The One He Chose

~6~

~Dallas' POV~

I woke up today in Daryl's arms, I rolled over placing a small kiss on his nose as his eyes slowly opened. He smiled at me wrapping his arms tighter around my waist.

"Mornin beautiful."

I smiled, placing a kiss on his lips.

"Morning."

I went to get out of bed only to have Daryl's arms tight around me and pull me back into his chest. I let out a sigh shaking my head before lightly elbowing him in the stomach and quickly getting up. I smirked at him pulling out my shorts with my red flannel. I pulled on my knee high boots, and looked at him.

"What's gonna happen to Carol?"

He let out a sigh standing up placing his hands on my hips. He looked into my eyes with his bright blue ones.

"Well, we'll have a jury type thing where we all give our opinions on what we want to happen. Then we take the two most talked about ideas and vote. I think that today it's mainly gonna be her gettin kicked out of the group and set loose to fend for herself. To be honest if it were up to me she would already be gone for what she did to ya."

I looked down before looking back up shaking my head.

"Will they listen to me, or are they just gunna do whatever the fuck they want to?"

"More than likely they'll listen to ya because she did it to ya, but the outcome is up to the whole group."

I nodded my head taking a deep breath. Daryl laced his hand with mine and we walked out of the cell. We walked downstairs and saw that everyone was ready to begin the discussion. I listened as everyone started talking, Carol stayed silent listening from her cell. I looked at her taking a deep breath and stepping forward.

"Alright listen up..."

Everyone stopped talking and looked at me.

"This happened to me, and not once has anyone asked me what happened or how I feel about it? So I'm going to ask that you all shut the hell up and listen to me."

Rick looked at me.

"Carol and I went on a run yesterday, I had good intentions, her on the other hand not so much, but she did what she did for love. I can't be completely mad at her for that. I say we let her stay in the group, but you give me a chance to let my feelings out to her. I say you let her and I handle our own problems. If we fight we fight, if we talk we talk, but for now, let her out of the cell and let's get over this."

Daryl came over grabbing my hand pulling me away from the group. When he looked at me I knew he was pissed and I could see the hurt in his eyes.

"What the hell are ya doin?"

"What I think is right, no one deserves to be out there on their own. Hell I was out there alone since the beginning Daryl, she doesn't deserve this."

"She tried to kill ya, if it were up to me a lot worse would happen to her than just being kicked out of the group."

I shook my head at him walking away and heading back to the group, I looked at Rick.

"Let her go Rick, let her and I handle this."

He stood up and unlocked Carol's cell, I walked over to her looking her in the eyes.

"Don't make me regret this, you pull anything else to try and break Daryl and I up, you won't last much longer in this fucked up world do you understand me?"

She nodded her head walking away and going over to Daryl. She looked at him with sad hopeful eyes, he looked at her and shook his head.

"She's too nice, if it were up to me, you'd be on ya own."