Chapter Thirty-One

Summer's POV

I was still sitting stuck in that room and all I could hear was Maggie and Glenn's screams. I wanted to be sick. I almost just wanted to call it quits but I didn't even have the strength to break the chair or attempt to free myself. I was ashamed at the fact that all I could do was sit here and do nothing. Just then the door opened and Merle walked through.

"Where's the group, Sum?" he asked.

"I'm not telling you, Merle," I said, "my son is there and I am NOT putting him in harms way!"

"You'll tell me, Summer, I know you will," he said, "you always crack under pressure. You'll give in."

"I'm never going to tell you," I said, "Daryl will come for me. You know he will and I won't have to tell you jack shit."

Merle just shrugged and walked out of the room and I was alone again. I was left there alone for another few hours before someone came in and untied me. I tried to fight them off but I didn't have the energy. I was punched in the face again and then dragged to the room next to mine. I was thrown to the ground and when I looked up there was Glenn kneeling with his hands behind his head. I was told to get up and I was pushed to my knees and my hands brought behind my head. Some man who I had never seen before who was dressed a lot nicer than the other men and I assumed he was the Governor that everyone was talking about. He was holding Maggie by the arm and she was topless. I could see the look of horror spread across Glenn's face and the Governor pointed his gun at Maggie's head.

"Where are your people!?" he shouted.

Glenn glanced at me.

"Don't say anything," I said.

The Governor pulled back the hammer on the gun and pressed it closer to Maggie's temple as I felt the barrel of a gun being pressed to the back of my head.

"I'm only going ask one more time before I kill you all one by one," he said, "where are your people?"

I glanced at Glenn and then looked up a Maggie.

"We're in a prison!" Maggie said tears streaming down her face.

Maggie was thrown toward me and Glenn and everyone put their guns down and everyone exited the room. Glenn wrapped his arms around Maggie and took off his shirt to give to her. She quickly put it on and I started crying. I felt like I was doing a lot of that today. The three of us were sitting on the floor for a while and I finally noticed that there was a dead walker on the floor. I looked over at Glenn and he nodded. I was horrified at what these people had done to Maggie and Glenn. Glenn didn't even have to say it. I knew it was Merle who put the walker in here with him. But how Glenn managed to kill it I don't think I'd ever know because I knew he wouldn't want to talk about it. Finally Glenn got up and walked over to the dead walker. He broke it's arm into a few pieces and pulled the bones out. He tossed a piece to me and a piece to Maggie and kept one for himself.

"Next time they come in here, we attack," Glenn said simply and Maggie and I nodded.

It felt like we were in the room for hours before the door opened again. But the second it did we charged. Glenn went after Merle and Maggie and I killed the other two people that were with him. Maggie and I grabbed their guns and pointed them at Merle. I guess other people heard the commotion because in an instant we were faced with four more people pointing guns at us. We were forced to drop the guns and pushed to our knees once more. Bags were put over our heads again and our hands were tied and I heard Maggie tell Glenn she loves him. We were pulled up and started to be led out of the area when I head a loud bang and then I smelled smoke. I felt someone grab me by the arm and the bag on my head was ripped off. I looked over and saw Daryl and couldn't help but smile and start crying again. Daryl, Rick, Oscar and a woman I didn't recognize led us to an abandoned building and everyone helped us get our hands untied.

"There's no way out back here!" Daryl called.

"Rick how did you find us?!" Maggie asked.

"How bad are you hurt?" Rick asked us.

"Eh, we'll be alright," Glenn said wincing.

"Where's that woman?" Maggie asked and we all looked around to see where she was.

"She was right behind us," Rick said pulling back some blinds to look out the window.

"Maybe she was spying?" Oscar said.

"What me to look for her?" Daryl volunteered.

"No," Rick said, "We've got to get them out of here. She's on her own."

"Daryl," Glenn said as Maggie put a sweatshirt on him, "this was Merle. It was. He did this."

"You saw him?" Daryl asked.

"Face to face, he threw a walker at me," Glenn said, "he was gonna execute us."

"My brother's this governor?" Daryl asked confused.

"No, someone else," Maggie said, "your brother's his lieutenant or something."

"Does he know I'm still with you?" Daryl asked.

"He does now," Glenn said, "Rick I'm sorry we told him where the prison was. We couldn't hold out."

"No need to apologize," Rick said patting Glenn's leg.

I tried to go over to Daryl but he looked pained and upset and started walking over to Rick who was once again looking out the window.

"They're gonna be looking for us," I said.

"We've gotta get back," Rick said, "Can you walk? We've got a car a couple miles back."

"I'm good," Glenn replied.

I once again tried to reach for Daryl's hand but he pulled it away from me. I wasn't used to seeing him like this and I didn't like it.

"Hey, if…if Merle's around, I…I need to see him," Daryl said walking over to Rick again.

"Not now, we are in hostile territory," Rick said.

"He's my brother he ain't gonna –" Daryl started to say but Rick cut him off.

"Look what he did!" Rick said pointing to my swollen bloody face, "We've gotta get out of here! Now!"

"Maybe I can talk to him man," Daryl said almost pleading with Rick to let him see his brother, "work something out."

"No, no, no, you're not thinking straight," Rick said, "look no matter what they say they're hurt. Glenn can barely walk and Summer's got a black eye so swollen she may have broken bones. How are we gonna make it out if we get overrun by walkers or this governor character catches up to us? I need you! Are you with me?"

Daryl nodded at Rick but I knew he was fighting with the fact that his brother was alive and there was nothing he can do to get to him. We agreed that we needed to start to move back to the entrance. Daryl threw a flash bang out of the front door of the building we were in and we started to make our way to the entrance. We were greeted with gun fire left and right. We were trying our best to watch each other's backs but it was hard when Glenn, Maggie and I had no weapons of our own. We took cover in a building alcove close to the entrance and Daryl handed me my bow.

"How many of them are there? Can you see?" Rick asked.

"Doesn't matter," Daryl said handing me a pistol and a knife, "there's gonna be more of 'em we gotta move!"

Daryl handed Maggie and Glenn guns as well and Rick barked orders at Daryl to get more of the flash bangs ready because we needed to gun it toward the wall if we were going to make it out of here alive.

"You guys go ahead, I'm gonna lay down some cover fire," Daryl said slinging his bow on his back and grabbing a gun.

"No, we have to stay together!" I pleaded with him.

"Too hairy," Daryl said dismissing my comment, "You guys go, I'll be right behind you."

I just started at Daryl in disbelief and he motioned for me to go. He threw a flash bang out into the street and I continued to stare at him.

"Summer! I ain't losin' ya ta this shit! Think about Harry!" he shouted at me, "GO!"

I nodded at him and started running in the direction of the gate. My instinct was to use my crossbow but I heard Rick shouting at me to use my gun. I nodded and him and we all started firing. We reached the front gate and Oscar helped me and Glenn over the gate and got shot in the process. Maggie and I started screaming for Rick and he finally made his way over to us. Rick and Maggie made their way over the gate.

"Daryl!" Rick yelled.

"Go!" I heard Daryl shout.

After that all I could hear was gunfire. We found the woman that was with us earlier and everyone started walking back toward the car. That's when I started screaming for Daryl and started walking back toward the gate. Rick tried to stop me from running back into Woodbury. I fought him off and he eventually grabbed me by the waist as I was approaching the gate because he noticed the new watchmen and I didn't. He picked me up and threw me into a fireman's carry. I continued to scream for Daryl and started punching Rick in the back. We finally reached the car and Rick set me down.

"We have to get him! Rick!" I shouted through sobs, "We have to go back! We can't leave him there! You don't know what these people are capable of! What if they have him!? Rick please!"

"Summer, calm down!" Rick shouted at me, "He said he will be right behind us and he will!"

"Then we wait for him!" I said sitting on the ground leaning against the car, "I am not moving from this spot until he comes back."

"No one's saying otherwise," Rick said sitting down next to me.

Rick but his arm around me and I rested my head on his shoulder trying to calm myself down. I knew I needed to for my own sake along with the fact that the tears that kept falling were burning the shit out of the cuts under my eye. It wasn't working out all that well because I was more than worried about Daryl and every single minute waiting for him felt like an eternity. But I knew we had to wait and I would wait here forever if I had to.