What To Do About Sophia & The Barn
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(Your POV)
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I didn't feel the need to watch Lori and Rick forever so I turned and headed back to the camp, and before I knew it my feet had led me back to Daryl who was laying down with his eyes wide open.
Bored.
I raised my eyebrow at him and it seemed he finally realized someone had walked in,"Have you just been in here this whole time?"
He sent me a small laugh as I sat down next to him, "My injuries from fallin ain't healing so quick." I only hummed in response without looking at him ,but my eyes quickly moved over when I felt something pushing against my neck. It was his hand,"and I'm not super human like you."
I calmed myself as quickly as I could, my face remained emotionless as did my eyes as I stared at him, even with this I was mentally screaming at his words.
Does....does he know?
No not possible, how the hell could he know??
Clearing my frantic thoughts I smiled at him and pulled his hand down and away from my neck," Getting hurt in the military does wonders on a person's healing process, it's the only good thing about being shot at."
He intertwined our fingers and held my hand against his chest, he then closed his eyes and sighed before speaking" You have to get shot a lot for that?"
My mind immediately went to SM, as annoyed as I got from him getting injured all the time I had to admit that his body healed it very very quickly.He'd been there for a much longer time and his healing process was because of all that time. I nodded at Daryl even though he couldn't physically see it," It hurts in the moment, obviously, but it makes you survive longer. I can promise you that much."
You never forget the feeling of a bullet pushing into you skin like a flame though..
Night came quick and once everyone began to head to bed, Daryl had slid over so that I could fit next to him and he wasted no time in pulling me to lay by his side. I just laughed at his antics before settling myself comfortably at his side, I don't think my cold skin did him any favors but thank the gods for the amount of clothing I wore, all he felt were my cold fingers on his chest. Before everyone had fallen asleep for the night though Shane suddenly appeared walked into the tent, before I knew it Shane and Daryl began to argue and I stood up.
About what were they arguing for? I don't know, and frankly I didn't care.
I rolled my eyes and walked out away from the group, I ended up laying down on the field until the sun began to peak its head over the large forest. A couple more minutes and some voices could be heard behind me but I didn't pay too much attention to it. I wonder what happened between Daryl and Shane though? Maybe they finally kissed and made up.
I just shrugged to myself as I continued to stare up at the sky, it didn't last too long though as I suddenly heard Glenn's voice push through the silence of the group, from smelling the air it seemed like they were all up and eating now. I want fresh meat right now, not some cooked shit. I sighed to myself as I slowly sat up to listen to Glenn, yay for super hearing.
"So umm guys.." I cocked my head to the side, does he usually sound this nervous? Maybe. "There's.... guys the barn in full of walkers.."
No never mind, I don't want super hearing!
My head snapped over to look in his direction, the entire group fell silent and all I could hear was their heartbeats suddenly pick up as they all turned to look at a now cowering Glenn, I cringed at the sound of their hearts beating and instinctively covered my ears with my hands, I don't like how that sounds, it makes me want to...I shook my head before my thought could finish. I licked my lips in hunger as I stared at the group, and then I face palmed,"I need to go get something to eat before I become a danger."
With my mind made up I stood up and began to head towards the woods, mostly for food, but also cause I rather not go to the barn again and have to smell...her.
( Shane POV )
I raised my hands to the others to not come closer as I stepped up to the barn, with one eye I looked between the wooden slabs and watched as more than a few walkers stepped around inside without a care. Before I could fully process what I was seeing one of them suddenly stepped in front of me and stared back with one eye. I glared at it before stepping back and turning towards Rick, "You cannot tell me you're alright with this!"
I walked passed him making sure to hit his shoulder in the process, he just sighed,"No I'm not okay with this, but we are guests here. This is not our land."
I slammed my hat back on my head and turned to face Rick,"This is our lives Rick!"
"Lower you voice," hushed Glenn who quickly stepped back in fear at my hardened glare, he looked around for a moment before stopping in confusion,"Wait where's Y/N?"
Andrea ignored Glenn's question and pointed at the barn," Look, we're guests and all but we can't just sweep this under the rug."
Andrea sent me a small smile but I just ignored her look, at least she understands what's right in this situation, "It ain't right, not remotely Rick." I paced in a circle before making my way to stand slightly in front of the others,"Look we got two choices, we either got to go in there ,we've got to make things right. Or, we have got to go." I looked around at their reactions, but I was also looking for Y/N, I haven't seen her since last night now that I think about it. Shaking my head I raised my hand,"Now we have been talking about Fort Bennington for a while-"
"We can't go!"
All eyes turned to me and Rick as my glare returned,"Why Rick? Why can't we go huh?!"
Rick didn't say anything, he just looked at me .On the other hand Carol stepped up, a timid look on her face that contrasted her crossed arms," because m daughter is still out there!"
I let out a loud sigh as I cupped my hands around my mouth, stupid. So fucking stupid, you're daughter is fucking dead Carol, there is no way she could have possibly survived. I shook my thoughts away,"Ok," I sighed once more before dropping my hands down to my sides," ok, I think it's time we all start to just consider the other, more likely, possibility ."
All eye turned to me in anger or annoyance, even stupid Andrea, I rolled my eyes as Rick was first to respond,"We are not leaving Sophia behind." Daryl who had been silent stepped up with glare," I'm close to findin this girl! I just found her damn doll two days ago-"
I shook my head at him making him stop talking to just stare at me, I stared back not backing down, " Her found her doll Daryl, that's what you did. You found a fucking doll that almost got you and Y/N killed!"
He let out a growl before stepping forward, his arm up ready to start a physical fight with you,"You don't know what the hell you're talking about!"
"I'm just saying what needs to be said," I let out with sarcasm dripping from my voice as Rick stretches out his hand to stop Daryl from coming towards me. Daryl does stop and then Rick is the one to block me from Daryls view, I ignored Rick and continued," You get a good lead, it's in the first 48 hours-"
"Shane, stop!"
"Let me tell you something else man," I pushed Rick away from me and to everyone's horror I continued talking and Daryl came close to me," if she was still alive out there and saw you coming all method out with your buck knife, and Geek ears around your fucking neck, she would run in the other fucking direction!"
Like a fucking bomb he lunged at me but Rick got in the way with his hands pressed against both of our chests to keep us separated,"Shane stop!" I ignored him and began to claw my way to Daryl who was doing the same and got a hold of my arm."Come at me you fucking redneck!" "Guys stop!" "Stop, Shane STOP!" I pulled away from his hold but when I did everyone began to get involved in pushing me the hell away from Daryl.
When they got us far enough apart Rick yelled,"Stop man!"
I stopped trying to fight my way over to him but the second Lori put her hands against my chest to keep me back my rage only grew bigger as I pushed her the hell away from me, looking straight at her I pointed,"Keep your fucking hands off of me." She stood frozen and I began to walk away from the group, they weren't going to listen to me and I was one with this shit.
"Shane wait! Now let me just talk to Hershel about it. Let me figure it out-"
"What are you going to figure out!?" Before I could fully lunge at Rick, and before Lori could try to stop me by placing her stupid hands on my chest I felt a set of arms coil around my stomach and they froze me in place. I first tried to ignore them and pull away but they kept me in place with unbelievable strength.
Rick started talking now that I was stopped,"If we're gonna stay, if we're gonna clear this barn, I have to talk him into it. This is his land!"
I stopped struggling and the arms slipped themselves off of me, I quickly turned around to see who it was only to find Y/N walking away from us, she wasn't even here this whole time? Before I could say anything to her Daryl got to Y/N and pulled her over to his side of the group. I growled under my breath as I turned around to see Dale speaking up. "Hershel sees those things in there as people.., as sick people. His wife, his stepson-"
"You knew?"
Dale nodded at Rick's question,"I talked to Hershel yesterday."
I began to walk forward again in anger but I felt a cold grip around my wrist, Y/N again? Ignoring her cold fingers I pointed at Dale with my free hand,"You waited the whole night?!"
"I thought we could survive one more night!" I sighed and turned away from the group, her cold fingers disappeared from my wrist," And we did! I was waiting till this morning to say something, but Glenn decided he wanted to be the one to say it."
"The man is crazy Rick! If he thinks those things are alive or not-" before I could continued Y/N jumped in front of me and slammed her hands over my mouth.
"Quiet," as she said this we all went silent and the wails and banging of the undead became more obvious, " in groups they can break out of that barn ,and you idiots are out here screaming so shut up already." Everyone began to back up at the rattling of the chain in fear ,except for me,Y/N, Rick, Daryl and TDogg.
"Let's go talk about this back at the camp,"with that everyone began to leave in fear as the growling continued, Y/N stayed behind as she stared emotionless at the barn.
Seeing that me and her were now alone I cleared my throat,"Where were you?-"
"In the forrest."
I paused at her quick answer, she knew I was already gonna ask, is that why she stayed behind instead of leaving with the others? I hummed in response as I crossed my arms, "How did you get here so quick then , you weren't around when we came here."
"That's true," she mumbled as she turned to look at me," I could hear your screams from a mile away, if I could hear it who knows what else could. You guys worry over the few trapped in a barn, what about the ones we don't even know the location of." I opened my mouth to speak but she continued,"There were some right under our nose, but they aren't the ones to worry about, trust me."
I stepped forward and began to see how to unlock the chains, but it wasn't possible without a weapon on hand, I tried to pull on the wooden slabs only for a hand to pop out and try to grab me, I jumped back and reached for my gun only to feel it wasn't there. I heard her let out a laugh to which I turned and glared at her," You'd react the same."
She sent me a wink before turning around and beginning to walk away," No I wouldn't, but that reaction is entertaining to watch. You were so scared grumpy."
I glared at her back,"Y/N!"
She just laughed more and walked off.
( Glenn POV )
"Maggie,please!" She simply rolled her eyes and continued to ignore me. I sighed, did I really do anything wrong? I don;t think I did, when I saw her making her way around the chicken coop I stepped in front of her to get her attention,"Maggie please talk to me."
She pushed passed me but I asked one more time and she stopped,"Give me your hat."
"What?"
She sent me an annoyed glare,"You said you wanted me to talk to you, I am, now give me your hat." Not knowing what else to do I removed the hat and slowly handed it over. She ripped it out of my hands and placed it into her basket of eggs, after fumbling around a big she suddenly lifted it back up and slammed it on my head.My eyes quickly closed at the sensation of something sticky now covering my forehead and dripping down, ok maybe I deserved that.
I slowly removed my now wet hat as I tilted my head to save my eyes from the dripping egg,"Why would you waste an egg like that?"
She let out a small hum as a smile grazed her face,"I had a feeling it was rotten," she then turned around and began to walk away again. All I could do was watch her leave as I wiped away at the egg.
Dammit..
( Carl POV )
So it's true then, Sophia is dead... I stared at the book my mom was using with me to mimic that I was still in school, I kinda miss having to go to school. Even though that English teacher I had was really weird and fat. I laughed to myself as I though of the time she broke her chair from just sitting on it, but I snapped out of my thoughts as my mom ran her fingers through my hair, maybe I should ask her. With a shrug I glanced up at her,"Mom, does Shane think Sophia is dead?"
"Shane's just..scared."
I looked down at the pencil in my hand,"Scared of the walkers in the barn?"
She nodded to herself,"Yeah."
I looked back to my writing but I then looked back up at my mom,"Mom, I'm- I'm not leaving until we find Sophia." She just stared at me not knowing what to say and I looked down,"And I don't want to leave even after that."
"Well, we're not leaving Carl," my eyes snapped back up to meet hers, really? We aren't leaving.. "You finish those problems,okay?"
I nodded with a small smile at her before looking back down at the paper,"I just think she-," I thought about how to word it but I couldn't think of it. "She's gonna like it here, this place. It could be a home."
My mom didn't say anything, I was ready to say something again but I stopped as she pulled me into her chest. She was hugging me tightly while stroking my hair, it makes me think of Y/N. I laid my head against her chest and she pressed a kiss to my head.
( Carol POV )
I did a quick search of the camp but I couldnt find the familiar figure in black clothing so I yelled,"Y/N!"
I was still met with silence but I couldn't wait anymore so I chased after Daryl, he is still injured, he can't go out alone. He can't go out at all! I looked around frantically for his figure,and I saw him at the last second entering the horses stables while carrying a saddle,"Daryl!"
He ignored me and disappeared inside, I rushed after him and saw him drop the saddle put of pain, he groaned loudly, "Go away Carol."
I sighed as I stepped into the stables,"Daryl, you cant." He shook his head, ignoring me and continuing on, I tried to reach out to grab him but without even looking back at me he avoided it. "Hershel said you need to heal."
" Yeah," he nodded and then looked back at me with a bored glance,"I dont care."
"Yeah,well I do. Besides , Rick's going out later to follow the trail.."
He opened up one of the stable doors and walked in ,the horse just looked up to see him before becoming uninterested as Daryl got close. "I ain't gonna sit around and do nothing-"
Although he couldnt see me as he was facing the horse I crossed my arms over my chest instinctively as I cut him off,"No you're gonna go out there and get yourself hurt even worse, and this time you'll be compeltely alone out there." He went silent, the only sound being the small clicking of the horses reigns that he was setting up. I let out a sigh, I've never wanted to admit this but I cant just let him go out there. Last time he survived because Y/N got lucky and made it in time..."Daryl, we dont even know if we'll find her." I swallowed the lump in my throat ,holding back my tears from saying it outloud,finally. Looking at Daryl he had frozen at my words before slowly looking back at me with disbelief, I shook my head at him as I offered a sad smile. "We don't, Daryl....I dont."
His eyes continued to focus on me, they didnt and couldnt believe the words coming out if my mouth,he took a couple steps out of the horses stable to stand in front of me. I refused to look at his face and just focused on his chest as his voice range through the silence,"What?"
I looked away from his entire figure as I felt tears beginning to push their way to the surface,"I cant lose you too."
My eyes slowly moved to look back at him but they quickly flickered away, his expression was unreadable. It scared me what he could be thinking and the thought made my tears finally begin to fall. Internally I was shaking in sadness, but externally I felt my body turn to face Daryl who had begun to walk away. He dropped the reigns he never got on the horse before making his way to the saddle, I was about to say something when he placed both hands onto the saddle and roughly pushed it onto the ground in anger. The rough action made him quickly bend over in pain, he quickly clutched at his side and I wasted no time to run over,"Are you alright!?"
Before I could even touch him he swung out his arm and looked over at me, I stepped back with wide eyes as he yelled,"Just leave me be!" My hand raised itself to hold him back, I needed to apologize but his next words froze me in my place as he stumbled his way out ,"Stupid bitch."
( Your POV )
I raised an eyebrow at Glenn when he asked Dale for a hat,but decided to not go there.Probably has something to do with Maggie, if it's good or bad I dont know...
I shrugged at my thoughts and they quickly went away. It was quiet for a bit,I was bored ,but after catching a familiar scent I pushed off the side of the RV and headed towards it. Before this though, I smirked after having heard some interesting information about Andrea and Shane, I knew it! They did bang!
The smirk on my face disappeared as the smell of this person's blood suddenly came up, what the, I began to speed up in worry but the second I saw them hunched over I figured out why I smelled blood. I sighed as I stared at Daryls back, my footsteps quiet to the point that I was standing behind him and he hadn't noticed, please tell me he didnt open his wound. "Daryl."
He quickly swung his arm around hitting my thigh without even looking back to see me,"I said leave me be!"
Without moving I leaned over to where my face was now next to his and I blew on his ear, he swung his arm again but this time I caught stopped it with my boot."Would you quit trying to fucking hit me."
He brought his arm back to his side and finally turned around, the first thing out of his mouth was,"Shit!"
I didnt even respond, instead I pushed him flat onto his back with my foot, he yelled but my only response was for him to shut up. He growled in annoyance but finally laid flat, with a roll of my eyes I lifted up the bottom part of his shirt to check his wound, blood stained his bandages. "What the hell did you do?" He just looked away with anger on his face, I sighed and pulled his shirt back down before standing up,"Come on ,I better clean it up."
He tried to sit up but the pain made him lay back down, after helping the grumpy Daryl stand up he crossed his arms," are you gonna wear that maid outfit you promised me?" I raised my hand and slapped his shoulder with full force causing him stumble forward at my strength,"Hey!"
"Daryl I dont even have one in the first place."
"So you lied heh?"
I rolled my eyes and just grabbed his hand, beginning to drag him back to the tent we basically shared at this point, he kept nagging about me wearing a maid outfit. Honestly I thought he forgot that I said that.... does this mean he's been thinking about that since he got injured in the first place?
"You perv."
I'm sorry
I'm really sorry
I'm sorry its late,im sorry it sucks, I'm sorry its short..
~ CKS