The Walking Dead Phan 12 ✯

: “Would it have changed anything? You’d have carried me faster? Left me slower?”

: “Feel that? That’s me not letting go. That’s me, every hour since the first siren. You want to be brave? Then stay annoying. Stay alive. Say something stupid right now.”

Dan pulls Phil’s hand to his own chest. Over his heart.

(tearing up, but laughing): “Your hair looks like a wet crow.” the walking dead phan 12

: “Last one to the car has to eat squirrel again.”

An abandoned broadcast tower on a crumbling hill. The dead are clustered below, mindless, groaning. Inside, DAN and PHIL have been holed up for three days. Their supplies are gone. Phil’s leg is wrapped in a dirty bandage — a bite, barely hidden from Dan’s full knowledge.

: “If.”

: “And you’re literally crying.”

: “The static isn’t waiting, Phil. The static won. Three years. How many towers have we climbed?”

They open the door. The dead turn, slowly. : “Would it have changed anything

: “And if the station is empty?”

(laughing despite everything): “There he is.”

: “I’ve survived worse odds than ‘if.’” That’s me not letting go