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Sorry for the late update! I got a really, really high fever for the past week, so I couldn't write any chapter... sorry I just manage to finish it up today:)
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Warnings: Definitely have a OOC character
Disclaimer: I Do NOT own Walking Dead
Chapter 12:
When the Dead Come Knocking
Rosalyn watched as Merle duck taped Maggie to a chair in a room while a man with a sickening smirk pointing a gun at Rosalyn's head. Glenn was in the other room, probably in the same situation as Maggie is. Merle finally took a step back and gave a satisfied smirk at his work
"All done. Nice and tight." he smirked at Maggie "Well we have one more to go"
Maggie struggled against the tape. "Don't you hurt her!" she screamed
He chuckled "I won't," he paused "But somebody will" he shrugged before turning around to the man. "Let's go."
"Wait, you don't know what you're doing. Just don't hurt her" Maggie paused "You're Daryl's brother, right? I-If you hurt her, you don't want to know what he's going to do with you"
He stopped and turned his head slightly toward her. "She's Daryl's girl?"
Maggie paused to answer that "Yeah and he'll never forgive you if she is hurt" she told him with a glare, hoping he'll let her go if he thought his brother wouldn't like him messing around with Rosalyn. But he just opened the door and walked out with both Rosalyn and the man.
"I'll take it from here." Merle told the other man as they walked into another room. There was a chair, just like the room where they put Maggie, only there was no table in here.
Just a chair, nothing else.
He grabbed grabbed Rosalyn's arms and guided her to the chair. She sat on the chair without a struggle "So, you and my brother, huh?" he asked while duck taping her to the chair. Rosalyn just stayed quiet and keep her eyes straight, no trace of fear or panic was seen in them.
There was no point in trying to escape, she had already seen three men with guns around here. She'd be dead before she could even escaped the room, and she didn't want to die, if she die... she would hurt Daryl even more and she din't want to do that
"Ain't talking much did you?" he chuckled "Not the same person as before huh?"
She just looked up at him and stared at him with blank face
"Somethin' happen to you?" he asked, crouching down in front of her
"It doesn't matter anymore, Merle" she smiled at him
"Is that so?" he raised an eyebrow at her. He use his blade to lift her chin up and chuckled "You've change quiet a lot, huh"
"Can't say the same about you" she threw back
"Don't get too cocky darlin'." he pressed the blade against her neck "I could kill you right here, right now, if you didn't fucking stop your mouth"
"Try me" she challenged him with a smile "If you kill me, you'll end up hurting Daryl too, mentally"
"It's true then" he removed his blade from her neck. His eyes caught the chain on her neck and pulled it out, raising his eyebrow at the words on them. He dropped the necklace and burst out of laughing "My little brother had gotten soft, what did y'all do?"
"Nothing" she answered simply
"Yeah right" he scoffed before looking at her straight in her eyes "Now tell me, where's your camp and I can promise your safety. It's a chance of a life time, you can stay here, safe from the walkers and all. All you gotta do is tell me where you've been staying at"
"Like I said last time we see each other" She let out a soft laugh "'I'd love to. But, no can't do, darlin'.'. I don't want safety if it's mean my family is going to get hurt because of it"
He sighed. "Suit yourself. But whatever happens to you, don't blame it on me." and with that he walked out and closed the door, leaving Rosalyn alone in the room.
Rick had decided that he wanted to spend some time outside. He found himself were standing on the pathway between the inner and outer gates, looking at a badly-injured woman. The walkers not taking any notice of her because of the blood on her clothes and skin. In her hand she held a shopping basket and from the looks of it, inside was a lot of baby formula.
From that he knew something was not right.
Carl ran through the gate into the other section in order to open the gate. She looked as if she could barely stand up, Rick notice how she pressed her hand to her leg, bringing it back up with blood on walker on her left the smell of her blood on her hand. He snarled, and she backed up from the fence, her eyes averted from him to the walkers before she glanced back at him, hoping that he'd help her.
Dropping the basket from her hand and her backpack fell off her shoulder, she pulled out her sword. She effortlessly sliced the heads off of some walkers, stabbing a few others, before falling on her back. Carl shot a few walkers who got closer to her.
"Carl!" Rick gestured for him to throw me the keys. Looking out he saw the walkers getting closer to her "Shit!"
When he finally unlocked the front gate, Rick and Carl shot down any walkers headed their way. Hershel and Beth gathered around the opening, cautiously watching as Rick knelt down in front of the unconscious woman.
"Is she bit?" Hershel asked.
"Gunshot," Rick answered after taking a good glance at her wound. Picking her up, Rick tried getting himself and the woman back inside before more walkers came. They rushed into the prison, Carl was at the front holding the basket and sword.
"Carl, get a blanket." I told him as I carried the woman down the stairs. "Beth, water and a towel."
"All right." Beth nodded as she walked off with the baby
"Here?" Carl asked, gesturing to a spot on the ground as he laid out the blanket for Rick to place her on.
"She's not coming in the cell blocks," Rick exclaimed.
He lost his grip slightly and she started falling. "Whoa, whoa, whoa. Steady now. All right" he breathed out as Beth handed Rick a towel with some water after the woman had been carefully placed on the ground "All right. Thank you"
He poured a little bit of the water on the woman to get the blood off. The woman's eyes fluttered open, looking around frantically.
"Who are you?" Rick asked. The woman tried reaching for her sword, but Rick kicked it out of the way. "We aren't going to hurt you, unless you do something stupid first, alright?"
"Rick." Everyone turned and saw Daryl walk in, looking at the woman with slight confusion. "Who the hell is this?"
"Wanna tell us your name?" Rick asked gently.
The woman sat up on her elbows, glaring at Rick but not answering."Alright, you could calm yourself for a while"
Rick looked at the woman before looking at everyone else. Everyone stood off to the side, unsure on what to do. He motioned for Beth to go into the cell block "Go ahead" he muttered before turning around to Carl "Carl, get the bag."
Beth quietly nodded and walked towards the cell block, her father behind her, Daryl stepped aside to let them past while he waited for Rick. Carl walked over to where there was a red shopping basket filled with cans of baby formula. Daryl frowned as he watched Carl bring the basket into the cell block. He started to feel uneasy as he stared at the woman.
"We'll keep this safe and sound," Rick said, he raised the katana "The doors are all locked. You'll be safe here." He nodded to a wound on the woman's tight. "And we can treat that."
"I didn't ask for your help," the woman muttered tensely.
"Doesn't matter. Can't let you leave."
With that, he turned to join the rest of the group in the cell block.
After 10 minute or less, Rick and the others went back to the common room where the woman was at. She had moved to sit at one of the tables, using the cloth to put pressure on the wound. Rick, Daryl, and Hershel came came in, Daryl had his crossbow with him. The moment they entered, she was glaring at him.
"We can tend to that wound for you," Rick offered, "give you a little food and water, and then send you on your way. But you're gonna have to tell us how you found us, and why you were carrying formula."
"The supplies were dropped by a young Asian guy with two pretty girl," the woman said
Daryl tensed slightly at that and Hershel stood up from his place."What happened?" Hershel asked, trying to keep his voice steady. "Were they attacked?"
She looked over at the old man. "They were taken."
"Taken?" he repeated as he leaned down so he could get an eye contact from her again. "By who?"
"By the same son of a bitch who shot me," she said bitterly, looking to the side with an angry frown on her face.
Rick knelt in front of her, forcing the woman to look him in the face. "Hey," he said, calling for her attention urgently. "These are our people. You tell us what happened. Now." With that last word, he reached out and pressed a finger the woman's wound.
The woman shot to her feet and off the seat in an instant, forcing Rick's hand away. Daryl raised his crossbow, putting the woman in his sights. "Don't you ever touch me again!" the woman hissed, pointing at Rick in warning
"You better start talkin'," Daryl snapped, getting angrier as the time pass by. He got no time for this, she is out there and more importantly she was in danger, but this woman didn't help him at all "You're gonna have a much bigger problem than a gunshot wound."
The woman glared at all of them, a look of disgust mixed with anger "Find 'em yourself," she spat.
"Hey. Shh, shh, shh. Put it down" Rick gestured for Daryl to calm down and lowered his weapon. Rick moved in between Daryl and the woman "You came here for a reason," he pointed out
The woman hesitated, as if to think over what she was about to say. When she looked up at Rick, her gaze had softened just a little, but she was still giving him a warning looks."There's a town," she muttered. "Woodbury. About seventy-five survivors. I think they were taken there."
"A whole town?" Rick asked
"Run by a guy who calls himself the Governor." The way she said it, with such disgust and contempt, she held a lot of venom in those words "Pretty boy, charming. Jim Jones type."
"He got muscle?" Daryl asked.
"Paramilitary wannabes," the woman scoffed. "They have armed sentries on every wall."
Rick tilted his head to the side "You know a way in?" he asked.
"The place is secured from walkers, but we could slip our way through."
There was a pause as we waited for Rick's next move. He stared at her for a moment, thinking about her words carefully. Then he spoke again. "How'd you know how to get here?" he asked.
"They mentioned a prison, said which direction it was in, said it was a straight shot." she said simply.
He paused again, studying the woman to see if the woman was telling the truth. Then he finally looked over to Nicole and then Hershel. "This is Nicole and Hershel, the sister and father of the girls who were taken. They'll take care of that," he said, nodding to the woman's wound.
Rick and Daryl exchanged a look before leaving
Everyone -except Nicole, Hershel and Carl- were standing at the other end of the cell block, away from where Hershel and Nicole was tending to the stranger's wounds while Carl watched over them. Rick explained to everyone what had happened, about the town Woodbury, where Glenn, Rosalyn and Maggie had apparently been taken.
"How do you know we can trust her?" Oscar asked, not exactly believing her story.
"This is Maggie, Rosalyn and Glenn," Beth pointed out urgently "Why are we even debatin'?"
"We ain't," Daryl said "I'll go after 'em."
"Well, this place sounds pretty secure," Rick pointed out "You can't go alone."
"I'll go," Beth volunteered.
Axel stepped forward. "Me too." he said before turning to Oscar.
Oscar nodded. "I'm in."
"I'll go too" Nathaniel said
"Nath, no" Christopher warned him "Did you really think she would be happy to see you out there? We don't know what's out there"
"My sister is captured by some random bastard-," he paused when Christopher gave him a warning look "I'm not going to stay still"
"Your brother is right" Rick nodded, before sighing "You better stay here with the rest of us, in case something happen"
He stared at Rick for a moment before sighing in defeat "Fine"
Rick looked around at all of them, nodding in satisfaction. "All right then."
Everyone packed some backpacks full of any weapons they needed for the break-in, filling the trunk of the car with all the weapons and things that would be needed. In the end, Beth, Nathaniel, Christopher and Axel would be staying behind with the others, because they didn't have enough room.
Daryl tossed the bag that he brought into the back of the SUV as he and Oscar started filling up the car "I got the flash bangs, and I got the tear gas," he told him before Oscar left to get more. "You never know what you're gonna need," he added as he grabbed his vest, putting it on as Carl walked up to the car.
"Hey" Daryl stepped towards him and took one of the bag from him.
"Thanks."Carl muttered and handed the bag over before turning to toss the bag in with the rest.
Daryl turned to face Carl "Hey. Don't you worry 'bout your old man," he said. "I'm gonna keep my eye on him and I'll bring Rosalyn back" he patted him on the back comfortingly, he nodded as Daryl headed back inside to get some more supplies.
Rick came out of the cell block with a duffel bag and a crate. "Carl," he called as he handed the crate and bag over to Oscar, before he led his son away from everyone. Hershel came down the stairs to stand with the rest of them. Daryl came out after them with the last bag and placed it in the car, after that they started filing into the car.
"Her Daryl!" Daryl stopped his track and turned around to look at Christopher who's making his way towards him with Nathaniel behind him "I'm trusting her in your hands, got it?"
"You better bring her back in one piece" Nathaniel said
"You ain't have to tell me that" he smirked which earned a smirk from both of the brothers. He nodded to them and slipped into the car. The woman took the passenger seat, and Rick was about to climb into the driver's side when Hershel stopped him.
"Bring them back," he looked at him eyes
Rick gave him a court nod and slipped into the driver's seat.
The door to the room where Rosalyn was kept in was opened, she was expecting Merle to came in, but it wasn't him. It was a man who she expected to be the governor, she could tell that from his vibes. He took his time looking at her face, her eyes harden at the sight of him.
"My, my... what a lovely face you got there" he chuckled
Rosalyn gave out a sarcastic smile at him "I'll take that as a compliment, thank you very much"
"Well..." he took a nearby chair and dragged it towards her before sitting in front of her. "Why don't you tell me where you staying at? I won't do anything to hurt them, don't worry. I'll just going to bring them here, we'll take care of you."
"Really now?" she raised her eyebrow "I don't think I can believe in your words of lies"
He shook his head. "Got an attitude, don't you?" he chuckled "Well maybe you should"
Rosalyn flinched when as he reached out for her which making him to smirk. He grabbed some of her golden locks and placed it in front of his face with a sickening smile. That move was enough to make her trembled in fear
Just then, his hand went to grab her neck and squeeze it tightly until she couldn't breath properly "Tell me where your camp is." he snapped
"... No" she manage to choke out while glaring at him, even thought she was trying to fight for air.
"I'll ask you one more time" His grip loosened as he looked into her eyes "Tell me where your camp is."
Gasping for breath she shook my head. "No."
His fist came colliding with her cheek "Tell me where your camp is." he repeated
"Don't you hear me? I said no" she scoffed slightly at him while shaking her head once more, spitting the blood that was in her mouth
He glared at her and pulled out his knife to cut her hands lose before he forced her to stand up. He took a hold of her hair and slammed her head against the wall. He continue to press her face again the wall while using his other hand to unbuttoned her flannel shirt before he let it fall to the ground leaving her with only her tank top. He released his grip on her face, forcefully grabbing both of her hands and bringing it above her head.
His hands moved under her shirt, rubbing his hands against her skin. "Tell me where your camp is." he said again while pushing himself closer to her.
"Do whatever you want" she bit out before taking a deep breath to calm herself down "But I'm not going to tell you anything"
"Then," he bring his face closer to her ear and whispered "How about I kill all of your friends and of course, your boyfriend. But I won't kill you, I'll keep you here to suffer"
Rosalyn just gave him a weak smile "Doesn't matter if I did tell you or not... you're just going to kill us all no matter what" she manage to roll her eyes at him "I know how heartless you're"
He gave her wrist a final squeeze to make sure it'd leave a mark before he gave another blow at her and took her shirt with him. She slide down to the ground, her mind is going blank. Before she knew it, her breath was coming out as a short breath.
'Oh god, not now' she thought as she felt her vision to blur, and then everything went black
Author's Note:
Alright! sorry for mistake and randomness, can't think straight and I might not update regularly because I'm in my last year of high school, so I'm soo busy It's suck but yeah... and THANK YOU FOR READING! PLEASE REVIEW AND ALSO THANKS FOR THE REVIEW :v LOVE YA ALL! BYE! PLEASE REVIEWWW!
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