Chapter 4

They moved through the darken halls of the tombs Glenn marking the walls so they would know which way to go back. They turned one corner and were stopped by a group of walker inmates roaming around.

"Go back, Go back." Rick told them. They tried to go back the way they came but they got blocked at every turn. At one point the group got separated.

Glenn, Maggie and Layla were forced to break away and hide in a janitor's closet while the others ran down the hall.

"Shit." Layla whispered as the listened waiting for the walkers to move on.

"I think it's quiet out there." Glenn said as he peeked out the door. Nodding the girls followed behind him searching for the others .

"Dad. Dad." Maggie called out for her father. They heard him call her name to their right.

"Over there." Layla pointed and they made their way for the hall until they heard his yell of pain as they rounded the corner to see a walker biting into Hershel's leg.

"Fuck." Layla hissed.

"No." Maggie yelled as Rick shot the walker and he and Glenn picked up Hershel and they ran down the hall away from the walkers. T Dogg broke the locks off one of the doors and they all piled in, laying Hershel on the ground. T Dogg and Layla stayed by the door keeping the walkers out that were trying to break in while Rick worked to save Hershel's life.

"There's only one way to keep him alive." Rick said grabbing his hatched and cutting off Hershel's leg right above the walker bite.

"shit." T Dogg said from beside Layla who looked over to see him trying not to puke as Rick cut into the man's leg. Hershel passed out from the pain halfway through. Blood everywhere.

"He's bleeding out." Rick said once he was done. Layla walked over and gave him her do rag she had in her pocket to help them try and stop the bleeding.

"Duck." Daryl told them and Layla looked over to see a group of prisoners standing behind a counter looking in on them. Layla drew her sword as Daryl trained his bow on them.

"Holy shit." The white inmate with blonde hair said as they looked on in shock at Hershel's leg.

"Who the hell are you?" Daryl ask as he and Layla inched towards them, weapons drawn.

"Who the hell are you." The Hispanic inmate asks in return.

"He's bleeding out. We got to go." Layla heard Rick say from behind them.

"Come on out of there. Slow and steady." Daryl told them and they did as he ask. Layla noticed that only one of them had a gun.

"What happened to him?" the guy with the gun ask.

"He got bit." Daryl told him.

"Bit." The replied taking out his gun.

"Whoa, whoa whoa. Easy now. No one needs to get hurt." Daryl told him when he saw the gun.

The Hispanic guy started looking around in alarm then until he noticed Layla standing at Daryl side with a sword.

"Damn." He said looking her up and down hard. Daryl not liking the way he looked at her step slightly in front of her.

"Find another place for your eyes asshole or I'll do it for you." Daryl growled catching the guys attention.

"who the hell are you people anyway."

"You don't look like no rescue team."

"If you're waiting on a rescue team. Don't." Rick told them as they picked up Hershel and set him on a metal table with wheels that Glenn found.

"Come on we got to go." Rick yelled.

"T the door." T Dogg opened the door taking out the walker on the other side. Layla turned pulled Daryl out with her as they followed the others. Daryl noticed the Hispanic guys eyes following Layla as they went and he didn't like it.

They ran as fast as they could back to the cell block. At one point they stopped when they heard voices and noticed the inmates following them.

"Open the door. It's Hershel." Rick yelled to the others as he and Glenn pushed Hershel into a cell for Carol and Lori to try and save.

Daryl, Layla and T Dogg held back to block the inmates from getting to the others.

When the inmates made it to their cell block they slowly walked into the door.

"That's far enough." Daryl told them pointing his bow at them.

"Cell block 's mine gringo. Let me in." the Hispanic man said and Daryl scoffed.

"Today's your lucky day fellas. You've been pardoned by the state of GA your free to go." He told them as they started looking around and in the Hispanic's case having a stare off with Layla.

"Well hello Mamacita. What's your name." he ask her and she rolled her eyes at him while pulling her blade off her back.

"None of your damn business." She spat.

"What you got going on in there, chicka." He ask her.

"None of your concern. And stop talking to her." Daryl spat at him.

"Don't tell me what's none of my concern." He spat at Daryl taking his gun out.

"Chill man. Dude's leg's messed up. Besides were free now. Why we still in here." The large black inmate told him.

"Man's got a point." Daryl told them.

"I got to check on my old lady." One of the other inmates stated.

"Group of Civilians breaking into a prison you got no business being in. Got me thinking there anit no place for us to go." The Hispanic told Daryl.

"Why don't you go find out." He growled back to him.

"Maybe will just be going now." The white inmate told them.

"We anit leaving."

"You anit coming here neither." T Dogg said pulling his gun.

"My house my rules I go where I damn well please." The Hispanic told them and then all hell broke loose. Everyone stated yelling and arguing with each other. Daryl inched closer to Layla just in case those assholes tried anything. He'd be damned if he let them touch her.

"Hey everyone relax. There's no need for this." Rick said cutting off the yelling as he came in.

"How many of you in there."

"Too many for you to handle." Rick told him.

"Did you guys rob a bank or something? Why don't you take him to a hospital." The Hispanic ask.

"How long you been locked in the cafeteria." Layla ask him.

"Going on like 10 months." He replied and Rick and the others glanced at each other. They had no idea what was happening.

"A riot broke out. It was crazy. Heard about dudes dying and coming back." One of the other inmates stated.

"A guard looked out for us. Pushed us in the cafeteria threw me this piece and said he be back. That was like 292 days ago." They said.

"We were thinking the army or National Guard should be showing up any day now."

"There is no Army." Rick today them.

"What do you mean?"

"There's no government, no hospitals no police, it's all gone," Rick replied.

"For real?"

"Serious." Rick said.

"What about my mom's, kids and old lady. Do you have a cell phone we can use?" one of the inmates ask.

"You just don't get it." Daryl replied from his spot standing in front of Layla.

"There's no phones, internet. As far as we can tell over half the population has been wiped out." Rick told them.

"I'd say more than half." Layla added.

The inmates all stood taking in what was said before the Hispanic guy replied.

"Anit no way."

"See for yourself." Rick told them and they all went out to the cleared court yard to show the inmates what was happening outside the prison walls.