Never Look Back

Chapter Twelve

"What was found" Maggie broke the silence.

"We found others…along with a set of showers and a kitchen. We're going to work with them in exchange for half of their stock of food" Rick said slowly probably trying to gauge our reactions. I wasn't too pleased for sure. They're in this prison for a reason then we probably shouldn't trust them.

"Seriously?" I asked.

"Yes, we've made it clear that if they set foot here we will open fire on them and kill them with no hesitation. We're going to help clear out things for them right now. We left them in the kitchen so we should probably get back to them. Merle are you gonna come?" Rick asked.

"Well of course. Someone's gotta watch out for Darlina" Merle grinned and looked down at his hand and brought a cloth out to wipe off his stake. I didn't like the fact that they were going anywhere near those douchebags.

"Alright well Carol if you could tend to Hershel that would be good but we'll get started there" Rick nodded and started walking over towards the entrance when Maggie quickly moved forward as if on instinct.

"Chelle and I should go. You should leave T-Dog and Shane to stay back and go on guard duty. No one was on it today and you know Chelle and I are good" She rambled on quickly. Rick looked back at both of us and I grabbed my quiver from the table.

"Yeh know I'm a good shot Rick" I tried to reason with him.

"Yeah. Well no guns just knives and arrows. Don't kill them Chelle until after we get the supplies" He looked at me and I nodded.

"One of em gets out of line and his ass is grass though" I told him.

"Whoa were letting Bo-peep and spunky here with us? What happened to women being women and letting us do the real work" Merle asked.

"It ended the day the world did. Now ladies instead of chitter chattering lets go" I motioned towards the door and started walking with Maggie into the hallway after Rick. Daryl and Merle were behind us, I'm pretty sure the prisoners aren't going to be expecting two women.

"Wait Maggie" I told her and grabbed her jacket and pulled it off and threw it on the ground along with mine. I pulled my quiver over my bare shoulder and drew an arrow and held it in place.

"Mm maybe there's a new sugar tits in town" I heard merle and I looked back to see Daryl hit his brothers arm.

"Oh relax" He said throwing both of his hands up in surrender.

We walked for a few minutes and took down two walkers and finally got to double doors and I drew my weapon and kept it close to me when Rick opened the doors and we all walked in to see four men in blue jumpsuits sitting around a metal kitchen counter.

"Ah brought us some women for the exchange" the Latino said. He looked slimy and the way he looked us both up and down gave me the chills. Before I could make a remark Daryl and Merle moved in front of us.

"Nah these bitches are here to keep yeh in line" Merle spoke.

"Now we promised to help you clear out he D block in exchange for food. We'll clear it out after we get the food" Rick said but the Latino slammed his gun on the table.

"How do we know you'll help us? Fuck this is our house anyway I want my cell and that's the one you cleared out. We'll be moving in" he picked up his gun and I point my arrow at his head and waited for anyone to give me a signal to shoot him.

"We'll help but first we want half of what you owe us as a deposit of sorts" Rick said and I saw Daryl had his crossbow aimed at the Latino's head. There was a huge black guy and one smaller black guy; he was smaller than the Latino. Then some white guy who looked scared shitless.

"Fine. Have your men" he sneered out the last word "carry the stuff back." He spat and put the gun on the table. Rick nodded towards the food and the four of us walked over and loaded things on the rolling car. Maggie and Merle started to push it towards the exit with Daryl, Rick, and I in front of them with our weapons drawn watching them. We shut the doors and quickly went back down towards his hallway where Glenn and T-Dog were waiting. We handed off our share to them and quickly turned around to go back towards the kitchen.

We walked with purpose and we burst into the room again and rick threw a bag of knives and a baseball bat on the table for them.

"We don't use guns. We kill silently and that's it. Noise attracts them" Rick told them.

"Psh… I'm packing heat. If I gotta use it I gotta use it" The Latino said.

"Yeah he'll pack whatever he wants too" the small black man said and I wanted to laugh. They were definitely 'buddies' in prison. Man was a little bitch at best.

"Come on yeh pansies" Merle said and Rick led the inmates in front of us. I kept my bow trained on the Latino; there was something off about him.

"Formation!" Rick called out and we could hear the walkers growling and moaning. My shoulders were against merles and Daryl's as we started to move in our other formation that we used in the court yard.

"None of his jail fighten neither. Stay in formation" Daryl growled out at the prisoners. If they broke rank then there was a possibility that we could all fall. We waited for Rick to move forward and finally we were facing multiple walkers. They were coming out of doors and from different hallways. I took out my knife and started to kill whatever I could get my hands on.

Blood spattered on my face and clothes. The prisoners then made some sort of war cry and broke our formation and went out on their own and started to kill them slowly since they didn't think to take off the heads.

"ASSHOLES HIT ABOVE THE SHOULDERS!" merle called out and they started to get the hang of it but we all kept in formation and took out as many as we could. I stomped one's head in and kicked its body over.

Merle was pretty good and just stuck his stake through one walkers head while slicing the other with his knife from his other hand. He was like a killing machine like Daryl. It was oddly comforting being between both of them.

There seemed to be more walkers every time we got done with another group until finally the small black man let out a wail of discomfort and I knew he had gotten bitten. Our group rushed to there's when finally the walkers let up.

"What do we do?" the little white man asked frantically.

"We have to kill him. He won't be alive for much longer" Rick said but there was protest from their little group until the Latino stepped up and took off his head with his bat and continued to beat his head and body. It was vicious overkill and now it confirmed my theory on not to trust him.

"What?" He asked innocently and chuckled and put his bat over his shoulders and laughed harder. "Someone had to do it you pussies" He said darkly and walked forward into one of the cells. We had to clear out the other side of the cell and then we would be fine to go back to our part.

"You open the door. Just one we want to contain them. Traffic control" Rick said and we all had our weapons aimed for the door but instead the Latino opened up both of them and they rushed forward. I got into a scuffle with one of the walkers when it got me on the ground. I had to flip us over so that I was on top of it. I grabbed one of the rocks from the ground and pounded its head into ash. I quickly stood up to kill another one with my hunter's knife.

Merle had a walker by the throat and Daryl stabbed it in the back of the head while Maggie was killing them easily as if it was second nature to her.

The Latino threw a walker at Rick and I quickly ran over to help him and grabbed the walker dragging him off of Rick.

"Sorry brother. It was coming at me" the Latino said cheekily.

I took my knife and stabbed the back of the walkers head and I dropped. I went back over to my position and Maggie threw a walker to me that she couldn't kill while she was dealing with another and I tripped backwards hitting the wall with a thumb. I had tripped over a dead body. I twisted away from the walkers head and kicked him in the stomach when I saw the Latino look over here and throw another walker my way.

I cursed him silently and kicked the other walker back but now both were walking towards me and there was no way I was going to be able to kill them both at the same time, at least not with my back to the wall.

I pulled out my knife and stood up leaning against the wall when Merle came out of nowhere and ran into them knocking them over and shoved his stake through their heads. He walked over calmly and helped me up.

"Yeh okay?" and with that I just nodded and finally the hoard of walkers ended and all of us were alive. The Latino though would not be alive for long if I had my way.

"What was that?" Merle growled and walked over towards the prisoners.

"They were getting tough. I figured the little miss could handle it" and Merle grabbed his shirt and picked him up by it and shook him violently. I drew my bow when I saw him hold the gun up too merles head. Before he could even put his finger on the trigger I let go of my arrow and it pierced his head.

"You killed him!" both of the prisoners yelled.

"We promise we had nothing to do with this. Isn't that right?" The little white guy said quickly when rick yelled at them to get to the ground. Merle dropped the Latino's body and kicked him in the head.

"I never begged for my life and I ain't about to start now" the large black man said.

"Rick they'll be fine just make em keep to their end" Daryl said stepping forward putting his hand on Ricks shoulder trying to tell him to lower his gun. I walked over and Maggie came over quickly and rubbed my back. It seemed I was always getting put in tough situations and needed people to come to my rescue.

"Stay here and dispose of your bodies. We cleared it out for you now we'll be heading back to our end of the prison. If I see you I won't hesitate to shoot yeh" Rick told them and we started our walk back to our cell block.

We walked back in silence and Maggie let go of me when she saw Glenn in the tunnel and ran to hug him. She jumped up and wrapped her legs around his waist and kissed him. I smiled and looked over when I felt a hand tug on my shirt. Daryl was tugging and nodded towards one of the hallways and I followed silently after Daryl told Rick we were going to check the infirmary that they had found.

I bite my lip when we got into the small room and he stood their awkwardly in front of me. He laid his crossbow down on one of the medical examination tables and moved forward so he was in front of me and pushed me up against the wall.

His lips found mine and this time he kissed me and I kissed him back. My hands ran over his shoulders and then up his neck and into his hair. His lips were chapped but felt soft against my own. He took my bottom lip between his own and I felt his tongue swipe across it and I opened my mouth to him.

His hand traveled down from my side to my thigh and hitched it over his hip and I let out a happy sigh when I felt him against me. He ground against me and I bucked back against him. He kissed my lips and moved his way down my cheek to my jaw and neck. His goatee leaving a slightly whisker burn trail down and I loved the feeling of his lips and stubble against me. His lips started sucking on my neck making me moan like a bitch in heat.

I gripped his hair tugging slightly on it and he let go and looked up at me. I was a bit breathless since it was unexpected.

"Well then…" I laughed slightly and he stayed pressed up against me still. He seemed unsure of what to do next after that. I'm sure he was confused because I sure as hell didn't know what I was supposed to do now.

"Rheims you're…" He trailed off and slowly stepped away from me and grabbed his crossbow and got a bag from the medical counter and started to load some of the medicine inside of it.

"Daryl stop" I told him and walked over to where he was and grabbed his shirt pulling him to look at me. I didn't want to have a relationship well messy one especially now but I did want him and I wanted him to know ha he was it.

"What?" He asked.

"I'm yours and you're mine go it?" I asked.

"I don't do relationships" He mumbled.

"I'm not asking for what Glenn and Maggie have but I'm asking that you won't be doing this with anyone else and I won't be doing this with anyone else. Capiche?" I asked him. I was ready for him to tell me no he just wanted to see how that felt. I waited for him to tell me to fuck off or something but instead he shocked me when he kissed my forehead and mumbled a yeah.

I grabbed the bag from him and we walked back towards our cell block together. His arm was over my shoulder and the bag over his other shoulder while I had my arm wrapped around resting on his hip. We got back and gave Hershel what he wanted and headed up to our cell since it was getting later. Merle promised he was going to tell everyone about this Woodbury and everyone there. Apparently some guy calls himself the Governor there and he's gone completely psycho with power over these people.

I stayed in my cot when Daryl left to go take watch with his brother and I didn't fear him leaving. I did fear however the man who was standing in my cell door with a gun.

/Chelle always seems to end up in these predicaments doesn't she?

How's Daryl going to react when he sees who is going to be in Chelle's and his cell while he's away and especially with his brother being here.