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"You look fantastic," Amy said randomly as I left my cell stretching slightly happy that the twins had both settled down into a sleep. Carl the ever great big brother had also fallen asleep on the double bed as he watched the two of them.

"What?" I asked her confused at her words. She was perched on the stairs in the middle of conversation with Axel and now I could feel both of their eyes on me as well as the others.

"You would never guess you just had twins," she explained nodding towards me as I ran my hand down my stomach settling on the slightly bloated stomach I had from the pregnancy.

"I'm jealous," Carol announced from where she sat with Hershel on two of the chairs we had bought into the cell block. It was one of the useful things of having an office close to our cell block and the visiting area not far off either. We took the plastic chairs from the visiting area and put them in our cell block so we could all be close during the evening. Although we had the communal area it felt safer (for me at least) to be close to the cells. "After Sophia I had a baby belly for weeks, more like months."

"I think my bump was mainly the twins," I mumbled running my hand over my now bloated belly slightly happy that it didn't look like I was still heavily pregnant. There was still swelling to my stomach but it didn't look too pudgy. It made everything easier in a way. If I needed to run or slip through a small gap I wouldn't be held back by my belly.

"With the way we were living, on the run all the time I think I'll agree," Hershel injected resting his only leg out in front of him.

"I think it's a good thing," I told them shaking my head with a small smile as Kelly shot me a look with raised eyebrows. "Not because I'm skinny but because I won't have others out there thinking we have more food here than we do. I know we have a lot but it might encourage people to take it from us. If I had more of a baby belly and they didn't see the twins they might think differently." I explained dropping down in one of the spare seats and taking the bowl of soup Beth offered me.

"She's got a point," Carol sighed and I knew we were all thinking about the same thing. There were people out there that would take this place from us. An example of that were these people at Woodbury, the people that took Glenn and Maggie.


Judith's shriek drew me from my sleep with a startle as I scoped her from the crate as it rested on the floor. I felt somewhat inhumane placing the two of them in these crates and leaving them on the floor but I knew that they weren't uncomfortable. Carl and Daryl had made sure of that with the pillows at the base and blankets to secure them.

"Hey there Judy," I whispered to the baby peeking out into the cell block hoping no one was startled awake like I was. I could see Carl leaning against the gate that led into the communal area and sighed knowing he wouldn't sleep while everyone else was. He felt it was his duty to watch over us all and protect us.

He was already talking about going out for a run in a couple of days for more baby supplies because he doubted the others would return. He was taking on too much and I know he would argue with me if I said anything about it to him.

Theo's cry of hunger invades my mind and I sigh as I peer down at the boy as his sister latches on for her feed. I want to pick him up but I can't. Judith would fuss and her scream was so much louder than her brothers. I had yet to master holding both of them at the same time. I glanced at the bottle resting next to him on the floor knowing Amy had made up a few of them before we all settled down for the night.

"I got him," Beth's voice made me jump slightly as she stepped into the cell, lifting the hungry boy into her arms as she settled down on the bed beside me. I smiled at her softly as she pressed the bottle to his lips and he sucked down the formula like a greedy pig.

"I'm sorry Bethy," I sighed softly to her knowing she was lacking in sleep just as much as I was. She didn't need to be experiencing the early days of motherhood when she hadn't even had a child.

"It's okay, he'll just wake everyone else up."

"Already done that," Hershel mumbled as he hopped out of his cell and over to one of the seat and dropped down into it with a deep sigh.

"Sorry Hershel," I called to the older man giving him a tired smile as he peered into us with a small smile.

"Give him here Bethy, let me feed the boy," he said to his daughter waving her over as he rested his crutches against the wall.

"I am sorry about them waking you up Hershel," I mumbled to the man as Judith rolled her head to the side as sleep took her away again. I rocked her gently in my arms before placing her back in the crate, tucking the blanket against her to keep the chill from getting to her.

"None of us are doing much sleeping Fay," Carol announced as she sat down next to the white haired man as Beth settled on the stair, Carl sitting a few steps below her.

"Is it the twins?" I asked running my hand over my face, feeling the heat rush to my cheeks. I always knew that the first couple of nights with a new-born were bad but I didn't want the others to be effected.

"No their cries are comforting," she yawned rested her head against the wall as she tapped her foot against the floor. "I can't keep my mind off the others and I know the others can't either,"

"Why do you think we're all up?" Amy asked leaning over the balcony, swinging one of her legs through a gap over the edge.

"Because my kids are hungry buggers and like to keep everyone awake?" I suggested receiving a small smile from the blonde as she rolled her eyes.

"How are we with formula?" Carl asked nodding his head towards the bottle Theo had just finished as Hershel set it down on the floor. He was doing it again, thinking like Rick and the others weren't going to return.

"We have enough to last us another month." Hershel answered him but I knew he did it reluctantly. It seemed he agreed with me on the little Carl issue.

"I'll go out with Amy and Kelly at the end of the week. Maybe head out to one of those storage lockers we stayed in if we have time. Might find some baby stuff locked up in there." he planned and I bit my bottom lip at his words. Carol glanced over to me giving me that sorrow filled look shared between moms when it became hard to deal with their children.

"Your dad and the others will be back by then." Beth injected resting her hand on Carl's shoulder lightly as he looked up at her as if he didn't believe it. Where had his hope gone? He was so sure earlier when the others left that Rick would be coming back.

"We don't know that." He told her turning his head to look over at Hershel, his eyes dropping to Theo as he slept in the man's arms before looking to me. "Right now mom, Theo and Judith are the only family I got. I need to think about them."

"Carl, honey it's not up to you to look out for us. I'm their mom, I should be going out there for them." I told him stepping forward so I could cup his cheek with my hand.

"You need to stay here, they need you. I'll take Amy out with me." He insisted shaking his head as I slipped my hand away from him. I was going to reply to him when a piercing scream echoed around the prison until it reached us in the cell block.

"What was that?" Beth asked gripping the gun she had rested on the stairs in her hands. Carl looked straight to Hershel as if the older man would have the answers.

"That was from inside," he told us looking out at the communal area as if it would fill up with walkers or humans.

"Was that Kelly?" Carl asked the panic in his voice becoming apparent as he glanced round at us all noticing that the brown-haired woman he had come to know as his aunt was missing.

"She's out keeping watch with Axel in the guard tower," Hershel explained sitting up straighter in his chair. Carl started fiddling with his gun and Theo grunted in his sleep as if he had heard the scream as well. I had the boy in my arms before I could think about it, cradling him to my chest as I watched the others discussing the scream. I had not fight within me to get involved.

"What if they came back in for something?"

"What if they're in trouble?"

"Let's check the tower, see if she's there."

"How could anyone else get in?"

"The tombs are filled with walkers that wandered in from outside. Someone else could have done the same thing."

"I'm going," that was Carl his voice full of determination as he stood from the stairs, gun held firmly in his hands. Beth was also climbing to her feet but my eyes were focused on Hershel as he stood, placing on of his crutches in front of Carl.

"I can't let you go down there," he said to the boy sternly and I agreed with him fully. I wouldn't let Carl go down there even if our lives depended on it and in this moment they could. Carol had risen from her chair, her hand resting on my back as Carl faced off with Hershel. Amy was making her way down the stairs, watching the two of them carefully as well.

"My father would go," Carl replied with such confidence I knew I had lost him. It seemed Hershel knew he had lost him as well as he nodded his head, lowering the crutch as Beth gave him a look of disbelief.

"I got it," Amy uttered rushing out after the boy, brushing her hand against my shoulder as she passed.

"We shouldn't have let them go," I whispered as the other gate in the communal area slammed closed.


"We have a problem," Amy stuttered as she appeared through the gate linking the communal area and cell block, her neck bleeding. The gate slammed shut after her, Carl locking it behind him as he turned to face us.


"Mommy loves you," I cooed down at the little boy in my arms as I changed him into a blue onesie Maggie got from the abandoned nursery, running my finger over his stomach as he squinted up at me. "Yes she does," I couldn't wait until he got a little older and started giggling. I loved it when babies giggled, it was a real treasure.

"You going to meet the others?" Amy asked shifting from foot to foot as she lingered by the stairs, looking in at me as I wrapped Theo in a blanket and cuddled him in my arms.

"I suppose so," I mumbled getting up from my knees and walking over with her to the gate where Carl stood guard on the other side.

"How are you feeling?" an unfamiliar voice asked as we stepped into the communal area and I saw a black woman talking to Beth and I knew she must have assumed that Beth was Judy's mom.

"She's not mine." Beth muttered as she fiddled with one of the bottles near the station we had set up for the occasions we needed to make Theo's formula.

"Where's the mother?" the woman asked and Beth glanced behind her sharing an uncertain look with Hershel not noticing me and Amy stepping into the area.

"I'm sorry." The woman muttered and then I knew she thought I was dead.

"There's nothing to be sorry about," I announced drawing attention to myself as I stepped over to Beth, glancing down at Judy in her arms before handing Theo to Amy so I could take my daughter. She was due her feed around about now, just like her brother. They were in time with their feeding spells, it was like they planned it. "Let me take her,"

"Twins?" a big black guy asked looking between Judy in my arms and Theo now in Beth's arms.

"You're feeling well?" the woman asked stepping closer to me but it seemed Carl wasn't comfortable with that as I heard him step away from the gate.

"Mom," it was a warning and I knew I should listen to him. He was practically the man of the 'house' while Rick was gone.

"I'm fine," I told her giving Beth a look as she picked up Theo's bottle and followed Amy back over to Carl. "We're all fine,"

"Man, you people have been through the mill." The black man muttered as I passed him, his eyes lingering on the twins as he turned to face Hershel.

"Haven't we all?" Hershel asked him and I tuned out the rest of the conversation then as Carl shut the gate behind us. I glanced back at him one last time before following Beth into my cell block so I could feed Judith.


"What do you think Rick will do when he returns?" Amy asked as she sat on the floor, leaning against the wall as she looked up at me.

"You know how he gets with strangers. You saw how he was with the inmates. I don't think it'll be good but I'll talk him into it. We need Tyreese and the others. We need the manpower," I told her now knowing the names of the four members that came along last night.

"I hope he lets them stay," Beth sighed running her hand along Theo's back as he rested against her chest fast asleep. Judith was in a similar position, resting against my chest, sleeping like a rock as her brother was. "We do need them,"

"I know we do," I muttered running my fingers over Judith's soft strawberry hair as I thought about Rick. I could already tell something was different about him. It had only been the last couple of days, after he thought I died. It was like he wasn't really here and I worried. I knew what people got like when they were grieving. And if I was to look at Rick and diagnose him I wouldn't go easy because I knew it would hurt my feelings.

It was like he was in his own little world and I was pretty sure that he was in some type of hallucination where he was seeing things that were all part of his imagination. He thought he was seeing me as a ghost when I went to go see him and Hershel told me about talking to him before Carl did. He said he was talking to someone on the phone. That didn't leave much confidence in his right of mind.

I sighed deeply, pressing a kiss against Judith's ginger hair before setting her down in her crate and looking to Beth as she copied my movements with Theo.

"Whatever happens we need to be ready," I told them standing, stretching as a twinge ran down my back. "Beth you should go outside, wait for Rick and the others to arrive with your dad. I'm gonna have a nap while I can,"

Beth nodded at my words while Amy stood from the floor but took Beth's seat on the bed watching me as I lay back on the bed before lying down beside me, taking my hand in her own and giving it a squeeze.


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