I Am Here (TWD)

Part 25

When Rick finds out where we are, he'll probably blow Merle's brains out. I'm betting on it. I tasted my bloody lip again, my cheek hurts still from where he hit me and the pain in my thigh won't subside. I pulled a Bobby pin from my hair and unlocked the other cuffs. Lifting my shirt, I pull my other knife out, cutting a piece of my shirt off and wrapping it around my thigh. I can hear a bunch of noise from the other room, it sounds like Glenn struggling with a Walker. What the hell is wrong with these people? Merle especially.

The noise stops and so does my heart- Did the walker get him? I pressed my ear against the wall, then I hear Glenn shouting. I sighed.

"Oh thank god."

I looked around the room, for any way out, but this room was just filled with random crap. I put my knife back and kicked the leg out from under the table, I guess this will do. The door swings open and Merle enters with another man with a gun.

"Put it down." Merle says as I pointed it at him. I weighed my options and it was clear I couldn't win, I dropped the leg and he grabs my arm pulling me out of the room. In the hallway I see Maggie, her shirt is gone, she's covering her bare  chest. The man holding her is already pissing me off, I pulled forward but Merle grabs my shirt and basically tosses me to another man. They walked us to another room, leading us in there. I take one look at Glenn's face and I felt overwhelmed with emotions. Glenn starts foreward with a weapon of some kind.

"Hey!" Merle say.

"Drop it!" Says the other guy as he points his gun to my head. Glenn looked terrified as I nodded my head, he drops the wood.

"We're through with games." Says the man holding Maggie, pulling out his gun. "Now one of you is gonna give up your camp."

The hammer clicks in his gun as he pointed it at Maggie then he moves over to Glenn.

"N-no." I shudder.

"The prison." Maggie says tearful.

"The one near Nunez?" Asked Merle.

I nodded as I started to tear up.

"That place is overrun." Says the man.

"We took it." Maggie says.

"How many are you?"

"11." She says. "We have 11 now."

"11 people cleared that whole prison of biters? Huh?" He says lowering his gun and walking towards the door. He stopped at Maggie and started caressing her face.

"Shh, shh, shh, its alright." He cooed, pushing her into a hug.

"Get your hands off of her." I say, he looks at me and then pushes her over to Glenn. He looked down at me, like some psychotic mannered creature looking into my eyes. He grabs a hand full of my hair, I whined as his grip tighten, as I held onto his hands. He tosses me to the floor, Glenn and Maggie scooped me up quickly, putting me behind them. They closed and locked the door back, I blinked my tears away.

"Are you okay?" Asked them both, touching Glenns face, his flinches away. I back my hand away. We sit in the floor, my leg has finally stopped bleeding, now I'm thinking of a plan.

"Maggie, did he-" Glenn starts.

"No." She says firmly. "No. He barely touched me. "All this time, running from walkers-- you forget what people do, have always done. Look at what they did to you and Rei."

"Doesn't matter." He says. "As long as he didn't--"

"No. I promise." She says as they hugged tightly.

I want to hug my brother.

"I did what you said." I say as they look at me. "I didn't talk to Merle or anyone."