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" Tell me what's going on." Rick said as he and Winter sat down on her bed.
" I don't know." She whined. " I honestly don't."
" Why would Carol think she heard you in The Governor's room?" Rick asked gently.
" I don't know. Maybe he has been recording us." Winter said. Rick frowned and sighed. He started carefully looking around the room with his eyes, not turning his head to sharply.
" We will figure this out." Rick said. He placed a hand on her shoulder and started to rub it. Winter was sitting with her eyes closed. A few tears were making their way down her cheeks.
" I went to his office. I just needed to talk to someone about my brother." She said.
" And you couldn't talk to Daryl?" Rick asked as he continued to look around. Winter opened her eyes and looked at Rick, bring his eyes to her face.
" Come on, Rick. You know how he is." She said. He offered up a light smile then continued looking. He started looking at the corners in the room. " I meant to tell him yesterday but we started messing around and I just forgot." Something in one of the corners caught Rick's attention. He squeezed Winter's shoulder before he let it go.
" And you went there today?" He asked. He tried carefully to study what he was looking at. He frowned hard then looked back at her. He leaned in and brought his lips to her ear. " Whatever you do, do not say anything what I'm going to do. Just keep talking." He whispered before pulling away.
" Yeah but just to tell him thank you for talking to me. I was there about a half an hour." Winter said as she watched Rick walk to the corner that was on her left. Rick put his hands on his hips and started to pace, pretending like he was thinking.
" Well, maybe we just need to let Daryl cool down then try and talk to him again." Rick shook his head then walked over to her. He took her by the shoulders and pulled her up. They put their arms around each other to hug. Rick pulled her tight into him.
" What is that?" Winter whispered.
" I think that's your recording device." Rick whispered. They had their heads tilted into each other. " You need to carry on like you would any other day. Do not change anything up. If he is watching and listening to you we don't want him to know anything is going on." He pulled away and smiled at her. " Come on. let me start you a bath so you can relax." He took her hand and led her to the bathroom. Once inside, he shut the door then went to the tub. He turned the water on and together they searched the bathroom. Once they decided it was clear Rick passed a hand over his face. " Have you seen any monitor's in his office?" He asked.
" No. There are two rooms in his office and no monitors in either one." She said. Rick nodded.
" We need to get into his room then. Let me talk to Carol. She needs to lead me and Daryl to his room. If I can prove to Daryl that The Governor has been listening in on you two, he might calm down." He said.
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Winter stayed in her room the rest of the day. She cried herself to a nap after a while. It was hard for her to no look at the tiny camera Rick had seen. It was so tiny that she wasn't surprised that Daryl and her hadn't seen it before. Usually once they came to their room they wasted no time getting wrapped up into each other. Winter started to cry again at the thought of him.
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Daryl was laying on his back staring at the ceiling in Merle's cell. Merle was on his knees pounding into a girl who was on her hands in knees. On top of Daryl was a very naked blond woman. Daryl was completely dressed. The blond was rubbing herself against his waist and complaining to him that he wasn't hard. This wasn't what Daryl wanted to do and was hardly paying attention to her. Winter was running through his mind. He was filtering through from being angry to depressed then back to angry again.
Winter was walking through the prison's cells quietly. She held her arms tightly across her chest. She knew which cell was Merle's, Daryl had told her the number before. She was going to try and talk to him. She was going to tell him what Rick had found and hoped he would listen to her. She hoped he would come back to their room.
The sounds of sex were coming out of Merle's cell and she prayed hard it wasn't from Daryl as her steps slowed. Her heart was in her throat and she felt like she was going to throw up. She squeezed herself and held her breath as she came directly onto the door. Daryl was laying on the bed with a girl straddling his lap. His clothes were on but Winter knew he didn't have to be naked to be inside her.
" How could you?" Winter asked as she started to cry. Daryl's head shot at the same time Merle glanced behind him.
" Get out of here!" Merle spit out before turning back to the girl he was drilling. Winter met Daryl's eyes and shook her head as she back away.
" How could you do that to me?" She whispered before she turned and flew back to their hallway.
" Fuck!" Daryl yelled, pushing the girl off him.
" Leave her be, Daryl!" Merle yelled out. " She was fucking someone else, why can't you?"
Daryl stood up and started after her. Daryl understood what Merle was saying but he hadn't been having sex with that girl and he couldn't stand the idea of Winter thinking that. He hadn't been able to get hard, hadn't even kissed or touched the woman, hadn't even wanted too. His heart was too broken. He moved quickly through the prison. He wasn't sure what he was going to say to her when he caught up to her but he would figure something out.
He rounded the corner of their hallway as Winter reached T-Dog's door. She was sobbing and beating on the door. She was begging the man to open up. Daryl's steps slowed down and he swallowed hard.
" Winter." He said softly.
" Get away from me!" She yelled as T-Dog opened his door.
" What the hell?" T-Dog asked. Winter rushed into his room, yanking a key out of her pocket. She turned and threw it at Daryl as he appeared in the door way.
" He was fucking someone! We haven't even been broke up a day yet and he was fucking someone!" Winter cried. She turned away and grabbed T-Dog who hugged her tightly. Daryl bent down and picked up the key to their room.
" Winter." Daryl said, his voice strained.
" Get away from me." She cried.
" You better go, Daryl." T-Dog said, quietly closing the door on him.
Daryl put his hands on the door frame and leaned with his head down. He forced himself to take some deep breaths while he swallowed He closed his eyes and shook his head. He should have never let that girl climb on top of him. He should have pushed her off right away and told Merle no. He knew he wasn't going to be able to sleep with anyone but he barely heard Merle when he was talking. It barely registered to Daryl when the girl pushed him to lay back.
" Daryl?" Rick asked as he opened his door. He stepped out of the hallway, closing the door behind him. " We need to talk. I think Winter was set up."
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The next day, when they were sure The Governor was in his office, Rick and Daryl followed Carol up to the top floor of the prison. They crept quietly down the hallway towards The Governor's room. Rick was whispering that he was going to pick the lock but Daryl was so angry and emotional that when they reached it, he high kicked, busting the door down, completely rocking it off it's hinges.
" Well there goes hiding the fact that we were here." Rick muttered as Daryl rushed into the room with his cross bow up and aimed, just in case. Carol swallowed hard.
" I can't go in there." She said.
" It's okay." Rick assured her. " Just go back to the group." He said.
Daryl moved to the first room he found. He opened the door and walked in, stunned. Rick followed in behind him. There was a huge table with eight monitors on top of it. Slowly they walked into the room, looking at each monitor. Daryl lowed his cross bow door as his eyes went right to his room. Winter and T-Dog had shown up there at the same time Daryl was leaving to go with Rick. She had been pale and her eyes were red rimmed. She refused to meet his eyes at the time. Right there she was laying in their bed, her pretty face covered with her hands.
" He's watching all of us." Rick said as he picked up a recorder. He frowned as he looked it over. He hit the play button and Winter's moans filled the air. Daryl paled and snatched the recorder back from Rick at the same time Daryl's own voice came over the airwaves.
" Come on, Girl." He groaned out through the tape recorder. Daryl's face flushed as Rick started to look embarrassed.
" I can't!" Winter begged out. " I can't cum again!"
" Yes, you can." Daryl groaned out. They could hear Winter's breath start to increase followed by Daryl's. She started to pant and moan louder and louder but Daryl had heard enough. He turned around and flung the recorder against the wall. It broke on impact.
" Mother fucker!" He yelled.
" Well we know what Carol actually heard." Rick commented quietly.
" I'm gonna kill him!" Daryl yelled.
" We need to get the group together first. We need to tell everyone what we found and come up with a plan." Rick said. Daryl squatted down. His elbows came to his knees and his fists went to his eyes. Rick sighed and gave the redneck the time and space he needed.
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Winter was laying in the bed when a knock came to the door. Only Rick's and T-Dog's voice pulled her up. She wiped her cheeks as she moved to the door. When she opened it up, she found the entire group standing in the hallway. Her eyes went over their heads to Daryl's who was standing in the back. He was gripping his cross bow straps. His mouth was tight and his eyes were blood shot. The expression on his face was pained filled. She frowned hard.
" We need to talk." Rick said. " In your bathroom."
Winter closed her eyes but turned and moved the bathroom. Everyone filed in. Daryl closed and locked the door behind him. He was the last one in the bathroom. He shut that door too and moved over to the sink. Winter was perched on the edge of the tub, sitting beside T-Dog. Daryl crossed his arms over his chest while he stared hard at her. She was flat out refusing to meet his eyes and Daryl knew it. Rick leaned into the tub and turned on the water as Carol took her place by Daryl.
" Yesterday I found what I thought was a recording device in the corner of Daryl and Winter's room," At the mention of their names together Winter closed her eyes and Daryl's throat tighten. " I went back to my room and found the same device. Daryl and I broke in The Governor's private room. We found a room there filled with monitors."
" He has been recording us?" T-Dog asked.
" Looks like it." Rick confirmed. He glanced at Daryl who was still staring at Winter. Rick took a deep breath. " We also found a small recorder. Daryl turned it on and it was a recording of Winter and Daryl." Rick cleared his throat and dropped his eyes. The unspoken information sunk into everyone and the group started to look around. Everyone was embarrassed. Winter opened her eyes and started to stare at the ground.
" So you think that's what I heard?" Carol asked quietly. Rick nodded.
" Yeah, I think so." He said. Carol paled and looked quickly at Daryl. She placed her hand on his arm.
" I'm so sorry, Daryl." She said. " I didn't know." Winter's head snapped up while her eyes flashed with anger.
" You're sorry to Daryl?" She asked. Carol looked at her and nodded slowly. Winter pushed herself up so she was standing. " You're sorry, Daryl? Are you fucking kidding me! You ruined my relationship and all you can say is you're sorry, Daryl!" Rick tensed up right away, remembering all to well what Winter did to Shane when she got pissed at him. " You made me look like a whore to the group and you're sorry to him!"
" I didn't know." Carol tried to defend herself.
" And that's why you should have kept your mother fucking mouth shut! This is just what you wanted to happen, isn't it!" Winter shouted.
" Winter..." Rick started.
" What are you talking about?" Carol asked.
" Oh please! You think I don't see the looks you give him! You think I don't see the looks he gives you! You probably planned this so you can have Daryl all to yourself well guess what? I won't be in the way of you two anymore! Have at it!" Winter yelled, taking a step towards Daryl and Carol. " But you better be quick though, Carol, because Daryl seems to like blonds now, isn't that so!" She bit out to him. Daryl stood up and shook his head.
" I didn't fuck her, Winter." He said.
" Fuck you, Daryl." She snapped quietly. " And fuck you too, Carol. If I didn't think Rick would tackle me I'd punch you both out right now. You two stay the fuck away from me, you understand?" She narrowed her eyes then walked out.