"Ahhh, Shit! I think I broke my ankle", Abe yells out to Michonne in the rain.
Michonne kills the last walker out of the few that she and Abe came across a couple hundred yards away from the backyard of her old house. She wipes some of the rain from her face to get a better look at Abraham. When she is finally able to focus she sees Abraham limping toward her.
She starts to run over to him but she slips on the dead wet autumn leaves that have fallen from the trees. By the time she reaches him she yells over the pouring rain, "What happened?"
"I stepped in a hole it must have been covered by all these fucking dead leaves." He yells back.
Michonne switches her backpack to her other shoulder to help Abraham back to the block.
"Hold on a second, let me re-load my gun." He tells her.
Abe reaches in to his backpack and pulls out a full clip and a syringe while Michonne watches the immediate area for walkers. He places his gun back in its holster and puts his backpack back on his shoulders.
"You ready", she yells. Abe nods his head and fists the syringe in his hand in order to conceal it from her; then wraps that arm around her shoulder.
"Damn where the hell did this storm even come from, the wind his crazy out here", Michonne yells.
"I know me and Ty were talking about it the other day. I think fall is when hurricane season starts in the south." Abe replies.
As Michonne helps Abe limp to back to the cul de sac she looks toward the opening at the edge of the woods that leads back to the block and sees Rosita waving her hands and yelling. "Oh, good Rosita can help me with getting you back."
Abraham looks over to the edge of the woods to verify that's Rosita. When he sees that it's her, he plunges the syringe in to Michonne's neck.
Michonne immediately removes Abe arm and grabs her neck where he injected her; then she looks to the ground and sees one of the medical syringe from the army survival kit that was passed out to the group last month lying on the ground.
Michonne looks up she sees a blurry Abe who standing up straight now. She goes to reach for her sword but her arm has become too heavy; she looks over at Rosita who's getting closer, she can faintly hear her screaming, "No, no! Michonne" over the heavy down pour.
Michonne legs become wobbly and end she ends up dropping down to the rain soaked ground; Abe removes her katana and her bag. Then he slings Michonne over his shoulder and reaches down to grab her katana and bag with the other hand and starts walking back in to the woods.
Rosita, now out of breath reaches Abe and pulls her gun out and aims it at Abe's back and shouts, "Put her down!"
Abraham hears Rosita's voice so he kneels down and drops Michonne on the ground like a rag doll. Afterwards, he slowly starts to stand back up turning around to face Rosita with his gun in his hand.
Rosita is having trouble seeing both of his hands because of the lighting in the dense woods and heavy rain; she suddenly hears echoing pop then falls to the ground.
The effects of the morphine in the syringe put Michonne in a delusional state as she watches Rosita fall to the ground. She's tries to keep her eyes open as she powerlessly watches Abe walk over to Rosita. The last thing Michonne sees is Abe lifting one of Rosita arms and sliding her bag and katana on to it; then starts pulls on Rosita's arm dragging her body back over.
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Rick and Carl are about a mile away from Daryl's backyard, it's starting to drizzle so they pull out their nylon ponchos. Rick looks up at the woods ahead them and says to Carl, "So I wanted to talk with you about some thangs."
"About you and Michonne", Carl asks putting his poncho on.
Rick shyly grins and pulls his poncho over his head, and says, "Yea, I know that the me and Chonne' have been a bit awkward this past few weeks…"
The two of them start walking again when Carl interrupts him, "Dad, I know that the two of you haven't really been speaking since finding out about Jane being pregnant…but after seeing the two of you in the kitchen earlier…" Carl stops walking and looks down at his shoes, "All I want to know is if the two of you fixed whatever the problem was."
Rick stops walking and looks at his son appreciative at the fact that he doesn't care about the details of why he and Michonne weren't speaking; all he wanted to know is if they were back together. "Yea, we did."
They continue walking, "But there's something else. I know I should have talked with you first but, I'm hoping that you won't have a problem with what I'm about to tell you."
"What is it?" Carl asks.
"Last night I asked her to carry my last name…I asked her to be my wife." Rick looks over at Carl while they walk hoping to see his face for a reaction to what he said.
Carl stops walking again and looks at his Dad in silence then glances at the opening in the woods up ahead and says, "It's about time." Carl looks back at his father and smiles.
Rick wraps his arm around Carl's shoulder and chuckles at his brazen remark as they continue their expedition.
As a result from hearing about his father's proposal to Michonne the night before, Carl comes to a conclusion and says, "Oooh, I get it now. That was her voice is my dream, so last night the two of you were…"
Rick quickly takes his arm on Carl's shoulder and uses his hand to cover his mouth; he looks straight ahead and grins while telling him, "Please don't mention that around her, she's already pretty mortified by the description of your dream."
As they reach the end of the woods, Rick sees a highway sign further ahead, "The interstate must down the hill up ahead." Rick pauses peculiarly at the sound of rushing water, "Do you hear that? It sounds like running water."
Carl listens closely and says, "Yea, I hear it."
Rick removes his arm from Carl's shoulder and starts reaching in his bag to pullout some high powered binoculars.
"Well, I'm glad that you and Michonne settled everything, I didn't want us to go back down the block with crazy Jane." Carl confesses.
"Why is that?" Rick asks in an unconcerned tone digging for the binoculars.
"She was just too weird, always acting cheerful when things weren't. She always acted fake around me." Carl tells him as he wipes the cross falling rain from his face.
Rick finally pulls out the binoculars and stops to take a look up ahead and says, "Well everybody copes with this world differently Carl."
"No Dad, I mean she's not right in the head. Sometimes I would come down stairs and she would just be staring down at the stove. And she would just stand there and stare down at it for long time gripping the edges it while it was on." Carl explains.
Rick stops to look at Carl strangely the goes back to focusing the binoculars, "She would stare at the…", as he brings the binoculars in to focus, he sees the top of a green interstate highway sign but, when he pans down little below the sign he identifies the torso of a walker waving its arms around as it bobs up and down from raging waters pull it down stream. "Shit, shit no!" he shouts out frantically.
They start to hear loud cracking and popping noises coming from the right of them in the distance. Carl can hardly see further than his hand from the rain that has now gotten much heavier.
Rick flips up the mini covers on the binoculars to prevent the rain from hitting the lens; he looks down to the right 100 or more yards and sees tiny chucks of the hill and trees being washed away in to the water.
"Oh, no no!" he screams, "Come on Carl we gotta get back!"
XXX
In a deep morphine induced haze, Michonne wakes up from the constant rain drops falling on her face. She can't feel her arms or her legs yet she feels as though something is pulling her down. As she becomes slightly more alert she realizes that arms are tied together and she is hanging from a tree; looking down and around she also sees Rosita's lifeless body on the ground then she notices a decrepitly run-down cabin far away in the distance.
The wind from the storm begins to pick up and Michonne body begins to swing back and forth but, every time she swings through the air she hears an empty clanging sound over her head. The rain and morphine has disturb her vision some nonetheless she faintly observe two tin cans tied together around her wrists.
Michonne was never truly concerned for her safety, Maggie made that obviously clear the day before; but now that Michonne finally had a man and a family to look forward to; for the first time she was really scared.
Abe starts grabbing his bag while Michonne hangs from a tree in a debilitated state. Blinking heavily from the rain, she yells to Abe, "Why are you doing this?!"
He walks over to her and says, "All this is because of your man." Abe shakes his head, "He should've never humiliated me like that."
Michonne shouts, "Like what? He trusted you to join his group…he took you in."
"With Eugene, he should've never made me look like an incompetent asshole." He answers. "But what I'm doing right now? This is a baby shower gift, I could never think of something like this myself it's…too cruel. The thing about the tin cans tied to your wrists draw in walkers every time you move; I mean damn…" he shakes his head in shame, "Jane really hates you."
"You know Rick will kill you once he finds out." She yells.
"I already got that covered, besides he won't be thinking about me, he'll be too busy worrying about trying to finding you. He can't keep a clear thought in his head when he doesn't know where you are." He yells back.
Michonne looks over at Rosita on the ground, "Wait what about Rosita don't leave her this!"
"Oh don't worry, she should be famished when she reanimates herself, so I'm leaving her here to keep you company." Abe says as he starts a light jog back towards the cul de sac.
A heavy burst of hurricane-like wind begins to blow Michonne around again activating the walker dinner-bell that hangs from her wrists.