DarylDixonsLover, Nellie, and 54hay: Thanks for the nice reviews.

The ride back to the prison was in complete silence. Glenn was resting his hand on Maggie's knee from the front seat. Lily sat with her eyes closed resting her head against the window. Michonne and Rick had expressionless looks on their faces, but Michonne looked like she was about to kill somebody with hers but she kept it the whole time she sat in the car.

Half way back they were forced to stop due to the red truck parked in the middle of the street. How the truck ended up packed diagonally across the street she would never know. Glenn and Rick were poised to move it but a walker had been hiding inside. Ignoring Rick's statement that he had it, Glenn threw it to the ground and promptly began to kick the shit out of it. Brains coated his shoes in a think paste as he kicked and kicked the walkers head.

It was only when he was bashing in the walker's head that Lily woke from her daze. She opened the car door and ran to him. She knew why he was upset. The Governor had humiliated his girlfriend and he felt as if there was something he could have done to stop it. The Governor was still alive after what he'd done and Glenn wanted him dead.

"Glenn!" She grabbed his sweatshirt forcing him to look in her green and blue eyes. "Glenn. This isn't going to make things any better. This won't make things better." Hearing those words for herself hurt more than she thought and knew immediately why Glenn bashed the walker's brains out. She knew sulking wasn't going to make Daryl come back.

"You didn't kill him," Glenn asked Rick when he walked up.

"That's not why we went back," Rick responded.

"No. That's right. You went back for Daryl. And now he's gone again and the Governor is still alive."

"Daryl was the priority."

"I should have been there with you."

"You were in no condition—"

"But my girlfriend was? Lily was?"

"Lily went without a plan. She got caught trying to get him out."

"Glenn, this isn't about us," Maggie added.

"I should have been there."

"Hey, hey. You didn't come back with us 'cause you could barely walk."

"What about her?"

"What about me?"

"Do you know what he did to her?!" Glenn shouted asking Rick.

"Yes!" Lily shouted. "He humiliated her! That's all he did. He could have raped her and locked her up in a house or killed her! I know right now it sucks! It really sucks but it could have been so much worse. She's fine."

Glenn knew Lily was right and Maggie reassured him that she was fine.

"After all that effort, all the risk we took, Daryl just takes off with Merle?"

"Well, he had his reasons," Rick said.

"No," Lily snapped turning to face Rick with fire in her eyes. "We wanted to do away with his brother and he didn't want that. That was his reason. Don't beat around the damn bush, Rick. Just say it like it is."

"As far as I know, we are the only ones thinking clearly right now," Glenn shouted pointing to him and Lily. "We survived and know what should have happened but didn't."

"Yes, certain people should have died, but there's nothing we can do about it now! We can't walk without limping. You can't breathe without wincing! Right now there is nothing we can do. The sooner you understand that, the sooner you will recover and then we can go kick the governor's ass. You and I will go and kill him ourselves. Now calm down."

"Don't tell me to calm down!"

"We need to move this truck," she said sternly going as far as to stomp her foot down. "I want to go back to the prison. Maggie does. Rick does. I know that lady in the car does so she can get fixed up and leave as soon as possible. So let's just do it and go home. Ok?"

"Ok," he sighed. He turned to Rick. "This doesn't change the fact that we are still up to our necks in shit."

"You want me to turn the car around, beg him to come back? Throw down the welcome mat for Merle? This is the hand we have been dealt!"

"Another thing that sucks, but we have to get over it and move on," Lily said.

"Let's just get this out of here and get back," Maggie said. Lily walked up to the breaks and disengaged them. "Get some rest. We can talk it out there."

"No, you guys do all that talking you want. I'm done," Glenn said. Lily couldn't have agreed more but there was nothing they could do. Things needed to be talked out.

Glenn took the other door and Rick grabbed the back of the truck and together they pushed it off the road.

.. .. ..

She sat thinking about all that had happened within the last twenty-four hours. 'Daryl and I figured out where we stand on us. Lil' Ass-kicker needed new baby formula because she was allergic to the current baby formula. Merle showed up and kidnapped me, Maggie and Glenn. Shot me. I was thrown in a room with the man from the days before I met the group. Those were dark days. I did hit him with a door though. I lied to Merle and got carved up for it. Was humiliated more. Lost my hair. Was rescued. Recaptured and rescued again. Lost Daryl. I lost Daryl.' Explaining that Daryl was gone to the others was going to send her over the edge.

There was a rapping against the window of the car. It was Rick waking her up. Next to him was Carol.

'She was alive.' Seeing Carol alive was something that made this awful day seem a little bit lighter. Maggie drove the rest of them up to the prison where they could all file out and go inside.

Before ducking into the prison, Lily looked down to the gate where Rick was hugging Carl and telling Carol about Daryl. Carl looked up at the four filing out of the car and began running up the hill.

"Lily!" he shouted. She broke away from the group and went to meet him. He ran into her arms hugging her close.

"What happened to your hair?" Carl asked her from her aching stomach. Seeing his face and hearing him ask that one simple question sent her into a fit of tears. She wrapped her arms around the child tighter and sobbed. All it took was that simple question from a child in his father's hat and a bear claw shirt that sent her over the edge. Everything she had gone through she'd remained strong, but seeing him there was more than she was prepared to handle. Everything she'd done was for nothing and she was left with nothing to show for what she did. Nothing positive anyway. "Where's Daryl?" The next question did her in. She clutched him close just crumbling away for several moments before she was able to collect herself enough to let him go.

"Sorry, kid," she said horsely apologizing for crushing him and crying on him, wiping the tears from her eyes only clearing the way for more. "He found his brother."

"What?" he asked as she limped away. She only made a few steps before sinking to the ground and not because her leg hurt.

"He found Merle," she sobbed letting her arms fall heavily to her sides. "He left us for his brother. We—we went back for him and—and he left us. He just left us."

Lily was expecting Glenn to use some of her own words against her, but when she looked at him he was almost crying with her. He wasn't going to tell her things sucked because she already knew that but things finally came crashing down. At least he still had Maggie. Lily was alone.

Hershel walked over to her on the ground as Carl did all he could to comfort her. Beth kissed Rick on the cheek thanking him for bringing her sister back. Lily cried on the ground.

"You can tell us everything later, but right now you need to sleep," the kind old man said resting a hand on her back. Carl wrapped an arm around his shoulders pulling her up. Physically she could have made the walk on her own, but mentally she was exhausted and was unable to function anymore. She'd done all she could to get out and give the others time to find them in Woodbury. She gave all she had and Daryl just walked of with his brother. Beth and Carl helped Lily into the cell block while Rick and Hershel remained outside talking about something.

They walked into the cell block and past four new people all sitting on the steps or tables. The two dark skinned people shared similar facial features. Same with the other two white males. One significantly younger than the other. 'Brother and sister maybe and father and son.'

"How long have they been here?" she asked Carl.

"About a day. They got in through the back. Dad's here to take care of them now."

After the day she had just been through she as not too excited to see new faces. She just wanted to go to sleep and wake up and see Daryl next to her.

"You're father is going to throw them out, isn't he?" she asked as they lowered her to the mattress.

Carl sighed looking to Beth before looking down at the doctor again. "Probably." Beth nodded her agreement.

"If you think they are good people, then you need to say something to your father," she said somewhat bitterly. As much as she wasn't in the mood for new faces, she was aware that she shouldn't jump to conclusions considering all that had just happened.

"How can you say that after what just happened to you?" he asked his face scrunching up with confusion. "You've lost your hair and can't walk on your own." She tried to prop herself up to her elbow but a surging pain shot through her abdomen causing her to groan and lie back down. He continued exasperated. "You can't even sit up without hurting!"

No one could rationalize why Carl did what he did next, but he reached forward and lifted the vest revealing 'LIAR'. Maybe he was expecting to see more bruises or the evidence of a broken rib but he was not expecting to see what he saw.

Beth gasped covering her mouth with a hand before she ran out of the cell, most likely to go get her father. Carl just stared at it for a few seconds longer before she covered her stomach back up.

"How can you still believe that people are good these days? You've been beaten purple on many occasions!" She appreciated how he left out what else had happened to her.

"Because not everyone these days is an asshole. Don't you for one second think that everyone left on this earth is out to kill you! Lots of them are, but you took me in. We took in the Greene family and the prisoners from here. Not everyone is bad, Carl. Not everyone is bad. But the ones that are…" she curled her fingers around his neck locking her gaze with his. "Give them hell."