Two Broken Ones (Daryl Dixon X Male OC)

23. Back Again

Lowell, Carol and Axel set up some barricades and stood in the yard staring out at the woods as Axel talked something about his brother. He was pretty damn sweet man for an inmate. As he talked about how his brother would never borrow him money making both Lowell and Carol crack laughing. Next moment there was a hole through one of man's eyes killing him and making him fall to the ground as loud gunshot sounded. Lowell immediately grabbed Carol pulling her down to the ground holding her between himself and dead body of Axel as as a human shields for her. There's was more gunshots and some guy appeared on one of the watchtowers shooting rounds at them and thanks to Axel's body bullets weren't reaching them. There were more gunshots from afar meaning there were more people out there.

"Go!" Maggie yelled covering them backfiring at the guy on the watchtower. Lowell got up picking Carol up and started running to hide behind the corner of the building. He felt already well familiar sharp, burning pain in his leg but continued running, there was only few yards left and they were in relatively safe space by Carl and Bath. He set Carol down to stand checking if she's fine.

"Your leg!" Beth gasped making Lowell looked down at himself to see blood running down his leg and soaking his pants. He was shot but it didn't hurt all that much because of adrenaline.

"You gotta be fucking me." Lowell growled, moving most of his weight on his fine leg. He was getting shot way too much, probably should start watching out for himself too at some point or he'll end up six feet under before he reaches his thirties.

Carol grabbed the bottom of her shirt ripping a wide stripe off before kneeling in front of Lowell and wrapping his leg above the shot wound. Lowell hissed in pain, his face turning into expression one of pain and discomfort.

Shooting ended, everything falling a little too silent and after several seconds there was the roar of an engine. Lowell sticked out his arm to keep Carol, Beth and Carl behind himself as he looked out from around the corner, seeing a van driving right through the gates of prison, ripping the fence out of the ground and driving into the yard. After a moment it stopped and the back of the van opened letting out at least two dozens of walkers. Shooting started again and the man who was driving the van got out and started running back to where Governor was. Governor let out round into the air to attract more walkers to the prison and they got in the car driving off.

Maggie run out from where she was hiding and started shooting walkers from M-16. Glenn appeared just in time on his car and drove over to Hershel picking the old man up and driving him to the safety. Lowell grabbed his handgun and limped over to get closer to Maggie standing beside her and started shooting walkers in the yard. Mishone started running around and slicing walkers heads as she helped Glenn with Hershel. Then it was quiet more or less, they shut the gate leading into the courtyard around the prison shutting off walkers in the yard from themselves. Rick was still outside but there was someone by him, two man, Lowell couldn't see from that far but when they got into the prison he saw, he saw Daryl alongside with Merle. Daryl came back, Lowell didn't know why, he could think of few reasons but his reasons don't seem to be right lately so he decided against thinking about it, besides they had better things to care about beside Daryl's bipolarly changing mind all the time. Like for example Governor or a through bullet hole in Lowell's left thigh. When they all got back inside Hershel stitched Lowell up and wrapped his leg nicely in bandages which hid under Lowell's pants.

Now they were all sitting and standing around the cell block and talking about what to do next.

"We're not leaving." Rick said fiddling with one of the rifles they had.

"We can't stay here." Hershel protested.

"We can't even go outside." Beth said standing on the second floor together with Carol and Daryl while looking down on the people downstairs.