PRIVATE CHAT-027
TWO DAYS LATER
"Carl, come here," Glenn called towards the boy as he handed him a box of bullets "You stash these at the loading dock. All right? Take Violet. Beth, Kelly, put more up on the catwalk. If anyone gets pinned down we need to make sure that they have plenty of ammo. I'll go work on the cage outside."
Merle stepped forwards. "What we should be doing is loading some of the firepower in a truck and paying a visit to the Governor and his sister. We know where he is right now."
"Are you suggesting that we just go in and kill him?" Glenn asked, looking at Merle.
"Yeah, I am," Merle said, leading on the wall.
"We told Rick, Matilda, and Daryl that we'd stay put," Lola said,
"I've changed my mind, sweetheart. Being on the sideline with my brother out there ain't sitting right with me." Merle said, looking at the dark skinned girl.
"The three of them are right in the middle of it. No idea we're coming. They could get taken hostage or killed." Lola said, standing next to Michonne.
"A thousand things could go wrong," Glenn added, walking towards the door with Carl and Violet behind him.
"And they will," Merle said.
Carl turned to look at that man. "My dad can take care of himself."
"Sorry, son, but your dad's head could be on a pike real soon," Merle scoffed.
"Don't say that to him," Maggie said, ushering Lee towards her.
"It's not the right move. Not now. Can't take the risk of putting them in the crossfire. That's my decision. It's final." Glenn ordered, walking out of the cellblock.
"You're a real asshole, you know," Lola said, cleaning her gun.
***
Matilda sat with Herself in the van when the four of them got the farm The Governor agreed to talk with her father. They pulled next to Daryl, who had came back.
"He's already in there." The redneck said. "Sat down with Rick."
"Is Maria in there?" Matilda asked her redneck.
Daryl shook his head as he looked around. "Nah, didn't see her."
"I don't see any cars." Hershel said, sticking his head out the window.
"It don't feel right." Daryl looked around with uneasy feeling. "Keep it running."
Suddenly a car came towards them from the junkyard across the street. Daryl aimed his bow at it, while Hershel and Matilda climbed out of the car. They raised their weapons.
The three people climbed out of their car as Daryl spoke. "What the hell? Why's your boy already in there?
"He's here?" Andrea exclaimed in confusion.
"Yep." The redneck nodded as Andrea went inside the barn.
"Maybe I should go inside." Hershel suggested.
Matilda lent against car behind the elderly man, her eyes squirted from the sun as a man with glasses spoke.
"The Governor thought it best if he and Rick spoke privately."
"And who are you, poindexter?" Matilda asked, furrowing her brows.
"Milton Mamet." Milton answered before going back to his notes.
"Great. He brought his butler." Daryl said sarcastically making Tilly chuckled.
Milton didn't spare the three a glance. "I'm his advisor."
Daryl looked at him. "What kind of advice?"
"Planning. Biters. Uh, you know, I'm sorry. I don't feel like I need to explained myself to the henchmen." Milton said, rudely.
Matilda scoffed as his redneck shook his head. "You better watch your mouth, sunshine."
"Look, if you and I are gonna be out here pointing guns at each other all day, do me a favor, shut your mouth." Martinez said making Daryl come face to face with him.
Hershel and Matilda straight up, the dark haired girl came out from behind the elderly man. She kept her eyes on the two men chest to chest as Hershel spoke.
"We don't need this. If all goes south in there, we'll be at each throat's soon enough."
Martinez had a irritating smirk on his face as Daryl moved away from him.
***
Lola watched with Maggie as the older Dixon decided to take matters into his own hand and start to fill a backpack up with supplies.
The main block door opened and shut when Glenn came back into the the cellblock.
"Hey, you're not going." The Korean man shook his head.
"I don't need permission." Merle said, trying to a rifle in the bag.
Glenn made eyes contact with Lola and Maggie. "I can't let you."
Merle scoffed. "You can't stop me."
"If you're gonna live here with us, it's gonna be on our terms." Maggie spoke up. "If Michonne can do it, why can't you?"
"Cause it's my brother out there, that's why. What's the matter with y'all?" Merle shouted, before walking up the stairs standing face to face with Glenn.
"I'm not gonna let you put them in danger." Glenn sneered.
Merle gritted his teeth. "But up already, boy. This guy cops a feel of your woman and you pussy out like this? Get out of my way."
"No." The dark haired man growled, standing his ground.
Lola watched as the older Dixon grabbed her friend by the shirt before Glenn gets him a head lock. The boys rolled down the stairs, landing at the bottom with Merle on top of the younger boy.
Maggie instantly throw herself on the old man's back, wrapping her arm around his neck. "Get off!"
Lola and Michonne held back his knifed hand as a gunshot echoed though the room. Beth was standing behind with a gun in the air.
"Let me go! Let me go!" The old bastard shouted, thrusting out of the women's arms.
***
"There's no reason not to use this time we have together to explore the issues ourselves." Milton said, standing in the middle of the street.
"Boss said to sit tight and shut up." Martinez reminded the man with the glasses.
Matilda was sitting on the hood of their car as she spoke. "Where is your mastermind? Where's she at?"
Martinez chucked. "Nobody calls her that. And she's at Woodbury."
"It's a good thing they're sitting down, especially after what happened." Milton said ignoring the dark haired woman. "They're gonna work it out. Nobody wants another battle."
"I wouldn't exactly call it a battle." Daryl said.
"I would call it a battle and I did." Milton defended himself. "I recorded it."
"For what?" Matilda asked.
Milton hold up his notebook. "Somebody's got to keep a record of what we're gone through. It'll be part of our history."
"That makes sense." Hershel agreed.
Milton stepped closer to the elderly man, which made Matilda stiffen. She watched the man with the glasses like a hawk in case the nerd did everything.
"I've got a dozens of interviews—" The nerd man said before loud Walker snarls came from behind them.
Daryl motioned towards his girl and Hershel to stay as he, Andrea, Martinez went to deal with the walkers.
Hershel asked the nerd man to read his notebook, while they waited for Daryl and the others to come back. Matilda sat in the ground in front of the two men, leaning against her arms.
"May I ask how you lost your leg?" Milton broke the silence.
"I was bit." Hershel answered, truthfully.
Milton scrunched up his face. "So you cut off your leg to keep the infection from spreading? Interesting. How long after the initial bite?"
"Immediately."
"You didn't bleed out?"
Matilda squinted her eyes from the sun. "We have good people. They took care of him."
"Doctors?" Milton asked.
Hershel shook his head. "No. We learned by trial and error."
"Me, too." Milton nodded before asking his long awaited question. "May I see it? Your stump. I'd like to, um, ahem, see where the amputation was. How high above the bite."
"I'm not showing you my leg." Hershel said, looking at the man."
"It's important data." Milton tried to persuade the elderly man.
Matilda snorted as Hershel joked. "I just met you. At least buy me a drink first."
***
"So, I met this Governor." Rick spoke when the four of them got back to the prison. "Sat with him for quite a while."
"Just the two of you?" Merle pipped in.
Matilda's father nodded. "Yeah."
"Should have gone when we had the chance, bro." The older Dixon sighed.
"He wants the prison. He wants us home. Dead. He wants us dead. For what we did to Woodbury. We're going to war." Rick explained before he walked out of the cell block.
The group looked at each other before they disbanded. Max and Matilda followed Daryl up to the perch, the dark haired woman walking into her cell to retrieve her sister.
This was their home. They worked hard getting, now they have to work twice as harder to keep it.
***
MAX HARPER
THE MUTE AND KICKASS
(Jackson Robert Scott)
MARIA BLAKE
THE VIOLENT AND MONSTER
(Rachel Weisz)