Author Note: I do not own The Walking Dead or any of it's characters

Axel Dixon and Cath Carver belong to me.

Emily Carver belongs to HiddenTruthandLies2

Sorry for late, it supposed to come yesterday. XD

Chapter 32: The Cost of Living

Axel's POV

We saw a girl who run out of one of abandoned stores. Then some walkers appear when they attracted by her screaming.

"What the hell is she doing?" I muttered. "She has many openings to get away from the walkers, but just moving around and screaming which that she going lead those monsters to herself."

I notice Lee and Kenny looks chock and horror.

"What the hell is that? A walker?" Kenny asked as I look at him with an annoying look.

"Geez, Kenny. Walkers don't scream. Do you really think that they can do that?" I said.

"No... I don't think so, but..." Kenny tried answered, but get spechless because he can't stop looking at that poor screaming girl.

Now that girl is surrounding by the walkers now. There was no escape for her.

"NO! GO AWAY!" The girl screamed which cause more of walkers shows up and approaching her.

"It's a girl! She'll getting all of us killed!" I exclaimed as Lee take look closer through the scope of the rifle.

"We gotta do something to save her!" Lee exclaimed as I shook the head over his words.

"How? We are far away from her and if we try to save her, the walkers will go after us then." I exclaimed and look at the girl again.

"Let's think about..." Kenny mumbled and seems like he got an idea.

Then a walker bite right to the girl's neck, but she jumps away from it.

She's bitten now. There is no way we can save and bring her to the motor inn. It will be just like what happened with that teacher last week ago.

"Fuck, they bit her. We gotta shoot her; put her out of this misery." Lee said.

"You're right; that's all what we can do from here." I agreed with Lee.

"They don't know we're here." Kenny objected as we looking hesitant at him.

"What do you mean?" Lee asked.

"I mean, that if we leave her alive, she draws them all to her; buying us time." Kenny explained and I widened my eyes in chock and anger.

"Are you nuts, Kenny? We can't just let her die like that. Even we shot her, the walkers will be still there and eating her corpse." I exclaimed lowly.

"Yeah, but not all of them who are not still there yet; they will follow after the gunshot. I don't like this either, but that's the only way now to get supplies without disturbing us during the time." Kenny shot back.

"Ken..." Lee trying to talk with him, but Kenny ignored him and keep going to explain.

"Think about it! We're always worrying about the ones we can't see. If she stays alive, she'll bring them all outta their holes." Kenny said and looking back at that poor girl with a sad look.

I looking at that girl again, the walkers trying to get her, but she struggles from them and even there is no way to escape. We can't just leave her like this, she will die in the suffer and have a horrible fate. But Kenny got a point there, if we shoot her to put out of this misery and all of walkers in this city will follow after the gunshot; to get us. But back to the first thought about her, she had many openings to get through the walkers. But she didn't and maybe because she's scared, but it's been three months and every survivors should know now about the danger about walkers like don't scream to get walkers's attention.

I place a hand on my head and start shaking little of annoying feelings and horrible thoughts about the girl. I know it sounds crazy, but it seems like she's making a suicide in that...way.

Then I notice Lee aiming the rifle at that girl. Is he going to shoot her?

But after a few seconds, he lowered the gun as I getting chock. Did he decide to leave that girl? I thought that Lee would never do that.

"Good, let's go. She'll keep em busy." Kenny said and reaches his hand again as Lee grabbed it.

This time Kenny got Lee up at the top of the truck. I see Lee has a sympathy expression on his face. I guess he feel the same what I feel.

But now we have to go now. We jump down on the street and get in the drugstore through the back door while still hearing the screaming from that poor girl.

I feel bad about that. It reminds me how that asshole to Larry who left my father behind with the walkers at the air base. But unlike that, he got away. Thanks for Doug who had chains the door so the walkers can't get father and then my crazy old man came up a shitty plan; cut his arm to get free. But it feels like what we're doing like what Larry should doing. Let's just hope that we will never doing again, especially someone from our group.

I closed the door after.

To be continued

A/N:

I chose to let that girl behind with the walkers. (It was one of tough decisions for me)

No Letter Hacks in this chapter, sorry. :/

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