Wake the Dead

chapter 44

"NO!" Rick called out from across the fields as him, Daryl, Glenn, and V started to run as fast as they could over to us, but they wouldn't be able to get here in time. I immediately pulled out my gun, along with Carl and Lori. 

"GO! GET OUT OF THERE! LORI!" I heard Rick call as we started to shoot at the walkers. Maggie, Carol, and T-dog came over and started to shot at them with us. Beth and Hershel hurried into a fenced off section and shut the door, staying away from the walkers that just kept pouring out. 

I kept on shooting at them, trying to take them down one by one, but there was too many. "FIONA!" I heard one of the boys yell, but couldn't make out who. "That gate is open!" T-dog yelled as he shot a path through the walkers. If the gate was open then that meant a lot more walkers were coming and we needed to get inside, especially Lori. "LORI!" I yelled over at her and signaled to the caged walk way entrance to the call block "Over here!" Her, Carl, and Maggie followed me inside and shut the metal door. We quickly entered the door that we first came in to clear out the prison a couple days ago. 

We were walking to the cell doors, but then a whole nother group of walkers came out. "GO GO!" I yelled, pushing Lori and Carl into the corridors and following behind them. We were now in the same dark corridors that Hershel got bit in, but then all of the sudden an alarm starts going off. 

We started to walk faster, but Lori started to slow down. She grabbed the wall and started to breathe heavily. "I think the babys comin." She breathed out. Shit. Shit. Shit. Shit! "Mom?!" Carl asked, scared for his mother. 

The groans of walkers spun us all around and Carl was about to shoot them, but I stopped him. "No. There's no time! Turn back!" I called out, putting Lori's arm around my shoulder and trying to run in the other direction. Carl lead us through the hallways, trying to stay away from walkers as Maggie and I dragged Lori. She was starting to cry out, most likely pain from contractions. 

All the hallways were blocked off by walkers, but then Carl found a door for us to duck into. "In here!" He called out and then held the door open for us. We went down the stairs to what seemed to be a boiler room and Lori grabbed onto chains hanging from the wall, breathing heavy as we listened to the walkers pass by the door. Lori started to get more contractions and let out heavy breaths of pain, shit she is going to need to give birth here...

"We need to get back to the cell block, get Hershel to help her!" Carl said. 

"No, we can't risk getting caught out there, we are going to need to deliver this baby here." I told them. "Okay, let's get your pants off." Maggie said and then we both helped Lori onto the ground. Maggie started to pull her pants off. "We need to check how dilated she is." Maggie said, trying to figure it out.

"Do you know how?" Carl asked, fear in his voice. 

"Dad taught me a few things, but trust me it's my first time." She said, looking down to Lori. 

"You ready to help deliver your brother and sister?" I asked Carl, trying to stay calm, but I was truly freaking out. He just looked at me wide eyed.

"I can't tell." Maggie said to Lori. "I gotta push. I gotta push." Lori said and we helped her stand up.

She groaned out as she pushed and then reached her hand out. I grabbed it and she squeezed it as she let out her first push. "I'm okay. I'm okay." She said and gripped onto the wall again.

"Your body knows what its doing, let it do all the work." Maggie said as Lori pushed again. Maggie and I got our hands ready to grab the baby, but instead I felt something else, blood. "Lori stop! Don't push! Somethings wrong!" I said as I looked at my bloody hand and Lori let out a small scream. I looked over at Maggie and she had the same wide eyes as I did.