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-Cole's Pov-
The sun beat down on the people around me as I sat in the shade, Carl perched on my lap with his head buried in my chest. I'd met Shane Walsh, Lori Grimes and Carl just outside of Atlanta when the military began dropping Napalm on the city. Once we'd set up camp, imagine my surprise when just a few days later, the little 12 year old Carl Grimes picked me as his Alpha. Lori had been outraged and almost died trying to get him away from me. To her and the rest of the human community, seeing such a young boy choose such an older male as an alpha disgusted them.
But it was how everything was done in our community. Now a days, Carl rarely leaves my lap, and because of this, I've been stuck with doing some of the less masculine chores around camp, not that it bothered me none. I cooked, and I helped wash clothes. I was soon knocked out of my thoughts by Amy, Andrea's sister. "Hey. Hello?" She demanded, speaking into the CB. "Can you hear my voice?" The man on the other end asked. "Yes, I can hear you. You're coming through, over." Amy spoke louder.
"If anybody reads, please respond. Broadcasting on the emergency channel. Will be approaching Atlanta on highway 85. If anybody reads, please respond." the man spoke, filling me with a sense of dread. "We're just outside the city, "Amy added, only to hear the radio crackle, "Dammit!" She cursed. "He couldn't hear me! I couldn't warn him!"
"Try to raise him again." Dale told her. "Come on son, you know best how to work this thing!" He added, speaking to Shane. The man in question knelt down at the stump holding the CB radio, and began trying to raise the man again. "Hello hello. Is the person who called still on the air?" Shane asked. "This is officer Shane Walsh, broadcasting to person unknown, please respond." He added after a moment.
"Well, at least we know one thing." I piped up. "There are others. It's not just us." Lori spoke, moving towards the little group. "We knew there would be, right? It's why we left the CB on." Shane told her. "And a lot of good its been doing." She responded. "Okay." Shane sighed, turning his head away. "And I've been saying for a week, we ought to put signs up on 85 and warn people away from the city." Lori said. "Folks got no idea what they're getting into." Amy told Shane. "Well, we haven't had time." Shane told us, standing from his position.
"I think we need to make time." Lori spoke sternly. "Yeah, That-- That's a luxury we can't afford." Shane told her, running a hand over his face. "We are surviving here. We are day to day." He added. "And who the hell would you propose we send?" Dale demanded Lori. "I'll go, give me a vehicle." Lori demanded. "Nobody goes anywhere alone, you know that." Shane told her. Lori shook her head before starting to walk off. "Yes sir." She snarked. Shane shook his head and followed after her.
"What, are you pissed at me?" I heard Shane say. Then, I heard the sound of Lori going into her tent and Shane following her. "Well, you can be pissed at me all you want. It's not gonna change anything. I'm not putting you in danger, okay?" I heard Shane tell her. "You cannot walk off like that. All half-cocked. Look, you do not want to do it for my sake or your sake, that's fine. But just---... You do it for him. That boy's been through too much, and the only thing holding him together is you and Cole." Shane stated. Shaking my head, I tuned out, hearing the sounds of impending sex.
Carl whined, burying his face further in my chest. Lori and Shane disgusted me. Not even a few weeks after her husband falls into a coma, she hops into bed with his best friend. Everyone in camp knows, even Carl, no matter how much I try to shield him from it. And as young as he was, even Carl know how important a mate was, and his mother Broke her bond with her Alpha the moment she fucked Shane. She may not be feeling the effects, but a broken bond between two mates travels down to the pup. That's one of the reasons why Carl is being so clingy.
You see, when an Omega as young as Carl is, chooses and Alpha as old as I am, they cling to the alpha and never leave the Alpha's side. Carl and I will complete the bond fully when he has his first heat.
Running a hand through my tiny mates hair, I pressed a kiss to his forehead as the scent of sex permeated the air.