Avery was walking down the street, so she could meet back up with Morgan and his son, Duane. When she saw a man dressed in an open hospital gown with blue boxers on as a walker was about to walk up to him, Avery quickly got her gun out and shot the walker straight in the head, which caused the man to look at her frightened.

" Why did you shoot that man? " Rick asked.

" That was no man " Avery scoffed.

" I don't feel so good " Rick said as he began to loose his balance but Avery quickly caught him.

" Fuck " the blonde cursed walking back to Morgan's trying her best not to drop the man.

⎯

Rick groaned as he woke up and saw he was in a bedroom tied to the bed

" I changed your bandage......it smelled horrible....What was the wound? " Avery said, when she noticed that Rick was awake.

" Gunshot " Rick replied.

" Gunshot?....so, you've not been bit? " Avery asked.

" Bit....no, why would I have been bit? " Rick questioned confused.

Avery nodded beofre grabbing the knife off of the table and cut the ties that held the man down.

" Come on out, when your ready......there's food " Avery smiled softly before walking out of the room and noticed that Morgan was standing at the dining table getting their food ready " He wasn't bit " Avery reassured the man as Rick came out of the room making them look at him as he looked back before walking into the living room and Avery followed him.

" This place—" Rick started " Fred and Cindy Drake's ".

" Never met them " Avery shrugged.

" I've been here......this is there place " Rick said.

" It was empty, when we got here " Avery replied as Rick walked over to the widow and was about to full the blankets that was cover it away but Avery interrupted " Don't do that, they'll see the light......there's more of them out there than usual, I should've fired that gun today, sound draws them out, now they're all over the street.....stupid—using a gun ".

" Don't beat yourself up over it " Morgan reassured the twenty year old.

" You shot that man today? " Rick exclaimed at the blonde.

" Man? " Morgan questioned.

" It weren't no man " Duane said.

" What the hell was that out of your mouth just now? " Morgan said to his son.

" It wasn't a man " Duane corrected.

" You shot him in the head—a man " Rick said.

" Mister......you need glasses, it wasn't a man, it was a walker " Avery scoffed before smiling at him as she dished him up a plate of food " Come on, sit down ".

" Daddy, blessing " Duane chimed in as Rick sat down.

" Yeah " Morgan nodded as he and Wayne grabbed hands as well a Avery who grabbed Morgan's and Duane looked at Rick and the man grabbed Avery's and the boy's hands " Lord, we thank thee for this food, thy blessings and we ask you to watch over us in these crazy days, Amen ".

" Amen " Duane added before they all began to eat.

" Hey mister, do you even know what's going on? " Avery asked.

" I woke up today....in the hospital.......came home and that's all I know " Rick said.

" Yeah, but you know about the dead people right? " Morgan asked.

" Yeah, I saw a lot of that—out on the loading dock, piled in trucks " Rick answered.

" No, Not the ones they put down......the ones they didn't, the walkers.....like the one I shot today, cause he would of ripped into you......try to eat you, taken some flesh at least.....". Morgan explained " I guess, if this is the first your hearing of this.......and I know how it must sound "

" They're out their now? In the street? " Rick asked.

" Yeah, they get more active after dark sometimes.....maybe's it's the cool air or.....maybe. It was just me firing that gun today...but we'll be okay, as long as we stay quite, they'll probably wander off by morning " Avery explained.

" But listen.....one thing I do know.......don't you get bit, Avery saw your bandage and that's what we was afraid of, bites kill ya, the fever burns you out but then after a while......you come back " Morgan said.

" Seen it happen " Duane added and Morgan squeezed his sons shoulder reassuringly.

⎯

Morgan, Rick, Duane and Avery were all in the living room as Avery and Duane were laying down, the boy next to his dad and Avery on the couch behind Rick.

" Dad, did you ask him? " Duane groaned.

" Your gunshot? We've got a little bet going, my boy says you're a bank robber " Morgan laughed.

" Yea.....that's me, deadliest Dillinger, kapow " Rick smiled before answering the question " Sheriff's deputy".

" Uh-Uh " Morgan sighed.

There was moment of silence before they heard the should of a car alarm blaring.

" Hey, it's okay...daddy's here, it's nothing, one of them must've bumped a car " Morgan reassured his son, who jumped up.

" Are you sure? " Rick questioned.

" It happened once before.....went on for a few minutes " Avery replied standing up as Morgan grabbed his gun.

" Get the light, Duane " Morgan said to his son as Morgan and Rick stood up.

Morgan walked to the window as Duane and Rick put the lights out, Morgan pulled some of the blanket back and looked outside as Rick and Avery joined him at the window.

" It's the blue one on the street, the same one as last time.....I think we're okay? " Morgan said as Avery and Rick looked out the window when Morgan stepped back slightly. 

" That noise—won't that bring more of them? " Rick questioned.

" There's nothing we can do about it now.....just have to wait it till morning " Avery replied as Duane walked up and looked out the window.

" She's here " Duane gasped as he backed up into Avery, who wrapped an arm around him sympathetically.

" Don't look get away from the windows " Morgan said as the woman began to walk up to the window as she noticed them " I said go, come on " Morgan said to his son sternly, who ran and flopped onto the bed and began to cry loudly and Morgan followed him " Quiet now, come on, quiet now....shhh " Morgan comforted as Rick noticed the woman moving towards the front door and followed her and looked through the peek hole as Avery pulled back the blankets on the window.

" It's okay....shush.....cry into the pillows, you remember? " Morgan said as he put a pillow on Duane's head to muffle his cries, Rick backed away from the door as the woman outside tired opening the doorbell.

" She, um—she died in that other room on that bed in there, there was nothing I-I could do about it.....that fever man, her skin gave off a heat like a furnace.......I Should've—I should've put her down, man I should've put her down, I Know that, but I—you know what? I just didn't have it in me.....she's the mother of my child " Morgan explained teary eyed as he held his son tightly.

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