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My question stayed unanswered during the drive. I kept my eyes out the window so I could see if there were any landmarks that could tell me where we were. I recognized nothing.
Merle stopped the van, and a few other people started to crowd around the car. They knew Merle. They let us out of the car but tied our hands behind our backs with duct tape, Merle's orders of course. We were taken to an abandoned house. Once inside, I saw the walls covered in different torturing devices like the ones you see on t.v.
"What are you going to do to us?" I ask one of the people guarding us. The man who was closest to me pushed me ahead, making me trip[ on my feet and told me not to ask questions, that the 'Governor' is the one in control of our fates now. Who was the Governor? I wanted to ask as i stood back up, but decided it was better to keep quiet.
Maggie was taken into a room and the door shut behind her guard.
"What are you going to do to her?" Glenn demands. Another guard socks him in the face and blood trails down his nose. I give an apologetic look to Glenn as he's taken into a room with Merle. the guy who punched Glenn takes me into the last room in the hallway, and pushes me inside. There is a chair in the middle of the otherwise empty room.
I tug uselessly at my duct taped arms while I'm forced to sit down in the chair. My duct tape is ripped and the man holds both of my arms with his hands and re-duct tapes them to the arms of the wooden chair. He does the same with my legs.
As the man leaves, he says, "The governor will be here shortly."
The door is shut, and there is only a little light where it comes in the window. Even if I could get free I still couldn't fit through that window, if I were in my wolf form maybe, but the window was seven feet off the ground, and I can't jump that high.
Think of an escape plan, Destiny! I shout in my head. My wolf form was my trump card at the moment, and I had to use it at the right time if I want to get out of here. The duct tape sticks to my arms, and My wolf form would be in pain if I tried to transform in an awkward position like this.
I hear Glenn scream from the room I was in. It was a pained scream, and then it was abruptly cut off by a thud, like he were punched in the gut.
What was Merle doing to Glenn?
I couldn't hear anything from Maggie. I didn't know if that was a good thing or a bad thing. I hoped for Glenn's sake it was a good thing.
My door opens, and a man comes in. He has brown hair and brown eyes, an average man. His demeanor was silent, but full of authority. Might this man be the so called 'Governor'?
"I heard there was a little girl here, and I was curious. How does a little girl like you survive this long in the apocalypse?" He asks me.
I stay silent and give him a stare I like to call the, I don't give a shit what you say to me.
"Aw, don't look at me like that," he says with a smile. He's treating me like a little kid. "You know, you remind me of my daughter Penny. You're what? 13?"
I still don't answer him. He looks a little mad now. I smile the tiniest bit at this but force my lips back into a straight line.
He kneels down so his face is level with mine, "Look," he grits his teeth, "Your parents here, haven't told me anything, so I'm going to need you to do it for them."
He thinks Glenn and Maggie are my parents, HA.
"Are you the governor?" I ask curiously. It's a valid question.
The man smiles, "My people call me that since I'm the leader of this town I founded. I've made an entire city safe for my people."
"I didnt ask you for your life story, Governor," I say, looking behind the Governor at the door that was closed. He could easily think I was looking at him, but I wasn't.
"You're a rude girl, I must say," he backs off and paces around the room. "I take you in to my city, and you don't appreciate that I could've killed you by now. I dont think you want that, do you?"
I put on a brave mask to hide my fear of this guy actually killing me. He easily could, I'm tied to a chair and can't fend for myself. The only reason he won't do that is because he needs information from me. If I give information to him, he might either let Maggie and Glenn go, or kill them because they're liabilities. The same thing with me. He'll either kill me or let me go. I really doubt it'll be the last idea.
"So what will you be benefitted by if I tell you where my group is?" I ask the governor, leaning back into the wooden chair I was bound to.
"I'll know where to pick you and your group up to bring you back here, of course."
"You're lying," I tell him. My wolf senses tell me something is off about his wolf-y senses are tingling. Suddenly I have an image of me in my wolf form walking on walls like a spider.
Get it together Destiny! This is not the time for stupid thoughts like that.
"How do you figure that?" the Governor asks me.
"I just know," I leave it at that. He nods like he doesn't believe me, and I'm fine with that. He doesn't need to know what I'm capable of.
There's a silence between both of us. The Governor seems to be trying to intimidate me into answering his questions.
"You're hair is white," He notices. No, freaking, duh.
"Nooo," I say sarcastically.
"Just an observation."
More silence. Then the Governor stands up, and walks to the door.
"I'll be right back," he tells me as he shuts the door. I let out a breath I didn't know I was holding. I heard growls from a walker in the hall. Oh god, what's he going to do now?
The door opens, and the Governor is holding a walker with a pole and leash stuck to the walker's neck. I try to back my chair farther away from the walker but I can't move. The Governor has a twisted smile on his face and he let's go of the walker and shuts the door.
Shit.
No one's POV (BACK AT THE PRISON)
Rick was out in the courtyard with everyone else. He looked around, They should be back by now. his attention was taken off the normal walkers by the fence by a darker skinned woman. She held a basket in her hands and her shirt was covered in walker gore.
"I'll be back," He says to Hershel, and walks through the grass to the fence. He looks at the woman curiously, noticing her weapon; a katana. The woman winces, and moves her hand to her thigh, where a bullet wound was. Carl was running over with the keys to the fence, and Hershel was close behind on his crutches. The walker next to her looks at her, and must've realized she wasn't one of the walkers herself. He lunges her arms to her, and the woman reaches behind her back and pulls out the katana. It swings out, and she limps backwards before stabbing the walker in the face. Other walkers began to notice the commotion and came over to the woman.
With her injury, she couldn't hold back many more walkers, and Rick recognized this. He run over the the door of the fence.
"Carl," Rick yells, "The keys!"
Carl tosses the keys to his father, and Rick unlocks the door to help the woman. Two walkers get close to the woman and she can't draw her weapon up fast enough. Two gunshots from Carl's gun had put them down for her. Rick looks at him with an approving look. If there was time, Rick would've praised Carl for his smart actions, but there was no time.
The woman fell back onto the grass and had a dazed look in her eyes. She passed out after that.
Rick ran over to her to see if she was bitten as well as shot. He examined her body and did not find anything. He lifted her up with and ran her inside.
Hershel and Carl were behind him, but Carl ran up ahead and opened the door inside the prison.
With the help of Rick, Carl, Beth, and everyone, They were able to stabilize the new woman. When she awoke, she was bombarded with questions. She told them to wait, and then she told the new group of The Governor and his city called Woodbury. She figures this is where this group's people were taken, and she reluctantly agrees to show them where Woodbury is.
Rick, Daryl, and a prison inmate, Oscar, decide as a group to rescue other group members Glenn, Destiny, and Maggie. The three of them walk outside and get into cars, but Carl runs outside after them before they can get off prison grounds.
"I want to come with you," He says in one breath. " I want to help get Destiny back."
Rick, in the driver's seat, opens the door and leads Carl away from the car.
"Listen, Carl," Rick starts off, "This is going to be dangerous. I don't know what the place we're going is, or the territory, so there's a disadvantage for me as well as anyone else who comes. I want you to keep the group safe while I'm gone."
Carl nods, defeated. He wants to help but knows he should stay at the prison. A new topic, one he's been thinking about for a while comes to mind.
"Do you remember my third grade teacher?" he asks his dad. Rick furrows his eyes, confused, but lets Carl go on.
"Her name was judith, and I kinda wanted to name the baby that."
"Judith's a fine name," Rick smiles kindly.
Suddenly, Daryl pops up behind and says, "Wait, so no on the name Asskicker?" He feigns being offended and Carl laughs a little.
"Nah," Rick says, "I think Judith is fine."
Daryl laughs slightly and walks back into the car, giving Rick the look saying, We have to leave soon.
"I have to go, Watch everyone for me?" Rick looks at Carl with the same color eyes as he had, with seriousness. Carl looks doubtful, wondering to himself if Rick and the others will get Glenn, Maggie, and Destiny back.
Rick notices his doubt, "Don't worry, we'll be back soon," he walks into the car and shuts the door, he turns the car on, and rolls down the back window where Daryl sat.
"Don't worry," Daryl said, out the opened window, "We'll bring your girlfriend back!"
