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A woman's worth.	By : SpikesSlayer08 Category: S through Z > The Walking Dead Views: 4517 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Also a HUGE thank you to my beta Jaded79 for taking the time daily to go over my chapters, it means more to me then you know *hugs*. Hope you all enjoy and let me know what you think please.
Chapter 8
Fighting to keep you safe.
Carol stood in the Greene’s house pacing, she was trying to stay calm but it have been a couple of hours since the men had ran into the woods to look for Randall and it was now dark and to top it off they had heard gun fire not long before. Carol had wanted to go out and look for them but she knew she couldn’t leave Sophia who was now upstairs with Carl. She was just about to go out onto the porch to see if she could see them when Daryl and Glenn walked in. She couldn’t help but sigh in relief and he smiled at her softly.
“Rick and Shane ain’t back yet?” Daryl asked stopping to stand close to her.
“No,” Lori replied.
“We heard shots.”
“Maybe they found Randall,” Lori suggested.
“We found him.”
“Is he back in the shed?” Andrea asked stepping forward.
“He was a walker,” Daryl informed them.
“Did you find the walker that bit him?” Hershel asked.
“No, the weird thing is he wasn’t bit,” Glenn replied.
“His neck was broke,” Daryl told them.
“So he fought back,” Andrea guessed.
“Thing is Shane and Randall’s track were right on top of each other and Shane ain’t no tracker so he didn’t come up behind him… no they were together,” he tried his best to explain it was pretty clear what had really happened.
“Can you please just get back out there, find Rick and Shane and find out what the hell is going on?” Lori all but begged him.
“You got it,” he nodded.
“Thank you.” He moved for the front door when Carol’s hand grasped his arm making him turn and face her.
“Please don’t go back out there,” she begged.
“I have to, Rick may be hurt.”
“Rick is a big boy; he can take care of himself.” He sighed, he could understand her fears but she had to understand why he had to go back out there.
“Look it’s pretty clear what happened here, Shane took Randall out and killed him like he always wanted too and then led us out there with that bullshit story about being jumped. Now I don’t know why but I know it has something to do with Rick,” he explained. “He wanted Rick alone in those woods and I doubt it was to have a friendly chat.”
“You don’t think Shane would hurt Rick?” Lori gasped stepping towards them. “They’re best friends.”
“Are they? Because they haven’t seemed too tight lately, something has come between them and I can bet you that is the reason Shane has led Rick out into those woods.” Lori looked down ashamed, she knew she was the reason and her actions may have gotten her husband murdered. “Rick’s a good man, you know I have to help him.” Carol sighed knowing he was right.
“I hate it when you’re right,” she huffed.
“I’ll be back, I promise,” he whispered moving out the door with Glenn and Andrea following closely behind him but he stopped looking out into the darkness seeing walkers, hundreds of them everywhere.
“Patricia, kill the lights,” Hershel spoke trying to keep his voice low.
“I’ll get the guns,” Andrea said moving into the house.
“Maybe they’ll just pass like the herd on the highway, should we just go inside?” Glenn asked trying to be calm but sounding panicked.
“Not unless there’s a tunnel downstairs I don’t know about, a herd that size will rip the house down,” Daryl replied.
“Carl’s gone,” Lori announced coming out of the house clearly panicked.
“What?” Daryl spun to face her, he shouldn’t be surprised; the kid was always finding the worst time possible to run off.
“He was upstairs, I can’t find him.”
“Sophia,” Carol called out; she came outside looking guiltily at her mum. “Have you seen Carl?”
“I promised not to tell,” she whispered looking down.
“Sophia look at me,” Daryl spoke; she stepped forward looking up at him. “We don’t have time for this,” he told her stepping aside so she could see the herd of walkers.
“Oh god,” she gasped fearfully.
“Did he say where he was going?”
“To find his dad,” she confessed.
“Alright good girl,” he said standing. “We’re going to go out and kill as many as we can, try and thin the herd.”
“Lead the rest away from the farm,” Andrea nodded.
“Daryl,” Carol whispered hugging Sophia close.
“You get Lori in the car with you and Sophia and you drive, keep driving till morning then meet me at the highway where we left supplies for Sophia,” he told her, stepping forward to grasp her arms. “If you get there and it’s not safe, if there are walkers, don’t wait for me. Just keep going, keep driving, keep safe and I’ll find you.” She nodded, tears burning her eyes.
“Take this,” he said handing her a buck knife. She took it noting how heavy it felt in her hand.
“I’m not leaving without my boy,” Lori said.
“You may not have a choice, stay as long as you can but if they get too close you have to go,” he told her, kissing Carol on the cheek. “Stay close to your mama,” he told Sophia who nodded before he took off into the dark.
They fought as hard and as long as they could before they realised it was pointless, there was just too many walkers and they were getting closer and closer to the house. Carol knew she needed to get Sophia to safety.
“We can’t stay here,” she said grabbing Lori, “we have to go.”
“That’s my boy,” Lori sobbed.
“You’re going to have to trust me. If we find him, he is going to need his mother, we’ve got to go,” she yelled over Hershel’s gun fire, dragging Lori to the stairs; she held Sophia close to her side.
They led Beth and Patricia with them, calling for Hershel who was too busy to hear their cries. They knew they had no choice but to leave him. They ran down the stairs and towards where T-Dog and Andrea had just pulled up, but suddenly someone grabbed Sophia. Turning, she saw it was Ed.
“Ed let her go,” she yelled pulling on Sophia’s arm.
“No, you’re both coming with me, you’re my wife and she is my daughter and I would rather see you both dead than with that fucking redneck, no one takes what is mine,” he hissed.
“Let her go, I’m warning you,” she spat.
“You’re warning me?” he laughed. “What are you going to do huh?” She moved fast pulling the buck knife from her waistband and slamming it into his arm. He wailed in pain, letting go of Sophia as she jerked the knife from his flesh. He moved to grab them again but Lori raised her gun and pointed it at his face.
“I will blow your fucking brains out!” she warned him and he backed off quickly.
“This isn’t over,” he snarled as he ran in the other direction, weaving through walkers and disappearing into the darkness.
“Come on,” Lori yelled and they ran for the truck. Carol looked back when she heard screams fill the night air to see Patricia being bitten into and Beth grasped her arm.
“Don’t look,” she told Sophia as she moved for the car. Lori ripped Beth from Patricia’s grasp getting to the car. Carol handed Sophia to Andrea and ushered Lori and Beth into the car. Andrea raised her gun over Carol’s shoulder and shot a walker that was far too close. Carol turned her head seeing two more almost on her, kicking one back she slammed the truck door locking the others with Sophia inside, stabbing the other in the skull and dropping it.
“Get her out of here,” she screamed to them as she ran off into the night.
“Keep going, keep running, don’t look back, don’t get bit, keep going, keep running, don’t look back, don’t get bit,” these thoughts kept going over and over in her head as she ran through the open field, she could hear every desperate breath she took and her heart hammered in her ears, her feet slapping on the hard ground.
She could hear them getting closer and closer, she tried to push harder and make herself go faster but her legs were burning and she knew she was slowing down. When she felt cold dead fingers graze her shirt she couldn’t stop the scream that ripped from her throat and it gave her the momentum she needed to move that little bit faster.
Daryl sat on his bike watching as the barn burned, he decided to wait there till early morning and make sure no one was left behind. Then he would go to the highway and meet up with Carol and Sophia, he just prayed they had done what he said and not waited too long to get off the farm. When he heard Carol’s scream rip though the cold night he knew his prayers had not been answered, gunning his bike he took off towards her scream.
He drove up the dirt road seeing her running across the field alone with a group of walkers chasing closely behind her. Raising his bow, he shot one in the head that got too close to her and she ran for the bike.
“Come on, we don’t got all day,” he yelled to her as she jumped on the back of the bike wrapping her arms around his waist tightly. He pulled away just in time and drove away from the gathering walkers.
They drove through the dirt roads, he could feel her sobbing into his back and he just hoped Sophia was safe. She held onto him tightly. The sun was starting to come up but it was foggy and with it being a dirt road it made it hard to see. Walkers were coming out from everywhere as he weaved through them, he knew he couldn’t stop to comfort her and make sure she was alright, he had to get her to safety.
The sun was now up and they weren’t far from the highway but Daryl wanted to make sure she was alright first, she was still sobbing quietly into his back. Coming to a clearing, he pulled the bike over and quickly got off turning to look at her.
“Are you alright? Did you get bit or scratched?”
“No, no I’m alright.” He looked her over anyway, but when he saw her blood covered hands he felt dread burn through him.
“Whose blood is that?”
“Ed’s… he tried to take Sophia from me, tried to drag us into the woods, I had no choice, I stabbed him in the arm to make him let her go and Lori pointed her gun at him… he said this wasn’t over,” she sobbed trying to catch her breath but the events of the night were finally catching up with her.
“Where is Sophia?” he asked scared of her answer. “Did she…,” he asked but couldn’t finish his question.
“No, she’s fine… I put her in the car with T-dog, Andrea, Lori and Beth,” she told him. “But there were walkers everywhere, Andrea shot one and I kick one down and stabbed another but if I tried to get in the truck I would have been bit and it would have put Sophia at risk so I slammed the truck door and told them to get her out of there and I ran, I just kept running,” she cried rambling frantically.
“It’s alright, you’re alright now and you did so well, you kept you and your little girl safe.” Daryl held her close as she sobbed into his chest letting the events of the night go. Once she was calm he got back on the bike and headed for the highway and to Sophia.
He pulled the bike up near Rick, Hershel and Carl. The others pulled up near him, Lori ran from the car grabbing Carl and holding him tightly. That’s when he saw Andrea get out of the car with Sophia in her arms; putting the girl down, Sophia ran towards them, running to them. Daryl dropped to his knees holding her as she cried. Carol was soon there with them hugging them together, as a family.
“Oh mama I was so scared, I thought I had lost you,” she sobbed in their arms.
“I’m okay sweetie, I’m just so glad you were safe.” Pulling apart they stood. “Thank you so much Andrea,” Carol whispered stepping forward to hug her before stepping back.
“You really scared us,” Andrea sighed; thankfully she was alright.
“Where’d you find everyone?” Rick asked standing to face them all.
“Saw these guys taillights zig zagging all over the road, figured it had to be Asian driving like that,” Daryl spoke trying to lighten the mood.
“Good one,” Glenn nodded laughing softly.
“Where’s the rest of us?” Daryl asked noticing a few people missing.
“We’re the only ones who made it so far,” Rick sighed.
“Shane?” Lori asked but Rick shook his head confirming the worst; she felt her heart break a little at the loss.
“Patricia?” Hershel asked.
“They got her too,” Beth sobbed, “took her right from me I was… I was holding on to her daddy.” She cried into his chest as Maggie rubbed her back trying to comfort her.
“What about Jimmy? Did you see Jimmy?” Beth asked sounding panicked.
“He was in the RV, it got overrun,” Rick confirmed causing Beth to sob harder.
“What about Ed?” T-dog spoke up, he hated the man but he noticed he was missing.
“He attacked Sophia and I, we got away but he just took off,” Carol replied.
“Way too many walkers there, no way he got off the farm alive,” Daryl said.
“So daddy’s dead?” Sophia asked looking up at Carol.
“I’m sorry sweetheart,” Carol whispered looking down at her blue eyes.
“At least he can’t hurt you anymore mama.” Carol wanted to cry at her little girl’s words but instead she just held her close.
“We’ve got to keep moving, there’s walkers crawling all over here,” Rick spoke up.
“I say we head east,” T-dog suggested.
“Stay off the main roads, the bigger the roads the more walkers, more assholes like this one,” Daryl said grabbing his bow and pointing it at the walker stumbling towards them. “I got him,” he said firing the arrow as it shot through the walker’s head putting it down.
Moving over, he pulled the arrow free and they all piled in the cars, he told Carol and Sophia to ride with Rick, Lori and Carl that way he would know they were safe but he made sure to ride beside them at all times. He was worried, worried for the group and worried for his two girls.
He didn’t like the uncertainty and the fact that they had no safe haven, no shelter but he promised himself to find them somewhere safe to bunker down and until then he would do what he had to, to keep them safe and alive.
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A woman's worth.