A Walking Dead FanFiction by LMM06
Hidden Love
Chapter Nineteen: Battle
Daryl
Previously On Hidden Love:
I took my hand out of Beth's grip and walked with Maggie and Glenn away from the cell so she wouldn't be woken up "I don't know. Once she's feeling a little better I'm going out with Michonne and we're gonna track the lil son of a bitch" I told her.
"Well I'm coming with you" She said.
"No your not. It's just me and Michonne going" I stated.
"It's my sister" She pleaded.
"Maggie I will find the asshole that shot her and then I'm gonna kill him I can guarantee you that. Me and Michonne will sort it, I will bring his head back on a stick if you want but you ain't coming with me" I told her.
"You better find him" Maggie said.
"I promise I will" I told her.
She grabbed Glenn's hand and they walked away from me, I went back to Beth who was still out of it. I sat down on a chair next to her and held her hand as she slept. I cannot believe that I let this happen, she shouldn't have come with me! I should've said no! I don't care if I had gotten shot because… well it wouldn't be the first time I've been shot (thanks Andrea) but Beth… why would anyone want to shoot her? She's not got a bad bone in her body!
The more I thought about it, the more angry I got.
Beth was stable now and she was being cared for by Maggie and Hershel and with the meds Hershel had given her I knew she was going to be out for a few hours so I grabbed Michonne and we went and on our hunting trip. We made sure that Rick knew were we were going and I told Hershel I would be back before woke up with the shooter dead. I know he was still angry at me but he said he appreciated me going back out to hunt for the person that shot her.
Me and Michonne got to the area that Beth was shot and I saw the blood splatter on the floor for where Beth was hit and after looking around we found the tracks. We followed the tracks and we were on high alert, we wasn't sure how many people there was or how many weapons they had or nothing. We tracked and tracked and ended up at a small camp, we could only see three people and one tent. Michonne went one way and I went the other but we made sure to stay in each other's sights and we watched the people of the camp.
I seen someone I recognised from Woodbury and told Michonne to wait as she was about to go in all guns blazing and behead them all and I listened to what they were talking about.
"When you think he'll hit?" One of the men asked the other two.
"I don't know but it will be today at some point. Surely we'll hear them from here, the prison isn't all the far" One answered.
Me and Michonne made ourselves known by killing two members of the camp and third man had his gun trained at Michonne so I came up behind him taking the gun out of his hand and then I kicked him behind the knee making him fall to floor. I grabbed his hands behind his back and tied them up with some rope I brought with me and I then I walked around to face him "What's going on at the prison?" I asked him.
He didn't speak but he was terrified and knew he was going to die "Do you think a baby should die?" Michonne asked kneeling down to his level but he didn't answer "We've got a baby in out group… a couple months old. Tell us what is going to go on at the prison otherwise that babies blood will be on your hands… you'll be a baby killer" She said to him.
"I'm no baby killer!" He shouted.
"Shut up" I said and looked around for walkers.
"Look I'm no baby killer but you can't stop The Governor, he's attacking. If you want to keep the baby safe then take the baby away otherwise it'll be killed" He said.
I had enough of his bullshit, I wanted to know who it was that shot Beth that was why I came out here in the first place "Which one your camp members shot a girl?" I asked him and he started to panic a little "Was it you?" I asked.
"I thought she was a walker I'm so sorry… is she ok?" He asked.
There was two ways I could play this. I could tell him that he had killed her to rattle him up a little or tell him that she was going to be ok and just kill him anyway. Michonne looked at me knowing what I was thinking "She'll be alright" Michonne told him and he let out another sigh of relief "You see him?" She questioned indicating to me and he nodded "That's her boyfriend and he's pretty pissed" She said to him.
"Look man I'm sorry for shooting at your girlfriend but I thought she was a walker, I'm sorry and I hope she'll be ok. I'm not a killer or nothing, that was the first time I had fired a gun at someone" He explained to me.
"Well it was the wrong person" I stated then punched him in the face making him fall to the floor. I punched him a few more times and the blood splattered over my clothes, I stopped when I heard walkers coming our way "Let's go" I said to Michonne and stood up and started walking.
"We're gonna leave him for the walkers?" She asked.
"He shot Beth, he deserves it" I told her and carried on walking.
We made our way back to the prison in silence. I know that Michonne would rather I had just put an arrow in his head but really I didn't care what she wanted, I promised Beth that he would suffer and he would. I heard him screaming and I knew then that I been able to keep my promise to Beth.
As we made our way back we came across some walkers who were obviously following the scream of the asshole that shot Beth but we had no trouble taking any of them out. In fact it actually made me feel a little better, I had beat that guy up for what he did but I didn't kill him which is what I wanted to do. I left him for the walkers but I didn't put an arrow through his head… that would have been to kind, people like him deserve to be eaten by walkers.
"Think Beth's gonna be proud?" Michonne asked and I was about to answer when gun fire made us both stop in our tracks.
Beth
Maggie had told me that Daryl and Michonne had gone to track the person that shot me and I wish that he had spoken to me first. I didn't want him going out there and killing people and who ever it was is probably miles from here now anyway, I can't see them sticking around. Letting off a gun shot is loud and attracts walkers so staying at whatever camp they were at wasn't a good thing, they would have had to leave or been eaten by walkers.
Carol came into my cell holding Judith and smiled at me, I smiled back and she sat on the side of my bed "She misses you" She said and I held my arms out for Judith. She came into my arms and I laid her on my chest "It's a shame you were never able to have your own children, you're a good mother" She told me making me smile.
"Any sign of Michonne or Daryl yet?" I asked her and she shook her head at me "I am going to kill him when he gets back" I told her and she chuckled.
"What did you expect? This is Daryl we're talking about, did you really think he was just going to let this go?" She questioned.
"I thought he would have talked to me about it at least" I said.
"He's not thinking rationally. Someone hurt you… they could have killed you so Daryl is going to make sure that they don't ever do it again" She told me.
I looked down at Judith and seen that she was asleep "Just wish he would talk to me more" I said with a shrug.
Carol opened her mouth to speak to me when a loud explosion erupted throughout the prison. Judith woke up and started crying, everyone started running around like mad men and then Maggie ran into my cell "The Governor's here" She said panicked and ran off with a gun.
I wasn't about to sit here like a sitting duck and wait to be killed, I gave Judith to Carol and tried to stand up "Where do you think your going?" She asked me like I was crazy.
Another explosion ripped through "I'm not sitting here and waiting to die, I'm going to fight" I told her and stood up on my one good leg.
"You take Judith and you go hide" She told me and I shook my head, she grabbed her gun and handed it to me and some extra ammo "Take it and hide, someone needs to look after Judith" She told me. I hugged Carol and she placed a kiss on Judith's forehead "Now go!" She shouted and I nodded at her.
Daryl
Me and Michonne arrived at the prison to see a battle going on and the only person I couldn't see was Beth and I had no idea where she was. Everyone was out here fighting meaning that she was inside with Judith on her own but because of the holes from the explosions in the prison the walkers have gone inside meaning she could already be dead but I wasn't going to give up until I seen her.
I shot people and walkers and Michonne sliced their heads off as we made our way through the prison, I managed to get to Rick and he greeted me by handing me a large machine gun which I thanked him for "I need to go find Beth" I told him and went to go inside but he grabbed my arm.
"The place is over run" He told me.
"She's got Lil Asskicker, I'm not leaving either of them there" I stated.
"Maggie and Glenn have gone in to find them" He said.
"I'm going too" I said.
"I need you here" He said and started shooting.
I was going to run inside without Rick looking when the gunfire stopped. I looked towards the front and seen The Governor standing there with Hershel kneeled down on the ground in front of him. Michonne was knocked out laying on the floor next to him and The Governor had Michonne's sword to Hershel's neck ready to slice his head off.
I aimed my gun at his head "I have a clean shot" I whispered to him without taking my eyes off him "I can end this now" I whispered.
"No" He answered.
"Why?" I asked.
"I'm gonna do it" He told me and started walking towards him.
"Daddy!" I heard a scream and turned to see Maggie and Glenn running towards Hershel, I put my arm out and stopped them "Rick's gonna kill The Governor" I told them "He won't let him kill your dad" I said. I looked behind them "Where's Beth?" I asked.
"We looked. C Block is over run and so is everywhere else" Glenn said.
Beth
As Carl ran out to help the others he had thrown my his keys so I had gone up the stairs to Daryl's cell and I locked us in there putting the mattress in front of the door to stop the walkers seeing us. I sat against it and had managed to send Judith off to sleep again so for now we were okay to hide here but I wasn't sure for how much longer. I could hear the walkers down the stairs and knew the prison was bound to be over run by now, I was probably going to die here with Judith.
The gunfire outside had stopped and I thought maybe the that meant it was over but who had won the battle, us? Them? No one? It had all been quiet for so long but then I heard a eerie high pitched scream and the gun fire started up again. I wanted to cry but I couldn't, I had a job to do, I had to take care of Judith and somehow keep us both alive. I don't know how I was going to do that without Daryl but I had no choice.
I was hoping and praying that Daryl was still out looking for whoever shot me and he wasn't in the middle of all of that. Maybe it was a good idea after all for him to go out there today with Michonne but then again, they were our muscle and we needed them to survive.
I hope Daryl is safe and Maggie and Glenn and daddy…
Daryl
He chopped it off. He actually chopped off Hershel's head with the sword. Maggie screamed an ear piercing scream and then all hell broke loose again. Everyone was shooting at each other and people and walkers were dropping like flies, I knew that we wasn't going to win this we were too outnumbered by men and weapons so the only thing left I had to do was find Beth and Judith and make sure the two of them were safe and then get them out of here. I wasn't going to leave them here I refuse to do that.
I slipped away from the group and went into the prison shooting and stabbing walkers on the way but as I reached C Block the place was full of walkers. I had to look though and make sure they wasn't here so I took out as many walkers as I could and managed to pretty much clear it out. I had grabbed my keys and locked some walkers in one of the cells "Beth!" I shouted out.
"Daryl!" I heard Beth shout.
I ran up the stairs and seen a mattress against my cell door and knew she was in there "Move the mattress out of the way" I told her as I reached the cell, she moved the mattress as I unlocked the door. She stood there with Judith in her arms who started to cry, I grabbed Judith and then hugged Beth "You okay? You hurt?" I questioned and she shook her head no.
"What's going on outside?" She asked.
"We gotta go" I told her.
"Did no one else survive? Daddy? Maggie?" She questioned.
"I don't know about Maggie but… your dad…" I could tell her the gruesome evil end he had but she knew he was dead and that was all she needed to know. We started walking down the stairs and I knew that Beth wasn't going to be able to dodge all of the walkers that were still in the prison on her leg but we needed to get out of here and now. I kneeled down a little "Get on" I said to her and she jumped up on my back and I held Judith in one arm "You got a gun?" I asked.
"Yeah" I replied.
"Good. You need to shoot" I told her.
Somehow we managed to get out of the prison and we were greeted by Rick who took Judith off me and hugged her, Carl ran over to us and he hugged his dad. I let Beth down and she stood for a second "We need to leave, we've lost the prison" Rick said and Beth started to sob "Everyone is either dead or gone" He told us.
"What about Michonne?" I asked.
"I haven't seen her after she killed The Governor" He said.
A gun went off and a bullet flew past Beth's head but missed her by a mere inch. I pulled her out of the way and I saw Rick pull Carl and Judith in the other direction, I couldn't sit here and wait for them we needed to leave. I helped Beth stand up and I looked around but it looked like Rick had the same idea because I could no longer see him meaning he had already gone.
Beth hopped onto my back again and we started running with Beth taking down walkers that got in our way. We reached the car that The Governor had came in and Beth screamed as she looked down at the floor, she got off me and kneeled down next to Hershel's headless body. I saw the head and he had turned, he started snapping at me so whilst Beth wasn't looking I put a knife through his head… she didn't need to see him like that.
"We need to get in the car and go" I told her and opened the passenger side door for her to get in but she didn't move "We gotta go Beth, we gotta go" I said grabbing her arm and forcing her into the car. I got in the drivers side and we started to drive.
THE END... FOR NOW.
Thank you to everyone who has shown support for this story you guys don't know how much it means to me. Debating a sequel for this story but I'll let you all know soon my plans, thank you again. Keep an eye out for any stories I might be posting. LMM06