Fight the Living/Episode 12: The Ballad of the Silent One

This is episode 4 of 8 of Fight the Living (2)

11 months earlier
Michonne had her cellphone to her ear, tapping her fingers impatiently.

Hello? a voice asked.

"Finally! I've tried so hard to get a hold of you!"

"Michonne, I-I've got to go! I'm in Atlanta! I'm tryin' to help people get out of here!"

"But-"

BEEP

Michonne closed her phone and tears bagan to fall. She looked around her panicked office where her co-workers were running back and forth. "STOP!" she shouted. They all stopped and looked at her.

"Get what's important, and go home. Gather your loved ones and board up your houses. Move. Do whatever you have to do to survive." They all stood there for a second, motionless. "Well, GO!" she shouted before they all rushed to their desks, gathered their things, and ran out the door.

Michonne opened her desk and pulled out a pistol.

Present Day
Michonne saw Andrea and Beth packing some things into the van. "Where are you going?" she asked Andrea.

"I'm going to Hershel's farm to talk some of them into coming back. Rick wants me to take Beth over there."

"I'll go with you."

"No. No, me and Beth need to go ourselves. I'm sorry but if the Governor were to show up and you weren't here-"

"I understand." Michonne lied. She wanted to be with Andrea. Andrea was her only friend in all this, after all.

Michonne walked out into the field to look at the graves.

"One of them isn't dead." Carl said just as he showed up behind her.

"What d'you mean?"

"They don't have labels, but there's still one-too-many. We thought Carol was dead for a while. 'Turned out she had been holed up in the tombs."

"Who are the rest?"

"That one's Daryl. That one's for my mom. That one at the end was T-Dog."

"T-Dog? What was his real name?"

"Umm...Theodore." Carl said after thinking for a few seconds. When Michonne heard the name, she looked as though she was about to have a heart attack.

"What was his last name?" she interrogated him.

Carl looked startled and backed up as he was speaking, "His last name was Douglas."

Michonne dropped on her knees in front of his grave. "My-my brother...was alive?"

(Cue Opening Credits)

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