Battle Scars

Chapter 3// Shit yes

The premier party was being held at someone's home. Katherine had forgotten the name of the man who owned it though, apparently it was one of Michaels good friends.

As they arrived at the house, they walked up the front porch and Michael rang the door bell.

When the man didn't answer in the first 5 seconds, Michael then proceeded to 'karate kick' the door bell repeatedly; earning a chuckle from Katherine. "What?" He asks innocently while still tapping the door bell with his foot.

Katherine smiles and shakes her head. The man finally opened the door and greeted Michael with a brotherly hug.

"Whose this pretty lady?" He asks when he notices Katherine hidden behind Michael. Katherine shyly smiles and gives the man a small wave.

"Justin this is Kat, she's the girl I was telling you about the other night" Michael introduces the two and Katherine shakes Justin's hand and greets him with a friendly 'hello'.

"Nice to finally meet you Katherine, Michael talks a great deal about you" Justin informs her. Katherine laughs lightly and feels her cheeks heat up slightly.

"Well, lets go get some drinks!" Justin exclaims, throwing his hands in the air. This action cause Katherine to flinch slightly, all though Justin didnt notice, Michael did. He placed his hand on her shoulder and gave her an assuring squeeze.

"Shit yes!" Michael cheers. 'Shit yes' was like his saying, he said it often too, Katherine smiled at the words, it had been a long while since she had heard him say those two words.

Justin leads the two into the halfway filled house. They were not early and they were not late. "Is Reedus here?" Michael asks as he searches the house for one of his co workers.

"Yes actually, he showed up on time, hes by the pool with a few other of your co workers" Justin informs Michael and hands both him and Katherine drinks.

'Thank you" Katherine sheepishly says, keeping her head bowed.

"No problem sweetheart"

"come on, I want you to meet some people" Michael tells Katherine and very lightly grabs her hand and leads her to the pool area, Katherine hesitantly lets him lead her.

"Are you sure they'll like me?" her fragile voice asks nervously.

Michael chuckles as he continues to lead her to a specific individual. Yes, he wanted her to meet them all but, there was one person he knew she needed to meet. He knew this person wanted to meet her. Infact, ever since Michael had told him about her, he has been begging him to introduce Katherine. "Yes, now i want you to meet someone special" he urges, pushing the petite woman forward

Katherine watched and followed along as Michael drug her over to a man who had sandy brown hair and was fit. "Kat... this is Norman, Norman Reedus, Norman, this is Katherine"

Katherine shyly looked up into the mans eyes. She imediatley noticed his beautiful sea blue eyes, they gave her shivers, his eyes were alost identical to Pete's. "Hey" Norman cheers and Katherine holds her hand out for him to shake.

Norman takes her hand and pulls her to him, giving her a friendly hug. Katherine again flinches but thankfully nobody noticed. "Hi" she squeaks into hs shoulder.

He chuckles deeply and Katherine pulls away. Norman let's her but keeps her in my arms. "I've heard a lot about you" he says studying her features.

He loves how her dark brown hair cascades down the side of her face and rests on her shoulder. Her cheeks are a cute shade of pink. He wishes he could see her eyes, he bets they're beautiful but her shades are covering them.

"Hope it's all good" Katherine jokes and smiles lightly.

"It's very good" Norman says and winks. "Damn Rooker, you're right she's very beautiful" he adds and smiles at Katherine.

"Yeah, but not as beautiful as me" Michael jokes and rests his arm across Katherine's shoulder.

Katherine blushes furiously and she lowers her head, a small ghost smile forming on her lips.

Norman smiles at the beautiful woman in front of him. His eyes travel to her hand and his smile drops when he notices a ring rested upon her ring finger. "You're married?" he asks, trying to hide the disappointment in his voice.

Katherine's head lifts and looks at Norman, then back down to her hand. "Oh uh.. yeah sorta" she says.

"Sorta?"

"She won't be for long.. ain't that right sweetheart?" Michael asks; his arm still wrapped around her shoulders.

Katherine swallows a lump that had formed in her throat. The temperature had felt like it increased a few degrees to her. "I.. I.. uh.. something like that" she fumbles with her words and mentally slaps herself. 'Great.. make a fool of yourself already' she says to herself.

"Oh.. I'm sorry" Norman sincerely apologizes.

"Don't be.. he's a huge dickhead, asshole doesn't deserve a bucket of water if he was on fire" Michael says; his blood pressure rising at the thought of Pete beating and harassing his Katherine.

Norman nods; sorta understanding where Michaels getting at.

"Well, I'm out of drink.. I'll be back" Michael says and starts to walk away.

"Hey Rooker!" Norman calls.

Michael turns around and raised his eyebrows, waiting for Norman to continue. "Get me some Jack and Coke!"

"Me too!" Katherine says and smiles, finally deciding to let loose for the night.

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A/n: so I just wanted to say that this story is taken place around S1 of twd... so Norman still has his short sandy brown hair :)

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