"Holy shit." Glenn muttered.
"You all right?" Rick asked.
"Yeah." He answered.
"Vi?"
"I'm fine." I replied.
"Hershel?"
Hershel nodded in response, "Let's head back."
We started walking towards the door when we heard tires.
"Car. Car." Rick whispered and we hid. "Get down."
I hid beside Rick, Glenn was on the other side of the door and Hershel was under the window. We heard the people get out and call for Dave and Tony. They also said how they heard our shots. I got my gun out and he my finger on the trigger, ready to fire. When we couldn't hear them anymore, Glenn and Rick looked out the windows. Rick I and then crawled over to Glenn and Hershel.
"Why won't they leave?" Glenn asked.
"Would you?" I replied.
"We can't sit here any longer. Let's head out the back and make a run to the car." Rick whispered.
We stood up, ready to go to the back when we heard gun shots and we went back to our previous positions, except I was now by a window.
"What happened?"
"Roamers, I nailed them."
"They disappeared but their car's still there."
"I cleared those buildings. You guys get this one?"
"No."
"Me neither."
"We're looking for Dave and Tony and no one checks the damn bar?"
They were about to open the door, but Glenn ran over and slammed it shut.
"What?"
"Someone pushed it shut. There's someone in there."
"Yo, is someone in there?" A guy asked. "Yo, if someone's in there,we don't want no trouble. We're just looking for our friends."
"What do we do?"
"Bum rush the door?"
"No, we don't know how many are there. Just relax." The guy answered, "We don't want any trouble. We're just looking for our friends. If something happened, tell us. This place is crawling with corpses. If you can help us not get killed, I'd appreciate it."
"You're bugging. I'm telling you, nobody's in there."
"Someone guard the door. If they're in there, they might know where Dave and Tony are."
We heard them walk away and Rick spoke, "They drew on us!"
Rick, you idiot.
We heard them come again, "Dave and Tony in there? They alive?"
"No." Rick answered.
"They killed Dave and Tony."
"Come on, man, let's go."
"No, I'm not leaving, I'm not telling Jane. I'm not gonna go back and tell them that Dave and Tony got shot by some assholes in a bar."
"Your friend drew on us!" Rick yelled. "They gave us no choice! I'm sure we've lost enough people, done things we wish we didn't have to, but it's not like that now. You know that! So let's just chalk this up to what it was, wrong place, wrong-"
Rick was interrupted by gun shots. And apparently my shoulder was in the window, because they shot me in the arm and I stumbled forward before there was a searing pain in my leg, too.
"Get outta here! Go!" Rick yelled at us as he fired at them.
I limped forward, pressing my hand into my arm. I hid behind the bar and Hershel rushed over to me.
"Give me your belt." He said.
I took off my belt and handed it to him, trying not to make a sound. I bit my lip hard enough to draw blood. Hershel took my belt and wrapped it around my thigh, above the gunshot wound and tightened it. It hurt too much and I let out a small yelp.
"Nice and deep breaths." Hershel whispered to me.
I did what he said, but I was starting to feel light headed.
I heard bullets drop to the ground, "Hey! We all know this is not gonna end well! There's nothing in it for any of us! You guys just back off! No one else gets hurt!"
I saw Glenn rush past the bar and to the back door.
"You're losing a lot of blood. Do you think you can stand?" Hershel asked.
I nodded and with his help, I was able to stand and Hershel had me lean on him. We heard a gun shot and glass shattering.
"Glenn! Glenn!" Rick yelled from behind us.
"I'm all right!" Glenn called out.
Rick walked over to us, "Are you okay?"
"I just need to get back to the farm. Then I'll be just fine." I told him.
"I'll hold them here. Hershel, you take Vi with you and cover Glenn the best you can. See if you can make it to your car. Tell him to pull up back. We'll run for it, get the hell out of here."
"You want me to cover Glenn?" Hershel asked.
"You missed all that gun training. It could've come in handy now." Rick replied.
Hershel checked Dave's clip, "I can shoot. I just don't like to."
I took out my gun and Hershel helped me to the door. It hurt to move my right leg much, so I mostly hopped with my left. Somehow, I was quiet, 'cause we snuck up on Glenn.
"Sorry. Sorry. Vi, you gonna be okay?" Glenn asked.
I nodded, "Rick wants you to try for the car."
"Try?" Glenn questioned.
"You'll try and succeed." Hershel replied. "I'll cover you."
"That's a great plan." Glenn said.
"Stay here." Hershel told me and I nodded, leaning against the wall, trying not to hurt nay of my injuries even more.
They went over to the door and opened them. Glenn went out and I heard gunshots, then someone moaning in pain.
Rick ran past me and over to Hershel, "What happened?"
"He fired." Hershel answered. "He must've hit Glenn. He's behind the dumpster. Doesn't look like he's moving."
Rick came over to me, "You stay here. When the coast is clear, I'll come back and grab you and we'll leave. Okay?"
I nodded, black spots dancing in my vision.
"You're gonna be okay." Rick said before leaving.
The guy kept wailing and I heard more gunshots and the squealing of tires. When I heard the car leave, I heard the moaning of walkers and then the screams of being eaten alive. Lovely.
Hershel came over and grabbed me, "You gotta be quiet. There's a few walkers outside, but we can get past them.
I nodded and I hopped over to the door and out into the alley, then we made out way over to Glenn.
"The gun fire must've attracted the walkers." Hershel commented as we went slowly to the car.
"Where's Rick?" I asked.
"He went across." Glenn answered.
"Well, hell, we can't go without him." Hershel said.
Hershel helped me into the car and then went with Glenn to get Rick. I heard screaming and gunshots before everything went dark.
***Daryl's POV***
I was sitting by the old fireplace making more arrows after yelling at Carol when I heard quiet footsteps and and looked over and saw Jamie.
"Daddy?" He asked.
"Yeah, kid?" I replied.
I don't mind him calling me daddy. He never really had a father figure, and I'm secretly glad that he thinks of me as his dad. I'd never hurt the kid like my dad did to me.
"Mommy's not back yet." Jamie said.
"What do ya mean?" I asked, setting my knife down.
"Mommy went with Rick and Glenn. She said she's be back quickly, but it's been a while." He answered.
Shit. Lori didn't tell me Vi went with her husband and the China man.
"Damn it." I whispered before standing up.
I picked Jamie up before walking into my tent and setting him on the cot, "Stay here. I'll be back in a few minutes, alrigh'?"
"Promise?" Jamie asked, holding out his pinky.
I sighed before curling my pinky around his, "Promise."
I left the tent and zipped it close before walking over to the house. When I got there, everyone was around Lori, who looked like shit.
"Why did no one tell me?!" I asked, going over to them.
"Tell you what?" Shane asked.
"That Vi went with Rick and Glenn! " I yelled.
"We thought you knew." Andrea replied.
"I didn't! Tell me where they went and I'll go get 'em." I responded.
"Daryl, you need to calm down." Dale said.
"Don't tell me to calm down, old man!" I yelled at him.
"Hey!" Shane yelled and I looked over at him, "If they aren't back by noon tomorrow, we'll go get them, okay?"
I scoffed, "Whatever."
That night Jamie stayed in my tent. I stayed awake outside, just in case they come back so I could chew her ass out. Leaving her kid here alone, worried about her. Hell, that kid's smart. He knows something's wrong. Something had to go wrong is they ain't back yet.
The next morning Jamie stayed near me until noon came around and they weren't back yet. T-Dog, Shane, and I were loading up one of the cars when Andrea came up to us.
"Guys."
We looked over to where she was looking and saw Hershel's car driving down the road. When they pulled up, everyone rushed over to the car. When Hershel go tout, I was worried. He only had on a undershirt, and it had a blood stain on it.
"Patricia, prepare the shed for surgery." Hershel said.
"Who's hurt?" Lori asked and my eyes widened when I saw Glenn pull out an unconscious and bloody Violet out of the back seat.
"Mommy!" Jamie cried and I held him back.
Carol came over and got Jamie while I walked up and took her from Glenn's arms. I rushed inside the house and Hershel told me where to put her.
"What the hell happened!?" I asked Rick.
"We ran into another group and they shot at us." Rick answered. "Violet was by the window and she got hit a few times. Hershel told me that there's and exit wound on the shoulder, so he'll just have to stitch that up. But on the leg he just has to dig the bullet out and stitch it. She'll be fine."
"I'm gonna need you two to leave the room." Hershel told us and he led us towards the door.
I looked back at Violet's really pale face before leaving with Rick.
"Group meeting in an hour." Rick told everyone when we got out of the house.
I went over to Jamie and I brought him to his tent, "Let's get you cleaned up, kid."
After I Jamie clean up with a bottle of water and a rag, he changed into different clothes and we headed for the house and we came inside while Andrea was in the middle of speaking.
"Isn't that the same as leaving him for the walkers?"
"He'll have a fighting chance." Rick replied.
"Just gonna let him go?" Shane asked. "He knows where we are."
"He was blindfolded the whole way here. He's not a threat." Rick responded.
"Not a threat." Shane scoffed, "How many of them were there? You killed three of their men, and took one of the hostage. But they just ain't gonna come looking?"
"They left them for dead. No one is looking." Rick said.
"We should still post a guard." T-Dog replied.
"He's out cold right now, will be for hours." Hershel said.
"You know what? I'm gonna go get him some flowers and candy. Look at this folks, we back in fantasyland." Shane said as he was about to leave the room.
"You know, we haven't even dealt with what you did at my barn yet. Let me make this perfectly clear, once and for all. This is my farm. Now I wanted you gone. Rick talked me out of it, but that doesn't mean I have to like it. So do us both a favor, keep your mouth shut." Hershel said.
I smirked, Shane just got his ass handed to him.
"Look, we're not gonna do anything about it today. Let's just cool off." Rick told Hershel.
I grabbed Jamie and we started heading towards the room I put Vi in.
"Daryl." Rick called out and I stopped to look at him, "She's still sleeping. She will probably be for a while. Hershel gave her some heavy medication."
I nodded before leading Jamie into her room. She was still paler than normal, but not as much.
"Will mommy be okay?" Jamie asked.
"Yeah, kid, she'll be fine." I answered and we continued to sit there throughout the day.