Lily is my OC. The Walking Dead belongs to its respective owners.

Maggie had settled down and she and Glenn were sitting on the ground silently holding each other's hands. Some time passed before Glenn walked over to Lily and took her hand interrupting her depressing thoughts.

"Come on." He pulled her to her feet and walked her over to sit with them. He sat down and wrapped an arm around her and took Maggie's hand.

Glenn, the poor awkward kid. When it mattered, he knew how to defend himself and he knew how to comfort others which was needed in this day and age more than ever. They sat in silence leaning against one another waiting for something to happen or someone to show up.

At some point, the men of Woodbury came in and removed everything they could use in their favor from the room. Completely clearing everything out. Now that the survivors were all together, with their brains working as one, they were more dangerous and those me knew it.

Glenn was the first to break the silence. "Maggie, did he-"

"No," Maggie responded quickly. "No. He barely touched me. All this time, running from walkers- you forget what people do, have always done. Look at what they did to you."

"Doesn't matter," Glenn said sounding short of breath. "As long as he didn't-"

"No. I promise."

Glenn hugged her relieved she was unscathed.

Lily's breath caught in her throat. She'd succeeded. When the Governor dragged Maggie in shirtless, Lily thought she had failed. She thought for certain that the Governor had had his way with her, but she had been unharmed the whole time.

Lily couldn't stop the tears that filled her eyes, but she wouldn't let them spill. She was just so relieved that Maggie didn't have to end up like her.

"Lily, what's wrong?" Maggie asked.

"Glenn knows the story. Everyone in the camp knows the story," Lily started. "Daryl found me in the woods. There was this guy who had taken me from my home and brought me to his. There he used me over and over." She took a breath forcing herself to go on. "Another man would stop by from time to time and he'd use me to. Shortly after Daryl brought me back to his camp, John, the man who took me, showed up. Daryl killed him. The other man who used to show up, well, he's right outside. He's running this place. The Governor."

Maggie gasped and Glenn's mouth fell open. She was glad she was able to tell them the truth without saying what she was really upset about. Daryl she had told about the second man, but neither of them really thought that he was still alive.

"Oh, my God."

"Now, I'm just fighting old demons," Lily said before changing the subject rubbing her eyes dry. "Glenn, let me take a look at you." She proceeded to examine him while Maggie still sat there shocked and Glenn was trying not to show how much pain he was in. When Lily was checking his pulse, Maggie used her bandana to wipe up his blood.

"No broken bones. But you will need lots of bed rest when you can afford it."

After his examination, Glenn stood up and walked over to the dead walker on the floor and pulled its arm off with a sickening slurping noise. He then proceeded to break its arm and rip out its bones so they could use them as weapons.

He tossed one to Lily across the room and it clattered against the floor. She picked it up and clutched it as if her life depended on it.

.. .. ..

Footsteps echoed out in the hall and the three of them ran to either side of the door. Lily drew her finger across her neck telling Maggie and Glenn the best place to aim for. The opened and Glenn flew out first. Maggie and Lily took the second and third man and forced the bones through their necks. Maggie grabbed the gun as Lily ran over to Glenn who was fighting with Merle. Merle threw him down and forced the knife to his neck.

"Let him go!" Maggie shouted pointing the gun at him.

"Okay," Merle smiled lifting the knife from Glenn's neck. Just as the three thought they had a victory, the man with the gun ran around the corner aiming his gun at Maggie.

"Gimmie the gun!" he shouted at Maggie pulling the gun from her hands. "Get up!" Merle shouted at Glenn as he stood up. Once on his feet, Merle threw his hand around and slapped Lily across the face for no reason sending her sprawling across the wall again. She clutched her already bruised face as she was pinned to the wall by her throat.

The Governor held her there. From his belt he withdrew his knife and hacked at her hair as Glenn and Maggie were thrown back into the room. It fell in clumps around her feet as she screamed and fought against him dragging her nails down his face.

"Get your hands off me!" she screamed.

"Now before you die, you get to watch them die first!" he shouted pointing to Glenn and Maggie when he stopped hacking at her hair. They were on their knees next to each other holding hands. Maggie was crying again.

"Just keep looking at me," Glenn told her.

"I love you," she said as a hood was forced over her eyes. Glenn was hooded next.

"Why do you insist on torturing us?" Lily asked staring harshly into his eyes clutching the hand around her throat trying not to think about her hair.

"Not them, just you."

"Why?"

"Because it's fun. It's not just the torturing that's fun, but seeing just how much it takes for people to crack. I also know you and who you used to be. I'm seeing how long and how much you can take before you crack. I take what you love…and remove it," he purred removing a chunk of hair that hadn't fallen to the ground yet. "Now that's why I do it."

'My clothes. My hair. Now Glenn and Maggie, my friends.' She dug her nails into the flesh of his arm drawing blood, but all he did as smile at the pain.

"Do what you want," he sneered. "You're just gonna be dead in a few minutes anyway."

'I'm going to die here in his hands,' she thought. 'This is the end. There's no way the group at the prison knows we're here. We're done. I'm going to die in the hands of this mad man.'

The hooded couple was herded back out the door as something metallic clanked across the floor. All eyes turned toward it and saw a smoke bomb seconds before it exploded. There was no time to retaliate to it. As soon as she saw the bomb, Lily saw her opportunity for distraction and took it.

When the smoke filled the air she kicked the Governor between the legs with her good one and elbowed him in the face. He had known she would have fought and tried to prepare himself for it, but the kick to the groin wasn't what he was expecting.

Blindly, she shook free of his grip and limped quickly for the spot she last saw Maggie. Without shoes she was able to keep her steps silent keeping her hidden in the smoke.

Reaching out her hands she found someone's arm. "Maggie?" she whispered.

"Yeah," the voice responded. The doctor clutched to her arm and began to make her way along the wall. They hadn't gotten far before Maggie was jerked in the opposite direction. Holding on tight Lily found them being dragged into the light.

It was Oscar and Rick leading the three prisoners toward an exit. Casting a glance over her shoulder she saw Daryl bringing up the rear.

A large hand grabbed her arm and forced her to a momentary stop right before they stepped outside.

"Who are you?" it was Oscar who asked in a gruff voice.

"It's me," she said shaken from the events of the last few minutes. It took her a second to remember that all of her hair was gone. "Lily. I lost my hair."

"Sorry."

"Come on," Daryl ordered the two of them casting Lily a confused look before the three of them ducked out the door into the street of Woodbury.

'I can't tell him about Merle.' she thought. 'Daryl can't know. Not yet.'