Always the Quiet Ones

Chapter 9: All Fall Down

"Mike, do you think you could grab both of those gallons of water? I need to get Sarah to the observation deck!" Nick asked.

"On it!" Mike replied as he ran over to the two gallons of water that were just resting on the ground.

"Kenny, what do we do?" Bonnie asked.

"You just keep that baby safe." Kenny said, grasping his crowbar as Bonnie pulled Rebecca up.

"Let's get to the observation deck! Right now!" Nick said, holding Sarah's hand. As Clem, Bonnie, Rebecca, Eddie, and Mike went over to the Observation Deck, Nick stopped and kneeled down to Sarah.

"Sarah, I need you to be strong right now, okay? Rebecca is going to give birth to the baby! You can't be afraid, alright?" Nick said.

"O-Okay." Sarah replied, blankly. Nick pulled her hand and the two of them ran off.

"He's losing it, Clem." Bonnie said. Kenny was giving all he had towards the walkers. He kept smashing and smashing only one walker's brains in. Sarita's death certainly hit him hard.

"He's fine! Let's just go!" Nick didn't seem to care about his mental health, as cruel as that sounded. They had finally reached the observation deck, and Mike had dropped one gallon of water, and Eddie had the other one.

"Where the fuck is Luke?" Nick asked.

"No idea, man. Last I saw was him walking over here." Eddie shrugged. Nick sighed and ran up the stairs to the observation deck, once he turned his head to see Luke and Jane holding each others hands, embracing each other. Luke's sleeves had been rolled up, and his shirt wasn't probably adjusted, as if he had just put it on. And Jane's jacket zipper was down, and she pulling

"Are you fucking serious, Luke!?" Nick growled. Nick had never been more angry at Luke then ever.

"Nick, uh - it's not. We were just -" Luke's stuttering was interrupted by more screaming from Rebecca. Eddie and Bonnie brought her into the gift shop, laying her down. Kenny barged in.

"What the fuck were you two doing up here!?" Kenny growled.

"Kenny, wha-what's going on?" Luke asked.

"What's going on is that you're a reckless fuckin' moron." Kenny retorted.

"I'm reckless!? Really?! I don't beat the shit out of people when my friends or family die!" Luke crossed the line.

"Luke. Shut. Your. Fucking. Mouth." Nick said, pointing his finger towards him, ordering. That's when Luke backed off. Rebecca screamed again as Clem knelt to her side, grabbing some pills that she had acquired from robbing Arvo.

"Where the hell did you get that?" Nick asked.

"Looks like oxy. Is that okay for a pregnant lady?" Kenny asked.

"GIVE ME THE FUCKING PILLS." Rebecca said with no hesitation. Clementine popped off the lid, dipping two or three pills and handed them for her to swallow. She did so, and nodded.

"Okay." Rebecca nodded.

"I can do this. I've been here before. Everyone else, get outside and keep the walker off us!" Kenny ordered. Everyone nodded as they grabbed their weapons. Luke had his AK-47, with a machete, Clementine had her pistol, Mike was bracing the door along with Bonnie, Eddie, Jane, and Nick.

"We need to block this door! We won't be able to hold it for long, FIND SOMETHING!" Eddie yelled out. Clementine looked around. She saw the Civil War cannons. She had remembered that Jane and Mike had both said they were just for sure, but would be plenty useful. Clementine tried to push it, but she wasn't strong enough.

"I'm comin' to help." Nick said as he ran over to Clementine, looking back to Sarah who was behind him. He then faced forward as the two of them pushed the cannons towards the door. The wooden floor sounded like it was about to snap. Once it had reached the gate, the cannon fell through the deck, causing the support cables to jangle.

"Holy fuck!" Mike exclaimed.

"What the fuck is going on out there!?" Kenny yelled.

"OH SHIT! RUN!" Nick yelled out once he saw that the support cables had failed and half the deck had collapsed. Nick yelled for Sarah to move but it was too the late, Jane and Sarah had fallen. Sarah had fallen to the ground with a part of the deck stuck on her, she yelled for help.

"Fuck, fuck - hurry, I can't hold on!" Luke said.

"CLEM! C'mon!"

Nick had to save Sarah. If he didn't, Carlos would have died for nothing.

"Save Jane." Nick said, sliding down the broken deck. Once he reached Sarah, he tried to lift up the part of the deck, but it was too heavy.

"I'm gonna get you out of this, Sarah. I promise. I will, GODDAMN IT!" Nick panted as he tried again to reach it. The walkers got closer and closer.

"Nick, leave her! She's not getting out of there!" Jane called out. Nick didn't believe that. He couldn't. Not after all Carlos had done to keep her alive, no way was she going to die like this. He kept lifting it, but it was no use.

"FUCK!" Nick yelled as a loose wood block had fallen off of the broken off deck and hit him on the head. Nick groaned as his vision became blurry. He fell back on the ground, trying to regain his full consciousness. And soon, his shoulder was hurting again. He noticed that the walkers were almost on top of Sarah, all he heard was the muffled sounds of her voice. Then he heard gunshots.

"Get her out of there, Nick! I'll cover you!" Eddie yelled. Nick finally snapped back into it and got up and still lifted as hard as he could.

"Now, I'm going to lift this and you are going to have to crawl your way out, okay!? Can you do that!?" Nick asked.

"Y-Yeah..." Sarah shuddered in fear as Nick counted from three. Three. Two. One. Nick lifted with all his might, he could feel the veins popping out from his muscles, the pain in his shoulder had gotten more intense as he lifted the huge part of the deck. How heavy could this fucking thing be? Sarah panted as she crawled her way out, squeezing her leg under and through. She finally had gotten her legs through, and Nick then pushed it away.

"Alright, c'mon let's go!" Nick said as he climbed up the broken deck.

"N-Nick! I can't...I can't feel my - legs!" Sarah shuddered in fear as a few tears rolled down her eyes. Oh my god. No.

Was she paralyzed? That is no doubt a heavy piece of wood but it would paralyze her? Nick didn't want to worry about that right now, so he picked her up and climbed up the broken deck. Once he had her in his arms.

"I'm gonna settle you by Rebecca, okay?" Nick told her. She nodded as a few more tears rolled down her eye.

"Oh shit, they're climbing up! They're gonna make it up here!" Jane warned.

"FUCK!" Eddie exclaimed.

"Does this shit ever end?" Luke complained.

"We should break the rest of the deck!" Clementine suggested. They all thought about it for a moment.

"She's right, she's right - drop the whole deck!" Luke agreed as he walked over to the support cables and saw that it was attached to the brick wall.

"Drop the - DROP THE MOTHERFUCKING DECK!? ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND!?" Eddie yelled. Clementine saw the attachment and told Mike to boost her, he did so and she then disjointed the cables, dropping the rest of the deck.

"Son of a bitch!" Mike reacted, he then lowered Clementine down and she looked down to the rest of the deck that had collapsed. She spotted the Parker's Run sign.

"Oh, no... Oh no..." Bonnie sobbed. Nick looked over to see the baby. Kenny held the baby in his hands' everyone in complete silence. There was no coughing, no crying, no anything. Was it..? Rebecca quietly sobbed, but immediately stopped once the baby coughed out a bit of spit. Kenny chuckled lightly in joy. Nick had the biggest smile on his face, and so did Sarah.

Hours later...

Nick looked out over to the river that was beyond the trees, he had so much on his mind. Sarah may have been paralyzed, Rebecca just gave birth to a baby, the baby could be named Alvin. Alvin always knew it would be a boy, but they never had decided on a name. Alvin had died back at Carver's camp. Nick missed him very dearly, but in the end it didn't even matter.

"Hey, Nick. You okay?" Luke asked. Nick didn't even want to talk to Luke at this moment, and why would he?

"So, let me get something straight. You decided that instead of watching the perimeter, you should go ahead and chat up with Jane and have sex with her, huh? You'd rather risk the whole damn group just so you can have sex? You fucking imbecile." Nick growled.

"Whoa, okay look, I know I fucked up, but c'mon.." Luke said.

"No. What you did was totally irresponsible. But somehow you are still the perfect one, right? You always have been, and always will be. No matter what you do. I'll just be the fuck-up who shot a man on the bridge." Nick retorted.

"Nick, you aren't a fuck up, and who the hell said I was perfect? If anyone is perfect in this world, it's obviously you more than me." Luke replied, trying to calm things down.

"Don't give me that bullshit." Nick rolled his eyes.

"I'm sorry - okay? I'm sorry about Pete. I'm sorry about Janet. I'm sorry about EVERYTHING. What more do you want from me!?" Luke questioned.

"Fuck off." Nick scoffed, walking off. Luke grumbled as Kenny came walking towards him, holding the newborn baby.

"Keep it down, Luke." Kenny growled.

"Sorry, sorry. I didn't -" Luke began to reply, but was immediately cut off by Kenny.

"Y'know, sorry really don't cut it, you know that right?" Kenny retorted.

"Kenny, you know what? Just lay off." Luke replied. He fucked up, but getting told that he fucked up really wasn't what he was expecting. Clementine walked into the conversation.

"No. You put our lives, this BABY's life at risk, so the two of you could roll around like fuckin' teenagers!" Kenny retorted.

"Both of you are acting like jerks! All you two do is fight!" Clementine butted in.

"Is everything alright?" Mike walked out of the gift shop.

"Everything is fine." Luke sighed. He wasn't proud of what he and Jane did. Nick was downstairs, looking at what they had. Jane had came up from behind him.

"Uh, hey." Nick scratched the back of his head.

"Look, I know you aren't happy about what me and Luke did, but it was merely just something we both had to get off of our chests, I didn't really know that he had an important job." Jane said.

"No need to apologize. It's fine. It's his fault for being such an asshole." Nick said.

"You know, you really shouldn't blame him. Really." Jane told him.

"Okay. Whatever." Nick rolled his eyes. He still blamed Luke. What if someone had died on the way over to the Observation Deck. That would be on his hands.

"Well, I heard Kenny wants to talk about a few things, better see what he wants." Nick said. Jane nodded and the two of them went up the stairs. Once they got to the top of the stairs, Luke was standing there. Nick pushed through him, bumping him on the shoulder. Luke scoffed and was about to say something but Jane just placed her hand on his shoulder.

"Alright, everyone. We need to get out of this place. A city or something. We need to get back on track. Wellington's still the best plan." Kenny said.

"Well, we ain't leaving tonight. Rebecca is in no shape to travel." Luke replied.

"I'm fine! We can leave now." Rebecca said, confidently.

"Hell no. No way in hell are you leaving tonight. We need to wait about four or five days. Sarah needs to get better, and like Luke says, Rebecca is no way to travel." Nick said.

"We can't just sit here!" Kenny argued.

"We can't leave today. We need to wait another few days." Clementine finally said.

"So, it's settled then." Nick crossed his arms.

"This is a mistake." Kenny said.

To be continued...