world's end ━ the walking dead

( 𝟎𝟔𝟎 ) escaping enemies

Rick was trying to look strong in front of his daughter, but he couldn't help but shake, too, knowing that they were in a difficult situation that was going to be hard to get out of; the man rolled out to grab his water bottle, but the man in the other room had left, walking back into the hallway and causing Rick to quickly roll back in next to Zoe, hiding yet again. But as the man went into yet another room, he successfully grabbed the bottle, rolling back under the bed and finally hiding fully now that they had taken all of the evidence that they were even here, however, Zoe had changed clothes in the other bedroom, and the girl was trying not to cry when she realised that they might find them and know she's in here.. The girl couldn't help but grab her fathers hand and squeeze as the man entered their bedroom, stopping right in front of their bed and looking around, not knowing about the two Grimes' hiding underneath the bed, he seemed to be checking out the room as they stayed still and quiet, praying that he wouldn't check under the bed. And luckily, the man sat down on top of the bed, pushing down on the two Grimes', but luckily, they hadn't been caught.

He began snoring just seconds after his head hitting the pillow, and whilst Zoe couldn't move, being frozen to the spot, her father was looking around to figure out a way that they could get out of this. Rick was beginning to slide out from under the bed, when another man had ended up walking back into their room, Rick sliding right back under again as they carried on hiding, truly stuck in their situation. "Yo, guess what I found in the other room." The new man spoke up, Zoe recognising his voice from when she had been attacked, he was the one telling the guy to hurry up. "I found little blondies clothes, looks like she's been here." He informed the sleeping man, who had woken up upon his words.

"No shit." He laughed, as Rick glanced at Zoe to see that she was on the verge of tears; he slowly grabbed her hand and squeezed hard, showing the girl that he was here with him and nothing could happen to her now that he was around. The girl glanced over at him as he gave her a knowing look, Zoe closing her eyes and nodding subtly, trying to calm herself down. "I claimed the girl the second she killed Paddy, she's mine." He carried on, now standing up and glaring at the other man, Zoe squeezing her eyes shut as the last thing she wanted to hear was the two men arguing about who claimed her first.

"No you didn't, Paddy was my brother. That bitch is mine. And I'm gonna make her wish she'd never been born." The man who walked in, stated, the two quickly beginning to fight as punches were thrown, grunting was heard, and a thud was head in front of them when they saw the sleeping man land on the ground from being tripped up.

The man hadn't noticed the father and daughter hiding under the bed at first, not when the others hands were wrapped around his neck, trying to push down as much pressure as he could. With another punch landing on his face, he now had his face turned to Rick and Zoe, his eyes widening as he looked in between the two, most importantly, Zoe, who he recognised instantly. "Len, Len, stop!" He grunted, trying to say that the girl was hiding under the bed, "Stop, Len!" He yelled, his eyes wide as he looked at the two Grimes, pushing against the man on top of him.

But nothing worked, Len kept squeezing, "Hell, nah. That girl is mine." He grunted, as Zoe felt a tear fall down her cheek, watching as the man's life slowly faded from his eyes, then dying before Len jumped onto the bed, pushing down even harder on Rick and Zoe as they tried not to move. They didn't have any choice but to wait again, so the man on the bed could fall asleep and they could finally make their way out and get the hell out of dodge, but Zoe felt like she had been waiting for hours for the man to fall asleep, and it felt like torture.

Tapping the girls arm, Rick nodded his head, motioning for the girl to finally crawl out from under the bed now that he thought they were safe to do so — after a few seconds of slowly breathing in and out to calm herself down, Zoe nodded, slowly shuffling out, ducking her head to avoid the man's foot which had dropped even lower now that he had moved in his sleep. She stood up and helped her dad get out from under the bed, next, the two being as quiet as they could in fear that the sleeping man could wake up at any moment; standing up, Rick looked back down at the man in the bed, wanting to kill him for saying what he did about his daughter, but someone else sounded from downstairs, telling them to get their asses downstairs, slowly coming up to get them.
Rick pulled Zoe out into the hallway and into the doorway of another room, the man pushing the girl behind him as they slowly walked backwards again to make no noise, hearing the bouncing ball become even louder as the man walked up the stairs.