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033. breached

Katherine begged to be able to drive one of the cars inside the yard, but T-Dog seemed to have PTSD from the last time Katherine drove a car with him inside it, so, she was instead going to help burn the corpses that still littered around outside.

"Alright, let's get the other cars in. We'll park 'em in the west entry of the yard" Rick stated.

"Good. Our vehicles camped out there looked like a giant "vacancy" sign" Daryl retorted.

"After that, we need to load up these corpses so we can burn them" Rick adds.

"It's gonna be a long day" T-Dog sighed.

Katherine knew it was going to be rough. But she felt useless not doing much, Beth was helping Lori with her Dad, Carl was in there with them keeping watch with Harlow. And Katherine wanted to give her sister some independence, so she decided helping clear out the corpses was the way to go spending her day.

"Where's Glenn and Maggie? We could use some help" Carol questioned.

"Up in the guard tower" Katherine replied.

"Guard tower? They were just up there last night" Rick says, confused.

They all looked up at the guard tower, "Glenn! Maggie!" Daryl shouted.

Hearing his name, Glenn came out the tower shirtless and buttoning his pants up, "Hey! What's up guys?" he chuckled nervously.

Everyone laughed at the sight of Glenn, Katherine shakes her head at her best friend. "You comin'?" Daryl asked him.

"What?" Glenn's face dropped.

Everyone continued laughing, "Come on loverboy, we could use some help" Katherine shouted.

"Yeah, we'll be right down!" Glenn replied, going back into the tower.

Carol, Rick, Katherine and Daryl turn towards the cars, still laughing, but T-Dog sees something, "Hey Rick!"

Rick stopped smiling immediately, as did Katherine when she too spotted the two prisoners Axel and Osacr, out of their cell block, walking towards them. Katherine heard that one of them was scratched, and the leader brutally killed him, then later, Rick killed him, and then the last guy ran off, assumed to be dead too.

"Come with me" Rick said to the others, walking towards them, "That's close enough. We had an agreement" he says to the prisoners.

"Please, mister. We know we made a deal" Axel, the man with long dirty blonde hair and mustache, starts to speak as Glenn and Maggie arrive, "But you gotta understand! We can't live in that place another minute, you follow me? All the bodies, people we knew! Blood, brains everywhere! There's ghosts" he explains.

"Why don't you move the bodies out?" Daryl suggested.

"We tried! We did!" Axel replied.

"The fence is down on the far side of the prison. Everytime we drag a boy out, those things just lineup. So dumping a body and just running back inside" Oscar further explained.

"Look, we had nothing to do with Tomas and Andrew, nothing! You trying to prove a point? You proved it, bro! We'll do whatever it takes to be a part of your group, just please, please, don't make us live in that place" Axel began to beg.

Katherine started to feel a little bad, they seemed innocent enough. But they've known people who seem to look nice, then turn out to be horrible people. They just can't trust the prisoners.

"Our deal is not negotiable. You either live in your cell block, or you leave" Rick tells them.

Oscar turned to Axel, "I told you this was a waste of time. They ain't no different than the pricks who shot up our boys. You know how many friends' corpses we had to drag out this week? Just threw 'em out like... Those were good guys! Good guys who had our backs against the really bad dudes in this joint like Tomas and Andrew. Now, we've all made mistakes to get in here, chief, and I'm not gonna pretend to be a saint, but believe me... we paid our due. Enough that we would rather hit that road, than to go back into that shithole" he rants.