Survival of an angel

19. Training

I sit on top of the hill with both kids next to me as a trail of buses stream into the prison. Maggie opened the gate so it must be our group.
"What's going on?" I ask as we make it down the hill.
"Governors ditched his people" rick says simply allowing me to put it together.
"Looks like I'm gonna be doing more hunting" I comment as the people start to unload.
"Yeah" he mumbles as he takes Judith from my arms.

"Excuse me miss?" A boy around 11 says tugging on my pants.
"Hello?" I reply.
"Can you help me? I can't carry them" he says pointing at his bags.
I nod and pick them up.
"So where are ya parents kid?" I ask.
"Dead" he states.
"I understand. It's hard to talk about, come on. The cells in cell block d are empty, I'm sure you can go in their" I say as I lead him to the rooms.
"So what's your name?" I ask as I put his bag down.
"Benjamin but people call me Ben" he says and I nod.
"Alright Ben I hope you enjoy it here" I say leaning against the wall as he pulls out three books. Two that I've finished and one I've never even heard off.
"Good choices, plenty of adventure and drama" I say signalling to the books.
"Yeah, my teacher says I'm the best reader in the class so she gave me grown up books" he says in a cute voice.
"That's good. Be carful though, once you turn into a book person, theirs no way out" I joke in a mysterious voice.
He giggles as I smile and leave him to his resources.

(3 months later)
"Remi?"
"Yeah" I reply to rick as he comes back to my side.
"It's come to my attention that Carol is running defence classes... I was wondering if you could teach firearms" he says putting his hands on his hips.
"Sure, can you send them down the field around midday? and I'll do it"
"Of course. Thank you remi" he says leaving.
"What was that?" Daryl questions as he walks in.
"I just got roped into training the spawns of Satan" I joke.
"Hmm I'll give ya a hand" he says rubbing his chin.
"Thanks, I'm not really sure how this will turn out" I admit.
He smiles at me and places a kiss on my forehead before leaving. I see a shadow in the corner of my eye as it disappears around a corner.
I go down the hall and check before returning to my room to prepare for hell.

I sit on the box in the field next to Daryl as he sharpens his knife on a rock.
I tap his leg as a group of kids come wondering out.
Three teenagers, all boys. Four younger girls, two looked like sisters and Ben.
"Seems like Carl's not joining us" I whisper to Daryl as the kids come to a stop infront of us.
"Today I'll be teaching you firearms. My name is Remi black. Just call me Remi" I tell them.
"So boring" one of the teenagers grumbles.
"If you don't want to be here, don't come" I state as the group smiles at each other.
"Are you sure? We can go?" He asks.
"Of course... it means when you die your blood won't be on my hands and you will die if you don't prepare yourselves, I'm trying to help. If you wish to live long then next year, I suggest you stay" I tell them as the two boys that were walking off come to a halt.

"Are you serious?" He questions.
"Dead serious. One thing about me, I won't sugarcoat it. This world is dangerous, rick has asked me to do this so you feel safer and more prepared... if you want to panic and die with no hope then I sure hope you believe in god" I say glancing at Daryl to see him smirking at me.
The boys move back into line and hang their heads in shame as I smile.
"Glad you stayed. By the way I won't be excepting tardiness, quite honestly I have better things to be doing so if you don't show up within the first ten minutes that I'm supposed to have you then lessons will be cancelled. I also won't except rudeness and if I give a command you follow it, it would most likely be for your safety or your friends safety, fail to follow will lead to punishments" I explain.
"Punishments like what?" The boy asks.
"Well cleaning of course. The halls can get awfully messy and don't get me started on the toilets" I joke.
"Today well be making bows. They are useful and with the right materials they are very easy to make. They are also quite making it easier to kill walkers and not draw a herd on yourself. I use a metal one so it is generally heavy but the ones you will be make can be lifted by a squirrel... shall we get moving?" I ask and they nod.
"Follow me" I say leading them towards a table.
"Your doing good" Daryl states.
"I'm fucking terrified" I state.
He chuckles at me as we arrive at the table.

After they made their bows I gave them five arrows each and showed them the basics of aiming before sending them home. Their bows stay in the box's for the night to make sure theirs no murders.
"You did great" Daryl compliments as we make it up the hill.
"I'm so happy it's over" I say rubbing my head.
"They like ya" he says shrugging.
"Nah I just put the fear of death into their system" I excuse as Ben runs down the hill to us.

"Remi I need to talk to you" Ben says panting.
"What's up Ben?" I ask as we walk together.
He grabs my trousers and drags me down to his level before cupping my ear:
"He's watching" he states.
"Who?" I ask confused.
"I don't know. I didn't get a good look at him" he whispers as I glance around. As he says that I feel a thrown cover my face.
"Thanks Ben, I'll see you tomorrow" I say and he nods before running off.
"What was dat about?" Daryl asks.
"Apparently someone's been following me" I whisper. He straightens up suddenly and glares up the hill.
"Do ya believe him?" He asks looking across the hill.
"I'm not sure. I have been see retreating shadows but I just thought someone was walking past, not this" I say.
"When was the last one ya saw?"
"This morning. When we were talking. It left as you did" I explain rubbing my arms.
"Ya staying with me tonight" he states and I nod.
"No, can't have them get suspicious if they do exist in the first place"
"Ya can't sleep along with a guy-"
"I'll be fine he hasn't done anything yet" I cut him off.
"Fine, I'll stay with you then"
"Daryl-"
"The people already know were together. We can just say that we finally moved onta the next stage" he explains and I nod.
"Fine" I whisper.