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But I always thought I'd see you again...	By : ihatethesnow Category: S through Z > The Walking Dead Views: 1940 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 1
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Some say the fences fell, others insisted someone manipulated the safety of the prison. A few think they heard an explosion which allowed the undead to filter through.
It was the third day on foot for Abe, Allen, Lori, Ty, Sasha, Glenn, Maggie, Andrea, Collette and Daryl. The children were tired and hungry. Carl played big brother to Judith, Julia, and Amy. Abe was trying to console Becca and AJ, while his brother Allen hugged Billy and Ben. The car provided some shelter, but they didn't want to become trapped, so they continued on foot.
Andrea was about eight months pregnant and was making everyone miserable. Although she was pregnant with Ty's baby, it didn't stop her from flirting with Abe and Allen. When the chaos started she ran from her cell to the exit with Andre in her arms, and when it looked as if she would be swarmed, she pushed the boy to the walkers and ran away while listening to his screams.
Lori was three months along, and held her three other children closer than ever. She never thought they'd be on the road again. Worse, she never thought she'd lose Rick. After they reconciled, they had settled into two cells. Collette and Carl shared a cell, and right next door was Julia in her pack and play and Judith on a mattress they dragged in. She was waiting for Rick to come to bed, and since the girls were asleep they could enjoy some quiet time together. That was before she heard the screams. He got lost in the fray while running for safety.
The night the prison fell everyone got separated and scattered. Abe grabbed the people who consist of his smaller group and hid out in the prison bus, waiting for other family members to come out. Sasha screamed when she saw Hershel and Noah get swarmed. Eugene tried to run to a vehicle but didn't have the keys. As he fumbled with the door latch a walker came up from behind him and bit him on the shoulder.
Ty didn't accept the fact that Collette was not biologically his. She was his baby girl. His hatred for Michonne grew day by day. Anger at the deception, and the possible complications that may have arose if his daughter ever needed medical help.
He turned his attention to Andrea. He regretted being with her, but she was carrying his baby. The smaller group finally found an SUV, which they were able to hot wire and drive away.
Lori and Maggie wanted to go back to look for Hershel and Rick. Daryl wanted to look for Merle, and Ty was at a loss looking for Elodie, Michael, Terry and Andre. At the mention of the young boy's name Andrea did a double take, and didn't see any reaction from anyone. She slowly let out a breath of relief, that nobody saw her give Andre to the walkers so she could escape.
They never stayed in one place longer than a few nights. Going from house to house allowed them to gather clothes, food, water and some weapons.
Daryl fell into a deep depression, his grief for Jessie was overwhelming. He compensated by taking his rage out on the walkers. Not only did he re-kill the being, but he would mutilate the corpse.
After another long day of walking, they approached an abandoned grocery store. Daryl and Allen told everyone to stand back, and they knocked on the glass before waiting a few moments. No walkers appeared, so Allen pulled out a crowbar and forced the doors open. Abe, Daryl and Glenn went into the store, handguns pointing around, in an attempt to clear it. The store looked stocked, and didn't smell of rotting corpses. This could be shelter, for a while.
"Clear." Ty said, just as everyone started to filter in.
"Hold it right there, asshole." A tall, black haired man said as he popped up from behind the huge pallets filled with bottles water. "Drop your weapons."
Ty and the officers did so, and just as Abe put his gun on the ground he heard, from behind him "Shit….Ford?"
He turned around and was eye to eye with a fellow Marine, Major Dwayne Hicks. The two not only went to boot camp together, but also served two tours in Iraq at the same time. He walked over and the two men embraced, before Hicks asked "Do you have a camp? Shelter? How's Becca and AJ? Ellen?"
Abe pointed to his children, then his brother, who was standing with his twin boys. The two men sat together while the other Marines in the store helped Ty, Allen and Daryl fill up the six military supply trucks. Hicks asked about the prison, how they knew they lost people, and was it possible anyone survived? He mentioned that they're at a Military base an hour away, and have anything that one could need, but came to get the last remaining diapers and other creature comforts.
The Marine extended the offer to have all everyone move to the base, Fort Benning.
"We have crops, animals, water, ammo, you name it" Hicks offered. "Most importantly, we have security and shelter. And medical attention.
Fort Benning. That's where Shane wanted to go in the first place. Lori thought to herself.
"We have a fully stocked and working hospital. We have doctors, surgeons, specialists… Plus, we have hundreds of trained military personnel. At least come take a look. We're only an hour away."
"How far away is the prison?" Lori asked.
"About fifty miles in the other direction." Private William Husdon replied.
Allen and Abe agreed to go directly to the military base, but Lori asked to go back to check for Rick.
"Please." She asked Hicks. Julia was asleep on her shoulder and Judith and Carl were standing by her. Collette was holding onto Amy. The brunette's pregnancy and post-partum hormones, combined with the trauma of losing Rick and the prison, and almost three nights of no sleep, made her crumble. She started crying, to the consternation of Andrea.
"Can we please go check on our others? My husband and my friends are there. She asked again.
"My kids are there" interjected Ty, intentionally leaving out Michonne.
Andrea, with a prominent pregnant belly, rolled her eyes when Lori show any emotion. Although she was feet away from Ty, and pregnant with his baby, she openly flirted with Hicks and Porter.
Hicks waved over Private William Hudson, Lieutenant John Porter, Second Lieutenant Hugh Collinson, Sergeant Dwayne Apone and Private Maria Vasquez.
When Hicks looked at the situation the group from the prison was in, he agreed to go back and look for their friends. In the ten minutes he gave them before they left, Lori was able to get fresh diapers for Julia and Amy and fill a few diaper bags. She got bottles, powdered formula and water, and was able to clean Judith and Carl as well.
Everyone was able to get themselves together, and Hicks explained the situation, and the three men decided to leave in an hour, each taking a military truck. Hicks took Allen, Abe, AJ, Billy, Ben and Becca in one vehicle, Ty and Andrea went with Vasquez, Daryl, Glenn and Maggie rode with Hudson, Sasha rode with her niece, Colette, and Lori, along with the children; Carl, Judith, Julia, and Amy in Collinson's truck.
The military vehicles soon approached the prison, which looked intact. The gates were down, and Porter pointed to the spot where someone intentionally cut the ties which held the fence together.
Hudson and Collinson covered each other while they put leashes on some of the pets. Hicks drove his truck into the yard and parked near the side door. The three Marines, along with Abe, went into the still standing prison and were invisible thanks to the pets.
Lori and Sasha, who were waiting in the vehicle, cried as they saw walker versions of Hershel, Eugene, Noah, Elodie and Terry. Within ten minutes Abe and Hicks ran out with Carol and Sophia. They had locked themselves in a cell. They were alive, no bites or scratches, bust dehydrated and hungry.
"I'm going in. We gotta find them." Lori suddenly said.
She was stopped by Abe. "Lori, there's nobody left. It's all walkers."
"No, Carol and Sophia made it out. There's hope. Abe, please. Please let me go look."
"Lori." Carol said, between bites of an MRE and gulps of bottled water. "They're all gone."
The six vehicles arrived by sundown. They were taken on a tour of Fort Benning. They traveled the grounds in golf carts. Hicks explained that the base is over one hundred thousand acres. When the plague hit, the entire base was enclosed and secured. In the blind spots they have two rows of twenty foot tall stone walls, taken from an abandoned building and relocated to the perimeter. Other spots have three rows of barbed wire fencing, and constant armed patrols and look-outs.
Allen was amazed at the size and scope of the area. The three head of cattle they had at the Hilltop was dwarfed by the thousands of cows, a state of the art barn, and the prison's twenty chickens were nothing compared to the thousands of chickens, pig, sheep, goats, ducks and turkeys. There were dozens of acres of crops, ranging in everything from wheat, oats, lettuce, cucumbers, and other grains and vegetables. Trees of peaches, apples, lemons and pears were perfectly lines up, in perfect order.
"We are completely self-reliant. We have over two dozen wells, and each building has a solar panel on the roof. Including the apartments."
"May I ask how many people you have here?" Allen questioned Hicks.
"We have over two hundred people. Mostly military, some civilians. We have some young families too. Children here attend school, and we are always on the lookout for teachers and day care providers. Both men and women receive Military training, we have a fully stocked and functional hospital, commissary and arsenal. We have technicians who monitor radio frequencies for signs of life. This place is under constant surveillance. Every inch is covered and watched."
"What about housing and vehicles?" He asked.
"We have Military apartments and houses. Vehicles are parked close to where our residents live, but since we have to mind our fuel we use electric and solar power golf carts like this one. We have tanks, helicopters, Humvees and open bed trucks. Good luck to the people who try to do anything with us." He chuckled.
"Our group cleaned out a hospital and a Costco. One of the guys actually took a tractor trailer truck full of stuff." Abe said, trying to let Hicks know that they can contribute.
"That's good." Hicks said. "We cleaned out every hospital and clinic within a one hundred mile radius. We went to those Costco stores and brought back five dozen tractor trailers full of everything. When have everything from diapers up to clothing for adults. Someone could join us and live their entire lives here."
Abe, Sophia, Carol and Glenn looked forward to a secure shelter, while everyone else mourned someone.
Everyone was given a medical checkup before being shown to their homes. Ty needed to have his sister and daughter close to him, so the three took one unit. Andrea demanded that she be included with the group, and used her pregnancy as an excuse.
Lori had one unit, which was fully furnished. The three bedroom unit filled up with Carl having his own room, Julia, Judith and Amy took one bedroom, and thanks to a call ahead from Hicks, two cribs replaced two twin beds. Before she could contemplate what life would be like on her own with four young children, Carol knocked on her door and asked if she and Sophia can stay with them.
The Ford Brothers, Allen and Abe, took one home with AJ, Becca, Billy and Ben. Glen, Maggie and Daryl shared another unit.
Carol looked around the kitchen and found some of the basics; coffee, powdered milk, sugar, canned goods and oatmeal.
The knock on the door made her suddenly jump. It was Vasquez, who was going around to all the new arrivals with bags of groceries.
Long after the sun set, and it was quiet, Ty emotionally fell apart over Elodie and Terry. Maggie grieved over her father and sister, and Lori mourned for Rick.
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