burning love

Indifference-34

I woke up in the middle of the night coughing up blood. I stopped coughing long enough to see that it was close to midnight. 

"Mommy are you ok? Mommy?" I heard Bailey yell in terror. 

"Bailey go get help hurry." I said in between coughs. I was half way off the bed coughing blood all over the floor. I saw the little boy scurry off the bed and rush out of the cell. I heard the pitter patter of his feet get distance as he ran further down the hall. All I remember after that is the passing out. 

~The next morning~

I woke up to my head pounding, I reached across the bed for Bailey and when I didn't feel him I jolted up in the bed slamming my head on the bottom of the top bunk. I looked around the cell and saw that this was not my cell. I sat up trying to recall last nights events. All I remember is coughing up blood and then passing out. I heard the sounds of other people coughing and realized I was in A block, with the sick. Daryl was not going to like this. I stood up and tried to walk to the exit. My hand was on the handle when I got stopped by Hershel's wise voice,

"Bella where you going?" I sighed in frustration. 

"I need to check on Bailey." I said in defeat. 

"He's with Beth he will be fine. You need to rest." Hershel said.

"Hershel I can't be in here. I'm pregnant." I said turning to look at him using the wall as support. 

"In here is exactly where you need to be. I know your pregnant that's why we will have either me or Doctor S. check on you by the hour. You will be dealt with special care." Hershel said. 

"I don't need special attention the others they need help to not just me. Is Daryl and the rest back?" I asked. 

"No he's not and the others will understand given the situation." Hershel said. I sighed in defeat knowing that I wasn't gonna win this argument, and i couldn't stand much longer I didn't have the energy. I nodded my head and I slowly walked back to my cell stopping every couple of feet so I could catch my breathe. I finally made it back to my cell and laid down on the bed. Hershel came in shortly with a cup of steaming berry juice. I took a small sip and spit it out of my mouth in disgust. 

"I never said it tasted good, but I'm not leaving till that's all gone." Hershel said sternly. I nodded and quickly downed the nasty substance. 

"Now get some rest, you need it." Hershel said. I laid back on the bed and quickly fell asleep. 

~Daryl's Point Of View~

 We arrived at the Vet school after a couple of issues. We had to stop along the way for a vehicle and Ty almost got himself killed, congrats. I pulled my crossbow up to the ready and held my flashlight in my other hand. I walked through the hallways stepping over fallen things. 

"OK everybody fill your bag as much as possible." I instructed when we entered a room full of medicine. I started shoving things in my bag, I was in a hurry to get back, ever since we were at the shop getting that van I had a bad feeling and I was worried about Bella. After we had all filled our bags and decided we could go we went back down the hallway we came from.  I peaked around the corner and saw a herd of walkers. 

"Back back back." I whispered pushing everyone back. We went back in the room and barracked the door. I looked from the caving door to the window. I opened the window and opened it. 

"Come on lets go." Michonne jumped out the window then me and then Ty. Bob stood at the window hesitantly. 

"Come on jump." I yelled at Bob. He looked from the caved door to the walkers below to me. I could see the terror on his face. He nodded his head and grabbed his bag tightly. He launched himself out the window and towards us. He landed with a thud and almost dropped his bag. He grabbed his bag tightly and struggle to get it back. We all yelled at him to let go that it would be fine. Bob finally retrieved the bag back and stood up. 

"What the hell you trying to get yourself killed?" Ty yelled at him. He looked down to his bag and I walked over snatching the bag. I looked in the bag and to my disappointment saw a beer bottle. I grabbed the bottle out and squared up to Bob. Pushing my chest against his and looking down on him in the eyes. 

"Daryl stop." Michonne said. I back away and almost threw the bottle but stopped when I heard Bob's small voice tell me no.

"What did you just say to me?" I asked. 

"I said no. I wanted to taste it one more time. " Bob said. I looked him dead in the eyes.

"When we get back you take one more swig and you better hope that those people get better or I'll stomp your ass. Your right we should have just let you keep walking that day." I shoved the bottle in to his chest and stormed off. We walked back to the van and the drive back was long and silent. I was so worried about Bella, my gut just told me everything was off. 

~Bella's pov~

It's hell in here I have woke up a couple of times to screaming and kids being shoved into my cell. This time was different, I walked out of my cell stumbling. I saw little kids huddled together in a corner and a walker walking straight for them. Lizzy was in shock from killing someone and two people laid on the floor bleeding out. Hershel was hunched over Glenn's choking body. I stumbled towards the kids and stabbed the walker in the back of the head. I ushered them into my cell. I grabbed my emergency gun from under my bed. I left the cell shutting the door behind me. I began shooting the people that came back alive as walkers and shooting the walkers in the head. Hershel was no longer leaning over Glenn but drawing a walker away from them. I rushed to Glenn's side and turned him on his side so that he was spitting blood on the floor. I grabbed a pen that had been lying on the floor and stabbed it in to his neck, into his airway. More blood came spewing out of the end of the pen. The blood stopped coming as fast and then it eventually stopped. I breathed into the pen giving oxygen to him. I learned this after I had to do it to my mom because Ed had beat her so bad. Hershel came back with one of those breathing bags.

"We need to find someone healthy enough to give him some blood, he lost to much." I said Hershel nodded.

"For now lets get him back to his cell. " Hershel said we dragged him back to his cell and laid him on the floor. I put a pillow underneath his head. 

"Where did you learn that?" Hershel questioned me. 

"When Ed would beat us, we went to this one nurse that we knew and she knew what Ed did and she taught me and mom some medical practice. I got to practice it.... a lot." I said looking at Hershel. 

"I'm sorry hun, no one should live that way." Hershel said resting his hand on my shoulder. 

"It's ok it's in the past, it happened, and it helped me become strong and who am I am today." I said. I stood up and walked back out to the main part of the cell block, I walked around the bodies and stabbed the walkers in the head and the people that died. Hershel came and helped me drag them away from the area to kill them. We walked back when the job was done. 

"You should go get some sleep." Hershel said. I nodded my head and yawned. I walked back to my cell and laid down. I passed out as soon as my head hit the pillow. So much for a lot of rest.