CHAPTER FIVE: SON
TOMMY SAT ON LOG BY HIMSELF, SHAKING. He looked over to find Andrea crying over Amy. His best friend is dead , she died being bitten directly at the neck, he regrets not being there for her. He knew any minute from now she would be back as those walkers. His best friend is gone.
The following morning, those who had survived the catastrophe had helped clean up the camp and drag any dead bodies into two separate piles, one for their own people and one for the walkers who had attacked. He bit his lip, shaking, visibly. That's when his mom came over carrying bandages and wet cloth.
"Honey, let me fix that gash," she stood by him fixing his gash, hoping it wouldn't get infected. He sighs as he lets his mother help him. "I saw that you were hugging, Rick." His mother sternly spoke, continuing to fix his injury.
"Tommy, Shane feels upset about this. He saw you and Rick-" Tommy didn't think anything was wrong with that. He didn't go towards Rick and neither did he plan too. It happen, it isn't his fault. "He came to me, Mom. Don't blame me."
"I'm not. I want Shane to be happy, that's all." His mother spoke, placing the cloth on his forehead, as he let out a groan.
"I will speak to Shane later. I'm hurt, mom." His mother took a glance at him. She smiled and took a glance at her son. He looked so much like Rick but he was her son, he inherited her eyes. Nobody will take her son away from her and Shane, not even Rick.
"You don't need to speak to him about anything. You're my son and Shane." She nods, placing bandages around his head. "Have this on for least two days. I love you," she leans down, placing a kiss on his forehead. She smiles, walking away leaving her son to nod.
He decided to get up and take a walk around. He stopped when he heard cries from Andrea, he was about to go further when his uncle came forward and stopped him. "I suggest you give her some space."
"It's Amy." He responds. That's when Annaelisa appeared and took his hand, surprising him. He looked shaken when she approached him. "It's okay, Jack. Tommy was looking for me, I'm here." She took him away as he looked back at his uncle who visibly looked shocked but frustrated.
Annalisa takes him further into the woods before stopping. "What was that for?" He immediately asked. Annalisa smiles lightly and moves around, spinning like a snowflake.
"You should really learn how to say 'no' I mean the last days, I met you were always the type of boy never to stand for yourself!"
Tommy raised his eyebrow. "You have no right to say that to me!"
"What? Why not? I'm trying to tell you the truth! I'm helping you." Annalisa sternly bit her lip staring right into his hazel eyes. "Your wimp, there, I said it."
"You have no right to say that! You don't even know me!" Annalisa sighs. "That's where you are wrong.I see you as a person who doesn't stand a chance. You're a person who let's anyone attack you. I see potential in you, I see a person who wants to be let out but doesn't want to because of the people around them. You're scared! I need you to know you don't have to be the scared little boy they think! Your a strong person."
Tommy knew she was right. He has been acting like a little boy and being shielded away but it doesn't give her the right to say all of those things, he leans his head down, angry at the thought of it. He hated that moment, they were having. She made him look weak and desperate, this didn't moment made him look weak and wimp. "Just stay away from me now on, Anna." He fell onto the floor not caring for the grassy ground that was wet from rain in the morning. Tommy leaned his head down refusing to face Annalisa who was standing above him. "Were friends till the end, Tom. Everything is going to be alright, your going to be okay.'' He leaned beside him, smiling at him. She gently placed her hand on top of Tommy, shocking him. He leaned back, shocked as he leaned forward to stare into her eyes, her blue eyes. He gulps, taking deep breaths. They both stared into each other eyes, not moving.
"Tommy!" He quickly pulled away, throwing her hand to the side, pushing her away. He found himself looking at his uncle, Jack. "Jack-Jack, I'm here-here,'' he repeated. He made his way to Jack and stood behind.He turned to look at Annalisa who showed a light smile, but smirk.
"Your mother was looking for you." This caused Tommy to sigh, looked back at Annalisa once more nods before running back to camp leaving them alone.
THIRD POINT OF VIEW
"He is a kid," he spoke, causing Annalisa to raise her eyebrows, in disbelief. "He is a grown boy soon enough, why hate him so much? I saw you, Jack. What's wrong with you?" Jack didn't care enough for her remarks. "Anna, I say this from the bottom of my heart. He is a kid that needs to be protected, I say those things because I want him to be better and be better than the rest of us. Someday, he will be alone and he needs to know what he will do.'' Jack knew better than to live in a world like this, things will escalate further.
"You think you know but you don't." He spoke, running towards her, he noticed she had cut on her hand. ''Your bleeding.'' He leaned forward to touch her hand but she stepped back. "It doesn't concern you. Treat your nephew better, for once.''
He watched as she walked past him heading back to the camp leaving him dumbfounded. He felt like she wanted to say something else but couldn't. She didn't have the words to tell him what she really felt in her mind. He had wished she wasn't like this, she wasn't. Before all of this they were good friends, when he first arrived here, he found her, she was the most beautiful girl he had ever seen yet she was different. She was no damsel in distress, she yearned for saving people, not the other way around. She took charge and she is the leader, he became friends with her only because he managed to saved her before crashing into a car.
He remembers the night, he gone out of the car to find Marie, left Tommy in the car, he found himself walking towards the highway trying to find his eldest sister only to stop a motorcycle from crashing into him, he stood frozen when he noticed a car was backing up, he stop the motorcycle causing the driver to groan and fall to the side, on top of him. There he noticed the driver was fairly skinny, breathing heavily. The driver stood up, taking off her helmet, it was a girl. He gaze upon her noticing her blue eyes, her pink lips and the way she pursues her lips at him.
"Thanks,'' she muttered. He noticed her hands were red from the fall, as she took off her gloves. He walked up to her and offer her banaages, he carried around his back. She smiled letting him wrap his bandages around her hand. "You can keep this.'' he mumbles, holding her hand. They both turn around to find themselves face to face with another person, larger, white, had long beard. "You idiots!'" He marched forward running towards the girl, only for Jack to stand in front of her causing her to fall back. He received a punch into the stomach, causing him to fall back to the side, groaning in pain. Everybody surrounding them, none stepping in to help, he saw as the girl tried to intervene only for him to yell at her to stay back. The big man made him stand up, grabbing his shirt. "Pretty boy, your going to pay for this, damage against my car.'' He received a punch into the face, as blisters appeared in this face.
"You idiot!" The man screamed.
"Hey pick someone your own size?" a man let out a groan, before pushing the man who was fighting onto the floor, the next thing he knew he was laying on the floor as the girl came to hunch over him with another dude by him. "You sure did put up a fight for her?''
"Daryl, stop. He is hurt." The girl spoke, causing the other man to laugh at her response. "it's a joke,'' he grabbed him by the shoulders and tried to make him stand. "Hey, man stay out of trouble, okay?'' The man named Daryl responded. He looked to the street to see a man beating up the man who was beaten up earlier.
"Hey, merle ain't it enough,already?" Daryl spoke.
The girl chim in. "Merle!" He noticed the man and quickly came to forge and save him. "Sorry about this. I'm Annalisa but people call me, Anna. Nice to meet you.'' He quickly gulps, smiling at her before looking around to see people surrounding them, observing them.
"I'm Jack. Jack Ryan."
"You ain't no different from him, you know?" This caused Annalisa to stop her movement turn back. She walked further to him, looking serious. "Your saying, that I'm a kid?"
"Yes!" He watched as her eyes turned dark blue, her face turned red. He felt the urge to hold her in his arms when she was mad. "Are you trying to provoke me? Ain't gonna work? You treat your nephew better. If what you're saying is the truth, you only want what's best for him. Than do it, it's my mistake but keep that choice, make it into a promise.'' She spat at him as she was inches away from him.
"Anna-you know it's the truth." He leaned forward to grab both of her hands. "I love my nephew as he was my son. I'm only twenty-two but I grew up with that little one all my life, he is like a son to me.''
She sighed. "You act like he is. You know he is only a burden that you must carried around.'' She yanked her hands away from him, walking away. He quickly responded by walking in front of her, stopping her tracks. "What was that for?"
"I heard what you said. To Rick and Daryl. They know don't they?" He widened his eyes, she knew what she was talking about. When they were planning a plan to get Glenn back, Daryl made a comment about Tommy causing, Rick to be concern and ask Daryl more about it, he stop before Daryl could even talk about Tommy even further mentioning the words along 'he is burden that, I need to carried around because of Shane and my sister' causing Rick to shut up, from asking more questions. Daryl will definitely spill the secret that Tommy is his son, since he had heard Carl and Sophia call Tommy Grimes so many times. Not to mention, he spill the secret to Merle how Tommy ain't Shane son. He doesn't need all the camp gossiping about Rick's secret son.
"You got it all wrong, Anna. There is something you don't know.'' He was about to explain when he heard Glenn walking around calling for Annalisa.
"What does he want?" he muttered. Annalisa rolled her eyes and walked away leaving him there, she turned around. "All, I'm saying is be nice to him.''
TOMMY POINT OF VIEW
He watched from afar how people gather the piles of dead people, pile them up. "You had this coming." He said, motioning towards all of the dead bodies that laid out on the floor around them. He knew that something bad would happen to them after what they did to Merle; karma always did it's work. He always believed in it, it happened. He couldn't help to think about Annalisa, all the things she said to him. She called him a wimp, her words to him. He shakes his head walking ahead to find Jim to help him with a dead body, as he seemed like he was struggling and no one was currently helping him. It was the least he could do, as he had been sitting for minutes around and not helping for the last few hours; he knew that he should be resting due to her head injury, but he didn't want to.
"Need help?" he asked him as he squatted down and got his hands on the walkers arms, ready to lift him up. "Please." He nodded in appreciation, standing back up to get a better hold on the body, now knowing he had help. His eyes narrowed on his side as he looked down at him, where there looked to be fresh blood staining his shirt, like he was bleeding, "Are you bleeding?" he asked him, standing back up to get a better look at his side. He didn't understand why he wouldn't have mentioned it to the rest of the group, as they could have helped him, especially since they had bandages and medicine to help him out and relieve the pain. "I just got some on me from the bodies." He shrugged, trying to brush him off, knowing that he would tell his father if he found out what had happened to him. He placed his hands back on the dead walker, hoping that he would let it go, and not question him any further. "That blood looks fresh." he told him, knowing the difference between fresh and old blood, he wasn't an idiot. It was when Jim started acting shifty, did he freeze slightly, knowing that he was holding something back.. Hiding something. "Were you bit?" he eventually asked, fearing that he would turn into one of those things. "No." He answered immediately, shaking his head frantically at him. "Jim." he warned, his voice shaking slightly in fear of what he was going to turn into in a few hours. "I'm fine." Jim denied, shaking his head. "Show me it, then." Tommy then told him, his fear coming through his voice, he didn't want him to turn and kill someone else in the camp, what if that would be Carl, or his mom or dad, Rick or even Annalisa, What would he do then? He had to do something. He couldn't just let him turn unexpectedly and kill someone else from their group, he didn't want anyone else to die. Jim knew that he wasn't going to let this go, and instead of claiming he wasn't bit, he decided to try and convince him to not tell anyone about his condition. He leaned close to him and whispered, "Please don't tell." He begged him, his eyes wide in fear at what was happening and what he knew was going to happen to him.
"Dad! Shane!" he called, loudly, without even thinking about it first.
Upon hearing his screams, Rick and Shane were quick to react as Rick pushed Tommy behind him towards his side, holding him close. He watched in horror as Jim stared at him then everybody who started to surround them.
"A walker got him." he stuttered, "A walker bit Jim."
"I'm okay." Jim denied, shaking his head at the people now surrounding him.
"I'm okay." He repeated. "Show it to us." Marie snapped, stepping besides Daryl in a defensive motion, not liking that he had hidden this from the whole group. When Jim didn't make any move to show it to them, she repeated in a harsher tone.
"Show it to us." Shane ordered. Looking around at everyone, Jim panicked and grabbed a shovel from beside him, to hold it up and protect himself if he needed to, which he thought he would do with the way that everyone was currently looking at him. Like he was a time bomb about to go off and kill everyone here..
"Easy, Jim." Shane wanted, holding his hands up as Rick, Daryl and him surrounded him to protect the others from the bitten man. "Grab him!" Daryl eventually shouted when the T-Dog came up from behind him and pulled his arms back, holding him so he couldn't move and the others could check him over for any bites to find out if Tommy was correct. This was when T-Dog checked Jim by pulling up his t-shirt, only to see a bite mark on his side, indicating Tommy was correct.
"I'm okay."
As everyone looked in horror and backed up away from him, looking at the clear walker bite on his side, that seemed to be getting worse. Tommy slowly walked back till Rick joined him. "Are you okay, Tommy?" He asked. Tommy nods fast, gulping in fear. His heart beating fast caused him to shake his head.
"Son, come here!" He heard a voice. Rick and him both turn to the side to see his mother calling for him alongside Shane, and Jack. "Tommy, come here with me.'' His mother repeated, causing him to gulp, he looked once more at Risk with pleading eyes, as he noticed Rick held the same desperation he had.
"Tommy, come here." Shane voiced repeatedly, causing him to flinch. He backed away from Rick horrifying him. He bit his lip moving towards Shane and his mother. He walked straight to his mother, as she embraced him for a hug, kissed him on the cheek, then Shane ruffled his hair, "Your okay, Tommy?" He asked, he nods. He turn back to still see Rick staring at them, he turn his head away as soon as their eyes met
He wonders what was he thinking about looking at him?
ANY FEEDBACKS?
The video is a big tease for what's the future to come, like a way into the future, some of those characters will be incorporated into this storyline, which would be very important ones. In the end, it's just a video of what I imagine Tommy's future will be, his storyline and ideas and relationships with everybody. Don't worry, I'm curious who you ship Tommy with? If you feel free to leave a comment on your thoughts on who you ship Tommy with?
Tommy & Annalisa,(I'm guessing, she will be included) Tommy & Amy(idk maybe was shipping them?) Tommy and Maggie? (future perhaps?) or maybe Tommy and Beth?? I'm curious what you guys think on who he should end up with?
VIDEO IS NOT MINE
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