A/N: Warning, some season three spoilers if you haven't seen season three yet. Enjoy.
Chapter 2: Prison Break
Rick Grimes, the leader of the group has finally regained his senses after seeing his dead wife. The Governor dead and Andrea back in the group. The prison is now infested with walkers no thanks to the Governor and his men. It has been for a few months now and the group can't hold out any longer. They need to leave and the know it. Despite all the arguments between them with some saying stay and fight and others saying that's insanity; they all know they can't hold out any longer. The walkers keep getting further into the prison each day. "We don't have a choice, we leave now or we die." Rick got up in Merle's face but Daryl and Glenn stepped between them.
"What makes you think that we can really get out of here alive?" Merle tried to get around his brother and get up in Ricks face but failed.
"Now is not the time you two, we have come to a decision and that's to leave. If you want to stay Merle, then be our guest." Maggie said feeding the baby as Merle backed off. Maggie couldn't help but be scared at seeing the walkers banging at the cell doors and reaching through the bars, who wouldn't be at seeing that? "We need to go if for anything the sake of" Maggie didn't finish her sentence as the bars began to bend from the pressure being put on them by the walkers. "Let's get out of here."
The only way out was up the stairs and out the windows. The windows however are blocked by bars to keep prisoners in. Rick and Merle looked at each other for a second and then nodded. The two ran up the stairs followed by the others and found a window closest to the outside ground. "Carl, crowbar." Rick held out his hand as Carl threw him the crowbar. Rick and Merle then put it between two of the bars and began pulling. The two of them together couldn't get the bars to bend. Daryl then grabbed onto the crowbar as well and began to pull along with them. With the extra strength, the bars began to slowly bend.
"Hurry up you three." Andrea said getting her gun ready with the others. Beads of sweat began to roll down her forehead as the walkers continued to bend the bars to the door. They have to wait for the walkers to break through before they could fire their guns. The last thing they needed right now is to waste ammo and worse, attract even more walkers to them before they could escape. The closer the walkers got, the less time other walkers would have to get to them before they leave and the less ammo the group would waste killing more coming in. "Come on, we don't have time." The bars continued to bend until finally a hole was made, the door collapsed onto the ground and the walkers flooded into the cell. The group began firing off shots doing the best they could to hit each walker in the head as they got closer.
Daryl and the other two finally made a big enough hole in the bars for everyone to get through. Rick ran and with Daryl's help pulled the staircase over to the window and turned it into a ladder. "I'm glad that we actually decided to take down the other side of the staircase." Daryl said lowering the stairs out the window. "Ok let's move it." The women were the first out the window and to the ground. The next down was Hershel and then Carl, and so on until only Daryl, Merle, and Rick were left. Rick went down first with Daryl's insistence. "Come on Merle, let's move." Daryl said climbing out the window and down the staircase ladder.
Once Daryl was down, Merle pushed the staircase away from the window. "Go Daryl, get out of here. I'll hold them off but do me a favor and kill them for me will ya?" Merle turned and stabbed a walker in the face and then picked up the crowbar. "Bring it on you undead freaks."
"Merle, you don't have to do that; Merle!" Daryl yelled up to his brother who backed up against the unbent bars. "I love you."
"I love you too you over emotional...haa." Merle screamed as he busted the head of a walker. "Go now!" Merle said with force.
Daryl was then grabbed by Rick and nodded. "We need to move." Daryl took one last glimpse at his brother and then nodded. The group made their way to their vehicles killing walkers close to them as they went. The group drove off in two separate vehicles.
"Daryl, are you ok?" Carol asked putting a hand on his shoulder. Carol, Daryl, Judith, and Rick got into one car while Hershel, Andrea, Glenn, Maggie, and Carl all got into the bigger of the two vehicles.
"I'm fine, Merle was a jerk anyway." Daryl stared out the window as Rick drove.
"He is still your brother Daryl, no matter what he was like. Besides, don't we owe him some gratitude after what he did even if it wasn't the most helpful thing to do?" Carol stopped talking not wanting to upset Daryl anymore then he already is and put a hand on his shoulder.
"That's all he expects from people you know. He does something that he doesn't have to do and he expects something in return. All he ever did was look out for himself." Daryl continued to stare out the window and watch as walkers went by. For just a second he looked at the prison to see it full of walkers. "He accused me of getting soft but I think he became hardened. He doesn't get a thing from me after what he's done."
"You gave him your love right, you told him that you love him and he returned it." Carol sat back holding Judith in her arms.
"I knew that if I didn't, I would regret it. I'm not sure why but I knew I would. I couldn't bring myself to let him go on a bad note ok." Daryl sighed as they continued. "So Rick, where are we going?"
Rick had no idea what is ahead of them or where they would find a place as well defended as the prison was. He had to try though. "I haven't a clue Daryl but we'll go someplace safe or at least as safe as you can get anymore."
A/N: I know that Merle is OOC at the end there but I wanted to go for an emotional goodbye between the two brothers. I won't be updating this often all the time; I just had some free time today. My memory of the prison is pretty vague despite the fact that I've seen every episode so far but I did the best I could with it. Please review and thank you.