Confide in Fear | DARYL DIXON •1

3. Flinch

Alex's *POV*

A week or so has passed. People had started to let me help around the prison more, especially since my sprained ankle had felt better. Still without word on if I was allowed to officially stay or not, I was slightly worried they would kick me out any day now. But I had some hope, despite being scared to be alone again.

A hand tapped my shoulder, and I turned around to see Beth standing there with Judith.

"Rick wants to see you." She smiled.

"Where is he?" I asked.

"Outside, by the cars."

"Thank you, Beth."

"You're welcome!" She responded cheerfully as I walked past her.

Walking out of the cell block and pulling the steel door open, I had seen  Rick, Glenn, Daryl and Tyrese loading up stuff in the back of a black charger.

"Beth told me you were looking for me?" I asked, squinting my eyes at Rick, and blocked the son out of my face with my hand.

"Yeah. You're going on your first run with these guys. We need to see if you can handle this." He said.

"Oh." I simply said. "Okay then."

He put some weapons into the car and out of a basket. "Here's your gun and knife back. Just for today's run. They got extra bullets in the car. And, your bag."

Rick hands me over the bag first, and then takes some other supplies from the basket and throws it in my bag.

"Thank you." I said, adjusting my bag onto my shoulder. He hands me my weapons, and I place my knife by my waist along with my gun.

"You'll be sitting in the back with Glenn and Bob." Daryl spoke.

"Okay." I said, getting into the car, sitting in the middle between Glenn and Bob.

"Let's roll." Daryl spoke, as he drove and the gates opened.

The drive was silent. The breeze coming from the windows cooled us down from the hot bright sun. It made me miss the air conditioning in cars. It was the small things that reminded me how good the world used to be.

Daryl was speaking about the plan for this run we were going on. Get in, get the stuff and get out. He seemed to be smart and trustworthy, but I was beginning to think he didn't care much for me since well, we had just met and because he doesn't know. By the plan, he hadn't given me anything to do, so I was just getting myself mentally prepared to follow the guys.

Maybe an hour or so later, we arrived at the medical place. I got out of the car and started walking behind Glenn, following them to the front.

"You stay here." Daryl said to me. "Stay in the car. The front seat, just in case."

"Why? Rick told me that I was going with you guys." I questioned and explained myself to him.

"We don't need you. We'll be fine on our own." Daryl replied rudely.

"Daryl... I think she needs to learn-" Glenn spoke, taking a step forward. "Besides, if we don't know her that well, why would we leave her with the car?"

Daryl hesitated, but rolls his eyes. "Nah, she's staying. Besides, she don't wanna be alone. Doubt she'd run off now. C'mon." Daryl spoke while walking away and into the building, along with Tyerese and Bob.

"I'm sorry." Glenn spoke.

"It's okay, I get it." I shrug.

"We won't be too long."

"Yeah, gotcha." I responded, and Glenn had caught up with the guys and disappeared into the building. I sighed, and sat in the front seat. I kept my knife on my lap in front of me, and my gun beside me. I kept my foot right beside the pedal, just in case there was an issue with the guys and I had to get ready to drive fast.

Later, the guys came storming out of the building and jumped right into the car. Daryl didn't even bother to tell me to move out the front seat. He yelled drive about numerous times along with walkers.

"Did you get the med-?!"

"Just keep driving." Daryl said. I transitioned to the far left of the road, and stopped driving abruptly.

"Why'd you stop?" Daryl asked. "Keep drivin'."

"Okay, first, I don't know how to get back and second, don't tell me what to do. Third, you drive." I said, getting out the car and heading around to his side.

He didn't move after I spoke to him. I pulled his side of the car door open and he didn't move.

"You gonna drive or what?" I asked Daryl toughly.

"Don't give me no attitude, girl."

"And if I do?" I asked. He got out of the car, standing close to my body, causing me to flinch. I saw the guys get out of the car and Tyerese held Daryl back a bit, while Glenn came over to me to calm me down.

"Get off me." Tyerese still held on to Daryl after he said to get off him. "What? Y'all think I'd hit a girl?"

I looked up at Daryl and shook my head as I stared him down. "With the way you just acted towards me? Yeah, I think so." I said, and quickly walking to the car and siting in the back seat, slamming the door.

Everyone got back into the car and Bob was driving us all back to the prison.

"Tough woman." I heard Bob say. I ignored Daryl's presence as he sat in the passenger seat, across from me. This gave me a great view of him, which I did not want.

"Daryl, what's up?" Glenn asked, but It stayed silent.

We made it back to the prison when it was dark out, but still light out where we can still see. "Everything go good?" Rick asked me, welcoming us at the front gates through Bob's window.

"Ask Daryl." I looked at Rick once I stepped out of the car, leaving the door open for Glenn, and started to walk back to the cell block.

"Stay for a minute." Rick said. "Glenn, get Daryl for me." Glenn walked back to the car and I saw him tap Daryl and they stood there talking for a couple of minutes. Daryl dropped whatever he was holding and came by walking.

"What's going on?" He asked Daryl. I stared at Daryl and his features. He looked strong. Tough.

"Nothin'. We got nothing over there though- completely empty."

"I meant with you and Alex. If you don't want to talk about it here, now that's fine. But we are talking about this. Later." Rick said. Daryl nodded slightly and gave me a dirty look while walking past.

"What is your problem?" I said, while walking beside him and touching his arm so he could turn around.

"My problem is you. You think just because I saved your ass and brought you back to this place you can stay, and that everyone could trust you so quickly?" He said loudly, approaching me.

I could hear Rick's boots come up to Daryl and pushed him back so he wouldn't do anything he would have regretted.

Glenn came up to me and took my shoulder and we began walking. I turned my head to see Rick calming down Daryl, and then Daryl shrugging him off and walking in my opposite direction.

"Sorry about Daryl. He's never always trusted anyone without a lot of time passing. It takes time." Glenn said.

"And if it doesn't?" I asked.

"Well, then we'd have to deal with it."

Later that night, the council wanted me to have dinner with them. Rick has said that they needed to talk to me. Normally, I would grab some food and go eat alone in my cell and then sleep. But I guess they wanted to know me? Was this the beginning of not being alone anymore?

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