You Are The Wilderness

Chapter 22 - Home Sweet Home

Rick's POV

            "Ready?"       

Kiara, Daryl, Glenn, Maggie, T-dog and I were about to get in to the concrete yard of our prison block. I was unlatching chains I put on the gate not 24 hours ago and Hershel pulled it open. We barged in, me killing the nearest Walker with my trusty machete, Daryl on my right flank and Kiara on my left, doing the same thing. We were successfully working our way further in, holding our formation and killing everything in sight. We were halfway there when T-dog broke ranks in order to take one of the riot shields when a seemingly dead Walker cop that was still holding onto in sprung up and started snatching at him.

"I got it," Kiara said and with one swift movement of her hand she beheaded the poor creature saving T-dog's ass. She didn't notice the Walker crawling towards her back but before I could alert her, Daryl ran one of his arrows through its skull.

"Thanks," Kiara and I said in unison making the redneck smirk at us. "Hold the formation," I said firmly scolding her with my eyes. She blushed a little and retorted "Yes sir," making me roll my eyes.

The sound distraction others provided wasn't working very well this time and there were more coming towards the back of our formation, but Maggie and Kiara discarded them quickly.

"Almost there," I said and went to check one of the doors leading to the courtyard. Then I peaked from behind the wall and saw the smaller yard crawling with A LOT of Walkers. I ducked behind the wall before they could notice me and others followed suit. There were SWAT Walkers crawling from behind the dumpster in the far corner of the yard and more right from behind the wall. We needed to move fast and get rid of them before others could notice us, but they were hard to kill because of their riot gear. We were struggling with them a while and getting nowhere.

I screamed at Daryl to cover me and tackling the nearest Walker to the ground, I ran to close the gate. I made it and all that was left to do was to deal with the "invincible" Walkers. Maggie then succeeded to kill one of them by shoving her knife under its jaw deep enough to penetrate the brain and everybody followed her example.

I saw Kiara pin one of the Walkers against the fence, shove its helmet shield back and ram her big hunting knife deep into its eye socket. She pulled away with a fierce expression on her face splattered with blood. In spite of the adrenaline pumping in my veins and the fact that I was exhausted, I found myself turned on. A lot. She wiped her forehead with her hand and looked up at me smiling and nodding in acknowledgement. Her bright blue-green eyes were shining in the morning sun. She'd never been more beautiful.

Glenn and Maggie were running back to get others but I stopped them checking the courtyard.

"It looks secure," Glenn argued.

"Nothin' would lead to that courtyard over there," Daryl chimed in. "And that's a civilian," he pointed out.

"So the interior could be overrun from Walkers from outside the prison," T-dog said.

"Well if there's walls down, what're we gonna do? We can't rebuild this whole place," Glenn continued.

"We can't risk a blind spot," Kiara added.

"Yeah, we have to push in," I said and we started towards the door that would lead to one of the cell blocks leaving others behind us with questioning looks.

We went in and everything was quiet. I found keys on a long dead guard still sitting in his chair and we secured all other doors and then went into the Cell Block C to clear it out. Everything was quiet as far as we saw, but we searched every cell, not leaving out anything. I saw Maggie and Glenn walk past one cell with dead Walker in it, and then Kiara walked in ramming her sword through its head making others look at her questioningly.