay, you know... eh, sometimes it just can't be peaceful to everyone. I know it's hard for you to understands, but my dad had always told me that when you have lost someone, it make you stronger than before and that will you making for those people who you love."

Emily: "How did you... I don't know, you maybe have right, just about you, Chris and your friends, but me? You think I can live through this and Cath... doesn't have to because she doesn't need to understand."

Axel: "It doesn't matter how you feels different ways from what I or anybody do. Look Emily-"

But Axel was interrupted by a noise who came from at the walls. It was one of the bells of Doug's alarm system. Everyone starting to hide, some of them is at the walls. The other with the kids is behind RV and truck. Then they heard two voices outsides the walls. It sounds like they are two men around thirties.

Man 1: "What the hell is this?"

Man 2: "Watch where you're walking man."

Mark: "Doug, it works,"

Doug: "Of course it works."

Axel: "Heh, I wish Patrick was here and see how he's gonna be jealous of you."

Doug: "Who?"

Axel: "Never mind."

When Ben and Travis hiding right at the walls right next to Lilly as she look at them with a skeptical glare. She starting wonder if those men are friends of the students.

Lilly: "Who are those people?!"

Ben: "I-I don't know."

Axel: "Lilly!. Cut it off, okay?"

Lee have a same thought like Lilly have, but not so hostile.

Lee: "Are they the people who attack your camp?"

Travis: "I don't think so, but their faces were covered up so I don't know."

Those men are getting closer to the motel.

Carley: "So, what now? We just waiting until they pass by?"

Lilly: "Yes, we do."

Axel: "This time, I am with her. We don't seek any trouble."

Then Kenny appear with his rifle.

Kenny: "There's just two of 'em. We have to make a stand."

Lilly: "No. We have a routine. We don't confront them if we don't have to."

Carley: "And what if they getting in here?"

Kenny: "Exactly, we can't just sitting around here and do nothing when those assholes getting in here."

Axel: "Then we sneak attack them if it's gonna happen."

Cath: "I don't know about all of you guys, but I'll feel that it is creepy right now if unknown people gets here and what if it's a trap?"

The two men are getting closer to the walls of the motel.

Man 2: "You all alright?"

Man 1: "Yeah, just getting untangled..."

Man 2 "I don't know how you're still alive, man."

Kenny: "I'm sorry, guys. But we gotta do this."

The fisherman quickly got up and raised his hunting rifle at the two men.

Kenny: "That's far enough!"

The men got attention from him and his warning as they waving their hands.

Man 2: "Woah shit! Okay, okay... No problem."

Everyone got up and looking at those men. They don't have any weapon except the large man holding a gallon.

Lee: "We don't want any trouble."

Andy: "Of course, neither do we. I'm Andy St. John, this here's my brother, Dan. We're just out looking for gasoline. Looks like you folks got the motel locked down, which is fine, but if you could spare any gas, well, we'd be much obliged."

Carley: "Why do you need gas?"

Danny: "Our place is protected by an electric fence. Generators provide the electricity."

Andy: "Our generators run on gas. Look, we own a dairy farm a few miles up the road. If y'all be willing to lower your guns, we can talk about some kind of trade."

Danny: "How are y'all doing on food? We got plenty at the dairy."

Those words about food made the group so desperate and hungry. They were quiet and thinking about if the trade is a good a idea and then realize that there's is no way to say no thanks as they need food.

Lilly: "Lee, why don't you, Axel and Mark check the place out, see if it's legit."

Carley: "I'm going with you. I got your back if anything seems fishy."

Doug: "Me too. Just improve the numbers, in case we run into anything dead and I have to see their electric fence too."

Andy: "So, uh, what are ya'll thinking?"

Lee: "You've got a deal, we-"

Before Lee could finish his last words, Axel immediately shows up to tell what he decide about the offer.

Axel: "I think we'll stay here."

Lee and the other looking at him chock and disappointing that he decide no deal with the brothers.

Axel: "I guess we're starting to develop a good vibe here at the motel."

Lilly and Kenny looking with a doubtful look at Axel while Larry looks little angry and hostile at him.

Larry: "Good VIBE? Well, Christ kiddo, I'm sorry the folks with a food supply and DEFENSES didn't tickle your pretty pink ass, as your damn arrows too."

Axel: "It's BOLTS, jackass!"

Axel getting angry at the old man, but Lee put a hand on his shoulder to calm him down.

Mark: "Come on, Axel. It doesn't harm to check on the dairy, let's think like a GROUP. This affects everyone."

Lilly: "Then we vote. If everyone agree then we'll send you guys with some gas to check the place out."

Kenny: "And if we don't?"

Lilly: "Then we'll stay in this wretched roach motel with your recreational paper-weight over there. Plus we stay close to Macon where we have access to the pharmacy, for Dad."

Axel sent a glare to Lilly as he believe that she just care about her dad more than the group. Lilly looking at Kenny and Katjaa.

Lilly: "Kenny, Katjaa?"

The husband and the wife looking each other and then.

Kenny: "We go."

Lilly: "Dad?"

Larry: "You betcha, punkin"

Lilly: "Carley?"

Carley: "I said we go."

Lilly: "Doug?"

Doug: "We do it, right?"

Mark: "I'm in. If they offering food, we gotta at least check it out."

Lee: "Yeah. We need the food, Axel. Think about the kids."

Axel looking at the girls and Duck, then at Emily. She nods at him to signal to accept the offer. He sighed and then walk to where the group collect the gas.

Few minutes later

Axel fills the gas from a big gas barrel into the gallon. as Emily, Cath, Travis and Ben shows up right behind him to talk. They noticed that he have his crossbow and his golden Desert too.

Emily: "You take with the guns too?"

Axel: "Just in case, like Carley said; If anything seems fishy."

Cath: "So you don't trust those men? They offering food to us."

Axel: "Who said that they have earn our trust? We don't know who and what they are. Plus, we had never company before them and you three after three months ago when this shit started."

Travis: "Very funny. I mean no offense, but you and your group led us here in the first place."

Axel: "It was because you guys needed help. You were the one who had the chance to trust us back there in the woods and you were skeptical at us in the beginning. Now the roles have switch. We need their help now."

Travis: "Oh... you got a point there."

Emily: "I don't think you don't have to take guns because of them except those people who raided our camp."

Axel: "That's the other reason why I need them."

Ben: "I don't know guys. Is it really worth to check on the dairy? I mean, what if those men work with those people who attack us?"

Axel: "Thank you there, Ben. There is something or somebody out there is worse than walkers."

Emily: "Come one guys, these people are so pleasant and didn't even tried to hurt us."

Axel: "Or they just hiding their true color until they are in position to attack us."

Travis: "Look, I said we're going to the dairy farm. We don't have any options to get some food from here."

Ben: "I don't think we can trust them... I mean we just meet them."

Travis: "We've just meet this group too, Ben."

Axel: "Be cool guys, it doesn't mean we seek any trouble. You two boys are coming with us."

Ben and Travis was chocked and start getting nervous by those words that they don't wanna go back to the forest.

Travis: "Whoa, what?"

Ben: "Why me?"

Axel: "Because you two know far away in the woods and plus, if we run into some strangers and you two have to confirmed if it was those people who raided your camp."

Emily: "Let me come with you guys."

Axel: "No. You stays here with Cath and and the rest of us. You two sisters have just reunited each other."

Lee shows up as Axel reach one of two tanks and lifts it up.

Lee: "How's going?"

Axel: "It's done."

Teenager hunter give the first tank to Lee.

Lee: "Good. Eh, are you okay with the deal from them? Why did you think it is bad idea?"

Axel: "Like I already told to Emily and the boys; We can't trust them yet as they didn't earn our trust. We don't know who they are and plus, we're going though into the woods where those people are who raided Emily's and the boys's camp. So the deal might be not bad, but it's gonna probably cost some of ours life."

Lee looking at the teenager with a questionable look, but thinking that the teenager hunter have maybe right about the woods.

Lee: "You maybe have right, Axel. But at least is it worth to try and we need food."

Axel sighed out and reach the second tank and lifts it up.

Axel: "Fine, let's just go to the dairy before I change my mind."

Emily: "Be careful out there."

Axel: "Who said I'm not?"

Cath: "I could've said that."

Axel: "Not now, Cath. Just stay with your sister, okay?"

Cath: "Okay, Dix."

Lee: "We'll be right back."

Emily nods at him as he, Axel, Ben and Travis start walking right to the gate where Mark, Carley and Doug are and waiting for them.

Ben: "Here we go again."

Travis: "Relax, man. We won't be there too far as long we have people who can protect us."

Ben nods at his best friend.

A While ago, in the woods

In the woods, the St Jones brothers were leading Lee, Axel, Carley, Doug, Mark, Ben and Travis to their dairy farm. Andy was now carrying a full gallon of gas in his hand while Lee was carrying another. Axel holding his crossbow and look around to see if there is someone who follow them while he follow the St Jones brothers lead. Mark was walking right between the brothers while Ben and Travis following behind him. Mark asking the brothers about their dairy farm.

Mark: "So, this dairy; you guys really have food?"

Andy: "Sure do. We've lost most of the cattle, but we still have lots of milk, butter and cheese stocked up."

Danny: "And with the vegetables we grow, we got plenty of food."

Lee, Axel, Carley and Doug was a bit far from them as they wanna talk in private.

Carley: "It's nice to get away from that motel for a while. This Lilly/Kenny thing is starting to get ridiculous. Personally, I'd be happier if you started to take charge more."

Doug: "I agree. You were always there for everyone."

Axel: "Sounds music in my ears. We follow Lilly just because she have military experiences, but it doesn't mean that she has optimism decisions just like you have."

Lee: "You think they'd want me for a leader?"

Carley: "Sure. Everybody looks up to you."

Lee: "Well… not everyone thinks I'm so trustworthy."

Axel: "Forget about that fucking asshole Larry, he hates everyone except his daughter."

Doug: "Axel's right. You just have a negative vote against how many others who would want you to be leader."

Lee sink his head with a doubtful look on face and then raise up.

Lee: "A negative vote can effects the other votes to change mind by some reasons about why there is a negative vote."

Axel: "Or you mean two negative votes, Lilly was so surprised that you sides with Kenny as you always had act like a diplomatic person in our group."

Lee: "I did because she was going to decide to kick Emily and the boys out off the group already and she need to getting along with Kenny."

Carley: "Guys... can you give me and Lee a minute to talk with him alone?"

Axel and Doug look at her as Lee did. They nods at her and walking faster from Lee and Carley to give them some space. Axel smile at Lee and Carley.

Axel: "Love birds."

Axel notice that Doug holding something with his hand.

Axel: "What do you got there, Doug?"

Doug: "Oh. Nothing. Just a laser pointer I picked up during our last trip to the drugstore."

Axel: "Well, last time you weren't good enough to get out there. It surprise me that you chose to coming along with us to the dairy."

Doug: "Heh, I have to take a look at the electric fence they talked about. It might give me some ideas for something I can rig up at the motor inn."

Axel: "Can an electric fence really stop walkers without to destroy the brain?

Doug: "Well as long as the walkers aren't completely dehydrated, and the fence has enough juice, yeah, seems plausible."

Axel: "Sounds really plausible, but yeah."

Doug: "So if a walker stays in contact with the fence, it'll eventually cook its brain. Probably takes a while though... and that can't be a good smell. ...Unless it smells like jerky... Man, I could go for some jerky or some meat of animals who you have caught in the hunt."

While Axel and Doug talking, Carley and Lee talk each other while keep going.

Carley: "Lee, you... didn't told about your past? Does Larry know it?"

Lee: "Yeah, he was trying to kill me back in the drugstore just like what he did to Axel's father at Air Force Base."

Carley was chock to hear what Larry tried to do with Lee in the drugstore for three months ago and glare over the old man's action.

Carley: "Great, that can't be easy."

Lee: "Clementine knows. She was there when we were talking in the drugstore and asked me about it… I couldn't lie to her."

Carley: "Oh, what about Axel? Does he know?"

Lee: "No... eh, I mean... He just know the drugstore was my parents's place and he asked me about what's the deal with Larry and I lied to him that he's is just a old racist."

Carley: "Oh, that seems pretty logically for him even it's a lie. Anyway, what exactly did happen with the senator?"

Lee was so suffered by that fight with the senator, but he keep fighting against it and answer back to his girlfriend.

Lee: "…It was an accident. I mean, I pretty much knew about the affair. Sometimes I wonder if I should talk to the group about it."

Carley: "You don't have to. Whatever happened before things went to hell doesn't matter anymore."

Lee: "Not sure everyone would see it that way and I know Axel hate Larry, but I don't think he will be happy when he'll find out I'm just lied about between me and Larry."

Carley: "Maybe you're right. Listen, over the years I've reported on some pretty messed up shit. I've seen situations like yours a hundred times; it doesn't have to make you a bad man. You are a good man like take care a little girl who was alone and saved a lot of people."

Her boyfriend smiled over those words.

Lee: "I really appreciate that, sweetheart."

Meanwhile, Mark was telling Ben and the brothers how he had been rescued from the Air Force base.

Mark: "I mean, thank God Lee showed up when he did. Right, Lee?"

Andy: "Yeah, why don't you tell us a little more about yourself, Lee."

Lee walks ahead to get in between the brothers while Mark went ahead with Ben and Travis right beside him.

Danny: "Where're you from?"

Lee: "I grew up in Macon."

Andy: "Right here in the heart of Georgia, that's what I like to hear! Y'all seem pretty settled in at that motor inn. Who's running things over there?"

It wasn't a simple question to answer because Lilly and Kenny have been arguing so long time since after they moved from the drugstore. Then he decide to say what Carley, Doug and Axel think that who should be leader.

Lee: "I am. If you guys have any questions, you come to me."

Carley had smiled at his response while Axel look proud out over to hear that from him.

Danny: "How many people you got over there anyway?"

Lee: "Twelve, if you count the kids."

Axel: "Eh-huh, you forgot Emily, Ben and Travis."

Carley: "That makes it fifteen."

Andy: "Well, we'd love to get ya all out to the dairy. Like I said, we've got plenty of food, and quite frankly, we could always use an extra helping hand."

Ben: "In the summers, I used to help out on a goat farm."

Danny: "Yeah, that's great. Everything helps."

Andy: "Momma's been running the dairy for as long as I can remember but now it's-"

Axel: "Hush! I hear someone."

He hear some voices as everyone did too. Those voices sounds not friendly which everyone look little nervous and prepare on their guard now.

Bandit 1: "You think you're gonna cut me out of this?"

Andy: "Shit! Get down!"

They all crouched to the ground and moved carefully and quietly up a hill on the left where the voices coming from. When they got the top of it, they saw two men that were a few feet away from them. Those men is in the middle of an argument, the one who wear a white sweater have a shotgun and the other one have a crossbow. Both of them wear masks to cover their faces. Axel, Carley and Mark drew their weapons, in case if these men see them.

Bandit 2: "No one is trying to cut you out of anything!"

Danny: "Fucking Bandits."

Mark: "Who?"

Ben: "Those look like the people who raided my camp."

Lee: "Who are they?"

Andy: "Shh, fucking assholes is who they are."

Carley: "There's only two of them."

Danny: "Oh no, there's a lot more."

Doug: "But what should we do?"

Nobody don't know how to answer that. They're just waiting and see what will happen next.

Bandit 2: Yeah, and you know what, we ate it all. What are you gonna fucking do about it?"

Andy: "Don't worry, Danny and I have ya covered if something happens, but let's just wait this out and hope they move on."

Just then, Bandit 1 kicks his "buddy" in front of him.

Bandit 1: "FUCK YOU!"

He then blasts him away with his shotgun, killing him instantly and fall backwards on grass. Ben and Travis gasps at what they had just witnessed while Mark and Axel took aim at the guy if he see them right in the middle of his madness. He still shooting a few times at his "buddy's" corpse.

Bandit 1: "FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU!"

Meanwhile, Lee and the other look shocked out and watching on this madness show.

Carley: "Jesus."

Doug: "Oh shit."

Then the bandit stop firing with his shotgun and turned around to walk away from the corpse.

Bandit 1: "Asshole."

Once he was out the sight, Axel, Carley and Mark lowered their guns that everything is clear, well mostly.

Andy: "The world out here has gone to shit. Come on, let's get to the dairy where it's safe."

They all returned to the pathway and were back on track towards their destination while Axel still looking at the bandits corpse for a while before he walk away. He started to remember that day when he wanna do that same thing to that person who did to his father.

Flashback at the Motor Inn

In the woods, Axel aim with his crossbow at a deer and firing right through the head. Deer collapsed down.

Kenny: "Shit. Nice work, kid. You're really good with this crossbow and these arrows."

Axel: "Thanks, man. And they're called Bolts."

They walk right to the deer and carry up with it. They walk back to the motel.

Axel: "I hope they are back soon."

Kenny: "Lee is a tough son of bitch, Lilly; well I know she and I disagree each other, but I don't doubt that she's tough as a nail. I'm not sure about Doug or Larry..."

Axel: "Doug will learn how to use a gun, someday. Larry is just a coward who barely go outside of the walls, I know he did today, still it doesn't change his fear of those walkers."

Kenny: "Well, I glad he decided finally to go with the other to find some weapons, I don't want have him around my family and the girls too after what he trying to do with my son and Lee back in the drugstore."

Axel: "He'll better don't do anything stupids, if he does which it will lead a problem over himself."

They arrived to the motor inn as Carley saw them and opened the gate for them. Cath and the other kids shows up.

Cath: "You guys made it. How's going?"

Axel: "Just a bit of new start in that woods that I've barely hunting there before when this shit started."

Kenny: "Well, we're fine then. No harm even. But we caught some fresh meat."

Duck: "Good work, Dad and Axel."

Carley: "Looks like they're back."

They look at the road outside of the walls and see a car shows up. It was Lee and the others.

Axel: "Heh, that was quick for them, hope they found something we can defend our self."

Lee and the other get out of the car and walk right to the gate. Lee and Doug looks sympathy and frustration over Larry what he did back to the base. Doug blaming not just at Larry except himself too as he have the key and dropped it in the pipe by accident. Lilly helps Larry to walk to the gate. Then, they noticed the newcomer, Mark.

Clementine: "Lee, your back. Are you guys alright?"

Lee: "We're fine, sweet peat."

Kenny: "How was it at the base and who is this guy?"

Lee: "This is Mark. He was trapped at the Air Base, we helped him back there."

Mark: "Hey, guys."

Katjaa: "Nice to meet you, Mark."

Axel: "Hope your not bite us. Then let's get some celebration and-"

Lee: "Axel."

Axel stop walking and turned around to see Lee and he looks sympathy and little nervous.

Axel: "What, Lee?"

Lee: "We... We found another person who was with Mark at the Air Base and it was your... father."

Axel look surprised and chocked after hear about the news from Lee, then he look happy, but then noticed that his father isn't with Lee and the other. He starting wonder why his father isn't here.

Axel: "Where's my father then? I'm sure you had told him about me, but why is he not with you guys?"

Lee or the others except the girls, Carley, Kenny and his family didn't answer and was little quiet for a while until Lilly came up and look calm, but frowned at Axel.

Lilly: "Your dad was out of control, he almost got us killed when he firing his gun at the walkers and gunshots bring the herd to us."

Doug: "Well, we're still alive."

But Lilly just ignored him and continued her story about Daryl.

Lilly: "Then he attack my dad, stabbed right on his leg, hitting on his face many times and aim his gun at him."

Lee: "Your dad was the one who start to threatening him first as he refuse to let him come with us, to his own son, Lilly!"

Axel looks angry now and glare right to Lilly.

Axel: "What did you and that son of bitch to your dad with my old man?"

Larry: "We left that bastard behind with those dead to handcuff him on the roof because he wasn't good with us!"

Everyone look chocked over that news except those who was at the Air Base. Most of them glare at Larry as Axel is now distressed over his dad's fate.

Carley: "What hell is your problem? I don't know what between you and his father, but now you're on the edge."

Cath: "Go to hell, Larry! You have no right!"

Axel just walking around with his frustration, then he stand now and turned around to look at Larry.

Axel: "Let me get this through; you handcuff my dad on the roof and left him behind with the walkers like a bait!?"

Larry: "Hell yeah, because he's a asshole or he was."

Axel looking at Larry with a death glance, then he throw his squirrels at the old man, but it was nothing for him. But then Larry realize it was a distraction as Axel run quickly right on him and kicking right on his injury leg.

Larry: "AAAAAARRRGH!"

Larry yelled out and falling down on his back and Axel was going to jump on him, but Lee and Kenny hold him to stop this fight while Lilly run right to check her old man. Axel was trying to him, but no use.

Lee: "Axel! I know how you feel, but that won't get your father back alive."

Kenny: "Take it damn easy, kid! We are sorry what happen to your dad! But let's thinking about what are we going to do with Larry, alright?"

Cath: "Dix! Stop!"

But Axel ignored them.

Axel: "YOU LISTEN TO ME! YOU'RE DEAD, YOU HEAR ME! YOU FUCKING OLD RACIST WHO HATE BLACK PEOPLE AND NOW WHITE PEOPLE TOO?! YOU ARE DEAD TO ME!"

Everyone was chocked by his outburst even Cath too. Larry wasn't scare by the teenager hunter and frown at him. After a while ago, Axel stop trying to force and take a breath until Doug shows up.

Doug: "It wasn't just Larry's fault. It was my fault too."

Cath: "What?"

Carley: "What are you talking about, Doug?"

Axel: "What the hell that supposed to mean?"

Doug: "I have the keys to the handcuff, but I dropped it."

Axel: "Couldn't you just pick it up?!"

Doug: "It fell in the pipe."

Axel pull a hand over his displeased face and have some tears on his eyes.

Doug: "But there is no to blame anyone, for now."

Axel: "What do you mean by that?"

Doug: "I close the door with a chain so the walkers can't get him. Stairs is small, only five or six of them can go to the door and it isn't enough to knock off. So, he is still there alive."

Axel looking at Doug for a while, but still keep his frustration at Larry and Lilly too. Larry was so unhappy to hear that from Doug.

Axel: "Well tell me where he is, I go there and bring him here."

Larry: "Fuck him and that was stupid to lock the door back there. Those things should every piece of that dog-"

Axel: "Hey! Use another word, your shithead! If you don't, you will get a bolt through it your damn eye!

Lilly: "Hey, don't treat him to kill-"

Axel: "Shut your mouth, Lilly. It's your fault why I'm treating with him right now and can't barely keep your goddamn dad in line."

Lee: "Now everyone calm down now, you guys scare the kids."

Axel looking at Cath, Clementine and Duck. Except Cath, they look little nervous by him, Lilly and Larry. Axel sucked out his breath and walk away to prepare to find his father.

Cath: "I knew you're dangerous, asshole."

Cath glare at Larry who ignored her and can't stop frowned at Axel and Doug too.

Katjaa: "Come here, kids. Let's give them a break."

Kids walk back to do their play stuff with Katjaa.

Kenny: "That was tough call there."

Lee: "Yeah, let's talk about which of us who will go with Axel to save his dad."

Doug: "I go."

Carley: "You don't need to that, Doug."

Doug: "It was I who have the keys and dropped it."

Kenny: "Maybe, but it was that son of bitch's fault who locked Axel's father at the roof. Why do you protecting him?"

Doug: "Because I don't want get anyone hurt by Larry, we will tear into of apart if we think little logically."

Carley: "Then I go too."

Lee: "Me too, just be careful if we meet Axel's father. He could be an asshole if someone refuse to listen or on his way."

Kenny: "I wish I could come with you guys, but after what Larry did back there; I don't want left my family and the girls behind with him."

Lee: "You probably have right. Just keep your eye on him."

Kenny nods at him and walk away to his room while Lee talk with Mark.

Lee: "You know this place, so come with us."

Mark sighed out as he already come in here Motor Inn and now leave already.

Mark: "Okay, just make this quick, alright?"

Lee: "We will."

Axel: "Are guys coming or not?!"

Axel is in the car already and waiting for the others.

End of flashback and To be continued.

A/N: Well, that was one more payback to Larry, on his leg again ^^

I'm sorry to shows some spoilers like like about Rina Archer's fate. And about why Axel didn't tell Emily or Cath about Chris and the other back in the Atlanta, you guys will find out to the end of "This is Survival".

What will happen when the group came to the dairy? Will Axel and the others get Daryl from the Air Base? Find out on the next chapter.

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