Chapter 8

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Katelyns point of view/Back at the prison
"I'll come too," I said to a thankful Rick and a not so thankful Isla,
"Are you sure?" Isla asked, "They might need you here with Hershel."
"She's fine." Pedro butted in, "She's stronger than you."

It sort of felt like Pedro was deliberately starting an argument with Isla because she didn't mean it in a nasty way.
"No yeah I know Katelyns strong," Isla spoke, "It's just you know, Hershel might die."
I shook my head,
"I'm coming." I stated, not even letting her reply. Then I walked past her and stuffed my bag full of things we would need.

Once I was ready I looked over and saw that Rick and Isla were too.
"Be safe," Andy said, kissing Isla on the cheek which made her blush a bit.

Tom was ignoring me and I didn't know why. As soon as Pedro showed up he thought that me and him had this thing. Which of course was absolutely stupid because I loved Tom...

But I'd grown closer to Pedro.

For now thought none of that mattered, because we had a task- find Fleur, Carl, Maggie and Lori. That's if they even needed our help- which I'm sure they did otherwise they would've found us by now.

After saying a quick goodbye to the rest of the group we left the small storage room. It was so much quieter out there than I expected, most of the walkers had wandered back outside the prison and we only had to kill about twenty.
First we decided to check the cafeteria, it was empty, completely empty.
Then we decided to search the prison outside grounds- like the front field and the guard towers. We found once again absolutely nothing, not a single trace of them.

"They've gotta be inside." Rick said, every minute he was more on edge, what if they were dead? Or what if one of them was. Lori was pregnant, if she wasn't eating enough at the moment she could die.

"We'll check the main corridors first," I said and Isla nodded. Rick was listening but he didn't reply.
Once we reached the main building we opened the door, it was so peaceful. There were about 5 walkers we could see and once we took those out they were all we found in the corridors.

We searched for about ten minutes in main corridor but found nothing once again.

Until we heard a clang of metal.
"It could just be a walker," Isla said,
"Or it could be my wife and son." Rick said quickly walking ahead.
"LORI, CARL!!!" He shouted,
"MAGGIE, FLEUR!!!"

We were answered with silence... and then we turned the corner.

There in front of us was Maggie.

And she was holding a sweet sweet baby girl.

Seconds later Carl and Fleur appeared, they all looked terrible. Where was Lori?

Rick stared at the baby in awe, but then saw the sad, tear smudged face of Maggie.
"W-whe-" he began, but choked on his words.
Tears fell from Maggies face and we all got the memo-

Lori was dead.

"No no no NO NO NO NO NO!!!" Rick yelled, crying like a baby. His legs turned to jelly and he fell to the ground, his heart breaking in two.

He stood up and bent down, looking at Carl who's face was now the same. Everyone was a crying mess and was I.

After about ten minutes we slowly headed back to the storage room. Maggie and Fleur saw Hershels state which definitely didn't improve their mood. The good thing was he was doing amazingly, and yeah he would need a walking stick for the rest of his life but it was so much better this way.

We'd all been through so much shit, Carl had lost his mum, Rick had lost his wife, Hershel would never walk the same again, Judith would grow up without a mother. But somehow we would recover, I know we would, because we always did.

Michonnes point of view
"Merle Dixon... wow." I grunted, it was kinda ironic that he thought he was all it, "Sorry but the name doesn't ring any bells."
"Your quite a feisty one," he looked down at me, like I was a rat that needed to be exterminated.

"Yeah surprisingly I get that a lot," I fake smiled and continued to bash at the gate, but louder this time.

"You aren't getting out." Merle Stated,
"Oh you think I'm giving you a choice?" I laughed, "No. I'm not giving you a choice. Either you let me through this gate or I will find a way to get out myself."

Merle the dick head rolled his eyes,
"You will need to speak with the Governor."
Ugh, wow, of course, how could I forget he was like the king of this place.
There was no way in hell I was speaking to the governor, so I guess I would just have to follow plan B- and that was to get out myself. It wouldn't be that hard because obviously I had already found an escape route via the whole in the wall.

"Cya Merley!" I called, walking away as the people of Woodbury stared.
I kinda felt badass doing that I'm not gonna lie, being alone gave me a sudden boost of confidence. Maybe it would be okay without Andrea.

Finally I reached the huge gaping whole and looked around to make sure nobody would see me sneak out. Most of the guards had gone to bed but there were still a few for night shift.

It was just as easy as I thought, all I had to do was wait until the chatterboxes started chatting and then I took my chance and ran through. I ran and ran and ran. I didn't stop until my legs ached and I could hardly breathe.

Once I got deep into the woods I fell to the ground, gasping for air. It was going to be hard again, but at least it wasn't winter anymore. And at least it wasn't Woodbury.

Fleurs point of view/Back at the prison
Carl was doing bad, worse. He was in so much emotional pain that he was throwing up constantly.

Rick was slowly going mad, he wasn't with his own mind. Sometimes you'd talk to him but it was like he was deaf. He wasn't eating either.

Carl would often have nightmares, and I'd have to comfort him sometimes because they would be really bad.
But the baby was an angel, and now we had a name for her- Judith.

Just like Lori wanted, it wouldn't be right to call her anything else. Plus it suited her.

Daryl was showing his soft side, it was quite funny actually. When he was with Judith he seemed to get all lovable and the tense, heartless Daryl would disappear.

Carl was happy around Judith too and in return that made me happy

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Carl was happy around Judith too and in return that made me happy.

My dad was also recovering amazingly, he hadn't tried to walk yet but he was stable and soon he would.
I was so, so thankful that he had survived, It would just be too heartbreaking to loose Lori and my father in the same day. I don't think I would've been able to cope.

Maggie and Glenn were doing amazingly as well *wink wink*.
They were so in love it was disgusting.
But I was happy for her, after all.

Soon enough we had rebuilt the fence and we were now making sure we killed the walkers in a good schedule.
Everything, very very slowly, went back to normal. Except for Rick, who really wasn't coping- but what more could we do?

He would get through it.

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