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Chapter 16: I need ya alive

It has been months since the basement incident. But everything and everyone has been so busy since. Tiffany and Daryl where constantly hunting to get food on the table – they found a large deer a couple of weeks ago that took them hours to track. Daryl was so determined to get the deer but that's when he found out Tiffany was a fast runner - and not just fast, really fast. Tiffany then laughed when Daryl got in a bad mood when she shot it down before him.

Carol has been working along side Beth and Carl around the mansion. Beth and Carol have been cooking and cleaning while Carl has been keeping things quiet when Glenn, Maggie, Rick and Michonne where on the runs. One week Carol found a door right at the back of the mansion. All three of them inspected it to find four walkers probably the owners in the room. They dealt with it quickly and burnt the bodies. The three accepted to keep this to themselves.

Carol and Daryl hardly got anytime alone and when they did it was a quick kiss or hug at night before Daryl had to go on watch duty. It was like they just couldn't find the time they had before. Like they where fighting too hard to keep the other safe that they didn't find the time to actually treasure it.

Today when Carol woke up to an empty bed like she has been doing for the last couple of months she remembered that everyone was staying at the mansion for today. She lifted herself up feeling a pain deep down in her heart – it felt like a bad gut feeling. She ignored it and went down to the kitchen to find her breakfast already made on the table. She grumbled at the thought she should have made it but she quickly lost that thought when she found a note.

I found out about the walkers ya dealt with. We will be talkin later. But for now be careful and remember I need ya alive because I love ya.

Daryl.

Carol smiled feeling the happy tears fill her eyes. She didn't care if he found out about the stupid walkers because the note meant so much. She folded it up and slipped it into her back pocket. She would carry it because even though they haven't spent much time together these last couple of months she always knew that she had a part of him in her back pocket.

Carol cleaned up the kitchen and walked into the hallway. Suddenly she flinched as the front door swung open. Everyone ran in shouting at each other and running in different directions. Daryl looked at Carol and ran towards her.

"The Governor he is here" Daryl shouted opening a closet and opening a gun bag. He picked up a gun checking if it was loaded and shoved it into Carol hands. He then repeated it for himself.

"If we start to lose" Daryl said quickly while everyone started to run back out the door.

"No Daryl" Carol begged but Daryl put both his hands on her shoulders and shook her lightly.

"If we start to lose ya need to leave this place... I love ya" Daryl kissed her forehead and looked at her deeply in the eyes. She looked deeply into his eyes and that's when she knew why it felt so different making love with him the other month. Because that was the last time, she was right. She wanted to pull him into an embrace and feel his soft lips on hers but before she knew it his existence disappeared and out the door like that was the last time they would see each other. She didn't have time to think anymore of it because she was already following the guns shots outside.

What the fuck was he thinking? Just leaving her like that. It killed him to see her eyes so sad and confused. They both knew the chances of seeing each other where slim especially with the Governor and his army of men. But he needed to fight not just for him and his group but for Carol and Tiffany. He ran and took cover from a car beside Tiffany.

"A sniper gun" Daryl lowered his eyes on the gun Tiffany was holding.

"It's more fun" Tiffany smirked.

Daryl rolled his eyes and stood from their cover aiming at the closest man and shot. He then aimed at another. The sound of his gun was followed by another shot as he watched the enemy fall down. He aimed again and was about to pull the trigger but no sound surrounded him. He took cover and reloaded with the bag of ammo beside them. He stood up again and watched as the enemies ran back and forth from cars but they never made it to cover because they fell by a sudden force, almost like they where tripping over the same thing. Daryl turned his head and realised it was Tiffany who was shooting every one in the open. She pulled the trigger on every fast beat watching as her target fell.

Tiffany looked through the scope and moved it around finding a target. She stopped when the marker was right on the Governor Head – she smiled and took and deep breathe. She could end this now in one shot. She curled her finger around the trigger and pulled but felt no vibration on her gun. She looked at it and grunted loudly – no ammo. She took cover to find ammo but there was none left. She had to get closer to the enemies it was the only way to take them all out unexpected. She took a pistol with a few rounds and held her knife with her other hand just in case of walkers - and jumped up. She ran fast that Daryl didn't even realise it until she was halfway down the gate taking cover on one of the Woodbury cars. Daryl felt his whole body tense at the feeling of her getting shot. He wanted to run after her and kick her ass. But that was until he seen the tank and more cars pull up. He felt a bullet bruise his shoulder and took cover quickly. They lost, they had no chance. He looked around only seeing Beth couple of feet away.

"Beth!" Daryl shouted over the noise.

"What!?"

"We need to get the fuck out of here!" He continued. He wanted to go and get Carol but he watched as she jumped into the car with the others.

"What about the others?" Beth asked but before he could answer Beth was pulled up by him from the arm off the ground and they started to run towards the side of the mansion.

Once Carol got out the mansion she ran straight towards Rick, Glenn, Maggie and Michonne. She scanned the area to find Tiffany at the bottom of the gate. Carol tutted of course Tiffany would risk her life dangerously. She looked for Daryl but couldn't find him anywhere –a wave of concern hit her. She started to shoot with the gun Daryl leaded her but it was no use they just kept coming. She then watched as Rick opened the car door and turned on the engine.

"We need to go!" Rick shouted. Glenn, Maggie, Michonne and Carol jumped into the car and sped out one of the open gates. Carol hissed when she got her leg caught on something but she didn't want to slow the other down. Once they where all in the car they drove fast away from the mansion but some of the cars from Woodbury turned up behind them.

"What we goin' to do?" Maggie shouted looking in the back window.

"We need to lose them!" Carol shouted and opened the window. She leaned out and aimed at there tiers. The others seemed to work out what she was doing and followed her flow.

Tiffany watched as the car drove away feeling nothing but pissed off. They left her on her own in a battle against fifty people or more. Fuckers she thought.

"Tiffany!" Carl waved his arm at her from another car he was taking cover at. Tiffany smiled at how she was not the only one who had the idea of getting close to the enemies. Obviously Woodbury didn't know that most of them where gone because they where wasting ammo still shooting. Tiffany knew this was a good chance for her and Carl to sneak away. She nodded her head towards the woods and he got the hint.

R&R - I am going to be doing differnt POV's in the next couple of chapters.

Marvella.M