Michonne stumbled backwards in surprise. She knew she was injured but she couldn't feel the pain, she couldn't feel anything. She glanced down and saw the knife still sticking out of her belly.

No! My baby. My baby.

She clutched her belly and backed away from Alpha who was kneeling on the floor and also clutching her own.

"You are a warrior... I wish we were on the same side…" Alpha gasped out.

Michonne wasn't listening to her. Her babies were in danger. She still couldn't feel any pain thanks to the adrenaline coursing through her body, and she stumbled forward towards Alpha and her katana. She stuck her foot out and kicked the katana towards herself before Alpha could grab it. She then tried to bend down to pick it up, but the shift in position pushed the knife into her more deeply and she moaned in pain.

Alpha, although seemingly unable to stand, laughed at Michonne. "Omega!" Alpha called again. To Michonne's horror she heard the bedroom door unlocking. "No!" Michonne moaned "stay inside!". She moved to go towards the bedroom and her legs gave out, and she crashed to the floor.

Michonne heard Judith scream "Mommy!". She glanced towards the bedroom and saw Judith and Omega running towards her. Michonne reached her hand out, begging them not to come to her, "stay inside" Michonne gasped, but they kept running. Omega got to Michonne first, but to her surprise he leaped over her with the knife out, and plunged it into Alpha's chest, who had been slowly crawling towards Michonne while her back was turned.

Alpha gasped and spit up blood from her chest wound. Omega stood over her, staring down at her.

Alpha smiled through her gasps. "Yes… yes Omega… this is what… I tried… to teach you". She stretched an arm up towards him and he took a step back, his eyes wide. "I wanted you… to survive…" The smile slowly dropped from her face. "I was harsh but… I loved you… and your mother… Tasha…" She closed her eyes as her breathing got more ragged, and she whispered "my sister…"

Omega's eyes filled with tears but he didn't come any closer to Alpha. "I'm not Omega anymore. My name is Tommy" he said softly. "Mommy named me Tommy".

Alpha's chest continued to rise and fall raggedly but she no longer responded.

Judith crouched down over Michonne. "Mommy… you're hurt" she said, her eyes scanning Michonne's body.

Michonne, thinking only of her babies, said to Judith "Judy… close the front door… push the couch…" A sudden pain interrupted Michonne's sentence and she shut her eyes tight.

No. No!

A contraction paralyzed Michonne's body and she lay flat on the floor unable to move.

Please no. It's too early.

"Mommy!" Judy yelled, terrified. Joy, who was standing in frozen in the bedroom doorway, burst into tears.

Omega went to the front door and pushed the couch in front of it like Michonne had said. He then looked down and noticed Beta and Gamma lying dead on the floor.

They will become the walking ones. They will hurt my family.

Omega quickly took his knife and plunged it through Beta and Gamma's head.

"Mommy, what do I do?" Judy asked Michonne. "Should I, should I take the knife out?"

Michonne, barely able to speak whispered "no… leave it…"

"Mommy, you're leaking" Judy said, looking down at Michonne's belly. "There's water…"

Michonne glanced down and saw that there was water coming out of the knife wound. Not blood, water.

"Judy…" she gasped, as she felt the warm liquid spilling down her abdomen, and then her eyes rolled up in her head.

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"What? What do you see?" Carl yelled up at Lydia, his eyes portraying his panic.

"There are walking ones everywhere. I don't see any of your people… or mine…it's lost. We must go…"

"NO!" Carl screamed, his yell attracting more walkers. "Open the gate, then if you want to leave you can. Open it!"

Carl turned around quickly and pushed away a walker that had gotten too close. He was unarmed and he looked around quickly for a weapon. Finding a large tree branch he used it to bash the walker in the head, cracking through its fragile skull. He turned back around to look up at Lydia but she was now gone.

"Lydia?" Carl called.

Another walker lunged at him and he turned his body causing it to fall to the ground. He then quickly stepped on its head, the walker's juices adding to his already blood soaked clothing.

Carl ran back over to the front gates waiting for any sign that Lydia was about to open them. His mind couldn't help but go back to Lydia's words.

"I don't see any of your people… or mine…" Lock down! The town must be on lock down. During lock down civilians stay inside. Enid and Michonne and the kids will be safe. But where is the rest of the Hilltop defense team? They should be manning the walls, they should be out killing the invaders.

Gunshots and screams could suddenly be heard coming from the direction of the big house. The sound chilled Carl to the bone. Something big was happening in there.

The gates suddenly started opening and Carl stepped back before they hit him. They opened only a few inches and Carl quickly squeezed himself inside before they closed again. As he turned to look at Hilltop, his mouth opened in horror. There were walkers all over the streets, as well as bodies. Some were the bodies of Walker People, the other bodies were people he knew, people from the Hilltop defense team. Many of them had wounds from spears and knives, but others had clearly been munched on by walkers.

Pushing aside his horror and keeping his eye on his task, Carl quickly snatched a machine gun from one of the bodies. He looked up and saw Lydia climbing down nearby scaffolding from where she opened the gates.

"We have to help them" Carl said to her. Lydia froze like a deer in headlights, and looked like she was about to climb back over the wall and run off. "Look, if you want you can go, I understand. But they need me."

It took everything inside of Carl to resist the urge to go back to his home and check on his wife, but he knew she'd be ok. He turned and ran towards the screams coming from the big house, Lydia reluctantly on his heels.

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Rick burst through the tunnel entrance leading to the big house with his gun drawn. It was fairly quiet and empty in the basement, except for two dead walkers, and three hilltop residents who had been attacked and half eaten by the herd, but he could hear gunfire and moans coming from upstairs. As he ran up the steps he almost bumped headfirst into a walker. He quickly pulled his knife and stabbed it in the head, knocking it out the way so he could keep moving. Enid was right behind him, her gun drawn as well.

All Rick could think about was Carl. What if he wasn't with the Walker People? What if they'd killed him? They certainly didn't need him now that they'd found a way into Hilltop. But he pushed those thoughts away as he cautiously entered Hilltop's front parlor.

There were a few walkers milling about, but Rick could hear screaming and loud bangs coming from the rooms upstairs. The team ran upstairs as Rick turned to Enid. "Get to the house and see if Carl is there. See if they're ok. As soon as we take care of things here I'll meet you. Take Gregory with you," Rick ordered. Seeing Enid's defiant face, Rick added "Please", staring into Enid's eyes, begging her to go.

Enid opened her mouth as if she were going to protest being sent away, but she realized she had to see if Carl had made it back home. She had to know if he was ok. And she knew Rick needed her to check on the family for him. She nodded at Rick and pointed her gun at Gregory, who seemed to be grateful to get out of Rick's sight, using her head to point towards the door. She cautiously made her way to the doors of the big house, ready to take out any walkers or intruders that got in her way.

Rick sprinted up the steps and got halfway to the top when a hail of gunfire broke out. He slowly crawled to the top of the steps and saw his team firing on Walker People who were in the hallways trying to break down the bedroom doors. They were diving into rooms to get out of the way, and there were loud screams coming from the rooms with their doors closed. Once the hallway was cleared, the team cautiously checked each unlocked room.

Rick slowly opened a door that he saw a Walker Person dive into. In the darkness of the room he saw the room's former owner laying on the floor with a knife wound through the chest. "Come out" Rick called, scanning the seemingly empty room. There was no response. "I saw you run in here" Rick said. Someone slowly stood from behind the bed.

"Put your hands up" Rick ordered.

The figure of a woman stood there, staring at him.

"I said put your hands up" Rick said again, pointing his gun.

The intruder stared him in his eyes. "I will not surrender."

"Where is my son?" Rick asked, taking the safety off the gun.

The woman chuckled. "Dead now. And you'll soon follow."

Rick's heart dropped at her words. "You're lying" he growled, half asking her and half telling her.

She continued to stare. "If he's not dead yet, he will be."

Her words gave Rick a ray of hope. She didn't know if Carl was dead or not.

"Are you going to put your hands up or not?" Rick asked, slightly annoyed that she was wasting his time.

To answer, the woman ran at him with her knife raised, aiming for his chest. Rick swiftly shot her in the head and turned around to leave. As he walked back into the hallway he saw the defense team checking on the residents who managed to lock their doors and survive the Walker People's attack, unfortunately there weren't many. Most of the rooms in the big house were littered with bodies.

Rick had other things to worry about though. He turned quickly and headed down the stairs, making a beeline for the door. He swung the door open and was startled to see Carl standing there pointing a machine gun in his face.

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Enid snuck across the street, trying to avoid the walkers that were still wandering the town while keeping an eye on Gregory. She didn't trust that man for a minute. As a matter of fact, she was shocked that he had cooperated so well so far. Maybe the finger Michonne removed from his hand made him rethink his life choices… or not, she thought as she noticed his eyes moving left and right looking for a possible escape.

She pressed her gun into his back. "Just give me more of a reason" she begged, wanting to shoot him so badly. He stiffened when he felt the butt of the gun in his back and he continued walking. They had made good progress, just a block and a half from her home when she saw two Walker People heading towards her home. She put her finger to her lips and nodded towards the Walker People. The two of them followed the Walker People as best they could without being spotted, and Enid could hear parts of their conversation.

"Alpha… Gamma went to that house. Didn't come out… Omega…" Enid could only catch parts of their conversation but she knew she would have to take them down.

"You take the one on the right" Enid whispered to Gregory. She turned to look at him and his eyes were wide, but he nodded his head.

She stealthily moved closer to the Walker People who were focused on getting to the house. When she was within range she raised her gun, aiming at the back of one of their heads. She pulled the trigger, a gunshot ripping through the air as the woman fell to the ground. The second woman spun around, and without looking for him, Enid knew that Gregory had run off.

That bastard.

The second woman ran at her and she fired again, missing. She barely had time to dive out of the way as a knife came swinging at her.

She wanted to shoot her gun again but the woman was too close, so she tried to back away but she tripped over the sidewalk and fell hard on her butt. The woman, taking advantage, kicked her in the face, and ignoring the pain, Enid grabbed her foot and pulled the woman down too. She fumbled for her gun again but let out a roar of pain as she was slashed in the thigh. She kicked at the woman with her other leg and rolled over, desperate to stand up. Finally, she struggled to her feet and spun around, quickly firing her gun. The woman was hit in the chest, killing her.

Four walkers, noticing the commotion and hearing the gunshots were shuffling over towards Enid at a quick pace.

Panting and with her heart racing from her near death experience, Enid limped back to her home, blood slowly staining her pants red.

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"Mommy wake up!" Judy screamed in Michonne's face. "Please mommy… I don't know what to do" she said, sobbing.

Omega, after putting down Beta and Gamma, went to stand back over Alpha who was breathing shallowly but still alive. He seemed frozen in place, in a trance as he stared at her.

Judy wracked her little mind trying to think of what to do. They needed to find a grown up, but she knew Michonne wouldn't want them to go outside. And more and more water was dripping out of Michonne.

Judy thought back to the year before when her daddy had brought home a new bike for her. She had begged him to bring it with them when they had traveled to visit Carl and Enid, and to her delight he'd allowed her to bring it along. She was riding up and down the small dirt road in front of Carl and Enid's house when her training wheels got stuck in a patch of grass and she fell from the bike, getting a large bloody gash on her knee. While Enid cleaned up the cut, she had told Judy "If you ever are bleeding, you just press down on the cut and the bleeding stops". Judy had tried it on her own cut and was amazed.

Judy looked down at Michonne who wasn't moving. The knife in her belly rising and falling every time she took a breath.

Mommy said don't take the knife out. But if I push down around the knife, maybe water will stop coming out.

Judy took both hands and put them on either sides of the knife, trying not to move it. She then pushed down on Michonne's belly. Michonne took in a sharp breath and moaned, but was still unresponsive. Judy tried to keep her hands still while pressing, but she was so scared, she was shaking. She suddenly realized she hadn't heard Joy in a while.

She turned her head to the bedroom doorway and saw that Joy had slid down the wall and pulled her knees up to her chest, shaking and staring at Michonne as tears slid down her face.

"Come Joyjoy" Judy called, trying to distract her traumatized sister, "I need you to help me."

Joy didn't move, but her eyes rolled from Michonne to Judy's face.

"Joy, come on. Mommy needs you."

Joy blinked a few times as if coming out of a daze. She stood and walked slowly over to Judy and Michonne, stopping right next to them.

"You have the most important job" Judy said, motioning with her eyes that Joy should sit down.

Joy, seemingly intrigued that she had an important job, kneeled down next to Judy and Michonne.

"You have to hold mommy's hand, ok? And don't let go".

Joy slowly nodded her head and took Michonne's hand, squeezing it tight, while Judy continued to press on the wound.

After a minute of pressing Judy noticed there wasn't as much water coming out of the wound. She smiled, pleased with herself, when there was a bang at the door.

The noise snapped Omega out of his trance. He grabbed his knife and stared at the door.

"Michonne! Open the door it's Enid!", Enid called as loudly as she dared. There were still walkers all over the place, and the four that had spotted her were still following her.

She knocked again and realized that the doorknob had been knocked off. Her heart plummeted. Someone had tried to get in, and it seemed like they succeeded. Enid pushed on the door and it opened a little, but then bumped into something.

Oh God, please don't be a body.

"Michonne!" Enid yelled a little louder.

"Enid!" she heard a child's voice yell.

"Judy?" Enid asked. She then heard something large being moved away from the door. The door could finally swing open all the way, and Enid limped inside, immediately tripping over a body with a knife wound through the neck.

"Oh God, is that a…" Enid froze, her mind assessing the situation so quickly that what seemed like minutes were only seconds.

Where's Michonne?

She quickly scanned the room, taking in Omega who had been the one to move the couch. He seemed rattled but unharmed. There was another body on the floor not far away, with its neck cut open. Michonne had to have done that. Definitely. Enid's eyes dove further into the room. There was another body further inside. Damn, Michonne took out three people? And then Enid spotted Joy and Judy kneeling next to a fourth body.

"Michonne!" Enid cried out, forgetting her own stab wound and sprinting over to where Michonne lay still on the ground, a knife jutting from her belly.

"Oh God" Enid said "What… How long… Is she…"

So many things popped into Enid's mind she didn't know what question to ask first.

Get a grip Enid. You're a nurse. Assess the situation, figure out what you need to do and do it.

"Ok" Enid said, more to herself than anyone else. "Judy, how long has your mommy been like this?"

"I don't know" Judy said, and suddenly it was like she couldn't stop talking. "The woman stabbed her, and she was talking at first, and then she just fell… and then I told her she had water coming out her belly and then her eyes went white and she went to sleep and I didn't know what to do and I remembered what you said when I fell off my bike so I tried to make the water stop and she said not to take out the knife so I left it and…" tears exploded from Judy's eyes as if she were holding them in for so long that they couldn't be contained anymore. "I didn't know what to do!" Judy said again, still pressing on Michonne's belly, seemingly unable to let go.

Enid wrapped her arms around Judy's shoulders and gave her a hug. "You did well Judy, you did so well. I'm so proud of you. You did the right thing. Keep your hands right there ok? Keep pressing down. You're doing the right thing."

Enid reached down to feel Michonne's pulse. It was weak but steady. She pulled out her own knife and used it to cut Michonne's shirt off so she could see the wound better. The knife was going straight into her uterus, that's where all the fluid was coming from. It had punctured the amniotic sac and the baby was in big trouble. If it wasn't dead yet it would be if it wasn't taken out now.

Oh God, what if it turns when it's still inside of her? Enid thought, her mind going to her own unborn child. A chill went down her spine. Stop it, Stop it! If Judy can hold it together, so can you.

"I need to do surgery now. I need… I need to get her to the infirmary" Enid said, but as soon as she thought it she knew it was impossible. They'd never be able to move her safely alone, and with walkers and Walker People running about it was unrealistic. Next option, bring the infirmary here.

"I have to go get my bag from the infirmary" Enid said. "I have to get my tools for surgery, maybe I can find Dr. Carson and bring him back here too".

"No!" Judy said, her eyes wide. "No! You can't leave us here."

"Don't go Enid" Joy said, her eyes filling with tears.

Enid's heart was breaking, but there was no other way. "I have to. You are being so brave right now. I just need you to be brave for a little longer. You keep your hands on her belly ok? You're saving her life right now Judy, and the baby's. I will be right back, I promise, and your daddy's on his way ok? He'll be here soon, probably before I get back". Enid turned to Omega. "You keep watch alright? When I leave you put that couch back against the door".

"No" Omega said quietly, stunning everyone. "You're hurt too. You will be slow. I can get there fast. I know how to hide from the walking ones. I can get there and no one will see me."

Enid's mouth dropped open. "I'm not gonna let you…"

"I can do this!" Omega said. "I can do it and come back"

Enid put her hand to her head in frustration. She was limping, and it would take her longer to get to the infirmary and back. Plus, she really should stay with Michonne in case things started going downhill fast. But sending a child outside into that… she'd never be able to forgive herself if something happened to him.

"I will use Alpha's mask" Omega said, bending down and pulling the mask off of Alpha's face.

"That's Alpha?" Enid asked, surprised.

"I stabbed her, and I will do the same to anyone who tries to hurt our family" Omega said.

Enid smiled. Our family.

Enid relented. "Ok kiddo, but if you're not back in ten minutes I'm coming for you. My bag is in the infirmary's office, under the desk. If you see Doctor Carson tell him Michonne needs an emergency C-section. He'll bring the right stuff. If you don't see him, just get back here with the bag. Everything else… I'll just make do… ok?"

Omega nodded "Ok". Enid gave Omega a hug. "Come back quick Omega" Judy said.

"My name is Tommy" Omega said. "It's Tommy now".

Before anyone could say anything else, he pulled Alpha's mask on, took out his knife, and left the house, closing the door behind him.