TWD The day it happened

by madicur

This is going to be a short series/chapters of my idea on what happened the day of the outbreak to some individual characters. I do not know which certain characters i may write. Rick will not have his own chapter, even though he is mentioned in some of them, because he is in the hospital. I hope you enjoy and thank you for reading! M

3. Shane

TWD- The day it happened – Shane

Chapter 3

Hey guys,

I am going to do a 3rd chapter, the conversations will not be word for word so…. Yeah. Still no reviews that I have seen yet. Guys, please, lol reviews! If you request a character I will do it! And probably give you a shout out! So just review and either ask me a question which I will try my best to answer, tell me if you like it or not, or request a short story, or a certain character for this. Anything lol just please review. Love yall

M

Shane's POV

I woke up and decided that I would go to work for a little while then take the rest of the day off to visit Rick and check up on Lori and Carl. If I was there on time I might have lunch with Carl. I hit the snooze button on my alarm and go to the closet. I get my police uniform on after I shower and shave. I grab a donut and a mug of coffee and drive to work almost late. When I get in to the station the same pang of guilt and the same memories hit me like always. Me, Rick and some other police officers on the road, one alive lone criminal crawls out and shoots my best friend right in front of my eyes. Maybe I could have stopped it from happening, if we would have just paid more attention. Maybe he would still be awake today, not in the hospital in a coma. Maybe Carl wouldn't be missing his dad so much and trying to hide it from everyone. Or maybe Lori wouldn't have to miss her husband. Maybe I wouldn't have to miss my best friend. I shake the 'maybe' thoughts from my mind and get to work. We aren't that busy except for an old women complaining against some teenagers on her lawn all the time. So after a while I leave to go to the hospital, on my way there I hear some weird stuff on the radio, something about a new disease or virus or something. The speaker says that there will be more about it on the 4 o'clock news. I park the car in the parking lot and grab the flowers that the men from the station sent for Rick. I went to the desk to check in but no one is there so I just go to his room, it is eerily quiet. I set the vase on his table.

"Hey Rick, buddy, I know ya probably can't hear me, but I need you to know that you have to wake up soon. Carl can't stand it, he needs his father. I am trying my best to help take care of him and Lori. They both miss you terribly. Man, you know I am not good with all this feeling stuff, but I miss you too. We need you to wake up Rick. The guys from the station sent you those flowers, there probably a little too girly for your liking but, hey maybe they will cover the stench in here" I laugh a little, then go back to being sad; I hope he can hear me. Then I hear a bunch of, gunshots? I peek out the door. I see military swat standing there shooting alive people, that have bite marks on them? I turn my head the other way to see an old man kneeling beside an old woman and eating her? What the heck are the cannibals? I quickly shut the door and hide on the other side of the bed when the swat team comes in to check the room. Once they leave not noticing me. I decide to get Rick and leave. All the machines go off; I stop beside his bed and lean down to listen for his heart. Nothing there, he died.

"No. no, no, no, no Rick NO!" I say crying

"No, Rick you weren't supposed to die, you were supposed to wake up and be happy with Carl and Lori, man, why?" I wipe the tears, giving him a hug, and then I leave. He would have wanted me to save Lori and Carl. I barricade the door with a hospital bed and sneak out through the hall way. I listen to the radio on my way to Lori's, the dead have started walking? If someone is bit they come back as a zombie? There is a safe group in Atlanta I have to get Lori and Carl there. When I get to Lori's house I see her pulling out of the driveway she stops and gets out.

"Lori! We have to get out of here, go pack bags for you and Carl."

"What? I just need to get Carl and go home."

"No, Lori, there are zombies out there! There is an incurable virus; we need to go to Atlanta"

"What about Rick? We can get him on the way right? Take him to the car in a stretcher."

"Lori, we cant, I was just there, Military men were shooting everyone with a bite mark, and I saw a man eating a woman. We can't go there!"

"Shane! He is my husband, your friend; we can not leave him there! You were just there why didn't you get him out!"

"I couldn't Lori, that's the thing, I checked his heart, there wasn't one, he was gone. I barricaded the door. Then came here to help you and Carl, that's what he would have wanted.

She is still, must be in shock.

"Lori, we don't have time to mourn. We have to get to Carl; as soon as we get somewhere safe we can cry all we want. I will be there; I will not leave you two."

She nods and we pack then go to Carl's school. We slowly make our way through the crowd of angry moms then find Carl in a chair, huddled down and scared. We make it back to my car and drive to Atlanta, on the way there we pass the hospital, where dead people, zombies are walking around some being shot, some eating people. That's when Carl asks about Rick. When Lori tells him they cry the whole way there.