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I blinked once, twice then three times at my surroundings. Where was I? I thought as I touched the pillow on the bed. Last time I checked I was a prisoner. I shrugged and got up and sauntered over to the door and turned the doorknob only to realize it was locked. I kicked the door just before it swung open at me. "Whoa there honey, calm down it's all right." Merle said smiling at me.
"Come to cut me some more?" I asked.
"Nope, just wanted a calm discussion." He said stepping through the threshold.
"Yeah? Go on, talk." I said.
"I know you don't think highly of me now but I don't have any bad intentions or shit like that. I'm just a man looking for his brother; can't you see that I just want my baby brother back?" He asked calmly.
"I think you are fully capable of finding Daryl by yourself if you really wanted to, I think your priorities are being fucked up the ass right now. You're concentrating on the wrong things, I got some news, Merle, Daryl isn't hiding, he doesn't know you're alive or anything. If you wanted to find him you have to look first." I said cocking my head to the side, analyzing Merle's perplexed expression.
"You could make it a whole hell of a lot easier for me by telling me where he is." He said.
"I'm not going to participate in your small minded games anymore so either take what I just said into consideration or just stop trying to get more information out of any of us." I said.
"Whatever, if you think I'm going to stop trying you're fucking wrong, I figured I should attempt Mr. nice guy but guess I'll have to resort to my old ways." He said and walked out the door, just before the door slammed to a close I swung it open again but didn't cause a scene about it, knowing I could easily sneak around him and find Glenn and Maggie.
"Where do you think you're going?" A gruff voice said as Merle whipped around.
"Blondie, what the fuck are you doing? I'm not gonna play cat and mouse with you. You're going back to your cage.
"Fine with me." I said blinking the cool air from a fan brushed the back of my neck drying the beads of sweat.
"Glad to see your back in commission can't wait to get an answer out of you." He said.
"Going to be waiting a long time." I said as the door to my makeshift cell closed.
"Yeah, we'll see about that." His muffled voice came through the door.
"Glenn, you still there?" I asked a few minutes later.
"Yeah, where did they take you, are you all right?" He asked.
"A room with a bed and a nice guy approach. I gave Merle some shitty advice like I was talking to Rick. I don't know what's wrong with me, Glenn." I said running my index finger over the raised skin on my arm.
"You just want to get back just as much as Maggie and I do."
"What if they don't come?" I asked.
"Rick, Daryl and Shane? They'll be here before you know it."
"Yeah, sure-." I was cut off by footsteps coming from down the hall. Would Rick be here this soon? I thought desperately. The door creaked open and my worst nightmare stepped through the door.
"Howdy, Aliyah, how you doing tonight?" One out of three men asked as they stepped closer to me.
"Our boy, Merle, says you know where his brother is and you're going to tell us." Another said grabbing my arm, forcing me to stand up.
"Or what?" I asked.
"We'll fuck you again and fuck up your pretty little face till no one can recognize you, till no one will want your fat ass." He said.
"Nah, sunshine, you ain't fat." The final one said his long dark eyelashes hiding the beauty of his blue eyes. A feeling of dread twisted around my stomach as I felt a man's little friend grow against my side.
"You can't do this to me, not again." I said choking over my words.
"Oh, really?" The tallest one said slipping his finger under the elastic of my sweatpants. I began trembling as more flashbacks crossed my mind.
"No, fuck you, you aren't going to do this to me again!" I screamed and began thrashing. "I don't give a shit, I'm a stronger woman than when I was seventeen, you're not going to do this again." I said while hot, angry tears of disgust fell down my cheeks.
"Like hell we are." As I was pushed down to the ground and my sweatpants were torn away from legs. I felt my body go rigid while my insides fought for myself but my body wouldn't perform the actions needed to protect myself. I was silent as the first man entered me, after roughly tearing my legs apart. He pounded into me, relentlessly. I stared up at the ceiling as my life began flashing before my eyes, I was suddenly grateful for everything I had, especially Daryl. His blue eyes were on mine as the man on me emptied his contents inside of me. The other's took their turns for what felt like an eternity, until I finally felt a voice of reason from inside my head.
"What the fuck are you doing? You're just going to let these bastards take advantage of you?" His voice echoed inside my head. "Do something, anything!" He urged as the next got on top of me. What am I supposed to do? I asked. "Anything, don't be a stupid bitch." He said as I was snapped into reality as a dick was shoved down my throat as the second finished himself off. I instantly bit down and kicked the second one. I stood up with my shaky legs, like a baby deer learning to stand.
"How dare you motherfuckers take advantage of me again!" I said my eyes raging. The door flew open and my head snapped to the door where the man I was falling in love with stood. Fortunately, the three men didn't realize the door was open. "You had no fucking right to take advantage of me, to rape me for a second time. You're fucking sick bastards." I notice how Daryl reacted; his body began shaking with rage. I took a step closer to them. "How about I rip your dicks off now?" I demanded. "Your tiny pathetic dicks." I kneed all three off them, bringing them down to the ground and the tallest grabbed my thigh and pushed his finger into me.
"You know you like this." He said as he tightened his grip on me. I looked to Daryl with wide eyes and he loaded his crossbow.
"We ain't got time for this shit." He said as he shot one through the brain, then the second and third. "Put something on." He said as he gathered his arrows. "As much as I would've liked to kill them slowly, we don't have any time, we have to go." He said.
"Go without me, I deserve to die." I said as tears began streaming down my face once again.
"Now is not the time to play any fucking games, let's go." He said.
"I'm serious, Daryl, I couldn't protect myself, how could I protect any of you?" I asked.
"You are a victim, let's go." He said and grabbed my arm and I ripped it away.
"No! I'm not going!" I screamed.
"Come the fuck on!" He screamed right back at me. "I fucking argued with Rick to get you now, you're not going to fucking give up on me now!" He screamed his eyes becoming watery.
"Daryl, I'm not worth it." I said.
"I can't lose you too, Aliyah." He said grabbing my wrist and yanking me out of the room. I just cried the whole way he led me through the building and back to the group. I was worthless, I'm weak and can't protect anything, not even myself.
"Aliyah, I'm so sorry!" Glenn said, I said as I shook my head. Daryl faced me with his eyes on mine.
"You're not staying here." He said and pressed his lips to mine, I didn't even react, I couldn't.
"Daryl, it was…it was Merle, your brother…who brought us here." I said.
"What do you mean, Merle? Where is he, I need to see him, maybe I can work something out!"
"Daryl, look at me, look at my scars, my cuts and bruises, these aren't from my rapists, they're from your brother, he was the perv in the lake, he's no good." I said.
"He's my brother!" He screamed as I passed out.
When I came around back into consciousness I was lying on the ground next to Daryl, behind a bench as he continuously shot a gun. There was smoke in the air; I didn't even know how he could see what he was shooting at. "Daryl, where's the group?" I asked sitting up, shaking the rocks out from my hair.
"We split up; it's the best chance we're going to make it out of here."
"At least we have a chance." I said as I pulled myself into a crouching position, my whole body was sore.
"Stay down, don't risk getting shot." He said.
"You are."
"Yeah, that's me, I'm fine, you've been raped." He said.
"I'm still fine, don't treat me like a victim, Daryl." I said.
"You are a victim, I'm just glad I killed those bastards." He said.
"Thank you, Daryl." I said.
"Yeah, you're welcome." He grunted as he reloaded.
"Daryl!" I heard Rick yell from somewhere off in the distance.
"Let's go, Rick's yelling for you."
"It's not safe." He said.
Suddenly there was something pulled over my head, most likely a pillowcase as I heard Daryl swear. "You best let me go!" He said.
"Not happening."
"Are you fucking crazy?" I demanded as I was being pushed forward. I listened closely as the atmosphere had gone tense; I knew we were wherever this man was taking us.
"You wanted your brother, well you got him!" Someone said loudly and I heard people gasp; apparently we were a source of amusement for these sick bastards. "You say your loyalties lie here, well let's put that to the test, you two will fight, to the death!"
"Fuck this shit." I mumbled and ripped myself out of the persons grasp and ripped off the pillowcase from my head.
"You fucking piece of shit, blood is thicker than water no matter what." I screamed.
"Aw, you want to watch?" The man said his calm eyes, well eye, on mine.
"Do you want to die?" I demanded taking a step towards him.
"Aliyah, back off." Daryl said.
"How the fuck can I back off?" I asked, exasperated.
"It'll be a fair fight." He said calmly. I realized they both must have a plan to get out of there, but I didn't know what it was. I drew in a deep breath and closed my eyes.
"Fine, you want to be a fucking douchebag, go ahead." I said playing along. He nodded curtly and then the fight began.