Nellie: That means a lot to hear. Thank you.

Hope this chapter satisfies. Happy Late Merry Christmas!

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Lily Sullivan is mine. Everything else is up for grabs by the producers and everyone else.

Glenn, Maggie and Rick were all talking. A black lady with dreadlocks came out from under the train car that was in front of Woodbury.

She was the woman from the dream Lily had all those months ago. She was the one who'd saved her from the Governor with her samurai swords.

Lily tuned back into the conversation when Rick was accusing the woman of leaving them.

"To get him, you need me."

Lily walked up to her pointing her gun at the ground. "Take me back in, now."

"She's not going anywhere," Rick said sternly.

"I need her to get me back in there. Daryl is still in there and I am NOT leaving him behind! We are getting him back do you understand me?" The tone in her voice was unlike anything they had ever heard her say. It was strong.

Rick recomposed himself. "She is not going anywhere."

"And apparently neither are you."

Lily looked him in the eyes before running under the train car and back towards the wall. She was just fast enough to stay out of reach of Rick and Maggie.

She climbed back up and over with much pain but she was going to get Daryl back. The gun was out of bullets when she counted, but at least she was the only one to know that the gun was empty. 'As far an anyone else knows, it's still a loaded gun.'

She jumped down silently and made her way over to the single person still walking in the street. Forcing the empty gun into his back she made her demand.

"You've just caught a man. Take me to him."

He led her to the left toward a series of torches. As soon as she saw the corner up ahead she knew there was going to be problems and she was right. A gun pressed against her own head stopped her where she stood. This one was most likely loaded.

"Welcome back, blondie," Merle smiled.

"Merle."

He drew the hammer back on his gun. "I should end you right now."

"Then do it." Her eyes moved slowly over to meet his cold ones.

"Nah, the Governor wants to kill you himself… You know something, that vest you're wearin' looks awful familiar."

"Maybe I got it off of someone you've killed."

She threw her head down as he raised the gun to hit her on the head. She locked her hands together and elbowed him in the stomach. He doubled momentarily before aiming for her face. Throwing herself out of the way of his clutching hands, she headed toward the torches and threw herself into the shadows and out of sight.

"Find her," Merle ordered the man she'd just held at gunpoint.

Taking one last look at them, she made her way through the shadows along the outside of the torch circle. In the middle she saw walkers on chains and bleachers full of people. The Governor was in the middle of everything with a bandage over his eye. 'What on earth had happened since I saw him last?'

Making her way around the torches she saw a cage off to the far side of the arena. There was scuffling over there so limped as quietly as she could. By the time she reached the cage the men scuffling were gone and were headed toward the center of the arena.

In her attempt to make her way back to the wall she ran into the man she held a gun to earlier. She held the gun up and pointed it at him.

"Intruder! There's an intruder!" he shouted. She took off running, but not before she gave him a solid knock on his head and dropped her gun. The people of Woodbury knew she was there and were coming after her.

It did not take long before she was grabbed and pulled toward Merle.

"Glad to see you're still out and about." He sneered pushing her stomach where 'LIAR' was carved into her skin. Pain contorted her face. "That's for lying, you bitch." As if that wasn't obvious enough.

Merle caught the attention of the Governor and alerted him that Lily was back with them. The Governor turned from her to the audience on the bleachers. "I'm afraid of terrorists who want what we have," the he spoke as if resuming a speech she'd been deaf to. "Want to destroy what we have! And worse...because one of those terrorists...is one of our own. Merle."

The crowd murmured all around. Behind them, the man with the gun and another with Daryl's crossbow pointed their weapons as Merle. One of the other men took Lily from him.

"The man I counted on, the man I trusted."

"We ain't through yet, blondie," he sneered as he was shuffled into the middle with the Governor.

"He led 'em here. And he let 'em in. It was you. You lied, betrayed us all!" Someone walked over and took Merle's weapons from him.

From the other side of the gathering, Lily saw movement. There was a man with his hands behind his back and a hood on his head but she knew instantly that it was Daryl. She pulled against the man holding her back, but he held onto her.

Merle was pushed into the center of the torch lit and walker filled arena.

"This is one of the terrorists." The Governor ripped the hood from Daryl's head showing him where he was. "Merle's own brother."

When Merle saw Daryl before him, Lily could see his shoulders slouch. He then spun to face Lily and his eyes were on fire. Merle began to storm towards her, but men forced him back into the circle.

"You two timing, lying bitch!" Merle screamed. "You told me my brother was dead!"

Lily fought back against the man holding her giving Merle a challenging look. "And what are you going to do about it now?!" she snapped loudly. "Cut off my arm?!" He fought with muscle, she fought with words and had clearly won for a short time.

Daryl turned to see what he was charging at and saw Lily.

"What are you doing?!" he hissed.

"Another terrorist is over there." The Governor pointed to Lily. "Bring her here."

She was dragged out to the middle of the arena where she looked at Daryl. He made to run for her, but others held him back. The town looked down upon her with hatred burning in their eyes. The Governor took her arm and faced her towards the audience. "What should we do with 'em?"

"Kill them!" the audience shouted.

"Lily," Daryl muttered under his breath.

She pleaded with her eyes. "Breath," she mouthed to him. "Breathe." "You wanted your brother. Despite what she told you," his hand closed around Lily's throat, giving her a light squeeze.

"You get your hands off her," Daryl threatened.

"Now you got him," the Governor ignored him addressing Merle.

The governor left the fighting circle dragging Lily with him and casually sliding a hand down her face. In his eyes, Lily could see that he was trying to distract Daryl so Merle would win. She only hoped his tactics wouldn't work.

Andrea was trying to stop the fight but the governor only told her that the people had spoken and there was nothing he could do to stop it.

'Andrea? She was alive?!'

"I asked you where your loyalties lie," he addressed Merle. "You said here. Well, prove it."

Lily met Daryl's eyes. He was breathing heavily. He was more nervous than she'd ever seen him. She tried to tell him not to worry, but inside she was so worried. When she came back into Woodbury, she knew she was going to get captured, but seeing that Daryl had been caught made her heart drop. 'How are we going to get out of this one?'

"Prove it to us all. Brother against brother." Someone untied Daryl's hands and he pulled his shirt back up. He'd been so riled up, it had fallen from his shoulder.

"Winner goes free. Winner gets the girl." The governor shook Lily's arm. Daryl did not break eye contact with her, but she could see he was not going to let his brother win. She'd been through enough and did not need to experience Merle, he thought.

"I'll be with you again in a minute, blondie!" Merle shouted. "Don't you worry!"

Daryl had never looked so confused in his whole life. Merle still didn't know about Daryl and Lily being a couple.

"Fight to the death."

Lily watched as Merle made his speech. "Y'all know me! I'm gonna do whatever I gotta do to prove..." He spun around and punched Daryl in the stomach. Daryl was thrown to the ground. Lily pulled against the Governor but he held strong.

"Just wait your turn," the Governor smiled at her pathetic attempt.

"I'm so tired of you having your hands all over me," she hissed at him.

"Well, when Merle wins you're mine. Unconditionally."

"That my loyalty is to this town!" Merle then kicked Daryl in the chest.

The governor turned his attention down to Lily as she fought against him. "You didn't fight this hard for Glenn and Maggie." He said pulling her to face him. "You are a liar. He saved you… Daryl Dixon saved you from me and you made the choice to die rather than let his brother back into his life. Damn. This is gonna be so much fun. I am truly glad you came back." She pulled her head away from his hand when he tried to curl a strand behind her ear. She couldn't see the fight and needed to know that Daryl was all right.

"Oh, you really have grown feisty in these last few months." He grabbed tightly to her upper arms. Daryl was recoiling from a punch when Lily saw him next. "This should be fun when Merle beats his brother. He's not even half the man John was."

She struggled to pull herself free, but he just held on. "Stop squirming." He punched her in the stomach intentionally over 'Liar'. She doubled over in pain trying to recompose herself quickly so Daryl wouldn't worry. After collecting herself, she pushed back up to her feet. She then brought her foot down upon his as hard as she could.

"You little bitch!" His hands closed around Lily's throat. She leaned her head back and aimed at his bad eye. A scream of pain ran through the air as she sprinted toward the circle of walkers. The Governor grabbed the back of her vest throwing her to the ground. She lost her breath again as he dragged her out of the circle and to her feet.

"I preferred you as the small quiet girl from the cabin, Lily. Why did you have to grow up?"

"To fight people like you."

She tried to pull away from him again.

"Stop being such a pain in the-"

She kicked him between the legs and brought a knee up to his face when he doubled over. He screamed in agony grabbing his face again, but he grabbed her ankle and pulled her down.

Walkers snarled as more were incorporated into the circle. Stealing a quick glance to the circle, she saw Merle and Daryl back to back fighting the walkers. Placing her feet together, she kicked the Governor in the chest, knocking him back.

"Don't do this!" Andrea screamed. He met her eyes for as short while before coming back at Lily. She kicked him again, but he caught her foot the third time she made to kick him. He bent over her feet and punched her stomach again.

Her face contorted trying to overcome the pain as a loud groan filled the air.

A gunshot rang threw the arena and the Governor got off Lily and ran. He knew it wasn't from his men. A smoke grenade filled the arena making visibility difficult. The Governor knew Rick had come back and didn't want to be caught in the cross fire without his weapon. Merle took the chance of the Governor leaving to run over to Lily on the ground. She tried to get back to her feet, but she couldn't. He raised his foot ready for it to come down on her abdomen, but Daryl tackled him to the ground as she rolled out of the way.

"Don't you touch her!" Daryl shouted punching Merle in the face. He looked up and saw Rick shooting the walkers around them.

With one motion, Daryl grabbed the fabric of her vest and dragged her to her feet.

"Why the hell did you come back?!" he asked her angrily pushing her behind him away from the walkers.

"Rick was busy," she answered.

Another shot pierced the arena. Brains of the nearest walker splattered across the ground. As the walker fell, a clear path was made straight towards Rick and Maggie.

"Come on!" Daryl dragged her along behind him as he ran for Rick. There was a man off to the side holding a crossbow, Daryl's crossbow. He made sure to take it back. He didn't lose a step getting his crossbow back and the two continued on their way out of the arena and through Woodbury.

Merle began to attack a certain spot on the wall.

"Ain't that just the sweetest thing I've ever seen," Merle cooed as he banged on the wall. "A toothpick has come to save the day. Damn Daryl," Merle laughed beating a panel free. "Gotta say. You picked a cute pet. My little brothers got a cute little girlfrie-" the punch from Daryl came so quickly Merle didn't even see it coming.

Merle's weight on the panel knocked it lose.

Daryl rested his hand on her back. "Come on. Let's go."

"We ain't got time for this!" Merle shouted after killing a walker. He ran into the woods.

"Come on. Let's go," Daryl said following his brother taking Lily's hand.

She turned to look at Maggie and begged her not to stay behind. Lily needed someone who knew what happened to be with her. Maggie looked at Rick and they both followed.

They ran through the forest for miles before they saw Rick's car.

"Glenn!" Rick called. Glenn jumped to his feet and ran to meet them in the forest.

"Oh, thank God."

"Now we got a problem here. I need you to back up."

"What the hell is he doing here?" Glenn snapped when he saw Merle in the group.

"He tried to kill me!" the dark skinned woman shouted pointing her katana at him. Daryl stepped in between the two.

There was a whole bunch of shouting as Glenn, Maggie, and the dark skinned woman shouted at Merle and Daryl and Rick defended him.

All Lily heard was Daryl call Merle a jackass and Merle call Daryl a native.

"No more than you hangin' out with that psycho back there," Daryl retorted.

"Oh, yeah, man. He's a charmer, I gotta tell ya that. Been putting the wood in your girlfriend, Andrea," Merle said looking at the dark skinned woman. "Big time, baby."

"What?" Glenn asked. "Andrea's in Woodbury?"

"Right next to the Governor," Daryl said.

"I told you to drop that!" Rick shouted at the dark skinned woman as she lunged for Merle again. "You know Andrea? Hey, do you know Andrea?"

"Yep, she does," Merle smiled. "Her and the other blondie spent all winter cuddling up in the forest. My Nubian queen here had two pet walkers. No arms, cut off their jaws, kept them in chains. Kind of ironic now that I think about it."

"Shut up, bro!" Daryl shouted.

Lily walked past everyone. Took one last look at Daryl. She still had no idea how to tell Daryl what had happened.

"Lily?" Daryl asked. "We need your help."

"I'm done listening to him talk," she muttered walking away. She'd spent the last several hours listening to him and the governor talk to each other about Daryl and promises of going home and the whole time Merle was acting like a cocky celebrity. She was through with him. She was not going to defend him for Daryl's sake and couldn't tell him what had happened so she just walked off.

Merle made some more smart comments before Rick hit him on the back of the head knocking him out.