"Are you sure he's dead?" Rick demanded yet again.
"I don't know Rick I was getting the tank sorted, Michonne said they had gotten him. They either have him prisoner or they killed him out right. But if they have him, they are going to use it against us." I said yet again. This was getting us nowhere Michonne had long since walked away to be alone.
"She's right, they got him locked up they gonna want to trade or give him back on the condition we leave." Merle said backing me.
"And you know if we leave that won't be the end of it. The second we walk out of here he'll kill all of us. That guy is insane and all the people he has think we're a threat to their peace and safety." Spark stated what some of us already knew.
"Then what do you suggest we do?" Rick asked.
"Easy officer friendly, we have a few choices. If we go with Tyreese is still alive, we can leave him there and if they come to make a deal refuse out right, maybe even shoot him so they can't torture him to get us to cooperate."
"And what's the alternative? Because we can't kill our own man."
"We can either make the deal when they come and hope for the best. Or we stage our own assault."
"You crazy brother?! They still outnumber us…" Daryl cut off and pointed over to the doorway where Caleb and Carl stood listening and watching us. Having been spotted Caleb and Carl moved in to the room Carl puffing out his chest ready to speak.
"Dad you gotta go save Tyreese, he's one of us. You can kill them all."
"Son it's not that simple."
"Mr Rick, he's one of us and we have to stick together, if there's a chance we can save him shouldn't we?" Caleb said looking up at Rick and glancing over to me and Daryl. "That man is a bad man, he's only going to hurt more people and that's wrong." And out of all of us in that room, it was the kids with the least experience that made the most sense that was right about what we should do and why we should do it. A look passed round all the adults in the room and one by one we all nodded.
"Right if we're going to do this we have to plan it. We can't all go, we need to make sure the prison is sufficiently defended. But we have to take enough of us so that we stand a chance."
"Leave that to me." Spark said as she moved off.
"I'll distribute weapons and sort some provisions." I said walking away Daryl following me Caleb reaching for my hand as we walked past him. Daryl reached down and ruffled Caleb's hair and smiled.
"You're right kid, if we can save him we got to try." Caleb beamed up at us.
"You're turning into a brave little man. You gonna help guard the prison with whoever stays behind?"
"Yeah, me and Carl we can be lookouts!" I smiled and carried on to the armoury as he chatted away happily with Daryl and what he was going to do. Caleb soon ran off to find Carl and tell him what he had planned and I started to divide up weapons.
"If Spark says you're on the team for Woodbury are you going?" I stopped what I was doing and turned looking at Daryl.
"Yeah, Tyreese is our friend too. He's one of us." Daryl shook his head.
"And there's no way I can persuade you otherwise? What they did there, what that guy did to Michonne…Jamie I can't let that happen to you." I smiled sadly and placed my hand on his cheek.
"It won't, there are a lot more of us going in this time and we know what to expect." He pulled me forcefully to him and held me tight.
"But it could still go wrong." I looked up at him and placed a kiss softly on his cheek.
"And it could go right, we need to try and if Spark wants me there I'm going." He nodded and moved to help me with the weapons. Once we set up we headed out to the yard were everyone else was staring to amass. Daryl and I set down the weapons in separate areas, so that we knew what we had and what was for staying here and what was for the ones going to Woodbury. By my count we had around 25 able bodies including the Raiders. Once everyone was here Spark started speaking.
"Ok I'm cutting straight to it. Woodbury team will consist of alpha team from the Raiders, that includes you Merle." Merle, Thorn and five of the guys from the Raiders moved to one side. "Daryl, T-Dog, Michonne and Jamie. Everyone else is stays at the prison."
"What?! I'm staying here?"
"No offense Rick, but you have one hand. I know Merle has, but I was with him long enough that I know it barely affects him. You however are still a little slow. You could endanger the group, so you stay. Any problems?" No one else spoke so she nodded. "Jamie I want you to show Ade how to fire that tank, ain't no point in it being here if no one but you can use it."
"Sure thing, Spark."
"One more thing, we will be attacking at Night. Jamie do your thing, then eat and get some rest we'll set off early just after dawn. We'll scout the area try and locate Tyreese. This is a search and rescue mission, there are women and children there that can't fight remember that. We are not like the Governor we just want our man back, but anyone points a gun at you do not hesitate in shooting them square in the face. They will not hesitate in shooting you." Then Spark nodded once to all of us and walked off inside.
"Well she sure is taking this seriously." Glenn said looking a little worried.
"Spark must have commanded a unit while in the army. But she's right though, we can't hesitate, hesitation gets you killed." I spoke softly, trepidation creeping in we were going to lose good people tomorrow; question was how many would we lose and who would we lose?
A/N: Thanks as always to all the brilliant people that have, read, reviewed, favourited and followed my story. Each and every one of you are amazing :D