Chapter 10
I stare at the two bodies who lay in front of me, somebody had killed them dragged there bodies outside then burnt the bodies. What kind of monster would do that. I see that Tyreese is knelt on the floor and walk over to him.
"Tyreese what happened?" I ask
"Who did this" Tyreese manages a whisper
"I don't know, I've just found them just like you have" I admit
"Who was it" Tyreese says raising his voice
"I already said i don't know" I say angrily
"Somebody killed Karen and David and your going to tell me who" Tyreese shouts standing up grabbing tightly to my shirt
By this time Carol, Rick and Daryl arrive after hearing all the shouting. I see Daryl getting angry and goes to grab hold of Tyreese but i put my hand up to tell him to stop, i knew that if he did it would just end up in a fight. Thats the last thing we needed right now.
"Tyreese just calm down" Rick says trying to reason with him
"Your a cop, you find out who did this and you bring em to me" Tyreese demanded now letting go of me and my shirt
"Well find out who did this" Daryl adds
"Do i need to say it again" Tyreese cautioned
"no i know what your feeling, I've been there. You saw it its dangerous" Rick sympathises
"Karen didn't deserve this, David didn't deserve it" Tyreese
"All right man lets.." Daryl says being cut off my Tyreese slamming him into the wall
"man i aint going nowhere till i find out who done this" Tyreese explodes
"Were all on the same side" Daryl reasons
"We have all lost somebody" I add hoping to calm him down so he would release my brother
"We know what your going through right now, but you've got to calm down" Rick try to reason
"You need to step the hell back" Tyreese says releasing Daryl
"She wouldn't want you being like this" Rick admitted
Before i know it Tyreese punched Rick and knocked him to the floor, he quickly gets back up and retaliates. He continues to punch him even when Tyreese is on the floor not fighting back, once Rick flipped it was hard to calm him back down again. Daryl grabs ahold of him and pulls him away before he does something he regrets.
few hours later
We had another meeting again earlier, they decided it would be best to go look for antibiotics at some veterinarian place Hersel had mentioned, even though it was 50 miles away. It would take hours for them to get them and come back some of these people didn't have that long. I had offered to go but Daryl had told me there was enough of them and that i should stay and "help" around the prison, basically in other words he wants me to stay here because he thinks its safer. I really hated not helping especially when i knew he could do with more people but it was to late as him, Michonne, Bob and Tyreese already left. More and more people where getting sicker and i knew that them getting those antibiotics was crucial especially as now Glenn had come down with the sickness.
I walk over to Carol who was sat down, head in her hand sobbing. I sit down next to her and rest my head on her shoulder, she instinctively put her arm around me. We had become close back when we were back at the camp, i use to play with Sophia and Carol took me under her wing like another daughter and ever since then i had looked at her up to her like a mother figure. I don't know what i would do without her.
"whats up?" I ask Carol
"Nothing i'm just being silly'
"I doesn't look like nothing" I add looking at the water containers on the floor
"I knocked them over, then got emotional about it. You know what women are like" Carol laughs
"Is the pipe fixed yet?"
"No Rick said to leave it but we have none left now i knocked it over" Carol admitted
"Ill go fix it, you distract rick" I assured
"You cant go out there on your own" Carol argued
"Fine, ill go round the back and sneak past the walkers just guard the gate so when i come back round theres someone to open it back up" I add
"But i wont be able to see if you get into trouble"
"i've got my knife ill be fine" I nod
When i finally make it out the back and past the walkers i head to the wooden bridge and begin to try and fix the pipe. I unscrew it and see that it is clogged up with dirt, i scrape all the dirt out and begin to screw the pipe back together which was more difficult then i had first though. I look behind me to see to walkers getting closer to me, i try and screw the pipe back on as quickly as i could when i see Rick running towards the fence
"Gracie run" Rick shouts
I finally manage to screw the pipe back on and begin to run. A walker approaches and i stab the walker with my knife it falls to the ground with my knife still in its skull i yank at the knife desperately trying to pull it out but its no use. By now Rick has made his way through the fence and towards me and starts to shoot at the walkers to create a path for me, i run to him and he ushers me through the fence.
"Piece of cake" I breathe a sigh of relief
"I told Carol we would do that tomorrow" Rick says angrily
"But there was no water left, and the sick people needed it"
As we walk back to the prison i begin to feel a bit weak and feel weird, it must of been all the adrenaline i thought to myself. When we finally make it back to the courtyard Carol comes running over to me pulling me into a hug.
"Are you okay?" Carol questions
"Im fine" I say weakly
"Are you sure you don't look great?" Carol says touching my burning forehead
"That was a stupid thing you did" Rick accused
"Not now rick" Carol snaps
"And you went along with this?" Ricks asks Carol
"We had no other choice" I say as my vision begins to blur
Carol and Rick continue to argue but i couldn't concentrate my head was pounding and i felt like i was burning alive. My whole body ached and felt completely drained of every inch of energy i had left, my legs felt like they couldn't hold me up any longer.
"Just stop it, stop arguing both of you. I decided to go out there end of story lets move on" I sigh walking away from them both
As I walk away from them both i could still hear them talking faintly in the background. I have to stop for a few seconds to get my vision and breath back, i cant be ill not now. My legs buckle from underneath me and i fall onto the hard floor, my vision was now completely clouded but i could still hear the voices of Carol and Rick who had now run to me.
"Gracie can you hear me?" Rick panics
I try to make words come out of my mouth but i just couldn't get anything out. God damn it try harder.
"We need to get her to hershel she's burning up" Carol admits
"Were going to get you fixed, your going to be fine okay" Rick says picking me up
I wake up and look around to see i'm in a different cell, please tell me i'm not in the sick bay. I look across the room to see Glenn sat beside me. Ok i was definitely in the sick bay.
"Welcome back" Glenn smiles weakly
"How long have i been out for?"
"Not long, Rick brought you said you collapsed" Glenn says in-between coughing
"how you two doing?" Hershel says walking into the cell
"Like I've been run over like a bus" I croak
"Rick is asking about you, i said i would come see how you where doing. If your feeling up to it you can come see him?" Hershel suggests
I slowly follow Hershel through some rooms till we get to a small room that had a glass window, Rick was on the opposite side.
"so how is she" Rick asks impatiently
"you can ask her yourself? Hershel says telling me to come over
"Rick" I force a smile
"Your okay?" Rick questions
"Im okay" I say beginning to cough again
"Somehow i don't believe that" Rick sighs
"Can i ask you something?" i ask getting a nod from Rick
"If i don't make it" I gulp
"Your going to make it" Rick insisted
"If i don't make it, i need you to tell Daryl that i'm sorry i couldn't hold on long enough and that i love him." i plead
"When he gets back you can tell him that yourself"
"I didn't even get to say Goodbye, if i don't make it i need to know that your look out for him don't let him do anything stupid. You know the kind of stupid things Daryl does" I laugh slightly as a single tear rolls down my face
"Please just promise me your do that for me" I continue
"I promise" Rick agrees
"Carol and I are going on a run for more food because we lost all the food in cell block D, Ill come see you when i'm back" Rick reassures
"Okay, be careful"
I head back into the cells and help Hershel with his rounds as much as i could, there was one guy we had to help by keeping him alive by putting some tube down his throat which was attached to a big bag at the end which Sasha was pushing every 5 seconds, we were all going to take it in turns to help so that no one got to exhausted. Later on a guy chocked to death on his own blood and Hershel and i had to take him out on a stretcher into another room before placing a knife into his skull so he didn't turn. After a while i go to lay down for a while before i swap with Glenn who was pumping the bag for the guy we helped earlier. As i get upstairs i go to lay down on my bed when i hear Glenn calling out, as quickly as i could without falling over from exhaustion run to where Glenn was now laid on the floor Choking on his blood struggling to breathe. The man who he was helping to breathe was no where to be seen, what the hell had he turned?
"Glenn, its okay I'm here" I panic turning him into his side so that he didn't choke
"Hershel, Hershel" I shout at the top of my lungs
"Just hang on Glenn ill be back i promise" I please
I come out the cell and go down the stairs to see walkers biting some of the people who where trying to help. I see a walker on top of Hershel and quickly grab my gun and shoot it before doing the same to the other walkers.
"Thank you" Hershel exclaims
"You need to help Glenn, he's choking i didn't know what to do" I say ushering him to the cell
"Help" Lizze screams
"Just help Glenn and ill get Lizzie" I say to Hershel
"Its okay Lizzie" I assured putting my knife through the walkers skull before collapsing to floor next to lizzie
"Did it get you? are you okay?" I panic
"no" Lizzie crys
"Go to Hershel and help him, tell him i'm getting what he needs, okay" I plead
"Okay" Lizzie agrees
I climb over the rail into the netting that hung across, i hope its strong enough i thought to myself . I wrestle the walker who had the breathing apparatus to try and get it to save Glenn, but the walker was stronger and i was to weak to be doing any kind of wrestling. The walker gets on top of me and just as my arms begin to give way a shot is fired and the walker falls besides me, I look to the direction of where the shot came from it was Maggie. Thank god for maggie.
"He's turning blue" Hershel shouts
"Im coming" I say rushing to the room where Hershel, Glenn and now Maggie where
"Hold on Glenn" I whisper
"I think he's stable" Hershel says breathing a sigh of relief
I feel the overwhelming urge to close my eyes, they begin to feel even heavier than normal and i could feel my breathing getting shallower. I cant close my eyes, not now Daryl isn't back. Ive got to hold on. I slowly get up and walk out of the cell and hold onto my pounding head before falling to the floor once again.
The next time i wake up i'm laid in a bed with my head placed on Daryl's chest. Had i really been out that long? or was i dead.
"Thank god, I thought i had lost you" Daryl sighed in relief
"I didn't think i was going to see you again" I croak
"You held on" Daryl smiled
"We got the antibiotics, your going to fine" Daryl continued pushing the hair out of my face
"You shouldn't be in here, you could catch it" I frowned
"its a risk thats worth taking, you really think i'm going to leave you again" Daryl admitted
