Walking Dead: Building Your Own Hope

Chapter 8 of my Walking Dead story, enjoy.

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Season 4: Episode 8

"Still can't believe it, Summer vacation's nearly over." Sophia remarked with a laugh.

Enid also laughed, playfully nudging the blonde girl with her shoulder. "Tell me about it...just think how different things are gonna be when school starts up again...not gonna be the same without Brian and Beth around as much."

"I know." Sophia said softly, returning the brunette's gesture.

Both girls were out walking along the edge of town, enjoying some peace and quiet, dressed for the hot summer day. Sophia in jean shorts, a red tank-top, white ankle socks and red sneakers while Enid wore a denim mini skirt with a pink crop-top and pink flats. They were indeed contemplating the upcoming school year as Summer Vacation drew ever so slowly onwards towards its end. It would be their senior year, out of all of them Carl was now the only one who was not yet eighteen, but he would be, of course having already completed their senior year, Brian and Beth would not be with the group, heading on to college now. But still, they all were looking forward to their remaining days of freedom, all the while wondering what the day would have in store for them. They would soon find out and not in a very good way.

Enid grinned and began to speak again. "So, Sophia, what-?"

"MRUGH!?" Sophia squealed.

Enid gasped as she felt herself be pushed off the path and into the woods out of sight, but as she turned she saw Sophia standing there, eyes wide and a hand clamped over her mouth, with a gun held to her head and there, smirking as he knew as well as she did he had both of them now trapped, was Negan.

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Brian grimaced, worried about what had just happened, he was just glad to know that Andrew, Jamie and Beth were safe, that they hadn't been dragged into things this time. But he wondered if why he now was being dragged in after what his girlfriend had suffered. He wondered about the others too, but the only thing he knew for sure was Jamie, Andrew and Beth were spending time hanging out with Laurel and Eliza and that things were getting better for them. But regardless, he had to focus on what was going on right now, that was why he was approaching this area, wary and looking around. He dusting off his jeans which he wore with white socks and tennis shoes and dark blue T-shirt.

"Brian, what are you doing here?"

He turned sharply, eyes wide.

"Marissa, what is this?" He burst out.

Marissa seemed taken aback by his sudden reaction, fidgeting with the hem of her blue plaid schoolgirl style mid-thigh skirt which she wore with a white blouse, dark blue socks up to just below her bare knees and dark blue flats.

"I just...I got...a message-" She stammered.

"Pictures, and a threat from Negan?" Brian burst out.

She gasped. "Ye-yeah, of Sophia and Enid, he…"

"He kidnapped them and has threatened the three of us to come and save them, or else."

They turned at the third voice, seeing Carl approaching, wearing jeans, a red T-shirt, white socks and sneakers, looking just as startled and worried as the two of them were.

They all grouped together and Brian and Marissa were wary, a small breeze pebbling the bare skin of Marissa's legs before she spoke.

"So um...we all got this…?"

Carl and Brian nodded and they held out their phones to each other and gasped. For they had indeed got the same message from Negan. Photos of Sophia and Enid, thick cloths tied over their mouths while their arms were bound behind their backs at the wrists and elbows with ropes while their legs were bound at the ankles and thighs with the same rough ropes that chafed their bare legs. Below that, threats from Negan for them to come to the location they were at now, their chance to save them. However if they looked to warn the police or get anyone else to help, Negan made it clear he would know and instead of finding them, they'd instead find their corpses. Fearful they had all clearly agreed to try and find the girls and save them, even if they knew it was risky.

"So...we're really gonna do this?" Brian asked.

Carl swallowed but nodded. "Yeah, c'mon...they're counting on us, we know Negan is serious."

They all nodded and so they put their phones away and began making their way into the building, a run down building near the lake, an old boat dock. They had barely got in when they saw and heard it.

"MMMMMMMMMM!"

"Sophia, Enid!" Marissa cried out.

She ran towards them even as they screamed into their gags, Brian followed but before Carl could he was grabbed and they turned to see him, Negan's hand over his mouth and a gun to his head while Negan sneered at them.

"I expected better from a cop brat." He sneered. "Now…"

They all tensed, realizing they had stumbled right into his trap.

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The tension was palpable as Rick and Michonne watched the video in shock and horror. They could see them all, Sophia, Carl, Marissa, Enid and Brian, all tied and gagged the same way, the girls suffering from the rough ropes on their bare legs, Marissa's thick thighs were already showing red marks as the ropes slipped around, she was trying to hold her skirt down desperately while Enid did the same with hers.

"Now, you've pushed things too far, you ruined so much and so I have only one recourse, revenge." Negan was saying in the video. "Take a good long last look at them all, and I do mean last, as now the ultimate price will be paid."

That was the end of the video.

"I know where that is, we can't waste time." Rick said.

Michonne nodded. "I agree, I've already contacted my team, they're going too, let's go."

Rick agreed and they hurried, desperate to reach the boat dock before it was too late.

End of chapter, hope you enjoyed it, read and review please.