I started to gain consciousness and the first thing that hit me was the light from the window and then after that was a headache. I tried to raise my hand but I couldn't move them along with my feet as well. I started to struggle with my binds, but to no avail.
I stopped struggling to look over to my right and I saw Glenn tied up in a chair as well, " Glenn." I called him.
Glenn opened his eyes and looked over towards me to notice that I was awake and he let out a breath of relief, " Sam, thank god. I was worried that you wouldn't wake up." Glenn said as he looked at me.
" I'm alive, that's all that matters." I said as I started to look around the room that we were in.
" Where are we anyway?" I asked as I looked back and Glenn and noticed that he was looking down to the ground at his feet.
" Glenn, what's wrong?" I asked him as he looked up to me with regret in his eyes.
" We've been taken by this group and I was supposed to protect you! It was supposed to be simple! Get the guns, look for Merle and get back to the others. But I couldn't even do that, I promised Rick that I would keep you safe and I failed." Glenn said as he looked back down to the ground at his feet.
" Glenn, look at me." I said as I pulled at the binds again and failed, Glenn looked up at me.
" You need to calm down and breathe. None of this is your fault. We sometimes forget that there are other people out there besides the dead. We are going to get out of here alive, alright." I said to Glenn as a promise to him as he looked at me and all he did was nod his head to me.
" How long have I been out for?" I asked as I was thinking of a plan on how we were going to get out of here.
" I don't know...maybe about 20 minutes or so, why do you ask?" Glenn asked with a confused look on his face.
" Cause I have a feeling that the others are not that far from us. They'll come for us, I know it." I said as I looked at him with hope in my eyes.
" I don't know about that." Glenn said as he had uncertainty in his voice.
" I know, but I have faith in Rick that he would not leave us. We are going to be okay." I told him with a smile on my face till I looked towards the door.
" You better let us out of here! You hear me!" I yelled towards the people that kidnapped us and not after a while the door opened to reveal three men. There were two big guys while there was a small man who was in the middle, who told me that he was in charge and the others were his bodyguards.
" Ah, the girl is finally awake. Took your time didn't you." The little man said as he had a sly grin on his face as he walked over to us.
" Who are you? What do you want from us?" I asked him as I glared at him.
" My name is Guillermo. I'm the leader of this group and all I'm trying to do, is trying to survive, just like you." He said as he reached over to touch my cheek and I backed away from his hand as far as I could till he dropped his hand to his side.
" Why did you kidnap me and my friend here?" I asked him.
" My people said that you had guns that we needed and you and your Asian friend were getting in the way of that. We are going to get those guns from your friends one way or another." Guillermo said to answer my question.
" Those guns are not yours, they're ours!" I yelled at him as I glared at him.
" You have nothing." Guillermo said as he glared at me while crossing his arms.
" Well, you're wrong. We have people that are coming to get us, your people don't stand a chance against them." I said as I had a smirk on my face til I got hit on the left side of my face and after a while I heard a click towards my head. I looked back up to see Guillermo with blood that was going down the left side of my lip and that was when I noticed that he had a gun pointed right at my temple. I froze a little bit, as I was staring at the gun and my past was starting to flash before my eyes, til I shook my head a little bit and I went back to glaring back at him.
" Fuckin' do it." I said to him even though my whole body was shaking in fear of what might happen next.
" Please stop! Don't hurt her, whatever you plan to do, do it to me not her. She didn't do anything!" Glenn cried trying his best to break free to save me, fighting against his binds.
I looked over towards Glenn and I shook my head to him, telling him to stop, but before I could say anything to him, another man came darting into the room, " She wasn't wrong. They're here." The man said while gasping for air while pointing towards me.
All eyes were on me for a while til they turned to look back at their leader and for a moment I saw that the worry that he had in his eyes vanished. He placed his gun back in his holster causing me to let go of the breath that I was holding in for a while, and then he clapped his hands together as he was looking at me, " Get them ready. Then meet me out in the courtyard." He ordered as he left the room.
Both men walked over to me and Glenn and pulled us both out of the chairs, " Get your hands off of me!" I yelled as I started to struggle from in one of the man's hands. The man tightened his grip around me while one of them placed a piece of duct tape over my mouth along with Glenn's mouth as well, then they placed bag's over our heads and we were guided to wherever they were taking us. I tried to struggle free so I could kick their asses and then get me and Glenn out of here and met back up with the others, but to no avail.
' If it is them. I hope they kick their asses before I get my hands on them.' I thought to myself as they was starting to shove me up a flight of stairs and I heard a door open and that was when I felt a gust of wind hitting my face through the bag, which told me that we were outside and also something told me that we are on the roof, cause of the stairs. At first I was starting to wonder why we were on the roof till I heard familiar voices from below.
" Look, I have one of your boys and you have two of mine, I'm sure we can negotiate." Rick spoke trying to make a deal with them, but something told me that it wasn't going to go well. I heard Glenn scream and I was wondering why til the bag was ripped from my head and I looked down to notice how high I was at and that I was dangling from the edge of the roof. My breath got caught in the back of my throat as I tried to back away from the edge, but failed to get away cause the man that was holding me pushed me closer to the edge and that was when I started to panic.
" Don't sound even at all to me." Guillermo said as he looked between Rick and Daryl and I could tell that he was really mad at what before.
" My people got attacked, where's the compensation for their pain and suffering? Plus I have two of yours, and more to the point where's my bag of guns?" Guillermo said as he folded his arms from what I could see from where I was at.
As Rick was was talking to him trying to reason with him, I felt a pair of eyes on me and I looked over to where the eyes was that was watching me and I turned my eyes to look at who it was and it was Daryl and I could tell that he was trying to figure out who to get me and Glenn out of here along with Rick. Before I could make any noise to them, they dragged me and Glenn away from their sight and back through the door and as we were going down the set of stairs again and instead of them taking us back to our cell, they took us into another direction.
' Why are they taking us in another direction and back to our cell and why are there elder's here?' I thought as I was looking around as we were passing the eldery people till I realized that this group is protecting these eldery that were left behind to die after everything happened and that they weren't that bad.
When we made it to a room and both me and Glenn were placed in chairs and then Guillermo came over to us once he got back from outside, " untie them." He ordered his men and his men came over to me and Glenn and took the rops off mine and Glenn's wrist as well and stood in front of us. While we took the duketap from our mouths and I looked over Glenn to see the shocked look in his eyes.
I started to massage my wrists as I looked over towards Guillermo, " So, from what I could see, I was right about you and your people." I said to him with a small smile on my lips.
" How could you let?" Guillermo asked me as he looked at me while he crossed his arms.
" Because of all the elderly people that are still here and alive, if you and your group wanted to kill me and my friend here, you would have killed them as well." I said as I crossed my arms as well.
" Well, you caught us. We help others that can't right others, for those that need protection." Guillermo said as he sighed.
" What are you going to do to our people?" Glenn asked him which made me wonder as well.
" Hopefully nothing, stay put." Guillermo said as he walked away from us. I sat down on the ground, I wished that I had my crossbow with me but then I remembered that I wasn't in danger and these people need protection from the walkers that are outside. Then I heard an old man gasping for air, I got back up to my feet quickly and I was about to go over to help him til I felt a hand on my shoulder and I looked over to see an old woman.
" Sit child, I'll be right back." The old woman said as she walked away from me and out of the door.
I looked over to the old man who was trying to breath and I wanted to help and I could tell that Glenn wanted to help too but we didn't do a thing. After a while I heard a pair of feet coming towards us and then I looked up to see Rick, Daryl and T-Dog walking in with one of the men walking over to the old man and started to help him. I got up and I ran over to Rick and I hugged him and he hugged me back.
" What the hell is this?" Rick said as I let go of Rick and he looked over at Glenn.
" An asthma attack. Couldn't breath suddenly." Glenn said as he looked at the old man and then looking back at Rick.
" Why?" Glenn asked as he was a little confused.
" Man, we thought you guys were being eaten by dogs." T-Dog said as he shrugged his shoulders as he looked at us.
" You mean those guys?" Glenn said as he pointed towards one side of the room and everyone turned their eyes to see a group of chihuahuas making them have confused and shocked looks on their face.
I looked over at Rick and I could tell that he was not really happy and I watched him walk over to Guillermo and pulled him to the side and started to talk to him and then I felt a tug on my sleeve and I turned my head to see it was Daryl as he was he nodded his head to the side and he started to walk to the side and I followed him. Daryl finally stopped walking and turned it to me and I could see his eyes was wondering around me checking to see if there are any bruises or anything else till his eyes stopped and the way he was looking at me which told me that he was looking at my face and that was when I remembered that Guillermo hit me in the face and I could still taste the blood that was on the side of my lip, " Did they hurt you?" Daryl asked as he kept his eyes on the spot on my face.
" I'm okay, Daryl." I said as I was trying to reassure him that I was alright, but by the look in Daryl's eyes, he wasn't having it.
" Did he hit you?" Daryl asked me with a growl in his tone of voice.
" I'm fine Daryl, really." I said to him as Rick walked over to me and pulled me into another hug.
After a while Rick had let me go and gave Guillermo half the guns and bullets and we were able to leave, " Admit it, you only came back for the hat." Glenn said as he pointed at the hat that was in Rick's hand as he was placing it on his head.
" Don't tell anybody." Rick said as he chuckled lightly and I laughed a little at him. I felt empty without my crossbow and my machete, but then I felt someone tapping my shoulder and I turned my head to see that it was Daryl and he had something in his hands and it was my crossbow in one hand and in his other hand was my machete.
' He had them this whole time and I didn't even notice. How stupid can I be?' I thought as I placed my hand on my head and shook it and I closed my eyes and took a deep breath.
" I made sure to grab them as they took you away and I figured you would want them back." Daryl said I fully turned to him and grabbed them.
" Thank you. You didn't have to do that." I said with a slight smile and he nodded his head to me and we continued down the street, we were still looking for Merle, but we were glad that we had guns now. We started to head back to the van after an hour of not finding Merle.
As we got to the railroad to where the van was at, I stopped in place and gasped, " Where's the Van?" I asked everyone as they stopped as well.
' How is that possible? We only stayed in the city for about three hours. There was no one else beside me and the other's along with Guillermo's people that we just met. ' I thought to myself as I tried to look around for the Van.
" Who could have taken the Van?!" Glenn asked in shock as he looked around as well.
" Merle." Rick said as he took a deep breath as he was looking at us. Rick did make a point but there was one thing that didn't make sense. Merle may have stopped the bleeding from his stomp, but with that kind injury would make him a little slow, how would he get to here and to the van before us or furthermore without us even seeing him. I started to look around the area for his footprints at all.
RIght before I was about to give up, that was when I saw a pair of prints that didn't belong to any of us and this told me that this was Merle, " Rick's right. Right here, is where I see his prints and it leads straight to where the van was parked." I said as I got up and looked over to the others.
" How can you tell?" T-Dog asked with a questionable look in his eyes as he looked over at me.
" Cause, before running into you guys. I had to hunt for my food and that came with learning how to track and let me tell you it was not easy at first, but after awhile I got it down." I said to T-Dog and then I looked towards the area where the van used to be.
" Merle's gonna bring vengeance back at the camp anyways." Daryl said as he looked at all of us.
" We need to get going, like right now." I said as I took off running down the road with the others following right behind me as I was taking out walker's along the way.
" Can we just hotwire another car, so we could get there faster?" Glenn asked me as I turned my head to look at him.
" We don't have time. People might start to get worried and wonder where we are by now, we just need to get going." I said as I continued on walking and Rick came running after me with the other's following right behind me. Dodging throughout the streets till we got to the outskirts of the city. The sky was already getting dark and Glenn took over leading the way, so we wouldn't get lost. Even though I was a very fit person I was starting to slow down a bit, but I knew that if I stopped to take a breath right now that means wasting time and not getting back to others as soon as possible, cause I had a bad feeling at the bottom of my stomach.
' I…..I can't stop now. I have to get to the others and fast.' I said as I shook my head and got back into speed with the others and I was right next to Daryl from the corner of my eye I could see him looking at me from the side.
" Hey, you doing okay, Sam?" Rick asked me as he looked at me by turning his head to me and all I did was nod my head to him as we kept going. Once we got past the mountain area it was already dark and Glenn was able to find the trail that led back to camp. I started to walk in front again with Glenn on my right and I was just wanting to get back to camp so I could let Lori and Carl know that I kept my promise to them.
" Hey Glenn, how much father?" I asked him as I turned my eye to him while I kept my eyes on the lookout for anything.
" Shouldn't be far no-" Glenn said till we heard screaming up ahead. I turned to look at Rick and he stopped in place and he looked towards me and the bad feeling that I had earlier was still there but ten times worse.
" What the hell?" T-Dog questioned as he looked ahead of us
" That came from camp!" I yelled as I took off running towards the camp while hearing Rick yell my name but I didn't even stop and that was when I heard them following after me after a while.
As I made it into the camp, I was in shock at what I saw in front of me. A horde of walkers have swarmed the camp, people were running and screaming to get away as they were being chased by them.
" Sam!" Lori yelled as my eyes landed on her. I saw her, Carl, Carol, her daughter Sophia and Shane standing on the right next to the RV trying to take out some of the walkers that came close to them. I looked to my right to see a walker limping it's way to me and I pulled out my machete as I placed my crossbow over my shoulder and took out the walker and then I made my way over to Lori and the others.
I could see that Lori was looking around for Rick and she looked at me, " Rick's fine. He's right behind me." I yelled out to her and that was when Rick and the others came through where I came out from and they started to take out walkers with me.
I was taking out more walkers as I was getting closer to the RV when two more walkers got in my way, one in front of me and the other one from behind me. The walker that was in front of me and I shoved my machete through its head and it dropped to the ground and then I turned to the one that was behind me and I shoved it to the ground and I walked over to where its head was and I smashed with my boot. When I turned back to the RV I didn't brace myself for what happened next, Shane shoved a walker towards me and I tried to back away as quick as I could but my foot got caught something and as I was falling my ankle twisted in the wrong way and I screamed in pain once I hit the ground and I forgot that I had my crossbow on my back and dug in my back when I hit the ground and I took it off my back and I reached for my ankle till the walker landed right now top of me. I held the walker away from me as I could, but my strength was failing me and the walker was getting closer to me and all I did was shut my eyes, waiting to feel the walker rip into my skin, but it never came cause the walker was ripped off from on top of me and I opened my eyes to see the walker get shot in the head with an arrow and I turned to look at Daryl looking over me till his eyes landed on my ankle. I was in shock that he saved me and as I was looking at him, he took out the last walker and then there was silence. I sat up to look around to see all the dead bodies that were a part of our group. I could hear crying from the distance and I turned my head over to see Andrea holding her sister in her arms and I felt so bad for her, tear's was starting to appear from the corner of my eyes cause of the pain that came from my ankle and I noticed that Daryl was coming over to me and bent down next to me, " You okay?" He asked me as he looked at me.
I shook my head no as I gently grabbed my ankle, " It hurts really bad." I said as I looked at him til I turned my eyes over at Shane and glared at him. Daryl following my glare and then back at me confused.
" It was his fault that I hurt my ankle. The walker you took out, Shane pushed towards me." I said as I looked back at Shane and I could tell that Daryl was not happy with what I said because from the corner of my eye I noticed that his fist was clenched. Then after a while he calmed down and he moved over to me and pulled me up from the ground and placed my left arm around his neck and he placed his other hand tightly around my waist, so I wouldn't fall back down to the ground. We started to slowly make our way to the other's near the RV and I looked over at Rick who was holding Carl and Lori tightly in his arms as they began to cry.
Then I noticed that he was looking around fractly for me to realize that it was me that he was looking for, once he turned his head to look in my direction I immediately noticed that there was relief in his eyes and I nodded my head to him.
I started to look around us again and I started to feel sad again, we lost a lot of people in just a short amount of time. People that I was starting to care for, lost to the walkers in one night.
End of Chapter 6
Here is chapter 7. Sorry for taking so long for this one. I was trying to figure out how things can work out with my oc during the episode. And I know that it's a slow burn for both Daryl and my oc but don't worry he'll start getting protective in the next chapter. Thank you again for reading this story. It means a lot to me. Going to start working on the next one and I'll try to post it as soon as I can.