War on the Body [1]

[17] Family lockets

Paige hadn't slept that night, grieving over the loss of her mother.

She was startled as the door to the vacant room opened, showcasing Hershel.

"Worried us all, nobody has seen you since yesterday. Why are you holding out in here?" Hershel asked his daughter, as he sat on a crate beside of her.

"I found this yesterday" Paige said handing the locket to Hershel as she quietly sobbed.

He opened the locket to see his ex-lover and his daughter when she was a young child.

He smiled at the picture of Paige, she had looked like her mother when she was a little girl.

"Where was this at? You should have shown me sooner" Hershel said looking to her, noticing the tears falling down her face. "Paige? What's the matter?"

" I had to kill her; she was at the fence. She never took this necklace off, I had to kill her. " Paige said as she sobbed harder, " I killed her, I had to. I couldn't leave her like that, I never wanted to see her like that. I had to kill her; I killed her daddy"

Hershel held his daughter as she broke down right in front of him, breaking his heart in the process.

Paige held onto Hershel like he was her lifeline, she had to killer her mother the day before.

After a while, Paige stood wiping her tears.

"I should help Caleb with the sick people" Paige said referring to Dr. S

Hershel nodded, standing to his own two feet.

As Paige walked out the door, Hershel followed determined to not let her out of his sight.

Paige separated people while Hershel and Caleb checked on the patients already in Cell block A.

As Paige was doing her job she felt a tap on her shoulder, she looked over it to see Daryl.

"Can I have a word?" Paige nodded her head following after him.

" When I said we would need you out here, I was right " Daryl said causing Paige to roll her eyes, " Rick needs his hand fixed up, he busted it up pretty badly"

Paige nodded her head and walked towards the cell block Rick was currently in. As she approached the cell, she saw Rick sitting in a chair looking at his feet. His hand was as Daryl said 'busted', she took a seat beside him and got to work.

"Good thing is it won't need stitches" Paige murmured as she finished his hand.

She didn't stay around and make conversation or jokes like she usually would. She just finished his hand and made her way out of the cell block.

"What happened with her?" Rick asked Hershel as he walked past him.

" a walker she put down yesterday was her mother" Hershel told the man

Rick looked at Hershel shocked, "Will she be, okay?"

" Only time will tell"

Paige had tied a bandana around her nose and mouth before entering cell block A.

As she walked past a cell, she saw a woman coughing up blood and another contained a walker. She pulled her knife out and put the walker down before Sasha appeared beside her looking as bad as the woman coughing blood. Paige held the woman up and sat her down in an empty cell block.

"Caleb!" Paige yelled as she looked for the doctor in charge, he walked from behind the staircase looking as bad as Sasha.

"We have to tell them... It's starting"