It had been a month since the governor had taken over the prison, he had locked up the group in groups of three, he and his men beat the shit out of each and every one of them until they were dead and if the others killed them the process repeated and whoever lasted in the cell was moved to another cell and the process started all over again. Hearing the groans and cries was the hardest thing, they would try and break out but it just ended in getting the shit beat out of them and threatened with a gun or the women were forced to do things in front of the guys and told them they'd raped them if they tried to escape again. Maggie, Carl and Rick were the last three from their group, there was a group of woodbury people but the govenor and his group killed them a week ago; the three were in Maggie and Glenn's old cell where the woman breathe in Glenn's scent each night until it faded and masked with hers, Rick's and Carl's.
I groaned slowly lifting my head enough to see Maggie holding Carl close in the corner of the cell, she had a black eye and and a fat lip, Carl had a a bruised cheek from what looked like from a gun, I sighed should've killed him when you had a chance, when you found out what he had done to Maggie. Could've waited for him to come back when Andrea died but no, you had to be the good guy I thought lowering my head back down on the cool concrete
"What happened?" I asked trying to find the energy to move over to them but I couldn't find the energy to move any heavy parts just my eyes and fingers
"They beat the shit out of you till you blacked out." Maggie said crawling over to me wiping blood away with her bandana
"We need to get out of here, I'm not going to be able take much more before I die and then they'll focus on you two...I can't-no, I won't let that happened. I promised your father and I promised Glenn I'd keep you alive and I won't have my son locked in here anymore, we're leaving today." She nodded
"You need to eat." She said softly handing me the plate, it wasn't much but it was better than starving I guess. (Author's POV) Maggie held Carl behind her as Rick held both of them behind him as two of the governor's men came into the cell
"Move out of the way, we don't want you old man. We want the girl." The man said motioning for Rick to move but he shook his head
"No." He stated simply, the man sighed
"I'm going to tell you one more time. Move out of the way." Maggie whispered to the man trying to tell him to move but he wouldn't budge, he knew what they were gonna do to her and he wasn't gonna let it just happen, if they wanted her they were gonna have to fight to get to her. The man sighed calmly grabbing Rick by the throat slamming him to the ground making Carl hug onto Maggie and she whimpered softly
"Please, please stop!" She begged as the man raised his fist to Rick but the man just chuckled and punched Rick and turned towards Maggie pushing her out of the way grabbing Carl pulling out his gun pressing it against the boys head, Maggie gasped putting her hands up in surrender
"Start undressing or I'll pull the trigger," Maggie slid off her ratty burgundy long sleeve shirt and black tank top letting them hit the floor revealing her lavender silk cami, Carl tried to look away as she undid her belt hesitantly but the man grabbed his face making him look at Maggie
"Rest of your clothes, I want your husband and son to see what a little slut you are." The man gave her a wicked smile looking at Rick who was holding himself as he slowly sat up, Maggie undid her boots sliding them off and the same with her jeans revealing the lace panties she had meant to show Glenn as a surprise
"Don't have to undress her for them to see she's a lil' slut, her panties and this are doin' it for her." The other man leaning in the doorway smirked running his hand down her back grabbing her ass
"You get away-"
"Whoa, easy there cowboy. Wouldn't wanna be responsible for your family's death now would ya?" The first man smirked as his partner and he pointed their guns at Rick, Maggie knew this was the signal to run, Maggie nudged her head towards the door looking at Carl whose heartbeat went up as he and Maggie punched the men in the groin, Carl ran and hid in a tomb, Maggie pulled up her jeans grabbing one gun while Rick grabbed the other, both shot and killed the men
"Are you okay?" Maggie panted looking at Rick as she did her jeans and boots, he nodded grabbing the machine gun and shot gun they had on them and knives handing her one of each
"Are you?" She shrugged
"I will be-"
"William, Max, everything okay?!" They heard a man yell, they ran down the same hall Carl did holding onto each other's arm for guidance
"Carl!" Rick quietly yelled
"Dad? I'm over here." The boy said stepping out of the shadows a little ways away from them, they pulled him close hugging him tightly
"Alright, we gotta stay together and be quiet." Rick whispered handing Carl a gun and the knife taking the machine gun. Maggie jumped on a guy's back covering his mouth slitting his throat groaning a bit as the two hit the floor, she grabbed his weapons slipping on his jacket as they snuck outside ducking behind a wall
"If we could get to the watchtower we could take them out easily." Maggie sighed ignoring the cold cement against her bare feet, Rick bit his lip trying to think of how to get past the people working in the field
"I'm fastest, I could sneak down there, take down the guards and we could start taking them out." Carl suggest looking at the two adults who gave each other a look, neither sure if it was a good idea or not
"Okay..." Rick sighed handing him another gun, Carl snuck to the gate glad there were walkers lining the outer fence so he blended in. Carl grabbed one of the guards stabbing his knife into the woman's throat cutting her throat open and then stabbed her in the head so she wouldn't turn quickly putting on the bullet proof vest sneaking up behind the other guard stabbing him in the back of the head grabbing their weapons signaling Maggie and Rick to hurry. Maggie helped Rick limp to the guard tower and took their guns
"On three. One...two...three." And the three quickly took out each person in the field and then the guards
"We did it?" Maggie looked at Rick curiously
"For now, I'm sure the governor will be back soon now let's collect the weapons and get ready." Rick said standing up breathing uneasily, Maggie helped stand him up and the three slowly walked down the steps calming the horse down
"It's ok Flame." Carl cooed petting the horse while Maggie and Rick collected the weapons carrying them up to the burnout watchtower by the gates
"As soon as this is over with, I'm gonna get started on moving the bodies." Maggie said cocking the guns back lining them at them against the wall so they could switch out to them when the bullets were done, Rick shook his head
"We're gonna rest for a while and then deal with the bodies." Maggie didn't wanna argue so she just nodded and they put on the bullet proof vest calling Carl up, he climbed up and kneeled down between the two. Maggie, Rick and Carl tensed up holding onto their guns tightly as they heard trucks getting closer to the prison
"Hey, open up the goddamn gates, we're-" Maggie fired and shot the driver that stuck his head out the window smirking to herself proud, the others hopped out of the cars firing blindly into the prison field and guardtowers, The three took out each one perfectly in the head, the governor hopped out of the car
"Alright, come on out of there and let's talk like-" Rick growled lowly shooting the man in the chest watching him hit the ground
"I say we torture him." Rick said climbing down while walkers stumbled towards the man biting and tearing out hit flesh, Maggie and Carl followed the man opening the gates killing the walkers, Maggie looked down at the man whimpering begging her to spare him and let him go
"You're really fucked up if you really think that's going to happen." She snarled pressing down on his chest with her boot moving her foot on his throat
"Rick plea-"
"Shut the fuck up and get up!" Rick glared pointing his gun down at the man moving Maggie's leg a bit, the man slowly got up keeping his hands up in surrender but they knew just from experience he would try and take control again so the two kept their guns on him, Rick leading him in and Maggie behind him, Carl locked the gates behind them and pointed his rifle at the man as they walked up to the prison locking him in a cell in cell block A, Rick handcuffed him to the bed and the three discussed what to do, they all knew it wouldn't solve anything to torture him but it would make them feel somewhat better. A few days later they had tortured the governor or more Rick and Maggie, they didn't want Carl him to like torturing people but the two made sure the governor knew what the three of them went through, Rick removed his other eye, Maggie took off his dick and balls, the two beat the shit out of him with their guns breaking bones; when he turned Carl shot him and they burned his body.
"What now?" Maggie asked softly as she helped Rick slip a clean t-shirt on, he pursed his lips trying to hold back a groan
"I don't know." He said in a low gruff voice turning towards her looking at her bruises and scars
"Carl wants to stay." She sighed rubbing her nape
"What do you want?"
"I wanna stay, I mean we've worked so hard for all of this and we don't have to worry about the governor anymore..."
"But?" Rick said lifting her chin up with his index and thumb
"But can we really run this place by ourselves and can we really live in a place were our entire family has been slaughtered?" She sighed as tears shimmered over her green eyes, he pulled her into a hug
"We'll talk about in a few days. We need to rest and heal." He mumbled, Carl was listening from the hallway and looked down leaning against the wall, he was trying his best not to think of the others, of the blood stains which meant avoiding the cells but one spot would always catch his eye and he'd become angry, angry at himself for not taking out the governor when he and his army were outside their gates but Daryl had talked him out of it, he was angry at his father for not killing the governor all of the times when he had the chance. The three decided to stay, they cleaned up the prison cells, put real mattresses in the cell beds, used the trucks and cars so walkers couldn't get to the fenes and blocked the hole the best they could, took out the things they could use and found a big yellow hummer and a big black jeep which they kept ready to leave just in case something went wrong. They took turns on guard duty, going out on runs and hunting, Maggie and Rick started treating Carl like a man instead of a child. It had been a few months since they had fixed up the prison, it was snowing and freezing cold but it was better than being dead. Maggie blinked furiously as she saw Glenn standing on the outside of the fence looking up at her and Rick in the watchtower, she shut her eyes tightly trying to fight back tears
"You see him don't you?" Rick said as he saw the young woman tense up next to him, she nodded
"Yeah. Are they supposed to be...so vivid? Like they're really there..." She whispered looking at him, he shrugged placing a hand on her shoulder
"Lori was, a-and Michonne told me that when she would talk to her boyfriend it felt like he was right there with her." She looked back to the spot where Glenn was and he waved to her trying to lure her down to where he was, it took every muscle in Maggie's body not to go after him he's not real Maggie, you know this she clenched onto the gun taking a deep breath while Rick squeezed her shoulder and the two went back to keeping watch glancing over at Carl who was feeding the pigs and birds they found in the woods every now and then to make sure he was okay. Maggie smiled at Carl who was snoring softly under his comforter and then walked to where Rick was eating and sat across from him
"I'm gonna take watch for the night, you should get some sleep." She said pulling a knee to her chest he shook his head
"No, I'll be-"
"Don't fight me on this Grimes! I'm takin' watch and you are going to get some sleep." She said sternly shaking her head, he sighed letting his head drop a bit
"Fine but wake me up if you don't feel up to it. Okay?" She nodded standing up slipping on her coat over her dark grey sweatshirt lifting his chin up making him look her in the eye
"Actually try and get some sleep this time, we can't afford for us both us to be sleep deprived." He placed a hand on her wrist moving her hand away slowly
"I will, I promise." He nodded, she gave him a small smile zipping up her jacket pulling up the hood walking outside into the dark cold silently thanking god it wasn't snowing or windy. Rick kicked off his boots and pulled the comforter over him putting one arm under his head she'll be fine, she's strong. We'll be fine and this is gonna work He assured himself closing his eyes drifting off into a deep sleep.