Traitors
I watched it! Oh my god! Damn it. Definitely leads to a little bit of rethinking of things to do but I got my ideas boiling away.
Shane watched as the Governor walked over to him, the good natured smile in place. He wasn't buying it though, something was up. He glanced back in the direction the other man had come from and saw Martinez ducking back through a doorway. A frowned creased over his face as he thought about what could be happening.
"It's getting near curfew." The Governor declared. He put a hand on top of his gun, a casual action that still set Shane on alert. "What can I do for you?"
"I was just curious about what happens in there." Shane stated simply with a shrug. He held his hand over his own gun, having gotten it back, not without a fierce argument. Even Andrea got hers and kept it on her person at all times as per Shane's request to keep herself and the baby safe.
"Oh it's nothing to worry about, just some stock talk." The Governor assured him. He nodded his head and started walking. Shane glanced back and frowned slightly but followed the other man. "Looks like we're going to do a supply run soon."
"Martinez was pretty adamant about me not going in." Shane pointed out, glancing sideways to see the Governor's reaction. "Something more than stock talk is going on."
"You shouldn't worry yourself needlessly." The Governor laughed.
"I never worry needlessly." Shane insisted. He stopped walking, frowning. "All my worries generally have a base of truth. So what's going on?" Sounds behind him made him spin around to see what was happening as the Governor frowned. Martinez was moving along the sidewalk but he wasn't alone. He was pulling someone along with him.
A female someone with blonde hair.
"What the hell is he doing?" Shane asked, loudly. His voice echoed across to the struggling pair and the blonde woman twisted around, looking past Martinez as he kept a tight hold on her. Shane only needed that few seconds of unobstructed view to recognize who it was. "Bo?"
"You know her?" The Governor asked.
"She's part of my group, what's going on?" Shane questioned, caught between facing the man he was talking to and watching Bo getting pulled off.
"We found her in the woods, she killed several of the men." The Governor explained.
"There's gotta be a mistake." Shane argued, finally facing the Governor but making a slight move, ready to go after Martinez. "Bo...she's a med student...she's basically the doctor for the group. She wouldn't just kill someone without a damn good reason."
"You've been separated from your group for eight months." The Governor reminded him. His hand gripped at his gun and Shane's eyes darted down to it. "That's a longer time then you've actually known her isn't it? Things could have changed."
"I gotta talk to her." Shane decided, turning to go after Martinez.
"You can't do that!" The Governor declared harshly. Shane halted then slowly turned back to face the man.
Things happened far too quickly after that.
There was yelling from the building the Governor had exited and then the street was covered in smoke. Shots rang out and Shane took that chance to dart away, unsure of what was happening but definitely intending on finding out. He drew out his gun and ducked into a shop doorway, looking around. He could hear whispered voices nearby and frowned. He turned and aimed his gun, blinking at a gun being aimed right at him.
A familiar gun.
"Shane?" Rick's voice brought Shane out of examining the weapon in his face to looking at the man holding it.
"Rick!" His relief was evident in his tone as he dropped his gun and wrapped an arm around his friend in a quick hug. He looked behind him to find a man he didn't recognize, a beat up looking Glenn, Daryl, Maggie and Michonne.
"What are you doing here?" Rick asked.
"I've...been here for a while." Shane replied, confused. He looked at Michonne. "You didn't tell them?"
"All we got from her was that Glenn and Bo were here." Daryl answered instead, looking pissed. "Then Glenn tells us Merle is around."
"Yeah." Shane confirmed, looking around. "Andrea's here...and...the baby. Crap, Rick, I gotta get to them."
"There's a baby?" Rick asked.
"I'll explain later, you guys go." Shane instructed. "I'll find Bo, I saw her getting pulled away just a few minutes ago."
"Where to?" Daryl demanded.
"Just go, I'll get her!" Shane snapped. Daryl didn't look happy but then they all flinched and ducked as shots rang out again. "Get going!" Shane took off through the smoke without another word.
"Come on." Rick ordered, moving out. Oscar and Maggie, both helping Glenn, followed quickly behind him, firing their guns as they went. Michonne moved swiftly after them, slicing her sword through anything that came too near to her. She glanced back, her eyes searching for the Governor's place through the chaos and the smoke. A shot went past her and she turned to watch Oscar fall to the ground. Maggie yelled to Michonne to move as she shot Oscar in the head to save him from returning as a walker. The dark skinned woman frowned but hurried after the others over the wall.
None of them noticed until they were ducked down behind a car that Daryl wasn't with them.
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Bo listened to the gun shots from out the window and contemplated how much she'd hurt if she jumped out. Shaking her head, she moved around the room, trying to find something, anything to use. She tested a door that wouldn't open and frowned, giving it a few experimental tugs then kicking the doorknob until it broke.
"Let's see what dear old dad has...oh my god." Bo muttered, walking into the room and staring at the museum of walker heads. She frowned and shook her head, grabbing up the lamp off the little table by the chair. "Fuck this, let's cause some chaos." She tested the weight of the lamp before smashing it through the glass tanks. She tossed the lamp and picked up a large piece of glass. A noise caught her attention and she turned to the cage in the room.
Someone was inside it.
Bo moved over to the cage and was glad that the Governor didn't remember to actually lock it up. She pulled the padlock off and opened the door carefully, watching with wide eyes as a little girl with her arms tied back and a bag over her head walked out.
"Holy fucking shit." Bo whispered, frowning deeply. "Penny?" The girl jerked, turning in the direction of the voice. Bo rushed around and worked the chain loose, not noticing the state of the girl's arms. "That sick son of a bitch. What the hell happened in the time that I was gone to get him this fucking demented?" Penny just whimpered as the chain came free from the wall. "Alright kiddo, I didn't like you before but even you don't deserve this bullshit." Bo finally pulled the bag off Penny's head and then paused, staring at the walker face of the young girl.
"WHAT DID YOU DO?!" The Governor's yell made the young woman whip around. Bo jumped into action, grabbing the chain and holding the piece of glass. "NO! Isabeau please. She's your sister."
"She's a fucking walker you sick psychotic freak." Bo shot back. The Governor kept his hands up and out, a pleading look on his face. "How'd it happen?"
"She got bit." The Governor explained desperately. Bo tilted her head, almost looking like she was considering. The second the man's hands dropped just slightly, she rammed the glass down through Penny's eye with enough force that part of her hand went through as well. The Governor screamed his fury and launched himself across the room, knocking Bo down into the cage. She yelped and struggled, pushing at him in her desperate attempt to get away. She shot her hand forward, her thumb ramming directly into the Governor's eye and burying into the socket, destroying the eyeball in the process. He fell off her in pain and she tried to crawl. Her attempt was thwarted as he just grabbed at her legs, tugging her backwards viciously.
"LET ME GO!" Bo screamed.
"You...are my child." The Governor stated. He pulled her part way and threw her straight back into the cage. Her head cracked off the wall and she slumped to the floor. He rose to his feet and staggered backwards until he was outside then swung the door shut and locked it up. His anger overclouded the pain from his eye as he looked in at his newest prisoner. "And as such...you will stay with me."
"You're gonna piss off the wrong people." Bo managed to get out. Her vision swam and she knew she was seconds from fainting from her impact. She looked to where the figure of the man who had once been her father stood and glared with all her built up hatred for him. "I'm not sorry...for anything."
The Governor's mild triumphant expression fell as he watched Bo succumb to her head wound.
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Shane kept his arm around Andrea's shoulders as she cradled Amy in a sling across her body at her chest. She wasn't sure what was going on but she trusted whatever Shane told her and went along with whatever he possibly had planned. They stood in the crowd as it gathered around a ring. Both of them had heard from Milton about the fights that happened, how they had missed the last one due to the birth of Amy. It was almost intriguing to both of them, how things went, but at the same time, they weren't ready (nor did they think they'd ever be ready) to descend to that level of actually enjoying it.
But there they stood, with something in mind, among the crowd of people as the Governor stood near the edge of the ring, Merle at his side. Neither of them were sure what to think about the patch he had over his eye and they weren't sure if they even wanted to know.
"Are you sure about this?" Andrea whispered.
"Just trust me." Shane whispered back, kissing her head. "We just need the right kind of distraction. Rick is outside. Michonne's with him." Andrea's head snapped up in surprise. "I'll explain everything later, we just need..." He paused when the Governor stepped forward to become the centre of attention.
"We've been attacked!" The Governor called out. "These...terrorists...wish to put fear in us!" The crowd murmured amongst themselves and Shane dropped his free hand to his gun, unsure if he would need to draw it out. "I'm sad to announce that there is a traitor among us."
Andrea and Shane both tensed up, trying to keep their faces expressionless. Amy fussed slightly in her mother's arms but kept relatively quiet.
There was cursing before part of the crowd split and a few of the guys pulled Daryl into the ring. Merle stared in surprise as his baby brother was tossed to the ground, hands tied behind his back. The older Dixon was shoved forward as well and he looked around, wondering who's blood was going on his blade for that.
"I'm sad to say that Merle...the man we all trusted...has betrayed us." The Governor declared to the crowd. Jeers were called out from the mass and Daryl slowly rose to his feet, working his hands free of their ties. "This man here...is Merle's own brother. Part of the group that attacked us and killed our men."
"Oh god." Andrea muttered. "We need to do something."
"Like what?" Shane asked.
"What will be their punishment?" The Governor called out, looking at the crowd.
People screamed their answers, several demanding for death. Andrea felt sick as she watched the Governor, the man she thought they could actually trust, smile at the demands.
"The people have spoken!" The Governor announced. He looked at the Dixon brothers, both of whom were glaring at him. "FIGHT TO THE DEATH!"
"Any plans?" Daryl asked, glancing at his brother.
"Just one." Merle replied, just before swinging his fist into Daryl's head. The younger fell to the ground, his brother getting down with him. "Play along baby brother, we gotta get our way out of this." Daryl frowned and shoved Merle off, both getting to their feet and launching attacks on each other.
Several of the men brought out chained walkers, circling them around the ring and extending the chains to allow them to get closer to the fighting men.
"Move." Shane urged Andrea, tugging gently at her shoulders. They backed through the crowd, taking towards an opening. There was a slight whistle and both of them shot their hands to the guns, turning to face what had made the noise. Rick waved carefully at them just before he threw out a smoke bomb. "Cover Amy's head and let's go!"
Andrea was already a step ahead of him, having pulled the fabric of the sling over her child's head and rushing forward as the bomb soared through the air. The crowd went into panic again, shots getting fired once more. People ran in all directions, trying to avoid the flying bullets and the now loose walkers. Rick grabbed the couple and pulled them to the hole in the wall that Maggie and Michonne were standing guard at.
"Where's Bo?" Rick asked.
"I couldn't find her." Shane replied, frowning.
"Bo's here?" Andrea asked.
"Merle grabbed her and Glenn." Rick explained quickly. Andrea looked at Michonne carefully before she went through the hole. Daryl and Merle were right after them, everyone going through and saying nothing until they got far enough away and then the head count happened and the inevitable anger came from the younger of the Dixon brothers.
"Where the fuck is Bo?" Daryl asked angrily.
"She's still..." Rick faded off, glancing back the way they came.
"We need to get her." Glenn argued, his face bruised up as he glared daggers towards Merle. "What happened to her?"
"Probably nothing." Merle mused with a laugh. Glenn made to move at him but Daryl stepped in the middle. "The Gov'nor ain't gonna do nothing to your precious Doctor Bo."
"Why not?" Maggie asked.
"Cuz, cowgirl...she's his daughter." Merle stated simply, receiving a round of stunned faces in response.
Ack, okay, this is long enough. Don't think that they're gonna give up on Bo just on that revelation. Things are just going to be...complicated. Although I'm thinking Bo may have to save herself.
And just for the record and all. I love Michonne, she's kick ass, and I'm sort of downplaying her in this story for the sake of Bo and her story but I will make sure Michonne gets decent time and some decent bits. I already have the stuff planned out that goes along with the (sad sad) latest episode. I just need to work out what happens between now and then.