Whimpering... There was a sound... It sounded like whimpering... Noah sat up on the couch he slept on and looked around. Which room was it coming from? It was definitely a female's voice, after becoming fully awake he managed to figure that one out. Rooms switched often so it could be Joyce or Jemima... Should he walk in? Noah wasn't the best with sympathy, it's hard to relate to crying people when you can't feel. Walking in on Joyce could just pull him into some situation he didn't want to be apart of and walking into Jemima's room could get his head stabbed like Beth. But he couldn't sleep through all of that crying! It didn't seem like anyone else sleeping was bothered by it but he couldn't take it! He walked out into the hallway and stepped over to the door to the left of his where the noise was coming from. The door had small holes in it from the intruders gunfire almost a week ago. He peered in through one of the hole's and saw that it was Jemima, and she had cut her wrists... The sight of it frightened Noah, he was used to blood but not from self-inflicted wounds. This is something you only expect those goth kids in your school that listen to Slayer and Gwar to do. Noah knew more than anyone else that Jemima wasn't what she seemed but he never knew she was capable of this. She sat on her bed clinging a dismembered hand that Noah assumed belonged to one of her "pets". She was muttering something, it was barely legible under all that sobbing but Noah eventually made out that she was saying "Only half. 6 left. Half dead. All will die." He knew what she was talking about and didn't like it. Jemima had lost all hope of ever getting out of this situation alive with half the group that started out on this journey now dead. Noah knew the mind of a killer, if Jemima fell into a state of depression over this then she might do illogical things. Take a gun and go on a shooting spree, release her "pets" all over the house, or maybe even kill herself. Noah wouldn't have thought of that as an option before but after seeing Jemima abuse herself Noah thought that she might only be a step away from it. There was nothing he could do about it but follow her closely and make sure she wasn't planning anything. He would follow her to the pit every day and watch as she fed her pets. He would follow her on her water runs and go with her on hunting trips whenever she did that. He kept doing that for almost 4 days and every night he heard crying again. He didn't know whether or not she was still cutting or anything else that she did in there cause he didn't want to know anymore. As long as she was in her room and not sneaking around the house.
Noah dozed to far asleep one night and didn't notice Jemima slip out of her room. Jemima knew he was following her, she wasn't stupid but Noah was so it's hard for him to hide anything from her. She stepped over the tripwire Noah set outside her door that would turn on his lamp and jolt him awake. He was smart enough to take it down every morning but he was very conspicuous when he set it up every night right outside her door. Only 6 people are left. 12 left that plane and half of them had died in a month. Jemima knew that it was only a matter of time before they all left and all she wanted to do was help people along but Noah was hurting the process. She needed to do this, it's the only way. She walked through the woods until she reached her "children". She liked calling them her children because she never had any of her own. The only boyfriend she ever had jumped off the roof of the hotel she worked at before this all happened, at least that was the officer's conclusion. These things are so mindless and grabby that they just seemed like little babies to Jemima. Of course she knew that these were babies that would kill there mother if they got the chance but that happens a lot in the wild. She saw a program on television once about shark babies that eat there mothers. She pulled open the hatch that Noah put in the pit for her (Only smart thing he's ever done) and led her children to the house so that they could eat. They were going to get someone tonight. Jemima just knew it.
Anthony sat up in the attic gazing at the front yard on his shift as night watchman. It used to be that 2 people would sit up there to keep each other awake but the number of people has gotten too small to use 2 people per shift and not use everyone multiple times a night. So Anthony had to try and keep himself awake using any method possible. Nothing had worked so far so Anthony was experimenting with it. Tonight he was seeing if sticking peanut butter to the roof of his mouth would keep him awake. It was thoroughly annoying and distracting so he thought that it might just work this time, then he ran out of peanut butter. He knew that there was only one jar left in the house but he needed to keep himself awake for the safety of others so he went down to the kitchen to get the last jar. Someone else was down in the kitchen too. All he could make out was a silhouette but it's been established in the past that there are not supposed to be any midnight meal runs so Anthony was ready to come down hard on whoever was eating food when they're not supposed to. The closer he got the less he could make out who it was. The body and hair shape didn't look like anyone that lived in the house. But how could anyone have gotten in here without him seeing. Anthony decided that he would play it safe and pull out his gun. He told the person on the ground to turn around and they did, but this person was not alive. Anthony pulled out his backup knife, ran downstairs, and stabbed the walker in the head. He couldn't believe a walker got into the house on his watch! Carlos was going to be on his ass about this. Anthony realized that Carlos might be a little angrier about the fact that he didn't just let one walker in the house. There was an entire flock of walkers coming down the hallway leading from the ajar backdoor. Anthony noticed that it was open but didn't have anytime to think about it. He ran upstairs and woke up everyone telling them what was happening and to get there weapons. Anthony forgot to grab ammo though! The group kept most of their ammo in a desk downstairs or a box in the basement. The group sat at the top of the stairs and had to decide on a plan to escape while simultaneously keeping walkers from coming up to their floor.
The second Noah stepped out of his room and saw what had happened he assumed Jemima had done it. He began to ask where Jemima was because she wasn't with them on the top floor. No one knew where she was and that settled in Noah's mind that Jemima had done this. Then she ran down the hallway out of the bathroom and joined the group to fight. That made Noah incredibly confused but he decided to put it aside because he had to kill walkers now to survive. Allan checked all the windows, all of them could be jumped out of without sustaining any injuries but there were at least 6 walkers under every single one. They had surrounded every part of the house but the front and they had no access to a window leading out there except in the attic (Which had much to high of a drop to the ground to keep them from sustaining an injury). They kept fighting but the noise from these walkers had been attracting more walkers into their herd and it just kept growing. The group kept getting pushed farther and farther back until Jemima started climbing out of a window. Allan said that she was crazy and if she jumped out of that then she'd just land in a group of walkers below. But Jemima began scaling the side of the building around the side. Allan was suprised and when he looked out the window again he noticed a miniscule ledge that was just big enough to balance your feet on without too much risk of slipping out of it one by one. Jemima was hoping that they wouldn't notice her slipping out that window so that they would all remain in the house to feed her children but there were more ways to do that since they had followed her. The group jumped off the ledge once they reached the front of the house and had a few moments before the walkers picked up on their noise and started coming again. Joyce said that they should just run, head back up to the road they had started on and keep walking. Jemima said that they should head into the basement from the trap door on the side. Carlos had the key to it and they could grab their ammo and food boxes and head out the emergency escape hatch. Joyce warned that walkers might be in the basement and if more walkers came around the house and covered the entrance to the basement then they could be screwing themselves. But Carlos and Allan both agreed with Jemima. The escape hatch was a much safer place to be and they'd have food and ammo for wherever they were going next. It's a lot smaller of a risk then taking off on the road to risk running into the intruders again or another big hoarde. They ran around the side of the house and killed the walkers blocking the basement doors. The walkers fro inside the house had already noticed where the group was the they began working their way out windows to catch up to them. Carlos thought it seemed like they were raining from the sky when they fell out of the windows in big groups like that and it terrified him more. But he finally got the doors unlocked and the group piled into the basement. To their suprise there were no walkers in the basement so they had a little bit of time to gather food and ammo up before the walkers weight being piled on the doors was too much and the doors broke. But Jemima was the last one in the basement and left one of the doors open so the walkers began pouring in again almost immediately. They also heard them from upstairs and the walkers still inside the house began pouring into the basement. The group knew that they had to move IMMEDIATELY so they began running through the hatch. But without Noah... While the group was distracted gathering supplies and running into the tunnel Jemima quietly stuck her knife through Noah's throat in the back of the basement. She knew that the other members of her group were adamant and wouldn't go down easily so she decided that killing Noah was an easy way to get rid of the only person that knew she was crazy and feed her children. When the group got to the end of the tunnel and noticed that Noah was gone Jemima would begin crying again and tell them all that Noah tripped over a box and landed on his katana. It was risky, because she was also the only one that saw Beth die. She had to do it though. Everything she did was for a reason. Goodbye Noah. My children might like your company a lot more than I did....
I am just...wow. great episode but jemimma... wow.