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[RAISON D'ETRE]

1.02 || a bunch of useless reprobates

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Adaline sits cross-legged behind Glenn at the top of the steps as she idly spins one of her knives on the tip, staring aimlessly across the roof as everyone's voices fade into background noise.

And then, in an attempt to fully block everyone out, she just starts planning what order she'd start getting rid of people in. She'd push Andrea off the roof first. She was sick of listening to her whine. Merle would probably have to be close to last because she'd probably need Jason or Glenn's help and there wouldn't be the same opportunity for surprise as there would with Andrea.

She didn't really want to have to kill Rick too, so she'd probably have to knock him out to achieve any of this in the first place.

"Hey." Glenn whispers and Adaline glances to the side.

"What?" She whispers.

"What are you doing?" He asks.

"Planning what order I'd kill everyone in. Why?" She asks and he pauses slightly before nodding a little.

"Never mind." He says.

"You're not on the list. Andrea's first." Adaline whispers and he frowns.

"You're not gonna try, right?" Glenn asks.

"No, because if I make a mistake, not that I would, but if I did, I'd just have to listen to everyone bitch and whine even more." Adaline says.

"That's your only reason?" He asks and she nods with a hum. "Okay."

"Hey, Glenn." Morales says and they both look up. "Check the alley. You see any manhole covers?"

Adaline rolls her eyes, looking down again when Glenn gets up and heads across the roof. Maybe she'd kill Morales first. She was sick of him taking charge. He just wouldn't be as easy to catch off guard as Andrea.

"No, must be all out on the street where the geeks are." Glenn says as he runs back over.

"Does this mean we get to go out there and start killing them?" Adaline asks, glancing up.

"Maybe not. Old buildings like this, built in the '20s. Big structures often had drainage tunnels into the sewers in case of flooding down in the sub basements." Jacqui says and Adaline's question gets ignored, making her frown a little and Glenn just pats her shoulder gently when she lets out a frustrated huff.

"How do you know that?" Glenn asks.

"It's my job. Was. I worked in the city zoning office." Jacqui says.

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Adaline walks slightly ahead of Glenn as they lead most of the group, minus Merle and T-Dog, down to the basement and the entrance to the sewers. "This is it? Are you sure?" Morales asks and Adaline looks at him incredulously.

"Why would we have led you here if this wasn't it? Of course this is it." She responds impatiently.

"What she means is," Glenn starts, cutting off an argument before it could start and Adaline looks at him with a frown as he continues, "We really scoped this place out the other times we've been here. It's the only thing in the building that goes down." Glenn says.

"That wasn't what I meant. I said what I meant." Adaline argues.

"Ada," Glenn whispers and she rolls her eyes with an impatient sigh. "But we've never gone down it. Who'd want to, right?" He asks and everyone just looks at him. "Oh. Great." He says.

"I'll go with you." Adaline says and Glenn nods.

"And we'll be right behind you." Andrea says.

"No, you won't. Not you." Glenn says.

"Why not me? Think I can't?" Andrea asks.

"Oh, I absolutely think you can't." Adaline says and Jason snorts briefly.

"I wasn't-" Glenn trails off.

"Speak your mind." Rick says and Adaline looks at him with a frown before shaking her head.

"Look, until now, Ada and I always came here alone. In and out, grab a few things. No problem. And frankly, she was right earlier. The first time we bring a group, everything goes to hell. No offence." Glenn says.

"Oh, much offence. You're a bunch of useless reprobates." Adaline says and everyone frowns at her.

"Ada, we talked about this. Fancy words don't make it less mean." Glenn says quietly. "Anyway, if you want me to go down this gnarly hole, fine. But only if we do it my way." Glenn says and Adaline elbows him. "Our way." He amends and she nods. "It's tight down there. If we run into something and have to get out quick, we don't want you all jammed up behind us getting us killed. We'll," He glances at Ada briefly and she nods. "We'll take one other person. Not you either." Glenn says to Rick. "You've got Merle's gun and I've seen you shoot. I'd feel better if you were out in that store watching those doors, covering our ass. And you've got the only other gun, so you should go with him." Glenn says to Andrea.

"It does generally help, when shooting a gun, if you turn the safety off, by the way. Just a friendly suggestion." Adaline says to Andrea and the blonde rolls her eyes.

"Ada, be nice." Glenn says.

"No."

"Okay, you'll come with us." He says to Morales. "Jacqui stays here. Something happens, yell down to us, get us back up here in a hurry. Jason, stay with Andrea and Rick." Glenn says.

"Okay." Jacqui responds and Adaline pulls her gun out of the back of her jeans, holding it out towards Jason.

"Thank you. Appreciated." He says and she nods.

"Wouldn't want you to be totally useless." She responds.

"Thanks, Ada." He says dryly and she nods again.

"Okay, everybody knows their jobs." Rick says.

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Adaline climbs down the ladder to the sewers first, catching the flashlight Glenn drops down to her, before he climbs down after her and Morales last. "Well, that looks fun." Morales remarks as they look down the tunnel.

"In what universe does that look fun?" Adaline asks incredulously.

"That was sarcasm, Ada." Glenn says.

"Oh, my bad." She says before walking down the tunnel as she hands the flashlight back to Glenn.

"You're in front. You don't want it?" Glenn asks.

"If I wanted it, I wouldn't have given it back." Adaline says.

She glances at Glenn briefly as they walk through the sewers when he makes a noise after a rat squeaks, running past them and she hesitates slightly as she looks forwards again. "Hey, did you know snakes smell with their tongue?" She asks.

"They do?" Glenn asks and she hums.

"And Buzz Lightyear's name was originally Lunar Larry." Adaline says.

She did this every time they came out if they ended up in a situation that was freaking Glenn out. She'd just start spewing whatever random facts she could think of. When they'd gotten blocked in by the hoard on their last run, she spent two hours telling him all the facts she could think of about sharks.

"Ada, I don't see what this has to do with what we're doing." Morales says.

"Shut up." She responds. "Giraffes are thirty times more likely to get hit by lightning than people." She says.

"I think you already told me that." Glenn says.

"I did? Oh, uh, did you know your brain is constantly eating itself?" She asks.

"Wait, seriously?" Glenn asks.

"It's a process called phagocytosis. It's not harmful. It's just where cells envelop and consume smaller cells or molecules to remove them from the system. It helps to preserve your grey matter or brain matter." Adaline explains.

"What is brain matter?" He asks.

"A component of the central nervous system." She says plainly.

"No, like, I know there's white matter too. What's the difference?" Glenn asks.

"Oh! Uh, so, grey matter contains numerous cell bodies and fewer myelinated axons but white matter on the other hand, contains fewer cell bodies and is mostly composed of long-range myelinated axons." Adaline says and Glenn glances at Morales with a confused frown but the other man just shrugs. "The colour difference is primarily because of the whiteness of myelin. Grey matter's more of a, like, light grey with yellow and pink colour hues. The yellow and pink are capillary blood vessels and neuronal cell bodies." Adaline says.

"Ada, I don't think I understood half of what you just said." Glenn says.

"But that's the answer to your question." She says as she looks ahead of them.

"What are myelinated axons? In the simplest terms you can put it in." Glenn asks.

"Uh, axons are the portion of the nerve cell that carries nerve impulses away from the cell body. And myelin is a lipid-rich material that surrounds the axons to insulate them and increase the rate at which electrical impulses pass to the axon. So, a myelinated axon is an insulated axon. And the, uh, myelin is like a white sheath, I guess." Adaline says.

"Oh, okay. So, they're like cells." Glenn says.

"They're a portion of the nerve cell or a neuron." She corrects.

"Why are we talking about cells?" Morales asks.

"We're not. We're talking about a portion of neurons." Adaline says.

"But why?" He asks.

"Because Glenn asked." Adaline responds.

"She's been doing this thing where she starts telling me random facts she knows if I seem slightly freaked out." Glenn explains.

"Oh," Morales says.

A silent pause settles between the three of them as they walk before Adaline speaks again, "Wearing a tie can reduce blood flow to the brain by seven-point-five percent. And they can increase the pressure on your eyes if it's too tight and they are fantastic germ carriers." She says.

"That's actually a little disturbing." Glenn says.

"Octopi don't have tentacles. Technically, most species have arms. A tentacle is defined as limbs with suckers at their end. Octopi have suckers down most of the length of their arms. And they die soon after mating."

"They do?" Glenn asks and she nods.

"During reproduction, the male octopus delivers sperm by inserting a specialised arm, typically the third right arm, into the female octopus' mantle cavity or sometimes he apparently literally just hands her the sperm. And he'll then swim away and die within a few months. The females lay the eggs and then obsessively guard them until they hatch. She stops eating too. And then after they hatch, her body pretty much turns on her and it goes through what's called cellular suicide, which basically rips through her tissues and organs until she dies." Adaline says.

"That's horrific." Glenn says.

"That's the circle of life." Adaline responds. "I used to love the Discovery Channel. Honestly, not being able to watch the Discovery Channel is one of the worst parts of the world ending." She says.

"Ada, I say this with all the respect I could possibly say this with. But you're crazy." Morales says.

"Because I like the Discovery Channel?" She asks with a frown.

"No, because you think the lack of access to the Discovery Channel is one of the worst things about the world ending." Morales clarifies.

"Oh. Okay. Sewer tunnel." She says, gesturing ahead of them.

"Yeah, we've got ourselves a sewer tunnel." Morales agrees. "Jacqui was right."

"Yeah, I just said that." Adaline says and Glenn gently pats her arm.

"Can we cut through it?" Glenn asks.

"If we had a blowtorch, and half a day, sure. Dale's hacksaw sure as hell won't do it." Morales responds and Glenn glances at Adaline.

"Do you have a blowtorch?" Glenn asks.

"No. I have matches. Why would I have a blowtorch?" Adaline asks.

"Why would you have a crowbar?" Glenn retorts.

"Lots of reasons, Glenn. Crowbars are useful. As weapons or as tools for opening things. Blowtorches are super inefficient. You have to find gas for them. I don't need gas for matches." Adaline says.

"Forget I asked." Glenn says, shaking his head briefly before turning back around when they hear a crunching noise.

Both Glenn and Morales point their torches down before jumping back when they see the walker on the other side of the grate eating a rat and it reaches for them. "Don't be such babies." Adaline says, grabbing her knife and stabbing the walker in the head through the grate. "Come on, let's go." Adaline says before walking past them both as the body drops to the floor.

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"Any luck?" Jacqui asks as they all climb back up into the basement.

"No, there's a grate." Morales responds.

"That we can't get through anyways." Adaline adds.

"Yeah, I got that." Jacqui says pointedly and Adaline shrugs gently.

"It was implied." Glenn whispers.

"Just thought I'd clarify." She says.

"Yeah, I know." Glenn responds and she nods as they follow Jacqui and Morales back out to the front of the store. "Hey, do you want to know a weird fact I know?" Glenn asks and Adaline glances over at him.

"Sure." She responds.

"It's physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky." He says and she smiles slightly.

"How'd you know that?" She asks.

"Read it somewhere. I think it has something to do with the shape of their necks or something." Glenn says and she hums.

"I didn't know that. But I can add it to my list of pig facts." She says.

"You have a list?" Glenn asks.

"Yeah. Like, pigs don't sweat." She says.

"They don't sweat?"

"They don't have sweat glands. It's one of the reasons they cover themselves in mud. It's to cool off." Adaline says.

"That is so bizarre." Glenn says and Adaline shrugs.

"You only think that because you can sweat." She says.

"Yeah, I guess. But it is weird." He says.

"Oh, it's definitely weird." She agrees.

They walk into the main part of the store to see the walkers banging at the front door while Andrea, Jason and Rick stand watching them. "What did you find down there?" Rick asks.

"Not a way out." Morales responds.

"We need to find a way, soon." Andrea says.

"Well, I don't see you offering up any ideas." Adaline remarks and Andrea turns to look at her.

"Have you got a problem with me?" Andrea asks.

"I just think you're whiny and annoying and useless. And your voice is really grating." Adaline says with a shrug and Jason laughs, burying his face in his hand.

"Maybe we should just head back up to the roof." Glenn suggests, cutting in before Andrea can retort.

"Hey, can I have my gun back?" Adaline asks, looking at Jason as they walk towards the stairs for the roof and he nods, holding it out towards her. "Thanks." She responds, tucking it into her jeans.

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Adaline sits next to Jason on the steps on the roof while everyone leans over the edge of the roof, looking into the street. "Are they aware they only have one pair of binoculars?" Adaline mutters.

"You know, I'm not totally sure." Jason responds with a slight frown.

"That construction site, those trucks. They always keep the keys on hand." Rick says.

"You'll never make it past the walkers." Morales says.

"I'll go." Adaline says, holding a hand up and everyone looks over at her.

"Alone?" Andrea asks.

"Well, if you want to come with me, feel free but I will push you into the walkers and leave you for dead." Adaline says with a shrug.

"You two got me out of that tank." Rick says to Glenn and Adaline, interrupting the conversation.

"Yeah, but they were feeding. They were distracted." Glenn says.

"Unless you have another horse to distract them." Adaline says.

"I think it's pretty clear I don't." Rick says and the brunette shrugs. "Can we distract them again?" Rick asks.

"Right. Listen to him. He's onto something. A diversion, like on 'Hogan's Heroes'." Merle suggests.

"God. Give it a rest." Jacqui says.

"Oh, my God, we could use Merle. Throw him into the hoard. If Merle's not enough, we throw Andrea out too." Adaline says and Jason starts laughing again as he drops his head.

"Ada, we're not using people as bait." Rick says and she rolls her eyes with a huff.

"Nobody needs Merle." She grumbles.

"They're drawn by sound, right?" Rick asks.

"Right, like dogs. They hear a sound, they come." Glenn says.

"Except dogs are cute." Adaline says.

"Right, except that." Glenn says and she nods.

"What else?" Rick prompts.

"Aside from they hear you? They see you, smell you, and if they catch you, they eat you." Morales says.

"They can tell us by smell?" Rick asks.

"Can't you?" Glenn retorts.

"They smell dead, we don't. It's pretty distinct." Andrea says.

"Oh, God. That's his 'I have an idea' face." Jason says.

"We're all gonna die." Adaline says and Jason nods solemnly.

"Alright, give it a rest you two." Rick says.

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Adaline hovers beside Glenn as Rick starts grabbing things in the store, passing them out to her and Glenn. "If bad ideas were an Olympic event, this would take the gold." Glenn says.

"He's right. Just stop, okay? Take some time to think this through." Morales says as he walks over to Rick.

"How much time? They already got through one set of doors, that glass won't hold forever." Rick says, tossing jackets at Adaline and Glenn, both of them catching them and Adaline shrugs before pulling her jacket on and opening the packet to pull on the gloves.

Andrea and Glenn hold the door open as Morales and Rick run out to grab one of the walkers they'd killed earlier. Then, while they move the body into the middle of the room, Adaline passes Rick the crowbar from her pack as he puts on a face shield so he could get the fire axe out of the box on the wall. Adaline holds the crowbar in front of her as they all stand around the body, Rick holding the fire axe.

And as he goes to swing, he stops and pulls back and Adaline sighs as he pulls the face shield off, dropping that and the axe to the floor. Then, he grabs the man's wallet from his pocket. "Wayne Dunlap." He says and Adaline rolls her eyes.

"Why would you find out his name? That makes it worse." She says, shaking her head a little.

"Georgia licence." Rick continues, ignoring her and Adaline rubs her face in frustration. "Born in 1979." He holds the licence out to Glenn. "He had twenty-eight dollars in his pocket when he died and a picture of a pretty girl. 'With love, from Rachel'. He used to be like us, worrying about bills, or the rent or the Super Bowl. If I ever find my family," Adaline and Jason share a surreptitious look. They probably should have told him. Oh, well. "I'm gonna tell them about Wayne." Rick puts the man's wallet back before getting up.

"Well, now you've sufficiently made everyone feel worse about the fact that we're gonna hack this guy up and cover ourselves in his guts, let's get to it." Adaline says dryly.

"One more thing. He was an organ donor." Glenn says.

"Yeah, that's not what this is. But I guess that's the spirit." Adaline says and Jason snorts as she pats Glenn's shoulder.

And then Rick swings again, this time, the axe actually lands in the body and everyone gasps. "Madre de dios!" Morales remarks.

And then Rick chops off the leg below the knee, drawing more disgusted exclamations from everyone present. "Keep chopping." Rick says, holding out the shield and axe to Morales.

"I am so gonna hurl." Glenn says and Adaline gently pats his back.

"Later." Rick says. "Everybody got gloves? Don't get any on your skin or in your eyes."

She didn't think the no skin contact was strictly necessary but she had a feeling that arguing wouldn't really do much blood. But, she had gotten walker blood on her skin before and she was still alive so it couldn't do much harm.

Adaline glances at Glenn with a slight frown. "You can stay here if you want." She offers quietly and he shakes his head, cringing when Morales swings again. "Are you sure?" She asks.

"I'm fine." He says and she nods before crouching down and scooping out some of the guts to smear down the front of her coat.

"Does anything make you even remotely squeamish?" T-Dog asks and Adaline asks.

"Uh, no. Some things make me uncomfortable but nothing really makes me squeamish. Why?" She asks.

"Because you're wiping guts down yourself without batting an eye." He says and she shrugs, smearing it down her front again and then down her arms before everyone crouches down to help her, Rick and Glenn.

"Oh, God. Oh jeez. Oh, this is bad. This is really bad." Glenn says.

"Think about something else. Puppies and kittens." Rick suggests.

"Dead puppies and kittens." T-Dog remarks and Adaline steps away from Glenn when he turns around to hurl.

"That is just evil. What is wrong with you?" Andrea asks.

"You okay?" Adaline asks, gently patting Glenn's back.

"No." He says.

"Didn't think so." She responds.

"Next time, let the cracker beat his ass." Jacqui says.

"I'm sorry, yo." T-Dog says as Glenn straightens up again.

"You suck." Glenn retorts.

"Do we smell like them?" Rick asks.

"Oh, yeah." Andrea confirms. "Glenn." She pulls her gun out, holding it out towards him. "Just in case."

"I hope the safety was on." Adaline remarks when Andrea tucks the gun in the front of his jeans.

"Was it?" Glenn asks.

"Yes." Andrea says.

"If we make it back, be ready." Rick says.

"What about Merle Dixon?" T-Dog asks and Rick tosses over the key to the handcuffs.

"Give me the axe. We need- We need more guts." Rick says.

"I'll do it. I'm pretty covered." Adaline says, wiping the excess blood off her hands and onto her coat before taking the axe from Morales and swinging the axe down.

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Adaline hands Glenn the crowbar as they move towards the door and he glances at her. "What are you using?" He asks and she smiles before pulling out her knife. "Stupid question. My bad." He says and she shrugs as he takes the crowbar.

"You could have the knife but I thought you'd prefer range." She says.

"You were right." He responds and she nods before they follow Rick out into the alley.

The three of them walk slowly down the alley, past the two walkers who don't pay them much notice before getting down and crawling under the bus at the end of the alley, getting up and continuing down the street, through the horde of walkers.

Adaline glances up briefly when she hears the thunder, rolling her shoulders slightly as they keep walking.

She glances at Glenn and Rick in her peripheral when she notices a couple of walkers getting closer to them. "It's gonna work. I can't believe it." Glenn whispers.

"Shush." Adaline mutters.

"Don't draw attention." Rick whispers back.

She was pretty sure she covered that with 'shush'.

Adaline frowns slightly, glancing at Glenn when she hears him growling to see him side-eying the walker beside him before the thunder rumbles again. "It's raining." She whispers as thunder crashes again. "Oh, we're fucked." She mutters as the rain suddenly comes pouring down, washing the blood and guts scent off the three of them.

"Don't say that." Glenn mutters.

"We are fucked." Adaline retorts.

"The smell's washing off. Is it washing off?" Glenn asks frantically.

"No." Rick says before he spots the walkers looking at them a little too directly. "Well, maybe."

Adaline drives her knife through the skull of a walker when it swerves towards her suddenly. "I think we passed maybe!" Adaline says as Rick drives his axe into the top of another walker's head.

"Run!" Rick instructs.

The three of them start running, Adaline and Glenn ending up slightly ahead of Rick towards the fence for the construction site. Adaline is the first over the fence, pulling off the jacket as Rick and Glenn land on the other side, doing the same and Adaline grabs Rick's discarded axe when he and Glenn just run further into the construction site, leaving everything on the floor.

"Don't leave good weapons behind, dumbasses!" Adaline shouts as she runs to catch up with them while Rick turns around, pulling his gun out.

She runs over to Glenn as he breaks the padlock on the box with the keys in, grabbing a set of keys. "Give 'em." She says and Glenn passes them to her. "Rick can't drive for shit." She says and he frowns.

"I don't think that's necessarily important." Glenn argues.

"Shush. Rick, come on!" Adaline shouts as she and Glenn run over to one of the trucks.

Adaline turns the key as Rick climbs into the truck, slamming the door just as some of the walkers that had climbed the fence reach them, banging on the windows. "Ada, go!" Glenn says.

"I'm going. Jesus." She responds as she reverses the truck before driving through the fence on the other side of the construction site.

"Oh, my God. Oh, my God. They're all over that place." Glenn says.

"Yeah, we saw that." Adaline responds.

"Ada, you're driving the wrong way." Glenn says.

"We can't drive through them. We'll be leading them straight back to the store and it could fuck the truck." Adaline responds.

"She's right. You need to draw them away." Rick says. "Those roll-up doors at the front of the store. That area? That's what we need cleared." He explains.

"Otherwise we won't be able to back the truck up to the building and this will have been entirely pointless." Adaline chimes in.

"Raise your friends. Tell them to get down there and be ready." Rick says.

"And I'm drawing the geeks away how? I-I missed that part!" Glenn responds.

"Noise." Rick says.

"Oh, my God. Do we get to steal a car?" Adaline asks, looking at her brother.

"You could look a little less excited." Rick responds and she rolls her eyes.

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Adaline grabs the crowbar as she climbs out of the van before walking over to a parked car, slamming it through the window and setting off the car alarm. "Why does she know how to do this?" Glenn asks as Adaline reaches through the window, opening the car from the inside before sliding into the seat.

"She's done it before." Rick responds as Adaline opens her bag, pulling out a screwdriver.

"Why do you have a screwdriver?" Glenn calls to the brunette.

"Because I packed for an apocalypse!" Adaline responds, pushing the screwdriver into the ignition and turning it, tilting her head slightly as the ignition starts up. "Kay, good to go." Adaline says, climbing out of the seat as she zips her bag back up. "You can drive." She says to Glenn as she walks around the car and Rick just shrugs at Glenn before walking back over to the truck.

"I thought you were going with Rick." Glenn says as he pulls the car door shut.

"What to go and be responsible for saving Andrea and Merle? No thanks." Adaline responds as she wipes the blood off her knife with a cloth from the side pocket of her pack. "You might want to follow Rick." She suggests, nodding out the window when Rick pulls the truck up just past them.

Glenn grabs the radio as he follows Rick, holding it out towards Adaline. "Can you tell them what to do?" He asks.

"I can." Adaline responds.

"Will you?" He asks and she sighs before grabbing the radio.

"Go to the roll-up doors at the front of the store facing the street." Adaline says before putting the radio down as she goes back to cleaning off the blade of her knife.

"Thank you." Glenn says and she hums.

Adaline occasionally glances up at the road as Glenn drives. "Turn." She says but Glenn goes straight past the road. "I said turn." She says as he reverses.

"It was too late to turn!" He argues.

"Who's gonna care if you drive up onto the sidewalk? I don't think the walkers will." She says as he reverses down the street, stopping to let the walkers come to them.

Once the walkers are practically on top of them, he backs the car up slightly, waiting a moment to make sure they were definitely going to follow before reversing and turning the car around and Adaline grabs the car door, looking at him with a frown. "Jesus Christ." She says.

"Sorry." He responds.

"God, you're as bad as Rick." She says as she opens the glove compartment, pulling out a CD case and flipping through it. "Awful. Terrible. Worse. Utter shit. God, whoever this car belonged to had awful taste in music." Adaline says, rummaging through the glove compartment again, pulling out a CD. "Huh. Take it this doesn't belong to whoever owns the car." She says, flipping over the Foo Fighters CD.

"Why?" Glenn asks.

"Because this is a Foo Fighters CD. Every CD in the case, however, is either, weirdly, Country or EDM." Adaline says, shaking her head a little as she puts the CD case back before opening the Foo Fighters CD, removing whatever was in the CD player and tossing it into the glove compartment before closing it.

"You probably just ruined that CD." Glenn says.

"Who cares? It was Tim McGraw." Adaline says as she puts the Foo Fighters CD in before turning the volume up. 

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