SOME THINGS LAST - CHAPTER FIVE- BROKEN PIECES
They went back to the house and on their way they heard a shot, a gunshot for sure. They looked around but didn't see anything. They got back to the house as fast they could.
They walked inside and everyone was in the living room, expect from Shane and Rick. ''Rick and Shane ain't back?'', Daryl asked after he noticed the two weren't at the house. ''No.'', Rick's wife, Lori replied. ''We heard a shot.'', Lizzy said. ''Maybe they found Randall.'', Lori said. ''We found him.'', Daryl answered. They had found him, but as a walker. ''Is he back in the shed?'', a blonde woman asked. ''He's a walker.'', Lizzy answered the woman from whom she didn't know the name. ''Did you find the walker that bit him?'', Herschel asked. Before she could even reply, Glenn did. ''No, the weird thing is he wasn't bit.'' Everyone in the room was looking quite confused. Even Lizzy. ''His neck was broke.'', Daryl added. ''So he fought back.'', the blonde said. ''The thing is, Shane and Randall's tracks were right on top of each other. And Shane ain't no tracker, so he didn't come up behind him. They were together.'', Daryl explained.
Rick's wife, Lori stepped forward into Daryl's direction. ''Would you please get back out there, find Rick and Shane and find out what on earth is going on?'', Lori asked Daryl. ''You got it.'', he said. ''Thank you.'', Lori said gratefully. Daryl looked at Lizzy and she looked back. He gave her this look he had done before, so many times. That look that he wanted her to follow him and stay close to him. She gave him a small nod and followed him outside.
Together with Glenn and Andrea, they went outside. They stood on the porch, looking around the farm and soon they saw the walkers. A lot of walkers. More then they could handle. Soon some others were standing next to them and looking at the great amount of walkers coming closer.
''Patricia, kill the lights.'', Herschel said. ''I'll get the guns.'', Andrea said. ''Maybe they're just passing, like the herd on the highway. Should we just go inside?'', Glenn suggested. ''Not unless there's a tunnel downstairs I don't know about.'', Daryl replied back. ''A herd that size would rip the house down.'', Lizzy added.
Suddenly Lori walked in. ''Carl's gone.'', she said. ''What?'', Daryl said. ''He... he was upstairs. I can't find him anymore.'', Lori told them. She was freaking out, Lizzy could see it. Probably everyone could see it. ''Maybe he's hiding.'', Glenn suggested. ''He's supposed to be upstairs. I'm not leaving without my boy.'', Lori said. ''We're not. We're gonna look again. We're gonna find him.'', the grey haired woman said and took her by her arm and dragged her back inside.
Soon Andrea came back with the bag with guns and laid it down on the porch. Maggie handed out a gun to Glenn and took one for herself. ''Maggie.'', Glenn said confusing. ''You grow up country, you pick up a thing or two.'', Maggie said. ''I got the number. It's no use.'', Daryl added in. ''You can go if you want.'', Herschel replied while grabbing a gun for himself. ''You gonna take 'em all on?'', Lizzy asked, quite shocked by the fact he wasn't afraid and wanted to fight. ''We have guns. We have cars.'', Herschel said. ''Kill as many as we can, and we'll use the cars to lead the rest of them off the farm.'', Andrea added. Even through Lizzy wasn't very fond of Andrea, this was a pretty good idea. It might even work. ''Are you serious?'', Daryl asked while looking at Herschel. Lizzy grabbed a gun for herself. She still had the gun the grey haired woman gave her, but it was low on ammo and she could use a spare one. ''This is my farm. I'll die here.'', Herschel said and he left. Daryl looked at her and they shared looks. ''All right. It's as good a night as any.'', he said. He went off the porch straight to the walkers and she just followed him, like some sort of dog.
Daryl went to his motorcycle, well Merle's motorcycle. He got on it and started the motor. She looked at the motorcycle and showed a small smile. ''C'mon Liz! Where are you waiting for?'', he said while looking at her kind of annoyed. The smile disappeared again as she got on the back of the motorcycle. She clung her arms around him as he drove toward the walkers. Some others got in their cars and followed Daryl's lead.
Daryl stopped when they were close to the fence. He grabbed his gun and kept shooting walkers. She did the same. Walkers were coming closer and she knew the fence wouldn't hold it for much longer. ''Whatever you do, just stay close to me.'', he said and she nodded. She could see the other cars driving around and shooting walkers. She looked at the barn as she could see it getting on fire. ''We should try to get closer to the barn. Maybe someone could've set it on fire.'', she said to him. Daryl nodded in response and got on his bike. She got on the back of the bike as he drove to the RV standing close to the barn.
There was a guy about Beth's age whom was sitting in the driver's seat and shooting some walkers. ''Yo! Must've been Rick or Shane who started that fire. Maybe they're trying to get out back! Why don't you circle around? Go!'', Daryl said to the boy. ''Got it!'', the boy said and drove toward the barn. They drove further.
Suddenly Daryl stopped driving and looked at her. ''There are just too many.'', he said. She looked around, he was right. They didn't had enough ammo, not for something like this. The farm was lost and they both knew it. ''C'mon try to get close to the house, we should warn the others and take them far from here.'', she said to him. He nodded and they drove back to the house.
''I'm going to keep circling around. '', Daryl said as she stepped off the bike. ''Just stay close.'', she replied as she ran to the house.
It was too late. A car just left with some people on it. She wasn't sure whom were on the car. She saw T-Dog drive but she didn't see the rest. She could see walkers getting closer. She looked around and saw Andrea running into the woods. She was already too far to get after her. She shot some walkers right in front of her. She kept walking backward while she reloaded her gun. She shot a few more as they kept coming. She could see Rick from a distance. ''Rick!'', she yelled and soon caught his attention. She walked closer to him while she shot a few more walkers. Her leg started to hurt. Her wound wasn't still fully healed.
''Where's Lori?'', he asked as she got closer. She could see him together with Carl and Herschel. Well, Herschel was still shooting walkers and refusing to leave the farm. ''She drove away with T-Dog and Beth, Andrea and Carol are still out there. Can you look for them?'', she informed him.
The walkers got more closer, they are getting overrun. ''We need to leave! NOW!'', Rick yelled. Lizzy nodded as they went to the car. Rick dragged along Herschel and got him in the car. Lizzy looked around and saw Carol running into the woods with some walkers on her heels. ''Wait! I'm gonna get Carol!'', she said to Rick as she pointed to the direction where she could see Carol.
While she tried to run as fast she could, she shot a few walkers on the way. ''Carol!'', she yelled. The grey haired woman stopped walking and looked at her. Lizzy shot a few more walkers to clear the way. Her gun was empty now. She threw it away and grabbed another one. The spare one. ''Rick is over there, just get in the car! GO!'', she said to the woman. ''What about you?'', the woman asked. ''I'm gonna look for Andrea. GO!'', she replied. Carol nodded and ran toward the car. Lizzy could see her getting in and they drove away.
When she looked behind her she could see she had the attention from a lot of walkers. She ran into the woods, but stayed close to the road. Where the hell was Daryl. Some walkers got very close to her, she shot them. Just five of them and she was out of ammo. She threw away the gun and out of the woods, to the open road again. ''HELP!'', she screamed. Could there still be any hope for her? She looked around.
There he was just standing there and looking around. He started the motor and drove to her. '' Come on, I ain't got all day!'', Daryl said. She quickly got on the backseat and barely got away from the walkers. She wrapped her arms around him. She had almost lost him again.
Walkers were everywhere, everywhere they drove. ''Fuckin' hell.'' Daryl growled as he tried to get away from them. ''Go to town!'', she said as she could see the opportunity to go back. He gave her a short confused look. ''Just go!'', she said.
They drove back to the town, she had been about a week ago. Where it all happened. It was still dark and it was somehow quite with walkers. There were a few, but they could handle them. ''Just stay here. I'll be over there.'', she said as she pointed toward a clothing store. ''Be quick.'', he said and she gave a nod in response.
It was quite simple. She got inside and went to the spot she had hid her bag with her stuff and things. It was still there and all intact. She pulled on her leather jacket which was in the bag and pulled her hair in a ponytail. Even though it seemed like no one had touched her bag, she had to see if there wasn't anything missing. She still had Uncle Paul's shotgun, her own gun and some ammo, some knifes, her bow and arrow were still unharmed, she had some supplies and most of all, her ring and Daryl's ring were still there. Unharmed and well. She sighed in relief. There was just one more thing she had to do.
Lizzy left the store through the backdoor. She had to do this without him, without Daryl. She walked over to a bookstore a few feet away. She had to be there. Charlie had to be there. She opened the door and there rang a bell. She was holding a knife in one of her hands, just to be sure there wasn't anyone else, but she know there was.
Her eyes moved around the room and she heard some moaning in the back of the store. A walker. Her heart started racing. She hoped it wouldn't be her. Please don't, she begged in her mind. Lizzy walked to the back of the store, right where the sounds came from. She stopped in front of a door. She closed her eyes as she let out a sigh.
When she opened the door, her eyes traced down the room and her eyes stumbled upon her. It wasn't her anymore. ''No…'', she whispered. She tried to hold back the tears, but they took over. Soon the tears rolled down her face as she looked at the walker. The walker was pinned down at the ground with a knife in it's shoulder. It was holding it's arm in front of her, trying to grab Lizzy. ''D-don't make me do this to you.'', she whispered through her cries. She walked closer to the walker and knelt down next to the walker as she was close to it, but yet out of it's reach. The walker didn't got it's attention away from Lizzy. The walker still tried to take a hold of her, but Lizzy was out of reach. ''I know this ain't you Charlie.'', she cried. She pushed the arms of the walker away and planted her knife in it's brains. Now she was dead, for real. She pulled out the knife from the shoulder and laid the body down on the ground. She had failed. She had failed to protect her sister. She had failed the one thing she had to do. She cried even harder now, sitting next to Charlie's cold and dead body. ''I'm so sorry Charlie. '', she cried.
Suddenly she heard the front door going open, but she didn't care anymore. Her sister was gone now and her sister had meant the world to her. Lizzy had always been some sort of mother figure to her sister and now it was like she had lost a part of herself. She could hear footsteps coming closer. She whipped her tears away and looked to the opening of the door. Waiting for someone or something popping up. It was Daryl. He saw the body and then his eyes moved back to Lizzy. ''Oh god.'', he said as he knelt down next to her, wrapping his arms around her. Lizzy started to cry again. She buried her head in his chest. Not caring about the rest of the world, only about her sister. Her dead sister. ''I-I failed Daryl.'', she said through her cries. ''I should have been there, with her. I shouldn't have left her.''
Some time passed she didn't know how much time passed, five minutes or an hour? She had no idea. ''What happened Liz?'', he asked when she had stopped crying. She whipped away her tears and sniffed. She was still in his arms, but now she turned her eyes to the dead body. ''We were looking for some supplies as I heard a gunshot. I told her to stay here. I told her I'd be back soon, but I came back too late.'', she said as she started to cry again. ''Is that the reason why ya wanted to leave?'', he asked and she responded by nodding her head. ''Why didn't you say so?'', he asked. She shrugged. ''I d-don't know. I was s-scared I guess. I-I think I knew in the back of m-my mind that she was d-d-dead, but I was just t-too afraid t-to admit it.'', she cried. After a few more minutes of silence. Daryl spoke up. ''It looks like she's been shot.'', he said. She got out of his grip and looked at the dead body. He was right. There was a hole in the torso of the body, close to the heart. ''She knew she wouldn't survive.'', she concluded. ''She must've pinned herself against the wall.'', he added
More time passed and they decided to burn her and go to the highway, hoping to find the other group members. She threw some more gas over the body and the rest of the room. She set out a trail of gas, which lead out of the store. She threw the flagon in the building and she looked at Daryl, giving him a nod. He set the trail on fire as she walked toward him. She grabbed a cigarette out of her bag and handed one out to him. She lit the cigarette on with a firelighter and she handed out the lighter to him. He returned it to her as he had lit his own cigarette. She took a puff as they walked their way back to the motorcycle, in silence. She felt empty. So damn empty without her sister.
Soon they caught up with the rest. They could see two other cars driving in front of them. It didn't took long before they figured out it had to be the rest of the survivors of the farm. They arrived at the highway and she could see Rick, Carl, Herschel and Carol. Daryl turned the engine off and she got off the bike. Carol approached her and thanked her for saving her life.
Everyone got reunited with each other. ''Where'd you find everyone?'', Rick asked. Well, those guys' tail lights zigzagging all over the road. Figured he had to be Asian, driving like that.'', Daryl said joking. ''Good one.'', Glenn replied.
''Where's the rest of us?'', Daryl asked, serious now. ''We're the only ones who made it so far.'', Rick replied. ''Shane?'', Lori asked her husband. He shook his head in response. ''Andrea?'', Glenn asked. ''She saved me, then I lost her.'', Carol replied. ''We saw her go down.'', T-Dog said. ''Patricia?'', Herschel asked. ''They got her, too. Took her right in front of me. I was... I was holdin' onto her, daddy. she just...'', Beth said through her cries. ''What about Jimmy? Did you see Jimmy?'', she asked. ''He was in the RV. It got overrun.'', Rick replied. Jimmy must have been the boy in the RV, Lizzy realized.
''You definitely saw Andrea?'', Carol asked. ''There were walkers everywhere.'', Lori said. ''Did you see her?'', Daryl asked. No one responded. ''I saw her getting' into the woods with a bunch of walkers following her heels.'', Lizzy said. She was too far to even get to Andrea. She never could have made it on her own with all these walkers following her. ''I'm gonna go back.'', Daryl said and got on his motorcycle again. ''No.'', Rick said on a stern way. Daryl stopped and looked at Rick. ''We can't just leave her.'', Daryl said. ''We don't even know if she's there.'', Lori added. ''She isn't there. She isn't. She's somewhere else or she's dead. There's no way to find her.'', Rick told. ''So we're not even gonna look for her?'', Glenn said, not agreeing. ''We gotta keep moving.'', Rick said. ''There have been walkers crawling all over here.'', Rick added once more. ''I say head east.'', T-Dog implied. She noticed a walker coming closer to them. ''Stay off the main roads. The bigger the road, the more walkers, more assholes like this one. I got him.'', Daryl said while pointing his crossbow on the walker.
They took the supplies on the car which they had left for Sophia, the girl whom had been missing. Everyone got back in their cars and she got on the motorcycle with Daryl. She wrapped his arms around him and she was holding him tight. She just felt empty. Very empty without her sister. She could have known, she just didn't wanted it to be real. She closed her eyes and tried to focus herself on something else. Something like the pain on her thigh. Her wound could be open.
One of the cars honked. That could only mean one thing, one of the cars was running out of gas. The two cars stopped and so did Daryl and his motorcycle. Lizzy got off the bike and looked how Rick and the others got out their cars. ''You out?'', Daryl asked Rick. ''Running on fumes.'', Rick replied.
''We can't stay here.'', Maggie said. ''We can't all fit in one car.'', Glenn said. ''We'll have to make a run for some gas in the morning.'', Rick told them. ''Spend the night here?'', Carol asked in disbelief. ''I'm freezing.'', Carl said while his mother wrapped her arms around him. Trying to keep him warm. That poor kid, Lizzy thought. ''We'll build a fire, yeah?'', Lori said to Carl, in hope to comfort him. ''You go out looking for firewood, stay close. Only got so many arrows.'', Daryl warned them. ''How you doing on ammo?'', Daryl asked Rick. ''Not enough.'', Rick replied. ''We can't just sit here with our asses hanging out.'', Maggie said, not agreeing with staying here. ''Watch your mouth.'', Herschel said to his eldest daughter. ''Everyone stop panicking and listen to Rick.'', Herschel said to the others. ''All right, we'll set up a perimeter. In the morning, we'll find gas and some supplies. We'll keep pushing on.'', Rick told the group. ''Glenn and I can go make a run now, try and scrounge up some gas.'', Maggie suggested. ''No, we stay together. God forbid something happens and people get stranded without a car.'', Rick replied. ''Rick, we're stranded now.'', Glenn said. ''I know it looks bad, we've all been through hell and worse, but at least we found each other. I wasn't sure... I really wasn't... but we did. We're together. We keep it that way.'', Rick said. ''We'll find shelter somewhere. There's gotta be a place.'', he added. ''Rick, look around. Okay? There's walkers everywhere. They're migrating or something.'', Glenn said. ''There's gotta be a place not just where we hole up, but that we fortify, hunker down, pull ourselves together, build a life for each other. I know it's out there. We just have to find it.'', Rick said, on a more stern way now. Rick tried to make everyone stay together. They needed each other, he knew that. ''And we think it's safe, we can never be sure. For how long? Look what happened with the farm. We fooled ourselves into thinking that that was safe.'', Maggie said. Somewhere Maggie was quite right about that. But nowhere was safe, not on the open road. ''We won't make that mistake again.'', Herschel replied. ''We'll make camp tonight over there, get on the road at the break of day.'', Rick said while he pointed to some walls by the river.
''Does this feel right to you?'', Carol asked when she looked at Lizzy and Daryl. ''What if walkers come through, or another group like Randall's?'', Beth added while she looked at Rick for answers. ''You know I found Randall, right? He had turned, but he wasn't bit.'', Daryl said. Rick looked at Daryl for a moment and then he looked away. He knew something more then them. ''How's that possible?'', Beth asked quite confused. ''Rick, what the hell happened?'', Lori asked. Now everyone was looking at Rick for answers. ''Shane killed Randall. Just like he always wanted to.'', Daryl spoke up. ''And then the herd got him?'', Lori asked, but no one answered that question.
''We're all infected.'', Rick suddenly said. Everyone looked at him, shocked. Even Lizzy herself. ''What?'', she said in disbelieve. ''At the CDC, Jenner told me. Whatever it is, we all carry it.'', Rick explained. Jenner must have been the doctor at the CDC were Daryl had told her about. ''And you never said anything?'', Carol asked. ''Would it have made a difference?'', Rick answered. ''You knew this whole time?'', Glenn asked, quite angry about the fact Rick never told them before. ''How could I have known for sure? You saw how crazy that mo-'', Rick began, but Glenn interrupted him. ''That is not your call. Okay, when I found out about the walkers in the barn, I told, for the good of everyone.'', Glenn said. Lizzy could see Glenn getting quite angry about the fact Rick never told them. ''Well, I thought it best that people didn't know.'', Rick spat back at Glenn. Glenn calmed down and so did the rest of the group. They knew Rick was right.
Soon they had set out camp. Lizzy noticed along the way her wound started to hurt more and more. Maybe she should ask Herschel to take a look at her wound. She wasn't really sure about it. ''I'm gonna get my bag.'', she told Daryl. She walked her way back to the motorcycle and got her bag. She crossed the road and walked into the woods on the other side of the road. Soon she saw a rock, she sat down on it and opened her bag. She got her firelighter out and threw the bag on the ground. She unbuttoned her jeans and pulled it a bit down, so she could take a good look at the wound. She was right, it had started to bleed again. She got off the bandages and she could see her stitches were open. ''Dammit.'', she mumbled. She grabbed the knife from her belt. She closed her eyes for a moment while she let out a sigh. ''I can do this.'', she told herself.
Suddenly she heard some branches break behind her. She quickly stood up and turned around. It was Daryl. ''What the hell are you doin' Liz?'', he said as he walked closer to her. He looked at her and grabbed the knife and firelighter from her. He gave her a confusing look. ''My wound got open.'', she explained. He noticed her leg and he saw the bleeding. ''I'll get Herschel.'', he said as he turned around to walk back to the camp. ''No. I can do this myself.'', she said on a stern way as she sat down on the rock again. He turned to her once more. ''You sure?'', he asked. She nodded in response. ''Yeah. I just need my things.'', she said while pointing at the firelighter and knife he was holding. He looked at his hands, at the two items. ''I'll do it.'', he mumbled. ''What?'', she asked, uncertain if she just heard him right. ''I'll do it. I'll take care of you like I always did.'', he told. ''But-'', she started, but he interrupted her. ''You always looked out for me, now it's my turn Liz.''
Daryl knelt down beside her as he set the lighter on fire and held the knife above the flame. Making the knife hot enough to close the wound. Lizzy closed her eyes and let out a sigh. Preparing herself for the pain she was about to feel. Daryl get out a piece of fabric out of his pocket and handed it out for her. ''Here. I know it ain't much, but you can bite down on it.'', he said. She looked into his eyes and gave him a small nod. ''Just do it.'', she said and shoved the piece of fabric into her mouth.
The feeling of the hot knife pressing on her leg was horrible. She wanted to scream, but she tried to keep her screams inside and bit down on the fabric. She closed her eyes and leaned back. She tried to focus herself on something else then the pain, but that made it even worse. After losing her sister, things weren't that positive for her. She could feel her thoughts become vague and she could feel herself becoming dizzy. She was about to pass out, she thought. But then the pain stopped, it was over. ''It's done'', she heard Daryl mumble. She slowly opened her eyes and looked at him. She gave him a small nod, just to thank him for doing this for her. If she would have done it by herself, she would probably have passed out. She sat up more straight and Daryl stood up. ''Take it easy tiger.'', he said. He grabbed the bag from the ground and searched for something. He got out the pack with cigarettes. He gave her one and dropped the package back in the bag. He lit his own cigarette and he gave her the lighter when he took a puff of his cigarette. She also lit her own cigarette and threw the lighter back in the bag. ''You know me too well.'', she said with a grin after she took a puff of her cigarette. He showed a small grin. ''We should go back to the rest before they start wondering where we are.'', he said, taking another puff of his cigarette. She nodded, he was right. He took a few more puff of his cigarette before throwing it on the ground. ''C'mon.'', he said, grabbing the bag from the ground. She nodded and joined him after throwing her cigarette away.
Everyone was still questioning if they would stay or not. Lizzy was searching for some branches, close to the camp. She came back and could see almost everyone sitting around the campfire. T-Dog was on watch and she saw Carol whispering something to Daryl and Lizzy became curious. She walked over to them and sat down next to Daryl, laying the branches down beside her. ''We're not safe with him... Keeping something like that from us.'', she heard Carol whisper to Daryl. ''Why do you need him? He's just gonna pull you down.'', Carol added. Lizzy threw a few more branches on the fire to keep it burning. ''No. Rick's done all right by me.'', Daryl said, quite disagreeing with her. ''You're his henchman and I'm a burden. You deserve better.'', Carol told him. ''What do you want?'', Lizzy asked her, quite done with Carol telling these things to Daryl. ''A man of honor.'', Carol replied. ''Rick has honor.'', Daryl replied. Thank god they still agreed on the same things, just like before.
On the other side of the campfire she could see Maggie, Glenn and Herschel discussing something. Probably they wanted to leave too, but they knew it was a bad idea. Without food, gas or ammo they wouldn't make it far.
Suddenly they heard something outside the camp. It sounded like some branches snapping. ''What was that?'', Beth asked. ''Could be anything.'', Lizzy replied as she stood up and looked to the direction where the sound came from. ''Could be a raccoon, could be a possum. Walker.'', Daryl said as he stood up, so did the rest of the group. ''We need to leave. I mean what are we waiting for?'', Carol suggested. ''Which way?'', Glenn asked, ignoring Carol. ''It came from over there.'', Maggie replied to him while pointing to the way we came from. ''Back from where we came.'', Beth added. Rick walked over to them. ''The last thing we need is for everyone to be running off in the dark. We don't have the vehicles. No one's traveling on foot.'', he told the group. ''Don't panic.'', Herschel warned Maggie. ''I'm not. I'm not sitting here, waiting for another herd to blow through. We need to move, now.'', Maggie said, getting more nervous every second. ''No one is going anywhere.'', Rick told her. ''Do something.'', Carol ordered Rick.
''I am doing something! I'm keeping this group together, alive. I've been doing that all along, no matter what. I didn't ask for this. I killed my best friend for you people, for Christ's sake! You saw what he was like, how he pushed me, how he compromised us, how he threatened us. He staged the whole Randall thing, led me out to put a bullet in my back. He gave me no choice. He was my friend, but he came after me. My hands are clean. Maybe you people are better off without me. Go ahead.'', Rick said. No one said anything. They just kept looking down with their heads. He just confessed he killed Shane. Carl was crying by his mother and the rest just stood and did nothing. Even through Shane had been a member of the group, they knew what he was like. They knew Rick had done the right thing. ''I say there's a place for us, but maybe... maybe it's just another pipe dream. Maybe... maybe I'm fooling myself again. Why don't you... Why don't you go and find out yourself? Send me a postcard. Go on, there's the door. You can do better? Let's see how far you get'', Rick stopped for a moment with talking and looked at everyone. Waiting for someone to leave, but no one left. They all stayed. ''No takers? Fine. But get one thing straight... you're staying. This isn't a democracy anymore.'', Rick continued telling the group.
A/N: So... That was season 2! I'm glad I've finally written it out and I'll update soon, starting with season 3! Let me know what you think by leaving some reviews (: