Hell in the Headspace (Rick and Raven)

Rick had been enjoying a rather quiet patrol to be honest, walking around the perimeter fence to make sure that there weren't going to be any Walkers getting in. Then it had all gone to shit when Carl had come rushing over to tell him that, somehow, Walkers from the yard had made their way into the main prison complex again and were swarming in an attempt to get closer to where his group was living.

Honestly, right now he couldn't care less if there were Walkers in a part of the prison that neither his group nor Raven used, like one of the five exercise yards. But what he did care about was when said Walkers were making their way closer to them. Moving across the yard between the group's cell block and Raven's, Rick growled a little bit.

There were even a handful of Walkers here!

Gritting his teeth, he killed all five of them with calm and measured shots to the head while they were stumbling towards him. Reaching the door, he banged on it a few times before opening it slightly so that he could be heard inside,

"Hey Raven!" he called out, trying to see where she was from the door, "Raven there's a massive group of Walkers been let into the prison... do you fancy coming with me to help clear them out?"

His eyes darkened a little bit and he added,

"And then we can execute the son of a bitch who let them back in... what do you say?"

Raven had been having a rather nice time in her cell block she had just gotten some new gas for her generator and was currently trying to gather up enough water to fill herself a bath, she wanted to have a nice relaxing soak, she felt she deserved that much, but, the truth was there just wasn't enough water for her to even begin to start filling the bath, even if she could make the water hot now.

Sighing lightly, she peered out of the window of the corridor and frowned when she saw that there were an increased amount of walkers moving their way through here. It was odd, there hadn't been this many up this way for a long time, something must have scared them out of the other sections of the prison, which meant that there was probably another group nearby.

Someone who was looking to take over her home no doubt.

As she grit her teeth, Raven scowled, but her expression lightened when she heard Rick knocking on the door to her cell block, immediately she was on board. It meant killing something, and, it was a great outlet for her feelings, so that she didn't take them out on some of the people who actually still lived in this world. Walkers were great for letting stress out upon.

Swiftly, she picked up Betty and slung her over her shoulder, before picking up an axe on her way, two weapons in case Betty somehow ran out of juice, although she had topped her up as soon as she had found that canister of gas.

"I say, lets go." she grinned as she opened the door "I have been itching for a good fight, killing one or two zombies isn't a challenge, it should be fun, right Rick?"

Rick was reloading his pistol already. His machette was as sharp as he could keep it while still expecting it to be able to cleave through a skull, Walker or otherwise, without breaking in half. He had no idea there were this many Walkers in the prison and the surrounding area but apparently there were. The damned things were coming out of the wood-work. Even now one stumbled up to the fence at the other end of the yard. Annoyed at the Walker for simply being there, Rick took aim and fired, causing it's head to cave in with a shower of gore and blood.

When Raven came into sight with both her chainsaw and another axe he grinned a little bit. There was just something about having a homocidal little sex kitten along with him that made killing Walkers sound a heck of a lot more fun right now. Usually Rick hated to admit it but he enjoyed killing the Walkers. Why shouldn't he? They killed his wife, they killed his entire town, they were the reason for so many terrible things. Why shouldn't he hated them enough to enjoy putting them back down into the ground. Not that he'd ever buried a Walker or had any plans to do so. He smirking a little bit as he led her towards his section of the prison,

"Yeah well this should be much more than a challenge." he agreed with a little smirk, "Especially since the others don't appear to have been able to wait."

Seeing that the meeting point was empty it meant that the group had gone on ahead to try and fight off the mini-horde coming their way. He smirked slightly and held out a hand for Raven to take, bowing as if asking her to dance,

"Shall we?"

Raven giggled a little bit when she saw Rick shooting the walker in the head, it was such a wonderful display of protection and a wonderful shot she couldn't help but be impressed with what he had done. Although she was still more than a little worried about the fact there were so many walkers in the first place, they would have to fight smart as well as fight brutally today, it should be a challenge.

Running her hands through her hair, Raven hummed as she readied Betty in her hand, she was strong enough to carry her one handed although when it came to cutting the zombies down she was more effective using both hands by far.

"I wonder why there are so many of them here...do you really believe someone would have been that stupid as to have brought them all here?" she asked with a hint of malicious mirth to her voice "How idiotic, knowing that we two are here, and that we would never let anything happen to this prison...I do hope we find who is responsible...I won't have had that much fun for years!"

As she slipped her hand into Rick's own, Raven blushed slightly. He was becoming a lot more bold she had to say, and more than that, he was becoming a lot more important to her, this Rick. Raven wasn't sure whether that was a good thing, or whether she should be keeping her distance, it was too hard to tell right now if she really could trust him.

But she hoped she could.

"Yes, let's go." Raven grinned as she hurried towards the growling and grunting sounds of the horde of Walkers ahead, letting go of Rick's hand she pulled the chain of Betty and she roared into life drawing the walkers attention to her, but the front lines were already being hacked in all sorts of ways by the sharp double blades on her chainsaw.

Splashing herself with the blood and gore, Raven pouted and ran behind some cover, tying her bandana around her mouth, she grinned, no more of that going near her mouth. She loved that bandana as it made the bottom half of her face look like a skull.

"Oh what fun...but, there are much more than I would have expected, are there many inside the prison as well?"

Rick chuckled a little bit when she giggled at his shot to the head of the Walker. To be fair it was rather amusing, in a sick kind of way, to see what would happen to the head when it was shot. Honestly, it was never the same effect twice. Every time he shot a Walker in the head something different happened to the skull, sometimes parts detached and sometimes it caved in. On certain, memorable, occassions parts of the head had seemed to disappear into red mist,

"I think someone has been drawing them in somehow. Not to mention when we first arrived we managed to herd a lot of them into some of the exercise yards. It wouldn't be too hard to add them to the general population of Walkers we have in the prison." he admitted before chuckling a little bit, "Honestly I think someone might have been that stupid. Maybe their was a prisoner that both of our groups missed? Maybe it was that one sneaky little fucker who got away... who knows. Won't matter really, either way we're going to kill them."

When Raven slipped her smooth, slightly cold, hand into his own, Rick smiled reassuringly as she blushed at the action. She wasn't used to this much human interaction it seemed. Or perhaps she was just appreciating the affection that he was trying to put across more and more in his actions towards her? After all she was an attractive woman and he was very interested in knowing more about her as what he knew so far was very intriging,

"Ah to have fun in the company of a Lady." he teased her a little bit before they were upon the lead Walkers. Using his machette for the most part, Rick helped Raven cut a bloody path through the first group of Walkers, cutting and slashing at their heads. When she ducked behind a wall he took the opportunity to take his gun out with his other hand, firing only when he was sure to get two or more heads with one bullet. It was surprisingly easy to do in the narrow corridor. He smirked, "Oh there are many, many Walkers inside the prison. I've seen the hordes stretch entire corridors... we have our whole day booked!"

Raven didn't like the idea that someone had been wanting to cause more toruble for them, but she did like the way that Rick was talking about what they were going to end up doing to them when they did eventually catch them. There was no way that a person on their own would be able to make it out of the prison alive, so they would search for them until they found the little rat and squeezed its neck for what it had done.

"Oh yes, we are." she purred softly "Anyone who puts my home in danger has something to answer to, and, I was just figuring out how I was going to make the bath work...he's ruined my plans for a relaxing Sunday afternoon."

Sighing a little bit she moved out from behind her little hiding place and automatically went to covering Rick again, she wanted to make sure that he wasn't hurt, as well as protecting herself when she could. Although she wasn't sure about him, she definately knew she didn't want him dead just yet. Raven needed to figure him out first, before that did or didn't happen.

"A whole day?" she asked with a groan "Oh I am all for fun and games but that's no good at all, my arm is going to get sore and Betty is going to get really dull...do you know how hard it is to keep her blades in good shape? This guy is going to have a lot to answer to." Raven growled.

Choosing to save Betty for when the fighting got really bad Raven changed it up and started to use her axe instead, hacking large chunks out of walkers heads as she moved into their ranks, there was a close call when she was pinned against a chain link fence, but she was able to get herself out of it, by raising the axe high enough to cleave through two heads at once.

"Where to next, you know this section of the prison better than me." she hissed lightly, panting softly from the exertion, like Raven admitted before, she hadn't fought this many walkers for a long long time.

Rick had tried to live by a simple mantra. Well it was simple to say at the very least. Don't kill the living. But the simple fact was that whoever had set the Walkers on them was going to die in a terrible way for putting his group in danger. They finally had a good thing going here after wandering for so long and Raven didn't deserve to have her limited sense of peace distrupted either. So the instigator of this was going to die and they were going to die painfully if Rick had his way,

"You'll certainly need a bath after all the hard work we're going to have to do because of that prick." he agreed before smirking a little bit, "Run out of water or something? We, thankfully, have plenty to share. I'll bring some over for you."

Rick couldn't do anything but chuckle as he fired another shot, getting three Walkers with the one shot. His record was five with one shot but three was respectable. Slashing out with his machette, he cut a Walker's head clean in half before kicking it's stumbling body back into the last remaining Walkers of the group,

"Oh maybe not the whole day." he admitted even as he fired a bullet right between the eyes of a Walker laid on it's back on the ground. He nodded in understanding, "I don't imagine you've been out to check the hardware store in the town... might have new blades for her. I'm sure Betty would love having a new set of blades. Make her feel all pretty and new."

Now that they had put down the last of the large amount of Walkers, Rick held out a bottle of water for Raven to drink from. He was breathing heavily but one good thing about wandering was that it was great for the fitness levels. Rolling his shoulders, he gestured to a door that he knew would lead them back inside, to the next section of the prison,

"That door will take us into the kitchens." he told her with a small smile, "We can regroup with the others there. See if we can find the source of this and end it while the rest of the group fights the Walkers."

Raven laughed softly when Rick said she was going to be needing a bath after all the grime and gore she was going to have go get through in order to make her home safe again, although, one main worry was flaring through her mind, and had been doing so for a very long time now, since she had first seen the little heard of walkers outside the cell block.

She hoped baby Sophia was alright.

Although she wasn't her baby she had become really attached to her and she didn't want anything to happen to her while she was away and especially not now there were walkers wandering around the prison. Raven had to make sure that nothing happened ot her.

"I believe that might be a conversation for another time. Where is baby Sophia? Did you leave her safely in the cell block, or is she en route somewhere?" Raven asked, her eyes darting around the yard, there were no walkers that were moving, but she decided all the ones that had their bodies hacked off but their heads could still bite needed to be taken care of and so she axed them all.

"Well maybe you could make yourself useful and as a thank you for helping you clear the prison, you can go and get me some." she smirked a little bit "It hurts sometimes trying to sharpen her, the cuts are really very annoying."

It was quite impressive, they had managed to kill the rest of the large body of walkers, they really were on a roll today. It did not bode well though for the amount of walkers there would be inside the Prison, she could only hope the rest of the group, including that Stealer, had made themselves useful and actually managed to kill a fair few of them themselves.

Making her way towards the door that Rick gestured to, Raven smirked a little bit, before leading with her axe first, it was highly possible there were walkers there, but, it was also possible the other humans were there too, and she didn't want to mow them down with Betty.

"Alright, let's go then." she grinned, as she kicked open the door and without a second thought, stepped inside.