I don't own Total Drama and The Walking Dead.
Sorry if you find any grammar mistakes. I'm still learning English because it's not my first language.
Dr Changer: Here you go. :) (If a character is not mentioned then it means that their clothing hasn't changed at all)
Heather: Grey jacket, with a black shirt underneath it, and blue jeans.
Izzy: Orange hoodie, with a white shirt underneath it and army pants.
Geoff: Is not longer keeping his shirt unbuttoned and is wearing longer green pants.
DJ: The only change in his clothing is that he is now wearing longer grey pants.
Bridgette: The only change in her clothing is that now she is wearing blue jeans, that match her usual jacket, the rest remains the same.
Eva: Black shirt and grey pants.
Duncan: He still has his mohawk but his hair colour went back to it's normal colour.
Gwen: The same case as Duncan's, her hair went back to it's normal colour.
Things were bad in the prison to say the least. Things were already tense between everyone in the group after everything that had happened in the recent days, but everything just got much worse after the Governor and his men attacked their home, which resulted in the death of Axel. The entire group was saddened by his death. They liked Axel. He may have sometimes come off as unstable back when they found him in the cafeteria, but he was a good man. They wished they could burry his body in the place where the other fallen members of their group were burried in the field, but the walkers were preventing them from doing so.
There was one person in their group that Axel's death shook the most. This person was his fellow prisoner Oscar. The day after the attack when the group was saying their goodbyes to Axel, his fellow prisoner wasn't hesitant to voice what he thought about his now dead friend.
"Back when we were locked up in the cafeteria, Axel always had my back. When I and Tomas started getting into each other throats, Axel along with Big Tiny always tried to calm us down, telling us that we shouldn't be at each other throats, considering our situation, that we should wait for the help, but it never came, until you guys showed up."
Right after saying their farewells to Axel, the entire group made their way back to the cellblock where they were going to discuss what they should do next and Hershel wasn't afraid to voice his thoughts.
"We can's stay here!" The farmer yelled out to Rick.
"We go out there and what?" Gwen asked Hershel, disagreeing with the farmer's idea, "We don't really have a place to go."
"What if they attack us again by suprise?" Cody spoke up, feeling conflicted about this entire argument, having no idea if they should leave or not, "We're lucky that more of us didn't die."
"We can't even go outside." Carol stated, "Not in the daylight."
Glenn crossed his arms, "If Rick said we're not leaving, then we're not leaving."
It was when everyone turned in the direction of the gate to see Merle who was locked up on the other side of it right after the attack, "No, better to live like rats."
"You got a better idea?" Rick asked him.
"Yeah." Merle nodded, "Yeah, we should have slid out of here last night and lived to fight another day. But we lost that window, didn't we? I'm sure he's got scouts on every road out of this place by now."
"We ain't scared of that prick." Eva told the older Dixon, crossing her arms.
"Y'all should be." Merle told the jockeness in response, "That truck through the fence thing, that's just him ringing the doorbell. We might have some thick walls to hide behind, but he's got the guns and the numbers. And if he takes the high ground around this place, shoot, he could just starve us out if he wanted to."
Maggie looked at Rick, "Can't we just put him in other cellblock?"
"No." Rick shook his head, "He's got a point."
"This is all your fault, Merle." Bridgette glared at Merle, "If you didn't took Glenn, Maggie, Noah and Gwen then all of it would never happen!"
"It doesn't matter who started it, right now." Harold sighed, "What happened, already happened and we can't undo this."
Leshawna shook her head, glaring at Merle, "Unfortunely."
"What do we do now?" Beth asked.
"I said we should leave." Hershel repeated his previous suggestion, "Now Axel's dead. We can't just sit here."
"Eh, this entire situation is such a mess." Ezekiel sighed as Rick remained silent and turned away from his group, starting to head towards the exit from the cellblock.
"Get back here!" The farmer shouted, rising up from his sitting position, causing Rick to stop walking and to turn to look at him, "You're slipping, Rick. We've all seen it. We understand why. But now is not the time. You once said this isn't a democracy. Now you have to own up to that. I put my family's life in your hands. So get your head clear and do something."
Rick, once again, remained silent. He just send each member of his group a quick look before walking out of the cellblock, without saying a single word to them. Several minutes later, he was watching the yard from the catwalk when his son made his way over to him, stopping next to his father, "Hey, Dad?"
The sheriff deputy turned his gaze towards his son, "Yeah?"
"If I say something, will you promise not to be mad?" Carl wanted to know.
"I won't get mad." He assured his son.
"You should stop." Carl told him.
Rick titled his head, not knowing what his son was telling him by that, "Stop what?
"Being the leader." His son explained what he meant, "Let Hershel, Chef and Daryl handle things. You deserve a rest."
The Governor paced back and forth across his apartament as Jose leaned against the wall, placing his right boot against it while Milton sat by the table in the middle of the apartament, checking how many people from their community would be able to fight just in case if Rick and his group striked back.
"How many does that give us now?" The Governor asked, coming closer to Milton.
"Twenty." Milton answered, looking up from his list, "We have several people with chronic conditions, hearing impairments, arthritis. Adding those gives us 26."
"And if we include men and women age 13 and up?" Philip wanted to know.
"You mean boys and girls?" Milton asked in return, wanting to be sure.
"Adolescence." Philip began, "It's a 20th century invention."
"There's, uh..." Milton paused for a moment as he went through his list again to make sure he was going to get everything right, "...35."
"We'll make sure they all have sidearms and plenty of ammo." Jose spoke up, "I and Martinez will start training when he is ready."
Everyone's attention was turned towards the exit from the aparament as it was opened and Andrea walked in, followed by Courtney, with the CIT asking, "What's this we hear about the prison?"
Andrea shut the doors behind her and crossed her arms, "You said you were gonna leave it alone. No retaliation."
"I went to negotiate." The Governor began, "Bad enough we got biters at our gates. We can't have aggressors just miles away."
"So you went and welcomed them to the neighborhood?" Andrea asked him.
"You know they shot at us? Jose is lucky to be still alive. A bullet flied right next to his skull." The Governor lied as Andrea and Courtney turned to look at Jose who gave them a nod of confirmation after a second, going along with the Governor's lie, "I don't know who these people were when you were with them, but they've changed. They're bloodthirsty."
Courtney turned her gaze towards Milton, "You knew about this?"
Milton looked up at her, "I was informed this morning. I didn't know."
"Why are you here?" Jose asked the lawyer and the CIT, "Is there any other reason why you came here to talk with us?"
"We're going to see them." Courtney declared, "To see if we can work this out."
"Well, they're hostile." The Governor said, pointing at the list Milton was carrying, "Milton here is carrying a list of the able-bodied people we have. They're gonna carry arms and receive training. We won't get caught sleeping again."
"One car." Andrea told him, "This is all we need."
"The roads are blocked." Jose explained as the Governor came closer to Andrea and Courtney, "We barely made it back ourselves."
"If you go to this prison..." He told them, causing Andrea and Courtney look at him, "You stay there."
The entire group turned their gaze towards the gate when Rick entered the cellblock, again. He took his M4A1 off his back and turned his gaze towards the two people which happened to be Maggie and Geoff, "Take watch. Eyes open, head down." The older Greene and the party animal nodded their heads, understanding what they should do now and started heading towards Chef who was going to give them everything they needed as Rick looked around himself, eyeing his group, "Field's filled with walkers. I didn't see any snipers out there, but we'll keep people on watch."
"I'll take someone with me and get up in the guard tower, take out half them walkers." Chris suggested, already reaching out to take his rile off his back, "Give you guys a chance to fix the fence."
Michonne shrugged, deciding to suggest an idea as well, "We can always use some of the cars to put the bus in place."
"Either way we can't access the field without burning through our bullets." Trent shook his head with a sigh, seeing how everything was starting to go down in the place in which he just started to live in. At least wasn't going to sleep thinking if his friends are still alive or not anymore.
"So, we're trapped here." DJ sighed.
"We barely have any food or ammo." Glenn shook his head.
"And the fact that there is a certain someone with us is not helping either." Noah added to which Glenn and Gwen nodded in agreement.
Daryl rolled his eyes, "Man, we gonna go through this again? Look, Merle's staying here. He's with us now. Get used to it."
"I'm simply pointing out that we already are low on food." Noah told the younger Dixon who glared at him, Gwen and Glenn, "And that wasting it on your brother will be a huge waste."
Glenn leaned towards Rick, "Seriously, Rick, I don't think Merle living here is really gonna fly."
"I can't kick him out." Rick shook his head.
"None of us would ask you to live with Shane after what he tried to do to you on the farm." Gwen pointed out, to which Glenn and Noah nodded in agreement. A lot of their group wasn't fond of the idea of Merle Dixon staying with them, but she along with the asian man and the bookworm were the ones that had the most problem with that, and none could blame them for that, after everything that Merle did to them in Woodbury.
"Merle has military experience." Chef pointed out, coming over to the group to join their conversation, "We can use his skills against the Governor, because I don't think he'll be going back to him after what happened in Woodbury."
"Merle can be many things, but don't underestimate his loyalty to his brother." Hershel added.
Merle sat on the bed, wrapping a tape around the blade on his prosthetic hand. His former blade was lost back in Woodbury when the Governor declared him a traitor. Without taking his eyes off his hand, he spotted a man heading towards him on two crutches.
"You're the farmer, Hershel." He told Hershel as the farmer stopped in front of him.
"And you're the black sheep, Merle." Hershel told him in return.
The older Dixon glanced at his missing leg, "How did you lose it?"
"I was bit." Hershel explained.
"Bit?" Merle asked him, "You hack it off yourself?"
"No." Hershel answered, "Rick did."
"Awful kindly of him." Merle stated as Hershel sat down on the chair next to him.
"Saved my life." Hershel told him, "Gave me more time with my girls. Gave you more time with your brother. Can't put a price on that."
"Can't put a price on anything anymore." Merle shrugged as Hershel nodded his head to that. He reached into his pocket and pulled out something that always comforted him in some way, despise of how bad the situation was, his bible which he found in one of the cells.
"Found this, in one of the cells. Lost more than the Good Book there for a while. Lost my way." He explained, showing his bible to Merle, "And if your right hand offends you, cut it off, cast it from you. For it is profitable that one of your members should perish..."
"And not that thy whole body should be cast into hell." Matthew 5:29 and 30." Merle cut Hershel off as Hershel gave him a small smile, not excepting him to be a believer. The older Dixon turned his gaze away from his hand towards Hershel, "Woodbury had a damn fine library. One of the only things I miss about it. When the Governor returns, he's gonna kill me first. Michonne, my brother, the two celebrities with their little contestants, then your girls. Glenn, Carl, the baby, whoever else is left. He'll save Rick for last so he can watch his family and friends die ugly. That's who you're dealing with."
Andrea and Courtney were walking across Woodbury for about several minutes now, looking for a certain person. They spotted the people they've been looking for standing in front of the main gate.
They approached this person. Milton turned his gaze away from the gate and told them, "We sealed it thoroughly. Nobody's getting in or out."
"We're gonna ask you something and we need you to be honest." Andrea told him.
Milton nodded in understanding, "Okay."
"The fight at the prison, you swear you didn't know anything about it?" Andrea asked him.
"I wouldn't advocate a move like that." Milton shook his head, "It's just posturing."
"Good." Courtney nodded, "Then you have to cover for me. I'm going to the prison. And the Governor can't know."
"Don't..." Milton tried to say, but was quickly cut off.
"We have to, Milton." Courtney interrupted him, "We were with them."
"Don't put me in this situation." Milton told them.
"We wish there was another way." Andrea told him in return to which the CIT nodded in agreement, "That's a chance we have to take."
"Maybe you do, but I don't." Milton shook his head, "I'm sorry. I can't."
"Look at what's happened." Courtney gestured towards their surroundings, "Woodbury is an armed camp with child soldiers. Cannon fodder in a war over what? Is that what all your work is for?"
"What we're trying to do is an attempt to stop this before more people get killed." Andrea added, "You can do this, Milton. Let us talk with our friends."
Milton still had seconds thoughts about doing this entire thing, but the Governor did asked him to keep tabs on Andrea and Courtney, plus if there was a way to avoid more deaths, then they had to at least give it a shot. He put his jacket which was protecting him from getting bitten by the undead on himself and left the gates of Woodbury along with the lawyer and the CIT. All three of them hid behind some trees when they spotted two walkers heading their way.
The glasses wearing man came out of his hiding and called out to the undead, "Hey, you two!"
The two walkers he cried out two turned their attention towards him, snarling. They moved towards him, but never reached him as Andrea and Courtney came out of their hiding, and pinned the undead against the ground. They started chopping off their arms with the hatchets they took before leaving Woodbury, intending to use the same tactic Michonne was using since she saved them after the farm.
After they got rid of the bottom jaws of the walkers, the undead they picked for this mission were ready. They looked up and saw more undead heading towards them, which was followed by Milton saying, "Can we finish this up, please?"
He quickly handed each of them a holding stick and Andrea and Courtney didn't waste any second and wrapped it around the undead's neck, before lifting both of the walkers up from the ground. The CIT and the lawyer held the undead in front of them and Milton, hoping that the undead will walk past them, as someone came out of the forest. Tyreese placed his hammer on the head of one of the undead as Sasha, Allen and Ben came out shorty after.
The entire group stopped where they stood when they saw the image in front of them, staring at it with disgust mixed with confusion as Andrea, Courtney and Milton stared at them, without saying a word.
"...It's a diversionary tactic." Milton finally broke the silence, "It keeps the walkers away."
"Didn't work so well with those two." Sasha stated.
"You got a camp?" Allen asked them.
Andrea exchanged a look with Milton and Courtney before answering, "...We have a town. It's walled."
"There's about 70 of us." Courtney added, not seeing point in lying to these people.
"You take people in?" Tyreese asked, in a hopeful tone.
"We do." Milton nodded his head in confirmation as he turned to look at Andrea and Courtney, "I'll take them back."
"You sure?" Courtney asked him, wanting to be sure.
"Don't worry about me. I'll handle it." Milton assured them, "I'm better with him than I am with them."
"Thank you so much." Sasha thanked them in a very grateful tone, "We've had a rough couple of days."
Andrea and Courtney started heading in the direction of the prison, making sure to keep a firm grip on their holding sticks as Tyreese asked them, confused, "Where are you going?"
"We have to finish our run." Andrea explained.
"Only two of you?" Allen asked them.
"Don't worry about us." Courtney assured them, "I and my friend here can handle ourselves and we got our guardian angels here."
Michonne was doing some push-ups in the cellblock as Carol and DJ were preparing some food for their group when they heard someone enter the cellblock. The dark skinned woman ignored it and continued her doing her push-ups as the brickhouse and the short haired woman turned their gaze away from their work and looked at the older Dixon who stared down at Michonne.
"Smart to stay fit." He told her as Michonne stopped doing the push-ups and started doing crunches, not even looking up at the older Dixon, "Don't leave out the cardio. You know, if we're gonna live under the same roof, we should clear the air. This whole hunting you down thing, that was just business. Carrying out orders."
"Hmm." Michonne said in acknowledgement, "Like the Gestapo."
"Yeah, exactly." Merle nodded his head as Carol and DJ went back to preparing food for their group, "I've done a lot of things I ain't proud of. Before and after. Anyway, hope we can get past it. Let bygones be bygones."
He turned away from Michonne and started walking away from her, Carol and DJ. The dark skinned woman stopped her exercises and turned her gaze towards Merle, glaring at the older Dixon as he walked away from her.
Geoff looked through the binoculars which were given to him Chef right before he and Maggie left the cellblock as he stood in front of the fence, watching over the prison and it's surroundings. He didn't mind Maggie's company. Bridgette and DJ were good friends with the older Greene and they hit it off pretty quickly because of that.
A lot of time of standing on the watch had to pass before something caught his attention when he eyed the forest through the binoculars. It was just some leaves rustling, so at first he thought that the air was just moving them, but he quickly found himself to be wrong when two women came out of the woods, holding two walkers in front of them as some sort of defensive shield.
"Courtney?" He asked himself, as he recognized one of the women as the CIT, earning Maggie's attention. He held the binoculars out to her, "Take a look at this."
Maggie took the binoculars from him and saw Andrea and Courtney heading towards the gate, keeping two walkers on the holding sticks in front of them. She lowered the binoculars in shock, "Andrea, Courtney."
"Should I go and get the others?" Geoff asked her to which Maggie nodded.
Geoff nodded in understanding and quickly ran off to get the others as Maggie looked through the binoculars again and observed how Andrea and Courtney walked through the walker infested yard, holding a melee weapon in their other hands at ready just in case if the undead didn't bought their trick and didn't recognize them as one of their own.
Her attention was taken away from the lawyer and the CIT when the doors of the cellblock was opened and the group consisting of Rick, Daryl, Chef, Chris, Duncan, Izzy, Alejandro, Oscar, Geoff, Michonne, Harold and Merle came out of it. The group started slowly making their way towards the gate, as Trent, Glenn, Gwen and Eva appeared on the catwalk, watching over the entire thing from the above.
Chris looked through the scope of his rifle at the forest and nodded his head, seeing that it was just Andrea and Courtney, "Clear!"
"Are you alone?" Izzy asked, running over to the gate,
"Open it!" Andrea cried out to them.
"We don't know if we can fool them for any longer!" Courtney yelled out, looking over her shoulder at the approaching undead.
Rick threw the keys over to Oscar who caught it in the mid-air. The former prisoner quickly opened the gate as Andrea and Courtney released their walkers from the grasp of the holding stick, before kicking the undead in the direction of the other walkers. Andrea quickly entered the other, safe side of the fence, as Oscar quickly locked the gate again.
Michonne lowered her gun at the sight of the two people with which she spend the last months with as Rick pinned Andrea against the fence, Chef doing the same with Courtney, checking them because better safe than sorry, right?
"Izzy asked you if you two are alone." Rick asked them.
Andrea nodded her head in confirmation, "We are."
"Welcome back." Rick told them, freeing Andrea from his grasp.
Chef saw it and did the same with Courtney, "I apologize for this, soldier, but we need to be cautious."
Courtney didn't respond to his words as she was busy staring at Geoff who stood between Alejandro and Harold in suprise, realizing that her group must have found him and the rest sometime after she and Andrea got separated from them. Her eyes also spotted Trent and Eva watching everything from the catwalk. All of them started heading back to the cellblock right after.
Duncan came over to Courtney, walking now by her side and smiled at her, "Hey there beautiful."
Courtney looked at the juvie and returned his smile, "Hey, Duncan."
"Where's Shane?" Andrea asked as she and Courtney were taken straight to the cellblock, when no one answered her, she got the idea of what happened to him, "Tyler?"
"He died back when we were escaping from the farm." DJ explained.
"He saved my life." Heather added, "Those things would get me if it wasn't for him. He stayed behind to keep them away from me, but they ended up surrounding him and one of them bit him into his shoulder. He told us to go."
Andrea sighed at the news of what happened to Tyler. At least her friend went out saving someone from sharing the same fate as Lindsay. Courtney then asked, "What about Owen?"
Izzy and Noah sighed at Courtney's question as Chris answered,"We lost him on the farm too."
"Lori?" Courtney asked another question, noticing that she was gone too.
"She had a girl." Hershel told her, "She didn't make it."
"Neither did Sierra and T-Dog." Maggie added.
"It was a tough day for our group." Leshawna added her part as well, letting out a sad sigh as the memories of that day flew through her mind.
"I'm so sorry, Rick." Andrea spoke to Rick, turning her attention towards him. The sheriff deputy looked away and took a step back, "You all live here?"
"No. We just decided to stay for the night in this his large place with fences, so much space to move around and with soil that allows us to grow food." Noah answered, staring at Andrea as if she just asked the most obvious question in history.
"Here and in the cellblock." Glenn said quickly, trying to cover Noah's sarcasm.
"There?" Andrea asked, beginning to make her way to the cellblock with Courtney, "Can we go in?"
Rick stopped them from going any further, "I won't allow that."
"We're not your enemies, Rick." Courtney assured the sheriff deputy.
Eva scoffed, "Say that to your friend."
"We had that field and courtyard until he tore down the fence with a truck and shot us up." Rick explained.
"He said you fired first." Andrea pointed out.
"Right." Noah rolled his eyes, "Because psychopaths are so reliable and trustworthy."
"He killed an inmate who survived in here." Harold told them as Andrea burried her hands in her face while Courtney sighed and shook her head, "We liked him."
"He was my friend." Oscar spoke next, "We had each others backs here since the guard locked us up in the cafeteria when it all started. Your boy just shot him without a second thought."
"He was one of us." Daryl added.
"We didn't know anything about that." Andrea declared, removing her hands from her face, "As soon as we found out, we came."
Courtney looked at Glenn, Noah, Gwen and Maggie, "We didn't even know you were in Woodbury until after the shoot-out."
"That was days ago." Gwen told the CIT and the lawyer.
"I told you, we came as soon as we could." Andrea repeated herself. She turned around and looked at Michonne, "What have you told them?"
"Nothing." Michonne's answer was short and quick.
Andrea eyed her former group, "I don't get it. We left Atlanta with you people, and Courtney even knew a lot of you before all of this, and now we're the odd man out?"
"He almost killed Michonne and he would have killed us." Glenn pointed out.
Courtney pointed at Merle, "Isn't he the one who kidnapped you? Who beat you?"
"Look, I cannot excuse or explain what Philip has done." Andrea began, "But I am here trying to bring us together. We have to work this out."
"Everyone can dream." Alejandro shook his head at her words, "Even if it is complete bullshit."
"You have a brother there, Alejandro." Andrea told him, "Don't you..."
"Don't. It won't work."Alejandro cut her off, "I hate Jose. I hated him way before all of this. I'm sticking with people here."
"We're gonna kill him." Rick explained, "I don't know how or when, but we will."
Andrea shook her head, "Rick, we can settle this. There is room at Woodbury for all of you."
"Great." Noah exchanged a look with Glenn, "I'm surely excited at the thought of living in the same town with the guy who wanted to kill me."
"What makes you think this man wants to negotiate?" Chris asked them, "Did he say that?"
"No." Courtney shook her head, "We're here because he's gearing up for war. The people are terrified. They see you as killers. They're training to attack."
Izzy crossed her arms, "If he wants a war, then we'll give him one."
"The next time you see him, tell him I'll take his other eye." Daryl added.
"Get us inside, if you want to help us." Gwen declared, wanting the Governor to get exactly what he deserved for everything he has done, "If you do that, our group will make sure he'll be the only casualty of this war."
Andrea shook her head, "No."
"Then we got nothing to talk about." Rick said, turning away from the lawyer and the CIT.
Courtney pushed herself into walk after him, "Rick..."
Andrea was about to follow Courtney but both of them stopped in their tracks when Michonne stepped forward, stopping herself in front of them, "You probably don't know that but he sent Merle to kill me. Would have sent him to kill you, too, if you had come with me. But you didn't, did you? That's why I went back to Woodbury. I wanted to expose him for what he truly is."
Milton took Tyreese and his group straight to Woodbury right after he, Andrea and Courtney encountered them in the forest. After stepping through the gates of Woodbury, the group was instantly taken to the infirmary where Dr. Stevens was going to check on them.
The Governor entered the room, "Dr. Stevens will be here soon. We'll get you checked over."
"Thank you." Tyreese thanked him.
Philip nodded, "It's my pleasure. Now you're welcome to stay as long as you like. We got food, fresh clothing, hot water. Normally we'd provide you with weapons and a car for your journey, but we need all we have."
"Looks like you're battening down the hatches. Were you guys attacked?" Allen wanted to know.
"Yeah." The Governor nodded in confirmation, "Yeah, but not by biters. Some dangerous people out there. They came at us a few days ago."
"Anyone hurt?" Sasha asked him.
Philip gave her a nod of confirmation, "There were several fatalities."
"Damn." Tyreese sighed, "Sorry."
"Yeah. Can't be too careful these days." Philip nodded, "When you're ready to travel, head west. Avoid anything north up 85."
"We just came from there." Sasha explained.
"Ran into some whack-job in a prison." Allen added.
The Governor quickly made a mental note of that. These people were in the prison before. This was the opportunity he could not miss, "You saw him?"
Allen nodded in confirmation, "Oh, yeah. Screaming like an idiot. He's a little unhinged."
"You need help with these guys, we're in." Ben spoke up, firmly, not having second thoughts about his words.
Philip shook his head, "Well, now, no... we couldn't ask you to join in our fight."
"Guys." Sasha said as she came to a realization. She shook her head, "We left Trent, Geoff and Eva with them."
"Who?" Philip asked her.
He didn't had to wait long for the explanation, "They were with traveling with us, but we split up when they stayed at the prison because they knew some of the people from his group, Geoff was even in the relationship between them."
"We need to g..." Tyreese began, but was interrupted.
"You can speak for yourself, Ty." Allen cut him off as he crossed his arms with anger evident in his voice, "They left us to rot in the forest. They can die for all I care."
Sasha turned to look at Allen shook her head at him, "You again with this, Allen?"
Tyreese sighed, "Place yourself in their shoes, Allen. They found someone that they knew from before all of this, someone that they've been looking for since all of this started. Would you do the same if you were in their position and Ben was in their friends position?"
Allen scoffed, not wanting to answer Ty's question as Sasha turned back to the Governor, "Geoff, Trent and Eva are not bad people. We can convice them to join us if we'll tell them with what kind of people they're staying at the prison."
"I'll do my best to convice them with what kind of people they're sticking with if I'll get that a chance." The Governor assured them, doing his best to sound as genuine as he could, "What they will do after that is up to them."
Tyreese nodded his head at him, "Thank you."
"You were in prison before?" Milton who was silent for this entire conversation spoke up, pulling out his notebook and pen, "Can you describe the layout?"
"It's pretty confusing, but I could try." Tyreese answered.
The Governor smiled at newcomers in his community, knowing that these people will be useful in getting rid of Rick and his group for good, "You get your rest. We can talk about it tomorrow. As I say, you're welcome to stay here as long as you like."
Courtney and Duncan walked up the stairs to the upper level of the cellblock where Bridgette was taking care of Judith. The surfer set her gaze on the CIT and smiled, happy to see her friend after all this time, alive.
"You can't leave without meeting Little Ass-Kicker." She told her friend, her smile not leaving her lips.
Courtney returned her smile, "May I hold her?"
"Sure." Bridgette answered, handing Judith to Courtney, making sure to do it as carefully as she could.
"Let me guess." Courtney smiled down at the little child in her arms, "Daryl's the one who named her like that."
Duncan and Bridgette exchanged a look with each other before letting out chuckles, with the surfer explaining a second later, "That's not really her name. Her name is Judith."
"Judith." Courtney nodded in acknowledgement, her eyes not leaving the child in her arms, "Hi there, Judith. It's great to finally meet you."
Bridgette smiled, "She likes you."
Courtney chuckled as she looked up from Judith to look at the surfer and the juvie, "What happened to Lori?"
"During a C-section." Bridgette sighed, "Maggie and Leshawna."
Duncan let out a sigh as well, "Carl had to... you know"
"Oh my God..." Courtney shook her head, "What about T-Dog and Sierra?"
"T-Dog was bitten and died leading Carol to safety." Bridgette explained, glancing down, sadly.
"Sierra was killed by one of the inmates who survived in here." Duncan added.
"The prisoners?" Courtney asked them another question, "How many of them were here when you found this place?"
"Five." Duncan began, "You already know Oscar. Axel was the one who was killed by the Governor. I can't say much about Big Tiny because he died just as soon as we met him. Tomas was an asshole who was killed by Chris after he tried to kill him and Rick and Andrew was the one who killed Sierra. He wanted to re-take the prison from us."
"What happened to him?" Courtney wanted to know.
"Oscar killed him." Duncan replied, "That's when we realized that he and Axel were trustworthy."
Courtney nodded her head at his words, before setting her gaze down on Judith again. The CIT bit her lips. There was something she wanted talk with Duncan about for a long time and she finally got her chance to do so, but it might have been not the best time for it, considering everything that happened in the past few days. She thought about it for several more seconds before deciding to talk with him about, not knowing where she'll get the chance again.
"Bridgette." She called out for the surfer, "Can you take her? I want to talk with Duncan in private."
"Sure." Bridgette nodded her head as Courtney handed Judith to her, "I'll be on the lower level if you'll need me."
Courtney watched how the surfer walked down the stairs to the lower level, before shifting her attention towards Duncan who gave her a confused look, "What did you want to talk about, princess?"
"Do you know what has been on my mind for a while?" The CIT asked him in response to his question.
Duncan shook his head, placing his hands on the railing, "No."
"I've been thinking about what went wrong in our relationship." Courtney explained, "Why everything went down between us."
"I think I know the answer you're looking for." Duncan sighed, "You tried to change to me. I felt like you weren't accepting me for the guy I was."
"I was accepting you for who you were." Courtney placed her hand on his shoulder, "I just wanted you to become someone better. A better person."
"I know that." Duncan assured her, "But I felt that you were getting out of control with that, and the dinner between us that got the media talking about our breakup was the moment when I couldn't take it any longer."
"Why didn't you tell me?" Courtney wanted to know, "Things might have turned out differently if you did."
"I know." Duncan gave her a nod of his head, "But I felt that you wouldn't listen."
"...I see." Courtney slowly nodded her head in response, "I can see now that I made a mistake by trying to change you. I shouldn't have forced it on you, because it happened, without me trying to force it on you. You've changed over this past year, Duncan. You became a better person."
Duncan gave her a small nod of his head in response, "Heard that a lot recently."
"Because it's the truth." Courtney told the juvie, with a smile on her lips, removing her hand from his shoulder.
"...Do you think it would work?" Duncan asked the CIT after a moment of silence between them, "If we gave our relationship another try?"
Courtney smiled after hearing Duncan's question, deciding to give him a straight forward answer. She grabbed his shoulders and pulled him in for a kiss, placing her lips against his. Duncan's eyes widened a bit by Courtney's sudden kiss as he was not excepting it but ultimately slowly melted into it.
After they released each other from the kiss, Courtney asked him "Does that answer your question?"
"Yeah." Duncan smiled, just a second before they shared another kiss.
Bridgette watched it from the lower level, still holding Judith. The surfer smiled at what she was seeing right now as Geoff and DJ approached her from behind. The party animal and the brickhouse looked up at the juvie and the CIT and smiled, the former wrapping his arm around the surfer. They weren't the only ones. Carol watched it as well, and could feel a smile forming on her lips.
It was time for Andrea and Courtney to leave back the prison and to head back to Woodbury. The lawyer offered Courtney to stay here in the prison along with the rest of their group, but the CIT declined her offer. The Governor was already wary of them because of what happened in the last few days, and Courtney disappearing would just make things worse.
Heather drove Otis' blue truck into the yard and stopped the vehicle in front of Andrea and Courtney who stood with Rick and Duncan. She got out of the vehicle and gave them a nod, "It's ready to go."
"Thanks, Heather." Courtney told her before realizing what she just said, "...Never thought those words will leave my mouth."
Heather smiled and patted her shoulder, "Things change."
She walked away from them and stopped next to Alejandro as Andrea eyed her group, "Take care, all of you."
She opened the doors to the front seat of the blue truck and got herself into it as Courtney walked over to the doors to the passenger seat and opened it, but before she got herself into the car, she looked at Duncan, wanting to say one last to him before she'll leave to Woodbury, "Duncan."
"Yeah?" Duncan asked his girlfriend.
"I'm proud of you." Courtney declared to him.
Duncan smiled at her, "I'll see you when this is all over, princess."
Courtney returned his smile as she got herself into the blue truck, shutting the doors right after taking her seat in the passenger seat as Rick spoke up to them, "Be careful, both of you."
Andrea looked at the sheriff deputy and nodded her head at him, "You too."
The lawyer started up the vehicle again and started driving towards the gate which was opened by Ezekiel and Cody. The homeschool and the geek made sure to lock the gate again as fast as they could while their entire group came over to the fence and watched them leave until their vehicle disappeared in the woods.
Later that day, when the sun was gone and the moon was shining on the horizon, the group was gathered in the cellblock. Beth sat in front of a few small candles which were a small source of light for her and her group when an idea appeared in her mind.
"They hung a sign up in our town." She started singing as everyone titled their heads towards her, "If you live it up, you won't live it down."
The younger Greene continued to sing as the rest of the group just listened to her song, simply enjoying her singing. She turned backwards and saw Rick coming down the stairs. The sheriff deputy stared at her for a few seconds before something else caught her attention. It was Merle who came out from the other side of the gate. He leaned against the gate and just listened to Beth's singing.
Rick looked away from Merle and walked over to Daryl, Chef, Chris and Hershel, with the younger Dixon telling him, "Some reunion, huh?"
"They're in a jam." Rick stated.
Chris sighed, "We all are."
"This fella's armed to the teeth." Chef stated.
"Bent on destruction." Hershel stated.
"So what do you want to do?" Daryl wanted to know.
"We match it." Rick replied, "I'm going on a run. I'll head out tomorrow."
"I'll go with you." Daryl instantly volunteered.
Rick shook his head, "No, you stay here. Keep an eye on your brother. I'm glad you're back, we all are, really, but if he causes a problem, it's on you."
Daryl gave him an assuring nod, "I got him."
"How about I'll go, then?" Chris offered to go instead of Daryl, "You could use some help out there."
"Alright." Rick nodded his head at the host of Total Drama, before turning to look at Chef, "What about you?"
"I'll go too." Chef nodded his head, "Who else do you have in mind?"
Rick looked at Michonne in response, "Michonne."
"You sure that's a good idea?" Daryl asked him.
"I'll find out." Rick explained, "I'll take Carl too. He's ready."
Chef looked at Hershel and Daryl, "Keep this place safe when we'll be gone."
The redneck and the farmer nodded in response, with the former saying, "Got it, general."
The co-host of Total Drama nodded his head in return and so did Rick, knowing that tommorow he was leaving his people in good hands and knowing that he was heading out with the people he could trust. They all turned their attention towards Beth and listened to her song.
Only five more chapters left to go in season 3!
Hope it wasn't that bad. See you in another chapter.