[Rough Draft] Keres : The Walking Dead

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I wake up the next morning to Carol making tea. I look out the window and see Lizzie playing with a walker. I rush out and Carol follows.

She yells at Lizzie to get away from the walker and Lizzie tries to stop her. I move past her and stab the walker in the head and it dies. Carol huffs as I get up and look at her with a raised brow.

"How you gonna handle this?" I scoff and walk away.

I can hear Lizzie screaming at Carol from inside and I just sip my tea and watch from the window. A few minutes later Carol looks over at me.

They come back inside and I can tell Carol is stressed.

"She thinks the walkers are her friends." Carol finally admits.

"Yeah, Mika told me. Now you know why I don't want her alone with Judith." I say and Tyreese just stands there.

"I wouldn't trust you alone with Judith either." Carol counters and I chuckle.

"Why do you think I had Tyreese take her?" I ask and Tyreese just looks at the ground.

"I'm gonna go foraging with Mika ." Carol says but brings a shot gun with.

"You good here?" I ask.

"Can I talk to you a minute?" Tyreese asks and I huff.

"Yeah. What's up?" I ask.

"I think you're right about Lizzie. I don't trust her alone with Judith either." He says and I nod my head.

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Carol and Mika get back from 'foraging' but are empty handed. Mika couldn't do it. She couldn't kill.

Tyreese and Carol go outside to pump water and I go upstairs to watch Judith. I look out the window from upstairs and see Mika following Lizzie. They turn a corner and I can't see them.

"God damnit." I growl and close and lock the door to the room Judith is in and open the window.

I crawl out and close the window again. I jump down from the roof and hear screaming. A bunch of walkers are coming towards the house and Mika trips on the fence. I run and kill the walker after her and get her free. She runs and I take out my knife and start going through all the walkers. Lizzie shoots her gun and hits me in the arm.

"Fuck." I growl and tear my shirt sleeve open.

I cut my arm by the wound and get the bullet out.

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to." Lizzie apologizes but I can tell it's a lie.

We get back to the house and I go inside and pick the lock on Judith's door and have Tyreese take her.

"You need to get that cleaned up." Carol says and I glare at her.

I head into the bathroom and take my shirt off. I start disinfecting the wound and then cleaning up the blood. Luckily it was a shit shot, so it didn't hit any arteries.

"Are you gonna be okay?" Mika asks sounding worried as she stands in the doorway.

"Yeah, I'll be fine." I assure her as I stitch the wound up with my left hand and mouth.

"You've done this a lot huh?" She asks and I know she sees my scars.

"Yeah. Got hurt a lot as a kid." I lie.

"Did your brother get hurt a lot too?" She asks and I huff.

"Yeah. He did." I admit.

"Everyone was always afraid of you at the prison. But I wasn't." She states and I scoff.