Safe Haven ~Carl Grimes Love Story~

~17~ Flu

I ended up only sleeping for 3 and a half hours today. I don't know why, but I just did. Now, I'm outside the cell blocks, hoping to catch the sunrise. I close my eyes and listened to the peace and silence. It was actually peaceful, for once. I should wake up at dawn more often. There were a few walkers but that was it, there was no trouble.

Suddenly, I hear someone cry out my name.

"Lia!" I hear and I turned around to see Mika and Lizzie running towards me, fear in their faces and deep panting audible.

"What is it?" I ask.

"There are walkers in our cell block!" Mika says. I curse and I run with them inside D Block, to indeed see a few walkers roaming around, trying to get inside the cells of the screaming occupants as they shut their gates. I start shooting some walkers in the head while Lizzie and Mika trembled in fear behind me.

"Lizzie, Mika, please do me a favor and call Rick and the others! Quick!" I say and they obeyed as they rushed out the cell block. I started attracting some walkers due to my loud gunshots. I shot one who was just about to bite someone in the neck.

Before I knew it, all the walkers were headed to me. I ran straight to the other side of the room and shot more. The walkers groaned and moaned loudly, frustrated and eager to rip out the flesh from my body. I'm not gonna let them do that though. As they got closer, I was able to swerve around them and run back to the other side of the room. One of the occupants opened their gates.

"STAY IN YOUR CELLS EVERYBODY!" I yell and I shoot the nearest walker, but to my horror, I ran out of ammo.

"Shit!" I curse as I take out my knife and started stabbing each motherfucker in the skull. One, two, three... Shit there's too many. I stabbed another walker and I was a tad too late in pulling the knife out because another walker was able to push me to the ground and lunge at me. I wrestled with it, desperate to keep it from biting my flesh. I panted really hard and started wondering where the others were.

"DARYL! RICK! SOMEONE! HELP!" I cry as loud as I could as the walker I wrestled was inching closer and closer to my neck. All the occupants stared at me with fear and I cried. Is this it? Is this the end? Will I die like this?

"Please" I whisper as I was beginning to lose my strength and my grip on the slashing walker. I kicked away some others who tried to climb on top of me.
Just a second before the walker is able to lock it's jaw on my neck, an arrow pierces through it's skull and falls limp on top of me. I push it off and crawled away. I cried as I tried to pick up the knife I dropped. I found it lying near the last walker I killed and stood up, wiping my rapidly falling tears

"It's alright kid, it's okay. Sorry we took so long" Daryl says hugging me quickly before pulling away and shooting some of the walkers. I see Glenn, Rick and Maggie come in and help with the walkers. I ran upstairs to make sure no walker was there, I scanned each cell until I came to the last one. There was a walker on top of Ryan, Lizzie and Mika's dad. I ran to it and stabbed it in the head, falling to the floor. To my horror, it was Patrick.

"Oh my god" I whisper and I hear the whole block become silent.

"Clear!" Glenn yells.

"Clear!" Maggie yells from another direction.

"Clear!" I yell and knelt down to examine Ryan and noticed he had a bite wound on his arm and neck. He was barely awake and he was groaning.

"Dad!" Lizzie comes in the cell, cries and runs to him along with Mika. Carol rushes over to them and hugs them while they grieve for their father.

I examine Patrick next for some bite wounds. I lifted his shirt, sleeves, looked around his legs, no walker bite. I don't get it. Maybe this cold and bad coughs he had yesterday, caused it?