"Stay close, Austin!" Rick yelled at him the next morning as a small group circled together to kill as many walkers as they could. The rest bearing the the fence to try and distract them.
"Get tight! Get tight!" Austin called as he stabbed a walker, the group all staying close again. Austin grabbed one of the walkers, stabbing it in the head before ducking down, spinning around to stab the one behind him.
"Don't break rank!" Rick yelled out.
"We need that!" T-Dog called, grabbing the guard shield and hitting the walker. Maggie ran over and stabbed it. Austin grabbed her to pull her into the group again.
"Almost there." Rick promised as the group stumbled together. He pushed a door open, looking past the corner and going against the wall. "Shit."
"A lot?" Austin whispered, looking past his dad. Four guards were coming their way, Daryl's arrows doing nothing when he hit the plastic before their eyes. Austin shoved past Rick, falling onto his knees, ignoring the shout he got as he managed to get under the plastic from how he'd been on his knees, stabbing the walker. "You gotta go under!"
They followed his advice, killing the four as well as the one that stumbled after them. Rick called out for Daryl, going for the gate. Austin sliced two walkers across the neck, making the path clearer for the pair. They pulled it shut, locking it quickly. Rick nodded to Austin. "Good work."
He nodded back, holding back a smile before they looked and saw Maggie, Glenn, and T-Dog fighting off a few more guards. Maggie took Austin's tactic by going under, killing it. "See that?"
Glenn pushed the next ones head back, T-Dog stabbing it. Austin kicked his final one in the gut, his knife stabbing into its neck before the head. They all were going back before Rick called. "Stop!"
"It looks secure." Glenn turned to looked oddly.
"Not from the look of that courtyard over there." Daryl spoke as he pointed toward the right, then to the dead walker. "And that's a civilian."
"So the interiors could be overrun with walkers from outside the prison." T-Dog confirmed with a sigh.
"Damn it!" Austin huffed.
"Watch it." Rick warned him.
"If there's walls down, what are we gonna do?" Glenn spoke up as he looked around. "We can't rebuild this whole place."
"We can't risk a blind spot." Rick looked around. "We have to push in."
Austin looked toward the fence, seeing the rest of the group. He gave his best forced smile, a wave of his hand their way before following his dad.
Daryl grabbed the door as they all got prepared, expecting an attack. He pulled the door, only having them met with bars. Rick walked in first, pushing it as it echoed. Austin looked around. "Not how I imagined i'd see prison for the first time."
Rick shhed him, motioning for them to clear out and take cover. Austin did so, holding his knife and his hand on the gun in his waist band. He crept under the stairs, looking up for any sight of a walker. He put his ear to the wall, listening to hear if he picked up on anything. Rick found keys, unlocking the next gate as they walked through, armed again.
But as before, it seemed empty regarding the dead ones in the cells. Austin cringed slightly as he looked into each one, finding some had been cleaner then most. He watched his dad follow Daryl up the stairs, keeping an eye on them from below. The sound of walkers heard, making him run up the stairs quickly and see they'd still been behind bars.
While getting the dead walkers over the side of the railing, Rick walked down. "What do you think? For the time being."
Austin looked over to see everyone else walking in. "Cloudy with a chance of walkers."
They all moved as him and Daryl dumped another one over the side.
"It's secure?" Lori looked around.
"This cellblock is." Rick nodded his head at her.
"What about the rest of the prison?" Hershel walked with Beth and Carl, Austin coming down the stairs caught the blondes attention.
"In the morning, we'll find the cafeteria and infirmary." Rick nodded his head.
"We sleep in the cells?" Beth spoke up.
"Never stayed the night behind bars, Beth?" Austin joked with her, crossing his arms and leaning on the wall.
"I found keys on some guard. Daryl has a set, too." Rick nodded her way.
"I ain't sleeping in no cage." Daryl came down the steps next. "I'll take the perch."
They watched him go, Austin took the bag from his mom. Carl nodded. "I'll make sure Beth gets a room."
Austin gave him an odd look. "Okay, little dude."
Beth gave him a little grin as Austin continued to help Lori to one of the rooms. "How you feeling?"
"Just a little nauseous." she nodded her head. "I was real bad with you, not Carl though."
"Middle child syndrome." he brought her into one, helping her down on the bed. "Do you want us to all stay together?"
"No, baby, it's okay." she held his face for a moment. "You can have some space, i'll be okay. Carol will stay with me, probably Carl too."
He nodded his head, rubbing her back before getting up. Leaning down, Austin placed a kiss to Loris forehead.
"What are you talking about? I can help you get in but I can't scope out the place with you?" Austin asked his dad in disbelief when he found out Rick wanted him to stay back.
"Austin, we don't know what's out there." Rick gave him a knowing look as he got his weapons.
"Exactly why I should be going. To cover you." he defended himself with a look of disbelief.
"Which is why you need to stay back and protect everyone here." he corrected him with a stern look. "Keep Carl here, he feels left out not coming with yet."
Austin took a breath. "Fine."
They all headed out, Austin staying back with the remaining four. "So, we're the B team, I guess."
"The B team doesn't seem so bad." Beth pointed out as they started to walk toward the cells again. "Weird sleeping all alone again."
"Your dads staying with you, isn't he?" Austin asked, walking into his cell. "And I'm right across the hall. Can practically here you breathing."
Bath gave a small smile, sitting on the bed with him. She twisted her lucky half of the wish bone, Austin grinned. "You kept it?"
"We need as much lucky as we can get." the blonde said in return.
"Here, i'll make it easier for you." he encouraged her to pass it over, pulling a thread from the blanket, tying the wishbone tightly into another string. Tying it at the end, he placed it over her head. "There, now you won't crush it if it's in your pocket."
He pulled her hair out from under the string, fixing it around her with a smile. Beth smiled back, nodding her head. "I won't crush it."
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kylie speaks
y'all remember how i said
i wrote a lot before i published
and i was really far ahead...
guess what part i'm at rn.....