Confide in Fear | DARYL DIXON •1

8. Infected

Alex's *POV*

Its been, I'm guessing, more than a month of being here in this prison, maybe even longer. Daryl and I have gotten closer. But, that only meant he wouldn't say harsh things to me like he would a couple of months ago. He was sweet to me and I was sweet to him. We helped each other a lot; going on runs together, helping out with the fence. But, he was always keeping quiet, occasionally a few words whenever we took breaks, or when we needed to on the runs we went out on.

Today, I was farming and talking with Rick and Carl in the beaming sun. I felt safe and welcomed, and didn't feel useless anymore. The noise was the same as always. Walkers - which I picked up their names from Rick and everyone - moaning for something to chew on. Tuning it out was the hard part, but you couldn't do anything about it, you just needed to learn to live with it.

Suddenly, snapping me out it my thoughts and farming, we all hear two gunshots coming from the inside of the prison. I looked towards the prison and furrowed my eyebrows, then at Rick.

"Stay close." I heard Rick say to Carl.

"Help! Help! Please, come quick." We heard a young girl scream coming out of the prison, as me and Rick quickly ran.

"Cell block?" Maggie yelled from the tower. I looked over to her and then to Rick.

"I don't know!" He yelled back. "Get in the tower with Maggie. Don't argue, go." Rick told Carl. "Alex, come with me." Rick and I started to run, while we both threw our farming gloves to the floor and ran passed the gates

"Walkers in D!" Glen yelled out.

"Shit." I said. "How many?"

"Enough." He answered, his face twisted with concern.

"What about C?" Rick yelled.

"Clear. We locked the gates to the tombs." Sasha yelled out. "Hershel's on guard!" Behind Sasha I saw Daryl. He must've saw me because he quickly came running to me.

"You're alright." I said, our hands clutching onto each other's, his hand squeezing tightly around mine. "I'm glad you're safe." I whispered. "Daryl-"

I got cut off by Daryl letting me go, "It ain't a breach." Daryl said, and then quickly running with Sasha as she yelled

"We followed the plan!" Tyreese, came up running and follows them in to the cellblock, then Rick, then me. "I don't understand..."

As soon as we entered, people were screaming. They started to kill each walker they had seen. I saw Daryl quickly shove Carol carefully and took the gun she had, and yelled. There was so much going on, my head turning in every direction. Walkers. People running, shooting, killing the walkers with anything they could use. Children yelling and going into cells to protect themselves. Some people were defenseless and had no idea what to do.

"Daryl!" Rick yelled, "I got this. We got this! Are you bit? Go! Get out of here!" Rick screamed. Everyone's was running, everyone was yelling. A walker was running up right behind Rick, until I went and stabbed it in the head, then causing me to run into Rick with the walker in front of me. "You okay?!" I panicked.

"I'm good!" He answered, then ran to go kill more of the walkers, attacking.

I ran up the stairs and began to kill the first walker I seen, with my knife, and then went back down a couple of steps on the other side of the stairs. I paused. I just panicked. I didn't know what to do. I was never in a situation like this before - not with this many walkers, not with this many people. I was always freaked out, but today it was on another level.