A/N: Sorry for the delay in getting this out! Thanks as always to Darkshadow008... It's not a long chapter but I got some good stuff coming up in the next few chapters... let me know your thoughts :-)

Chapter 38

Daryl held out his hand trying to calm the man down as he held Rick's gun to his head.

"C'mon now" he said, glancing at Andi, trying to calm the crazed man down.

The single shot rang out through the cell block; Andi scrabbled to the side of the door and looked back expecting to see Daryl mirroring her to the other side of the door.

"Daryl?" she whispered looking back to where they had been standing, she didn't hear the scuffling noise from inside the cell which was Rick disarming the man who had taken his gun. She didn't hear the other men's calls and cheers from their own cells. She saw Daryl. And she saw blood on his hands and blood covering the front of his shirt.

She ran to him, just reaching him as he began to fall.

Rick shot the man, Todd, in the head and ran to Andi's side as she caught a falling Daryl.

"Daryl" she said fighting with the tears welling in her eyes, she didn't notice the searing pain through her shoulder as she used both arms to catch him and lower him gently to the cold concrete floor.

"C'mon Andi" Rick said "can you take his other arm?" he asked Andi while trying to lift Daryl off the floor, she nodded and again ignored the pain shooting up her arm.

Daryl was fading fast, the bullet from Rick's colt had pierced his abdomen, the wound was much like Carl's gunshot wound from when they found Herschel's farm. Andi picked up his bow and slung it over her shoulder, trying to take some of the dead weight that was Daryl's increasingly limp body.

"Hey hey hey spitfire" came a familiar ragged voice from one of the cells, Andi looked over at the man as they made their way slowly past, dragging Daryl. "You wanna come grab me like that again huh?" Tyler snarled rubbing himself. "You wanna get another look at the goods do ya?" he laughed moving to undo his trousers.

Andi stopped briefly "Andi" Rick said with urgency in his voice "we gotta hurry to Herschel" he almost pleaded.

Andi nodded but pulled the bow from her shoulder and clumsily aimed it at Tyler who was to busy undoing his pants to notice. She aimed the bow and fired the arrow which lodged into his stomach; she smiled to herself and slung the bow back over her shoulder.

"C'mon" she said trying to haul Daryl back up so she could drag him easier.

"You know" Rick said as they negotiated out of the cell door trying not to drop the redneck "I think we might come back and finish them off while Herschel takes care of Daryl."

Andi smiled again and nodded "Daryl" she said to him, trying to keep him awake as they came out into the light, Maggie and Carl saw them and came running towards them when they realised who they were dragging.

"Beth" Maggie shouted at her sister who was cradling Judith "get dad up inta Daryl's room, now! What happened?" she asked taking Daryl from Andi. Andi stepped back and said "bastard shot him."

"Tyler?" Maggie asked looking over at Rick.

"No, one of the others I was gonna let out" Rick mumbled, lifting Daryl up the stairs and into the living area. They saw that Herschel was already at the top of the stairs and looking down as they dragged Daryl in and up to the perch.

"Didn't go so well then" he said as he followed them into Daryl's makeshift bunk "what happened?"

"He got shot, just like Carl" Rick said with Maggie placing him onto his bunk, he turned and pulled Andi out of Herschel's way.

"I gotta stay with him" she protested as Rick was trying to pull her back outside the cell.

"Herschel and Maggie got this Andi" Rick said sternly, looking directly at her.

"I can't leave him, Rick" she said weakly, looking over at where Daryl was drifting in and out of consciousness and went to go back in.

"C'mon" he said pulling her out of the cell "we'll go take care of the others" he said sternly.

Andi looked back into the cell at Herschel working on an unconscious Daryl, she turned to Beth who was standing at that the doorway watching her father and sister "you come get me if anything changes, anything at all, good or bad." Beth nodded and watched as Andi took one last look into Daryl and then turned to follow Rick down the stairs.

Andi, Rick and Michonne looked into Tyler's cell, the arrow had hit it's mark, piercing the man's heart and killing him almost instantly. The three of them stood and watched as he re-animated, the foul smell following the dead man as he tried to reach through the bars to grab Michonne who stood just out of reach.

"You want me to finish him off?" she asked, not taking her eyes from the vile thing in front of her, her hand on the handle of her katana.

"No" Andi said before Rick could speak "he can't hurt anyone in there." She said starting to walk down the block, looking into each of the cells at the remaining men. They were silent though this time, no jeers or shouts as they watched the bloodied woman walk slowly down the walkway.

"What you thinking?" Rick followed her, looking into each of the cells with her. The men looked scared "and so they should be scared" Rick thought, he had seen what Andi was capable of with Blake. But this time she had a plan, an idea and it was going to effect these men. He stopped as she turned around.

"We kill the rest" she said loud enough for them all to hear her plan "but not head shots, let them turn, keep them locked up in here" she paused and thought for a moment. "Have you ever wondered how long these things can last without food?" She turned and asked them both, looking into one of the cells.

"You can't do that" a man said to her moving up to the cell door, desperately trying to the think of something to say to change the woman's mind "you can't do that, it ain't right. Turnin' us into one of them!" He shouted.

Andi stepped up to the cell door, just out of arms reach of the man "ain't right?" she laughed at the man "right, so it was right raping a child? Huh? Standin' by and watching that happen, however many times that happened before and after you got my family." She stepped closer to the man and held out her machete pointing at the man "ya see, that was where you went wrong" she said, rage burning once more in her gut "you did those things to my family, the people I love. And even now, by shootin' my friend."

"That wasn't me though" the man said quickly backing away from the door holding up his hands "wasn't me, I didn't have anything to do with that shit."

"Guilty by association" Andi smiled twisting the knife in her hands. She turned slowly from the cell and walked back past Tyler and out towards the door.

"Where ya goin'?" Michonne shouted after her.

"Gotta get a gun" she said grinning at the woman "or Daryl's bow. Got some work to do here" she walked out of the block and into the darkness.

"What do you think?" Rick asked Michonne as they listened to Andi walking out of the block.

Michonne shrugged "she's got a lot of anger inside her Rick, I think this might bring her some closure."

Rick bit his lip and rubbed his temple "you're right" he sighed "I just don't know how to justify keeping walkers here when we killed the ones that Herschel kept at his farm."

"Totally different" Michonne said tilting her head as she watched Tyler, fascinated at his attempts to try to reach out to the pair "he believed that they could be saved, we know they can't but we don' know how long they can survive without feeding. It's actually a brilliant idea."

"What's happening?" Andi asked Beth in the living area as the youngster was making her father a cup of coffee.

"He's bad Andi" Beth said quietly "The bullet broke up, just like with Carl."

Andi looked down at the girl and gave her a small smile "it'll be ok Beth" she said rubbing her shoulder "Daryl's a tough guy, he'll come through it." She tried to convince herself that what she had just said was true, it was hard though, because she didn't believe it.

She turned and with the handguns in her hands and Daryl's bow over her shoulder she headed back out to the cells.

"Ready?" Andi asked one of the men who was trying his best to hide at the back of the cell "It's gonna be a slow and painful death for you my friend" she grinned as she aimed the gun at the cowering man.

Rick watched "I ain't sure I agree with this Andi" he said quietly.

"Don't matter what you think any-more Rick" Andi said, almost demonic "these men don't deserve to live, they don't deserve to die either." She stopped for a second before pulling the trigger, hitting the man in the gut and watching him fall to the ground.

"I'm sick of talkin' about this" she said moving to the next cell and pulling the trigger again, the man in the cell cried out, falling to the floor.

Rick looked at Michonne who just nodded at him, "let her go" she mouthed to him. He winced as another shot rang out around the cell block.

Andi came back to stand next to the Rick "it's done" she said not looking at either of them before walking out of the cell block.

"Let her go Rick" Michonne said as he was about to follow her "she needs some time alone I think."

Andi did need some time alone, to much had happened in such a small amount of time. With killing the rest of Blake's men and Daryl being shot, it had been too

"Daryl' she whispered to herself as she stood at the end of his bunk, looking down at him.

Herschel had strapped him up and made him comfortable, taking as much of the bullet out that he could after he had passed out.

She moved quietly and sat down next to him, taking his hand in hers, she ran her finger over his rough knuckles.

"I got them Daryl" she whispered leaning into his ear "you gotta pull through this" she said moving a strand of hair off his face.

"You're not allowed to die" her bottom lip quivered and a moment later she buried her face into his shoulder and let the tears flow openly. "I'm not going to let you die" she sobbed quietly.