Mi Amor ~ Daryl Dixon

Chapter Twenty-Eight

Bang

Adrianna's body jumped and her eyes shot open, Daryl's body flinched from underneath her. Neither of them said a word, wondering if something was dropped or it was a gunshot.

Bang

The couple shot up immediately. They grabbed their crossbows from the corner and ran out of their cell. Screams and shouts echoed from the walls. Others from the group met up with them as they made their way to cell block D.

Entering the cell block, gunshots rung out as chaos ensued inside. Daryl snatched a gun from a man and ushered him out before tossing Rick the gun.

"Go! Get out of here!" Rick yelled out shooting a walker down.

Adrianna ushered people away from the dead. "Go! Go!" She stabbed a walker down, the dead were everywhere. People rushed past her, making the distinction between them and the walkers almost impossible. She pushed through them when she heard a small scream. "Molly!" She shot a walker that had almost reached the little girl. "Come over here!" She cleared a path for the panicked child. A lady popped her head out of the cell that was filled with children. "There! Go!" She ushered Molly into the room quickly.

"Get out!" Rick roared to the final people that were exiting the cell block.

The group took down what seemed like the remaining walkers. "Check all of them! Every cell!" He demanded.

"Are we clear down here?! Are we safe?!" Adrianna asked as the group made a sweep.

"Yeah!"

"Yes!"

"Upstairs!" Someone shouted for them to check the top floor cells. Adrianna, Rick, and Daryl made their way up. Carefully passing the cells, Adrianna didn't notice the hand that had reached out of one of them.

She yelped in response as it grabbed onto her harshly.

"Duck!" She immediately dropped to the ground and an arrow wizzed past her into the walkers skull. He ran to her quickly, checking her over for any bites.

"Thanks." She muttered and he raised her to her feet. Rick approached and they moved the sheet from the cell door. The body that was now laid out made the couple freeze.

"It's Patrick." Adrianna muttered, the sight of the dead boy was difficult to look at. She was just shaking his hand yesterday, and now he was dead.

They moved on from his cell and continued to check the remaining ones. As Rick walked past a locked one, arms came out swiftly and began reaching for him. He grabbed his knife and pushed it into his head. They unlocked the cell and checked him out.

"No bites. No wounds." Rick examined the boys body. "I think he just died."

"Horribly, too. Pleurisy aspiration." Dr S said.

"Choked to death on his own blood." Hershel added.
He pointed towards the blood on his face. "Caused those trails down his face."

"I've seen them before, on a walker outside the fences." Rick shared.

"I saw one yesterday on the run." Adrianna said.

"Yeah, I saw them on Patrick too."

"They're from the internal lung pressure building up- like if you shake a soda can and pop the tab. Only imagine your eyes, ears, nose, and throat are the top." Dr S explained the horrible sounding death to the group.

"It's a sickness from the walkers?" Adrianna asked.

"No. These things happened before they were around. Could be pneumococcal. Most likely an aggressive flu strain."