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Once it was morning Vlad and his group had set off to the route where the prison was. They pushed forward without stopping and they were able to make it by sun down. The gates were still up but just like Vlad said the Walkers were inside. So Vlad, Alice and Morgan went in alone. They flew over the gate and cleared out the courtyard in a matter of minutes.

"It's secure." Vlad said

"This one maybe, but I'm not sure about the rest of the place." Morgan said before pointing to a female walker. "This one is a civilian."

"Which means we're going to have to rebuild this place for weak spots." Alice said

"Indeed." Vlad said

They went inside and searched one of the cell blocks. The place was dark but they were able to scan the place and saw that it was empty. Alice recognized the place to be the visitor section. Then spotted a room where the guard would watch them. She told Vlad and he went inside to see if the keys were in there. What he found was a dead guard sitting in a chair so to make sure that he was truely dead Vlad poked it with his sword. Seeing that it didn't move he took the ring keys off the guy. He came out and unlocked the cell door to the rooms. There were a lot of inmates that were dead in the room but no Walkers around. To make sure it was clear Alice banged on a cell bar to see if walkers were inside. So far nothing until they heard groans from the second floor and Vlad and Morgan went up to check it out. They found two Walkers inmates in their own cells that were closed. So Morgan grabbed his stuff and stabbed them both in the head. After that Vlad, Aliceand Morgan started to drag out of the bodies to clear the place. Once it was clear Morgan went back to get everyone.

""Well what do you think?" Vlad asked

"It's a little gloomy." Alice said

"It just needs a little woman's touch." He smirked, while wrapping his arms around her waist and hugged her from behind.

"It's gonna need more than a little." She laughed

The others came and smiled at their new home.

"Home sweet home." Angelina joked

"Is it secure?" Eileen asked

"This cell block is." Vlad said

"What about the rest of the prison?" Gabriel asked

"In the morning, we'll find the cafeteria and infirmary." Vlad said

"We sleep in the cells?" Eileen asked

"I found keys on some guard. Morgan has a set too." Vlad said "Let's start setting up."

Everyone nodded and picked out their own room.

"Mom. Dad." Chris said walking up the stairs with Sophia behind him. "Can I have my own room?"

"Me too, please?" Sophia asked

Vlad and Alice looked at each other with a grin.

"I don't know, Alice, what do you think. Are they old enough to have their own rooms now?" Vlad asked

"I think Chris is at that age where he wants to be more responsible. And Sophia is becoming a teenager and she needs her own space." Alice smiled

He looked down at them and they both gave him their best puppy pout. Vlad gave in easily.

"Fine, but you two stay in the cells next to us okay." He said

The kids smiled and hurried upstairs to pick out their own rooms with Lucifer following them.

"I can't believe that our family is getting bigger." Alice said, placing a hand on her stomach.

Vlad hugged her again and kissed her head.

"Our family." He whispered with a smile.

Then he remembered the little box that he had in his pocket. A few days ago he went to that town and found a jewelry store with a few things still left over. He was able to find a beautiful engagement ring with a gold brand. Vlad wanted to make an honest woman of her and to show that she was his in the human way. He had wanted to ask her for a while but everybody kept ruining the moment. So seeing how the kids were the only ones here he thought right now was the perfect time.

"Alice." He started as he turned her around. "I know this may seem foolish because of the whole apocalypse thing going on and you're already having my child. But I wanted to do this right." Then he kneeled down on one knee and took out the box from his pocket, opened it and showed her the ring. "Alice Dixon, will you marry me and become truly mine."

"Vlad you didn't have to ask. You know I will." She smiled "Yes, yes of course I will."

He placed the ring on her finger and stood up to passionately kiss her.

"About time you asked her. I was beginning to think you'll never ask." Morgan smirked as he came in with some boxes.

"Okay pay up." Angelina said to Jesse

Jesse pouted and handed her his chocolate bar.

"You guys had a pool on where he was going to propose?" Alice asked "Why wasn't I in on it?"

Vlad gave her a look and she laughed.

Night came and Alice had just finished placing blankets on the two mattresses they put together on the floor. Vlad was able to take down the prison beds to give them more space.

"I was thinking of knocking down this wall so we might have a bigger size room." Vlad said when he walked in the room.

"You do know that if we start doing that everyone else would want that too." Alice said, once she got in the covers.

He chuckled before getting in the covers with her and wrapped his arms around her.

"My wife." He whispered before kissing her.

"My husband." She smiled and he started kissing down her neck. "You know technically this is our honeymoon."

"And you do know that the kids are next door." He smirked "With this place I don't think there's any more privacy."

"He's right, Alice. If you two want to screw each other do it somewhere else." Angelina called out from her cell. "Some of us are trying to sleep."

Vlad and Alice laughed.

"When we get things clear we'll get another cell far from this one and I'll have my way with you." Vlad whispered in her ear.

This sent shivers of delight down her spine.

"I'll hold you to it." She smirked and peck him on the lips before closing her eyes, falling asleep.

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The next day, after much, much...and I mean much convincing, Vlad was able to have Alice wait with Eileen and the kids while he and the others checked out the rest of the prison. They were in the visiting section as they gathered around a table with some weapons and ammo that they found.

"Not bad." Nathan said

"Flash bangs, CS triple-chasers. Not sure how they'd work on walkers, but we'll take it." Vlad said

Angeline picked up a riot helmet and some jelly skin fell out of it.

"Oh, hell no. I'm not wearing this shit." She said before cursing in Spanish.

Gabriel held up a riot glove and the same gooey skin was coming off from the inside. He looked like he was about to hurl.

"We could boil them." He said

"I don't think there's enough firewood in the world to clean this shit." Angelina said before picking up an axe. "Besides, we made it this far without them."

They started to strap on some of the riot gear before gathering their weapons. Alice locked the door behind them but not before grabbing Vlad's shirt and kissed him.

"Be safe." She whispered

"Always am, love." He said

He caressed her face and kissed her again before catching up with the others. They went down a hallway and ended up in another cell that was full of dead mauled up corpses, so far nothing yet. Jesse started marking arrows with some spray paint on the wall to show them were to go. They kept going through hallway to hallway until they found a few walkers coming straight for them. Vlad wanted to test out his powers with them so he told Morgan to guard the back of the group while he started.

"Stop." Vlad said

One seemed to listen but the others kept coming.

"Stop." He said again but a few more kept coming. "I command you to stop." He ordered with authority.

That did it.

"Pss...Vlad. We got more coming this way." Morgan said

"You are not to move until I say so." He ordered before walking to the other side to stop the other walkers. "I command you all to stop."

With his power he was able to stop them this time without repeating himself.

"You really need to teach me how to do that." Morgan said

"Trust me when I say it's a little exhausting." Vlad said

"Well that's why it's called practice, children." Jesse chuckled

This earned him a few looks from Vlad and Morgan while Gabriel and Nathan chuckled a little.

"So...shall we cut them down to size?" Jesse asked, bringing out his crowbar.

After commanding the walkers to lay on the ground they started smashing and stabbing their heads. Once they were done they went to find the kitchen and as they passed by a few corpses one turned out to be a walker and bit Angeline's leg. Gabriel kicked the thing off of her and smashed its head with a sledgehammer. Her screaming and cussing attracted another pack of Walkers so they hurried her into the mess hall. Gabriel made sure to secure the door while they placed her on the floor.

"We're gonna have to cut her leg off." Morgan said

"Fuck that! Hell no!" Angelina screamed

"It's the only way to make sure the virus doesn't spread." Vlad said, taking off his belt so he could wrap it around her ankle.

"Can't you just do what you did to Morgan?" She asked

"I don't know if my blood is strong enough to stop the zombie virus." Vlad said

"I don't fucking care just anyting but cutting off my leg!" She yelled

Vlad looked at everyone before looking back at her.

"Are you sure about this? Because once this happens there is no turning back." He warned her.

She nodded her head and he gave her his blood. When the pain started to kick in the others watched the wound starting to heal itself.

"It's working." Vlad said

He tensed a little when he started to smell other people in the room. He and Nathan looked over towards the kitchen area and saw five men hiding there. The two quickly took out their guns and aimed at them.

"Holy shit." The white man said

"Who the hell are you?" Nathan asked

"Who the hell are you?" The little black man asked

"Why don't you come out of there?" Nathan said "Slow and steady."

The five men started to walk out and the hispanic man was aiming a gun at them.

"What happened to her?" The Hispanic man asked

"None of your business." Nathan said

Angelina started to growl and her eyes started to glow red. The hispanic man held up his gun but Gab and Jesse quickly took their out and aimed at him.

"Easy now, nobody needs to get hurt." Gabriel said

"Who the hell are you people anyway?" The hispanic man asked

"Don't look like no rescue team." The white man said

After smelling their human blood in their veins Angelina was about to attack them but Vlad and Morgan were able to hold her back.

"If a rescue team is what you are waiting for don't." Morgan said

"We need to give her animal blood right now. It will hold off her hunger from now." Vlad said "Gab, the door."

"Right." Gabriel said

One of the inmates told him not to but Gabriel ignored him and took off the crowbar from the handle. It looked like it was just one and Gabriel slammed its head with the sledgehammer. Vlad and Morgan went out first with Angelina still secured in their arms as Jesse and Gabriel followed and Nathan followed last as he aimed his gun at the inmates.

There were a few walkers scattered around but they were able to kill them as they headed back to their cell block. When they got to the door Vlad told Alice to open the door before telling her to lock it when they got in. Gabriel and Nathan stood in the waiting room with their guns aimed at the door. They knew that the inmates had followed them and they weren't going to let them in. Jesse was able to let Lucifer in with them just in case they really needed the hellhound. When one stepped in Lucifer got into an attacking position and started growling.

"That's far enough." Nathan warned "One more step and he'll attack."

"Cell block C." The Hispanic man said "Cell 4...that's mine, gringo. Let me in."

He took a step and Lucifer loudly barked which made him stop.

"Today's your lucky day, fellas." Nathan said "You've been pardoned by the state of Georgia. You're free to go."

"What'd you got going on in there?" Hispanic man asked

"That's none of your concern." Gabriel said, tightening his grip on his gun.

"Don't be telling me what's my concern." Hispanic man said

He was about to pull out his gun but Lucifer growls turned dangerous and his eyes started to glow red and his body started transforming inch by inch.

"What the fuck is that!?" The little black man shouted, as he and others backed away.

"A being you don't want to fuck with, so I suggested that you put the gun down unless you want to be hellhound lunch meat." Gabriel said

"Chill, man. The girl is hurt." The large black man said, trying to break the tension. "Besides, we're free now. Why are we still here?"

"Your friend has a point." Nathan said

"Yeah, and I gotta check on my old lady." The tall black man said

"A group of civilians breaking into a prison and you got no business being in, got me thinking there ain't no place for us to go." Hispanic man said

"Why don't you go and find out?" Nathan said

"Maybe we'll just be going now" The white man said

"Hey, we ain't leaving." Hispanic man said ordered

"And you're not coming in either." Nathan glared

"Hey, this is my house, my rules. I go where I damn well I please!" Hispanic man shouted

"There's nothing for you here." Nathan said

Lucifer was about to attack until Vlad finally came out as Sophia locked the door behind him.

"Enough! Everyone! There is no need for this right now." Vlad said

"How many of you are in there?" Hispanic man asked

Vlad growled at him knowing well that this one has to die soon. He didn't even have to look in the mans' eyes; he could just smell the danger off of him.

"Too many for you to handle." He growled

"You guys rob a bank or something?" The Hispanic man asked

"Why don't you take the chika to a hospital?"

Everyone looked at him.

"How long have you been locked in that Cafeteria?" Vlad asked

"Going on like 10 months." The Hispanic man said

That explains it.

"A riot broke out." The large black man said "Never see anything like it."

"Attica on speed, man." The white man said

"Ever heard about dudes going cannibal, dying, coming back to life? Crazy." The little black man asked

"One guard looked out for us, locked us up in the cafeteria." The hispanic man said "Told us to sit tight, threw me this piece, said he'd be right back."

"Yeah, and that was 292 days ago." The tall black man said

"94 according to my calcula…" The white man said but was told to shut up by the ringleader.

"We were thinking that the Army or the National Guard should be showing up any day now." The tall one said

"There is no Army." Vlad said "There's no government, no hospitals, no police. It's all gone."

"For real?" The white man asked

Vlad nodded his head and looked at them. The tall, large black men and the only white man didn't look dangerous but the other two were a different story.

"What about my mom?" The large one asked

"My kids? And my old lady?" The tall one asked "Yo, you got a cell phone or something that we can call our families?"

"You don't understand do you? There are no phones, no computers." Nathan said "Pretty much almost the world is 's only the living and the dead."

They didn't seem to believe them so Vlad thought it would be best to show them the outside. When they did you can tell that they've been inside the whole time since it took them a long time to adjust to the sunlight. Once they did they saw how everything was. They seemed to soaked everything in and the Hispanic guy was taking orders again. Telling them to take the area where the water was but Vlad was trying to be nice and told them that's for the crops when winter passes. The guy wasn't listening and he was really pissing Vlad off. So when the guy tried to reach for his gun again Vlad quickly grabbed him by the throat and held him up high, showing his fangs.

"Now listen here, I can kill you and your buddies right here, right now before anyone could even blink." Vlad hissed "This is now our prison. We spilled the blood and we picked up the mess. All you flit did was hide in the broom closet. So you better understand this. You're not in charge anymore. I am. What I say goes. And do you know what I say now…" He brought him closer to his face as his eyes glowed red. "That you're not worth saving." And then he snapped his neck before dropping him and crushing his skull with one stomp.

He looked at the other inmates and they started to back away a little.

"Anyone else want to try and take charge?" He asked

He saw the little black man looking at the gun that was on the ground now and looked tempted to take it. Vlad gave a look that told him to try and take it.

The idiot took the bait.

"Lucifer, lunch." Vlad said

Before the little man knew it the hellhound tackled him to the ground and started to maul his face and his throat before snapping it off. Once the head was off Lucifer started eating pieces of the body.

"Anyone else." Vlad smiled darkly.

He saw the fear in their eyes and knew he got their attention.

"Now, how stocked is that cafeteria?" He asked

They showed them to the cafeteria and saw that there was a lot of food left over that could last them for a month and two. The freezer on the other hand was a big no. Vlad told them that they didn't even have to open the door; he could smell that everything was spoiled. So after sorting the food out Vlad and the others cleared out a cell for the other threes, seeing that they didn't want to leave. The others weren't so keen on letting them in their group yet so Vlad told them that they'll be watching them. When they got back to cell block C he saw that Angelina was feeling better now.

"How do you feel?" Vlad asked

"Like shit, this all feels weird." She said as she laid down on her bed.

"Don't worry, you'll get used to it." He said and patted her leg. "You really didn't want to lose that leg huh." He laughed

"If I lose a leg what use would I be?" She scoffed "I rather be like this than be handicap."

"You'll always be useful to us. Handicap or not." He said "Just remember to keep your hunger under control. If you can't I might have to kill you."

"Is that the same speech you gave Morgan?" She asked

"Yes, the first time that I've turned someone was my villagers. They wanted vengeance so much that they let their hunger take over and they forgot who they were. They killed the enemy but also killed innocent people. I promised myself that I would never let that happen again. But I broke that promise three times." He said

"This was our choice Vlad." Angelina said "Do what you got to do? I'll do my best to control myself."

Vlad nodded his head and left her cell to go join his family, today was a long day.