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Handcuffs

Up on the rooftop a man in his early 50’s was standing on the ledge shooting at the walkers down on the street with a scoped rifle. As soon as the group from downstairs came out on the roof two men, a Hispanic man and black man who had been introduced as Morales and T-Dog along the way, began chastising Dixon for wasting bullets and attracting even more walkers by making loud noises.

While everyone were distracted with the scuffle, Buffy walked behind the rest of the group and helped herself to Rick’s handcuffs, without him noticing, before walking in front of her latest problem person and put on her best cheerleader smile right as he was talking about a change in leadership.

“Hi!” Her smile was bright enough to blind the sun, but it had more teeth than when she’d done this to Glenn and Rick earlier down on the platform. “We haven’t been introduced yet, but I’m Buffy and I just met some of the people from your group. Officer No-So-Friendly back there showed up at the same time.”

She conveniently pointed out Rick, who was very obvious in his uniform and matching hat, to the now shocked Dixon. “He had the bright idea to ride an actual horse into the city and right into a herd. Dumb, right?” She executed a perfect teenage ‘adults are such idiots’ eyeroll. While she’d been talking she had moved closer to the man without him being any the wiser, and before his shock could wear off she grabbed the arm holding the rifle and twisted it just so that he lost the weapon. When it was out of his hand she completed the twist and got his arm behind his back, clicked one half of the handcuffs on, before quickly grabbing the other arm and finishing the process.

Buffy dropped the act again and gave a much more genuine grin. “I guess this means that I’m in charge”.

“What the hell, woman? Uncuff me!” the angry words rolled off Buffy as she put her knee into his back and put the small knife from earlier against his jugular vein. The man's struggles to free himself ceased immediately.

“Nope. You’re clearly a problem that needs to be dealt with and this is as good as any way to do it. So be a good boy and be quiet, the adults need to have a little chat.”

She turned towards the rest of the group. It was a little worse for wear after Dixon had thrown a few punches. T-Dog was on the ground and Morales had gotten a fist in the midsection, but they didn’t seem to be seriously injured.

What followed was a short discussion over how to get out of the building they were in and through the increasingly large herd around the block. After checking the flood tunnel underneath the building on Jacqui’s suggestion and it turned to be a bust, they were back to scratch when Buffy suddenly thought of something else.

“What about the backdoor we got in through? There’s a bus blockage there so it should be relatively safe to go back there, up into the next door building and see if we can find an exit there, or if necessary in the next building over.”

After some more arguments it was agreed that that was what they were going to do. Glenn was sent to check on the state of the alley, armed with one of the baseball bats from before, while the rest of them stayed hidden away from the doors and the walkers who kept trying to get through the second door. All of them made sure that they were armed with something other than a gun. Now was not the time to make unnecessary racket.

Dixon, who people alternately called Merle, kept insulting everyone and using both sexist and racial slurs. After a while Rick got annoyed enough that he found a pair of socks and a belt; the socks were separated and one was effectively stuffed inside Merle’s mouth while Rick used the belt to tie it in place. Most of the remaining group grinned in relief at that, no one had been interested in the tirade, but then Glenn returned and they were running out just as they heard the sliding doors in the front of the building shatter and the walkers groaning in anticipation of food.

There were another two walkers in the alley but they were quickly dispatched and the group was soon up the stairs. Once they were inside the new building they slowed to a walk, while looking around carefully. Glenn, Buffy, and Rick had run through here earlier, but that didn’t mean that there couldn’t be people hiding somewhere. No matter how unlikely it was, it was better to be safe than sorry.

About an hour and several missteps later and they were out on the street. Which was when the argument began; what did they do now? Get a car, get out of town and back to the Quarry Camp, or get a car and drive further into the city to fetch Buffy’s friend, Rime, and their supplies?

Notes

Challenge: The 2016 August Fic-a-Day Challenge on the Twisted Shorts comm on LJ. Day 10.
Timeline: Post-Chosen for BtVS, season one (01x02 ‘Guts’) for TWD, way post Rimfrost.

Comments

The last two chapters of the story has been posted. The story is being re-written however under the title 'The Fall of Humanity.

Thank you for the review.

Any new chapters coming? LOVED this story.

JetCmoon JetCmoon
10/13/16