Alone Again - TWDG/TWD

Arc 4: Chapter 14

"Ugh, this is disgusting." I swallow hard trying not to throw up. I begin smearing the foul smelling, decaying brain matter across my body.

"C'mon! We gotta get everyone together!" A familiar woman, I think who's named Maggie shouts running past me.

"M-Maggie!" I shout.

"Who said that?" She looks around.

"Down here!" I wave my arms in the air.

"Clem get over here and why is that all over you?" She says repulsively.

"It disguises you, the walkers can't tell you from one of them." I say.

I run to her but a walker grabs me and tackles me to the floor. Maggie helps me by killing the walker and pulling me off of the ground.

"Wait! My hat!" I point to it like a little kid.

"Forget about it! We gotta move!" She runs with me through the herd.

"Hey, let me see your knife for a second." I say holding my hand out. She places it in the palm of my hand and observes what I'm doing.

I quickly stab a walker in the forehead and watch it fall to the ground. I get on my knees and cut it open. My fingers dig through its cold, rotting intestines and grab something that's really long. I gag at the sight and smell before I smear it on Maggie.

I feel her tense up as I rub what ever organ this is on her body.

"This is disgusting." she says.

"I know, just stay quiet and lets get out of here." I say.

"Oh, here's your knife." I add giving it back to her.

"Help!" A woman screams.

"That's Lori!" Maggie panics.

"We'll find her, just keep quiet and stay with me." I say.

"Oh god oh god oh god!" Lori screams.

"We're close." I say to Maggie.

We push past a few more zombies.

"Lori!" Maggie yelps at the sight of her.

Lori holds her lower arm, blood drips out of it. Her face is ghost white.

"She's been bit." I say.

"What?" Maggie turns her head towards me.

"She's bit, she isn't going to make it." I say.

"How do you know!" She snaps at me.

"I know what happens, I've seen it before! If you get bit then you die!" I snap back.

"I can't die, Carl needs his mom." Lori begs.

"Unless we took her arm off." I add.

"What?! N-no!" Lori panics.

"It's the only way to keep you alive!" I shout.

"C'mon we gotta get out of here." Maggie grabs Lori's hand and runs through the walkers. I drag behind.

I see a axe resting on a stump of wood. I quickly run to it and grab it.

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We escape the farm and are walking down the dirt path I took to get here a few days ago.

"Guys look, I have an axe. We can just... do this now." I say.

"I-I... uh.." Lori begins to panic again.

"Do you want to be here for Carl!?" Maggie shouts grabbing her shoulders and shaking her.

"Yes!" She starts to cry.

"Then we need to do this now!" Maggie continues to shout.

Lori nods her head and wipes a tear from her face.

Maggie pulls off her belt and tightly wraps it around her upper arm.

"You gotta cut above her elbow since we waited so long." I say.

"Lori lay flat on your back and close your eyes... this is going to hurt a lot." Maggie says.

"It's going to be okay, my friend Lee had to cut his arm off too." I say.

"And did he make it?" She asks.

"... No." I say sadly.

"Here we go..."

"OH GOD!" Lori screams in fear.

"3..." Maggie counts down.

"2..."

"DON'T DO THIS!" She cries.

"1..."

Maggie sends the axe down as hard as she can onto Lori's arm.

Her screams of pain are so loud it hurts my ears.

Blood spews everywhere, some splashes onto my face.

Maggie gives one final chop and the arm comes off.