Chapter Three
"How long have you been watching us?" I narrow my eyes at the boy.
"What? I haven't been watching you. I just noticed you were here." I don't like him. There's something off about this.
"I understand that this is kinda weird for me to just pop up out of no where like this so i'll let you guys just go ahead and talk it over." He takes a couple steps back " I'll be over here." He smiles at me.
"Well" I lean my head slightly to the side so I can hear Bellamy's whisper but keep my eyes on the long haired boy. "If we let him stay we'll only have food for today and tomorrow."
"He's pretty cute we should keep him." We all give Raven a look. She acts like she doesn't know what she did. "I'm just saying."
"I don't know guys. How bad can he be? I'm not saying we should trust him or anything but I know when I needed someone there for me when I was all alone. You guys were it. Let's just let him stay for today and see where tomorrow takes us." Bellamy and Raven nod there head in agreement. They all turn and look at me.
I look between the three of them. I sigh slightly as I say "Alright He can stay. But only for the next couple days." Raven smiles at me. She quickly turns back towards the boy.
"You can stay." She tells him. His face lights up as he starts to walk closer to us.
"I don't trust him, Bellamy." I say to him in a whisper. He nods his head to me
"I know. I don't either."
Bellamy walks up to him. He's pretty much in his face and tells him "If you try anything, anything at all. I'll kill you myself." Finn's eyes widen slightly as he nods his head really fast. I smirk at Bellamy's little over protectiveness. He thinks he's in charge. How cute.
"We're heading out in a few." Lincoln says as finishes the last of his food.
"Here Finn." Raven throws him a can of peaches. "You can eat that for now."
He smiles at her "Thank you." She smiles back.
Now they just look like two idiots smiling at each other. I roll my eyes as I look down on the ground to see my half eaten rabbit. I guess I won't be finishing breakfast today. I look over at Bellamy whose devouring his last part of his Rabbit. His fell on the ground too….oh god. I shake my head as I move to grab my backpack.
"Oh My names Lincoln. The short brunette is Raven." He motions his head towards Raven who in return gives Finn a very big smile again. She would. "That's Bellamy." Bellamy doesn't even look up, " last but not least." He points me "That is Clarke." I look at him and give him a small smile. I can be nice at times.
After breakfast we pack the last of our things. Lincoln heads out in front followed by Raven, and I. Finn comes walking behind us as Bellamy pulls up the end. We don't really know where we're going. We usually just wander the area trying to find supplies. It's kinda hard with no motive. We're just wondering along with no exact intentions. We're as dead out here as the walkers trying to eat us.
I think Raven feels that way too. That's why she started working on the radio again. It Gives her something to do. Something to look forward to. Something to hope for.
We continue walking for about the next 2 hours. there's no sign of a road or anything. Not to mention how freaking hot it is. I grab my canteen just to notice it's almost empty.
"I'm gonna go look for water." I say to the group. Lincoln and Raven both nod their heads to me.
"I'll come with" Finn says. No. Please don't.
I look at him as well as everyone else. Finn comes up to me and smiles.
"Come on princess, let's go." He smirks at me as he disappears behind the bush.
Bellamy laughs "Go ahead princess ." I scowl at him.
"Watch your head before I bang it against a tree Bellamy." I say over my shoulder as I walk the direction Finn went. He wasn't to far ahead so I caught up to him easily.
"Don't call me princess." He laughs at my comment.
"Why not? Blond hair, Blue eyes. You might as well be a princess." I narrow my eyes at the taller boy. "Just saying, Clarke."
We walk in silence the next few minutes till I hear the sound of running water.
"Sooo-"
"Shh. Listen." Finn frowns at me and looks around us.
"What exactly am I listening for?" He whispers to me.
"Water." I walk faster towards to the sound. I move toward the sound as it becomes louder and louder. It sounds almost like a waterfall. I start sprinting towards the sound of rushing water. I can hear Finn's heavy footsteps behind me. The thought of a whole river full of water is sending my mind haywire. I move a big branch aside and see a little waterfall with the water filling into a slightly big lake. The water looks so cold. I don't even know when the last time I felt what it was like to have water all over my body. I'm half ready to jump in when Finn grabs my arm.
"Wait." He points down towards the water and I notice the sudden ripples in the water. The water is moving. Maybe it's fish. What I would do for some fish right now.
He frowns as we move closer. I notice blood on a few rocks around the bank of the lake. The blood trail runs into the woods but the opposite direction we came. Finn grabs a stick, walks a little ways into the water then pokes around.
Just then a walker comes running out of the water straight for Finn. It's skin is dark grey color as it looks so droopy on the skeleton of it's body. Finn stumbles trying to take a step back, he lands on his back as the walker gets yanked back into the deeper part of the water. It has a chain around it's neck to keep it from escaping. I help Finn move out of the way as the walker tries again but is unsuccessful. Who would tie up a walker and have it living in the water? Why the hell would you even want to do that? Judging by how it looks it's been there for quite some time.
"Well so much for the water." Finn says as he brushes off his clothing. I look down at the trail of blood.
"Come on." I take out my gun and walk on full alert in the direction the blood is going. Finn follows close behind. We follow the blood trail to this big open field. It's a farm. I notice a small little white house in the distance. There's a barn that isn't too far away from where we stand.
"Stay by the tree line. We don't want anyone seeing us." We walk towards the barn, the first thing I notice is there's tire marks following the treeline. Second, the door to the barn is slightly open.
"This has bad written all over it you know that right princess?" Finn says in a low voice.
"Don't call me that, and I want to know what's behind that water walker back there." I whisper to him. We're a few yards away from the barn now. We're gonna have to make like the wind to get over there. The little all white house looks a lot further now. Hopefully no one is home.
"On the count of three. we make a break for the barn. understood?" Finn looks unsure but nods his head.
"One…"
I glance around one last time before taking a deep breath.
"Three!" I sprint out into the open field leaving the phased boy behind me. It takes him a moment to quickly run after me. I reach the barn and put my back to the door that is closed. As I catch my breath a glance at Finn. He doesn't have any weapon in his hand. Or at all in that matter.
"Finn."
He lifts his pointer finger up to me as he bends over trying to catch his breath. After a few more deep breaths he stands up straight and turns to look at me.
"Why didn't you say two?!" He asks in a slight hushed voice.
"That's besides the point. Where the hell is your weapon?" He looks at me as if he doesn't understand what i'm saying. He hasn't had a weapon since earlier today when he found us.
"Oh..uhhh. I got this." He digs in his pocket and pulls out a little pocket knife. How in the world is this boy alive. Does he have some sort of walker repellent I don't know about? Cause hell he better cough it up. He's still staring at me waiting to say something. I sigh and pull out the machete that I had in my backpack.
"You'll probably need a little bigger knife Finn." I had him the machete. He takes it in his hand and looks at it. He looks like a little kid who's getting to hold a big knife for the first time. Seriously though, how is he still here?
"Now what?" I frown at him. Oh yes the barn.
"Okay come on." I slightly open the door of the barn and point my gun straight in as I step in. The barn looks almost pitch black except for the the little rays of light coming from the open doors. I scrunch my nose at the the smell that's enfolded in the barn. Finn opens the door a little more to get better light. He makes a slight groan as he puts his hand up to his nose. It smells as bad as death in here.
Oh no. Walkers.
I grab Finn by the arm and pull him out of the barn just then the barn door close. One Tall gray haired man with a rifle, locks it then turns around and points his gun at us. Well shit.
"I could shoot y'all right here right now and no one would know." The man says in a very thick southern accent.
"We're sorry we didn't realize.." Finn says to the bearded man.
"Was that you, with the walker in the water?" I say to him.
"His name is Albert." The man hisses at me. I'm slightly taken aback by the tone of the man.
"He helps bring food to my family and friends." He motions his head behind him. "My daughter and wife are in their." realization dawns on me when I finally realize what the man is saying. Now would be the perfect time to run for our lives away from this crazy man.
"We didn't mean to invade your farm. We'll just be on your way." I say as I slightly lean against Finn who seems to be planted into the ground.
The man lowers his rifle slightly.
"Once the CDC gets their things in order, I'm gonna make sure my daughter is one of the first ones turned back."
I feel sorry for this man.
"I don't really…" My eyes widen as I stomp of Finns foot to get him to shut up. He groans and leans forward slightly.
"I hope you daughter gets turned back." I say as the man. He looks between me and Finn suspiciously. "We should really get going now." I say as I move Finn again. We take a couple steps and the mean speaks again.
"Y'all got a group?"
Damn it. Doesn't this man just let us leave. I give Finn a warning look as I look back to the man.
"No. It's just me and him."
"Then y'all must be hungry! You can come on down to my house over then and I can feed y'all"
"Thank you but really that isn't necessary."
"We'll if you already have eating what did you eat?"
"I had a can of peaches." Finn says. You can hear how uneasy this whole thing is becoming. The man looks over at me.
"I had the same."
"Oh come on a can of peaches is nothing!" This man is persistent.
"Really, sir. It's no big deal we'll just be on our way.." I point behind us towards the woods.
"I must insist." He picks up his gun slightly so that it's pointing directly towards us. "That y'all come over to my house."
I swallow the lump that's in my throat. This is gonna be harder than I thought. I nod my head to the man and we walk closer to him. He smiles slightly which I notice he's missing a couple of his front teeth. He walks around the side of the barn towards the back.
Finn hits my arm slightly. He whispers frantically to me so the man won't hear.
"What are you doing? Now how are we gonna get back?"
"You don't think I'm trying to think of a plan Finn?"
"We could have just bolted away multiple times by now!"
"When? Right after you tell him his daughter is never coming back? We'd end up becoming 'Albert's' Next meal!" I notice there's an old John Deere utility vehicle behind the barn. He's been here the whole time.
"Just play along till I can figure out a way out of here." I whisper to Finn as we reach the vehicle.
The man motions his hand for us to get into the back. Finn and I climb into the back of the vehicle as the man starts to take off. I look past the barn and into the woods. Finn was right. This does have bad written all over it.