ᗯᕼEᑎ TᕼE ᗪEᗩᗪ ᑕOᗰE ᗩᒪIᐯE [ ᴅᴀʀʏʟ x ʀᴇᴀᴅᴇʀ]

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As soon as they left, Carol and I began working at cutting ourselves free. I grabbed out a small blade that I had in my pocket and started to cut at the duck tape as Carol used the cross necklace. She definitely seemed more like herself as she worked hard, instead of the helpless act she had up when the others where in here. I didn't know her well but I could tell that much.

The duck tape was hard to cut and it was taking forever. But eventually I got mine cut and went over to. Carol to help get the rest of hers off.

"Thanks" she said as she looked up at me and I nodded. We quickly and quietly rushed out the room. In the hall we checked one of the rooms through the window on the door and continued going. We came to a corner and Carol looked around it but then quickly retreated back holding me back as well, as the sound of a body hitting the ground was followed by a groan from a women and a walker could be heard.

"Just a second sugar" the voice said and you could tell it was the old lady. Once Carol saw her walk off, she pointed in the opposite direction and we took off down the hall, coming to a door. We opened it and inside was Maggie- trying to cut her restraints off.

When Maggie saw us, she let out a quiet gasp and quickly finished cutting the duck tape till it cut and Carol went over to her and helped her get the tape off while I stood by the door keeping watch.

"Are you ok?" Maggie asked as she hugged Carol.

"I have to be" Carol whispered as they let go and stood up. Carol looked to me and then Maggie as she went over a quick plan saying we needed to draw them away.

"We're just going to leave them alive?" Maggie asked.

"Let's just go" Carol responded trying to avoid the question but Maggie quickly spoke.

"Carol we have to finish this, we have to" she said seriously with determination in her eyes.

"She's right" I whispered and Carol gave us a look that said she didn't want to but deep down she knew. She couldn't say anything, so instead she walked to the door and went out. Maggie and I follow behind her.

Quickly we walked back to the room they held us in and opened the door. Maggie walked over to the guy and examined him seeing that he was dead. She then asked me to hand her the rope behind Carol and I did as she proceeded to tie it to the guy and then to the ground by the door. The plan was it would distract whoever next walked in the door and then we would take that opened.

Now all we had to do was wait.

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The door opened and the old lady came walking in. The moment she did, the dead now turned zombie groaned at her and bit her arm causing her to scream. It was satisfying to see how smoothly the plan went and we quickly went into action as we came up from behind her as she shouted death threats to us. Maggie took her knife and hammered it to the back of her head. She fell to the ground and Maggie went over to her. She violently hammered the object into her head as she let out a almost frustrated groan, making sure she wouldn't come back as a walker. Carol and I looked at her, Carol with a more concerned look on her face but once she was done, we were on the move again.

We shut the door behind us and ran through the building. We soon came to an area with walkers.

"There using them to keep us in, the others out" Maggie said and we were about to continue on when there were gun shots from behind us and we all quickly ducked as Paula came walking towards us, gun up. She ran out of bullets and began to take her bag off. Carol got up and pointed her gun at her as she spoke some worlds that I couldn't quite hear.