"You're up here too, how perfect," Phil said when he noticed Lily standing on the balcony. Her bow was aimed at his head. "Now, now let's all be reasonable," Phil raised his hands up in defence. As he got closer Lily could see in the small amount of light the black eye patch that was covering Phil's right eye.
"Phil...please just leave," Lily practically begged. She did just want him and his group of murderers to leave and never come back. Lily decided she'd forget everything if they could just do that.
"How could I do that? You're my girl," Phil suddenly moved very fast and was able to pin Lily's wrists against the bars of the railing around the tower. "And if I can't have you...nobody can," Lily felt cold hard metal press against her jaw. It was a gun. Phil had put a gun to her jaw!
"Don't do this..." she closed her eyes tightly. She was going to die. Goodbye Daryl. Goodbye Emily, she thought. But then, the baby growing inside of her entered her thoughts. A baby that hadn't even had a chance to kick. One that was half her half Daryl. Or maybe it's half Phil, a voice inside of her said.
"And why shouldn't I?"
"I'm-I'm-" tears stung her eyes. She sent a look to Merle, who was being restrained by one of Phil's henchmen, to urge him to do something. At the same time, she found herself praying for a something, anything. "I'm pregnant."
"With my baby?" Phil's eyes widened with delight.
"O-Of course," she forced a smile.
Bang!
A single gun shot sounded. It was just enough to cause a tussle between Merle and the unnamed henchman. Lily jabbed her knee into Phil's groin, causing him to fall to the ground. She used her knees to hold his shoulders down, but unfortunately she was too light and he stood up, taking her with him.
"You think you can over power me?" he asked as he gave her face a good slap. She could already feel the swelling her face burned but she couldn't let him get away with what he did. He was about to slap the other slide of her face when a blunt object hit the side of Phil's face. His hold was released from her and she stood up read to fight. But, she was too late. Daryl had tackled Phil to the ground already.
"Yew think yew can hurt my girl? Punch 'er? Smack 'er 'round?" Daryl punched Phil in the face a few times. Lily was lost in the fight. She was frozen and couldn't tear her eyes away. An arm pulled her to the ground, and slowly everything began to fade back into reality. There was loud gun fire below them. She took a deep breath and tried to gain her composure. The rifle she had was next to her left and she grabbed it.
Walker groaning was the next thing to be heard. Lily used the rifle to start shooting walkers in the heard, on account of the fact that the group was outside. Everyone, except for Beth and the children. While Lily was distracted shooting, two men made their way to the top of the watch tower. One of them grabbed the hood of her sweat shirt and pulled her to her feet.
"The Governor's gonna be happy we found you," the man said with a smile. He had dark brown eyes that were almost black, with reddish brown hair. "You're pretty too," he reached to touch her face, but she slapped his hand away.
"Don't fucking touch me," she used the butt of the gun, which was still in her hand to clock him in his large pointy noes. He fell to the ground, out cold. Daryl, hearing the fighting on the opposite side of the watch tower, stopped hitting Phil, and ran to Lily's aid, by throwing the other man off the side of the tower.
"Yew okay?"
"Yeah. C'mon! We gotta help the rest!"
The two ran to the aid of the rest of the group. Merle had long since left the watch tower, and was fighting at Rose's side. For every walker that would be shot, more would appear. It was the same with the Governor's men. Too many shots were fired to count. Lily couldn't keep up with how had fallen and who still stood. It as a war scene.
"We hav' ta go," Daryl said, realizing there wasn't a way to take out all of these walkers.
"We can't," Lily augured.
"C'mon. Go git Beth an' the kids. I'll git everyone else. Meet me at the SUV."
"Okay," Lily's eyes met Daryl's. She wasn't going to argue because she knew that she had to trust him. That's what you do when you love each other.
"Beth!" Lily shouted. Beth was holding Judith with Olivia standing beside her, and Carl and Emily were shooting from the windows. "We have to go! C'mon y'all!" Nobody argued they all ran for the door, and followed Lily to the red SUV, as they ran they shot any and all oncoming walkers. "Open the hatch. Everybody in," she instructed.
A few seconds later, Daryl and the rest of the group, or what was left of it, made their way to the SUV.
"Drive!" Daryl commanded, once everyone was in the car. Lily pressed down the gas peddle of the already started car.
Once everything quieted down, Lily was able to do inventory of who was there and who wasn't. She was able to see Daryl, Emily, Mason, Olivia, Rose, Merle, Beth, Rick, Carl, and Judith. Daryl noticed her mood change to took her hand in his.
"Where are we going?" she asked, because she knew it was important.
"The island?" Mason asked. He was holding a weeping Beth, who had lost her only family. Lily looked at everyone, and none of them disagreed. So, she drove east towards South Carolina.
