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Rick and Shane come around me and take Carl. We find a fat man who came out from behind a tree and he comes to ask if we needed help.
"OF COURSE WE NEED HELP YOU BASTARD!" I yell, absolutely freaking out.
"My Pa's house is up about a half a mile, go ask for Hershel," the man says.
I look at Shane, "Take my clothes for when I change, got it? I'll go find them, but you've gotta fat least try to keep up!"
I change into my wolf form, and I can see right away the fat man is frightened by me. I don't have time to deal with that at the moment so I run. I run as fast and as powerfully as I can go. I feel tears escape my eyes and I wonder if Carl will be okay. I might've been running at least 15 miles an hour, I felt bad for telling Rick to keep up with me, but I needed to find help right away. Outside the forest I was greeted with an open field, up the field I saw an old white house. There was a girl on the porch. There was a clothes line in front of me so I grabbed one of the larger shirt that must've belonged to the fat guy and put it on. I turned back into my human form and ran with the long shirt reaching below my knees to the porch.
"I need your help!" I cry, "My friend was just shot and he needs help."
"What are you doing in only a shirt? Where did that wolf go?" she asks me, "I didn't see it but I heard it out in the field-," she mumbles off but I interrupt her.
"There's no time to explain! Some guy shot my friend and he told me to run here and ask for Hershel!"
"Calm down, Hershel is my father. Let me go get him and I'll go get my horse," she burst inside and an older man came out and I followed into the house. It didn't look like they'd been surviving the damn apocalypse like we have. The looked like they were living normally.
The woman with short hair came back outside on a horse, "come get on, show me where they are!"
"Just follow me!" I yell out to her. I change back into my wolf form and leave behind the large shirt. I run faster than I did before. The horse clacking of its hooves was behind me and I needed to find Rick. I saw him running on the edge of the woods and barked a few times to get his attention. He looked at me and then at the horse.
"Help my boy!" Rick said. He handed Carl up to the girl and got up onto the horse as well. Shane was farther behind with the slower and exasperated fat man.
"Otis!" the girl on the horse yelled. He looked up and seemed to get motivated enough to keep running. We all ran back to the house and got Carl inside. I stayed outside because I could tell no one understood why a freaking wolf was with this new group. I waited for Shane to come back up here with the man.
I saw them on the border of the field, and they became closer and closer until they finally got up to the porch. Shane had my clothes in one hand and he gave them to me. I went inside with Shane for a moment so he could be my voice. The older woman and younger woman with short hair looked at us when we walked in, at me particularly.
"Do have a bathroom she could borrow?" Shane asks awkwardly. The older woman looks at us with confusion but leads me to a small half-bathroom. I change into my human form quickly and put on my clothes and burst out the door while putting my long white hair up. Everyone looks at me with confusion except for Rick and Shane.
"What just happened? Where did the wolf go?" the fat man, Otis asks me. He looks genuinely confused.
"I'm the wolf. I can transform into a wolf whenever I want. I can do a few other thing too but that's the main thing I can do," I try to explain simply.
They didn't know how to react, and quite honestly, I didn't have the time to care. I heard in the background Hershel and Rick talking about needing something for Carl, and that Shane and Otis would go out to get it. I went over by Carl's side. Hershel was pressing a cloth against his wound. I wasn't even paying attention to what was happening around me. I could only see Carl and him being unconscious. It scared me. Of all of the freaky things in this world, a comatose boy was the thing that scared me the most. Maybe it was because I knew him. He was my friend, and I couldn't stand to see him like this. Rick was having a meltdown, he was mumbling about how Lori didn't know, and he was crying like I was. My stare was blank, filled with no thoughts at all now. Just, nothing.
"Are you his little girlfriend or something?" the girl with short hair asked me. I shook my head. She put her arms around me and took me to the other room. I looked over my shoulder, still at Carl when I left the room. We were outside now, and I don't know where this girl was taking me.
"I'm Maggie Greene, by the way," she says, still walking towards the back of the house.
"Destiny Bane," I said.
"Well, Destiny, let's go find Rick's wife. I need your help because I don't know where they are and you do," she said calmly and brought me to the horse. She asked me if I wanted to ride with her or 'go wolf' as she called it.
"Can I ride with you?" I don't think I could run any more than I already have today. She nods and helps me up and then gets up herself. Before knowing Maggie I can already tell she has a sister. She didn't treat me with lip or sass; she knew how to make me calm down. I lead her into the forest and we go near the highway. Before we get to the highway, though, we meet up with Daryl and the others.
"Lori," I say, "we need you to come with us now!"
She looks puzzled, as do the rest of them.
Maggie catches on to this and speaks before I get the chance to, "there's been an accident, Carl was shot," she says bluntly.
This seemed to get their attentions. Everyone's eyes widen dramatically. Lori immediately climbed onto the back of the horse, which now had three people occupying it. Maggie told the others where to find her house and to bring the rest of our group to there. We set off on the horse again and it takes up less time to get there now that we know where we are going. We see Rick and Hershel on the porch, just talking. Rick still looks out of sorts.
I hop off the horse when we make it in front of the house. Lori gets off when Rick starts coming down the steps and she hugs him tightly. She cries and Rick takes him into the house to see Carl. I follow in after them. Lori lies next to Carl and talks to him, despite the fact he probably can't hear her. Rick has to donate more blood to him, so he sits down in the chair and has the chord stuck in his arm to give blood. After dong that he leaves with Lori and they go into the living room to talk with Hershel. I was alone in the room with an unconscious Carl.
I sit down in the chair next to him, and pray that he'll be alright.
"Yeah, I know you probably can't hear me but I-," I feel tears come into my eyes, "what am I saying? I-, just, don't die, alright?"
I wipe away the tears on my face quickly. I decide to go outside and look for Sophia again, whether it was by myself or with someone else. The others were coming down the street, Daryl in front on a motorcycle. What ever happened to noise attracts walkers?
Hershel, Maggie and the rest of them come out and give greetings to our group.
I motion Daryl over by me and ask him, "Hey, do you want to go look for Sophia again?"
"Tomorrow," he says, "we've just gotten back from doing that all day."
I nod, "I'll meet you out here at before dawn?"
He nods back. I notice the sun is setting and yawn. Walking over by Dale, I ask him if I can spend the night in the RV again.
"Sure," he says. I plaster a fake smile and get into the RV. Taking out the sleeping bag from where Carl got it yesterday, I wrap myself up into it on the floor and fall asleep.
Today has been quite a long day.
