The group had been at the house a week, it was peaceful. The shelves and basement were stocked with enough food to keep the 9 fed for at least the next 3 weeks. There were water bottles in the basement too but that was in shorter supply. But Beth remembers Connor talking about how they could probably boil the water from the lake and it would be fine. But even if that weren't the case, Allan and Lynette took the car out yesterday and found an abandoned corner store that hadn't been too badly raided. Alexandria is thinking even more optimisticly about it. She thinks the goverment will work on exterminating the disease causing this epidemic within the next couple of months and it's only a matter of time before there are swat trucks pulling up at the house to take them to a safe haven. Jemima thought to herself that Alexandria's crazy and if she keeps thinking fantasies in a situation like this that she's going to get herself killed, but she kept that comment to herself. Later that day Alexandria was going through the boxes in the attic to see if there was anything useful when she happened to glance outside the peephole and immediately began running downstairs. What she saw was Anthony, and a walker. Anthony was looking dead into the walkers eyes no more than 15 feet away from it but he didn't do anything about it, he just sat there. Everyone knew that Anthony had ADHD and occasionally zoned out of situations that should take one's complete attention but Alexandria didn't think it was possible that he could zone out with his own death staring him right in the face, apparently he can. She bolted out the door almost ready to break it down, the walker was nearly close enough to rip him to shreds. She lept off the porch right past anthony and bashed the walker's head in with her baseball bat. Satisfied that she had saved Anthony's life she turned around to see if he had finally come to attention, and he was... But he didn't look scared.... Or suprised.... Or grateful.... Anthony looked furious. He began to cry and in his crying broke out into rage at Alexandria. He said that he was handling the situation and she didn't need to interfere. It was difficult to make out a lot of his screaming due to all the crying. Alexandria thought it was like when a 3 year old breaks down crying and tries to explain why to you but none of it makes any sense, there was just too much whimpering. She didn't understand why this was happening. Why Anthony would care so much about a walker, she wondered if he had gone completely insane through this whole situation, and right as things were starting to get peaceful around here. He said one last thing before storming off into the woods behind the house that sent shivers up Alexandria's spine. She couldn't make out the whole sentence, but the last words were "YOU KILLED MY SISTER!". Alexandria then noticed that the shirt the walker is wearing is the same shirt as Anthony's. She remembered Anthony explaining that he was on the plane that first day with his family going to Atlantic Beach, and that they wore matching shirts as a joke... Somehow in the 2 and a half weeks since this epidemic started Anthony's sister had gone the same path they had. There was no way of knowing at what point she died but Alexandria guessed that she had somehow at least made it out of the airport (Either that or the fences were knocked over by Zach's crew of undead)... Alexandria couldn't really decide how to feel... Either awful for re-killing Anthony's sister before he gained full closure... Or good for knowing that she still potentially saved him from joining her...
In the woods Anthony sat on a stump twirling his revolver in his hands and crying. How could Alexandria do that? To his own sister! Parts of his mind tried to fight off his anger telling him that she never could've known it was his sister and that she thought she was saving you from certain death. But that couldn't be... That was Anthony's sister. And Alexandria killed her. He knew what she was and what she would've done to him if he had let her too close and looking back at the situation he may have let her step a little too close at the time Alexandria stepped in but he had it under control. Alexandria ruined it! He wanted her to leave. But it was more than that; he didn't just want to see her walk away from that house and never come back. He wanted her dead. He wanted to dump her body in the lake so no one would ever know that he had done it. Just then he heard a branch snap behind him. Anthony whipped around and pointed his revolver ready to kill whatever was behind him, whether it be walkers or Alexandria. But it was neither, it was only Noah. Anthony was angry but he wasn't going to kill an innocent person, Noah was a friend. Noah asked him what was wrong. He told Anthony that he saw him almost get chomped by a walker until Alexandria saved him. Anthony assured Noah that Alex hadn't saved him and told him all about his sister being the walker. Noah asked if Anthony wanted to be left alone and Anthony said he didn't think so, because if he was then his mind might convince him to do something he would later regret. Noah asked what that was and Anthony told him about his brief moment of being sure that he wanted to kill Alexandria over what happened. Noah asked him how he felt about it now. Anthony said that talking to someone else has grounded him back and made him realize that he could never do that but he was worried that if he was left alone again that the anger might start making him feel like he needs to do it again. So Noah told him he should...
Anthony asked Noah why he would tell him to do such a thing. After all the death they'd experienced WHY would he kill another live person? Noah told him about how this zombie infested world is a new world. A world where order is established by the people around you and not any government. Anything that you feel like you need to do is something you should do as long as you can keep yourself from getting caught in the act of doing it. If Anthony thinks he could get away with murdering Alexandria then Noah told him that he should do it, because not doing it would be bottling up the anger that might then be released on someone innocent. And we wouldn't want an innocent person to die, would we? The more Noah talked the more Anthony old feelings began to come back. The more he began to feel like killing Alexandria was the right thing to do. Noah was just making so much sense! And he was right...
Alexandria was inside washing dishes and trying to think about what she's going to say to Anthony when he comes inside when the door opened. It was Anthony, and his hand was on his gun... Alexandria asked him what he was doing and Anthony told her it was something that needed to be done. Alexandria could see that Anthony was tearing up again, his lip quivering, his entire body was shaking. She told him not to do it because it was something that he would regret for the rest of his time on earth. She told him that murder has a lasting effect on any person that goes through with it whether they believe it was justified or not. He would be more dead inside then her if he did this. Anthony hesitated... His mind raced like a drag car... He couldn't decide... He was right there... His finger was on the trigger... There was a 4th of a pound of resistance between him and what he felt like he needed...................
And he couldn't do it...
He bolted back out the door into the same spot in the woods he was before where he thought Noah was waiting but didn't find anyone. He was infuriated with himself. He began to tear off his clothes and violently beat the trees around him like a mad man. Then he saw a walker coming towards him in the woods. He picked up his revolver and went towards the walker and then shot it point blank in the head. He began to violently kick the walkers lifeless body on the ground and then he saw another walker. 2 more walkers, actually. He walked up to them and fired point blank on both of them and killed them. Then there was another fairly large group of walkers that came from over a hill that Anthony didn't even bother to count, he just wanted to kill. One by one he walked up to them, put the gun at their heads point blank and fired. Of course he only got to do it 3 more times before his 6-shooter revolver ran out of bullets. Anthony looked up at the group of walkers and realized what a mistake he'd made. This wasn't just a group, this was like a mini-hoarde. Walking up to the walkers and shooting them point blank had gotten him dangerously close to the group and he didn't see a way to escape that wouldn't end in him getting bitten. He began to scream loudly and beat walkers in the head with the butt of his pistol to try and get rid of some. It took multiple hits to take out one and by that time another had taken it's place in the group. Anthony thought to himself that this was a great day to leave his backup knife in his bedroom. He kept screaming and hoping that someone would hear him when he saw Alexandria round the corner with her baseball bat and immediately jumped in and began beating walkers. She almost got threw herself in the middle of the hoarde to help Anthony, he wanted to be touched by the situation but he knew that he didn't really have time for any feelings until they were both safe. Alexandria had managed to make a small dent in the group that Anthony ran through to get to her but sadly another group had come up behind them and left them both trapped in between a large hoarde. Alexandria told Anthony to reload his gun while she held the walkers off as long as possible. She also told them that in case this kills them both that she forgave him for almost killing her, and that she aplogizes for killing his sister. Anthony was so nervous trying to reload his gun that he ended up dropping a few bullets on the ground. His hands were so shaky that even after picking them up it was a struggle to get them back in his gun. Alexandria had created a hole big enough for one person that she could get through to safety. She was so convinced to do it that she even took one big step towards it but realized that she couldn't just leave behind Anthony, she wouldn't. Maybe he almost killed her but the keyword there is ALMOST. He didn't kill her, she thinks he's a good person. Anthony finally got his gun loaded and began taking carefully aimed shots to make sure that every one killed a walker coming at them. The walkers were getting too close now, they didn't have long. Noah rounded the corner as Anthony fired off the last bullet he had and tossed a spare knife over the crowd of walkers. Noah then began cutting walkers heads off with his katana. He had spent a lot of his time sharpening it's blade so it went through their necks quickly. With Noah quickly taking out walkers and Anthony having a weapon that didn't run out of ammo they disposed of the entire herd pretty quickly. Anthony couldn't believe that he had made it out of that alive. That they had ALL made it out of that alive. He felt a tap on his shoulder, turned around, and immediately began to cry again. Alexandria had tapped his shoulder, her shoulder was bleeding badly, it was pretty clear by the marks that she had been bitten. Anthony couldn't believe it, she had done everything to save the man who'd tried to kill her. This wasn't how things were supposed to happen. If anyone should die then it should be him. He told her that he was sorry for the way he had acted today, he thanked her for saving his life twice today. Her smile was the last thing he saw on her face before Noah blew it off with a bullet from his 6-shooter. For a moment Anthony wanted to be filled with rage and lash out at Noah. But the situation seemed familiar to what Alexandria had done earlier that day, so he decided he wouldn't. In memory of Alexandria he wouldn't, he didn't want to go through this again. The rest of the groupn was either out learning how to hunt or digging an emergency escape tunnel in the basement just in case they got overrun. Noah comferted Anthony as they walked to rejoin the group. It had to happen.... It was for the best....
