SOS/Book 2/The Prison

Chapter 1

"What a shame," Daryl sighed staring over the fence into the prison grounds, "It's completely overrun with walkers."
Rick climbed the fence to reach him,
"How many you think are in there?"
"Hundreds, give or take afew," Daryl answered.
"We can take them out," Rick nodded, "If we start in the front field and make our way slowly to the rest of the prison we can do it."

Daryl shook his head,
"Don't you think it's a bit too big of a risk? I mean what if Lori got bit..." Rick cut him off,
"Daryl we've been searching for months, I'd rather try this and die than survive out in the woods with walkers for another minute."

Daryl sighed once again,
"I guess we'll give it a go then."

The rest of the group crowded around the fence and Carl handed some cable cutters to Rick.
"Everyone get weapons out," Rick ordered, "Once I cut this fence they are all gonna come at us, you need to be ready."
Everyone nodded and Rick quickly cut the fence.

"Everyone in!" he called as the group crawled through the hole he had cut, immediately they started taking out the walkers one by one. Stabbing them through the skull with knives, poles, machetes, anything they could pick up.

Daryl tied up the hole in the fence with rope so that no more walkers could spill in and kill them in their sleep.

Eventually, in the course of about half an hour, the front field of the prison was taken out and they were left with a walker free piece of land surrounded by high fences.

"It's perfect," Carol said, "It's an amazing place to bring up a child." She looked at Lori who smiled.
"Judith can be born here," Lori said, all the worries leaving her mind.

"I'll make a fire," Glenn said, "We can sleep in the field tonight, then tomorrow we can clear the rest of the prison... soon we'll have the whole place to ourselves."
Everyone smiled at the thought of finally being under a roof again, in a bed, without having to worry about a walker eating you alive.

Daryl went back outside the prison to hunt, he came back afew hours later with two squirrels and logs for the fire.
"Yum," Carl said, slightly sarcastically, and the group chuckled.
"I'm happy here," Katelyn said looking at Tom, "I think we could really make this place the start of something great."

"I see potential too," Isla agreed, "I see a future here."
The group finished their meal and Maggie and Glenn climbed the prison tower to take night watch. They also called dibs on sleeping up there which made Daryl a bit annoyed because he had his heart set on making it his home.

"We can grow crops in this field," Rick said, "We could also breed animals."
"Squirrels?" Daryl laughed and Rick put his face in his hands,
"No Daryl, not squirrels."

Carol brought the blankets in from the car and everyone set up beds around the fire. It was a beautiful night of hope and a new beginning. Hopefully the prison would stay that way- and be an amazing home where maybe they could start to bring the world back to life.

Isla started to sing the parting glass. Maggie joined in.
Soon the whole group were singing the beautiful song together in harmony.

This was a new beginning.

Andreas point of view
I didn't stop, I just ran.
I ran through the woods shooting only the walkers that got less than a meter close to me- so as to not waste bullets.

My legs burnt and I had a pain in my stomach that was so unbearable because of the lack of energy I now had.
I was slowing down.
Walkers were getting closer but I didn't stop.
I didn't even look back.
I had to loose them all.
I had to survive.