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Sorry if you find any grammar mistakes. I'm still learning English because it's not my first language.
TheBlueNova: Glad to see you still reading! :)
Brendan: I'm glad you liked it! I always imagined a red 2009 Toyota Corolla to be the car from the gas station and I always imagined Drake's truck to be a black Scania. Most of the cast is pretty much wearing the same clothes (with a few of them having small changes). The only one who had major change in clothing was Chef who had to change his clothes back in season 2. I always imagined him wearing clothes similiar to the ones that Lee Everett wore in episode 2 of the first season of the game. :)
"Kill them! Kill them! Kill them!"
Daryl let out one exhale after another as he looked around the people who were repeating these two words over and over again while pointing at him and his brother. He clenched his fists, when he glanced over at the exit to see that it was heavily guarded by the Governor's men. There was no way he was getting out of here at this moment.
After shaking off the shock which was caused by seeing Daryl after all this time, Andrea pushed herself into run towards Philip, but was quickly caught by one of the Woodbury guards, who held her back, "Philip, don't do this. He's my friend."
Courtney rushed towards the area as well, but just like Andrea, she never made it there as anothe guard held her back, "You don't have to do this. We know him. Just let us talk with him and we can work this out."
"It's not up to me anymore. The people have spoken.." The Govenor pointed out, completely ignoring their pleads, circling around the Dixon brothers. He set his gaze on Merle, "I asked you where your loyalties lie. You said here. Well, prove it. Prove it to us all. Brother against brother. Winner goes free. Fight to the death."
The people of Woodbury quickly voiced their agreement. They started clapping, crying out in unison, "Yeah!"
"Y'all know me. I'm gonna do whatever I got to do to prove..." Merle declared as he raised his hand in the air, seconds before punching his brother right in the stomach, causing Daryl to collaps on the ground. The younger Dixon got himself on his fours, attempting to get up at Merle kicked him, as the crowd cheered, "That my loyalty is to this town!"
Three Woodbury guards entered the area, stopping in a circle around Daryl and Merle, each of them holding a walker on a holding stick. Daryl send a powerful punch right in Merle's face who stumbled back a bit, holding his nose with good hand. It was when he heard a grunt behind him. He turned back to see a walker standing right behind him which caused him to get back to his brother.
Daryl got himself back on his feet and rushed towards Merle but unfortunely for him, he did nothing to his older brother who easily brought him to the ground again. Merle wrapped his hands around Daryl's neck, who mananged to ask him after a few seconds of struggling, "You really think this asshole's gonna let you go?"
"Just follow my lead, little brother. We're getting out of this right now." Merle told his little brother only a second before grabbing him by his clothes, bringing his back to his feet. He and Daryl pressed their backs against each other, holding their clenched hands out in ready. One of the guards that was holding a walker approached Merle who quickly punched the undead and pushed it away from himself as Daryl made sure to do the same with a guard that did the same to him.
"Philip! Stop this!" Andrea cried out to the Governor but didn't receive the answer from him. The Governor just stared at the two brothers, looking almost as if he was relaxing by watching that.
Courtney turned her gaze away from Merle and Daryl and looked at Jose who was staring at Merle and Daryl with completely blank expression on his face. Then, she turned to look at Milton who was the only one except for them who seemed to be actually horrified by what was just happening.
Daryl grabbed the undead by it's collar, before punching it right in it's face, causing it to stumble away along with the guard holding it. Merle grabbed the other walker and threw it into the closest group of people, as the crowd around it panicked and stepped away from the undead. Merle and Daryl exchanged a look with each other as they continued to punch one walker after another, not thinking about lowering their guard for a second.
It was when hell broke loose when a shot rang through everyone's ears as Daryl's group came to his rescue. Alejandro had his scoped machine rifle placed on top of the container which was most likely serving the residents of Woodbury as a trashcan. He was looking through the scope of his weapon and fired a few bullets at the crowd of people standing in front of him, wanting to cause some panic which would allow Daryl to escape.
He had one idea that one of the bullets that he fired hit Haley right in the heart. The young woman didn't even had time to react to what was happening around her and her lifeless body collapsed on the ground, not a single breath leaving her lungs. The spanish teen looked through his scope at the nearest light source which happened to be a bunch of tall lamps and started firing at them along with Duncan while Chef and Rick pulled out two smoke grenades, and removed the pins before throwing them towards the area.
The grenades exploded and smoke started to engulf the entire area as people started to run away in panic, the smoke starting to blind their vision. Their surroundings became even less visible for them because Alejandro and Duncan destroyed each one of the lamps around the area, pieces of glass falling on the ground.
Merle screamed as he brought one walker down and got rid of it by bringing his prosthetic arm on it's head. He glanced over at his brother, "Stay close!"
"Daryl!" Courtney called out for the younger Dixon, but he couldn't hear her.
"Merle!" Daryl said to his brother, beginning to make his way towards the exit, "Let's go!"
The two brothers started to flee from the area as the Governor carefully walked through the smoke, killing one undead with his pistol. Rowan shrieked in fear when one of the walkers lunged for her, but fortunely for her, Jose came her in her aid and one bullet from his M4A1 was enough to kill the undead. She send him a quick grateful and relieved look before running away to safety.
Rick, Chef, Duncan and Alejandro remained hidden behind, waiting for Daryl to come out of the smoke, the people running past him not even noticing them. Shumpert released an arrow from the crossbow at the nearest walker, as Daryl attacked him from behind and took the weapon that belonged to him, before rushing out of the area, with Merle who knocked Shumpert down right after his brother took his crossbow from him.
The sheriff deputy nodded his head as the Dixon brothers ran past him, Chef, Duncan and Alejandro, "Daryl."
"Let's go." Chef said, as all of them started running away from the area, leaving the panicked people and the Governor who came out of the smoke with completely blank expression on his face behind.
They made their way through the streets to the nearest fence as Merle pointed at the spot between the two school buses, "They're all at the arena. This way."
"When did we say that you're coming with us?" Alejandro asked him.
"You really want to do this, now, Al?" Merle asked him in return, starting to puch the fence, making a small hole in it.
Daryl looked over his shoulder and saw his brother making his way to the other side of the fence through the hole he just made, "Guys. We gotta go."
Everyone started making their way through the hole as Chef stayed behind for a second, wanting to stay on guard until everyone will be on the other side of the fence. When he made his way there, he saw a group of walkers, which were probably led here by the noise they made while they were rescuing Daryl. They killed the ones that were the closest to them.
"We ain't got time for this." Merle stated, rushing away from the fence, as Daryl was quick to follow him.
"What are we going to do with him?" Duncan asked, turning to look at Rick.
"We'll deal with him later, once we'll join the others." Rick answered to which Chef, Duncan and Alejandro nodded in understanding, before all four of them followed the Dixon brothers.
The sun was shining on the horizon when they made their way back to the spot where they left their vehicles. Noah, Glenn, Michonne, Izzy, Maggie, Gwen and Oscar noticed them walking in their direction and headed towards their group. They immediately aimed their guns at Merle the moment they saw him walking behind the rest of their group.
"What the hell is he doing here!" Glenn shouted angrily, not even thinking about lowering his pistol.
"There's no way he's going anywhere with us!" Gwen shouted shorty after, with her pistol aimed right at Merle.
"He tried to kill me!" Michonne yelled out, pointing her katana at the older Dixon.
"He helped us escape." Daryl explained, trying to calm them down along with Rick.
"Yeah." Duncan crossed his arms, "Right after he beat the shit out of you."
Merle grinned, despise the fact that seven people were aiming their guns at him, "Hey, we both took our licks, man."
Daryl shook his head, "Jackass."
"Hey." Merle glared at his brother, "Shut up."
"Enough." Chef said, attempting to calm the rest down as much as Rick and Daryl did, "Put your guns down."
"Get that dammed thing out of my face!" Daryl shouted to Glenn and Noah who kept their pistols aimed at Merle.
Merle grinned again and leaned against the tree, "Man, look like you've gone native, brother."
Daryl turned to look at his brother, "No more than you hanging out with that psycho back there."
"Oh, yeah, man. He is a charmer, I got to tell you that." Merle nodded his head as he turned his gaze towards Michonne, a smirk forming on his lips, "Been putting the wood to your girlfriend Andrea. Big time, baby."
The entire group went silent when they heard Merle's words. They all looked at the older Dixon in shock. Andrea was in Woodbury? For all this time?
"...Andrea is in Woodbury?" Glenn asked in shock.
Merle nodded in confirmation, "Right next to the Governor."
"If Andrea is in Woodbury, so does that mean that Courtney is there too? Tell me! Is she there!?" Duncan demanded to know as he turned around to look at Merle.
"She is and let me tell ya, she sure misses her juvie." Merle confirmed with a small chuckle, with his smirk not leaving his face.
Izzy looked at Michonne, "You know Andrea and Courtney?"
"Yep." Merle confirmed it as Michonne remained silent, "They spent all winter cuddling up in the forest. My Nubian queen here had two pet walkers. No arms, cut off the jaws, kept them in chains. Kind of ironic now that I think about it. We snagged them out of the woods. Andrea and Courtney were close to dying."
"Is what why they're with him?" Maggie asked the older Dixon.
"Yeah." Merle nodded his head in confirmation, turning to look at Rick, "So what you gonna do now, Sheriff, huh? Surrounded by a bunch of liars, thugs, and cowards."
"Shut up!" Rick tried to shush him down.
Merle continued, "Oh, man, look at this. Pathetic. All these guns and no bullets in them."
"Merle, shut up!" Daryl yelled out to his brother.
Merle glared at his younger brother, "Shut up yourself! Bunch of pussies you roll..."
He was cut off when Chef slammed his M16 down on Merle's head, knocking him down. The co-host of Total Drama glared at him, "Bastard."
"Finally." Noah said, lowering his pistol as he stared at Merle's unconsciouss body, "I was seconds away from doing that myself."
"Yeah." Gwen nodded, "Thought he will never shut up."
Everyone were minding their own business in the prison. Hershel was patching up the bearded man's who introduced himself as Allen leg while his son Ben watched, Axel and Ezekiel were putting themselves some food, Sasha was talking with Beth about Judith, Chris, Heather and Carol were outside on the watch, and Harold, Cody, Leshawna, Bridgette and DJ were catching up with Geoff, Trent and Eva.
"No way!" Cody said with a smile forming on his lips as he pulled something out of Geoff's bag, "You have a chess set?"
"Yeah." Geoff nodded in confirmation, "I found it about a month ago while exploring an abadoned house. I took it because I thought we could use it, but none of us really knew how to play chess, so it just stayed in my bag since I found it."
"Would you mind if I took it?" Cody asked him, "I talked with Noah about chess a while ago. We've been searching for a chess set ever since, but neither of us got lucky."
Geoff shrugged, "Sure. It's not like any of us are going to play it."
"Thanks." Cody smiled at him, holding his new chess set, "I and Noah have a long game ahead of us once he gets back."
"Guys, I know that this will most likely ruin the moment but I feel that I need to ask you that." Harold said, as Leshawna, Geoff, Trent, Bridgette, Eva, Cody and DJ all looked at him, "What happened to Katie, Sadie, Beth and Justin?"
Geoff, Trent and even Eva looked a bit saddened by that. The party animal sighed and started, "I knew that a question like that was coming. We lost Sadie and Beth in the first few days of all of this."
"What a shitshow this day was." Eva shook her head.
"One of the toughest days of my life." Trent added, "What am I even saying. This day was tough for everyone."
"Yeah." Geoff nodded in agreement to Trent's and Eva's words, "Beth was bit by a homeless guy we were passing by in the arm. We started getting away from him before we came across two police officers who were apparently on the search for this dude after receiving a few calls from concerned people. They made sure he wasn't going to do anything before sending all of us to the hospital. Beth didn't survive the trip. She woke up, as a walker, and bit right into Sadie's neck. We had to put Beth down and Sadie bled out only a few seconds later."
"Gosh." Harold sighed, "Poor Sadie and Beth."
Bridgette shook her head, "I can only imagine how tough it was for Katie. To see her best friend like that."
"She wasn't herself after that. She practically isolated herself from the rest of us for a month." Geoff explained, confirming Bridgette's worries.
"Where have you been, after that, when everything literally went down?" Cody wanted to know, "Were you staying in some sort of camp with other survivors, or just traveled around."
"We traveled around." Geoff answered, "We were planning to stay in a safe camp that was created for the survivors, but those plans didn't work out the way we wanted them to because the camp in ruins when we arrived at it."
"Remember when we were making our way through the hallway that was filled with abandoned cars?" Trent asked Geoff and Eva.
"Don't remind me." Eva groaned, "We had to abandon our vehicle, because there was no way we could make our way through it in it."
"The worst thing we saw on that hallway was an abandoned prison bus." Trent shook his head at the disgusting imaginery of what they saw in that prison bus. Now, he would just shrug it off, because he had already gotten used to seeing such imaginery after being on the road for over a year and seeing all kinds of things, but he saw in the first week of all of this, "The prisoners really made sure to get out of this bus when they got the chance."
Leshawna placed her hand on his shoulder, "What did you see there, sugar?"
Trent sighed, "We saw two bodies of two prisoners with his head blow into pieces and the other, or rather what was left of it, was most likely torn into shreds by the walkers got into this bus, and a feet of another prisoner who must have had his feet blow off his body by the other prisoners, so they could escape. Justin had to thrown up after seeing this."
"How did those prisoners even got a gun?" Harold wondered, "I doubt that one of the people guarding them would do something like that."
"We were thinking the same." Trent said, "We got our answer when we saw two walkers, out of which one was a prisoner that got his feet blown off and the other was a prison guard."
"I made sure to finish those undead freaks off for good." Eva continued Trent's story, "We came to a conclusion that something must have happen in the prison bus between the prisoners that a guard had to point his gun at them. Something happened to the guard which gave the prisoners the access to his gun, after that they blown off the foot of one of them, and ran out of the bus."
"What happened to Justin and Katie?" Harold asked, "Are they waiting for you somewhere in the forest or are they..."
"The latter." Trent cut him off with a sigh, already knowing what the other option was going to be, "We lost them about two months ago when we were staying in an abandoned town. We apparently stepped into the territory of some gangsters who were being led a guy who called himself Triaz."
"I wish I had gotten my hands on that bastard, whoever he was." Eva shook her head angrily, "One second Katie was standing on the guard on the porch, and the next thing we know, a bullet flies right through her head, killing her instantly."
"We immediately started to make our way into the woods surrounding the town, while these guys continued to fire at us." Geoff continued the story, observing how their old friends reacted after hearing how Katie died, "We returned fire, but it didn't do nothing, as one of the bullets hit Justin in the stomach. He bled out not long after we made our way out of that town."
"We burried him under a large tree in the middle of the forest." Trent added, "He'd like that place. Wish we could do the same to Katie, but we had to leave her body back in the town."
"Did you came across this Triaz and his people after that?" DJ asked, with saddened expression on his face after finding out what happened to Katie, Justin, Sadie and Beth.
"No." Eva shook her head, "We made sure to get away from this town as fast as we could, because fighting them again with just three of us would be a suicide, but I hope that those bastards got what they deserved."
"It's been just the three of us for almost two months. We came across Tyreese and his group about a week ago." Trent added, "We tagged along with them after that. We traveled with each other for this week before finding ourselves in the hallway where Heather, Chris and Ezekiel found us."
"And, we don't need to tell you because you already know the rest." Geoff said, earning nods from Harold, DJ, Bridgette, Leshawna and Cody. He looked around himself and saw that a few people were missing, "What happened with Lindsay, Tyler, Owen and Courtney? I don't recall any of them being in the group of the members of your group that are not here at this moment that you mentioned to us earlier."
"...Lindsay died back when we were staying in Atlanta. A walker tore a hole in her stomach and she bleed out in Tyler's arms. There was nothing we could do to save her." Bridgette explained as the memories of the night when the undead attacked their camp in Atlanta flew through her head.
Trent sighed, as the thoughts of what happened to the jock appeared in his mind as he didn't recall the others mention him when they were pointing out the people who left the prison for some reason, "Poor Tyler. How did he take it?"
"Badly. He wasn't himself anymore. He almost commited suicide, but Dale who unfortunely is not with us anymore, made him change his mind." Bridgette said, gazing down sadly, "At least he died saving someone, just like he wanted."
"What do you mean by that, Bridge?" Geoff wanted to know.
"After Lindsay died, he wanted to keep the others from sharing the same fate, but many of us considered his methods to be rather questionable, myself included." DJ began, as he was one of the people who saw how Tyler got down. He paused for a second to take a look at Heather who stood on the other side of the room, "He saw Heather surrounded by the walkers, and rushed out of the car to save her. He saved Heather who made to the car, but gave up his own. We lost Owen during the same night. The walkers got him when he was making his way out of the farm house with a few others."
"We lost Courtney during that night too." Harold added, "But none of us have idea what happened to her. She can be still alive."
"This was one tough night for all of us, sugar." Leshawna shook her head, adding her part as well, "I almost died that night. Those things would get me if it wasn't for DJ, Zeke, Noah and Tyler."
"I almost died too." Bridgette said with a sigh as Geoff looked at her, looking worried, "I and Carol got separated from the others. Those things were chasing us and would most likely get us if it wasn't for Duncan and Daryl. I hopped onto the back of Duncan's motorcycle and drove off."
Geoff smiled, his worried expression fading away from his face, "I'll make sure to thank him once he'll return."
"I'm sure he will be happy to see you again." Bridgette smiled, "He told me and DJ that he missed having you around."
"You talked with Duncan?" Geoff gave her a short laugh, "I thought you didn't like him."
"Because I didn't like him before all of this, but he changed. He started showing more of his good side." Bridgette explained, "Same thing with Chris and Heather."
"What about the reporter from the Gemmy awards? Her name was Sierra, right?" Trent wanted to know if he got the name right, "I asssume that she stayed with you just like this Alejandro guy did when all of this started."
Cody bit his lips, "One of the prisoners who survived here since the beginning killed her. We burried her in the fields along with Lori and T-Dog who were killed by the same guy."
"Speaking of the prisoners." Eva said as she turned to look at Axel who was chatting with Tyreese while eating his meal, "Do you trust this guy?"
"Axel?" Leshawna asked her in return to which Eva nodded in confirmation, "That white boy seemed to be a little unstable when our group found him in the cafeteria, but he's proven himself to be a good man."
"Same thing with Oscar." Harold added, nodding his head in agreement to Leshawna's words, "He should return here with the others."
"Hopefully they will return as soon as possible." DJ stated, to which everyone agreed with him.
Rick, Chef, Glenn, Maggie, Daryl, Duncan, Alejandro, Gwen, Noah, Izzy, and Oscar were gathered in a circle, discussing what they should do with Merle. Michonne who was excluded from this discussion and watched them from the distance. Merle who regained his conciousness a while ago watched their discussion as well.
Glenn shook his head, "It won't work."
"Bringing him with us is only going to make things worse." Gwen pointed out with her arms crossed.
Daryl pointed in the direction of Woodbury, "Look, the Governor is probably on the way to the prison right now."
"I doubt that." Noah shook his head, "Our group just attacked him. He is most likely busy dealing with his people panicking about what happened last night."
Rick shook his head, "I'm not having him at the prison. Do you really want him sleeping in the same cell block as Carol or Beth or Bridgette or Heather or Leshawna?"
"He ain't rapist." Daryl pointed out.
"But his buddy is." Glenn pointed out in return, causing Maggie to look at him.
"There's no way Merle's gonna live there without putting everyone at each other's throats." Rick stated.
Daryl pointed at Michonne, "So you're gonna cut Merle loose and bring the last samurai home with us?"
"She's not in a state to be on her own." Chef pointed out, "We'll wait for her to get better and then we'll decide what to do with her."
"She did brought us to Woodbury even though she didn't had to." Izzy stated.
"This doesn't change the fact that we don't know anything about her." Rick told her in response.
"At least we know who Merle is." Daryl said as he gave his brother who watched their discussion from the woods a quick look, "Merle's blood."
"No." Alejandro shook his head, "Merle's your blood. You can say that Jose is my blood but I'm not debating if we should go back to Woodbury to convice him to go with us."
"He's right." Glenn nodded in agreement, "I know who my family is. My family is standing in front of me and rest of it is waiting for us back in the prison."
Rick leaned in a bit closer to Daryl, "And you're part of that family, but Merle's not."
"Fine." Daryl sighed, "We'll fend for ourselves."
"I don't think that this was what he was saying." Oscar stated, referring to Glenn.
"No him, no me." Daryl declared.
"Daryl, you don't have to do that." Maggie told him.
"You don't have to leave us only because your brother is who he is." Gwen added.
"It was always Merle and I before this." Daryl explained.
Izzy shook her head, "Are you just going to leave us now, after everything we've been through since Atlanta?"
"You'd do the same thing." Daryl pointed out.
"No." Alejandro shook his head, "I wouldn't."
"You'd be saying otherwise if you didn't hate your brother." Daryl told him, "You may have had other people around you growing up, like your other brother Carlos, but I didn't had anyone except for Merle."
"What are we supposed to tell Carol?" Glenn asked as he turned to look at Duncan who suprisingly stayed silent.
Daryl was silent for a few seconds, "...She'll understand."
He stepped forward and started walking towards Merle but Rick, Chef and Duncan went after him. Chef grabbed his shoulder, causing him to look at him, "There's gotta be another way."
"I'm not going to leave him." Daryl declared, "I already did that once."
"You didn't leave him." Chef pointed out, "You weren't there when it happened. You can't blame yourself for that."
"We started something last night." Rick tried to reason with him, "You realize that?"
"No him, no me. That's all I can say." Daryl repeated himself as he opened the trunk of the Hyundai and took out his bag. He slouched it over his shoulder, "Take care of yourself. Take care of lil ass-kicker."
"So this is?" Duncan asked Daryl, speaking up for the first time since the redneck declared that he's leaving with his brother, "You're leaving."
"Yes." Daryl nodded his head, "Are you going to stop me?"
"No. It's your choice to make, not mine, even though I'm sure that you already know what I think about it." Duncan answered, as he extended his hand to Daryl, "Take care of yourself out there, redneck."
Daryl shifted his glance between Duncan and Duncan's extended hand before giving it a small shake, "You too, juvie. Keep Carol alive when I'm gone. I hope you'll get your girl back."
Chef sighed, knowing that they weren't going to convice Daryl to stay without letting Merle stay in their group. He saluted, "Take care of yourself out there, soldier. I hope you know that we will always welcome you with open arms if you'll change your mind."
Daryl gave him a small salute in return, "You too, general. I'll make sure to keep that in mind."
With that, the younger Dixon send them one last nod, before turning away from them. Rick, Chef and Duncan watched how Daryl approached a grinning Merle who looked like an owner who waited for his loyal dog to return to him. The older Dixon wrapped his arm around his brother and both of them walked away, slowly disappearing in the woods.
Geoff, Trent, Eva, Tyreese, Sasha, Allen and Ben stood together in front of Donna's grave which they had dug up next to Sierra's. The party animal, the musican and the jockeness paid their respect for the fallen woman and turned around towards the gate from where Chris, Carol and Heather watched them from the distance. They said their condolences to Allen and Ben before heading away from the grave, towards the cellblock.
Allen waited until Geoff, Trent and Eva will be in a safe distance away from them before speaking up, "Golden opportunity."
"For what?" Tyreese asked him, sounding a bit confused by his words.
"These three on the watch." Allen said, moving his head in the direction of Chris, Carol and Heather, "We do it quick, they'll never know what hit them."
Ben nodded, agreeing with his father's plan, "We'll get a hold of their weapons and then take care of the rest, one by one."
Tyreese and Sasha exchanged a look with each other, not believing in what they just heard from Allen and Ben, the latter saying, "We're out here to bury Donna."
Allen looked down at the grave of his wife, "We just did it."
"What about Geoff, Trent and Eva?" Sasha asked him, "Are you going to walk over to them and ask them to help you kill their old friends?"
"I won't do that." Allen shook his head, "In case if you haven't noticed that already, with Geoff, Trent and Eva knowing some of them, and Geoff even being in the relationship with one of them, they were already accepted into their group."
An idea of what Allen was suggesting appeared in Tyreese's mind, "Tell me you're not trying to suggest..."
Allen cut him off, "They've been with us for only a week. We barely know them."
"Look around us." Ben said, "This place is secure."
Tyreese shook his head in disbelief, "These are good people."
"What are you going to do?" Sasha asked, being in disbelief just as much as Tyreese, "You gonna smash the baby's head with a rock?"
Allen shook his head, "What is your problem?"
"How about a little common decency?" Tyreese asked him, "This isn't what we do."
"You're living in the past, Ty." Allen told him in response before shifting his attention to Sasha, "So are you. This is survival of the fittest, plain and simple. In here we live, out there we die. And I am not waiting around for the rest of their group to roll in here and throw us out on our asses."
Andrea and Courtney came out of the medical building of Woodbury and came down the steps, walking into the streets and approaching Milton who was waiting for them.
"How many injured?" He wanted to know, starting to walk through the streets with them.
"Nine." Courtney answered, "Stevens has it covered."
"Where is he?" Andrea asked Milton, referring to the Governor.
"In his apartment. I and Jose trited to talk with him." Milton replied, "He wouldn't open the door. Said he was in the middle of something. It's all going to hell."
Their talk was interrupted when they saw a white car drive past them. They titled their heads in it's direction to see the residents of Woodbury standing in front of the main gate. All of them were carrying bags with their stuff which meant only one thing, they wanted to leave.
"Open the gate!" A black haired woman yelled out to Martinez, Shumpert and Jose who stood on the walls.
"Back away, everyone!" Martinez shouted to them in response, but they didn't listen to him.
"It's not safe here. We want to leave." The same woman shouted in return.
Jose pointed behind him, "There's muertos out here, senorita!"
"Let us out!" Some black skinned woman shouted to them.
Andrea, Milton and Courtney started making their way to the people, intending to try to calm the crowd down as Shumpert looked over his shoulder and saw the undead heading their way, "Martinez, Jose, biters!"
Martinez and Jose quickly reacted to his words and turned away from the crowd to look at the walkers walking towards the gate. They along with Shumpert and other guards on the wall started shooting them down, one by one, making sure to use as less ammunition as possible, ignoring the cries of people behind them.
"Everybody calm down." Andrea said as she approached the crowd along with Courtney and Milton.
The black haired woman grabbed Courtney's arm, "We can't stay here."
"Karen, you don't want to go out there. You've been behind the wall for too long." Courtney told her, "Things are worse than they were a few months ago. It's too dangerous."
"Yeah." The black skinned man scoffed, "We'll take our chances."
The man in the white car started beeping his horn as Martinez looked down at him and glared, "Hey, knock off the horn."
"Knock off the horn!" Jose ordered, glaring the man who kept beeping, despise all of the guards telling him to stop doing so. He started coming down the steps along with Martinez, with their guns aimed at the man, "You want to led more muertos to our town?!"
"Martinez! Jose!" Andrea cried out the two men who ignored her.
Jose opened the doors of the car as Martinez pulled the driver out, throwing him to the ground. Courtney stepped between them and the man, "Can't you see that these people are scared by what happened last night?"
"Shoving your guns to their faces is not going to help." Andrea said, bringing the man back to his feet, "You're making things worse."
Martinez and Jose looked at her as if she was stupid, "We are?"
It was when a loud scream rang through everyone's ears. They all turned around to see two people, a man and a woman running away from a few walkers that somehow made their way to the other side of the fence. Andrea, Courtney, Jose and Martinez quickly pushed themselves into run, intending to help them as two walkers bit into the man and brought him down the ground.
"Get back!" Martinez shouted to the woman who ran past them, joining the other Woodbury residents a few seconds later.
Courtney aimed her pistol at the walker heading towards the screaming man and one shot the to the head was enough to take it down as Martinez aimed his weapon at another approaching walker and got rid of it as Jose and Andrea made sure to take care of the undead who were feasting on the screaming man.
"Oh my gosh." Karen said in horror at the view of man who was in pain, approaching the scene with everyone else, "Do something."
Jose sighed, "There's nothing we can do to save him."
The man let out a weak, "Help."
They didn't spot the Governor walking out of the building. He approached the man and aimed his pistol at his forehead, firing one bullet which hit him right between his eyes, ending his misery. Everyone turned away from the corpse and looked at their leader who didn't even look at them and started making his way back to his apartament, shutting the door behind him.
"I'll go talk with him." Andrea whispered to Courtney, "You make sure that nobody is going to panix."
The CIT nodded head at her as they lawyer followed the Governor into his apartament. He opened the doors to his house and instantly voiced her thoughts about what he had just done, "What the hell was that? You put a round in a man's head in front of all those people and just take off? You have to talk to them."
Philip reloaded his pistol and looked at her, "Why?"
"They're panicking." Andrea pointed out, "They were ready to charge through those gates."
"So let them." The Governor shrugged, "Those people have had it easy. Barbecues and picnics. That ends now."
"Don't blame them for the mess that you created." Andrea snapped, "They're scared."
"Well, I'm through holding their hands." Philip told her in response, "We're at war. I should have seen that."
Andrea crossed her arms, "So why was Daryl here? Was he part of the assault? Why would he do that."
"He came for his friends. The other people you know." Philip explained, "Glenn, Maggie, Gwen and Noah. Merle scooped them up on the run. He and Jose were holding them to find out where their brothers were."
"M-My friends are still alive and we're shooting at each other?" Andrea stuttered out in shock. How was she going to tell Courtney about all of this?, "You're trying to execute them?"
"Your friends killed eight good people. Crowley, Tim, Gargulio, Eisenberg, Warren, Marco, Bob Adams and Haley." The Governor pointed out, as came over to the window and pointed at the lifeless body of a man he had just killed, "That man out there, Rich Foster, he makes nine. So that's what your friends did."
Rick, Chef, Glenn, Maggie, Duncan, Oscar, Izzy, Alejandro, Gwen and Noah had just arrived back at the prison. They all got themselves out of their vehicles and were instantly greeted back by their friends and family members. Maggie shared a hug with Beth and Hershel as Ezekiel went over to Izzy and Noah to greet them back. Izzy handed Ezekiel the speargun she found in the cabin in the woods, for which the homeschool was extremely grateful.
Harold, DJ and Bridgette walked over to Duncan, each of them offering the juvie a quick pat on his back as Axel went over to Oscar, offering his fellow prisoner a pat on his shoulder, happy that he had returned from the mission.
Heather approached Alejandro and spotted his rather grim expression, "What happened?"
Alejandro was silent for a moment before replying, "I found Jose."
"What?" Heather asked him, suprised, knowing about Alejandro's hated brother, "Is he the guy who is the leader of this entire community that took Glenn, Gwen, Noah and Maggie?"
"No." Alejandro shook his head, a sigh leaving his lungs, 'He's one of his soldiers."
"Damn, sister." Leshawna said, eyeing Gwen's bruises as she went over to welcome the goth back along with Cody, "What the hell did they do to you?"
"I still got off easy compared to Glenn and Noah." Gwen said, turning to look at Glenn and Noah, "They could barely walk when Rick and the rest rescued us."
"Who did this to you?" Cody asked her.
Gwen sighed, "Rick will fill all of you in in a moment."
"We have a new problem on our backs?" Leshawna wanted to know.
"Yeah." Gwen gave her friend a nod of confirmation.
Cody nodded his head at Gwen's words before turning around to look at Noah who was having a conversation with Izzy and Ezekiel, "Hey, Noah!"
Noah turned to look at him, "What?"
"I found some chess set with all the pieces." Cody informed, "We can play it once you'll get better."
"How did you find a chess set out here?" Noah asked him.
Cody looked at Leshawna and the duo exchanged a smile. The geek turned around and called out, "Come on out!"
Noah, Izzy, Ezekiel and Gwen turned in the direction in which Cody was staring and saw Geoff, Eva and Trent walking out of the cellblock, entering the yard where the others were.
"No way!" Izzy smiled as she ran over to Eva and hugged her. The jockeness was a bit suprised by this sudden hug, but slowly hugged her back, "Eva! You're here!"
"Look at what cat dragged in." Noah said, approaching Izzy and Eva with Ezekiel.
"Damn." Eva eyed the state Noah was in as Izzy released her from the hug, "You look like absolute shit."
"Thanks for this brillant observation, Iron Woman." Noah rolled his eyes before a small smile appeared on his lips, "It's nice to see you again."
"Is that genuine or not?" Eva wanted to be sure.
"It is." Noah assured her with a small nod of his head.
Eva gave him a small smile in response, "You too."
Gwen could feel a smile growing on her lips as Trent walked over to her, Leshawna and Cody, "How?"
"Chris, Heather and Zeke found us fighting a group of the walkers in the hallways and brought us in." Trent explained, smilling.
The goth smiled back at him, "This is the best news I heard in all day."
"Holy shit." Duncan shook his head with a smile, as Geoff made his way to him, Harold, DJ and Bridgette, "This is something I wasn't excepting to see today."
Geoff bumped fists with the juvie, "It's good to see you again, dude."
"Yeah." Duncan nodded his head at him, "You too."
"Bridgette told me that you saved her a few months back." Geoff gave him a smile, "Thank you for this."
Duncan shrugged, "I did what anyone else would do in this situation."
"Duncan." Carol called out for the juvie as she approached him, Harold, Bridgette, Geoff and DJ, "Where's Daryl?"
instantly after hearing this, DJ, Harold, and Brigette eyed their surroundings to see that Daryl indeed hadn't returned from the rescue mission. The brickhouse looked at Duncan, a hint of worry in his eyes, "Duncan? What happened to Daryl?"
Bridgette gasped and placed her hand over her mouth when the worst scenario flew through her mind, "Is he?"
"Don't worry. He's not dead. We all know that the only thing that can kill Daryl is Daryl himself." Duncan explained as Carol, Bridgette, Harold, and DJ seemed to calm down a bit after his explanation, "He left."
"Why?" Carol wanted to know, looking like she was about to cry.
"Two words." Duncan sighed, placing his hand on Carol's shoulder to comfort her, "Merle Dixon."
Bridgette's eyes snapped open, remembering that she was one of the people that left Merle Dixon on the roof back in Atlanta, "What?"
"We ran into him." Duncan explained, "They went off together."
Chris smiled as he approached Rick and Chef with Hershel. He offered Chef a pat on his shoulder, "You brought them back."
"You came through." Hershel said to Rick and Chef, shaking the former's hand, "Like always."
"We did." Chef nodded with a sigh, "But we have new problem on our hands."
"Took those words out of my mouth." Hershel agreed with Chef before turning his gaze towards Rick, "Either of you got a good look at him?"
"He had Daryl and Merle pitted against each other." Rick explained, "A crowd cheering for them to fight to the death. What kind of sick man does that?"
Hershel shook his head, "The kind this world creates."
"How many people does he have?" Chris wanted to know, "The ones that are capable of going here with him?"
"No idea." Chef shook his head, "We didn't have a chance to take good look but we managed to kill a few them while rescuing our people."
"It doesn't change anything." Hershel stated, "He still can train his other people. He can come here and completely outnumber us."
"Yeah." Chris sighed, "There's other thing we need to talk about."
"I was about to bring this up, pretty boy." Chef told him, "How did you find them?"
"They somehow made their way into the prison. I, Heather and Zeke found them battling the walkers in the hallways." Chris explained.
"Are those the people you've been mentioning from time to time?" Rick asked them, wanting to be sure, "The ones who weren't with you when your bus crashed in the forest?"
"Yes." Chef nodded in confirmation, "The people you have just seen were Geoff, Trent and Eva."
"Can they be trusted?" Rick asked him another question, shifting his glance between Chris and Chef.
"You don't need to worry about them, Rick." Chris gave him an assuring nod, "They're simply happy to be reunited with their old friends."
"I haven't seen Bridgette smile this much in days." Hershel added his part with a small smile.
"Then, I don't see the problem in them." Rick told him, "They can stay with us."
"That's not the problem I talking about." Chris explained, "They didn't came here alone. There were a few other people with them."
Andrea and Milton stepped out of the Governor's apartament and walked out of the building, stepping into the crowd of people outside who were talking between themselves about everything that had happened.
"Everyone if I could..." Milton began was cut off as the were people kept talking with each other, as if they didn't even heard him, "If I could have your attention."
"Everyone! Be quiet!" Courtney declared as everyone stopped talking and looked at the CIT, "Milton wants to tell us something."
"Thank you, Courtney." Milton gave the CIT a grateful nod, before looking around the people surrounding him, "The biters on the perimeter have been dispatched. The fences have been repaired..."
Karen cut him off, "For now."
"Where the Governor?" A black skinned man demanded to know as everyone gave their own responses of agreement.
"...His condition is unsteady." Milton replied after a moment, "The wound he suffered..."
"Our friends were killed, man." Someone from the crowd spoke up.
"He shot Richard." Karen pointed out.
"Richard was bit, senorita." Jose pointed out in return, "What Philip did was mercy."
"We've all suffered." Karen told the spanish young man, "We want answers."
"You're right, Karen. You're right." Andrea nodded in agreement, causing everyone to look at her, "Every one of us has suffered. We don't even have funerals anymore because the death never stops. We're never gonna be the same. Ever. So what do we do? We dig deep and we find the strength to carry on. We work together and we rebuild..."
"Not just fences." Courtney decided to add her part to Andrea's speech as everyone shifted their attention towards the CIT, "The gates, the community, but ourselves. Our hearts, our minds. And years from now, when they write about this plague in the history books, they will write about Woodbury. They will write that we persevered."
Rick, Chef and Chris made their way into the cellblock and and walked over to the cell where Hershel and DJ were patching up sleeping Michonne after the fight she had with the Governor back in Woodbury.
"How is she doing?" Chef asked the eldery man.
Hershel turned to look at them, and started rising up from Michonne's bunk, "Pretty sure she has a concussion."
"How long before she can travel?" Rick wanted to know.
"Couple of days at most." DJ explained, "If she wakes up."
Rick, Chef and Chris all nodded their heads moved out of the way, allowing DJ and Hershel to exit Michonne's cell.
"What now?" Beth asked as Hershel locked Michonne's cell.
"You think the Governor will retaliate?" Bridgette asked shorty ater.
"We just attacked his town." Oscar crossed his arms, "It's a matter of time before he will strike back."
"We will have to put more on the watch." Harold stated, "We have no idea when he will come here and we have to ready to strike back when it will happen."
"He's got the entire town to back him down." Alejandro added, "We're outnumbered and outgunned."
"What are we going to do now, eh?" Ezekiel wanted to know.
Chef turned in the direction of the place where the group was keeping Tyreese and his group, "There's someone I think we should talk to."
The group instantly knew to what he was referring to. All of them made their way into the room as Rick stood in front of his group. Tyreese and his group stopped what they were doing when they saw them enter the room and the dark skinned man saw this as an opportunity to talk with the sheriff deputy. He stood up from his seat and came over to him.
"I'm Tyreese." He introduced himself to Rick, holding his hand out for handshake but the sheriff deputy just stared at him, not saying a word. The dark skinned man lowered his hand and introduced his group, "This is my sister, Sasha, Allen, his son Ben and I'm sure that you already know Geoff, Trent and Eva."
"How did you get in?" Rick wanted to know.
"Fire damage to the administrative part of the prison." Tyreese explained, "Wall's down."
"That side's completely overrun with walkers." Rick stated, "How'd you get this far?"
Tyreese shook his head, "We didn't. We lost our friend Donna."
"I'm sorry about your friend." Rick offered his condolences to Tyreese, "We know what that's like."
"Hershel and Chris said you could use some extra hands." Tyreese told him, "We're no stranger to hard work."
"I talked with Geoff, Rick. He said that they are good people," Bridgette spoke up as Rick turned to look at the surfer, "I know that you don't have right to trust him, because you don't know him, but you trust me, right?"
Tyreese gave the surfer a grateful look before continuing, "We'll go out and get our own food, stay out of your hair. You got a problem with another group, we'll help with that, too. Anything to contribute."
"Rick. I know that you may have hard time trusting new people after what happened with Tomas and Andrew and I can't blame you for that because I was the one who killed Tomas after he tried to kill us." Chris placed his hand on Rick's shoulder, seeing that his friend was still hesitant about letting them stay, causing the sheriff deputy to turn around and look at him, "But Oscar and Axel weren't like them, and they are part of our group right now."
"You've done so much for us." Hershel added, "I appreciate that. We all do. We owe you our lives. We've done everything you asked without question. And I'm telling you, you're wrong on this. You've got to start giving people a chance."
Rick was silent. He looked over Hershel's and Chris' shoulders and eyed each member of his group. He finally nodded his head and let out a quiet, "Yeah."
He turned around back to Tyreese and his group, and was about to tell that he was willing to give them a chance but his words died in his throat when he saw someone standing above them. He narrowed his eyes and realized who it was a few seconds later. It was his wife. It was Lori.
He pressed his hands against his head, whispering, 'No, no, no..." over and over again.
Chef looked at him in worry, "Rick?"
Rick looked up at his wife and said, "Why are you here? What do you want from me?"
"Dad?" Carl said, confused by his fathers behaviour.
"NO!" Rick snapped at the top of his lungs, his eyes not leaving his wife, "I can't help you. Get out!"
"What are you doing?" Gwen asked him.
"Rick, easy." Glenn told him, "There's no need to..."
"You don't belong here!" Rick kept shouting at his wife, ignoring everyone else in the room, "Get out! Please! Get out!"
Everyone backed away as Rick kept shouting at Lori, not seeing how everyone was reacting to his behaviour. Axel got himself in front of Carol as if he wanted to protect from Rick doing something, DJ exchanged a disturbed look with Duncan, and Leshawna grabbed Carl's shoulder and brought the boy a bit away from him father.
Rick stopped shouting when his wife faded away from his gaze. He turned around himself to see that everyone, including his group were staring at him as if he had just gone crazy.
With the trailer for the new episodes of TWD recently coming out (excited about Here's Negan stuff), I have a small question for you:
From the original cast of TD (Including Chris and Chef), who do you think is going to survive to the Commonwealth arc? (Pick at least five characters)
Hope it wasn't that bad. See you in another chapter.
