Welcome to The End ( Daryl Dixon x Winchester!Reader )

Chapter 26

"Do you think Y/N could do it?" Carol asked, looking around at the group that had just walked into Hilltop after Daryl had told them what happened.

"I don't know." He answered honestly as he adjusted Judith on his hip. "She tried earlier 'n she couldn't. Her stitches busted and the bullet wound was bleeding a lot... I don't even know if she'll make it."

"Hey, don't start thinking like that man." Glenn quickly said, clasping Daryl's shoulder while Enid cried into Maggie's arms after hearing that Carl had been bitten. "Y/N is strong."

"I know, but her powers ain't working. They hurt her when she tries to use them..." Daryl trailed off shaking his head, hating the fact that fresh tears were starting to rise in his eyes.

He was not going to start crying in the middle of Hilltop. Y/N would be fine. Carl would be fine. Everyone would be fine.

"C'mon, let's go into Barrington house. You guys look like you could use some food and water." Jesus suddenly said, speaking up for the first time since they had arrived and if Daryl was being honest he forgot the ninja was even there.

Nobody argued as they followed Jesus towards Barrington House, but Daryl didn't miss the makeshift prison they had build on the side of Hilltop were a bunch of Saviours were sitting inside, including Gregory.

Daryl didn't say anything about it, trusting that Maggie and Glenn had it handled before he followed them up the stairs and into the large mansion.

Jesus had bought them trays of food and they all camped in Maggie's office that used to be Gregory's.

It didn't take long before the others started to get tired, nobody slept last night in the sewer and it was getting close to being over 24 hours since any of them had slept. Maggie must have noticed because she assigned everyone rooms and instructed them to get some rest.

Daryl didn't have the heart to decline her offer and ended up on the couch in one of the rooms while Tara and Rosita shared the king sized bed.

He wasn't sure he'd be able to sleep knowing that Y/N and Carl were still down in that sewer. His girlfriend practically bleeding out and the kid that he considered a nephew now bitten.

He didn't want to leave them there, he didn't want Y/N to try use her powers again because by the look in her eyes she wasn't planning on making it back to him, but like hell he was going to just let her check out. She had survived worse than this and if she died... he honestly wouldn't know what he would do.

Daryl must have eventually fallen asleep because the next thing he knew, Tara was waking him up saying they were coming.

For a split second, Daryl panicked thinking that the Saviours were coming before Tara quickly elaborated and said that it was Rick and the others.

"Where are they?" Daryl questioned, rushing down the stairs of Barrington House and out the door just as the front gates opened the Winchesters Impala slowly drove through the gate.

Sudden relief washed over him, seeing the familiar vehicle as the car stopped just inside the gate, but that sudden relief quickly vanished when it was Rick that climbed out the drivers seat and not Y/N.

Tara, Rosita, Carol and Glenn were already by the car in an instant as Maggie ran past him towards the car, but Daryl couldn't get his body to move any faster as he slowly walked towards them.

Panic rose inside him. She had to be okay. Y/N had to be okay.

"Carl? Y/N?" Maggie questioned breathlessly as she reached the group and Rick sent her a look that Daryl knew wasn't good.