Chapter 38

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"It [revenge] is sweeter far then any flowing honey" -Euripides

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As I get out of the truck, I hold my rifle tightly, and limp toward my camp, where I see people look at me wide eyed, some smiling, and some scowling.

They think they can betray me? Ha! They wish. It seems I was being too nice.

"Yes. It's me!" I said, while my 3 helpers waited patiently at their truck.

Then I saw Carley and Maya run toward me with some tears in their eyes. They hug me, I hug them back. We hug for a minute or so, then we release each other.

Then everyone, Lee; Kenny; Clem; Duck; Katjaa, everyone comes over to me to ask what happened, and shit. You can guess.

"I don't think I need to explain what happened....Do I Shane?" I say as I look over to the angry Shane with cold eyes.

I slowly limp over to Shane. Rick, behind him, gulped, not knowing what to do. On one hand, Shane is his best friend, his buddy, but on the other hand, Poul gave everyone a safe place to live, and more importantly one for his family.

After contemplating, Rick slowly, with sadness in his eyes, slowly made his way over to my side, while pulling Lori and Carl as well, much to her displeasure.

"I see you've been....trying to take over my position?" I ask Shane with a strangely calm voice.

"Well...I thought you died?" Shane says, running his hand over his bald head.

"Oh...but of course." I say with a nod. "You'd love that, wouldn't you?"

I hand over my rifle to Duck, as he was, for some reason, the closest to me, and tell him, "Get me my shotgun, and golf club..." I whisper to him.

Duck nods, and runs off to my room.

Why I need those? Well...I'm gonna Joel Miller his ass. No one. Fucking. Betrays. Me. I'm like Dutch; I value loyalty the most toward me.

"Yeah. I'd love that." Shane nods, looking straight at me.

I look over at his hands, which are on his hips, and I see his fingers twitch lightly, above his gun belt.

I look behind Shane, and there aren't many people, in fact, the people there are the new people who were brought over; T-Dog and Jim. A lot of people, most of the people are on my side, literally.

Then suddenly, I see him pull his pistol out, but I reacted in time, and pulled out mine to. I could see his mouth move, and from lip reading it, he said "Shit."

Everyone else pulled out their guns, causing Shane to grump in anger and threw the gun on the floor. Following him, T-Dog and Jim threw their guns on he floor as well. The new people didn't do anything.

When I saw them disarmed, I put my weapon away as well; my people followed my lead.

Just then, Duck arrived with what I asked him for, and I took them from his hand with a smile and thanked him.

"Now...betrayal is never easy to handle, especially from the fact that I thought we could become friends..." I said with a sigh and I rubbed my shotgun with my thumb.

I look over at Lee and Kenny, and asked them to, "Restrain T-Dog and Jim."

They nod, Lee with some hesitation.

T-Dog. I liked you man...but you chose the wrong side, and decided to even point your gun at me.

I limp toward Shane, and look him in the eyes. "This is gonna hurt, 'bro'" I say with some sarcasm.

"You're a dead man." Shane says.

"No...I'm not. But you will be." I said, then shot him in the knee with my shotgun, blasting away completely his kneecap.

Shane let out a scream of pain as he collapsed to the ground, clutching his leg in agony. The sound of his cries echoed through the camp, causing some people to wince, while others watched on in satisfaction.

"You think you can betray me and get away with it?" I said coldly, looking down at him with a mixture of anger and satisfaction.

I then grabbed my golf club and raised it above my head, ready to deliver a blow. But before I could strike, Rick stepped forward and placed a hand on my shoulder, shaking his head.

"No, Poul. This isn't the way," Rick said firmly, looking at me with pleading eyes.

I look at him coldly, "Rick...let go of me. Or do you want me to think of you as a traitor as well?"

Rick gulps in nervousness, looking back and forth between me and Shane; then he looks back at his family, who are well fed and looks healthy; and after a few moments he lets go of my shoulder.

"Put a belt on his thigh." I said without looking back.

I saw Pedro tie Shane's belt around his thigh, slowing down the bleeding.

"Alright, people!" I turned around. "This is gonna be...gruesome, so if you're a sissy boy or have a weak stomach...leave to this scene now!" I finished what I wanted to say, and could see some woman leave and kids. Some stayed because I said they are sissy if they leave.

I tightened my grip around the golf club, and with a deep breath, I swung down the melee weapon down on Shane, hitting him on his cheek.

I didn't stop, and swung again, this time hitting him on the chin. I could see that he slipped out of conciousness, almost, but came back when I hit him on his clavicle, bringing him back from the pain.

He was grunting in pain, and wriggling from the hits I landed all over his body.

I hit him on the head, the body, arms, legs, neck, every where. Honestly, I'm surprised he's still conscious.

After landing blows, after blows, after blows, I stop for a second. He's lying on his stomcah, with his face fully swollen and bleeding, and he's breathing ragged; I probably broke most of his ribs.

I spit on him. "You thought you were smart huh? That you can kill me?!" I hit him on the head again, making him flinch and groan. "Din skide fisse! Forræder kælling!" I started cursing him in Danish in my anger.

I hit him again, this time on the mouth, knocking out, like, 6 more teeth. "Hvad? Troede du, at dine handlinger ikke ville have konsekvenser? At du er en slags udødelig? Hvad?" I spit on him again; at this point, even I didn't know what I said, I just said it in anger.

I let out a deep breath before hitting Shane on his spine, making him scream.

After a few moments of taking deep breaths to calm my self, I took out a cigarette from my pocket, which have been flattened from the fall I had, and lit it.

"Get the docs, tie him up. I'll be continuing this again some day later." I looked behind me.