Chapter 2

Follow the Leader

"Carl's back!" Yelled Excited Carol

"Jarrod, Quick open the fence! Andrea cover him!" Commanded Carl's father Rick.

Carl and nervous David run inside the prison walls.

The groups welcomes back Carl and his new friend David.

"Carl! A word!" Rick calling Carl over for a private talk.

"I thought we decided no more strays"

"No Rick. You decided that"-Carl said, showing his dad no respect

"Look you may have everyone listening to You, that does not mean you know what's best for this group"

Rick lectured Carl.

"Hey! I stepped up. I stepped up when no one else could, I got us food, I got us supplies and most importantly I haven't tried to kill myself!"

Carl yelled.

Rick's jaw dropped not believing Carl would bring that up.

"I was in another place. I wasn't myself! I missed your mom!

.. and Jaak, Oscar, Shane,

Patricia, Justin, Connor and Beth!"

Rick listed their fallen friends

" Well they're gone!

It doesn't matter and until you realize that, you're not fit to be leader!"

Carl told his father.

"So what you don't miss your mom?

Beth? If me or Judith dies you're not gonna miss us either?"

"I'll miss Judith.. for a couple days"

Carl said, once again backing up his role as leader.

"Now you listen to me Rick.

David causes us no harm,

No risks, he's brought A few guns, a couple days worth of food, and some formula and some baby clothes."

"I'm starting to think you're the stray here." Carl said while turning his back to Rick, walking back to David.

"Carl I'm sorry" David said.

"Don't be. He's the liability here. Not you."

"Now come on I'll show you to our bunk"

" 'our'? " David asked, confused.

"Oh, no. It's just- we don't have that many. And-Uhm-uh." Carl getting embarrassed.

"I'm just messing with you" David laughed.

Carl smiled then raised his fist jokingly.

The two boys walk into cell block A

Where Carl, Judith, Carol and Hershel had been living.

Carl helps David up the stairs to their cell, David sets his things on the bottom bed, Carl stops him.

"Actually I got the bottom.

You know, incase I need to get up an a hurry." Carl explained

"Oh yeah of course. sorry."

David apologized.

"Stop saying sorry so much it makes you look weak." Carl teases David.

"Sor- er, okay"

Both the boys laughed.

David moves his stuff to the top bunk

Then turns his head towards the door, "where does your dad sleep Carl?"

"In cell block C with Tyreese, Jarrod, Andrea, and Michonne."

"Oh. Don't you want to be with your dad?" Asked confused David.

"Me and my dad haven't been too close lately"

"Oh. Is it because you are the leader now?" Asked concerned David.

"I don't know." Carl said ending the conversation.

"HELP!" A voice cried out from the yard.

"Stay here!" Carl tells David worried for his safety.