Although Shel was shocked from hearing the woman say this, she understood. "I know how you feel. Maybe it's for the best that you go. I mean, Roman has been getting to Vernon more and more lately and I'm afraid this place is going to end up like.." She trailed off, staring around to see if anyone else could hear them.

"Like everywhere else?" Brie asked, already figuring she agreed with her.

"Yup. Becca doesn't deserve to be put into a situation like that." She replied, folding her arms as she stared at the door.

"I knew a little girl before we joined this group, Clem was her name I think. She was real sweet, always wanted to help. She seemed like she had so much hope for the world. Becca is like the anti version of that. She deserves a real childhood, Shel. If you come with me, escape from here.. We could give her that."

"I dunno, Brie. This place still has food, water, walls, medicine, weapons. We'd probably die out there."

"Well, think about it." Brie stated, bringing the second bucket of guts over to the female guard dog. She happily gobbled it up. "And please don't tell anyone about what was said here."

"You got it." On that ominous note, Shel headed back inside, only to find Becca at the door, popping up from nowhere and startling her. "Ah! Jesus christ, don't you ever fucking do that again!"

"Woah, I'm sorry! I just finished my job and had nothing to do while I waited for you, so-"

"You can't scare people like that, Bec, not anymore. What if I thought you were trying to hurt me? Or if you were one of things!?" Shel scolded, letting out a heavy sigh at the end of her rant.

"Okay, okay, I get it. What's got you so damn tense?" Becca questioned, noticing how her sister was angrier than usual. Usually, Becca would just get a slap on the wrist for something like this.

"It's.. It's just something Brie said about this place." Shel answered slowly.

"What did she say?" Becca asked.

"That it's collapsing, that it's not getting any better, that.. Vernon and Roman will eventually butt heads on how to run things." She explained.

"Nah, those two are good leaders. They'll fight, sure, but who doesn't?"

"Remember last week, with that old guy and the ginger girl?" Becca remembered. She was the one who made the shot on Leland.

"Yeah, we took that guy hostage for our stuff back." She answered quickly, the memory still fresh in her mind,

"Do you hear that sentence? Brie isn't the type of person to just take innocent people hostage. She's..-" Becca was interrupted by the sound of quick footsteps from the kitchen.

"Shel, Becca, come quick!" Stephanie yelled, slamming the pantry door open.

"What's up?" Shel asked.

"There's someone out front, they caught him sneaking around. Vernon and Roman want you both outside." The three girls headed out to the parking lot, finding the group of mostly elderly surrounding a young man, beaten, cut up and tied up with a rag around his eyes.

"What did you do to him?" Shel asked. It was weird of her to assume Roman had done this considering he was never really violent to others. He picked up on that. Vernon answered for him.

"Nothin', he already had the cuts and bruises when he showed up. Guard dogs alerted us that he was here so I tied him up and put the rag on him." The old former cancer patient replied.

"It doesn't matter, he tried to steal from us. Even if we did beat him down, it would have been garnered." Roman added, glaring down at the man. He was muttering in Spanish, just constantly talking to himself.

"What did he grab?" Becca asked, silently deciding how she wanted this done.

"Anything he could get his hands on, medicine, food, ammo mostly." Clive answered.

"This is the second time this month. We can't just ignore this." Roman stated with gritted teeth.

"But we can't just kill him! We did the same thing to Lee's group, or tried to." Brie said.

"And look what happened, we all made it out. What if he comes back and tries to take more?" Vernon questioned, taking out his pistol. His hands didn't even shake or hesitate.

"What if he doesn't? What if he's alone and was desperate?" Boyd asked, defending the man.

"And if a hundred bandits come through, what are you going to do?" Joyce asked, furrowing her eyebrows.

"I agree with Boyd. Look, I don't want us to murder a man in cold blood if he's just desperate. He deserves a second chance." Stephanie argued.

"Alright, alright.. Vernon, let's try it this way: Everybody votes on what they want." Roman proposed. This made everyone decently happy.

"Works for me. I vote to let him live." Now that was a surprise from Vernon.

"Fine. My vote is that we can't let him threaten our group like this without asserting our own dominance. This will keep happening if we keep letting people go. We kill him." Typical fucking Roman.

"I agree! This group works because we can communicate with each other, because we can all depend on each other for survival. Imagine what would happen if one of us were to go missing, or die! We kill him." Joyce stated, glaring at the man with clear frustration.

"We let him go, it's the only reasonable choice! We aren't monsters, this group won't succumb to that, not now not ever." Boyd answered.

"Thank you, I agree with Boyd. Sure, the risk is high, but it'll be the same risk if we kill him. This could change everything about our group. If we go in that direction, this will become a group that nobody wants to be a part of, a group like Crawford." Stephanie's explanation caused the cancer survivors to anger and saddened at the mention of that place. They had told this group about it before to prevent history from repeating itself.

"I'll have to say spare him. I.. Just can't murder a man in cold blood, even indirectly." Brie muttered, lowering her head.

"What is wrong with you people? He tried to steal from us! He deserves to die. What if there's a whole group of them out there?" Becca asked, getting a shocked look from both Shel and Stephanie.

"Becca.." Shel offered her hand for comfort but Becca pushed it away.

"It's my choice, Shel. Feel free to make your own." The young girl replied, saddening Shel even more.

"You guys don't understand what this could do to our group's rep. How many bandits are going to catch wind of the new dumb, weak group in town who can't defend themselves? It will be the end of all of us if we let this man go now." Clive brought up many great points. Points Shel had to now consider. God, she was scared.

"Well, you're the swing vote here, Shel. Whatever you say will be the last decision, it'll determine what happens. Choose wisely." Vernon stated, handing his gun to Roman. The former of whom pressed the gun against the back of the young man's skull.

Choices:

A: Let him go.

B: Kill him.

Relationships:

Stephanie is depending on your vote to save this man's life. You're best friends at this point. 9/10

Brie is thankful you agree with her and won't tell anyone about what she said. 8/10

Vernon is hoping you make the merciful decision and spare this man's life. 6/10

Roman wants you to agree with him JUST this once. 6/10

Clive knows what's the right decision. He kinda wishes you weren't the last vote, but if you pick his choice, he'll be happier. 6/10

Boyd knows you'll pick the right decision. He really hopes that good heart of yours can help out here. 7/10

Joyce hopes you choose to kill the man, you'd be saving all of them in her logic. 5/10

Becca hopes you side with her, since you are her sister and all. 10/10

((QOTC: Do you prefer the games over any other Walking Dead media? When it comes to seasons 1, 4 and 2, yes. 3 and Michonne? Eh.. Not so much. I hate the show tho.))