Chapter 14

Logan and Maggie were riding horses, both horses dragging carriages, making their way to a town close to the farm.

Before they left, he told her that they have to bring whatever is still left in that town, to avoid making any more trips there and focus on scavenging other places.

"The place was emptied mostly before I even started scavenging from it." Maggie informed him as they entered the town.

"Maybe they brought most of the things to that high school where they set up the shelter?"  Logan suggested, Maggie nodded her head.

"I think so too, but we can't risk going there. You saw how bad that place looked last time." She said,

"We drive them away with bait? Or simply deal with them, I know that your father sees them as sick people, I've seen many of them, some of which miss half of their bodies, heck I even saw one of them being only the head. Those can't be alive, they're already dead." Logan said. He wanted her and the other residents of the farm to understand.

Maggie hearing his words looked a bit uncomfortable and there is a hint of sadness there. 

"Is there really no way to save them?" She hesitated for a moment before asking.

"I wasn't inside the CDC with the others, but from what they told me, it's a virus's doing, which are probably spread by whatever in other walkers mouth, it kill whoever was bitten, then take over the brain and activate parts of the body that allow movements and the usage of sense of smell, sight, and hearing. It's the reason why we aim for the head." Logan told her the details of what others told him, which made her more downcasted.

'But if people turn by a bite, where did walkers come from in the first place? How did they spread to the entire world, even if it was man made?' Logan asked himself these questions a lot.

"Anyhow we're here, which building are we gonna start with?" Logan changed the subject since Maggie was clearly affected by their talk.

"Right, that one." Maggie pointed to a store called 'Shruggs's Hardware' 

"Nice, hopefully we can find some useful tools there." Logan said in a hopeful tone.

"It's the only place here that was left untouched, it seems like they didn't see any need for what they got." Maggie smiled as she informed him, Logan in the last few days went through all the tools they have and what their group brought with them. 

Entering the store Logan couldn't help whistling. "*Whistle*... it's like a treasury here." 

it was indeed still filled, it had a lot of things even if the store was small, a lot of screws, and nails of all sizes, screwdrivers, handsaws, Mallets, Hammers, toolboxes, braces, corkscrew ductapes, few types of glues(wooden glue mostly),… There are 3 wheelbarrows, and 5 step-ladders, two are extension ladders, and 3 are trestle ladders.

"You look like a kid who got candy." Maggie teased, seeing Logan eyeing everything with such hungry eyes. 

Logan heard her but didn't retort due to him being busy appreciating what's in front of him, "Does this place have a storage?" Logan turned to her with a wide toothy smile.

"..." Maggie and Logan continued looking at each other before she pointed out.

"It should be on the back?" Maggie said to which Logan stormed out and went to the back with her going after him.

Logan found the storage in the back of the building, they found a double door, then they entered.

"This is a great start for our plan on making the wall." Logan said happy that they found some construction materials here, even if it was not nearly enough, it's a good start. 

"Can we even transport everything?" Maggie said, taking a look at what's inside.

Logan thought for a moment before he suggested "Not with the horses, but I will use a stakebed truck I saw down the road, I can attach the carriage to it. But can you take care of the horse?" 

"I can bring it back." Maggie confirmed to which Logan nodded.

"I will bring the truck and come back to load the things." Logan told Maggie.

"I will put the tools in the toolboxes then." Maggie went back to the store front, while Logan went to get the truck he saw a bit further away.

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Logan managed to get the truck which is decent to carry stuff with the stake bed on its back. There were some walkers around but he took care of them easily.

As he was about to return to the store he started getting a bad feeling. His gut was telling him something was wrong.

He instinctively took his gun, in a fluid movements he kicked the door and jumped out before a hail of bullets assaulted the truck from several sides, breaking all the windows, and filling it with bullet holes.

RATATATATA! BANG BANG BANG! BAM! CLICK!...

The moment the bullets started to rain on the truck, he moved low between the cars abandoned in the place trying to find the shooters. 

The first two he found were behind a car pointing their gun to his general direction, he took two shots while sneaking between the vehicles.

BANG! BANG!! THUD THUD!!

RATATATATA! BANG BANG! CLICK BAM!

Two were down, while he avoided another hail of bullets, but one bullet found its way to his upper arm.

"Ugh! Sh*t!! hostile survivors are the last thing we need right now." Logan clenched his teeths in pain and anger, this was the last thing they needed right now.

It hurts of course, but he can handle the pain, he ripped his shirt's hand and tightly wrapped it around it to avoid bleeding out.

He found four on two different roofs, another two shooting from a bar, while one was hiding behind a trash bin, he hid behind a truck. 

His mind was active trying to find the way to end this as fast as possible, since Maggie may be in danger. 

BANG BANG!!

He readied himself before he came out of cover taking two shots on those on the roof taking them down, before he moved toward another car to avoid another hail of bullets.

"I need to deal with this a*sholes fast, there may be others who can easily catch or kill Maggie, hope she can defend herself." Logan peaked from the window of the car he was hiding behind, Maggie had a gun on her, which he gave to her.

"Four down, five to go." He readied his gun as he decided which one he should take next.

He took another peak and saw the one behind the trash bin was going to move, he waited for him to take the first step as he decided he's going to be the next target.

BANG! BAM! CLICK! BAM! CLICK!

True to that, the guy was about to make a run, probably to switch to another hiding spot. Too bad the moment he moved he got a bullet to the heart.

The four that were left started to move, probably to escape since they saw how skillful the enemy was. How he took five of them.

Logan looked at the direction they're going and dread started to sneak into his mind, then

BANG! BANG BANG!!  BANG! BANG BANG BANG!!

It was another shot, a bit further from here, which means Maggie was in a shootout without someone else.

Logan decided to act fast and rolled under a truck to chase them, as the two guys in the bar jumped from a window he went to a kneeling position.

BANG BANG!! 

Headshot, he shot them through the back of their heads, the other two on the roof were going to jump to the other side which is where the early gunshot came from. His arm still hurts. He pointed his gun while running back to the store.

BANG BANG!!

He hit one in the leg while the other in the back, walkers started filling the place after hearing all the gunshot noise.

SHIING!

He took his Kopis on the other hand as he swung it with his injured arm, it still managed to kill the walkers close to him as he was running and kicking some of them out of the way.

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Maggie was inside the store putting the smaller tools inside a few tool boxes to make sure they're ready for when Logan brought back the truck.

Her mind wandered to Logan and Rick's conversation, she saw them from afar and was a bit curious about their talk, so she eavesdropped on them.

 Logan at first was talking with Rick about bringing a certain group of people they deemed as trustworthy, afterward Rick teasingly asked about them being in a relationship. 

Maggie knew she was very interested in him, but the guy was good at controlling himself so she didn't know if he was the same. 

That's when she knew that he was indeed interested, only that he had concerns, valid concerns for everyone's safety. She was at least happy with the possibility of them having something, if not now then in the future.

That's when she snapped from her thoughts when she heard gunshot noise, her mind raced, she panicked and even dropped some of the tools she had in her hands.

She took her gun and pointed at the door, ready to warn whoever may come her way. Since it seems there was a shootout outside.

After a moment of no one approaching the door, she hesitated for a moment before she walked slowly toward the door. She took a look outside through a small window in the door for a moment before she hurriedly crouched down to avoid being seen.

Someone was outside on the other side of the road, she hoped he didn't see her, but what happened next proved her wrong.

BANG! BANG BANG!! 

The other party started shooting bullets through the door, and she had to roll to the side.

She had the gun Logan gave her in hand, but she was hesitating to shoot.

After no one shot back for a little longer, the other party grew confident that whoever inside the store either died or didn't have a gun to retaliate. 

He came from his hiding spot and walked slowly toward the store.

Maggie inside the store gathered courage enough to at least shoot through the door, that way she doesn't need to see the other party.

BANG! BANG BANG!!

Lucky, her early hesitation caused the other party to come out from his hiding spot, and was walking straight to the store, when he got shot through the door with two out of three bullets hitting him in the throat and crotch, which caused him to die.

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Logan, worried about Maggie, ignored his injured arm which was still bleeding through the cloth which was tightly wrapped around it, he tore through the walkers around him finally reaching where those two were supposed to have jumped.

One of them, the one he shot in the back, lay dead on top of a store's retractable awning. The other one who was shot in the leg was about to enter a car, presumably their own.

Logan decided to take him alive, he took his gun and aimed at him

"Don't move! Hands up!!" The other party froze still breathing heavily due to stress, pain, and bleeding,  Logan noticed his right hand movements and shot it through the car's windows 

"Agh!!" The guy rolled on the ground assaulted by another wave of pain as he had been shot in the arm too. Logan ran to him and gave him a punch which rendered him unconscious and gave him a swollen eye.

Logan inspected him, the guy wore clothes of a typical thug, he took the unconscious guy with him and went back to the store where he found Maggie's breath was unstable. She was shaking, her emotions were in turmoil.

"Maggie!" Logan called out which made her stand up and swing the door open.

He dropped the unconscious thug, pushed the door close, and just hugged her.

She couldn't utter a word, her shoulders were shaking, her heart was beating fast as she tried to calm herself. She had a close encounter with death and killed a person for the first time, when she had never killed a walker before.

"I was worried something happened to you, so I came as fast as I could." Logan caressed her back and said softly after she calmed down a bit.

"I was a close call, I was lucky when I took one down." 

"You don't need to worry, I already took care of the rest, so long as I'm here I won't let anything harm you.." Logan said, lifting her face making her look into his eyes, which is filled with worry and concern.

"You were right before, about walkers, and about people too." She said with her face getting closer to his.

"For now let's forget about it, what is important is that we're fine." Logan said but he was interrupted by walkers banging the door.

Maggie held him in place as he turned to look at her.

"Don't, let's stay here longer." She shook her head, not wanting to head back yet, not without the things they came for.

"Alright, we ca-mnm!?!" Logan was about to say something but Maggie sealed his lips with hers as her hands moved and wrapped around his head.

Their kiss grew hotter, as Maggie got bolder and went for a full blown one.

"Are we really gonna do it here?" Logan said with his hands around her waist.

"Don't ruin the mood, we could've used some condoms from the pharmacy across from here, but there are many walkers out there." She said before she leaned in for another kiss, which Logan accepted after a moment of hesitation.

When the kiss ended, Logan let her go for a moment. And went outside Maggie looked from the broken window as she watched him take down all the walkers around easily making his way to the pharmacy even though his arm was injured, she snorted seeing him come out with a bag of condoms waving it toward her.

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Later after a long and nice intimating session between them, with Logan holding back not to make her sore. Both were quite satisfied.

The guy Logan decided to keep alive unfortunately didn't make it, so Logan dumped him out, that's when he noticed one of the guys he killed, the one he shot in the chest became a walker, but after inspecting him he found a shocking discovery that there was no bite mark!

That filled Logan head with more thoughts, but he ignored them for now, at least until they went back.

Logan loaded the truck and his carriage while Maggie was also taking other stuff in hers, Logan told her to bring everything in that pharmacy without leaving anything and she complied, though she kept most of the condoms in the pharmacy in a bag, intending to keep them for their own use.

"Ready to head back?" Logan said, looking at Maggie.

"Yeah, I need to bring you to dad, he should be able to take care of your wound." She knew he got shot.

"Of course, safety first?" Logan didn't argue, and she nodded, riding her horse with the other one tied to it, both pulling a single carriage which made them faster. Logan followed after her with the truck filled with goods along with the other carriage being pulled by the truck. 

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[Hope you guys liked the story so far.]