Chapter 26

That morning I was the first person up, I went for a walk around the field when I saw something white near the river. I walked out and saw a bunch of Cherokee roses growing. I pick one the put it at the grave they dug for Carol, we couldn't find her body but we made a grave for her out of respect. I walked back into the cells just as everyone else started to stir. Glen and Maggie had cooked us all some food we sat around and ate. Rick walked up to one of the gates and looked at us, then came in.

"Everybody okay?"

"Yer were fine." Maggie had answered him. We looked at him as he made i=his way to the table, Hershel turned his body to him.

"What about you?" Rick turned to Carl but spoke to all of us.

"Cleared out the boiler block." I stayed were I was.

"How many were there?" he looked at me.

"I don't know. Dozen, two dozen. I have to get back. Just wanted to check on carl." He walked over to me. He wanted to clean out most of the prison. Glen told him about the formula run he and Maggie were going to go on soon. He walked back out the gate he came in through and slammed the gate. We just sat there. After a few minutes of silence I got up and walked to Glen.

"I think you should go on your run now, she eats a lot we go through heaps, and there isn't much left." He got up from his seat Maggie followed him as they went to go get their packs.

I took Axel and Carl down to the lower levels, we had to help clean out the prison, Rick would get killed if he kept going like this. Carl and I were walking, I knew he was depressed about his mum, I told him how my mum died and people thought it was better that way. I know he was going up fast just like I had to, I knew he shot his mum, but he told me I felt bad for him. We kept going through the tunnels.

Maggie

We took off on the road, Daryl sent us out earlier than we thought but it was good, we found the supermarket that Daryl and I was gonna go to but it was to far. When we got there Glen was quiet, we hadn't talked in a while. He knew I was still sad from Lori so he gave me my space. He pulled the bolt cutters out of the car and broke into the abandoned store. I looked in and saw a rubber ducky on the ground of the shop.

"Glen get that duck." He looked at me.

"What?"

"Get that duck."

"You serious?"

"Yeah, a kid growing up in a prison could use some toys." I stood outside while he looked in the store. I saw him come towards me holding two baskets.

"We just hit the powdered formula jackpot."

"Thank god." He showed me a basket.

"We also got beans, uh batteries, cocktail wieners, mustards. It's a straight shot back to the prison from here. If we hurry we can make it in time for dinner." I grabbed the basket with the formula.

"I like the quiet. Back there, back home. Can always hear them outside the fence no matter where you are." He turned and smiled at me. We were startled by a voice coming from beside the store.

"Now where is it you good people call home?" I turned there was a man with a gun pointed at us, Glen and I got out our guns and pointed it at this stranger. Glen spoke up.

"Merle?" the guy put down his gun and seemed to be excited.

"Wow." He walked towards Glen he was to close.

"Hey, back the hell up." His hands raised in the air.

"Okay, okay honey. Jesus." Glen just looked at him.

"You made it."

"Can you tell me, is my brother alive? Huh."

"Yeah." He smiled, whom were they talking about?

"Hey you take me to him we will call it even on everything that happened up there at Atlanta. No hard feelings. Huh." He saw Glen looking at a medal stump on his arm, it had a knife stuck to it. "You like that. Yeah, well I found myself a medical supply house. Fixed it up myself." Glen spoke through clenched teeth.

"We'll tell Daryl that you're here. And he'll come out to meet you." The man named Merle protested.

"Hold on just.." Glen and him started to argue, he tried to get Glen to take him. Then he pulled out a gun and shot at us, we moved and I ran beside the car, he came up behide me and pulled me to the ground and used me as a shield, Glen came to get me and saw me.

"Let go of her!" He got Glen to go into the car, he pulled me into the backseat and told him where to drive, during the trip, he would try to touch me and I would fight and hit his hand. Glen would yell back for him to stop. We approached a wall with big gates; he hit me on the head knocking me out.

Emily

I was hanging from the roof by my arms, I was in and out of consciousness. My face was to the wall, I was covered in blood probably looked dead to anyone that walked in. I hear noise outside the door noises of struggle. I looked up at the rafter that held my rope, I was surprised, the rope had started to fray. I started swinging moving the rope back and forth, the rope snapped and I fell to the ground. I stood up and ran to the door just as it opened. I didn't look to see who it was, I just tried to barge past. A hand pushed me to the ground then threw something at me it was heavy. It was another person. Someone yelled out.

"You didn't tell me there was another person in here." I tried to stand up but got kicked to the ground again. I was pulled by my hair to a seat, I was tied to it then person duct taped my mouth. A pillow case was put over my head I felt the person duct tape it around my neck so it wouldn't come off it made it hard to breath. Then I got hit in the head. I heard more scuffles then the table was pushed into my belly. He talked to her.

"Don't struggle, you push that table again and a knife is going into her chest." I felt him slap my head. I groaned unable to speak.

"You can't do this." I heard someone say. I thought I recognised that voice. I tried to struggle, but it was no use I was so tired. I passed out.

Daryl

I walked through the prison back to the cells, I had Carol in my arms. She was not dead. We were so sure, she came in and out of consciousness. I got her to a cell and feed her some water no one else was there. They were probably in the courtyard. Carol slowly started to get better, I gave her more water and she just sat there. I heard people come in to cells, I went to go see when I saw Rick carrying someone in.

"You might want to see this." He got up and followed me. They saw Carol and was stunned. Rick pulled me aside and talked to me.

"She was carrying formula, she was outside the prison, with formula." I looked at him.

"Let's see what she knows." We walked out to where she sat on a seat near the table.

"We can tend to that wound for you. Give you a little food and water and send you on your way. But you're going to have to tell us how you found us." He paused. "And why you were carrying formula." She just starred up at him blank expression on her face.

"Supplies were dropped by a young Asian guy, and the pretty girl."

"What happened?" Hershel stood up.

"Were they attacked?" she looked at him.

"They were taken." Rick interrupted her.

"They were taken by who?" he was angry.

"Same son of a bitch that shot me." He got down to her level.

"Hey these are our people. You tell us what happened, now!" he hit her would she pushed him away.

"Don't you ever touch me again." My cross bow was pointed at her head.

"You touch him you're gonna have a bigger problem than a gunshot would." She looked at me.

"Find em' yourself." Rick got me to put my crossbow down. We all just looked at her, Rick blocked me from her.

"You came here for a reason." She looked conflicted, like she didn't want to say anything, but she did.

"There's a town. Woodbury, about 75 survivors, think they were taken there."

"A whole town?"

"It's run this guy who calls himself the guvnor, pretty boy, charming, David Jones type." I interrupted her.

"He got muscle."

"There are military wanna-bes. They have armed centuries on every wall."

"You know a way in?"

"The place is secure from walkers, but we could slip our way through." He looked at her.

"How did you know who to get here."

"They mentioned a prison, said what direction it was in, said it was a straight shot." Rick pointed a Hershel.

"This is Hershel, father of the girl that was taken, he'll take care of that." He turned to me and we walked out. "We got to get our people back." I nodded. I was offering to go get them myself but Rick would not let me. We got a few of us together and started to pack the stuff we needed. We took off ready to go get our people back.