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Ok so I haven't been posting because I've been one vacation and because I've been writing more for this story later on. It's driving me crazy so I've had to write it down. All I can say is prepare yourself for heartbreak… But I have been writing for this, just not what needed to come next.

The cross country trip is still not over but should be within the next few days, but I had down time and wrote this to hopefully keep you guys coming back.

Hope it's ok!

Lily is my OC blah blah blah...

"Hey, how are you two doin'?" Daryl asked when he walked in the door to Carl's room.

"Hey Daryl," Carl smiled. He seemed to think something was going on between the two adults, but all that was going on was that Daryl insisted on protecting Lily and she took comfort in it. "I'm good," Carl smiled.

Lily nodded her head in agreement. "Yeah, better. Much."

"That's good. Hey, I'm headin'out to look for Sophia. Be back fore dark."

"Take care. Stay safe," she said seriously but decided to lay it on thick just to make Carl laugh. "Use good judgement. Don't drink and drive. Don't use any mind altering substances of which I am unaware..."

"Oh, hell! Imma be fine!" he waved her off with a smirk before turning to leave.

"Mind altering substances of which I am unaware?" Carl laughed.

"My english teacher used to tell me that speech every Friday when I was in high school, bud. It's time I pass that speech on." She looked to Carl before getting to her feet. "You take care. I'm gonna head outside and see if I can help with anything. I'm tired of just sitting around. Get some sleep while I'm gone."

"Ok," he smiled at her.

She walked outside to see a group of six or so huddled around the well which Maggie, Hershel's eldest daughter, had pointed out for us to use. A group that big could only mean one thing. This couldn't be good.

"We gotta get it out," Shane said as Lily joined the circle standing between Andrea and T-Dog.

"Easy," T-Dog stated. "Put a bullet in its head. I'll get a rope."

Lily leaned over to peer inside the well where a walker was sloshing around in the water.

"Whoa, guys. No," Maggie ordered.

Glenn was there to retort. "Why not? It's a good plan."

"It's a stupid plan," Andrea snapped. "If it hasn't contaminated the water yet, blowing its brains out will finish the job."

"She's right," Shane agreed. "Can't risk it."

"So it needs to come out alive?" T-Dog asked sounding disgusted with the idea.

"So to speak."

"So how do we do that?" Glenn asked.

...

"He's not going for it," Dale announced as if we couldn't see for ourselves that the walker wasn't attacking the ham we lowered into the well.

"Maybe 'cause a canned ham don't kick and scream when you try to eat it," T-Dog suggested as we watched the walker shuffle around in the water looking at the ham almost asking itself if it thought we were stupid thinking the ham would work.

Lori piped up from her position in the dirt. "He's right. There's a reason the dead didn't come back to life and start raiding our cupboards."

"We need live bait," Andrea said what everyone feared to hear. Without looking up from the well, Lily could tell that all eyes fell upon Glenn and he gave no objections which made her feel bad.

Poor Glenn was always being forced into things he didn't want to be a part of and this time his life was more at risk than usual and Lily felt for him.

"Have I mentioned that I really like your haircut? You have a nice shaped head," Glenn muttered nervously to Shane as he was about to descend into the well. "Did I ever tell you that?"

"We're gonna get you outta here in one piece," Shane tried to reassure him.

"Living piece. That living part is important."

Lily watched him get all nervous before she moved over to him. "Give me the harness, Glenn."

"What?" he asked startled and unsure.

"Give it to me. I'm smaller and lighter than you."

"I can't-" She pulled him to his feet.

"Give it. Now."

Hesitantly he began to pull the harness off when Andrea approached. "What's this?" she asked. "Get that back on." Glenn began to pull the harness back on.

"Glenn," Lily chastised. "Please don't make me ask you again."

Glenn took it off and handed it over to her.

"Isn't Daryl going to worry?" Andrea inquired crossing her arms.

"Mom isn't even here. I'll be fine. And I'm gonna be fine unless one of you drops me. That understood?" Andrea snickered at her mom comment, but did not question her. If Lily wanted to be lowered in the pit with the walker, then she'd let her. Everyone else nodded to her not even going to think about questioning her ankle health.

Lily sat herself on the edge of the well and lowered herself down kicking away from the wall when she had to. The rope was coarse in her hands. The wet walker snarled beneath, splashing in the water. So far the live bait thing was working. The rope that was holding her was draped over a pipe that was placed over the middle of the well and wrapped around the water pump to use as a makeshift pulley.

"You guys are crazy," Maggie sighed.

"You wanna get it outta your well or not?" Shane asked her taking a hold of the rope.

"Give us an eye there, Maggie," Dale suggested. Crossing her arms worriedly, she walked over to the well and looked down at Lily.

"Remind me why I thought this was going to be ok?" Lily asked herself. "So you could prove herself to the others. That's why..." she answered. "To prove you're not as frail as they think...Stupid."

"What's that?" Maggie's southern accented voice asked from above.

"Nothing. Just talkin' to myself. Livin' the dream."

The rope that was going to be the fishing line was loose in her hands and if she hooked the beast she only hoped it would not fall in the well.

The walker moved back and forth in the beams of her flashlight eager for food descending closer to it.

"Little lower. Little more," Maggie informed the lowering crew.

The walker was only a few feet below her now and was getting more excited. That's when hell broke loose.

Nothing but air. That's what she felt when the rope went slack. A scream echoed off the walls around her as if reminding her that she was alone with the walker growing ever closer.

The rope went taunt as she was a foot above the snarling walker reaching up to take a chunk out of her leg. Screams echoed down the shaft from above as the six of them tried to pull her back out. Screams echoed up the shaft from below as Lily shouted for them to pull her back up.

Back and forth she swung like a bug in a spiders web just waiting to be eaten.

An eternity was spent shouting and struggling before she felt herself being lifted from the well. She took the line in her hands and cast it forcefully down at the walker before pulling herself out of the well where she flopped over onto the dirt panting.

Lori rubbed Lily's back as they all breathed heavily.

"Back to the drawing board," Dale said assuming that their plan had failed.

Lily cast him a glance that said never in a million years before getting to her feet and forcing the line into his hands. "Like hell."

Excitedly and curiously, the six of them gathered around the mouth of the well and saw the walked hooked on the end of it. Lily had done it.

...

After everyone had caught their breath, they grabbed a horse from the barn and tied to rope to its saddle to have the extra muscle pull the walker out. Everyone grabbed a hand of the rope even Lily who had done more than her fair share for the day and began to pull together.

Together their combined strength was able to lift the walker from the water and begin its ascent towards daylight.

Much heaving and grunting was heard before the walker's head poked above the well.

The head was first, then the neck and shoulders followed by the back but then something snagged the walker. It wouldn't budge.

'If we keep pulling, it'll snap!' Lily thought. She ran forward to grab the walker by its belt and pull when it split before her eyes. Blood splattered all over her as the walker snapped in half. The lower half fell back into the well while the head snapped at her ankles.

As everyone pulled themselves off the ground, T-Dog wielded the ladle form the bucket by the pump and threw it repeatedly at the walker's head. When he was done killing it he stood up and remarked, "Good thing we didn't do anything stupid like shoot it."

Maggie turned her back to the bloody walker with a beaten head and gasped for breath. It was always difficult to kill one and a part of Lily always grieved when she killed one, but it was dead and going to kill her. It came down to something a simple as fight or die and she didn't want to die. Maggie looked like she'd never seen one killed before. Living on a farm made the impact of the world falling apart slightly less severe, but to have never seen a dead walker seemed a little weird.

Lily brushed off her thoughts and walked in the house to shower the walker guts off her. She figured Hershel wouldn't mind.