Confide in Fear | DARYL DIXON •1

5. On The Run

Alex's *POV*

"You ready?" Maggie asked me, as I had just finished packing up my bag and getting my gun.

"Yeah, I am." I smiled, while following Maggie out of the cell block and to the black charger, where Daryl and Tyrese were packing up the car. I saw Rick out in the fields talking to Hershel, and Carl walking my way.

"Hey kid." I said to Carl, and he stood in front of me.

"I'm not a kid." He said stubbornly.

"What's up?" I squinted my eyes down at him and I gave his hair a quick toss.

"I was wondering... If uh..."

"If what?" I smirked, while furrowing my eyebrows.

"If you could find me something cool?"

"Something cool? Hm, I'll try too." I laugh, watching him walk away to his dad out in the field. What a kid.

"Let's go." Daryl said, while slamming the car door after he got into the drivers seat. I made my way to the car, and sat in the back with Maggie and Tyrese by my sides.

The drive was silent, but I was beginning to feel comfortable, despite Daryl and I's last run together. But this time, I wasn't taking no for an answer and I was going to actually go on a run with them.

After what felt like hours in the car, we arrived at the place we had decided to check out, thanks to Rick and Hershel.

Daryl and Therese decided they would go in and make sure there weren't any walked around in the front. They must've took no less than ten minutes scoping out the first floor.

"So, we're good?" Maggie asked, her head out the window.

"Yeah, we should be. Just took out some of the walkers, might not be any left." Tyrese explained.

"What about the second floor?" I asked.

"If there's anymore in there, we can take them out quickly." Daryl replied. "C'mon." He waved at us, signaling us to follow him to the building.

"Let's just get everything we need and leave." Maggie whispered, leading us into the building. I followed Daryl, with Maggie beside me, and Tyreese behind her.

It was my first run. It was unlike anything I've done on my own. When I was alone, I avoided buildings at all cost, no matter what useful things might've been inside. Instead, I opted with traveling far and only entering one story places.

Walking down the dark hallway had started to make me feel nervous and a bit claustrophobic. I was never one to feel closed in, but suddenly everything had got to me. Every little thing that was normal before, had escalated into something that gave me anxiety. Even people... even Daryl. His demeanor I had encountered everyday had struck a nerve in me.

Or maybe it was me being nervous around him?

Was the intimidation working? The way he had walked about and the way he spoke - or barely spoke - might've gave me butterflies like I was a damn teenage girl all over again.

I didn't know much about him, but from what I've heard from the group back at the prison, is that he'd come around, but that's hard to believe. I needed to stop thinking about it all right now, and focus on getting what we needed.

We turned around the corner and entered into a long dark hallways, and a couple of walkers. Daryl and Maggie went in front of me and Tyreese, to go take out those walkers. I sighed in annoyance, because of Daryl not letting help.

"Ok, we're clear." Maggie whispered, loud enough so me and Tyreese could hear.

"So," I said, climbing over the first chair and other things blocking the doorway, where Daryl and Maggie had entered. "What exactly are we getting here?" I looked up to see Maggie already packing things in her bag. I continued to climb over another chair, until I almost fell.

A pair of hands quickly grabbed on to my waist from behind, catching me before I could fall to the ground. "Watch your step next time." He said.

"Thanks." I sighed, then walking away towards Maggie.

"You okay?"

"Yeah, I'll be good." I roll my eyes as I think about Daryl. "So anything specific?"I looked around my surroundings.

"Anything we need." Maggie said. "Pretty much all of it. But if we can't take a lot, we'll plan another trip back. As soon as possible."

"I'll opt out of that one." I say, walking away and looking at broken glass cabinets.

I  carefully opened it, and saw a bunch of boxes of aid kits and bottles of cleaning alcohol, and other medical supplies, bandages and tubes of medical ointments. I started to gather as much as my two bags could hold.

Half an hour or so must've passed. All of us had gathered everything we think we needed. We followed behind Daryl, as we made our way towards the door. He told us we might have to climb over the stack of chairs to make it to the other side.

Unfortunately, being me, I just had to trip again, making myself fall with a chair landing on me and chairs falling onto the floor, making a bunch of loud clanking noises. "Shit!"

"God dammit!" I looked up and saw Daryl looking down at me and then at the other end of the hallway at a bunch of walkers making there way down to us. Daryl had pulled me up and turned away, as Tyreese moved the chairs out of the way.

"Fuck!" I hiss out, then apologizing for what I had just done.

"How are we getting out of here?" Maggie said.

"That's our only way out, and to the car." Tyreese said, Referring to the busy hallway of walkers blocking our way to the exit of the building.

"We'll find a way." Daryl said. "Follow me."

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