Carl's P.O.V
Hershel has warned our new guests not to get too comfortable because we're a close group and it might be hard to get accepted in.
Right now our visitors are burying the body off the girl they lost earlier.
I'm with Carol at the front gate.
Some how we started talking about noise pollution.
"Y'know what I would give for the sound of a jumbo jet?" She asked light heartedly.
"It'd be better if we were all on it." I replied.
It was silent.
"Y'know she was proud of you." Carol said.
"Why? All I did was yell at her." I said.
"No, you can't worry about that right now. She wouldn't want you to. She was so proud of you." Carol said.
I just smiled in response. I heard a car pull up.
"Please be them." I whispered.
It was, thankfully.
Dad stepped out and gave me a hug.
Carol went to the door looking for Daryl.
She started to panic a bit. "Don't worry. He's okay. We found Merle... and Emma, he went with them." Dad said.
I was shocked. Carol was calmed down now. She went towards the prison now.
"You found Emma?!" I asked overjoyed.
"Yeah, I wasn't supposed to say anything about it either. She didn't want to hurt you. I could tell she didn't want to go with Merle and Daryl though. Somethings not right there but I don't know what that is. She did tell me to tell you something though. Before she left she told me to tell you 'One day I'll be back with you, some how, I love you.'" He told me.
"She just left?" I asked with tears filling my eyes but I held them back.
"I'm sorry Carl." He said.
I was just sad.
Emma's P.O.V
I was walking with Merle and Daryl, still crying.
"Are you seriously crying over that little annoying kid who was always in the way?" Merle asked me.
I ignored him.
"Hasn't anyone ever taught you to respect your elders?" Merle asked me.
"You day one more thing about him and it'll be the last thing you say." I said. I continued, "The answer is, yes I am crying over him. He's my best friend. I love him and I may never see him again because of you and The Governor. I'd be with him right now if it weren't for you two. I love him so much and I never want to be away from him but look where we are." I said crying still.
"C'mon it can't be anything worse than what The Governor did to you." Merle said.
I stopped dead in my tracks, which caused both of them to stop. "So you did know what he was doing. How could you just let him do that to another human being?" I practically screamed at him.
Merle stayed quiet.
"How could you make me come along with this piece of shit? All the things The Governor did to me and he just stayed by and let it happen. Thats disgusting. Why did you make me come along?" I asked Daryl.
Daryl just looked from me to Merle, "What exactly did this 'Governor' do to you?" He asked me.
"Well, let me fill you in on the whole thing. Before the end of the world my mom abused me for four and a half years. Two of those years she had a boyfriend, most nights she was either too high or too drunk to please him herself so he came to me and raped me. Then I get captured by those people and all because I wouldn't tell them about the prison and I killed one of their men who put his hands on me first I had to get 'punished'. Well The Governor's punishment was raping me. I was there for about ten days and nine out of those ten days he raped me. One of the days I even got punched by our old pal Merle right here. I punched him harder twice so I guess we're even but still, he knew all that was happening and he just let it happen." I said.
Both Daryl and Merle stood there silently.
"I'm really sorry all of that happened Emma." Daryl said.
"Its not your fault. The whole time I was there I couldn't wait to get away, now I'm away only for my problem to follow me." I said.
Merle stood there silent.
"And you still stand there silent because it'll hurt your ego too much to apologize." I said.
"Oh, and Daryl theres more to this lovely story. My mother, Tracy, she was there too. Y'know how you loved her and everything, well I have this funny feeling her and your brother were hooking up. Your brother who knew you loved her, just slept with her." I said.
"Also, if you were wondering how bad the abuse was before." I lifted up my shirt revealing the scar the broken bottle left. "This is the last thing she ever did to me which ended with me in the coma." I said.
They each stood there and stared at me.
"Lets just move on, the past is the past, theres nothing that can be changed." I said.
We began walking. I was still crying. Daryl and Merle were arguing over the name of some river. I don't see why it matters.
We heard a baby scream-crying interrupting their argument.
"You hear that? It sounds like a baby." Daryl said.
"No that right there is the sound of two animals getting freaky." Merle said.
I looked at Merle in pure disgust.
"That right there is the sound of two coons making love sweet love." Merle said.
"You're disgusting." I said as Daryl and I took off towards the sound of the baby.
We come to a bridge and by now Merle has caught up with us. "Jump!" He shouts to the people who are clearly struggling to stay alive.
We all rush in killing walkers for these total strangers. We kill all the walkers around them. To me, it feels nice saving someone else's life. Merle thinks they now owe us or something.
These poor people can't even speak English and Merle wants to take their supplies. That just doesn't sit right with me so I take the gun that I have from I don't even know where and I raise it to Merle's head. I cock it back and say something to him, "Merle, step away from the car. Just let these people go." I said.
"I know you're not talking to me." Merle said.
"Merle, get away from the car or I'll pull the trigger and we'll find out who I'm talking to." I said.
He stepped away from the car and we walked off.
Merle and Daryl were arguing about whatever. Merle got mad and ripped Daryl's shirt revealing a ton of scars on Daryl's back.
Daryl just glared at Merle. "I'm sorry, I-I" Merle said.
"Don't worry about it." Daryl said walking off, I followed him.
"Where are you going?" Merle asked.
"Back where we belong." Daryl said.
"You know I can't go back there." Merle said still proceeding to follow us.
Carl's P.O.V
Update on the people that came to stay with us; Dad wouldn't let them stay. He just yelled at them like he was insane.
Axel, Carol, Beth, and I were all out in the courtyard. Dad was out of the fences. Hershel was in the field, Maggie was inside, and Glenn was off in a truck somewhere.
Everything was all okay when suddenly Axel got shot in the head. That was the first shot of many. Beth and I took cover behind some filing cabinets, Carol ducked behind Axel's unconscious body.
Hershel took cover in the grass, Dad ducked down as well.
The Governor and his men just kept shooting.
When the shooting stopped a truck forced itself into our gates and released a bunch of walkers into our field.
As the truck was leaving Glenn pulled back in and went to rescue Hershel.
I stayed there shooting at the walkers through the fence.
I looked over to my dad and I saw two people helping him fight off walkers; Daryl and Merle Dixon.
Emma's P.O.V
Daryl, Merle, and I were getting close to the prison when we heard gunshots. I ran super fast to get there as quick as possible.
Daryl and Merle ran after me. They weren't as fast.
I saw Rick outside of the fence, I stayed around killed five of the walkers that were around him but then Daryl and Merle came to his rescue.
I then took off running as fast as my legs would carry me through the field and to the courtyard. The gate to the courtyard wasn't closed for whatever reason so I ran to the courtyard to see my best friend.
Carl's P.O.V
I didn't see Emma and I got really scared. I looked around for her but didn't find her. Then I heard the sound of boots hitting the ground as if someone was running.
I looked over to see my best friend looking back at me.
We ran together, wrapped our arms around one another, and fell to the ground.
We just kept whispering "I'm sorry." To each other over and over again.
Emma's P.O.V
Carl and I stayed like that for quite a while. It felt so good to be back with my best friend.
I never thought I would see him again.
Daryl, Rick, and Merle all made it back up to the courtyard and everyone was terrified.
I quickly learned that The Governor has just attacked.
"We gotta go find him. He couldn't have gotten too far away." I said.
"Its too dangerous, he has more men, more guns. We'd never take them all out." Glenn said.
"Well we can't just stand here and do nothing about it either. He knows where we are and he could be planning his next attack. He came in here with the sole intention of killing all of us." I said.
"Emma, right now we're okay." Carl said.
I just stopped talking as a whole. The adults wanted to talk so they sent Carl and I away. Beth left willingly. She went to take care of Judith.
As we were walking into the cellblock I realized I haven't seen Judith yet.
"Hey Carl, I haven't even seen her yet." I said.
He took my hand and dragged me to where Beth and Judith were.
I saw the beautiful baby girl and I could see the innocence in her eyes.
"Can I hold her?" I asked.
"Sure." Beth said handing over the baby girl.
I had her wrapped in my arms.
"She's so cute." I said with a smile.
Carl kinda shelled up. I know its because of his mom.
"Thank you for letting me hold her." I said handing Judith back to Beth.
"C'mon Carl. Lets go upstairs. I haven't seen my cell in a while." I said.
We went upstairs.
"Carl, are you okay?" I asked. As I asked this I felt a sense of deja vu, the last time I was up here we were having the same conversation but it ended really badly.
"I miss her. All I did was be mean to her." Carl said.
"Carl, you can't worry about that. Just remember the good times you guys had, all the laughs. Its whats for the best. Your mom loved you more than anything in this world." I said.
"I killed her... She was out, I did it before she could turn." Carl said with tears in his eyes.
I just hugged him. I wasn't gonna let him go through this alone. I'll always be with him.
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