Maggie POV:
I decided after all the hard work we had been doing we deserved to take a day and enjoy the weather, I thought it would be a great day to wash the cars. On a run me and Glen had been on yesterday I found some great bikinis so though to hell with it and brought them back. I told Beth and she was so excited to finally get out from inside the cell block after hiding from the governors threat for the last month or so. I tried to get Carol to join in but she just seemed so uncomfortable with having her body on display I thought it has something to do with Ed and everything he had said to her wearing down her confidence.
When Carol went for a shower after we cleared some walkers from the fences I thought it was now or never. I snuck into the showers and took her clothes I didn't think she could hear me over her singing. She had a beautiful voice full on soul but if she was ever asked to sing in front of anyone she just clammed up and said she couldn't sing. I tried creeping back to the door but I didn't see the point she was going to know it was me who had been in here I might as well quicken her up.
Carols POV:
Maggie just wouldn't let up, how come people couldn't understand there was nothing good to look at under these clothes, sure I was skinny but that wouldn't take away all the damage it just made it look more horrific.
I heared the shower door slam and thought it was just someone else wanting to use the showers. 'I'll be out in a second.' I called quickly wrapping a towel around myself. I looks around the showers but there isn't anyone else there, guessed it must have been one of the men and thought they should give her some privacy to get dried. But when I looked around for my clothes, all I could see was the bright red bikini, I couldn't believe Maggie I had told her no, several times. Why do people always seem to ignore what I say, I am perfectly capable of making my own decisions.
Tears slowly trickled down my face, what was I supposed to do, I didn't want everyone to see what Ed had done to my body and pity me, I had spent all winter hiding while I got changed so that I wouldn't see sorrow in their eyes. I didn't want it. I knew Daryl wouldn't pity me, he would understand, I had seen his scars I couldn't tell if they were worse than mine but I knew that it didn't matter on whose were worse because I knew Daryl would understand the pain just like I understood his.
I ran to the cell block hoping to grab some clothes without anyone seeing me. I had put the bikini on looking in the mirror it just emphasised everything that was wrong making the marks on my pale skin stand out against my pale skin. I paused just outside the cell block and I couldn't hear anyone so I slowly opens the door and walks towards her cell, when she gets there she sees it is locked with a note from Maggie saying 'nice try!' I grabs a blanket I had used for privacy over my cell door, with more people living in the prison it was the only way to get any peace and quiet, I walked through the cell block hoping to see someone who could get me the keys, no luck. Maggie had really thought of everything, and now I was stuck with feeling the embarrassment and sympathy from everyone else.
I walked outside and could hear everyone helping the girls wash the car, I is so envious of Maggie and Beth being able to wear so little, but then I thought about Ed and all the things he has said and done to my body, no one would want to see that.
Maggie POV:
I could see Carol just poking her head out, she was either naked under a towel or she had the bikini on, I could see she was moving me to come over to her but I wasn't going to let her drag me into the cell block to get her clothes oh no she was going to show off that beautiful figure she had under her clothes 'Please Maggie just give me the keys' I laughed shaking my head, 'Come on everyone is dying to see how gorgeous you are please Carol just come out.'
As I pulled her out the door I could see she had wrapped a blanket around herself, why didn't I think of that she could have grabbed the blanket right through the bars of her cell. I started pulling at the blanket but she was holding onto it for dear life, I ignored her begs and pleads, she needed to learn she wasn't everything Ed had told her.
The conversation was starting to draw everyone's attention I knew the men would all be shocked when Carol showed off the body she had hidden under there. The blanket dropped to the floor, my eyes raked up Carols body, tears started to form in my eyes now I understood, the yard had gone completely silent. I could see tears rolling freely down Carols face.
The next sound was of an angry redneck stalking away from the prison swinging his crossbow over his shoulder. I turned back in time to see Carol running back into the prison.
Carols POV:
I never wanted them to see all the scars on my body for them to be able to see everything Ed did to me. 'Ed whore' he enjoyed doing that one spend hours, taking it slowly to give me the most pain he could. Every time I passed out from pain he stopped waiting for me to come round. He laughed as he watched me biting through my lip as I tried to stop from screaming, he had me straddled in the kitchen using his hunting knife to slowly cut into my abdomen, I couldn't scream out if I did Sophia could come down and then he would take it out on her too. The scars weren't the worst I had had, though I am still unable to see every scar on my body. Everyone who I have trusted has left some form on scar on me. The only scar I really love is the one from having Sophia, my sweet angel. Ed just used me as a canvas for his art of pain.