No Tomorrow

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"Maybe what you need is a little incentive, that's fine by me."

He touched a little box at his hip on the table and I heard a ding go off in the other room where all the noises were coming from and it stopped.

"You have some intel that I want, and I think I've made it pretty clear that I'll do anything to get that. Now, tell me where your group is and I just might spare her."

He snapped his fingers just as a door on the other side of the room opened and I cried out in rage when Belle was shoved through by the man who captured us; her face was more blood and cuts then flesh and she was covered in so much blood that it dripped down past her hips. Her arms had deep cuts on them and the bastard had even torn her shirt off, weak as she seemed to be, she kept trying to cover her chest up with her hands; I couldn't tell if she was crying, but one thing was clear. Her body wasn't healing, her cuts were still bleeding freely. I struggled against my restraints until I felt a pop in my left wrist and the man just held his knife like wrist against her throat.

"We don't h a v e a group, we're by ourselves!"

The man closest to me reached over and hit me with a metal bar so hard that my head snapped back and I tasted blood in my mouth.

"See now, I know that's a lie because one of your own was so gracious and told us about you and your people. You two specifically, so your best bet is not to lie to me. How do you think that we have the restraints that you can't escape from?"

The man walked over to the one who held Belle and yanked her by the hair so hard that she cried out, and pulled on her until she was forced down onto her knees in front of me; up close the sight of her made me want to gag.

"Tell...them....already told them....about prison..."

My eyes flashed up to the man with the bandage and he just smiled at me before Belle was let go and she collapsed against my knees in a bloody heap, her chest heaving as she began to sob.

"Cunning, yes, I know. I always get what I want~ Set him loose Merle, I want the both of them executed tonight."

Merle snapped my cuffs off before the both of them left and I was too stone cold inside to change, I just slid to the ground and tried to peel the shirt off my body with shaking fingers; I was careful when I moved Belle's head and arms while I put it on her and she whimpered when I pulled her into my lap. I tried to wipe some of the blood from her face but she seemed to have a massive cut on her forehead that supplied most of the blood that was on her, her right arm shook as she tried to reach up and touch my face but her fingers were too weak and it just flopped against her chest.

"S-sorry....but I think that whatever they got me with killed the baby...my insides are burning....they're on fire..."

She started to cry again and her hands tried to touch her belly but she blacked out from the pain and I breathed a sigh of relief.

At least sleeping will keep her mind protected...

I stroked her face and sighed, how the fuck were we going to get out of this situation?

*

Hours later it seemed, the doors were kicked down and Rick ran in with Glenn and Maggie with guns in all of their hands, and they stopped when they saw us standing near one of the far walls; Belle was still passed out but by then I had her curled into the safety of my chest.

"I'm sorry Rick, she cracked and told them about the prison...they nearly beat her to death."

I tried to gesture to her limp bloody form but Rick just shook his head and motioned me to follow him with a quick snap of his wrist that held the gun.

"Don't worry about that right now, we need to get out of here."

*The Next Morning*

I slammed the door open to the cell block and rushed down to Hershel's cell but there was no point, he had his lower bunk ready with fresh sheets and pushed me out of the cell just as soon as I put Belle down on the bed; I heard Daryl storming in after me and decided to turn my anger over on him.

"Was that Belle? What the fuck happened to her?"

I shoved Daryl's chest so hard that he hit the metal railing leading to the upper level of cells with a clang, a snarl so vivious ripped from my throat and made my ears ring and I swore that I could have changed right then and there and killed him. Rick had told me who the man was on the way back home and my sanity had turned off like clock work.

"It was your god damned brother! Merle is the one who took the both of us and beat the shit out of her!"

Daryl shoved me away from him but I was past the antics now, I had to keep tapping my foot into the ground to keep from shouting any louder; I could hear Hershel working over Belle but I also heard the baby making snuffling noises in her sleep wherever she was at.

"...what? Merle wouldn't.."

I heard a wet noise and then Belle let out a low moan that rose the hairs at the back of my neck, half of me wanted to look but I was already going to have nightmares as is if I could even sleep; in my eyes I could still see all the cuts in her skin.