a second, that's all it took, one second jessie was holding ricks hand, the next she was being pulled to the floor by a crowed of walkers, desperately piling on top of her, scrambling over each other to feast

rick stared in horror, slowly stepping back, memories of the two flashed through his mind as he shook his head, trying to make it out as a nightmare, he slowly utters 'no' over and over to himself, like he was in some kind of trance and her shrieks of misery after watching her son being devoured filled the air, he was too absorb by her cries that he didn't realise she wasn't releasing her grip of his son, carl, who was desperately trying to pull away from her, the walkers were staring to register than you lot are in fact not one of them, and jessies cries were ringing their dinner bell

after a few seconds which felt like hours of regret and pain, rick finally snaps out of whatever trance he was being captivated in, his grip on the handle of his axe tightened as he raised it, not hesitating for a second as he brought it down on jessies wrist, memories of the pair flashed through his face as he mindlessly swung again until a clean cut was made, carl stumbles back, falling to the floor with a grunt before jumping back up, remembering the dire situation the group is in

he glances around for a way to get out of the already alerted herd before he hears a familiar click of a loaded gun, he spins around in confusion but then sees, his face morphs from confusion to dread and fear as he sees jessies eldest son, who had watched his brother and mother go down, holding a gun and pointing it at carl, before he could properly aim it at rick, a katana is suddenly pierced through his chest by michonne, his arms fling back but not before his finger pulls the trigger, the bullets flies through the air, skimming carls eye and lodging into it

ricks eyes widen as he runs to his son, quickly scooping him up, michonne springs into action and starts to clear a paths through the walkers, you quickly run outside to help