AN: I should be posting at least one more chapter this week. This is the second half of "I Ain't No Judas". Enjoy!
"Are you alone?" Rick asked, once he realized Andrea was walking toward the gate.
"Open up," she replied. Rick nodded for Daryl to do so. As soon as Andrea was through the fence, Rick began patting her down, and held her face against the chain-link fence.
"Answer the question," Rick urged.
"Yes, yes. I'm alone."
Once Rick decided she was okay to let in, they all went into the prison and wordlessly formed a circle. Lily sat with Daryl on a table. He wrapped his hand around her's.
"Where's Carol?" Andrea asks, almost getting choaked up. Lily only then realized that she'd somehow missed Carol. I'm an awful person, she thought.
"We got attacked. Walkers," Rick shook his head.
"T-Dog?"
"Same," Maggie replied.
"Lori?"
"She had a little girl," Hershel began. "We lost her during child birth."
"You've all been through alot..." Andrea said. "Carl...oh my God, is that you?" she noticed the young boy in the sheriff's hat. "You look so grown up!" Carl's face didn't change. "And you two," she turned her attention to Lily and Daryl. "You two really do make a beautiful couple."
"Thanks," Lily replied. But it lacked real emotion.
"I'm not the enemy. He," she pointed to Merle, "tried to kill you, you, and you!" she pointed to Michonne, Glenn, and Maggie.
Lily felt her stomach turn. She quickly rose and and hurried to one of the few garbage cans. She dry heaved. It was only then that she realized she hadn't eaten that day. Daryl went to her side, and pulled her hair back, in the off chance she did actually hurl.
"Yew okay?" he asked her, tenativly.
"Yeah," she rose her head and wipped her the saliva from her mouth. "Are there showers here?"
"Ya. I kinda fergot 'bout 'em. I'll take yew there," he began to lead her out of the room.
"Where yew two goin'?" Merle called after his brother.
"Showin' her ta the shower," Daryl replied. It surprised him when his older brother didn't say anything more. He expected some volguar comment.
They first went back to their cell and Lily grabbed clothes. Daryl only stood in the door way.
"You aren't joining me?" she asked.
"Didn't know yew wanted me ta," he grabbed the back of his neck nervously. Lily swore she saw him blush.
"Well, I do," she gave him a small smile. "Here," Lily threw Daryl an outfit. They started to walk toward the showers, but stopped when they saw the group making their way toward them.
"I was just about to show Andrea baby Judith," Beth said.
"Please, allow me," Lily smiled softly. Beth nodded, and Andrea hesitantly followed Lily to Judith's make shift bed. It was only a container that read, "Little Ass Kicker". Andrea chuckled when she saw writing.
"Let me guess, Daryl's doings?"
"I'm guessing so," Lily replied. "I wasn't here when she was born..."
"That's right, I'm sorry for-"
"Please don't apologize for Phil's actions...that is not what I want to speak with you about," Lily replied, as she picked up the small baby, who cooed when she was lifted.
"What is it then?"
"Are you involved with Phillip?" Lily looked at the older woman carefully. Andrea looked at the ground, before nodding slowly. "Be careful with him. He's not a good man. Not the one I once knew anyway...he did things to me...awful things."
"You were married to him, were you not?"
"Yes. Would you like to hold her?" Lily offered the baby to Andrea, who just nodded, and accepted the baby. "If you know what's you for you, and you have any hope of rejoining our group...Do me one favor."
"What's that?"
"Give Phillip the night of his life, make him believe you want to be his, then once he's asleep...kill him."
Rick gave Andrea a car, a switch blade, and a gun for her journey back to Woodbury. Once her car left the gates, the group receeded into the prison for dinner. It wasn't much, on account of they couldn't leave the prison and had no idea how long they'd be trapped like rats.
Most people found a place on the ground to sit. Emily sat with Beth and Mason along with Carl, Olivia, and Judith. Hershel kept a watchful eye over the childeren, Maggie and Glenn sat near by and carried on a hushed conversation. Merle and Michonne had both retired to their separate cells. Rick, Lily, and Daryl had a conversation of thier own against the wall.
"I'm making a run tomorrow," Rick told the two of them.
"Want me ta come wit' ya?" Daryl asked.
"No, you take care of things here. I'll take Michonne and Carl."
"Are ya sure that's a good idea?"
"We'll find out. But, Lily," he paused, given that Lily was staring over at the childeren. She was enjoying Beth's beautiful singing.
"Lily," Daryl nudged her.
"Hm? What?" she looked over at the two men.
"Will you go with me on a run tomorrow?" Rick asked her.
"Yeah."
"Okay, we leave at first light. Get some sleep, while I do the same."
"Y'know...we never took our shower," Lily whispered in Daryl's ear.
"Maybe we shoul' fix that," he grinned. They disappeared into the showers together.
AN: I know I said I was going to follow the show, but now I'm thinking other wise. I keep getting ideas, and if I do go with the show, this will surely be my last chapter this week. I may decide to guess how everything works while Rick/Michonne/Lily/Carl are on their run if I do another chapter. I'd also like to know how y'all would feel about BethXMason...I know he's quite a bit older than her, but I think that age doesn't really matter, and I don't think BethXCarl works too well...I dunno, just something I thought of while I was writing this. Let me know.
