"Talk"

'Thoughts'

Dreams

Chapter Four: Some Lines You Just Shouldn't Cross

(So I couldn't find this episode to watch to help me out once again so I'm literally doing this by memory. So if I forget something that you guys deem important please let me know by at least 10 tomorrow night so I can add it into the story. Also because I'm doing this from memory please go easy on me with this chapter. Also if you guys know of a site beside AMC that I can watch these one after Sundays please let me know 'cause that'll help me a lot.)

Daryl's POV:

"Daryl we're completely surrounded! We need to find a way out and soon!" Michonne yelled as walkers kept attacking the car. They were coming from all sides and I knew there was a lot more that we had yet to see.

I looked around and looked up at the sun roof and got an idea, a crazy idea, but it was still an idea. I looked over at Michonne and nodded at the door then looked at the others in the back. "We're going to have to make a run for it. Kill the ones close to you and keep running that way and don't stop for anything." I told them and they nodded and got ready to open doors. I opened the sun roof and got ready to climb out that way. "Ready... Now!" I yelled and we began to get out of the car and fight our way to the woods.

I got off the roof of the car and followed Michonne and Bob to the woods and we turned to see that Tyresse was surrounded and there was nothing we could do. "Come on." I said a little sadly and we took off as walkers came after us.

We ran for a while until we stopped to take a breath and heard something in the bushes. We got into a defensive stance and stood down when Tyresse came through them. Michonne and I helped him up and we took off again before the walkers could find us.

We began to walk when it was apparent we had lost the walkers and Tyresse looked at us. "We lost an entire day because of that." he said and I looked at him.

"We'll find medicine and get it back to the others in time." I said sternly and he just looked at me. 'We just have to...' I thought and looked up when we came to a gas station. We looked around and jumped back when walkers began to try and get to us but they were stuck in the thick bushes. We went about killing them and I looked at them in disgust.

"Douchebags must've offed themselves then turned." I said and Bob looked at me.

"Are they Douchebags for killing themselves, or was it mercy-killing?" he asked and I looked at him. Instead of answering I walked over to Michonne to talk to her.

"You should give up on finding them." I said and she looked at me in shock.

"How can you say that after everything they've done?!" she asked and I flinched at the memory of what Justin and Glenn told us, well, what they wanted to tell anyways.

"Do you really think I don't remember what they've done? James turned my best friend into a lab rat and let Merle..." I stopped myself from revealing Justin's secret with a shake of my head and looked at her. "Let Merle torture him then the Governor let Merle torture Glenn and Em. They're family and I want nothing more than to see their heads on a silver platter for what they've done, but the trail's been cold for months now. If they were going to show up again they would've by now." I said and she sighed.

"Stay with us Mich. We want you to. Quite searching for them and make your roots with us at the prison." I said and she looked at me. She was about to answer when Ty called to us.

"Hey, I found a car over here!" he said and we walked over and saw that he had found a minivan. I got in it and tried to hot-wire it but it was useless.

"The battery needs more fuel." I said and told them to get to work on finding something.

(ok, so, I'm not a car person so don't give me shit if I mess up on what Daryl does to the van. I just know he put a liquid into the battery or whatever and went to hot-wire it and it started so that's how this scene's going down lol)

After a while Bob came up to me with a bottle and I got to work fixing the car. He watched me in silence for a while before he broke it.

"I never thought I'd be with another group." he said and I looked at him to let him know I was listening and went back to the van. "I've been in two of them and in both I end up being the last man standing. When I would be on my own I would drink just to fill the quiet. Honestly when you stopped that day I almost kept walking." he said and I kept silent as he confessed.

"Why didn't you?" I asked and he sighed.

"Because I didn't want to have to go through that pain again." he said and I just looked at him. "In the Big Spot I was going to take a bottle, you know, to be ready for the quiet, but I stopped myself and put it back. I sat it down so hard the whole shelf fell. That's what brought the walkers to us, that's what got Zach killed." he said and I stopped and glared at him.

"That's bullshit." I said and he just looked at me. "Go start the engine for me." I said and he sighed but got up and started it and I smiled when it turned on. I whistled for the others to come and walked over to the drivers seat as Bob shut the door. "You won't need that alcohol anymore, you're not alone." I said and patted his shoulder and walked around to get in the front seat and he took off once we were all in.

Glenn's POV:

"God Hersh, I feel like shit." I told him as he gently whipped the sweat off my brow. "What are you doing in here anyways? It's not safe for you in here." I told him and I knew he was smiling under the bandanna.

"I'll you what I told Maggie and Rick, II'm in here to try and help as many of you as I can to feel better. The tea I just had you and Sunshine drink is one my wife would make to help with the fever whenever we got the flu. I figured it would help now even if a little." he said and I nodded at him and sighed and leaned my head on the rail behind me.

"It figures I make it this far only to be taken out by a damn bug." I said and Hershel glared at me.

"Shut the fuck up Glenn." Justin said speaking Hershel's own thoughts. We looked over at him and watched as he slowly made his way over to us. He didn't look any better than me. His face was deathly pale and sweat was running down every part of his body and he had bags under his eyes and his breathing was a little labored.

"You're strong Glenn, you can fight this. Rick said that Dar went to find medicine and he'll be back in time to help you and everyone else in here. You won't lose to this thing." he said and I looked at him with a sigh before giving him a small smile.

"You're right Sunshine, Dar will come back in time and they'll save all of us in here." I said completely missing Justin's flinch when I said all of us.

I may have missed it, but Hershel didn't.

Hershel gave Justin a weird look, which I also missed since it was to quick to see, before looking back at me and sighed him self and placed a hand on my shoulder. "You two keep an eye on each other." he said and we nodded together as Justin slowly sat beside me and I laid my head on his shoulder as we watched Hershel leave.

"How do you think this even started?" I asked Justin and he sighed and I felt him shake his head.

"I don't know, let's try to get some sleep though." he said and I nodded and let myself fall into a restless sleep.

Rick's POV:

I kept my eyes straight ahead as I drove. Carol was in the front seat and neither of us were talking. "I was trying to save lives." she finally said but I ignored her. "Someone had to." she said and I looked at her.

"Maybe." I said not convinced at all.

The trip went silent again until we came to a neighborhood. I parked the car and we went about trying to find anything that would be useful. We came to a house and started looking around when a walker tripped from upstairs and I pulled Carol away before it reached the bottom. Once it stopped she crawled over and stabbed it in the head.

I just watched her then looked up aiming my gun when we heard a door open upstairs. A door opened and two people came out. We stared at them in shock before I slowly lowered my gun and told them to come down.

"Who are you two?" I asked and the guy moved forward.

"I'm Sam and this is Ana. We hid in here when we got separated from our other group." he said and I nodded at him.

"What happened to you two?" I asked and Sam pointed to his shoulder.

"I dislocated it while running from those things and she broke her leg a while back before this started and it didn't heal right. I found her and we've been together since." he said and I nodded and looked at Carol.

"Fix that for him." I told her and she nodded and walked up to him.

"Just hold this and relax." she told him and he nodded and did as she told him. He yelled in pain when he held the weight of the bag with his hurt hand and as Carol slowly moved it back into place. There was a loud pop and Sam took a deep break and moved his arm around as he sat back up.

"Thanks, it feels better now." he said smiling at Carol.

"It's going to be sore for a while so keep this there and don't put to much pressure on it." she told him and I just stared at her.

He nodded and looked at me. "So, you have a group close by?"

I looked at Carol then back at him and sighed. "How many walkers have you killed?"

Daryl's POV:

"About damn time we got here!" Michonne said and I smirked to myself. Once Bob parked the van we all got out and went about looking for a way in. We found an entrance and walked until I turned to them.

"Let's split up from here. Ty, you and Bob go that way and Michonne come with me. We'll meet up in that room in ten minutes." I said and they all nodded and we went about looking for things.

"Take whatever can be used for flu, headaches, fevers, nausea, anything like that. Any of it could be useful." Michonne said and I nodded and went about taking the bottles and boxes of medicine we needed.

"Make sure you get as much as you can in your bag. We don't know if this'll work and if it does we don't know how much medicine it'll take to leave the body and we don't know how long it'll stay in the prison once we start to cure it." I told her and she nodded at me. We each took a couple more things of medicine when we heard groaning. We turned and saw walkers coming into the room.

"Oh shit." I said and got my crossbow ready when the door opened and blocked my view.

"Don't shoot them! They died like those in the prison! You shoot them and we'll get infected!" Ty yelled and I yelled in frustration.

"We got them coming this way too! How the fuck do we get out of here!" I yelled and Michonne kicked in a door and we killed the walkers in it and ran through it and climbed threw a window and onto the roof.

Bob tripped and nearly fell but caught himself but his bag was now dangling within the reach of the walkers under us.

"Let go Bob! We have enough still, don't die for that bag!" I yelled yet he didn't let go. I walked up to him and pulled on his back and yanked him up. He was lucky enough to bring the bag with him though it made a weird clanking noise. I looked at him confused then slowly picked up his bag and opened it only to see red when I pulled out alcohol.

"You mean to tell me that instead of getting medicine for our people you got your sorry ass alcohol!" I yelled looking back up at him.

He looked down looking a little guilty. "I wanted it for when it became quiet again." he said barely above a whisper. I dropped the bag and walked up to him and got right in his face ready to throw him off the roof.

"Dar, come on, we don't have time to deal with him. Let's get this back to the group and then we'll deal with him." Michonne said and I stared at him before lifting the bottle and pointing at him with it.

"If those people die and I find out you took one sip of this. I'll kill you." I threatened and he just stared at me. "My best friend is with those people and so is more of my family. I lose them and no one will keep me from killing you in the most painful way possible." I threatened one more time but he just continued to stare.

I pushed him away and turned around and followed Michonne and Ty back to the van with Bob behind us.

Rick's POV:

"I told you we shouldn't have let them go. Ana's died and Sam's not back yet." I told Carol as I paced around the kitchen. She stared at me then spoke.

"Rick, it's been two hours already. We need to leave." she said and I stopped and stared at her.

"You wouldn't have left them before." I said and she sighed.

"I killed two people Rick, you need to accept that." she said and I shook my head.

"Karen and David didn't have to die." I said and she sighed.

"I did it to try and stop the virus." she said.

"We don't know if that helped or not. Dar took people to get medicine and should be back soon. If the medicine works Karen and David died for nothing." I told her.

"Rick, they could've spread the infection had I kept them alive. I did it to protect the rest of us. You've killed before." she said and I nodded.

"Yeah, but they were going to kill me first and I've never killed one of us." I said and she smiled softly and leaned forward.

"You did once." she said and I nodded and looked away.

"He was going to kill me." I said and she nodded.

"So were they. They were going to kill us." she said and I shook my head.

"You don't know that." I said and she sighed.

"You're right, do you want to know who I think is the actual cause of this?" she asked and I turned to face her completely. "I think it's Justin." she said and I saw red then.

"The fuck did you just say?!" I asked and took a step to her.

"Think about it Rick. Justin's the only one of us immune to the bite and scratch. Say he started to get sick with the flu and didn't tell us or didn't even notice it until it was to late. Now, because he's been bitten and scratched a lot that might mean this virus or whatever it is that turns us into walkers merged with the virus and spread to the rest of us who aren't immune to the virus. Justin might be the reason for this bug Rick, and if that's the case it might be best to kill him. Don't get me wrong, I love Justin, but we need to think of the whole group not just him. He's already sick Rick, if we kill him now it might stop it from spreading." she said and by the time she was done I was standing right in front of her.

Not caring that she used to be abused or that she was a woman, I pulled my hand back and slapped her across the face. The force of the slap made her turn her head to the side and when she looked back at me holding her cheek her eyes were wide in shock.

I did nothing but shake in anger in front of her before I turned and left the room before I hurt her again.

'How the fuck could she even think that?! Justin's not the cause of this virus, he's not! She's lucky it was only me here, if Bri was here I don't think I'd be able to stop him from attacking her.' I thought and walked outside to the car with her following behind me slowly.

She helped me pack up and went to get into the car but I stopped her. She looked at me confused before understanding entered her eyes and she shook her head.

"Rick you can't be serious." she said and I sighed.

"You're not the same Carol I knew and loved. You've change and not for the better. I don't think it's safe for you to come back with me. If Ty were to find out he'd kill you. You have gotten strong Carol and you'll find a group that'll accept you and doesn't know about any of this. I really do hate to do this, but I can't let you come back with me." I told her and and she began to cry.

"It's still me Rick." she said and I sighed and just looked at her. She nodded and looked away. "I'm not leaving without Lizzie and Mika." she said and I sighed.

"Lizzie's sick Carol. And it wouldn't be fair to those little girls to put them back on the road running until you find a safe place. They stay at the prison." I said and she nodded and looked at the ground. "I also don't know why you want to blame Justin for this, but I can't forgive you for that. You know I look at him as another son." I said and she nodded but kept her head down.

I hot-wired a car for her and helped her pack it up and gave her some gas before closing the trunk. She turned and looked at me. "You take care of the others Rick. You're a great leader. Tell them all I said good-bye and that I love them and I'll be thinking of them. I'll miss all of you." she said and I nodded. She smiled at me and got into the car and I watched her drive away from me, from the group.

I sighed and got into my own car and started for the prison with what I had found. As I drove I looked over to the front seat and sighed then looked back at the road.

'I'll miss you two Carol.' I thought to myself with a sad smile.