Daddy's Little Girl

Chapter 15: Eaten By Dogs

We head back to the office where I do inventory of the guns. Daryl, T-Dog, Miguel and I all in the same room, I'm surprised Daryl didn't try to kill the kid again.

"Them guns are worth more than gold. Gold won't protect your family or put food on the table. You're gonna give that up for that kid?" Daryl argues.

"How can you even say that about your own daughter man?" T-Dog more or less yells in Daryl's face. "If I knew we'd get Glenn and Kathrine back, I might agree." T-Dog adds looking over at me. "But you think that Vato across the way is just gonna hand 'em over?"

"You calling G a liar?" Miguel questions.

"You a part of this?" Daryl yells at him. "You want to hold onto your teeth?" He says smacking the kid in the head.

"Question is do you trust that man's word?" T-Dog says looking at me.

"No, question is what are you willing to bet on it? Could be more than them guns. Could be your life. Kathrine and Glenn worth that to you?" Daryl asks me.

"What the hell is wrong with you?! That's your own flesh and blood and you aren't willing to give everything and anything to get her back?! After all she did to find you!?" I yell in his face. T-Dog pulls me back away from Daryl before we both lash out at each other m. I push him off and pace the room to calm myself. "What life I have, I owe to them." I finally answer Daryl. "I was nobody to Kathrine, just some guy in the same hospital. And Glenn, just some idiot stuck in a tank. They could have walked away, but they didn't. Neither will I."

"So you're gonna hand the guns over?" He asks.

"I didn't say that. There's nothing keeping you two here. You should get out, head back to camp."

"And tell your family what?" T-Dog asks rubbing his head.

"This is my daughter we're talkin' about." Daryl adds reaching over and grabbing a gun. "I'll burn the whole damn place down if I have to." He says cocking his gun as I hand one to T-Dog.

"So now you give a damn huh?" T-Dog huffs under his breath as he loads his gun.

"Come on, this is nuts." Miguel says getting up only to get pushed back down my Daryl. "Just do like G says." He practically begs as he puts his hands over his head as we load our guns.

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We head back to Guillermo's building, this time the kid's mouth is tied so he can't talk and his hands tied behind his back with Daryl's gun pointed at him as he walks.

They open the doors for us and Daryl pushes Miguel inside, we follow after him keeping our eyes peeled for any surprises. There's a lot more of them than I expected. I think to myself as they form a circle around us and we are greeted by Guillermo once again.

"I see my guns but they're not all in the bag." G says putting his hands in his pockets.

"That's because they're not yours." I tell him again. "I thought I mentioned that."

"Let's just shoot these fools right now, ese." Felipe says from behind him. "All right? Unload on their asses, ese."

"I don't think you fully appreciate the gravity of the situation." Guillermo says.

"No, I'm pretty clear." I say starting to get pissed off. "You have your man." I say cutting Miguel free and pushing him forward. "I want mine."

"I'm gonna chop up your boy and girl." He says coming closer to me. "I'm gonna feed them to my dogs. They're the evilest, nastiest man-eating bitches you ever saw. I picked them up from Satan at a yard sale." He says coming right in my face. "I told you how it has to be. Are you woefully deaf?" He asks me.