RPOV

Carl and I walked around the offices where the kids and elderly were being kept, keeping watch. We were walking down a hallway when we saw Hershel about to leave,

"Where are you going?" I asked.

"I'm down here away from y'all 'cause you kids are supposed to stay away from me." Hershel said.

"We've been walking the halls. My dad told us to look out for everyone." Carl replied.

"Well, you two should keep your distance."

"You're walking towards the exit." Carl commented.

"I need to go out there." Hershel responded.

"To the cell blocks?" I asked.

"To the woods." He answered.

"So you're sneaking out." Carl said.

"Don't need anyone worrying about me and I damn sure don't want someone telling me I can't go."

"I can't just let you go out into the woods by yourself." Carl replied.

"Let me?" Hershel questioned

"We can't stop you." I began.

"But we have to tell my dad." Carl finished.

"Go ahead, then." Hershel responded, "I'll be out there by the time you find him."

I turned to Carl, "You should go with him. I can stay and take care of things here."

Carl nodded before following the old man.


APOV

I sat on the bed, leaning against the wall. Hershel came in and gave me a cup of tea.

"You're gonna be okay, Alexa. Daryl's gonna get the medicine you need." He said.

"I know he will." I replied, closing my eyes, "He'll be here."

When I woke up, it was dark. I heard the coughing of the people infected, and the groaning of the ones who didn't make it. I slowly sat up and took my pocket knife out of my pocket and left my cell to take care of the walkers. I went to each of the cells and took out the walkers. When I was done, I leaned against the wall, my energy drained.

"Alexa?"

I began coughing again, except this time, blood came out of my mouth.

Glenn rushed over and caught me before I fell,

"C'mon, let's get you back to bed." He said, the both of us walking slowly to my cell.

I laid on my bed and Glenn sat on the ground, leaning against the metal. He grabbed my hand,

"We're gonna be okay."


RPOV

Maggie came to get me, saying that there was a bigger cluster of walkers on the fence. Rick went to give food to Carl and the other kids that he found on the run with Carol while I helped take down some of the walkers.

Rick came back out after talking with Hershel and we put up logs against the fence. He and Maggie were talking when a walker grabbed Rick and pulled him to the ground. I took the axe that Maggie gave me and chopped the walker's arm off.

"Thanks."

I nodded as I helped him up. As we were chopping more logs, we heard gunshots.

"Go." Rick told Maggie.

"The fence is more important. We need to keep it standing." Maggie replied.

"Riley and I got this. Go." Rick responded before Maggie ran off towards the cell block.

"Do you think everything's gonna be okay?" I asked.

"I hope so."


APOV

I heard gunshots and screaming as I crawled off of my bed and ran towards the door. There were multiple walkers limping around, and some people were being eaten. I grabbed a gun from a dead man's hand and shot the walker that was eating him before shooting the man in the head so he wouldn't come back. There was a female walker on the ground, and I shot her as she looked at me.

I felt something in my throat as I dropped my gun and went down on my hands and knees. I coughed and a lot of blood came out. I felt very lightheaded and black spots appeared in my vision.

"Hershel." I gasped before falling to the ground.

"Hang on, Alexa!" I heard Hershel yell.

I coughed up more blood and whimpered, "Daryl, where are you?"

"Alexa!"

I couldn't breathe anymore, blood kept coming out. It felt like I was going to die.


RPOV

It got dark out as we finished chopping the wood.

"Riley, can you go get Carl?" Rick asked me.

I nodded before grabbing a flashlight and running towards the offices.

"Carl?" I whispered, "Carl!"

"I heard gunshots." Carl said as he ran around the corner.

"Your dad and I need your help." I told him, "Come on!"

We got back outside, and Carl helped Rick and I put up the logs against the fence,

"Think they're okay?"

"If things were going bad, we would have heard more gun shots. Maggie would have gotten us." Rick answered. "We have to do this."

As we put up another log, one snapped. We ran over to push the fence up, but another log broke.

"RUN!"

Carl grabbed my hand and we ran with Rick and more walkers behind us. We ran into the watch tower and into the courtyard. The walkers began pushing on the fence that would bring them in.

"Dad, what do we do?" Carl asked.

"Maybe I could back the bus against the fence." Rick suggested.

"Will it hold?" I asked.

Rick looked at us before looking back at the fence before grabbing us, "Come on."

We ran over to the basket of guns and ammo and Rick handed us Assault Rifles and showed us how to use them real quick.

"You shoot or you run. Don't let 'em get close, okay?" Rick said to us and we nodded.

The fence gave away, and we began shooting. Once all of the walkers were on the ground, we grabbed canes and began walking around, making sure they were all dead.

I heard a car and I turned around and saw a van driving towards the prison,

"Dad..." Carl said, "Everything's gonna be okay."

Carl and I ran down to open the gates, and Rick opened the entrance to the courtyard.

Carl was right. Everything is gonna be okay.


DPOV

I ran into A block and found Hershel and Maggie kneeling beside Alexa with a tube down her throat. There was blood by her head and trailing out of her mouth. I ran over and we brought her back to the cell I put her in.

Hershel put a needle in her arm and Bob put dissolved pills in the bag with water before they left to take care of everyone else, which included Glenn. I grabbed my bandana from my back pocket and put some water on it before wiping away all of the blood.

"You were strong, baby." I whispered and I rested my forehead on hers, "You made it."