Y2j591: Great to have you back!

Lily is my OC.

"Daryl is dead."

"You lying, bitch!" Merle raged after a moment of silence.

"Merle," the Governor tried to calm him.

"We told you he was alive so you'd leave us alone." Glenn's jaw had dropped, but he recovered before either of them saw him.

"You told me he had a girl. You lyin' about that too?"

"No!" she said quickly backing away from his knife hand. "No. That's true."

"Merle, forget your brother! She's messing with your head! Don't listen to her!"

"He died protecting her. Would you die protecting someone you love?!" she screamed. "Would you die for your brother?!"

"Shut up! Shut up! SHUT UP!"

"He died protecting his family!"

"I said shut up!"

His fist connected with her cheek. The force of the punch sent her flying into the cement wall where she slumped to the ground unconscious.

.. .. ..

Her head throbbed when she woke up. Something warm held her close as her senses came back to her. Pain came next and ran down her chest. She looked down to see what had happened and realized that Glenn had given her his shirt. Peaking under it, she saw a scratch that ran from right over her heart down to her belly button. It wasn't deep, but it bled none the less. Looking harder, she realized that the scratch was actually many scratches. Upside down, it looked like it spelled 'LIAR'. As she looked around the room, she realized that her left eye had begun to swell while the right side of her face throbbed.

"Glenn?" she asked quietly trying to sit up. He seemed to be asleep more from pure exhaustion than anything else.

"Lily, oh, my God. You're ok!" he hugged her close. She returned the hug wrapping her arms around him.

"Ow, ow, ow!" she exclaimed arching her back trying to reduce contact between her and Glenn.

"I'm so sorry. I forgot. Merle did that."

"Merle," she hissed.

"Once you slumped to the ground, he cut off your bra and left you something in return for not telling him his brother was dead sooner. 'LIAR'." "He shot me and now carved me like a bar of soap. He is strangely dislikable. Sorry, I had to tell them," she smiled through the bruises peppering her face. She thought she hurt, but Glenn had blood running down his face and he had a black eye that she didn't see earlier. 'How did I miss that?' He'd also killed a walker recently. He'd had it worse.

"That was so stupid," he whispered in her ear so quietly that no one who may have been listening outside the door would have heard. "But so brilliant. You never knew how close he and Daryl were, but that was something I never would have thought of. He could have killed you." He sighed releasing her. "How's Maggie?"

"I don't know. They were on their way to her when I yelled at them and Merle came storming back."

"Thank you. Thank you for protecting my girlfriend."

She didn't know what to say so she took his hand. "Thank you for the shirt." They sat in silence for an unknown period of time before footsteps echoed on the other side of the door. Glenn handed her a weapon he had made while she was unconscious. Lily ran to one side of the door clutching her stomach as she attempted to adjust to the new pain.

"Hey! Uh-uh," Merle said walking in holding his hand up looking at Glenn. Behind him came another man with a gun which he aimed at her. He knew where she was going to be. There was nothing else to do but lower her weapon. Using his gun he pointed her to the middle of the room.

Through the door she saw the Governor dragging someone beside him. Maggie came in the room with her hands crossed over her chest. She had been forced completely topless.

Glenn made to kill the Governor, but the second man who came in turned his gun on Maggie.

"Drop it!"

Reluctantly, Glenn dropped his weapon.

"We're through with games," the Governor said pulling out his pistol all the while keeping a hand on Maggie. "Now one of you is gonna give up your camp." The hammer clicked back as he aimed the gun at Maggie, then turned to Glenn.

Lily threw herself between Glenn and the Governor facing Glenn.

"Maggie!" she shouted. "Stay strong!"

The barrel of the gun nuzzled itself among Lily's hair resting against her head. Glenn pushed Lily behind him taking her place in front of the gun. The Governor cocked the pistol.

"The prison," Maggie said fighting back tears.

"The one near Nunez?" Merle asked.

"That place is overrun," The Governor said sounding astonished.

"We took it."

"How many are you?"

"Eleven. We have eleven now."

"Eleven people cleared that whole prison of biters? Huh?"

The Governor faked them out that he was going to shoot Glenn again, then made his way over to Maggie. There he ran her hair through his fingers and pulled her close trying to comfort her. As much as a ruse to anger them, it still infuriated Glenn.

It was taking everything Glenn had left to keep himself from running toward Maggie and killing the Governor where he stood. Lily placed a hand on his shoulder to keep him back for just a little while longer.

The kiss on Maggie's head almost sent Glenn into rage mode, but Lily kept him back knowing just how badly he felt watching something happen and being able to do nothing about it. The only way Lily got through it was by focusing on Glenn's shoulder.

The Governor finally let Maggie go and pushed her towards Glenn. Lily stepped out of the way allowing her to run straight into his arms which gave her comfort as she wept.

The doctor turned to watch at the man with the gun left the room, the Governor tipped an invisible hat to her as he left, and Merle snickered as he drew a finger down his own chest showing where he'd cut her. Before he closed the door behind him he mockingly blew her a kiss.

Lily shook trying to clear her mind of everything that had just happened and remembered that Maggie was topless. She walked over to the couple as quietly as she could to not startle Maggie and took off Glenn's shirt.

Glenn met her eyes and looked away as she pulled off the shirt. She handed him the shirt mouthing to him. 'For Maggie.'

He gave her a slight nod thanking her, forgetting that she didn't have anything to wear.

She looked around the room and saw a green sofa by the door. Taking one of the weapons they had made, she walked over to the sofa and pulled a cushion out and unzipped the cover. Taking the sharp end of the wood weapon, she ripped it along the seam and wrapped it around herself like a towel. She then broke off a reasonable sized wood piece and jabbed it between the fabric to keep it up. It would have to do for now.

Maggie continued to cry as Glenn held her slipping his shirt over her head.

Lily knew Maggie only wanted to see Glenn so she walked over to a corner, curled her knees to her stinging chest.

These people were going to kill everyone. Beth, the baby, Hershel, Axel, Rick, Carl, and Oscar. Daryl most likely had a short pass of forgiveness because he was Merle's brother, but unless he could conform to the Governor's ways, he would die.