🐾🧟♂️🧟♀️10. Randall's Missing.🐾🧟♀️🧟♂️
The next day, I was occupied with taking care of Evelyn, going on a hunt with Daryl for a few hours, on a run with Maggie and Glenn for another hour or two, and watching over Sophia and Carl while their mothers made dinner. I didn't get the chance to check up on Randall all day, so I took the liberty to take him his dinner tonight. Shane was supposed to be on watch, but I didn't see him on the RV as I walked over, nor did I see him anywhere else. I walked in to see the place Randall would've been sitting at, was in such disarray. He was no where to be seen. He was still not able to use his leg, even with the enhanced healing ability we have as shifters. He would need another day or two before he could walk, even then he would be limping and in pain if he walked too much or put too much weight on his injured leg. The only explanation was that he was taken, since it was obvious there was a struggle.
"Rick! Daryl!" I shouted and saw them and some of the other men, besides Shane, leave the house, Carol following quickly just in case.
"What's wrong, Rosie?" Daryl asked as he put his hands on my shoulders as he saw how panicked I looked. I kept searching for clues.
"Randall's missing! And Shane isn't anywhere to be found! He's supposed to be on watch!" I say, eyebrows furrowed. "Randall struggled."
"Let me see." Rick entered the RV and by the time he got out, I saw something small running out of the forest, like a small rodent or...
"Randall?!" I yelp, running to meet him quickly. He was in a small marmoset form, and I knew it was him since there are none native here. "What happened to you?! Are you alright?! Do you know where Shane is?!" I worry over him, checking his small form for injuries. He points to the ground and I understand, setting him down as he then shifts.
"Shane took me out to the woods, maybe a half hour ago. He tried to kill me, but I was suspicious of him so I had grabbed a large rock and hit him upside the head before smashing his face in the tree. I don't know if it knocked him out, but I shifted into a marmoset to get here faster."
"He's coming." I say as I hear leaves crunching and his heavy breaths. I quickly make a plan to have everyone pretend Randall was still missing and see how Shane reacts. He obviously had a plan, thats why he took Randall away from camp instead of just killing him inside the RV and saying it was self defense or something. Randall hid in my hair in his marmoset form as Shane appeared. Everyone acted oblivious of Randall.
"Shane?! What happened to you? Where's Randall?" Rick asked as he saw Shane's bloody face as we all met him towards the tree line. At least, those who were already out here. Carol rubbed my arm comfortingly.
"Rosie is worried sick about that boy. Did you see him out there?" She asked as I covered my mouth, sobbing silently.
"Yeah. He took me out there and ambushed me, took my gun. Think he's gonna go find his group and bring them back here." Shane said as a lame excuse, and I cried even more at the thought of Randall's 'betrayal'.
"Rosie, go inside with Carol, watch everyone, make sure they stay inside. T-Dog, Dale, you two stay here on watch. Glenn, Daryl, you two look in the woods that way, Shane and I'll look this way." Rick orders.
"Stay inside." Daryl kisses my forehead and I nod. He wipes away my fake tears before giving me a wink. Telling me him and Glenn would tail Shane and Rick just in case, and make sure Rick stays safe.
"Come on, Rosie, lets get you inside." Carol says as she leads me away from the men, the four of them already going into the woods as I grab Randall gently and cup his small form in my hand(Media above). "Hershel will check him."
"Don't worry, Randall, I won't let Shane hurt you." I kiss his small head as he hugs my thumb, trembling from his ordeal in the woods.
"What was that about? Where are Rick and the others?" Lori asked as we entered the house. Everyone goes out to gather the remaining supplies, since we plan on moving into the Greene's house for the upcoming Winter. I take Lori and sit her on the couch, Randall still in his small form.
"Lori, it's time I come clean." I tell her and she looks at me worriedly. "I need to tell you who Evelyn's father is. I should've done so long ago."
"The man who raped you 8 months back?" Lori asks, grabbing my free hand, trying to comfort me. She knew I was raped, since I told her before, but not that it was Shane. And it was obvious no one told her about what happened the other day and what Daryl revealed in front of everyone.
"Yeah... Lori, the man who raped me was Shane... he is Evelyn's biological father..." I tell her and her face falls as her eyes tear up. She embraces me.
"I am so sorry..." she whispers. "He..." she sighs before telling me what happened while Rick was presumed dead. She also reveals that he seemed to become psychotic even more these days. I then tell her what happened outside, and she sees Randall shift into a human, sitting beside us.
"I think... I think Shane wants to kill Rick so that he can have you and Carl. Lori... do you know who's baby you are carrying?"
"Biologically, Its Shane's... there's no way it can be Rick's... Rosie... I feel so guilt-ridden... I didn't know Rick was alive..." she cries as I take her into my arms as Randall sits there awkwardly. "I... I hope Rick will still treat the baby as his own... I don't want Shane anywhere near this baby with how..."
"I know, sweetheart, I know..." I coo down to her as she cries. "My brother is a strong man, who has loved you for so long. While he may feel betrayed by both you and Shane, Shane even more so, he will still love this baby, even if it is 100% not his, because thats the kind of man he is."
"Is Rick back?" Daryl asked after him and Glenn came in. Lori went upstairs to look for Carl, who she last saw at Dinner 30 minutes ago.
"No? I thought you two were going to keep an eye on them?" I ask.
"We lost them in the woods. Shane must've known we were following them and somehow covered his tracks. We'll go back out–"
"Rosie! I can't find Carl!" Lori cries as she runs downstairs, interrupting Daryl as he had a hand on the door to go back out with Glenn. Before I could say something, a gunshot rang out, followed shortly by another.
"Lori, I'll help you look again, he couldn't have gone far." Carol says as she holds Lori's shoulder. They go to look again as Daryl, Glenn, Andrea, T-Dog and I go out on the porch. We see a horde of walkers coming.
"Shit." I rush inside and turn off the lights just in case, also having Randall shift into a marmoset again, and Evelyn shifts into a baby caracal, somehow linked with him too. I pick them up and hold them close to me as I get into a car we had picked up on one of the runs I was on with Glenn. Sophia got in the car with me as Carol went back to get something, telling me to get Sophia to safety, that she'll get a ride with one of the others.
We drive off quickly, waiting through the night at the intersection car graveyard we had originally been separated at. We waited for a few hours for the others, and saw that we lost a few people. We lost Shane, Andrea, Patricia, Dale and Jimmy. We almost lost Carol, if Andrea hadn't saved her, and if Daryl hadn't found her before he left the farm.
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