Chapitre 39: Last night

Damian opened his eyes as he felt a jerk. He looked around and found himself in the back of a car.

"Hey, easy there. We've got an injured person on the back", Damian heard from the seat in front. He was lying on the back seat of the car. He rose up and sat looking at the people in front. Glenn looked at the back through the rear-view mirror and turned back. "Dude, you okay?", he asked.

"Yes. Where are we going?", Damian asked.

"Back to farm. You looked worse earlier. Are you sure you're feeling alright?", Glenn asked again.

"Just a bit of pain here and there. What happened to Jim and others", Damian asked.

"Rick and Shane killed most of them. Few of them managed to run away from the back", T-Dog who was driving said.

Damian examined his body. The blood had stopped already, and the wound was definitely healing fast but not visible to the naked eye. The wounds he got from the bullets didn't seem that severe now, and the bruises were almost all gone. All he had was dry blood all over his body.

"How much time has passed since then?", he asked.

"More than an hour. We looked around to see if there were more of them and took the supplies they left behind", Glenn said as he looked forward.

"What about others? Are they okay?", Damian asked.

"Don't worry. Everyone's good. They are behind us. Only you were injured. Daryl said you were in bad shape when he dragged you to that store. He said you could've died in the condition you were in. But when we examined you, it was not that serious. Maybe because of the blood", T-Dog said.

"I'm going to close my eyes for a bit. Drive carefully", Damian said as he couldn't think of anything to say and laid back down on the seat.

But he heard T-Dog's voice, "It's not my fault that there is a large bumper on the road".

The car stopped in the farm, and everyone stepped out and gathered at the car Damian was in. Rick and Andrea opened the door to bring out Damian safely but surprisingly, Damian stepped out himself. But as he put his foot out and tried to stand, he staggered forward. Rick immediately gave him his shoulder.

"You look better than before", Rick said.

"Did I look like I was dying?", Damian joked.

"You should have told me. It was foolish to go there alone", Rick said.

"I know", Damian said but didn't say anything anymore.

"Let's g-", as Rick was saying, Daryl approached them and shouted in frustration, "Dale's dead".

"What?", everyone was shocked to hear that.

"It was Randall. He hit Dale on head with a rod and said he fell down from the roof and hit himself. When we took him inside, he took most of our guns from RV and ran away in the car before others could figure out. Dale died soon after", Carol who followed him from behind said.

"That motherfucker", Shane burst out and hit his hand hardly at the car's body. "I told you guys we should kill that bastard".

"Are others safe?", Rick asked worried about his wife and child.

"Yes. They were in the kitchen during the incident", she said.

"Let's go in. We have to decide what to do next", Rick said.

"What to do? Rick, don't you see it yet? He knows where we are. This place is not safe anymore", Shane was outraged.

"Should we go search for him? He went towards the highway. The car he took didn't have much gas in it. We took most and filled ours this morning. He couldn't have gotten that far on foot", Daryl said.

"He has gun. He could be hiding out there waiting for us. We can't risk it. We'll think and decide what to do inside", Rick said calmly.

Shane just clicked his tongue and walked away while Rick started to take Damian inside. Other people also came out as they found the group was back. Lori and Carl came out and ran towards Rick. Maggie hugged Glenn while weeping as well. Damian let Rick's arm go and meet his family. "I can manage", he said as T supported him.

Damian looked at the sad environment of the farm. He looked around but didn't find Amy but saw Andrea running inside after Carol said something to her.

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"His injuries aren't that serious. Just need to daily clean the wound for a few days", Kayla said after she finished cleaning and dressing Damian's wounds.

"That's good", Hershel said as the rest of his family was present there except Maggie and Shawn.

"Get rest for now", Kayla said as she looked at him and he nodded.

After everyone left the room, Damian just looked at the roof. He thought about his actions this morning. He knew Jim and his group was not going to leave them. He didn't know what he was thinking, going inside the store like that. He should have killed them without even thinking. That was his mistake. If he had just gone in with that mind, he'd not have gotten into that situation. As he kept thinking about it, he fell asleep.

At night, he suddenly woke up hearing the door open up with a thud. Lori came inside and looked at him with a worried expression.

"Did you see Carl. Did he come here?", Lori asked in a hurry.

"I don't know. I just woke up", Damian said as he stood up from the bed and started looking under the bed to see if Carl is there after seeing Lori in worry.

"He's not in the room. Where could he go?", Damian asked.

"I don't know. I don't know. My boy...", she said as she broke down. Damian approached her and said, "Let's look for him then. If he were here, he'd have shown himself. He must be out. I'll go look outside", Damian said as he stepped out of the room. But as soon as he did, he heard someone firing shotgun outside.

"What was that?", he said as he quickly ran outside. There he saw Hershel shooting a walker with his shotgun. He looked around and saw a whole herd of walkers coming towards the house.

"What the fuck", he exclaimed as he grabbed a gun and a cartridge from the bag on the ground and ran towards Hershel and Shawn who were shooting at the incoming walkers.

"Where are others?", he asked Shawn who was shooting at walkers with his father.

"Rick and Shane went out and haven't come back yet. Others took the cars to take down the walkers", Shawn said screaming as he shot a walker.

"Where the hell did they come from?", Damian asked as he kept shooting walkers without wasting a bullet.

"I don't know. Someone just saw them coming here in large numbers and everyone got out with guns", Shawn said as he looked at his father.

"The barn is on fire. Someone might be there", Damian said as he shot one more. But soon the RV stopped at the gate of the barn and Damian saw Shane and Carl jumping down from rafters in the roof. They then disappeared in the dark.

"Lori. Carl is with Rick. I saw them jumping on the RV", Damian screamed turning back.

Lori who was talking to Carol suddenly looked at the RV and came running, "Where? Where are they?", she asked as she looked at the RV that stood there.

"I don't know. They disappeared after that", he replied.

"They must've ran towards the woods for safety. We all should leave too", Shawn said as he looked at his father desperately. "Dad", he called Hershel but got no response.

"I am going after them. They might need help", Lori said as Carol quickly grabbed her.

"Don't be mad. You don't even know in which direction they ran", Carol reasoned.

"But...", Lori got interrupted. "You need to be safe. You are not in the condition anyway", Damian said.

"I'll go bring them back. Shawn, get everyone to safety. Everyone needs to leave the farm. Stay together and watch each other's backs", Damian said as he changed his cartridge and ran towards the barn in the middle of the walkers.

"Come on. Come on. You slow brains", he said as he kept running through the gaps dodging the walkers. He soon reached the RV and saw blood all over its window glass. "No, god", he murmured as he tried to look who it was but as he reached the gate, he saw walkers already inside the RV. As he looked around, he was almost surrounded by more. "Shit", he said as he ran towards the back assuming Carl and Rick would have ran towards that direction.

Just as he was circling the barn, he bumped on a dead walker and fell down on the ground. "Ugh", he stood up and saw few walkers approaching him from behind. He started shooting them as he stepped back. One, two, three, four... he kept counting the bullets he was firing. Last of the walker fell down and he turned to his right to run but got hit by a walker who was just about to bite him. The impact made him go two steps back as the walker also fell backward.

Unfortunately, at that time, Damian slipped his foot and fell down, in the well. The water in the well softened his fall a bit but he still hit the ground and fractured his leg. After a bit of screaming, he gathered his strength and got up, but suddenly a walker fell on him. Then another and then another. They kept falling in the well. Damian almost got suffocated inside the water. He pulled out his knife and stabbed walkers in their head. The walkers leached on him, biting him, but he avoided his hand from being grabbed and kept stabbing their head.

"Die. Die, you bastards. You are dead already. Why do you keep coming back?" he screamed as he stabbed and one by one, they stopped. When they were all dead, Damian removed them from above and looked up. He still didn't know how to climb up. He suddenly thought of an idea.

"Hey", he screamed loudly. "Come here. I'm here, hey", Damian screamed. A moment after, a walker fell down in the well. Damian got to the side in time. He looked at the fallen walker and quickly stabbed his head. "Take that motherfucker", he said and then looked up as one more fell down.

He started doing it again and again. When he got tired, he would just stay silent. After having bathed in walker blood, walkers didn't recognize him. Then he would stab them again after recovering. He continued to do so and kept placing the dead walkers one on one.