We are the Walking Dead
"Philip." I hear Andrea say and I look at her as she gets held back by someone
"Stay out of this."
"Their my friends." She begged him
"It's not up to me anymore. The people have spoken." He tell her
"What?"
"I asked you where your loyalties lie. You said here. Well, prove it. Prove it to us all. Brother against brother." The Governor announced and someone pulled me away from them
"Daryl!" I yelled and he moved to me but someone pushed him back to where Merle was
"Winner goes free. Fight to the death." The Governor says
"Phillip please, don't do this. Don't do this" Andrea pleaded and I looked at her then back at Daryl.
"Let's go, Merle!"
"Come on, Merle!"
"Yeah, Merle!"
People cheered and he held up his arm, "Y'all know me. I'm gonna do whatever I got to do to prove..." He says and punched Daryl in the gut, I struggled agaisnt the person holding me back, "That my loyalty is to this town!" He yells and kicked Daryl, he continued beating Daryl when just then I hear snarling and 4 people walked out with walkers, the person holding me moved me over as they walked into the middle with the walkers and I struggled more as Daryl punched Merle in the face, Daryl went to get up and go after Merle but he brought Daryl to the ground.
Merle lifted Daryl up and they faced back to back looking at the walkers, Merle hit one and shoved it down, Daryl punched one as well moving it into the crowd
Just then there were gunshots and the walkers go down and everyone screamed, then I see a smoke grenade land in the middle and the gun shots took out the lights, "Kate!" Daryl yelled and I whipped my head back hitting the guy holding me in the face then smoke covered the area before I could get to Daryl. One of the walkers came at me and I held it back but then it got pulled off me and thrown to the ground, I see Merle standing there
"Come on!" He yelled and I moved over to him and Daryl who grabbed my hand
"Stay close!" He tells us and we make our way out of the middle trying to find the others
"Merle, come on" Daryl tells him
"Go" Merle told us
We see a light flash at us and I see a guy shoot a walker with Daryl's crossbow, then Daryl moves up to him and grabbed it then I punched the guy in the face, "Let's go!" Daryl says
We got out on the other side of the wall and continued running, "They're all at the arena. This way." Merle told us
"You're not going anywhere with us." Rick says and I look at him
"You really want to do this now?" Merle asked him and started kicking at a part of the wall and going through
"Come on, man. Rick, come on. We've got to go." Daryl told him and we follow
I see Merle smashing a walkers skull in with the metal thing on his arm, "A little help would be nice." Daryl shoots one then Rick and Maggie do as well
"We ain't got time for this." Merle tells them and I follow him as he ran
"Let's go." Daryl tells them grabbing my hand and we make our back to the woods
TWD
"Glenn!" Rick yells at him as we get to the car they brought here
"Rick. Rick. Rick. Oh, thank God."
"Now we got a problem here. I need you to back up." Rick says to him
"What the hell is he doing here?!" Glenn yelled as him and a woman I never met before moved to Merle and she drew her sword but Rick stepped in front of her
"Hey, hey, hey! Hey, put it down!" Daryl yells at her stepping away from me in front of Merle
"He tried to kill me!"
"If it wasn't for him-" Glenn started to tell Daryl
"He helped us get out of there."
"Yeah, right after he beat the shit out of you." Rick tells Daryl
"Hey, we both took our licks, man." Merle says
"Jackass." Daryl grumbled over his shoulder at him
"Hey, shut up."
"Enough! Hey, hey, relax! Put that down now!" Rick tells Michonne
"Get that thing out of my face!" Daryl warned Glenn
"Man, look like you've gone native, brother." Merle says to him
"No more than you hanging out with that psycho back there."
"Oh, yeah, man. He is a charmer, I got to tell you that. Been putting the wood to your girlfriend Andrea. Big time, baby." Merle says and I looked at at him in shock
"What? Andrea's in Woodbury?" Glenn asked
"Right next to the Governor." Merle answered and the woman moved forward with her sword again
"I told you to drop that!" Rick tells her
"You know Andrea?" He asked her and she didn't say anthing, "Hey, do you know Andrea?"
"Yep, she does. Her and blondie spent all winter cuddling up in the forest. Mm-mmm-mmm. Yeah. My Nubian queen here had two pet walkers. No arms, cut off the jaws, kept them in chains. Kind of ironic now that I think about it." Merle tells us and I look at him
"Shut up Merle" Daryl told him
"Hey, we snagged them out of the woods. Andrea was close to dying." He says
"Is that why she's with him?" Maggie asked him
"Yeah. Snug as two little bugs. So what you gonna do now, Sheriff, huh? Surrounded by a bunch of liars, thugs, and cowards."
"Shut up!" Rick yelled at him
"Oh, man, look at this. Pathetic. All these guns and no bullets in them."
"Merle, shut up!" Daryl yelled at him
"Shut up yourself! Bunch of pussies you roll-" Merle started to say but Rick clipped him in the back of the head knocking him out
"Asshole." Rick says and I looked at Daryl
"It won't work." Rick tells Daryl
"It's gotta." Daryl argued
"It'll stir things up."
"Look, the Governor is probably on the way to the prison right now. Merle knows how he thinks and we could use the muscle." Daryl tell him
"I'm not having him at the prison." Maggie says
"Do you really want him sleeping in the same cell block as Carol or Beth?" Glenn asked
"He's not a rapist." Daryl told him
"Well, his buddy is." Glenn says and Daryl looked at me but shook my head
"They ain't buddies no more. Not after last night." Daryl mentioned
"There's no way Merle's gonna live there without putting everyone at each other's throats." Rick tells him
"So you're gonna cut Merle loose and bring the last samurai home with us?"
"She's not coming back." Rick said
"She's not in a state to be on her own." Maggie tells him
"She did bring you guys to us." Glenn adds
"And then ditched us."
"At least let my dad stitch her up." Magie tells him
"She's too unpredictable."
"That's right. We don't know who she is. But Merle, Merle's blood." Daryl pointed out
"No, Merle is your blood. My blood, my family is standing right here and waiting for us back at the prison." Glenn tells us
"And you're part of that family. But he's not. He's not." Rick says
"Man, y'all don't know. Fine. We'll fend for ourselves." Daryl tells them and looked at me
"That's not what I was saying." Glenn tells him
"No him, no me."
"Daryl, you don't have to do that." I told him
"It was always Merle and I before this." Daryl said
"Don't." I begged him and he grabbed my hand
"Come with me" He says and I looked at him confused
"You serious? You're just gonna leave like that?" Glenn asked him
"You'd do the same thing." He told him looking away from me
"What do you want us to tell Carol?" Glenn asked him and I looked at Glenn
"She'll understand." Daryl answered and looked at me, "Kate?"
"I...I want to, I do but Rick's right this guy could be on the way to the prison and I have to be there to keep the baby and Carl safe." I tell him and he nodded his head then looked at everyone
"Say good-bye to your pop for me." Daryl tells Maggie walking away
"Daryl, are you serious?" Glenn asked him and I walked with Rick following him
"Daryl!" Rick yelled, "Hey. Hey. There's got to be another way."
"Don't ask me to leave him. I already did that once." Daryl says to Rick
"We started something last night. You realize that, huh?"
"No him, no me" Daryl repeated and I looked at him, "That's all I can say. Take care of yourself. Take care of lil ass-kicker. Carl. He's one tough kid."
"Daryl..." I said and he pulled me into a kiss then I wrapped my arms around him
"I'm gonna come back I promise." He tells me then moved my face to look at him, "I love you" He says and I looked at him in shock
"You have horrible timing." I tell him and he chuckled
"It's true though, has been for awhile."
"I love you too" I tell him and he kissed me again then walked into the woods up to Merle looking back at me then they left.
I sat in the back of the car with my head leaning against the window lost in thought, that was the first time we ever said those words to each other, I always felt love for him and wanted to say it so many times but I held back in case it made him uncomfortable for some reason. I was taken out of my thoughts when we pull up to the prison and I see Carol open the gate then Carl opened the other. Me and Rick got out and I ran to her.
"Thank god," I told her through tears as she hugged me
"Drive 'em up. I'll meet you there." Rick told Maggie and I saw Carol trying to look in the car as it drove up
"Where's Hershel?" Rick asked Carl
"He's in the cell block."
"Where's Daryl?" Carol asked me
"It's all right. He's alive. We..um ran into his brother. They went off."
"He left? Daryl left? He's gone? Is he coming back?" She asked
"Hey." I tell her pulling her into a hug, "It's ok." I reassured her and we all headed up to the prison
"And Oscar?" Carl asked and Rick shook his head
"No."
We walked into the prison heading into our cell block when I saw 4 people who I didn't know sitting at one of the tables, I looked at Carol confused and she nodded her head as we walked inside. I headed up the stairs to mine and Daryl's cell, I finally managed to convince him to stay in one. I changed my clothes then headed back down to the others.
Carol was cleaning out an old box for mail when Beth walked up the stairs holding Judith and I walked over with blankets then indicated for her to hand me my niece which she did and I smiled at her.
"You've got a knack for that." Carol told Beth
"Just trying to do my part."
"Sophia used to wake the neighbors. 3AM. Like clockwork. Ed stayed at a friend's most nights till she calmed down." She says
"Carl used to do the same thing. Every night when I would watch him, 3AM on the dot." I said smiling looking down at Judith, "I always managed to calm him down by reading him a book, specifically Shakespeare"
"I always wanted a child." Beth says
"You better wait on that one" I tell her nudging her shoulder and she smiled
"She wouldn't have made it if Daryl hadn't been here. He couldn't stand to lose anyone else." Beth mentioned to Carol
"Sounds like him."
"I don't see why he had to leave. Merle sounds like a jerk." Beth says
"Men like Merle get into your head. Make you feel like you deserve the abuse." Carol told her
"Even for Daryl?"
"I'm hardly the woman I was a year ago, but if Ed walked through that door right now breathing and told me to go with him, I'd like to think I'd tell him to go to hell." Carol says
"We're weak without him." Beth pointed out as Carol grabbed the blankets I brought out and put them in the bottom of the box
"We'll get through this, too. Tyreese and his friends seem capable."
"I'm pissed at him for leaving." Beth says
"Don't be. Daryl has his code. This world needs men like that." I tell her and walked over to the box as Judith started to fuss, "Oh it's ok, you're ok" I comforted and put her in the box, "There." I said and she calmed down
"She fits perfect." Beth pointed out
"Yeah. Wait. You cozy in there?" I asked her and she grabbed my finger putting it in her mouth, I smiled at her and Carol put her hand on my shoulder
"I'm so sorry Kate." She says and I gave her a small smile
"Thanks Carol." I said and looked back down at my niece
Later that night I sat on the steps next to Beth as she held Judith, I saw Carol walk over to Axel and put her hand on his arm, "Whenever Tomas went off, Oscar always stood up for me, you know? He was my friend."
"He went out fighting." Rick reassured him as Beth and I walked over to them
"So what now? You think the Governor will retaliate?" Beth asked
"Yes." Maggie answered
"Let him try." Glenn added
"Sounds like he's got a whole town. We're outnumbered and outgunned." I pointed out
"We could use some reinforcements." Hershel says to Rick and we walk out of the cell block to the lunch area where Tyreese and the others were
"I'm Tyreese." He says to Rick holding out his hand but Rick just looked at him
"Sasha, Allen, Ben." Hershel introduced the others
"How'd you get in?" Rick asked Tyreese
"Fire damage to the administrative part of the prison. Wall's down."
"That side's completely overrun with walkers. How'd you get this far?" Rick asked
"We didn't. We lost our friend Donna."
"They were lost in the tombs." Carl tells Rick
"You brought them here?"
"He had no choice." Hershel says to him
"I'm sorry about your friend. We know what that's like." Rick tells Tyreese
"Hershel said you could use some extra hands. We're no stranger to hard work. We'll go out and get our own food, stay out of your hair. You got a problem with another group, we'll help with that, too. Anything to contribute."
"No." Rick tells him after a pause
"Please. It's like "10 Little Indians" out there. It's just us now." Sasha begged him
"No."
"Let's talk about this. We can't just keep-" Hershel started to say but Rick cut him off
"We've been through this. With Tomas, Andrew. Look what happened."
"Axel and Oscar weren't like them." I told Rick
"And where's Oscar now? I can't be responsible."
"You turn us out, you are responsible." Tyreese tells him
"Rick." Hershel says and Rick walked over to him
"You've done so much for us. I appreciate that. We all do. We owe you our lives. We've done everything you asked without question. And I'm telling you, you're wrong on this. You've got to start giving people a chance."
Rick looked at him then all of us and sighed patting Hershel on the shoulder then I see him look up at the catwalk, "No, no. No, no, no, no. No. No, no, no, no, no. Why are you here? What do you want from me?" He asked to nobody
"Dad?" Carl asked and I put my hand on his shoulder
"Why are you- no. I can't help you. Get out!" Rick yelled walking over to Tyreese and them
"Whoa, whoa, whoa."
"Get- get out!" Rick yelled again and I pulled Carl behind me then stood in front of him and Beth who was holding Judith.
"Hey, come on. Whoa, it's all good." Tyreese says to him
"What are you doing?" Sasha asked
"Hey, easy, Rick. There's no need to-" Maggie started to say
"You don't belong here! Get out!" Rick yelled turning to her then grabbed his gun, I put my hand on my gun just to safe, "Please!"
"Relax, brother. Relax." Tyreese says to him
"Get out! Get out!"
"We'll leave. We're going. Okay? Ain't nobody got to get shot here. We're going." Tyreese says to him and they grab their stuff
"What are you doing here?!"
"Okay, we're going."
"Just go! Go! Go!" Glenn tells them and they run
"Rick...put it down" I tell him and he looked at me as I kept my hand on my gun then he looked back up at the catwalk, after a moment he put his gun back in his holster and I took my hand off of mine and walked over to him, "Why don't you go get some rest, you had a long day" I tell him and he looked at the floor then headed into the cell block. I sighed and looked at Hershel then made my way to Rick's cell, "Rick," I said and he looked at me, "What is going on with you?" I asked and he looked down.
"I keep seeing Lori." He says and I walked over to him, "After...after it happened, when I went to where she...I heard a phone ring. I answered it, thinking it was another person on the other line. They said..they said that they had a camp, I begged them to consider taking us. Turns out no one was there, I was talking to Lori." He says and I closed my eyes looking down, "And Shane." He added and I looked at him, "I miss her Kate. I miss her so much." He told me and I pulled him into a hug and he cried into my shoulder.
"I'm so sorry Rick" I whisper to him
"Thank you, for what you did. I never got a chance to say it."
I gave him a small smile, "I love you big brother"
"I love you too"
"Get some rest, change your clothes. You look like shit" I said and he nudged me then I left heading to my own cell to get some sleep.