There is rape in this chapter, if this bothers you it is best to skip this whole chapter because that is mostly what it is.

After all she had been through, after all the times she'd been let down and pushed aside for someone else, this time was the one that broke her. It wasn't like she wasn't expecting it, she knew how much Connor meant to Murphy, how much the brothers meant to each other. There wasn't one without the other, they would both leave this world together. The Governor's choice wasn't a choice at all. That didn't stop her heart from crumbling when she heard Murphy's strangled voice.

"Don't kill my brother."

Just like that, four words and she was being dragged onto her back, her clothes being torn and her legs forced open. She could hear screaming, male screams mixed with female screams, a part of her, in the back of her mind, realized it was her and the McManus brothers who were yelling, that part of her also realized that mixed with the screams there was laughter.

She felt a sharp pain as her insides were harpooned, her vision was blurry, she could not make out the face of the man above her, she could only hear his grunts as he stabbed into her again and again, then there was blessed calm, but it only lasted a moment before a second man replaced the first, she stopped fighting and she stopped crying. What was the point, there was nothing to fight for, nothing coming but pain and more pain.

At some point she was let go, her hands falling to her side, limp and useless, she could feel twigs and rocks digging into her back and backside as the man on top of her thrust savagely, she was burning inside and out. One hard thrust sent her hand flopping against something cold and hard.

A knife.

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Murphy stopped struggling when Emily stopped screaming. He couldn't make out what was happening to her, he could hear rusting and grunting, his stomach clenched painfully. Whatever was happing to her was his fault, he had chosen Connor, he had to help her, he had to think.

The men where watching them carefully, Connor's captor kept his eyes glued to his twin, a handgun pressed firmly to his temple. He needed just one moment of distraction, he needed to fix this.

The distraction came suddenly in a scream from one of the men. Murphy didn't waste anytime trying to figure out what was happening, he attacked, and beside him Connor did the same.

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Emily saw red, red was covering her hands, red was bleeding out into the dirt and red was streaming onto her face but she kept stabbing. She stabbed the dead man on top of her for every hurt and heartache she'd experienced, she stabbed him for every betrayal and she stabbed him for her sister and when anyone got close to her she stabbed at them too.

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Merle didn't know what the fuck he'd just stepped into. The brothers were fighting, he had a moment of panic when he couldn't see Em, then he saw her and his heart stopped. She was laying under a corpse, half naked stabbing into a face that was mostly minced meat.

He headed straight for her, slicing the throat of some stupid fuck that tried to get in his way, He saw Murphy heading towards her from the other side.

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"Emily! Em! Em! Emily!" Merle's rough voice brought her out of her haze. Somehow she had ended up on top of her rapist, she blinked down at the man underneath her, he had no face, he was a mangled lump of flesh sitting on a sliced up neck. She blinked and looked up at Merle, he was out of reach staring at her intently, arms raised palms up, beside him was Murphy cradling a bleeding hand.

"No," she croaked, shaking her head, she didn't want either of them near her, she stood and fled.

She was cold, it took her a few moment to realize that she was still naked from the waist down, her feet were cut up and bleeding, she kept going, pushing through the pain, she had to get away from them, all of them.

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How far she got, she didn't know, she ran for what seemed a life time, a life time of pain and cold and darkness. Then she was tackled to the ground a gravelly voice telling her to stop. She screamed and screamed and a hand clamped over her mouth and there was darkness again, but this time there was no cold and no pain.

Now you see why I stalled so much in putting this chapter out. I always knew this was happening to Emily, but I wasn't happy about it.