We stood by the gate, Daryl, Glenn, Maggie, Rick and I.
"Ready?" Dad asks Rick
"Yeah" Rick mumbled
Dad opened the gate for us, now we were face with the walkers. We kept a tight formation, killing with only silent weapons. Knives, machetes, daggers, crow bars. One by one we'd kill them. Blood splattering whenever you stabbed one. It wasn't a pleasant feeling. Glenn starts to wander from the group, going rogue and taking on walkers himself.
"Don't break rank!" Rick shouts to him
"We need that!" He responds and picks up a shield. Then a walker comes at him. I ran out to help him.
"Isabelle!" Rick yells my name.
I stab the walker before joining the group again. Rick opens a door and nothing comes out.
"Shit" he mumbled and pushed me back against the wall, everyone followed suit.
Walkers in riot gear start to appear. Daryl shot an arrow but it didn't do anything, only ricocheting off the face shield it wore. Rick and Daryl move forward, while I turn to help Maggie and Glenn I was suddenly pushed down by a walker.
"Fuck" I yell and start to peel his mask off but his face comes off with it. I hold him above me and reach for my fallen machete but it's too far. I go for the last option I'd want to do. I start to
push his eyes in, my hands eventually go through and to his brain. Rotten bodily fluids and blood falls onto my face and chest. I push him off me and pick up my machete to help everyone else as if it never happened.
I look around and see the court was cleared. I smile. Daryl wipes a layer of goo from my cheek and looks at it questionably, wondering what it was from and I shrugged my shoulders.
"We're secure" Glenn says
"Not from the look of that courtyard over there" Daryl says pointing to the other part of the court filled with walkers "and that's a civilian"
"So the interior could be overrun with walkers from outside the prison" Maggie inquires.
"There's a breach somewhere if she got in" I say referring to the civilian walker.
"Is there's walls down, what are we gonna do?" Glenn asks "we can't rebuild the whole place"
"Can't risk a blind spot" Rick says "we have to push in, today"
We enter a caged stairwell. Daryl and Rick are in front, ready to open the door. They do and are calm, I lower my weapon. I was the last to enter.
"Isabelle" a voice echoed and I saw Glenn in front of me
"What?" I snapped, Glenn stepped back. I didn't know what came over me.
"I'm sorry" he says
I walked farther into the room. Rick walked up to the lookout tower at the top of a staircase.
Rick came down and unlocked a door into the cell block. Papers scattered the floor, dead inmates in each cell. I walked on the wall farthest from the cells.
•••
Maggie told the others to come in. Glenn helped Daryl clear bodies.
"What do you think?" Rick asks me
"Home sweet home" I say and give a fake smile.
"For the time being"
"It's secure?" Carol asks
"This cell block is"
"What about the rest of the prison?" Dad asks
