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Her Angel, His Strength

26 Made to Suffer

They observed the wall carefully, trying to find somewhere they could get in, with no success when Michonne left them.

"Hey. Hey! Hey! Damn it." Rick cursed the woman. "All right, we need to downsize."

"Ain't no way we're gonna check in all them buildings, not with all them guards there."

"All right, let's go." Rick agreed.

They all turned around with their guns ready at the sound of someone approaching them from behind. It was Michonne. Gesturing with her head, they followed her as she led them to an unguarded part of the town they could get in. They jumped the window of a house, and, after checking the rooms, Rick asked:

"This is where you were held?"

"I was questioned."

"Any idea where else they could be?" Daryl asked.

"I thought you said there was a curfew." Rick accused watching out the window as people walked around the street.

"The street is packed during the day. Those are stragglers."

"If anyone comes in here, we're sittin' ducks." Daryl pointed out to Rick.

"We gotta move."

"They could be in his apartment." Michonne suggested.

"Yeah? What if they ain't?" Daryl challenged her.

"Then we'll look somewhere else."

"You said you could help us."

"I'm doing what I can." She stressed.

"Then where in the hell are they?" Oscar demanded, and Rick motioned for them to join him.

"If this goes south, we're cutting her loose." Lily frowned at his words.

"Why?"

"You think she's leading us into a trap?" Oscar asked.

"She wasn't with them when they got Glenn and Maggie. They shot at her, Rick!" Lily pointed out.

"Right now it's the blind leading the blind." Rick told her firmly and she scowled at him.

"Let's split up." Daryl suggested when they heard someone knocking on the door. They hid, panicked at being found so soon.

"I know you're in here. I saw you moving from outside." A man said, walking inside the house. "All right, now. You're not supposed to be in here and you know it. Who's in here?"

Rick and Daryl got out from their hiding places, knocking the man on his knee. Pressing his gun on his face, Rick demanded:

"Hands behind your back. Zip tie him. Where are our people?"

"I don't know." The man said confused and scared.

"You are holding some of our people. Where the hell are they?"

"I don't know." He repeated.

"Open your mouth." Rick stuck a sock on his mouth and Daryl knocked him out. The sound of gunshots nearby startled them all.

"That must be them, let's go!" Rick hissed, and ran towards where the sounds were heard. The corridors were confusing, making it easy for them to get lost. They had just turned a corner when they saw someone. Motioning for them to get down, they waited for Rick's sign. At his nod, Daryl and Oscar launched two bomb gas at them.

In the confusion, they got Maggie and Glenn, who was so hurt he could barely walk. With Michonne's help, they found a house to hide.

"Come on. Inside, quick!"

"Ain't no way out back here." Daryl said after looking around. Lily kneeled down by Glenn's side, taking his head in her hands.

"Oh, Glenn, what did they do to you?" He shook his head away, wincing.

"I'm fine."

"How bad are you hurt?"

"I'll be all right." Glenn answered, though it was easy to see he was straining himself.

"Where's that woman?" Maggie asked.

"She was right behind us." Rick answered, realising Michonne was not with them.

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

"No. We gotta get them out of here. She's on her own."

"Daryl," Glenn called, "this was Merle." Lily gasped. Looking at her, he continued: "it was. He did this." Lily kept denying with her head, not wanting to believe it.

"Ya saw him?" Daryl asked, coming to stand by them.

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

"S- So my brother's this governor?" Looking as shocked as Lily.

"No, it's somebody else." Maggie answered. "Your brother's his lieutenant or something."

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

"He does now." Turning to Rick, Glenn apologised, "Rick, I'm sorry. We told him where the prison was. We couldn't hold out."

"Don't. No need to apologize." Rick told him sternly. "They're gonna be looking for us. We have to get back. Can you walk? We got a car a few miles out."

"I'm good." Lily helped Maggie get Glenn back to his feet.

"Hey, if Merle's around, I need to see him."

"Not now. We're in hostile territory." Rick denied.

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

"Look at what he did!" Rick pointed to Glenn's bloodied and swollen face. "Look, we gotta- we gotta get out of here now."

"Maybe I can talk to him. Maybe I can work something out." Daryl pleaded.

"No, no, no. You're not thinking straight." Rick started to whisper something to Daryl, who did not look happy, but Lily saw him acquiescence. She wanted to find Merle too, thought it would have to wait. Glenn and Maggie needed them more right now. They would have to come back for Merle later.

While the others checked out the streets, Rick came closer to Lily.

"Listen what's waiting outside. We will have to shoot at them. Are you ready for that?" Lily looked at Glenn's face, blood all over him; she looked at the frightened eyes on Maggie's face. She nodded. "Alright, let's go."

"Stay close." Daryl asked her.

"On three. Stay tight. One, two, three." They opened the doors and threw two more grenades at the streets. "Let's go!"

Running, they tried to take cover, but as soon as they emerged, the shooting started. Lily tried not to think at whom she was shooting, she just kept thinking of helping Glenn out of that place.

"Go! Get cover! Get there."

"Go, go, go!" Daryl's voice resounded in the chaos.

"Any grenades left?" Rick asked as they took shelter by a building.

"Uh-huh."

"Get 'em ready."

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

"No!" Lily hissed.

"No, we gotta stay together." Maggie agreed.

"Too hairy. I'll be right behind ya." Looking at Lily, he planted a kiss on her head. "I'll be right behind ya." She didn't have a chance to deny, as he launched the grenade on the street, Glenn, grabbing her hand, pulled her along.

When they made to the border, Lily helped Glenn up the steps towards the wall while Maggie and Oscar covered them.

"Ah!" Lily looked back to see Oscar on the ground, a gunshot on his chest. "No! Rick! Rick!" Rick was walking towards a fallen man, Lily could not see whom it was, but they had to move now.

"Maggie! Come on! Maggie!" She shouted, laying Glenn down and holding her hand to the other woman. "Daryl!" She yowled into the night. She did not hear an answer.

They took cover on the trees when Rick finally got out from the city. Lily's gaze fixed on the wall as they waited for Daryl. She never knew that being in love with someone could increase her stress level so much.

"Come on, Daryl." She prayed just when Michonne reappeared.

"Where the hell were you?" Rick snarled at her, his and Maggie's gun at ready. "Put your hands up. Turn around. Turn around. Get what you came for?" He asked after he got her sword from her.

"Where are the rest of your people?"

"They got Oscar. Daryl is missing."

"You didn't see him?" Lily asked, a panicked look on her face. Michonne denied with her head.

"If anything happens to him-" Rick started.

"I brought you here to save them."

"Thanks for the help." He said, his tone mocking.

"You'll need help to get them back to the prison or to go back in there for Daryl." She tried. "Either way, you need me."

"Rick. Look at her face!" Lily growled. "Why's there blood on her? Huh? Think that besides trying to kill us, they had time to stage all this? That she's one of them? We need to get Daryl. She's help! Let her help."


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Mel.