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𝖢𝗁𝖺𝗉𝗍𝖾𝗋 𝖥𝗈𝗎𝗋 — 𝖤𝗌𝖼𝖺𝗉𝖾 𝖯𝗅𝖺𝗇.

𝖪𝖺𝗍𝖺𝗋𝖺 𝖦𝗋𝖾𝖾𝗇𝖾.

"She's not serious, She's bluffing and you all know it" Andrea said to her group while her head was turned towards the woman with the weapon in her hand.

Theodore was leaning against the wall, twirling the dagger between his fingers skillfully, "The safety is off the gun" he pointed out, looking between everyone and then Katara.

"Do I have to fire a warning shot and jeopardize everyone's life, including my own so you could place that gun down, Andrea?" She pressed the tip of her gun further into the boys temple watching the young asian man squirm underneath her gun.

He could've easily gained the upper hand but he was scrawny and weirdly submissive. She could only hope that he grown out of the habits before in the near future.

When Andrea finally moved her gun from Ricks face, she lifted the gun upwards and off of Glenn putting the safety back onto the gun. And placing back on her holster.

"If it means anything, I would've made it quick" she allowed a grin to rise on her lips before following besides Theodore who was following the group head with was pushing Rick forward.

As long as they didn't have a weapon pointed in his face threatening his life, she was a okay.

"You were joking right? About shooting Glenn if things with Rick went to shit" Theo asked.

Katara head turned towards him before looking forward again, sliding her hands into her pockets. "So you think if they shot Rick, the boy was going to live?" She watched his mouth open but no words seemed to exit.

"Right."

"Look we came to the city to scavenge supplies. You know what the key to scavenging is? Surviving! You know the key surviving? Sneaking in and out, tiptoeing. Not shooting up the steeets like it's the o.k. corral" Morales spoke being upset of course.

all of them had now come to a stop, seeing how many walkers it actually is surrounding the front of the place.

"Shit" a whisper came from the mouth of the Greene girl.

"Every geek for miles around heard you popping off rounds." T-dog cut in after Morales told them the real of it.

"You just rang the dinner bell" Andrea watched the walkers hit against the glass, the glass cracking and somewhat breaking.

"Get the picture now?"

"If any one of you were in our place, walkers surrounding you, snapping their jaws and trying to scratch at you, rounds out of fright would've been shot. They were too close to try and stab them with a dagger. All of us in that matter" Katara defended the tree, she hated feeling like a scolded child.

Her parents weren't there to do it, so why would she allow these people to do it now.

"It's no time to get all emotional and point fingers about what's hypocritical or not princess." Andrea once again, spoke to her.

Does the girl really have to wave a gun in her face for her to understand that, leaving her alone is probably the key to her surviving all of this shit?

"You know what. What's your issue? Everything I seem to say, you look back at me, or you give the ugly expressions." Katara wanted to address this issue before her anger issues boiled over and took control of a situation.

She didn't want to harm her, but it was leading up to that point, she was utterly annoying.

"You coming here throwing big shots, like your in charge but I have news for you sweetheart, your not" Andrea stepped towards her.

"Would you have wanted me pointing a gun at you, all you could have did was ask"

Rick had grasped Katara's arm and pulled her away from the situation, away from the people leaving Theodore to talk with the group on why they were actually out there.

"You need to calm it down. First it was the gun and now your acting like a child" Rick whispered yelled at her and her eyebrows pinched in at what he was saying.

"A child? They were going to shoot you." Katara fought back with her words stepping forward into his space, "Then this whole mission wouldn't have meant shit, what were we going to tell your wife and son, that you died under my watch? I refuse"

"If they would've shot me, it would've only killed us all, I thought you were smart about this. You even said it yourself that if you shot Glenn; you were going to jeopardize everyone" Rick looked at her.

As always the man was right, in his eyes she could always be wrong, because in most situations she is but she did expect a little more out of him, maybe a thank you for helping him out of that situation.

Before she could yet again argue back, gunshots were fired from upstairs maybe, the roof. All of there heads lifted and scanned the ceiling as if they could see the roof from up their. "Is that Dixon?" One of them asked.

Dixon? Who the fuck is that? Probably a nut case. If he's shooting rounds around like an idiot, while walkers are surrounding this place, definitely a nut job.

Rick had given the girl a single glance before following the crew up the stairs beside her brother and her hands went onto her hips. She didn't notice herself that her actions were a bit crazy but she only tried to help, look where helping people gets you huh.

Her gaze fell onto the walkers hitting at the glass groaning, hunger filling their deceased faces as they do it. After a few more moments she ran towards the door and up the stairs they they disappeared into it.

When she finally got through the door she had seen T-dog and a hippie who she'd say was Dixon was arguing. About what? She could guess it was about the rounds he shot, which led to the attraction of more walkers.

One thing led to another, mostly because Dixon said a racist comment and a fight broke out, causing a ruckus between them all. A sigh came from her lips watching t-dog get his ass brutally whipped. He was a big man, only shows that the saying is absolutely true.

The bigger you are, the harder you fall.

When she saw Rick talking to Glenn, she knew it was about him not getting in it, because Rick had a thing where he tries to play savior in situations that doesn't need it.

"Rick, just stay out-" she watched Rick lunge forward cutting her off, just to get punched in his face and the man practically flew.

Her mouth was currently hanging opening out of shock, she didn't know whether to check on him, or to laugh. Probably check on him was the best thing but hey, he did it to himself so the resistance of laughter took over the look of her face.

She put the back of her hand over her mouth as she shook her head feeling her body shake due to the silent laughter moment she was having.

Then Theo had to play superhero too and jump in after Morales had gotten punched in his gut. The boy landed two punches on Dixons face before the man gained the upper hand and punched the absolute shit out of her brother.

Knocking him directly off of his footing.

Dixon pounced directly on t-dog after he just hit everyone like a maniac, beating him senseless before standing onto his feet. Declaring respect and forcing his offer on all the people of the group.

She had let out a quiet sigh as she unbuckled the belt on her jeans quietly, the man hadn't seen her run up with the rest so her presence was known in the moment. When she slid her belt through the loop she wrapped it around her knuckles.

"Woman has to do everything it looks like" she mumbled as she tucked the end of the belt within the wrap she made and tied her hair back with a hair hand she had collected on the runs she did back with Morgan.

With that, she ran at the man from behind letting out a dramatic war cry only to signal that she was coming so he could turn around. And when he did, she had jumped up slightly tackling him right onto the ground, the impact for her was just fine, for him, not so much.

Groans and laughs came from his mouth when they landed, "Oh lookie here, little girl wanted a piece of Dixon." His cold eyes finally opened and made eye contact with her, adjusting his hips under her like a perv. "All you had to do was ask" he licked his lips.

She lifted her arm and drove it down to connect with his face, directly with his nose to be exact. The belt had an impact, especially because it was a leather belt with silver holes inbetween them.

Her belt wrapped first kept pounding down onto his face, blood gushing out of his nose and cuts starting to open on the bridge of his nose because of how hard the and quick her fist was coming down. She had a heavy hand.

"Katara enough!" The yells was distinct as if they weren't very close, the red on his face was dark, almost ruby red.

A paint brush was in her hand again, the entire brush coated with paint. And she was in her basement again, flicking the brush against the canvas  just to express herself about something.

Whether it was about Josh, School, or even an argument with her dad, she was in her safe place again. One with the paint.

But she was taken from her safe place again when she felt arms wrap around her body and pull her back. Restraining her as if she was a crazy woman in a psych ward.

"I was safe" Katara said being quite winded from all the hitting and thoughts that was running through her mind.

"I know" Theo said to her as he held her, glancing at her wrapped fist that was currently bloody due to the amount of times she hit him. "I know Tara" he rubbed her arm.

Rick looked over at Katara and watching how Theodore had her pinned, while he hand cuffed merl to the bar that he hit t-dog against.

She had issues mentally of course, due to her trauma and the toll of this apocalypse that was going on. But it never stopped Theodore from looking at her differently, he loved his sister either way.

"I need someone to stay up here with her, inside she'll feel closed in. Unsafe." Theodore told them looking at the group before them.

"I'll stay with her" T-dog said with a nod as he was wiping the blood from his face.

"I don't need any babysitter" she claimed.

"No you don't, but you don't need to go inside and accidentally do something you'll regret. You need fresh air" The boy behind her spoke once again unwrapping her hand of the belt. While listening to Rick place Merl in his place the way someone in this group been should've.

"Don't worry, we'll take good care of her officer" Merl spoke up while looking at the girl who was regathering her thoughts and emotions as of now. His hips thrusting up into the air in a sexual way, showing his true intentions of what he wants from and with her.

Rick hit the handle of his gun against his head, "You touch her, you look her way, you even think about putting that limp dick of yours inside of her, I will shoot you" It was more of a promise then a threat.

Merl groaned using his other hand to hold the side of his head, he was a whiny little bitch.

"Go. And be safe" Katara stood up with the help of Theo and walked towards Rick who met her half way.

"Just tell me if-"

"Go" she patted Ricks cheeks before kissing Theodore's watching the two follow Glenn when he waved his hand over towards them, signaling them to follow him.

Merl had watched the group leave, leaving t-dog and the Greene girl out here. "Your one of those crazy girls from the movies aye?" Merl sparked up a conversation.

"Leave her alone man, she's young and obviously does not like you" he grabbed the binoculars finally getting the bleeding to stop.

"The ones that have those mental issues, I've always liked my girls a little hotheaded, crazy even" Merl adjusted himself just enough to sit up, his face cringing at moving and it simply being in pain.

Katara had met men like him thirsty for sex, attention, desperation for female attention. He stared at her for a moment before his eyes fell onto her legs, eye fucking her quite literally.

"Merl?" She strolled up to him slowly and the man watched her. Seeing his crotch part of his pants grow at the approach, the man was so horny that, he forgot that the woman beat his face in.

"Yes beautiful?" He watched her crouch down in front of him, his dick was throbbing in his pants, excited to see if she was going to please him the way he needed.

"Let me explain something to you" she grabbed her gun from the back side of her holster. And then proceeded to press it's tip against his dick that was pressed against his jeans.

"Woah..Hey now! Calm your tits" he tried to back away and against the bar but it only made the gun press in quite harder.

"I'm perfectly normal." No she wasn't, but she was the only person she allowed to say she was slightly off. Merl tried to be hard, being the true asshole he is.

"Perfectly normal? Your one insane-"

Click.

She presses the trigger but no bullet had come out, but he yelled, quite loud like the pussy he truly is. "Wait wait no!" His his thrashed around as if someone was torturing him, but his member had stood down quite quick.

"Say it" she demanded.

"I won't say sh-"

Click.

"Your perfectly normal!" Actual tears this time streamed down his face, pushing his cockiness and ego to the side for once in his life. "Normal, please don't shoot, please" he begged.

"Now was that so hard" she removed the gun from his fabric covered member and placed it back onto her holster. Dumbass didn't see the safety was on the gun, she placed it back on after the whole Glenn situation.

                                    ༺༻

All of them were now in a room, with rubber gloves on and long jackets on with a walkers body in front of them. They had a plan, that Rick and Glenn needed to get to a truck so they could successfully get out of this place.

And the way to get to the truck was, well using the inside of the walker corpse to cover Glenn and Rick as they go to retrieve a truck.

Rick was going in to slash his body with the axe, but then stopped himself as if he couldn't bring himself to do it. Removed the mask and dropped the axe going into the dead man's pockets and pulled out an wallet.

"Wayne Dunlap. Georgia License. Born in 1979." He handed the I.d. to Glenn who looked at it, actually reading it.

Sad how these people actual people before all of this, they had lives.

"He had twenty eight dollars in his pocket when he died ... and a picture of a pretty girl. With love from Rachel." He looked up. "He used to be like us, worrying about bills or the rent, or the Super Bowl." He looked down at the body.

Katara felt bad about his death but any one of them are bound to end up just like..him one day.

"If I ever find my family, I'm gonna tell them about Wayne." And with that he tucked his wallet back in his pocket and and grabbed the mask and the axe. Placing it back onto his face.

"One more thing" Glenn said looking at the group, eyes turning towards him.

"He was an organ donor" what was that supposed to make tearing his body up to pieces? Better? Katara didn't know.

Chop.

The axe swung down heavy on the walkers body, the dead smell circling around the room quick getting gags and head turns from almost everyone in the room.

"Oh fuck" Katara said while gagging, turning her body to the side.

"Jesus Christ" Theodore body turned instead of his head feeling the pressure of the sickness wanting to come up and out of his mouth.

"Don't you dare" Andrea pointed at Theodore and then Glenn had his hands on his knees.

"Me too man" he said.

When Katara looked towards Rick, he didn't have the gear anymore, Morales was even taking it off.

"Don't get any in your eyes or on your skin." Rick told them before all of them started digging in on the insides, plastering all over the jackets of Glenn and Rick.

"This is really bad..really really bad" Glenn said as he tried to resist throwing up.

"I know" Theodore eyes dramatically blinked.

"If I could work, then you can too" Katara pointed an organ at them with an eye roll.

The girl had an episode and almost shot the dick of Merl Dixon off..after beating his face in with a belt on her hand. They should be fine. Well not Glenn, boy had walkers guts all over his upper body.

"Think about something else, puppies and kittens" Rick said as they still plastered the guts all over him, Katara tossing the organ aside bending down to grab some more.

Oh how she was trying not to throw up her damn self at how bad they smelt.

"Dead puppies and kittens"

Boom, Glenn led the vomiting trail and then Theodore followed soon after, yuck.

"That is just evil, what's wrong with you?" Andrea eyes was looking at Glenn and then at Rick while trying to resist her damn self.

"Worse idea ever" Katara tilted her head to her shoulder and rested her nose their trying not to breathe from it, but when she took a wiff into her mouth another gag came from her.

Andrea had quickly moved her hair back watching the girl throw up in another spot. "There there"

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After removing those jackets and the gloves from there hands, the roof is where they all ran up too, where the lunatic was cuffed. They were looking for Glenn and Rick in the crowd of walkers, well Theo and the group.

Katara had her hands on her hips walking around quietly waiting for news..specifically bad news to fall out of the mouth of Morales. She had faith in Rick and Glenn, but something bad could always happen in just a split second you know? She just always had a bad feeling and the pit in her stomach made it no better.

"Base camp, this is T-dog. Anybody hear me? Can anybody out there hear me?" T-dog tried the radios, he said the one at the place where they said was all fucked up. So it'll be very heard to actually get a connection.

The rain was going to start soon by how the thunder in the air was rumbling together. Finally some fresh water they could have, it was so damn hot outside it wasn't funny.

Morales had finally spotted him, but then Merl had to say something to fuck up the moment, "That asshole is out on the street with the handcuff keys?" He asked looking at all of them, including herself for answers.

"Nope" she said looking towards the man who had then, T-dog, kinda glad he did give 'em to him. Showed how the world isn't just black and white anymore, also showed that anyone in this world could have just as much power as the other.

"Guess someone has to be nice to T-dog aye?"

"Shut up-" he caught himself before letting out a sigh turning his body away from them.

Katara let out a small laugh, seeing T-dog do the same thing, putting his first out to her, and she bumped her own fist with his.

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It was finally raining again..rain on her skin for the first time in months, one she needed it because it was very hot, and two the Georgia heat was never something to play with.

And Rick, Glenn and the truck was out of sight, the girl couldn't believe it, everyone but her, Theo and Morales had thought they left em.

"Rick isn't like that I swear he isn't" Katara claimed to the rest of the group as she looked around for a car..but nothing.

"We don't know how he is. We don't know him or you two" Andrea ran her hands through her wet hair.

Katara still didn't believe them, until they heard a loud ass car in distance with some kind of siren going off. "Those roll up doors at the front of the store facing the street. Meet us there and be ready" Glenn said on the radio.

"I told you" a laugh come from her lips before running towards her bag and grabbing it.

"Grimes always come through" Theodore patted Andrea's arm before following the group and his sister out of the door.

T-dog made the decision to try and help Dixon out of the cuffs, while all of them ran down the stairs and to the door he said to go too.

All of them grabbed a hold of the metal rope that controlled the roll up door, "I got it, I got it" Katara said to Morales who kept pressing her to grab a hold of it.

"Careful when you pull, grab too hard it's gonna hurt" Theodore said to her, all of there heads turning when T-dog came down the stairs, without Merl but no one questioned.

Katara head was down though hearing the loud alarms knowing it was Glenn, he was using the sound to lead it away from the door they were trying to exit from.

It was only a minute or so when they heard a bang on the door and Katara and the group had used their weight to pull the door up. By the metal rope that was provided for that.

"Let's go!" Andrea yelled and when the door finally opened, they quickly grabbed the bags being in a quick hurry.

Theodore had grabbed Katara by her hips and lifted her body placing her inside, along with Andrea before climbing in himself. While all of them was getting in the car still, Katara stood up and her way to the drivers seat.

She grabbed the jaw that belonged to Rick Grimes with her hand and made him look at her, "Don't scare me like that again alright?" she asked him. "Answer me" she shook his jaw slightly demanding for him to answer her back.

"Alright" his southern accent was thick and strong as always.

She looked at him before leaning in to kiss his lips, when the two pairs of lips connected the kiss.. it was a soft and sweet, along with short. Passion laced it sure but it wasn't anything deep and sex craving about it, just a welcome back kiss.

When she moved her head back, Katara settled in between Andrea and Theodore. "I'm in!" T-dog stated and Rick took no time to pull off.

Morales had closed the door after them and the head of the Greene girl went back on the walls of the truck. It was successful, getting out of that building was successful..

But everyone had started to look at one another, except for Katara cause she already knew Merl was left behind, and she knew T-dog wouldn't do such a thing on purpose. He hated the man's guts but he wouldn't leave him there purposely.

"I dropped the damn key." He said, guilt trailing every word that exited his mouth.

That made the brunette leaned forward and patted his hand, "Isn't your fault remember that." She watched him take her hand into his and hold it, and she held it back knowing it was what he needed right now.

"Where's Glenn?" Andrea asked the question that no one thought and a blink came from Theodore's eyes.

"Right..where is he?" Theodore looked at Rick.