Don't look back

Thirty four

"Hey. Sweetie, your mommy's there." Maggie pointed out, as they saw Lori, Beth, Carl, and Hershel, stumbling on his crutches. Mary got out of the car, and ran over with a grin.
"You're better." She laughed happily to Hershel, grabbing Lori's hand.
"I sure am." He nodded back with a smile.
"You're doing great, daddy." Beth smiled.
"Ready to race, Hershel?" Carl asked with a mischievous grin.
"You give me another day. I'll take you on."
"I'll race!" Mary smiled up at him.
"Later." Carl nodded, as they stood, staring at the vast landscape.
"Isn't it pretty, baby girl?" Lori sighed dreamily, looking at the woods.
"Yep." Mary smiled back, kissing Lori's hand. "Love you, mommy!"
"I love you too, sweetie." Lori laughed gently.
"Will you play princesses with me? We can dress up and trick daddy into thinking we're really princesses and..."
"Walkers! Look out!" Carl screamed suddenly, cutting Mary off. Almost immediately, Lori and Carl began to shoot the Walkers, Maggie, T-Dog, and Carol joining in.
"You two," Lori barked to Hershel and Beth, "get outta here! Mary, go with Beth!"
"No! I'm not leaving you and Carl!"
"Mary, now! You'll be okay. We'll all be fine. Okay?" Lori said, quickly kissing Mary's forehead, before Beth picked her up and pulled her away, running up the stairs as Mary sobbed.
"Daddy behind you!" Beth screamed, and Hershel span around, then killed a Walker behind him with one swift movement of his crutch. "Come on!" Beth urged, as the three of them got into a small passage way, and locked themselves behind a fence.
"Mommy!" Mary shouted through her sobs, as her mother, Carl, and Maggie got into C block.
"She'll be okay," Beth whispered, "she'll be fine."
"What the hell happened?!" Rick shouted as he, Glenn, and Daryl ran into the yard.
"The gate was open." Beth explained.
"Daddy." Mary cried, looking at him in fear.
"You're okay, princess, but you stay with Beth and Hershel. Where's Lori, Carl, everyone else?"
"Maggie let Lori and Carl into C block." Hershel replied.
"And T was bitten." Beth whispered.
"T-Dog is dead?" Mary whimpered.
"Yes," Rick said shakily, walking up to the fence, "anyone else?"
"I couldn't tell." Beth admitted.
"Stay put. Mary, stay here, and be good." Rick said firmly, putting his fingers through the fencing, and Mary ran over and held onto his hand.
"I love you. Now stay here."
"I love you too." Mary sobbed, then he walked over to Glenn.
"These chains didn't break on their own. Chains or cutters did it." Glenn explained. Rick looked over at Axel and Oscar, and Glenn sighed slightly. "You think they did it?"
"Who else?" Ruck shrugged, storming over to them. Then an alarm began to blare out, and Mary began to sob uncontrollably.
"You gotta be kidding me!" Daryl growled, as the three men began to shoot the loud speakers on the prison roof.
"How the hell can this be happening?" Rick yelled at Oscar, a gun pointed at him.
"Daddy!" Mary howled, as Beth held her tightly.
"Woah, woah. Hey, it has to be the back up generators." Oscar explained, slightly panicked.
"Well how'd he turn those on?" Rick shouted.
"Look there's, there's three pipes connected to a diesel tank, okay? Each one controls a certain part of the prison. You had to shut 'em all of when the prison was overrun."
"Could someone open up the main gates electronically with full power?"
"Look I, I only worked on there a few days, I, I guess it might be possible." Oscar sighed.
"Alright, come with us!"
"Let's go!" Daryl ordered, as the five men began to run into the prison.
"Mary! Do not move from there!" Rick yelled, before disappearing into the prison.

Mary was sat on Hershel's good leg when Rick, Glenn, T-Dog, Oscar, and Axel ran out of the building.
"Hershel. She's fine. Thank God." Rick whispered, seeing Mary.
"You didn't find them?" Hershel asked.
"Daddy? Where's mommy? Where's Carl? And Maggie?" Mary asked in tears.
"Thought maybe they came back here." Glenn said shakily.
"What about T? Carol?" Hershel asked, him and Mary getting up, and unlocking the gate, so Mary could run to her father and hug him tightly.
"They didn't make it." Daryl mumbled, and Mary began to cry even more into Rick's shirt.
"Dead?" She cried to Rick, and the man nodded through his own few tears.
"That doesn't mean the others didn't!We're going back, Daryl and Glenn, you go with..." Rick began passionately, until he got cut off by a strange sound. A baby crying.
Maggie walked out of the cell block, holding a wailing baby, Carl walking behind her, his head down. They both looked broken, pale, mortified.
"Mary. Come here a second." Daryl said softly, and Mary walked to him in confusion, as Rick dropped his axe to the ground, and Maggie began to sob.
"Uncle Daryl, who's baby is that?" Mary asked shakily, "Where's mommy?"
"Where... W-where is.... Where is she?" Rick asked shakily, beginning to sob, walking over to the cell block.
"No, Rick, no." Maggie sobbed, walking over to Glenn. He held her face in his hands gently, and she broke.
"No, no!" Rick sobbed, looking over at Carl, who was stood there motionlessly, "Oh no! No, no, no!" He howled, falling to the ground. Mary went to run over to him, but Daryl caught her in his arms.
"Uncle Daryl? Where's mommy?" Mary sobbed into his shoulder. "Where's my mommy! Who's baby is that? Where's mommy!"
"I'm sorry, sweetheart. I'm sorry." Daryl whispered.
"Where's mommy! I want my daddy! I want daddy and mommy!" Mary screamed.
"Mary... Yer mommy..." Daryl began, but he couldn't find the words. "Yer mommy has died."
"No! Mommy is healthy! Mommy is having my baby Maggie-Rick! No!" She sobbed.
"That's the baby." Daryl said shakily, "That's yer little sister."
"Baby Maggie-Rick? No! I want mommy instead!" Mary yelled, hitting Daryl, but instead the man just held her closer.
"Mary. Come here." Maggie cried softly. Daryl walked over to her, and looked at the sobbing woman.
"Meet your little sister." Glenn cried gently.
"I don't want a sister! I want mommy!" Mary shouted.
"I know. I know." Glenn soothed. He took Mary out of Daryl's arms, and held her close.
"I don't want the baby! Where's my mommy?"
"She's dead!" Carl shouted suddenly, shocking Mary to silence.
"Carl. Come hold your sister." Glenn said gently, and Carl did as he said, taking the baby from Maggie's arms.
"Carl. I want mommy!" Mary sobbed.
"Mommy is gone." Carl whispered, holding his tiny baby sister, who was still screaming and crying as much as Mary.
"Daddy! DADDY!" Mary howled, as the man slowly sat up, starting ahead of himself blankly.
"Rick. Rick," Daryl signed, walking over to Rick and waving a hand over his face, "Rick, are you with me Rick?"
"Let me see the baby." Hershel ordered, and Carl walked over to Hershel with the baby.
"What we gonna feed it? We got anything a baby can eat?" Daryl asked, walking over.
"The good news is she looks healthy, but she needs formula and soon, or she won't survive."
"Nope. No way. Not her. We ain't losing nobody else. I'm going for a run." Daryl decided.
"I'll back you up." Maggie nodded.
Glenn looked at her softly, then nodded as well. "I'll go too."
"Okay, think where we're going. Beth?" Daryl asked, pulling the girl asked. When they had finished talking, he said, "You two get the fence. Too many pile up we got ourselves a problem. Glenn, Maggie, vamanos."
"Me too." Mary whispered to Glenn.
"You gotta stay here, and look after Carl and the baby. And your daddy. Okay?" Glenn soothed.
"Rick?" Maggie asked in concern, but before anyone could say anything else, Rick got up and grabbed his axe, then ran into the building. Hershel hugged Carl softly, and Glenn put Mary down after kissing the top of her head.
"Get the gate! Come on, we gonna loose the light!" Daryl shouted, walking way, Glenn and Maggie on his lead.
"Come on. Come on, you two. Let's go inside." Hershel said gently. Mary wanted to hold Carl's hand, but he was carrying the baby, so she walked while clinging onto Beth, sobbing the whole time.
When they got into the cell block, Mary ran straight to Lori and Carol's cell, while Hershel, Beth, and Carl attended to the baby. "Mommy?" She whispered softly. Quickly, she pulled the covers off the bed, and repeated herself. Then again, looking under the bed. And again, looking on Carol's bunk.
"Mommy!" Mary cried suddenly, curling up in Lori's bed.
"Mary? Kiddo, do you want anything?" A gentle voice asked at the doorway. Mary span around to see Glenn. "I stayed back so they could go on Daryl's bike."
"Mommy?"
"I'm sorry, sweetie. Mommy... Mommy has gone. Gone to Heaven." Glenn explained gently, walking over to Mary, and sitting on the floor by her. Slowly, Mary crept onto his lap.
"But she'll come back?" Mary asked with teary and innocent wide eyes.
"No. I'm sorry. Your mommy is gone. I know it's very very sad. But she's in a happy place now. With Sophia."
"But I want her here."
"I know you do," Glenn soothed, "I know. Can I get you anything else?"
"Daddy."
"Your daddy... Daddy is very very sad. He's really upset, so he's gone to be alone for a little while." Glenn said slowly.
"I want daddy." Mary howled suddenly.
"I know you do. I know." The man whispered, holding her closer. "Why don't you take a nap, yeah?"
"Not without daddy. I'll get scared." Mary mumbled.
"How about if I stay with you?" Glenn suggested, and Mary nodded. Slowly, she closed her eyes, and when she woke up from a night terror, she was in her own cell. Glenn had gone, and her bed was wet. She leapt up, and quickly changed into her only spare bottoms - a pair of navy leggings - and left her dungarees to be washed.
Then she slowly put her head around the door, and saw that Beth and Carl were talking, Glenn was gone, and Hershel was attending to the baby.
No one noticed her creep out of the door.
Mary walked, her knife in her shaking hand, until she tripped, and let out a slight scream, causing a Walker and a man to come over. Rick stabbed with Walker and then pulled her up.
"What the hell are you doing?" Rick snapped, picking Mary up.
"Looking for mommy." Mary cried softly.
"What?" Rick sighed.
"Carl said it's kinder to kill them. I want to find her and see her one last time."
"Well you're not." Rick growled. He marched her back to the cell block, and when she got there Carl grabbed her.
"Thank God. We were worried sick." Glenn sighed.
"Just... Keep an eye out for me. I need to go." Rick mumbled to Glenn, before leaving again.
"I want daddy." Mary cried suddenly.
"Come hold the baby." Carl sighed, trying to distract her.
"I want daddy! And mommy. And my Maggie." Mary sobbed.
"You've got me." Carl attempted.
"I don't want you! I want mommy! I want daddy!" Mary screamed, her tiny face red.
"Well so do I!" Carl roared, creating silence.
"Come on, Mary. Let's go outside, yeah? Get a drink." Glenn said softly, picking her up and carrying her outside.
"It's dark." Mary whimpered.
"It's okay. Let's go sit in the guard tower, Yeah? Wait for Daryl and Maggie." Glenn suggested. Mary nodded, and let him carry her up into the guard tower. Glenn sat in a chair, then picked up a blanket from the floor and wrapped Mary in it.
"Glenn? Do you believe in God?" Mary whispered quietly. She knew very little of religion, and most of what she did know was what she had picked up from Hershel.
"I... No, not really. Why?"
"If I ask God kindly, will he fix mommy's brain, and make her come back as a kind Walker? I know ahe won't be a person. But a nice Walker?"
"Mary..." Glenn sighed softly, a tear falling down his cheek, "Mary, once someone has been... Once a Walker has died, they can't ever come back. And they're isn't any nice Walkers, okay? If you ever see a Walker, assume it's mean. If not, you'll get bitten."
"But if?" Mary protested.
"It can't. I'm sorry, sweetie. It just can't." Glenn sighed, then he stood up. "Maggie and Daryl are back. Guys, they're back!" Glenn shouted to Axel and Oscar. Holding Mary in one arm, Glenn began to shoot a few Walkers, as did Axel and Oscar, letting Daryl and Maggie in.
Once they were safely in, Glenn rushes down, and hugged Maggie, Mary in between them, then Maggie took Mary into her own arms.
"How you holding up, angel?" Maggie asked softly, and Mary began to sob. Maggie held her closer, stroking the back of her head with her thumb. "I know. I know." She soothed, as they walked towards the prison.
"I want daddy and mommy." Mary sobbed.
"I know you do. But you've got me for now." Maggie replied gently. Once they got into the cell block, all they could hear was the baby's cries.
"How she doin'?" Daryl asked, as Maggie and Beth quickly prepared a bottle, then passed it to Daryl, who had taken the baby out of Carl's arms.
"Come on, come on." Daryl soothed, feeding the newborn, everyone watching and smiling, apart from Mary, who's head was buried into Maggie's shoulder. "She got a name yet?"
"N-not yet, but I was thinking maybe Sophia. Then there's Carol too, and Andrea. Amy, Jacqui, Patricia... O-or Lori. I don't know." Carl sighed shakily.
"Maggie-Rick." Mary mumbled, and Carl rolled his eyes slightly.
"You like that? Huh?" Daryl cooed, "Little ass kicker? Right? That's a good name right?" He suggested, making everyone laugh. "Little ass kicker? You like that, huh, you like that sweetheart?"
"I'm hungry, Maggie." Mary whispered, and Maggie carried her over to the food. She gave Mary some canned pineapple, and she ate it slowly.
"Hey. I got you something." Maggie smiled softly. She went into her bag, and pulled out a soft, fluffy monkey teddy. Mary grinned suddenly, and took it, cuddling it straight away.
"I love it." She smiled.
"Good." Maggie replied, as Mary crawled onto her lap. Slowly, Mary fell asleep, and didn't wake for once when Maggie transferred her into her own bed, holding the monkey close.
That was the day that Maggie learnt you could cry while sleeping.