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More than Survival

Stand Down

Morning

Jolene and Clementine left the cabin and continued on their search for hope. They got a few minutes into their walking and the sound of rustling and footsteps caught Jolene’s attention.

“Shh.” Jolene laid her index finger on her lips telling Clementine to stay quiet. She gently grabbed her shoulder and hid her behind a tree and Jolene hid beside the tree next to her. Now they could hear voices, the sound of two men walking and talking.

“Carl knows what’s going on. We sheltered him from it but he’s a smart kid.” A man with a police uniform was talking to the other man with a crossbow in hand. Jolene observed the two quietly, hoping they will just pass by and be gone.

The man with the crossbow stopped walking. He noticed footprints on the ground. “These are fresh. Someone was here, two of them by the looks of it.”

They both looked around, trying to see which way the footprints headed. Jolene’s heart raced as she looked at Clementine. She knew they were going to find them.

Another shuffle in the woods caught the two men’s attention and they looked the other way. Jolene poked her head out to see what was going on.

Four men appeared out of the woods with their shot guns in hand. The four men took notice to the two men and aimed their weapons to them. The officer and the man with the crossbow did the same. Both groups only several feet away from each other on guard, watching to see where the situation was headed.

Clementine slightly poked her head out and quickly brought her head back to hiding. She covered her mouth as if she was about to scream. Jolene looked to her scared that she would make a noise to draw attention but Clementine knew better. She didn’t make a sound.

“No need to aim your weapons fellas. We bring you no harm.” One of the men yelled out to the officer and the man with the crossbow. “We’re just lookin for a little girl is all. She got lost. You guys wouldn’t know anything about that would ya now?”

The two men knew by the looks of the four men that they were trouble. The officer nodded no as his gun stayed pointed at them.

“Okay. Well maybe we could talk. You guys holdin up anywhere? We have a camp, guys are more than welcome to come with. Food, water, girls, whatever you’re into, don’t matter us none.”

The two men stayed on guard trying to plot out their next move. They knew if they attacked they were outnumbered. It was two against four.

“Let’s go.” Jolene whispered to Clementine.

Clementine and Jolene slowly walked away. They tip toed slowly until the men were out of eye sight. Clementine then stopped walking and looked back.

“Why’d you stop? Let’s go.” Jolene urged her.

“They’re bad people, their looking for me.”

“I know, that’s why we’re leaving.” Jolene waved her arm, signaling her to keep walking.

“What about the other two guys? The police man and the other one. They need help?”

“They could be bad guys too, I’m not gonna risk it.”

“He’s a police officer. They’re the good guys. Those guys are going to kill them.”

“And they’ll kill us to if we help.” Jolene grabbed her arm and started walking.

Clementine looked down to the floor. She wanted to help the two men. She knew they were in trouble. Those four men were nothing but evil, that’s why she ran from them. Jolene looked down at her. She couldn’t stand to see a frown on her face.

Jolene groaned, giving in. “Stay behind the tree and don’t move. If things go bad just run straight to the cabin.” Jolene handed her the hunting knife and pulled out her gun. They slowly walked back to where the men were and Clementine hid behind the tree. Jolene hid as well then slightly poked out to see what was going on.

“Just turn back around and walk away.” The officer negotiated with the four men.

“The laws don’t apply anymore. Just because you wear that fancy outfit don’t mean shit now. I’m done talkin, let’s take what they got.” One of the men walked forward and cocked his gun.

Jolene prayed that she would be able to make the shot. She’s never used an actual gun. She’s done a lot of paint balling but nothing compares to the real thing. She aimed her gun and pulled the trigger.

*Boom*

The shot alarmed all the men and guns fired. Jolene pulled the trigger again. She shot two men. She didn’t kill them but one of the bullets went through a man’s chest and the other on a man's leg. It was enough to make them go down to make it a fair fight.

The officer and the man with the crossbow were clueless to where the gun shots came from but took advantage of it and took down the four men. After the dust settled the two men looked around and vaguely made out two figures running away from the scene.

Jolene and Clementine ran away from the commotion and back to the cabin. Three walkers were up ahead and Clementine hesitated to keep going forward. Jolene grabbed her arm and ran around the walkers. Jolene was running as fast as she could as she held on to Clementine’s arm, she was almost dragging her. Clementine tripped and fell on her knees. Jolene picked her up and held on to her. They could see the cabin up ahead and they ran inside. Jolene gently put her down and locked the cabin door.

“Go in the bedroom and hide. I’m going to keep a look out to make sure they didn’t follow.”

Clementine was shaken up, she didn’t want to hide alone.

“It’s okay. I won’t let anything happen to you remember.” She bent down to her level.

Clementine nodded and swallowed her fear as she slowly walked into the bedroom with the hunting knife in her small hands.

Jolene stood by the side of the window checking to see if she could spot anyone. She held on to the gun and tried to check how many bullets she had left. She was clueless when it came to guns and how they worked. As she tried to check she did not realize she had put the safety on.
After a while of waiting she went to check on Clementine. She walked into the room and she was nowhere in sight.

“Clementine?”

“Yes.” She lightly responded.

Jolene got down on one knee and looked under the bed. “You okay?”

“Um hum.” She mumbled.

“I am starving, how about you?”

“I could eat.” Clementine slowly rolled out from under the bed.

“Should be another can of beans…” Jolene stopped mid sentence as she heard the sound of someone trying to open the door.

Clementine quickly hid under the bed and Jolene slowly closed the bedroom door, trying to stay quiet. Jolene’s heart raced, palms started sweating with the gun in her hand. She wanted to hide but she stood three feet from the door waiting to shoot who was on the other side. She made a promise that she couldn’t break to Clementine, so running and hiding was no longer an option.

The person on the other side kicked open the door and Jolene stood there with her gun aimed at the two men.

“Get out.” She firmly warned them as she looked back and forth at them.

“We’re not here to hurt you.” The officer surrendered as he slowly put his gun down.

The man with the crossbow looked at the man he was with. He didn’t know if he should let his guard down but the officer slightly nodded at him telling him to put down his weapon.

“Don’t think I won’t shoot. Turn back around and leave.”

“We know you were the one who fired those shots. We wanted to thank you.”

“Fine, you’re welcome. Now get out!”

The officer took a small step into the cabin and Jolene aimed the gun to his face. The officer studied the gun and quickly took notice that the safety was on.

“Okay, we’ll leave, but if you could just let me help you with one thing.” The officer slowly walked towards Jolene and she froze wondering why he was so persistent. “You might want to take the safety off first, you know, so you could shoot us.” The officer took the safety off from Jolene’s gun then took a few steps back. She stood there, silent in time. Not only was she nervous about the two strange men but now she was embarrassed that the gun was not even ready to fire.

“We saw you with a child. Not entirely safe for you two to be out here. People will pass this cabin and they will check it out.”

Jolene slowly put her gun down. “We’ll manage.”

“The man behind me, his names Daryl.” The officer looked back to Daryl and then back to Jolene. “I’m Rick.” He put out his hand wanting nothing but peace.

Jolene looked back and forth at Rick and Daryl, studying their every move. She didn’t want to let her guard down. “Jolene.” She introduced herself but refused to shake Rick’s hand.

Rick put his hand down knowing that she was going to be tough on them.

“I wasn’t going to, you know, help you guys. She has a bigger heart than I do. I was gonna leave and not think twice.”

“Well we’re glad she convinced you.” Daryl finally spoke.

“We’re holding up in a prison seven miles out. We have food, water, clothes…”

“No. No, get out.” Jolene refused to let Rick finish.

“We have people…”

“I don’t care.” Jolene interrupted again. “I don’t know your people and I don’t know you. I’m not gonna do that again.”

“We should go.” Clementine slowly opened the bedroom door as she was listening to the whole conversation. “They look nice. He’s a police officer.” Clementine walked into the middle of Rick and Jolene. Jolene quickly pulled her off to the side getting her away from the two men.

Jolene bent down to her level. “No. You and I both know they could be dangerous. I’m not letting you and I get dragged off to a group of men…”

“We have women and children in our group. My son Carl, he’s thirteen, Sophia, she’s twelve.”

“I don’t care.” Jolene looked back to Rick.

“You could have shot us at any time but you didn’t. You stood down. Now that’s showing me that deep down you want to trust us.” Rick walked up to Jolene. “You saved our lives, let us repay you.”

Notes

Comments

No carol and Daryl make no sense. To abuse people together what they have to share Daryl beth yes later on

dombast dombast
2/10/15

Bastard

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2/10/15

Dame

dombast dombast
2/10/15

Same thing step up

dombast dombast
2/10/15

No Daryl should have got some

dombast dombast
2/10/15