Here we go guys.
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Callie's PoV
They all walk back towards the van, they managed to give the Vatos group half of their guns, so they could protect themselves and their group.
"Admit it, you only came back to Atlanta for the hat." Glenn jokes.
"Don't tell anybody."
"You've given away half our guns and ammo."
"Not nearly half." Rick snaps. He was clearly fed up of Daryl already.
"For what? A bunch of old farts who are gonna die off momentarily anyhow? Seriously, how long you think they got?"
"How long do any of us?" Rick shoots back and Callie has to agree with Rick.
"We're all on borrowed time." Callie adds.
They come to the spot where they parked the van, except that it's gone.
"Uh, guys." Callie calls their attention and they look to where she's look. Or what should be there.
"Oh my god." Glenn groans.
"Where the hell's our van?" Daryl asks.
"We left it right here. Who would take it?" Glenn asks and Callie doesn't know. Who would take a van?
"Merle." Rick spitsin rage.
Daryl and Callie nervously look at each other. This is not good.
"He's gonna be taking some vengeance back to camp." Daryl tells them and Rick curses.
"We need to get going." Callie says and it triggers them all into action, and they all start running.
Group PoV
The group is enjoying a fish dinner, thanks to Andrea and Amy. They all couldn't be more grateful.
"Pass the fish, please." Sophia says politely.
Carol smiles and hands it to her. "Here you go."
"This is good." Tabby groans and Shane grins.
"Man o man, that's good. Whew. I miss this."
"Fresh food?" Josie asks and he nods. "I think we all do."
Elijah is sitting in the RV eating dinner, which thanks to Dale is the only place he's staying at the moment. Hell even Aubrey is out eating, smiling for once, which is a good sign.
"I've got to ask you, man. It's been driving me crazy." Morales speaks up and they all look to him, seeing him looking at Dale.
"What?" Dale chuckles.
Morales points to his wrist. "That watch."
"What's wrong with my watch?" Dale asks him.
"I see you every day, the same time, winding that thing like a village priest saying mass." Morales jokes.
"I've wondered this myself." Jacqui puts in and everyone is nodding in agreement.
"I'm missing the point." Dale insists.
"Unless I've misread the signs, the world has seem to have come to an end. At least hit a speed bump for a good long while." Jacqui reminds him.
Morales grins. "But there's you every day winding that stupid watch."
"Time... it's important to keep track, isn't it? The days at least. Don't you think, Andrea? Back me up here." Dale tells her and she pulls a face. I like... I like what, um, a father said to son when he gave him a watch that had been handed down through generations. He said, 'I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire, which will fit your individual needs no better than it did mine or my father's before me; I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you may forget it for a moment now and then and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it."
It went silent.
"You are so weird." Amy mutters and everyone laughs.
"It's not me. It's Faulkner. William Faulkner. Maybe my bad paraphrasing." Dale jokes.
Aubrey gets up and Andrea was worried she was going back to her tent already without eating much.
"Where are you going?"
"I have to pee." Aubrey mutters.
"Jeez, you try to be discreet around here-- Amy jokes and everyone laughs, even Aubrey. Aubrey heads into the RV.
"Hey, you okay?" Aubrey asks Elijah who has finished eating his food.
"Yeah. Everyone still out there?" He asks and she nods.
Aubrey groans when she doesn't see any toilet paper. She walks out of the RV.
"We're out of toilet paper?"
A walker steps out and bites into her arm and she lets out a blood curdling scream that draws everyone's attention. Andrea and Amy scream in terror.
"Mom!" Carl screams.
"Carl!" Lori grabs her son.
Josie grabs Connor and a crying Maya close. "Stay right by me!"
Shane cocks his shot gun. "Lori! Josie! Get them down! He shoots a walker behind Josie.
Elijah pulls Aubrey back into the RV, but gets bit into the neck. Aubrey screams again.
Jim picks up a baseball bat and crushes a walker's skull with it. Morales also kills a couple of walkers. Jeremy picks up a gun and fired at a walker.
"I'm right here. Shane, what do we do? Shane?" Lori panics.
"Follow me!" Morales calls.
Jim kills the walker that was killing Elijah, who was chocking on his own blood. Andrea and Amy son as they run to Aubrey.
"Oh my god."
"No! No!
"Help me." Aubrey sobs, clutching her arm that had a visible chunk missing.
Tabby grabs a gun and shoots a walker coming at Shane. "Tabby! Get over here! Cover them!" He pints to Josie and the rest and they go back to back. Lori, Carl, Josie, Connor, and Maya in between the pair.
"Carol!" Lori screams and Tabby lines her handgun to the walker behind the woman and pulls the trigger.
"Stay close!" Shane yells.
Morales was killing walkers trying to get to his family.
"Come on, y'all! Work your way up here!" Shane yells over the roar of gun fire and screams.
"Right in front of you! Shane!" Lori screams and Shane puts the walker down.
"Get to the RV! Go!"
"Shane! Shane!"
Walkers start coming closer to the RV, where Amy and Andrea were clutching onto Aubrey and a dead Elijah on the floor. Tabby aims at a walker nearing the sisters and pulls the trigger. It drops dead next to them making them yell.
"Stay with me! Stay behind me! Morales, work your way up here!"
"Get behind me!" Lori screams at Carol who listens immediately, clutching a frightened Sophia in her arms. "Let's go! Stay with me!"
"Come on' make your way to the Winnebago!"
Callie, Rick, T-Dog, Daryl and Glenn get pack and start shooting the walkers dead. Callie aims her gun at a walker, pulling the trigger, making its skull blow open. Dead. Rick kills one too. Dead. One after another they all drop. Daryl, T-Dog, and Glenn dropping more.
"Baby! Carl! Baby!" Rick cries out.
"Dad!" Carl sobs and they collide into a hug.
Andrea clutches onto Aubrey. "I don't know what to do. I don't know what to do."
"Elijah!" Josie screams and runs over to his body. Tabby grabs a hold of the kids, to keep them away from seeing their father dead.
"Aubrey!" Andrea sobs and they all realise that the girl is dead. Amy is sobbing next to Andrea. Carl grabs a hold of his dad, realising that one of his friends is dead.
Everyone rounds back up and Callie takes not on how many is left. Rick, Shane, Lori, Carl, Josie, Maya, Connor, Tabby, Carol, Sophia, Morales, his wife, his kids, Jim, Dale, Andrea, Amy, T-Dog, myself, Jeremy, Daryl, Jacqui. Not many.
"I remember my dream now, why I dug the holes." Jim states and they all look at him.
It was morning and everyone was still awake, well the kids were asleep but everyone else was on edge. On alert. In case more came up to camp drawn by the gun fire.
Callie walks up to where the pre dug graves were. According to Amy, Jim was up here for hours digging. Did he know this was gonna happen? Was this inevitable? But she knew that now more than ever, everyone needs to learn how to defend themselves.
Callie sees Rick, crouching down, talking.
"Morgan, I don't know if you're out there. I don't know if you can hear me. Maybe you're listening right now. I hope so. I found others... my family, if you can believe it. My wife and son, they're alive. I wanted you to know that. There's something else you need to know. Atlanta isn't what we thought. It's not what they promised. The city is... Do not enter the city. It belongs to the dead now. We're camped a few miles northwest, up by a big abandoned rock quarry. You can see it on a map. I hope you come find us. But be careful. Last night, walkers came out of the woods. We lost people. Watch yourself, Morgan. Take care of your boy. I'll try you again tomorrow at dawn."
"Morgan and Duane the people you met?" Callie asks and he jumps.
"Jesus."
"No, Callie." She jokes and he gives her a look.
"Yeah, they were right behind me. Heading into the city."
"It's a death trap in there." Callie points out and he nods.
He sighs. "Yeah. I got caught in there. What happened?"
"The military, they bombed the city. Trying to contain whatever this is." Callie gestures to the surroundings and he nods. The pair walk back down to the Quarry together. Seeing everyone milling around, clearly bodies.
"How many?" Callie asks Rick.
"A lot. I didn't really know anyone." Rick answers honestly and she nods.
Callie looks over at Andrea, still over Aubrey's body. Amy is sitting in a chair, next to Lori, and everyone else, well, except for Josie, who was by her husband's body.
Lori approaches Andrea. "I'm so sorry. She's gone. You got to let us take her. We all cared about her and I promise we'll be as gentle as we can."
Callie walks over to Josie. "I'm sorry about Elijah."
"Thank you. I- I can't." She sobs and Callie notices she has a gun in her hand, safety off.
"Let me." Callie says and takes the gun off her. That's when she sees Elijah move. Oh no. She quickly looks to Josie. "I'll do this. Go be with your kids."
She nods and stands up on shaking legs.
Callie points the gun at Elijah, seeing as he opens his eyes and pulls the trigger.
"Thank you." Josie mutters into her ear.
Callie turns around to see everyone looking at her shocked. She turns off the safety and holsters it into her own belt before walking back to the others.
"Was he?" Lori asks, but couldn't finish the sentence.
"Yeah." She mutters and sits on a log. Still feeling everyone is eyes on her.
"You didn't have to do that." Rick tells her and she nods.
"I had to. She wouldn't have been able to."
Rick nods and looks to Andrea. "She still won't move?"
Lori shakes her head. "She won't even talk to us. Or even Amy. She's been there all night. What do we do?"
"Can't just leave Aubrey like that. We need to deal with it same as the others. Same what Callie did with Elijah." Shane points out and they all agree with him. Callie for once agrees with Shane. She could turn any second.
Rick nods. "I'll tell her how it is." Rick approaches her but Andrea pulls out a gun.
Amy stands up worriedly.
"Andrea." Rick says warningly.
"I know how the safety works." Andrea hisses.
"Andrea, please." Amy tells her and Andrea doesn't lower her weapon.
Rick nods and steps away. "All right. Okay. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry."
The group just watches as Andrea cradles Aubrey's body. They have known each other longer. Best friends. Like sisters. But it's like she lost her sister. Callie couldn't even imagine what she'd be like if she lost Amy.
So 3 characters in one chapter. I'm kinda harsh. But not everyone is going to live. It is not a happy story. A huge clue; the Apocalypse. So Elijah, Aubrey, and Ed dead. Also, Callie putting down Elijah, what do you think? Put your thoughts in a review! Also I'm watching when Eugene is taken to the Sanctuary. Rick never properly used Eugene, like someone could make bullets from scratch! Huge benefit to the group. But he was never used. Sadly.