My Angel

Chapter 14- Beside the Dying Fire

"I'm going after them." Andrea finally says "Don't if Randall comes back we'll need you here." Lori tells her, right after the door opens forcefully.

Daryl and Glenn walk through the door, and Maggie and I let out huge sighs of relief. "Rick and Shane ain't back?" Daryl says scanning the room till his eyes land on me "No" Lori says "We heard a shot." he says "Maybe they found Randall." "We found him." he says again "Is he back in the shed?" Maggie asks from beside me.

"He's a walker." Daryl tells us "Did you find the walker that bit him?" Daddy asks "no weird thing is he wasn't bit." Glenn says and now im confused.

"How could that be?" I asked and Daryl shrugged. "His neck was broke." "so he fought back?" Patricia asks "The thing is Shane and Randall's tracks were right on top of each other. And Shane ain't no tracker, so he didn't come up behind him. They were together."

Lori then walked up to him "Will you please go out there and find Rick and Shane, and find out what on earth is going on?" she asks Daryl and Glenn, but more to Daryl. He nods his head and looks over to me then back to Lori. i already knew his answer, "You got it." "Thank you."

"I'll come." I tell the men "No you need to stay here." Daryl says and he gives me a look and I know I just need to stay so I nod my head.

We all start to walk outside when I notice some figures in the distance then more and more "Oh my god." I breath out and Daryl snakes an arm around my waist protectively.

"Patricia kill the lights." Daddy tells her "I'll get the guns." Andrea states "Maybe they're just passing, like the herd on the highway. Should we just go inside?" Glenn asks "Not unless there's a tunnel downstairs I don't know about." Daryl says from beside me "A herd that size would rip the house down."

A second later Lori comes hurrying out of the house "Carl's gone." "What?" Daryl asks "He-- he was upstairs. I can't find him anymore." "Maybe hes hiding?" Glenn asks "He's supposed to be upstairs. I'm not leaving without my boy." "Were not were gonna look again were gonna find him." Carol says pulling her away.

"damn it carl." I say and I look up at Daryl "That boy can't die, neither can his mother with that baby inside her." he nods "We will find him, we are gonna get out of here." I nod "Okay." I tell him.

Andrea then comes out with a bag of guns and we all rummage through it. Maggie grabs two and hands one to Glenn. "Maggie." he says "You grow up country, you pick up a thing or two." she tells him and I chuckle "Especially when you have a family like ours." Me and Maggie share a laugh and I hug her.

"I got the number there's no use." Daryl says talking about the guns "You can go if you want." Daddy says to him and I look up from the gun bag. "You gonna take them all on?" he asks "We have guns, we have cars." Daddy says cocking his gun. Daryl then looks at me with a meaningful look.

"Kill as many as we can, and we'll use the cars to lead the rest of them off the farm." Andrea says me and Daryl our eyes still locked. "You serious?" he says asking my dad, but still looking at me. "This is my farm. I'll die here." Daddy tells him "Alright" he says smirking at me "it's as good a night as any." he says and I playfully hit him in the arm and he leans and gives me a great kiss.

"See you soon." he says as he hops off the porch "Stay safe!" I yell and he turns around "Same goes for you!" he says pointing at me, then turning to fight the dead. Okay time to get serious.

I grab the gun and load it making sure to put extra amo in my jean jacket. A bunch of people start to get in the cars and Dare hops on his bike heading for the barn that just started to burn. I just hoped that was our group, knowing what they're doing.

I run and get on top of the R.V and hit it telling Jimmy he can drive. He drives a little and I start to shoot the dead and then he stops and the fence putting half of his body out the window to do the same as me.

Body's start to drop rapidly as we shoot the dead. I was busy when Daryl drove up to us "Must've been Rick or Shane who started that fire. Maybe they're trying to get out back, why don't you circle around?" he tells Jimmy and I notice a walker sneaking up behind Daryl and I shot it.

Daryl looks up at me then behind him at the falling walker "Drive Jimmy!" I yell down to him and he starts to drive off Daryl smiling softly at me as we drive away.

As we are getting closer I see two figures one big the other small "Over here!" I hear Rick yell "Jimmy over there!" I yell down at him and he changes his direction a little bit. Jimmy got to where Rick was yelling at him to park the R.V. I stuck out my arms "Carl just jump, i've got you, i promise." With some hesitation he jumped down to the R.V, I caught the boy falling backwards barley saving myself from going of the edge. Rick jumped after safely making it on the roof of the vehicle.

"Oh thank god." I sigh and hug Rick then Carl "Your mother is worried sick about you." I tell him "both of you." I say looking up at Rick "Come on no time to waist." Rick yells "Thanks for saving our ass's by the way." he says and I nod "Anytime." I tell him as we climb down the ladder.

Carl was down and I was half way when I heard screaming I jumped the rest of the way and looked to see the R.V full of walkers. I grabbed onto Carl, and I could feel the tears start to fall. How was I supposed to tell Beth Jimmy died?

Rick jumped down and started to push us "Go! We have to go!" he yelled and I started to run along with the two of them. We ran to the front of the R.V just to hear more screaming, and blood splatter everywhere.

"This way.!" Rick yelled and I continued to cry.

"There! head for the woods now. As fast as you can." he told us so I grabbed on to carls arm and ran with him not about to let him go. Rick was behind us pushing us to go faster and I could tell Carl was getting tired.

"Come on bud, we've got to do this." I tried to encourage him. Carl then collapsed he couldn't run anymore "Rick you have to carry Carl." I told him and he picks him up I turn around to see a bunch of walkers.

"I'll go fight them off you take Carl back to the house." "Riley I can't leave you, I won't" "You have to for your boy, I'll figure it out." I tell him giving him a smile. "Riley this isn't a good idea, we can just keep run..." Rick says until I interrupt him. "Rick it'll be okay, just run i'll cover you, try to clear a path, and then i'll be right behind you" I say. He still looks hesitant, but turns to see us getting more, and more surrounded.

"Now go for your boy." I tell him, and he runs off I run in the other direction and start to shoot the walkers in front of me. I start shooting the walkers getting close to Rick from behind.

Rick makes it into the forest, and I start to see all the cars driving off the farm at different times as I still fight off the walkers. I see the way they go, they are heading to the highway. I try to think as well as fight them off and I remember my old car.

The first ever car I got, daddy got it for me after my mother yelled at him for endless nights to get me one. I thanked the both of them everyday for years it felt like. I run back to the house and to the back yard.

The car was old and it was far into the back yard of the house. I shot, and ran walkers falling all around me. I got to the car and grabbed the spare key from under the car, I opened the door and tried to start the engine.

It revved but then just stopped, I tried again and the same thing happened. I punched the steering wheel over and over again and screamed. I then tried once more and it revved and I thought the same thing was about to happen until it actually started.

"Thank the heavens above." I said with tears in my eyes. I then heard growling and a walker grabbed my arm I let out a scream and tried to push him off of me it worked the second time I pushed and I took out the knife from my boot, and stabbed him in the eye as he came for me again.

I then closed the door, put the car in drive, and drove as fast as I could. I got on the dirt road and I had to think. The only place that all my group could find each other again. I saw them headed that way, I knew I needed to go to the highway.

Hopefully to find my family.