Chapter 65 Some Days

The sick people continued to get better over the next few days. Beth who had gotten very close to Glen, visited him every day. She would come a couple times, she would always eat lunch with Glen and talk to him, keeping him with a positive mindset.

Carol also visited Lizzy and she would bring Mica and Sophia with her. These visits really helped to bring them all closer to each other.

Ty had visited Sasha and Karen who had started chatting as they were both in the same situation. They found that they got along quite well with each other. Ty spent many hours talking to them over the past days and was happy to see them get along. They couldn't spend too much time with him though as they had to rest well.

John had stayed away from his family for these few days. He planned the expansion of the prison and had brought the healthy core members to the library to explain. Everyone was very supportive, and Hershel wanted to take in a portion of the forest, he wanted everyone to be able to experience nature.

The people were getting a little tired of being stuck in this relatively confined space. John was very happy to listen to Hershel, as he also thought it was a good idea. Rick said, "We should also fence in the plains around us, so we have more room to farm and house our animals. I would be nice to have the animals further away."

Daryl said, "Shit stinks." John nodded at this suggestion. He was changing his plans as the group continued to suggest more ideas.

With the manpower they now possessed, they would be able to expand quicker. John estimated that they would be able to complete it within 3 months. It could be even faster if they went out and found some construction vehicles.

Hearing this the group was excited, they talked for a while longer and discussed some other plans to send out scavengers and search parties to look for people. They were thinking of rebuilding civilization.

With that the discussion ended and they each went off to do their own things. John decided to clear the walkers from the fence, they were piling up as no one was going out to kill them. John checked on his family before he walked over to the gate. John grabbed an iron fire poker before he walked out of the gate.

The walkers were immediately attracted to John and began to shamble over. John whistled sharply, catching the attention of some walkers who had yet to notice him. John then started to walk down the road calmly, while a horde of maybe 200 walkers followed him. Anyone else in John's situation, would be shitting their pants right about now.

When John walked out on foot, many people who were tending to the farm noticed him. They were shocked beyond disbelief, as they watched John calmly walk away from the prison as a horde of walkers were following him. They were having a panic attack just by looking at John do this; they couldn't even imagine what would happen to them if they attempted the same thing.

John who was now about 2 miles away from the prison, started to walk into the forest. He would whistle every now and then to keep their attention. John walked through the woods while whistling and came to a clearing. John then stopped and stood still in the middle of the clearing.

It wasn't long before the walkers caught up to him. They shambled towards him, but John continued to stay still. When they were in front of John, he moved. He dashed forwards into the horde stabbing and smashing heads with his poker.

Blood soaked his clothes as he continued to run through the horde while killing them. Getting bored of that weapon. John summoned an 8-foot buster sword and began to swing it around. Decimating 6 or 7 walkers with each swing, John lopped heads off and cut bodies in half. All around John, wherever he went, dismembered walker parts littered around him.

You can only imagine what someone who may pass through the area would think. Bodie parts littered the entire area now. All the walkers had been killed or handy capped. John then walked through stabbing the head of any walker that dared to move.

When John finished checking them all, John through the buster sword into Eden before he made his way back. Poker in hand, John walked down the road, blood falling off of him and hitting the road as he continued forward. When John got to the prison, he opened the gate and walked in. He set the fire poker back where it was before.

Then he walked into the yard he grabbed a bucket of water to clean himself off.

The farmers who had watched John walk through the gate covered in walker blood, with no walkers following him at all. Were completely shocked as they watched John walk over near them. They all looked at him with agape mouths as they watched him fill a bucket. John who felt the stares, looked over and saw their expressions. He said, "What?"

The people said, "You have brains in your hair." John rubbed his hair and looked at his hand.

He said, "Oh." Then John walked off to clean himself.

John then poured the water over himself while he was outside the gate once again. When he was relatively cleaned off, with no walker guts or other pieces, John walked back into the prison to take an actual shower. When John finished showering, he walked over to his room and talked to his family through the door.

John said, "We can be together again in a few days. Most of the sick have gotten way better. Soon they will be completely free of the virus. Then we can spend time together again." Sarah who heard this cheered loudly waking up Joey and Cassy who were taking a nap.

They began to cry, but when they saw John, they immediately stopped and started to giggle as they watched John make funny faces through the glass. Even Sarah was laughing along, the women just looked at John with a smile on their faces.

John told them he was going on a run tomorrow and asked if they wanted him to look for anything specific. His girls gave him a list of different things they wanted. Amy wanted a cosmic brownie, Maggie wanted a KitKat bar, Alicia wanted mini jawbreakers, Carly wanted a snickers and Victoria wanted some salt and vinegar chips. John wrote these down so he wouldn't forget.

The next day John walked out of the tower and walked over to his car, Kenny walked over and asked, "Can I join you?"

John nodded with a smile, and they got his car, John started his Mustang and it purred to life. John then drove out of the prison gate, when they were a distance away, John blasted some rock music with the windows open, drawing any walkers near the prison away. When they were about 10 miles out John cut off the music, they didn't want to bring a horde with them to where they wanted to loot, did they?

They turned off the main road onto a side road and continued for a couple miles before they stopped, they passed by big open plains. They stopped at a building that had tons of writing on it, there were many messages for different people on the building and telling them how to find them in code.

John seeing this was hopeful to meet some of these people in the future. He would try and bring back even more people back to build the prison even bigger. John planned to make bases in different areas as well, but that was for another time. They then continued driving forward.

They arrived in a small town and John slowed down as they scoped out some buildings. The buildings were mainly made of bricks or concrete. John had to dodge many piles of trash on the ground. At the end of the street, there was an apartment building, in front of the building was a food shipping truck.

John looked down the road and saw a little girl standing in the window. The girl waved at them for a second, but she moved away from the window quickly and retreated away from the window. Seeing this, John drove his car down the road, to the building and parked. John and Kenny got out of the car and grabbed their packs, before they walked over to the food truck.

They lifter the back door but the inside was completely empty currently. John nodded and said, "I'll check this building out first then move on."

Seeing this Kenny sighed heavily before he said, "I'll go check out some other buildings." With that the two of them split off. Kenny walked off to the building next to the apartment complex. John watched him walk off before he also wanted up to the entrance of the building.

John didn't immediately go towards where he saw the girl. He instead went from apartment to apartment and searched it relentlessly. John tossed garbage around the room as he searched the rooms. He found some interesting things, some different games and cards, John took them immediately because he knew the kids would enjoy playing with them.

John killed a walker that snuck up on him with his knife, John still wondered why they were able to move so silently when they were sneaking up on someone. They literally stopped growling and their footsteps became muffled. John didn't show mercy however as he quickly thrusted his knife into the walker's face, before ripping it out quickly. The body hitting the floor created a loud thud that would definitely be heard through the thin walls.

John could hear movement above him, but he ignored it and continued to look through the building. John found some canned sardines and slurped them down quickly, they were covered in a mustard sauce and John quite liked them.

When John finished looting the all the first-floor apartments, John climbed the stairs at the end of the hall. There was also an elevator, but that was not working for obvious reasons. John climber up the stairs as they creaked from his weight. It was quite light inside the stairwell as there were some small windows that went up the walls.

John walked up the stairs and was going to loot some more apartments, but he heard a clicking sound, a pistol slide release. John looked over at the sound and saw a young woman around 25 pointing a pistol at John, another woman was also standing there holding a baseball bat, holding onto this womans back was the little girl John had saw before.

John walked towards them slowly with his hands visible, the ladies were a little intimidated by his muscle, but they calmed down because of the gun they had on him. John walked over to the ladies and stood before them in all his glory, John moved his left hand over to his revolver slowly and handed it over to the woman holding the baseball bat.

The woman took the revolver from John and both the women were now more relaxed seeing the unarmed John. Little did they know John could easily kill them all with just his knife, especially in this confined area that had plenty of cover.

They backed into the room and John followed them, John saw an old man sitting in a chair. He was hooked up to an oxygen tank, he was breathing heavily and looked very pale. John focused on the ladies and waited for them to speak.

The tanned woman asked John, "Can you sit down, please?" John nodded to her and sat down at the dining table. John looked around the room and saw a cramped apartment, there was a lot of stuff laying around.

Seeing how packed the room was, John asked, "How long y'all been hold up here?" The tanned women hesitated but the mother of the girl said, "We've been holed up in here waiting for the National Guard since--"

The tanned lady interrupted, "The shit hit the fan."

The paler woman rebuked, "Language."

The tanned lady corrects, "Since the crap hit the fan. Which it did right before it got flung all over the damn place." John nods as he looks at the two ladies.

The paler woman says, "Are you planning on staying in the building?"

John shook his head as he said, "I already hang my hat somewhere. Just came here to look for supplies."

The pale woman says, "Where?"

John looked at the woman for a second before he said, "Sorry, don't want people knowing where our base is. I hope you understand."

The tan woman tried to intimidate John with the pistol, but he just leaned back and sat there. The pale woman seeing this sighed before asking, "Did you come alone?"

John shook his head and said, "No, I came with my bud, Kenny."

The old man who was sitting in a chair coughed some and the little girl was by him. John looked over and said, "Well I best be leaving. Kenny can be a little hot tempered, don't want him coming in here all gung ho.

John then walked over to the door and opened it. He was about to walk out but the pale woman came over, handing his pistol back. John shook his head however and said, "You need it more than me. I get around just fine. John was starting to walk out when the woman stopped him again, she asked, "You got a name?"

John smiled and said, "John." He then walked away, carrying his pack. The women watched as he went from room to room, searching for loot. When John finished with this floor, he was going to go up to the third floor, but the pale woman stopped him and asked him to follow her, her father had a request.

John walked in and over to the old man who was struggling to breath. The old man asked, "Can you get me a backgammon board from the third floor. Megan loves to play, and I would really be grateful if you could do this for me?"

John nodded quickly before he left the room. As he left, he could hear the family of four discussing something quietly. John ignored this and made his way to the third floor. As John walked up the stairs, he heard some thumping from the third floor.

John walked through the hallway and searched each room thoroughly. John filled up his black duffel a little more, it was now at half capacity. As John walked into the last room, the thumping was even louder. The sound was obviously coming from this room.

John pulled his knife out of its sheath and opened the door. John looked and saw nothing around, but the noise was coming from behind one of the doors. John walked towards it and slowly opened it, revealing a walker with no legs sitting in the bathtub. A revolver was sitting in the walker's lap, the man must have committed suicide and not had the sense to shoot himself in the head.

John walked over to it and stabbed it in the head, the knife digging deep into the walker's head. The walker stopped moving around and trying to get to him immediately. John then pulled his knife out; he rubbed the knife on the walker's shirt to clean it, before sheathing it. John then picked up the pistol and left the bathroom.

John put the pistol in his belt and started to search around. John found a good number of supplies here. John was looked for the bachgammon board, but he couldn't find it anywhere. After searching for a while, John found it nestled under the bed, there was also some ammo for the pistol.

When John was finished, he walked back down to the second floor. The women were standing there waiting for him, they had heard his boots hitting the stairs. John walked over to them and hand the board to the little girl. The girl took it and left hurriedly, but John paid no mind to that.

The pale woman said, "Sorry about that. Megan doesn't talk at all anymore. When she saw you pull up in your car, she thought it was her dad."

John nodded and said, "I understand."

John then started to walk away, but the woman said, "Why don't you and your friend join us for lunch later. Maybe around 2 pm."

John looked at his watch and saw it was 12 pm. He said, "Sure." John then walked away, walking over to the stairs and going down. John walked out of the building and began to search some other buildings, going the opposite direction of Kenny.

John looted about 20 buildings, filling three black duffle bags. John walked back to the car and saw Kenny standing there waiting. John walked over and put his bag in the trunk, Kenny did the same. Kenny was about to enter the car, but he was stopped by John.

John said, "Wait Kenny. We are joining a group of survivors I met for lunch."

Kenny said, "What? Where did you meet them?"

John explained, "I met them while I was looting the apartments. I helped them out and they decided to invite me for lunch, you by extension." Kenny nodded and followed John as they entered the apartment complex.