Lily is my OC and the rest belongs to whoever it belongs to.

Rick and Maggie helped Glenn through the streets going as fast as they could without hurting Glenn farther. Daryl held tightly to Lily's hand once he recognized her without hair as they ran down the street looking for anyone who would spoil their escape.

"Inside, quick," Rick hissed. Daryl ran ahead and kicked the door down. Glenn and Maggie collapsed to the floor as Lily tripped on the doorframe. Daryl caught her. He held her close kissing her quickly before looking around the shop.

"What happened?" he asked her running her short hair through his fingers.

"An attempt to break me down," she replied breathing heavily feeling it herself for the first time. The governor had given her a hack job of a pixie cut. The back was longer than the front, the bangs fell in her eyes and the rest barely reached her ears.

"Any shorter and you'd look like Carol…"

There was no reply she could give to that. The pain of her loss was still present.

"Who did it?"

The look she gave him was one peppered with fear. "The other guy…"

She was thankful he knew what she meant. "He's still alive?!"

The nod caused her butchered bangs to fall in her eyes.

"Shit," he sighed running his fingers through his hair.

"Let's just get outta here! We can take care of him later! Right now we need to leave!"

"So soon? We gotta get rid of this guy!"

'He can't run into Merle.' "Not yet. We come back—"

"What are you hiding?"

"What's goin' on?" Rick asked ending their conversation. Daryl sprinted to the back of the shop looking for an exit.

"Ain't no way out back here!" Daryl said running from the back of the shop shaking off his vest and handing it to Lily. She knew she looked ridiculous in her cushion cover but at least she was covered.

Maggie asked, "Rick, how did you find us?"

"How bad are you hurt?"

"I'll be alright," Glenn said. "Doctor said so."

"Where's that woman?"

"She was right behind us," Rick said after looking around the room and not seeing her.

"Maybe she was spotted," Daryl suggested. "Want me to go look for her?"

"No, we've got to get them out of here. She's on her own."

"Daryl," Glenn called as Maggie put a sweatshirt she'd found around his shoulders, "This was Merle. He did this."

Glenn looked at Lily about to say what he did to her, but she shook her head no, telling him not to say anything. When she looked up Daryl had met her eyes. Now he knew why she wanted to leave so badly.

"You saw him?" Rick asked. "Face to face?"

"Threw a walker at me. He was gonna execute us."

Lily walked over to a corner of the room and threw on the vest as fast as she could finding it smaller that she expected. The vest showed off more chest than she was comfortable with, but she was just happy to have clothes again.

"S-So my brother is this Governor?"

"No, Daryl," Lily answered first and distastefully. Daryl's head snapped over to her as she pulled on a pair of tight jeans. "Your brother doesn't run this place. The other guy does."

"No," Maggie jumped in. "It's somebody else. Your brother's his lieutenant or something."

"Does he know I'm still with you?"

"No, Lily told him you were dead. Shouldn't take him long to find out she was lying. Rick I'm sorry. We told him where the prison was. We couldn't hold out."

Daryl looked at Lily asking her what she could possibly be thinking. She broke his gaze and looked down to the floor.

"Don't. No need to apologize."

"They're gonna be lookin' for us," Maggie said.

"We have to get back. Can you walk?"

"Why did you tell my brother I was dead?" Daryl gripped Lily's arm tightly. "You didn't even know him. Why did you tell my brother I was dead?!"

"To break him down," she responded weakly. "To give us more time. You didn't know where we were. I was trying to give us more time to think of a way to get out!"

"We got a car a few miles out," Rick said.

Glenn got to his feet. "I'm good."

"Hey, if Merle's around, I need to see him," Daryl stated pulling his attention away from her and back to his brother.

"Daryl, no!" Lily grabbed his arm. He shook her off.

"Not now. We're in hostile territory," Rick argued.

"He's my brother. I ain't-"

"Look, what he did!" He pointed to Glenn, Maggie, then Lily with her face bruised. "Look, we gotta-we gotta get outta here, now."

"Maybe I can talk to him. Maybe I can work somethin' out."

Glenn looked at Lily who was raging war with herself again. She didn't know what to do. She was afraid to tell Daryl what had happened to her because he would think she was lying just to get him out of Woodbury. He could never believe that his brother was capable of doing something so horrible.

"Just tell him," Glenn told her.

"I can't," she sighed. By the look in Glenn's eyes, she saw he knew Merle had attempted to rape her, but hadn't been able to tell her earlier.

"No, no, no. You're not thinking straight. Look, no matter what they say, they're hurt. Glenn can barely walk. And Lily is limping. How are we gonna make it out if we get overrun by walkers and this governor catches up to us? I need you. Are you with me?"

There was a long pause before Daryl responded. "Yeah."

'How long would it take before we lost him?' she thought to herself.

Rick opened the door and everyone filed out. That's when the shooting started.

Glenn, Maggie and Lily stayed low following behind Rick. Rick had given Lily a gun so she shot when someone came close. They ran across the street and into another building. Daryl wrapped an arm around Lily's waist and shielded her as they ran inside the alcove. She gave a cry of pain when Daryl held her to him.

"How many of them?"

"I don't know. Couldn't see."

"Don't matter. There's gonna be more of them. We need to move." Daryl then turned to Lily. "What the hell is wrong with you?"

She winced grabbing her stomach. Glenn grabbed her arm once he and Maggie were undercover. He spoke regardless of Daryl being right next to them.

"You have to tell him. He's going to kill himself. Tell him, or I will."

She nodded.

"What do you have to tell me that's so important? I'm in the middle of trying to save your life again." He asked agitated reloading his gun.

"And I'm trying to save you from a world of hurt. You just have to listen to me!"

"What do you want?" he snapped. His tone hurt her but she had to keep calm or this would come out the wrong way.

"I could hear your brother beating up Glenn in the other room. He came to mine next."

"Get to the point!"

"He came to me when Glenn didn't crack. The Governor came to my room and handed me over to your brother when I didn't crack..." She paused.

"What did he do?!"

"Tell him," Glenn urged her.

A knot filled her throat as she tried to think of the words to use. Glenn saw she couldn't speak, so he was going to speak for her.

"Merle-"

"Glenn, no!" she shrieked.

"Glenn, no, what?!"

Bullets exploded over their heads. Daryl threw his hands over her head forcing it down.

"You guys go ahead. I'm gonna lay down some cover fire."

"No, we have to stay together!" Lily said. "Because if we don't, you're going to go find your brother!"

"Too hairy. I'll be right behind you."

"You're lying!"

Daryl ran out into the open after throwing another smoke bomb. Oscar forced Lily to the bus. Glenn and Maggie were close behind them. Oscar climbed up onto the bus first and dragged Glenn up first. Lily helped Maggie crawl up.

"Rick! Rick!" Maggie screamed.

"Go!" he shouted back to her.

Oscar reached down to help Lily up, but she refused to take his hand without Daryl beside her. Above her, Oscar fell bleeding to the ground. He'd been shot. Maggie shot a bullet trough his head making sure he wouldn't turn.

"Daryl!" she screamed.

"Go! I'll be right there!"

"No, come here right now!" Lily snapped.

Rick came charging out of the smoke towards her. He grabbed her around the waist and forced her to climb the bus.

"Go! He'll be right here!"

"No! He won't!"

"Go!" he forced her higher and over the wall.

Lily stopped hearing things around her. Daryl was gone and he hadn't come over the wall.

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