I clutched my knife firmly and limped down the grassy hill until I got to the fence of the prison, I looked to my side and saw that the walkers were all congregated to one side and hadn't noticed me yet. I put my machete in the same hand as my rifle and placed the free hand on the cold metal wire of the fence, I was still in pain from my ankle but I smiled slightly when I heard the distant sound of voices. I soon saw a door opening in the distance and saw the figure of a person walk out, I decided to take my chances "Hey!" I shouted out as loud as I could, I glanced to my side again and saw a couple of walkers had noticed me but not many, I could handle it. I looked back to the prison but the person had gone, they'd gone back inside obviously and I'd been left outside the fence. "HEY! IS ANYONE IN THERE?" I shouted at the top of my lungs and even more walkers noticed, I pulled up my machete and stabbed it down through the head of a walker that had come too near for comfort.

I started to pant a little and let a few tears spill from my eyes as more pain ripped through my ankle and up my leg. I heard a distant bang and looked back to the prison to see the door had been opened again and this time two people had come out "HEY!" I shouted again, I didn't shout as loud this time but they certainly heard me, the two people turned and looked over to where I was stood. I freed my hand again by putting my machete and rifle in the same hand and waved so they knew I wasn't a walker. Waving was probably a bad idea as a few more walkers had started to approach me and I was taken off guard, I quickly dropped the gun and raised the sharp blade, piecing it through the rotten skin of the first walker to approach. I soon heard quick footsteps and glanced to see the two people run down the grass and to the gates. I stabbed one last walker before grabbing my gun and running again, I kept wincing at the point as it got unbearable but soon got to the gate where the two people were stood on the opposite side. A man and a woman, the man had strong stubble and brown hair that was greying, he was wearing what seemed to of been a Sheriff uniform but could have been anything really. The woman had straddley, short brown hair; she had piecing green eyes and was looking me up and down. The man looked down and saw I was obviously injured before opening the gate only so much that I could slip through. As soon as I got through the gates I all but fell to the mudded ground as the pain from my ankle got too much.

Rick's POV

I'd been sat on the stairs in the cell block when Maggie came in, with Judith in my arms I smiled down at my baby daughter as she giggled slightly at my tickling on her stomach. Everyone was in cell block D or C, the new people from Woodbury were mostly just in their cell's leaving the rest of us outside the cresh area. "Rick, I think there's someone at the fence" Maggie burst through the door, I looked up at her then around at everyone else who was looking between me and Maggie, I soon sighed and handed Judith back to Carol as I got up from the steps. We hadn't had any contact from The Governor or Woodbury for a very long time now but we were all still wary that he'd come back to finish us off. I grabbed my gun and put it in my belt as I walked out the cell block, Maggie pointed down to the fence where a congregation of walkers were, they were always there and it was nothing new. I was preparing to turn back around and got back inside stating that Maggie must have imagined the call when a shout did come, we heard a loud shout of hey and turned to the fest. I scanned along it and saw a petite figure just left of the gate, I pointed the figure out and started running through the grass to the fence where the person was.

As we got closer I saw it was a young girl of about 17 or 18, she had long, knotty brown, curly hair, she had deep blue eyes and seemed to be quite skinny although I couldn't quite tell under her baggy shirt and jeans. I looked her over and she was stood with a limp in her foot. I breathed out slowly before deciding to open the gate, she was a young girl maybe even a child still and I couldn't let her stay out there alone it wasn't fair, I wouldn't want Carl out there on his own so why would I let someone else's daughter be out there alone? I opened the gate a crack so she could slip in which she did, the second she was through the gate she dropped her weapons and fell to the floor obviously passing out from any pain she was going through. "You get that arm and we'll take her to Hershel, we'll decide when she wakes up what to do with her" I said to Maggie and she nodded, I grabbed her sword and rifle and helped Maggie lift the girl up off the ground before we started to walk back up to the cell block.

"Who's she?" Carol questioned when we walked through the door with the girl, I looked at Carol then round at the other before leading Maggie into a cell and laying the girl down on the bed. "She was at the fence shouting to us" Maggie explained to everyone as Hershel walked into the cell, he sat down on a stool that was next to the bed and started to examine her ankle as I pointed out that she'd had a limp. After a few minutes Hershel concluded that the girl had sprained her ankle then made it worse, he said probably by walking on it. I nodded and ushered everyone back into the cresh area to leave the girl to rest. The whole group was here apart from Daryl and Glenn who were on a run to get more supplies, before exiting the cell I grabbed the girls bag and taking it into the cresh and sitting beside Carol. "That's the girls, you shouldn't look through it" Carol pointed out and I just sighed, agreeing with her. I wasn't going to take anything I just wanted to see what she had inside, she might have had food. "What do we do with her?" Beth suddenly piped up and I looked over at her shrugging, I had no idea what we were going to do with her, I didn't want to just send her away but what if she was someone to do with Woodbury sent to spy on us? After thinking for a few minutes I stated that we'd wait till Daryl and Glenn returned and decide as a group what to do with her. We'd all been sat in silence for quite a long time before the door opened inside the cell and Michonne walked in "What's happened?" she asked, looking round at us all. Everyone turned to me like they always did and I sighed before explaining.

Jaden's POV

I awoke to a grubby looking dark almost black ceiling. I blinked a little trying to get my bearings before looking down to see I had a bandage over my ankle "What?" I muttered and sat up in the bed, I looked around the room, the walls were as grubby and dark as the ceiling, there were carvings in the wall like someone had been counting down to something. I looked over to the front of the room to see iron bars like a prison cell…Then I remembered what had happened, I was in a prison with people I didn't know. "Are you okay?" a gruff voice came and I looked over to the iron bar door to see the man from before, I just nodded not able to find my voice. I hadn't seen an actual human being for well over a year net alone spoken to one "My name's Rick" he added calmly, he looked at me before walking further into the cell and perching on the end of the bed. "I'm erm Jaden" I told him and nodded before picking something up from the ground, he'd picked up some crutches. "You can come out and meet everyone when you're ready but Hershel said you shouldn't walk on your foot for a bit so we found you these to use" Rick said and handed the crutches to me, I nodded and watched him as he walked away and out of the cell.

I wasn't used to any sort of man minus one of my brothers being nice to me, I was used to being smacked and being called piggy and horrible names so when Rick was actually kind to me I was more than shocked. I sat on the bed for a few minutes just thinking, did I really want to get involved with a group? As crap as my childhood was I got quickly attached to people emotionally and I knew if I joined a group of people then I'd do the same as always. After a few minutes I took a deep breath and stood up with the crutches, I took another breath then limped out into the main area looking down. "So who's this new girl?" I heard another gruff voice, my eyes widened a little at how much I recognised that voice but I couldn't put my finger on how I knew the voice. I finally looked up and let my eyes wander the room until they lay on the source of the voice, the man was staring at me and I knew he remembered. "Daryl?" I asked not wanting to actually believe he was there. He opened his mouth to speak but he closed it into a smile, I dropped the crutches and ran over to him forgetting about my ankle. I smiled and fell into his arms, I couldn't stop smiling, I'd missed my brother so much.