Fear the Dead, Fight the Living
A/N: Hello my dears, I do hope you are still enjoying this story and if you are or not both views are welcome. Please continue to enjoy.
We moved from place to place for 8 months, the only way we knew how long was because of Lori's pregnancy. While we stopped at one place for the night we brought in stuff we gathered along the way considering we lost most of our stuff back at the farm.
I sat near Daryl as he plucked the feathers out of an owl, I see Carl walk in and sit on the floor with a couple cans, I saw that they were dog food. Rick walked over to him as he opened it grabbing it then walked away throwing it into the fire place. We all sat in silence and I looked over at Carl, I understood why Rick did it, he doesn't want us to resort to eating like animals, but at least Carl was trying.
"Psst" T-Dog says from the window and we gather up or stuff again then walked out the back heading to the cars and I got on the back of Daryl's bike then we drove off
TWD
"We've got no place left to go." T-Dog points out as we stop on the road to look at a map
"When this herd meets up with this one, we'll be cut off, we'll never make it south." Maggie mentioned
"What do you say, it's about 150 head?" Daryl asked Glenn from next to me
"That was last week, could be twice that now."
"This river could have delayed them. If we move fast, we might have a shot to tear right through this." Hershel says
"Yeah, but if this group joins with that one, they could spill out this way." I brought up pointing to the map
"So we're blocked." Maggie added
"Only thing to do is double back at 27th and swing towards Greenville." Rick tells us
"We picked through that already, it's like we spent the winter going in circles." T-Dog told him
"Yeah, I know. I know. At Newnan we'll push west. Haven't been through the area. We can't keep going house to house. We need to find some place to hold up for a few weeks."
"Alright. Is it cool if we get to the creek before we head out? It won't take long. We gotta fill up on water, we can boil it later." I mention to him
"Knock yourself out"
We stand next to a fence at the prison Rick and Daryl found as Rick cut a slit in it so we could get through.
"Watch the backside!" Rick tells us as we slowly make our way to the fence and slide through
Glenn and Daryl close the wire up then we start to run, the walkers approach but are stopped by the fence, I run next to Daryl who opens one of the gates and we go in. There is a courtyard filled with walkers, "It's perfect." Rick tells us as we all look at the prison, "If we can shut that gate, prevent more from filling the yard, we can pick off these walkers. We'll take the field by tonight."
"So how do we shut the gate?" Hershel asked
"I'll do it. You guys cover me." Glenn says
"No, it's a suicide run." Maggie tells him
"I'm the fastest."
"No. You, Maggie, and Beth draw as many as you can over there" Rick tells us pointing to another part of the fence, pop them through the fence. Daryl, Phoebe go back to the other tower. Carol, you've become a pretty good shot, take your time, we don't have a lot of ammo to waste. Hershel, you and Carl, take this tower."
"Alright." Carl tells him and they move to the opposite tower from Daryl, me and my mom
"I'll run for the gate." Rick says
Glenn, T-Dog, Maggie, and Beth draw the walkers by screaming, and kill them by stabbing them in the head through the fence. Lori opens the door for Rick. He runs towards the prison, shooting walkers who get in his way, at one point I see my mom almost shoot Rick by mistake.
"Sorry!" She yelled and Rick continued running, the walkers are drawn to Rick, but he manages to shut the gate. Then, he goes in the tower and closes the door, followed by all the walkers, "He did it" My mom says
"Light it up!" Daryl tells us and we all start to shoot killing the rest of the walkers
"Fantastic!" My mom says as we all meet back up
"Nice shooting." Daryl said to her and she smiled
"Yeah."
"You okay?" I asked Lori moving over to her
"I haven't felt this good in weeks."
We go in to the courtyard, "Oh! Oh, oh! We haven't had this much space since we left the farm!" my mom yells excitedly and I smile as Daryl put his arm around my shoulder kissing my head
"Wooooo!" T-Dog cheered and I looked at him with a smile
"Dude" I tell him and he looked at me then out at the woods
"Sorry" He says with a smile as we all walk towards the prison
Later that night everyone except Daryl and Rick are sitting around a fire eating, "Mmmm… Just like mom used to make." Glenn says indicating to his food and I gave him a shove with a smile on my face and Maggie smiles. Lori eats and looks at Rick who's on watch next to the fence.
"Tomorrow, we'll put all the bodies together. We want to keep them away from that water. Now, if we can dig a canal under the fence, we'll uh have plenty of fresh water." T-Dog pointed out
"The soil is good, we could plant some seed, grow some tomatoes, cucumbers, soybeans." Hershel says and looked over at Rick, "That's his third time around. If there was any part of it compromised, he'd have found it by now." Hershel added and I grabbed the bowl of food I made Daryl and walked over to the over turned vehicle he was standing on. I looked up at him as I stretched to put the bowl up and he grabbed my hand helping me get on top.
"That's not much, but if I don't bring you anything you won't eat at all." I tell him and he takes a few bites
"Guess little Shane over there's got quite the appetite." He said and I laughed
"Don't be mean. Rick's gotten us a lot further than I thought he would, I'll give him that. Shane could never have done that." I mention and started to rub my shoulder
"What's wrong?"
"It's that rifle, the kickback. I'm just not used to it." I tell him, I ran out of bullets for my handgun a month ago but luckily found a rifle with half a box of ammo, I saw him lick his fingers and indicate for me to turn then he started to massage my shoulder.
"Better get back."
"It's pretty romantic. Want to screw around?" I asked him with a smirk
"Don't tempt me" He says and moves to get down, "I'll go down first"
"Oh even better"
"Stop" He says and gets down then I sit down and he grabbed my hips helping me down as I put my hands on his shoulders then suddenly I got pressed into the under part of the vehicle and he pressed himself against me then kissed me passionately, I moaned into his mouth as his hands ran up my sides and he pulled away
"Tease" I said pouting and he kissed me again
"Don't worry, I'll have you soon enough"
"Promises, promises" I tell him and winked then we headed back to the others
"Bethy, sing "Paddy Reilly" for me. I haven't heard that I think, since your mother was alive." Hershel tells her
"Daddy, not that one, please." Maggie tells him
"How about uh… Parting Glass?"
"No one wants to hear." Beth says and we look at her
"Why not?" I asked her as Daryl sat down behind me and wrapped his arms around me
"Okay. 'Of all the money e'er I had I spent it in good company And all the harm e'er I've ever done alas it was to none but me and all I've done for want of wit to memory now I can't recall so fill to me the parting glass good night and joy be with you all'" Maggie joins her in singing "'Oh, all the comrades that e'er I had were sorry for my going away and all the sweethearts that e'er I had would wish me one more day to stay But since it falls unto my lot that I should rise and you should not I'll gently rise and I'll softly call good night and joy be with you all good night and joy be with you all'"
"Beautiful." Hershel tells then and Glenn puts his hand on Maggie's leg, smiling.
"Better all turn in. I'll take watch over there, we've got a big day tomorrow." Rick tells us
"What do you mean?" Glenn asked
"Look, I know we're all exhausted. This was a great win. But we gotta push just a little bit more. Most of the walkers are dressed as guards or prisoners, looks like this place fell pretty early. Could mean the supplies may be intact. They have an infirmary, a commissary..."
"An armory?" I asked him
"That would be outside the prison itself, but not too far away. Warden's offices would have info on the location. Weapons, food, medicine, this place could be a gold mine!"
"We're dangerously low on ammo. We'll run out before we make a dent." Hershel points out to him
"That's why we gotta go in there. Hand to hand. After all we've been through, we can handle it, I know it. These assholes don't stand a chance." Rick says and stands up then walked away
Rick opens the door that leads to the courtyard, T-Dog enters and stabs a walker, Daryl, Rick, Maggie, me and Glenn enter as well, we all start stabbing walkers in the head. In the meantime, Hershel, Carl, my mom, Lori and Beth try to draw the walkers to the fence in order to stab them through the wire.
"Almost there." Rick tells us as we walk and see another courtyard filled with walkers, we hide behind a wall. Two walkers come dressed as guards, so they have helmets on, Daryl shoots at one but it bounced off the helmet, Maggie kicks one. We keep trying to kill the guards but it's not easy with their helmets on, I kill a walker as Rick walks towards the courtyard filled with walkers in order to close it. He pushes a guard on the floor,"Daryl!" Daryl helps him kill the walkers on their way, and they manage to close the door of the courtyard.
Maggie kills one of the guards by stabbing him in the neck, Me, Glenn and T-Dog look impressed, "See that?" She asked and another one goes up to Glenn and T-Dog who kill it the same way Maggie did and so does Daryl.
Rick kicks a guard, takes off his helmet, and he takes off his skin as well, and stabs him in the head. Maggie kills another one, the courtyard where we are is now filled with bodies, "Stop." Rick tells Glenn as he started to the gate where the others were and we look around
"Looks secure." Glenn points out
"Not from the looks of that courtyard over there. And that's a civilian." Daryl tells him
"So the interior could be over run by walkers from outside the prison." I said
"Well, if there's walls, then, what are we gonna do? We can't rebuild this whole place." Glenn mentions
"We can't risk a blind spot. We have to push in." Rick tells us and we all walk towards a door leading to the prison. Daryl opens it and we wind up in an empty cell block and start looking out for walkers. Rick goes upstairs, then comes back down with keys and he opens the door leading to all the cells, and we walk in. Maggie and I see a dead prisoner in one of the cells. Daryl goes upstairs, Rick joins him, after it was all clear me, Maggie and Glenn go out to get the others;
"What do you think?" Rick asked us as we walk in
"Home sweet home." Glenn says and I chuckle
"For the time being." Rick adds
"It's secure?" Lori asked him
"This cell block is."
"What about the rest of the prison?" Hershel asked
"In the morning, we'll find the cafeteria, and the infirmary."
"We'll sleep in the cells?" Beth asked
"I found the keys on some guards. Daryl has a set too."
"I ain't sleeping in no cage. I'll take the perch." Daryl tells us from up top and I shake my head smiling then head up the stairs, he takes a mattress from the cell I walked into and brought it out to the perch, I walked up the stairs and set my bag down next to his and laid down on the mattress, I didn't care how bad it reeked, I just cared about the fact that we now had shelter. I looked up at Daryl as he pulled me into his arms and kissed me.
"Not bad" Daryl says as we stand around a table looking at the weapons we gathered up from the walkers
"Flash-bangs, CS Triple-Chasers. Not sure how they'd work on walkers, but we'll take them." Rick says and Daryl picks up a helmet with walker skin in it.
"I ain't wearing this shit." He says and I snorted
T-Dog picks up gloves in the same condition, "We could boil them."
"Ain't enough firewood in a whole forest, no! Besides, we've made it this far without them right?" Daryl asked lightly swinging a riot stick and my mom arrives.
"Hershel?" She asked and nodded her head to follow her
"Everything alright?" Rick asked her
"Yeah, nothing to worry about." She says and Hershel follows my mom into her cell.
T-Dog, Daryl, Carl, Rick, Hershel, Glenn, me and Maggie are preparing and arming ourselves, Daryl insisted I put on one of the riot vests so instead of arguing I agreed
"You won't need that," I hear Rick say walking over to Carl taking the helmet off him, "I need you to stay put."
"You're kidding!"
"We don't know what's in there. If something goes wrong, you could be the last man standing. I need you to handle things here." Rick convinces him
"Sure."
"Great, let's go." Rick tells us and we leave
We advance very carefully through the corridors where there are dead bodies on the floor. Glenn traces arrows so we can find our way back. Suddenly, we see a lot of walkers as we turn and go back running, followed by the walkers, "Go back, go back! Go back, move! This way!" Rick urges us and we start moving
"Where's Glenn and Maggie?" I asked looking back to see they weren't behind me anymore
"We have to go back!" Hershel tells us
"But which way?" Daryl asked and we open a door nearby very carefully and start searching for Glenn and Maggie.
"Maggie? Glenn?" Hershel quietly called and we made our way through the corridors, "Mag? Mag?" I hear him call and turned to see we walked away from us then suddenly I hear him scream, I go back and see a walker biting his leg and I kill it with my knife as Maggie and Glenn arrive.
"No! No, daddy! No!" Maggie cried, the walkers start coming on both sides. Rick and Glenn take Hershel and start running while supporting Hershel.
"Daryl!" Rick yells to him and he shoots an arrow at a walker and we try to move down the way we came but get cut off
"We're blocked!" I yelled and T-Dog pushes us back
"Get back, get back!"
We see a door, and manage to open it, "Get in, get in!" Daryl tells us pulling me into the room
"Oh, god! Oh god!" Hershel cries as me and Daryl secure the door so the walkers can't open it. Rick and Glenn lie Hershel down on the floor. Rick puts his belt on Hershel's leg to stop the bleeding, T-Dog tries to keep the door closed as I move over to help calm Hershel
"Hold him down! Alright. Only one way to keep him alive!" Rick takes an axe, and starts to cut off Hershel's leg, while Maggie and Glenn hold him down, Hershel passes out from the pain. Rick manages to cut off Hershel's leg, "Oh… He's bleeding out."
"Duck." I hear Daryl tell Rick who gets down and Daryl stands up pointing his crossbow and I stand up doing the same with my gun, we see 5 men standing behind a wall with a window, and one of them looked familiar to me
"Holy shit." One of them says
"Who the hell are you?" Daryl asked them moving over and I stay where I am still aiming my gun
"Who the hell are you?" The one that looked familiar to me asked
"He's bleeding out, we gotta go back!" Rick says to us, "Come around here. Put pressure on the knee! Hard! Hard! Push, push!" He tells Maggie
"Come on out of here. Slow and steady." Daryl tells the prisoners and they come out
"What happened to him?" The one asked
"He got bit." Daryl tells him and the one reached for his gun
"Bit?" he takes his gun and T-Dog threatens him with his gun.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa, easy now. Nobody needs to get hurt." Daryl tells them and the one who grabbed his gun looked at me
"You?" He asked and I looked at him confused but Glenn walked by me then them
"You got medical supplies?" He asked them walking into the room they came out of
"Whoa where do you think you're going?" The tall one asked him and the walkers are still trying to come in the room.
"Who the hell are you people anyway?" The one who knows me asked
"Don't look like no rescue team!" the older one asked
"If a rescue team's what you're waiting for, don't!" Rick tells him and Glenn comes out with a table to carry Hershel, "Come on, we gotta go! Now! Come on, I need a hand here!" Glenn and Rick put Hershel on the table, "One, two, three, go!"
"Holy Jesus!" The older prisoner said
"T, the door!" Rick tells him and he moved back to the door
"Are you crazy? Don't open that!"
"We got this." T-Dog tells him and opens the door killing a walker that comes in. The others get out of the room, carrying Hershel on the table.
"Daryl! Phoebe!" Rick yells at us and the one prisoner is still pointing his gun at us as we back away to the door and walk out.
"This way!" Rick tells us as we rush back through the corridor but see walkers coming down one, "No, no, no, no, back, back! Daryl!"
Daryl kills a walker then grabbed his arrow, "Come on!"
We continue to walk through and see the prisoners following us, "Stop, stop!"
"Follow the flashlight, come on let's go!" One of them shouts
"Go, go, go, go, go, go, go!" Rick urged and we continue moving, Daryl opens a door and we're almost to our cell block. Maggie is still putting pressure on Hershel's knee.
"He's losing too much blood!"
"Open the door! It's Hershel! Carl, come on!" Rick yells to him and Carl opens the door then they rush in, I stay behind with Daryl, he gets his crossbow ready and I do the same with my gun pointing them at the door we came from as we hear footsteps approaching and the prisoners walk into the room.
"That's far enough." Daryl warns them and the first one looked at me
"Cell block C. Cell four, that's mine, gringo. Let me in." He tells Daryl
"Today's your lucky day, fellas. You've been pardoned by the state of Georgia, you're free to go."
"What you got going on in there?" He asked us
"Ain't none of your concern." Daryl tells him and the guy pulls his gun out of his pocket.
"Don't be telling me what's my concern."
"Chill, man. Dude's leg is messed up. Besides, we're free now! Why are we still in here?" The tall said to him
"Man's got a point." I mention
"Yeah, and I gotta check on my old lady." another prisoner said
"Group of civilians breaking into a prison you've got no business being in, got me thinking there ain't no place for us to go!" The guy with the gun said
"Why don't you go find out?" I asked him
"Maybe we'll just be going now." the older one says to him
"Hey, we ain't leaving!"
"You ain't coming here either!" T-Dog arrives with his gun aimed at the guy
"Hey, this is my house, my rules, I go where I damn well please!" He asked me, I stood there looking at him trying to remember him
"There ain't nothing for you here, why don't you go back to your own sandbox!" Daryl says to them and Rick came over to us
"Hey, hey, hey! Everyone relax, there's no need for this."
"How many of you in there?" the guy with the gun asked Rick
"Too many for you to handle."
"You guys rob a bank or something? Why don't you take him to a hospital?" the main one asked then it clicked
"How long have you been locked in that cafeteria?" Rick asked him
"Going on like ten months."
"A riot broke out. Never seen anything like it." The tall one mentioned
"Attica on speed, man." The older one added
"Ever heard about dudes going cannibal, dying, coming back to life? Crazy." Another one says
"One guard looked out for us, locked us up in the cafeteria, told us to sit tight, threw me this piece, said he'd be right back." The gun guy said
"And that was 292 days ago." The tall one points out
"94 according to my…" The older one started to say but Tomas cut him off
"Shut up!"
"We were thinking that the army or the national guard should be showing up any day now." The tall one mentioned
"There is no army." Rick tells them
"What do you mean?"
"There's no government, no hospitals, no police. It's all gone." I replied
"For real?" the older guy asked
"Serious." Rick says
"What about my moms?" The tall one asks
"My kids, my old lady!" The other one says, "Yo, you got a self-phone or something so we can call our families?"
"You don't get it, do you?" Daryl asked them
"No phones, no computers. As far as we can see, at least half the population's been wiped out. Probably more." Rick pointed out
"Ain't no way." The main one said
"See for yourself." Rick tells him and started to lead them outside when Daryl stopped me
"How does he know you?"
"Remember the robber that stabbed me?" I asked him and he nodded, "That was him, name is Tomas."
"He touches you I'll kill him"
"You would have to get in line" I said and we followed the others
"Damn, the sun feels good." The one prisoner says as we walk out the door
"Good Lord, they're all dead." The older man pointed out
"Never thought I'd be so happy to see these fences." Tomas says and looked at me but I ignored him and stood by the others
"You never said. How the hell did you get in here in the first place?" One prisoner asked
"Cut a hole in that fence over there by the guard tower." Daryl told him
"That easy, huh?"
"Where there's a will, there's a way." I add
"Easy for you to say." One of them says and the tall guy pokes one of the bodies with a stick.
"So what is this like a disease?" He asked
"Yeah, but we're all infected." Rick tells them
"What do you mean, infected? Like AIDS or something?" the older one asked
"If I was to kill you, shoot an arrow in your chest, you come back as one of these things. It's gonna happen to all of us."
"Ain't no way this Robin hood cast's responsible for killing all these freaks." Tomas mentioned and I snorted, if he only knew
"Must be fifty bodies out here." the small one said
"Where do you come from?" Tomas asked
"Atlanta." Rick answered
"Where you headed?" Tomas asks him
"For now, nowhere."
"I guess you could take that area down there near the water. Should be comfortable." Tomas told him and I shook my head
"We're using that field for crops."
"We'll help you move your gear out." Tomas tells us ignoring Rick
"That won't be necessary. We took out these walkers, this prison is ours."
"Slow down, cowboy." Tomas tells him
"You snatched the locks off our doors." The small one says to Rick
"We'll give you new locks, if that's how you want it."
"This is our prison. We were here first." Thomas said
"Locked in the broom closet? We took it, set you free, it's ours, we spilled blood." Rick argued
"We're moving back into our cell block, the girl can stay in mine with me." Tomas says looking at me and Daryl moved forward but I held him back
"You'll have to get your own." Rick says to him
"It is mine. I've still got personal artifacts in there, that's about as mine as it gets!" Tomas pulls his gun out, Daryl aimed his crossbow at him and I raised my gun
"Whoa, whoa, whoa, maybe let's try to make this work out so everybody wins!" The older man says trying to calm us down
"I don't see that happening." Tomas points out
"Neither do I." Rick adds
"I ain't coming back into that cafeteria for one minute." Tomas tells him
"There are other cell blocks." The older guys mentioned
"You could leave. Try your luck out on the road." I tell them
"If these four pussies can do all this, the least we can do is take out another cell block." Tomas said to the others
"With what?" The tall one asked him
"Atlanta here will spot us some real weapons. Won't you boss?"
"How stocked is that cafeteria? Must have plenty of food, five guys lasting almost a year?" Rick asked
"It sure as hell don't look like anybody's been starving." Daryl adds
"There's only a little left." Tomas tells Rick
"We'll take half. In exchange, we'll help clear out a cell block."
"Didn't you hear him? There's only a little left!" The small one argues
"Bet you've got more food than you've got choices. You pay, we'll play. We'll clear out a block for you, then you keep to it." Rick tells them
"Alright." Tomas says to him
"Well, let's be clear. If we see you out here, anywhere near our people, if I so much as even catch a whiff of your scent, I will kill you."
"Deal." Tomas said
"Pantry's back here!" Tomas says leading us to the cafeteria to check out how much food is left
"You never tried to break out of here?" T-Dog asked
"We tried to take the doors off. But if you make one peep in here, then those freaks will be lined up outside the door growling, trying to get in. Windows got bars on them that he-man couldn't get through." Oscar answered, we learned their names on our way bock down
"Bigger than a 5x8." Axel adds
"You won't find me complaining. Doing fifteen. My left leg can barely fit on one of those bunks." Big Tiny mentioned
"Yeah, they don't call him Big Tiny for nothing." Oscar pointed out
"You're done jerking each other off? I'm getting sick of waiting back here." Tomas tells us and I shook my head as we walked into the pantry and saw a bunch of food
"That's what you call a little bit of food?" Daryl asked Tomas moving over to him shining hs light around then moved past him
"Goes fast." Thomas says to him
"Mm-hmm."
"You can have a bag of corn, some tuna fish." Tomas tells Rick and I scoffed a little
"We said half. That's the deal." Rick says and moved over to a cooler door, "What's in there?"
"Don't open that." Big Tiny warned him but Rick opens the door, and the smell in the room is so bad he gags and I follow as the smell reached me
Thomas and his group laugh, "You wanted to know!" Thomas tells him and Rick shut it
"Can't wait for my own pot to piss in." Axel says
"Food's here!" T-Dog called into the block and Carl comes and opens the door
"What you got?" Carl asked him
"Canned beef, canned corn, canned cans! There's a lot more where this came from!" T-Dog answered and I shook my head smiling as we brought it into one of the cells
"Any change?" Rick asked Lori as we came back out
"Bleeding is under control and no fever, but his breath is labored, his pulse is way down and he hasn't opened his eyes yet."
"Take my cuffs, put them on him. I'm not taking any chances." Rick tells Glenn who reluctantly takes them
"Why do I need this, when I've got this" Tomas asked showing his gun and I rolled my eyes
"You don't fire guns. Not unless your back's up against the wall. Noise attracts them, really riles them up." Daryl answered from next to me
"We'll go in three by two by two. Daryl will run point with Phoebe and T, I'll bring up the rear with you," Rick points to Andrew, "Stay tight, hold formation, no matter how close the walkers get. Anyone breaks ranks, we could all go down, anyone runs off, they could get mistaken for a walker, end up with an axe to the head."
"And that's where you aim. These things only go down with a head shot." I tell them
"Ain't gotta tell us how to take out a man." Tomas says with a smirk and I rolled my eyes again as Daryl glared at him
"They ain't men. They're something else." T-Dog points out
"Just remember, go for the brain." Rick tells them and we head out
The prisoners and us are walking slowly through the corridors in order to see if there is any walkers, "Man, it's too damn dark in here!" Big Tiny says
"Gotta hold it up high out in front of you." I tell him indicating his axe, "You're gonna hear 'em before you see 'em."
Just then we hear growling, "It's coming!" Axel yells
"Shhh!" Rick says and we see the walkers shadow on the wall coming towards us and Daryl stops us
Before we can do anything, the prisoners run towards the walkers, screaming, and start to attack them by aiming somewhere else than in the head.
"You wanna taste me?" Axel stabs the walker in its stomach and we look at the prisoners failing to kill the walker.
"It's gotta be the brain!" Daryl tells them as we walk through the other corridor, "Not the stomach, not the heart, the brain!"
Another walker arrives, "I hear you, the brain." Axel says and Oscar stabs the walker in the head, but more arrive.
"Like that?" He asked Daryl
"Uh-uh."
Axel and Rick kill two walkers, "Stay in tight formation, no more prison riot crap!" Rick tells them and more walkers come, the prisoners start killing them and I stabbed the one that came through the door then we hear screaming and move back round the corner to see that Big Tiny was bitten, Rick killed one of them and Tomas shot the other, I looked between him and Rick.
"I'm telling you! I don't feel anything, it's just a scratch!" Big Tiny tells us as Rick looked at it
"I'm sorry man…"
"I can keep fighting!" Big Tiny defended
"You cut that old guy's leg off to save his life!" Axel says
"Look at where the bite is!" I tell him
"Guys, I'm fine! Just… I'm fine. Look, look at me, I'm not changing into one of those things." Big Tiny pleaded
"Look, man, there's gotta be something we can do, we could just lock him up!" Oscar says
"Quarantine him!" Axel adds
"We gotta do something! Why are you just standing there, we gotta save him!" Andrew yelled at us
"There's nothing we can do." Rick tells him
"You son of a bitch!"
"I'm al…" Big Tiny started to say but Tomas stabs him in the head, and continues stabbing him with a hammer. His face is full of blood as he stands up and looks at all of us and he walks away.
"You see the look on his face?" Daryl asked Rick about Tomas
"He makes one move…"
"Just give me a signal." I tell him and they both look at me and we reach the entrance of the cell block
We arrive in a room which contains a set of two doors leading to the cell block where the prisoners would live. Daryl gives Tomas the keys, "I ain't opening that." Tomas tells him
"Yes, you are. If you want this cell block, you're gonna open that door. Just the one, not both of them. Because we need to control this." Rick tells him and we hear the walkers behind the door.
Thomas picks up the keys, "You bitches ready?" He asked and tries to open the door, but it won't open, "I got this." He opens both doors and walkers come in.
"I said one door!" Rick yells at him
"Shit happens!"
We all start killing the walkers and at one point I look over at Rick who is by Tomas. When stabbing a walker, Tomas almost stabs Rick too, on purpose. He then sends a walker on Rick, who falls on the ground.
"T, mind the gap!" Daryl yells and stabs the walker and saving Rick
After we killed all the walkers I look at Daryl who nods at me and I get my machinate ready standing behind Thomas
"He was coming at me, bro!" Thomas says to Rick who look at me and I gave him a nod
"Yeah… Yeah, I get it. I get it. Shit happens." Rick tells him and nods his head, I quickly raised my machete and brought it down on his head killing him
"No!" Andrew yells and tries to attack me with a baseball bat, but Rick kicks him, and Daryl threatens him with his crossbow.
"Easy now." Daryl warns him and Andrew runs away, Rick follows him, while Daryl, me and T-Dog stay in the room with Axel and Oscar. "Hey, get down on your knees!" Daryl tells Oscar who kneels down
"We don't have no affiliation to what just happened! Tell him, Oscar!" Axel pleads
"Stop talking man."
"We didn't have nothing to do with that." Oscar tells Rick who's pointing his gun at him
"You didn't know? You knew! Daryl, let's end this now!" Rick points his gun at Axel's face, and Daryl puts his knife on Oscar's neck.
"Sir, please, please listen to me! It was them that was bad! It wasn't us!" Axel begged
"Oh, that's convenient!" Rick says to him
"You saw what he did to Tiny! He was my friend! Please! We ain't like that! I like my pharmaceuticals, but I'm no killer! Oscar here, he's a B and E and he ain't very good at it neither! We ain't the violent kind, they were! Please! Please, I swear to god! I wanna live!"
Rick goes back to Oscar pointing his gun at his head, "What about you?"
"I ain't never pleaded for my life. And I ain't about to start now. So you do what you gotta do."
We bring the prisoner's to their cell block, Rick and Daryl push Axel and Oscar inside and there are bodies everywhere.
"Oh man! I knew these guys, they were good men." Axel says
"Let's go." Rick tells Daryl as I stand by the door with T-Dog
"So you're just gonna leave us in here? Man, this is sick!" Oscar says to him
"We're locking down the cell block. From now on, this part of the prison is yours. Take it or leave it, that was the deal."
"You think this is sick? You don't wanna know what's outside." Daryl adds
"Consider yourselves the lucky ones." Rick mentioned
"Sorry about your friends man." Daryl says to Axel
"Word of advice : take those bodies outside and burn them." T-Dog tell them and we leave.
"Hershel stopped breathing, mom saved him." Carl tells Rick as we walk back into our cell block
"Still no fever." Lori adds and I stand next to her
Hershel opens his mouth, Maggie sits next to him and we all look at him as he opens his eyes. "Daddy?" Maggie asked
"Daddy! Daddy!" Beth says going down next to him and she laughs, Rick takes Hershel's cuffs off. Hershel grabs Rick's hand, we all smile and I hug Lori who returned it and she leaves the cell then Rick follows.
I head up to an empty cell and change my clothes, when I was done there was a knock on the wall, I turned and saw Daryl, "Doin' okay?"
"Yeah" I lied and grabbed my water that I used for washing and grabbed a rag
"Pheebs"
"It's just...the first person I've killed who wasn't dead and eating people." I tell him and he pulled me to him
"I'm sorry you did that"
"Don't be, he deserved it" I tell him and he kissed me, "You should change, you smell like ass" I tell him and he pushed me
"Think your funny?"
"I know I'm funny, just one of my many charms." I tell him with a smirk and he walked over to me backing me into the wall
"That ain't your only charm" He says and I wrap my arms around his neck as he kissed me deeply, I put my fingers in his hair and he gripped my hips, it was driving me crazy that we haven't had a private moment to ourselves in 8 months, every time we did we would have to move again.
"I am all for continuing this but the other's will hear."
He sighed and kissed me once more, "Guard tower?"
"Maggie and Glenn are gonna do watch tonight."
He grumbled, "Tomorrow."
"It's a date" I tell him and kissed him then he left while I finished cleaning myself up