Chapter 40 Andrea

After Andrea had been saved by the women with the sword. Andrea followed the lady; they left the woods and were moving through the town. There were walkers in the streets, but they were somehow able to move through them because of the walkers that were on chains. They were somehow camouflaged by the walkers, and they were able to move around the town without too much issue.

Andrea had talked to the lady and found out her name is Michonne. Andrea had observed that Michonne was very quiet and didn't like to talk. Also, Michonne didn't really like to be around her, 'she must be a loner', Andrea thought.

Michonne was a black lady, she had dread locks, and wore a bandana on the head. She wore brown pants and a purple sleeveless shirt. Michonne's only weapon was a sword. A katana to be exact, this katana had a white handle.

They moved through the town grabbing supplies, when they had enough, they left the town and started to travel to another town.

They did this for 8 months, traveling from town to town. Gathering supplies and always moving. But they had to stop because Andrea had gotten sick. So sick that she was unable to travel at all. She looked like death was upon her, she had an infection, and they were unable to find any antibiotics. Michonne had gone through the whole town, but she was unable to find any.

They were currently staying in a sportsman shop. They were set up inside the cooler of this shop, as the handle would be impossible for a walker to open.

Michonne had just come back from scavenging and walked into the sportsman shop, she walked through the shop and saw that her chained walkers were still standing there keeping guard. She walked past them and entered the cooler room.

Looking around she saw that the bed Andrea had been lying in was empty. Pulling her sword out, she walked through the room, she walked through a doorway and found Andrea. She was curled up on the floor, bathing in the sunshine.

Michonne questioned, "What are you doing out here?"

Andrea replied I needed some light. I have been stuck in bed for so long and I haven't seen the sun."

Michonne bent down beside her and checked her temperature before sitting her up. Giving her some medicine, she said, "Take these". She then helped her drink some water. Rubbing the bottle of water on her head to try and cool her off.

Andre said while breathing heavily, "How is it out there?"

Michonne said, "The same. It's quiet"

Andrea said, "You're lying"

Michonne sighed before saying, "We should leave in a few days."

Andrea said, "They're coming. You should go."

Michonne said, "No, I won't leave you."

Andrea said, "I'll hold you back. Go. I can take care of myself. I saved your ass all winter, didn't I?"

Michonne looked at her with a deadpan look, she thought, 'Really'.

Andrea then started to cough violently, looking to be very miserable. Her whole body shaking with each cough, looking to be very painful. Andrea groaned as Michonne had her drink some more water, but Andrea pushed the bottle away.

Andrea said, "I won't have you dying for me. Good soldier won't leave your post. Screw you."

Michonne looked at her for a few seconds, then she said, "We'll leave in a few days." Then she stood up.

Andrea looked up at Michonne and said, "If we stay here, I'll die here."

Michonne then packed up their stuff, before she opened the rolling door at the back of the shop. Looking around, she saw piles of logs, and the forest beyond these piles.

She then walked out pulling the walkers she had chained up, Andrea also started to slowly follow her. They walked through the piles of logs and went towards the forest.

After they had walked through the forest they had arrived at a clearing. A field of wheat colored long grass. As they were walking through the field their attention was brought to a pillar of black smoke. They looked at each other, then Andrea started walking in the direction of the smoke.

Michonne had a scowl as she started to walk toward the smoke as well. As they got closer to the smoke, they had to enter another forest. Sneaking through the forest, unsure of what they would find at the smoke.

When they arrived where the smoke was coming from, they saw a helicopter. The helicopter was beat up and it had definitely crash landed. Andrea was panting by the time they made it to the area. She suddenly drops to her knees and vomits.

Michonne says, "Don't push yourself."

Andrea then stands back up with Michonne helping her, coughing as she does.

Michonne says, "You'd better sit down"

Michonne then helped her to sit on the ground. Rubbing her back as she sat there. Michonne then locked the walkers to a tree, saying to Andrea, "I'll check out the helicopter."

Michonne walked over to the helicopter, as she got closer, she saw a soldier who had been cut in half. His organs were in a bloody pile in between the two halves of his body. It was quite a horrific scene, but Michonne had gotten used to seeing such things.

Walking past the soldier's corpse, she arrived at the helicopter. Hand on her sword handle, Michonne looked into the helicopter and saw another soldier that looked to be okay. As she looked into the helicopter she saw some movement in the distance, some cars.

Seeing the cars coming in their direction, Michonne ran back to Andrea swiftly. When she arrived next to Andrea she said, "Someone's coming."

Andrea asked, "Any survivors?"

Michone replied, "Two dead, not sure about the other one."

The vehicles that Michonne had seen arrived and parked next to the helicopter. Multiple men got out of the cars and started to look around the area. Michonne and Andrea observed the men as they looked around. Andrea started to cough, but she tried her best to keep quiet.

They watched as one of the men smashed a walkers head in with a baseball bat. Then they saw the leader of the group call out, he said, "We got a survivor here!"

They watched as the leader and another man took the survivor out of the helicopter. A walker then came from behind them, Michone was about to kill it, but Andrea stopped her. The walker ignored them and went towards the helicopter. The men saw this and one of the men shot the walker in the head with an arrow.

Michonne and Andrea then saw the leader and the other man drag the man over to one of the vehicles. Seeing this Andrea said, "He's saving them. We should show ourselves."

Michonne said, "Not yet."

They then watched as the leader stabbed the soldier that had been cut in half in the head. This shocked them, then they saw the leader check the helicopter. Michonne's walkers started to get rowdy, and they were making noise, the chains holding them to a tree were clashing together making a "clinking" sound.

Michonne seeing this acted quickly and cut the heads off of her walkers, silencing them. She then crouched down again, next to Andrea. The men who were searching the area were all looking in their direction, pointing their weapons in their direction. The men turn away after looking for a while and the leader says, "Let's roll out."

Seeing this Michonne and Andrea relaxed and released a breath. Watching the men start to leave, Michone who already had her sword out, heard a branch snap behind her. She was about to swing backwards but a man says, "Uh-Uh-Uh. Easy does it girl. Now put down your weapons and turn around slowly."

Turning around Michone and Andrea saw a lanky man pointing his gun at them. Andrea passes out and Michonne moves to help her. The man then calls out to the rest of his group, the leader decides to take them back to their camp. Taking the women to a vehicle, they put black bags over Michonne and Andrea's heads. Then they start to drive back to their camp, Andrea waking up now and then seeing nothing but hearing the leader talk.

The leader said into a radio, "Have Stevens prep the infirmary."

A man over the radio saying, "How many?"

The leader says, "Three. One with multiple fracture and severe burns. Another in and out of consciousness, probably shock and dehydration."

The other man says, "And the third?"

The leader says, "She's fine."

The man says, "A female?"

The leader says, "Two. Found them hiding in the woods. Bringing a homework assignment for you, so open the lab."

The says, "Do tell."

The leader doesn't answer and says, "Be at the gates in five minutes. Get off the radio."

The man says, "Well, what is it?"

The leader says firmly, "Now Milton!"

Andrea then loses consciousness again. She wakes up, a couple minutes later and saw them pass through a gate. Andrea says, "Michonne?"

Michonne answers, "Right here."

Andrea then passes out once again.

Waking up, Andrea finds herself in a soft bed covered by a white blanket. Andrea lays there for a couple minutes before a black woman walked in. The woman was dressed like a nurse and when she saw that Andrea was awake, she came over to her. The black woman took the IV out of Andrea's arm and then had Andrea hold a piece of gauze over it. The nurse also checked Andrea's temperature. Michonne was sitting on a chair next to the bed.

Andrea asked the nurse, "Why are we being held here? We want to leave."

The nurse said, "You're not well enough and it's dark. You should stay the night."

Andrea asks, "Where are we?"

The nurse pauses for a second before saying, "That's not for me to say. He'll talk to you."

Michonne says, "Who?"

The door then opens as two men walk in, one of the men was unknown and the other was the man who had found them hiding in the woods. One of the men says, "Go check on your patient, Doc."

The man then pulls a chair over to him, he sits down on it, as the doctor leaves the room. Andrea says, "What do you want from us?"

The man stares at them for a while before he says, "Damn. There she sits, four walls around her, roof over her head, medicine in her veins, and she wants to know what I want from her? I plucked you and your mute here out of the dirt blondie. Saved your asses. How about a thank you?"

Michone says, "You had a gun on us."

The man says, "Oh, she speaks. Who ain't had a gun on them in the past year, huh? Show of hands everyone? Anybody? Shumpert, Crowley? Hell, I think I would piss my pants if some stranger comes walking up with his mitts in his pockets. That'd be the son of a bitch you'd really want to be scared of."

Andrea says, "Thank you."

The man then walks over to a door and knocks on it. The leader they saw before walks in and whispers something to the man. The leader then walks over to them and says, "How are you feeling."

Michone says, "We want our weapons"

The leader chuckles before saying, "Sure, on your way out."

Andrea says, "Point the way. You've kept us locked up in this room."

The leader says, "Do you see any bars on the windows? You're being cared for."

Andrea says, "Under guard."

The leader says, "To protect our people. We don't know you."

Andrea says, "We know enough about you to want out of this place. We watched you drive a knife through the skulls of two dead men. What the hell was that all about?"

The leader looks at them with a confused expression while saying, "They turned."

Michone says, "They weren't bitten."

The leader then sighs before saying, "Doesn't matter. Any way we die, we all turn. I put them out of their misery. It's not easy news to swallow at first, but there it is."

The leader than walks past them to another door saying, "You're not prisoners here, you're guests. If you want to leave, as I said, you're free to do so. But we don't open the gates past dusk. It draws too much attention. And you especially, you need a solid night's sleep. You wouldn't last another day out there in your condition. Have you brought over to my place in the morning. Return your weapons. Extra ammo, food for the road, some meds, keys to a vehicle if you want one. Send you on your way, no hard feelings."

He then walks out of the room, his men, Andrea, and Michone following him. He then opens a door to the outside and says, "Welcome to Woodbury."

Andrea and Michone were able to see a street lit up by torch. Some trees in the middle of the road and buildings lining both sides of the street. The leader then walks them to the front gate that was down the street. The front gate was guarded heavily, seeing this Andrea asks, "Are you military?"

The leader replies, "Hardly, some vets, but by and large were self-trained."

Andrea says, "That's heavy artillery they're packing."

The leader says, "Some men arrived with guns, but most of the weapons are scavenged over time."

Andrea asks, "And the other part of town? The rest of the streets? They're all guarded like this?"

The leader nods. Andrea seeing this says, "It can't be."

The leader says, "It can, and it is."

A man on the front barricade says, "We got a creeper. Can I, Governor?"

Andrea asks, "Governor? They call you that?"

The Governor says, "Some nicknames stick whether you want them to or not."

Andrea says, "Buzz is a nickname, Governor is a title. There's a difference."

The man on the barricade shoots the walker, then the Governor leads Andrea and Michonne over to a building. They go inside and the Governor shows them a room they can sleep in for the night. The Governor then explains about the room and then leaves after telling them they can ask the man outside the door, if they need something.

Andrea and Michonne then settle in and go to sleep. Michonne sleeping with one eye open, keeping vigilant. While Andrea was sleeping soundly, as she was exhausted and sick.