Alright guys! Thanks for reading! As much as I did like writing as Beth I've decided to make this story multiple POV. Let me know who in the group you want to hear from!
Dale
Dale sat, perched atop the RV. He always carried a rifle with him, you never know what can happen. What he had learned the past few weeks is whatever can happen, will happen.
"Dale I'm heading out with Daryl, we're gonna go look for Sophia." Andrea said, peeking her head up the RV ladder.
"Be safe Andrea." Dale responded. She rolled her eyes at him, she had been doing that a lot lately. But that was better than her utter loathing for him following what had went down at the CDC. She had started to forgive him, talk to him. He felt as if
Andrea were his own daughter now, after losing his daughter a month before all of this happened.
He called out for Glenn to take his watch, he had more important things to do than gaze down at the corn rows. He wanted to talk to Rick before the vote. Everyone was voting that day on what to do with Randall.
He quietly crept into the house, thankfully he was sitting across for Hershel at the kitchen table. Hershel was the one person who stood with Dale on this issue.
"Rick, can I talk to you for second." He said, gesturing towards the barn.
Rick looked up from the newspaper he clenched in his fists. The paper was most likely more than a month old. "Yeah. Why don't we take a walk." Rick then looked at Hershel and nodded his head goodbye.
"Okay, Dale. I value your opinion, but this time, I think it's wrong."
Dale hadn't planned the conversation to start off like that. He didn't know how to respond, how to begin to negotiate.
As they walked down towards the barn, they continued their debate. "What're you going to do? Kill him? Rick, this isn't us! It can't be! If this is what we've become than I don't want to be a part of it." He said, putting out his best pitch trying to
persuade Rick to let Randall live.
"I can't put them—" He pointed up at Carl and Lori seeming to be reading a book. "I can't put my family in danger." He continued. "You're apart of that family now, Dale. We need you, and I'm sorry. My vote is to get rid of him."
Dale just looked at Rick in astonishment. He didn't quite know how to react. Rick showed empathy to Dale, saying he cared about him. But also was sentencing another man to his inevitable death. He just kept walking until they got all the way to the barn.
The only one there was Shane, watching Randall with an intense, hateful glare.
"C'mon Rick. Let's just get this vote over with and get him out'ta here." Shane said, finally breaking his gaze at Randall.
Dale didn't much care for Shane. Certain things that have transpired led him to believe he had killed Otis down at the school.
Dale heard the truck finally pull up to the farm. They had been waiting for Otis and Shane to return with the medicine for hours now. He saw Shane get out of the driver's seat, he was wearing a faded red t-shirt that was covered with blood. Everyone knew
what had happened when Shane just faced them and put his head down.
"They trapped us in the school, he said 'Go, get out'ta here' and he ran at the holdin' 'em back. I couldn't have gotten out of their without him. I'm sorry." Shane said as he pulled the medical supplies out of the back seat. A tear streamed down Shane's
face as he walked towards the group.
Dale could hear Patricia's faded screams, while he and Rick had went to greet Shane. As Rick and Shane shared an embrace, Dale noticed a clump of hair missing from Shane's head. It was bleeding. At first, his initial thought was the walkers must've ripped
it off.
As he got a closer look of the hair he realized it hadn't been maimed by walkers. Shane had gotten into a fight with someone down at that school.
Rick agreed to get the vote started and called everyone to come into the house. He and Shane walked up to the house together, with Dale behind.
Dale knew how this vote would end up, and it was not in his favor. He would have a chance at one final plea to everyone before they voted. He had just hoped the people he cared about most, Glenn, Andrea, and T-Dog, would see the situation for what it
really was. If they decided to kill Randall, it wasn't in defense, it was murder.
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