Muted // A Daryl Dixon Fanfiction

•Chapter One Hundred & Forty Four•

M U T E D

Season 10

Daryl's Point of View:
We come to a dead end of the mineshaft, lookin around.

"Why're we standing around looking at it?" Magna asks. Connie looks at Magna.

"We gotta be very careful. We take out the wrong piece, this whole thing is gonna collapse." Kelly translate for everyone. I walk further into the dead end and see sunlight comin in from a hole. I look up and around the breakthrough, seein that maybe we can finally get outta here.

"Alright, find somethin to dig with." I tell everyone. I look at B and see her smilin at me. I felt a sense of relief to see her smilin again. I took that as maybe she was doin better now that we're just ways away from the sunlight- from getting the hell outta here. As Jerry, Aaron and I began removing the large pieces, I hear Kelly behind me.

"Hey, check this out." I turn back and see her holdin onto a dynamite stick in her hand. "Somebody left this crate of dynamite." She smirks, knowing where he mind is leadin to. But with what Connie pointed out, pullin out the wrong piece could make this place collapse. Usin dynamite, that'll just kill ourselves.

"Yeah, okay, that's really cool." Jerry says. "But maybe somebody left it there because is obviously insanely dangerous. That things sweatier than I am. I need you to put it back. Very carefully." Kelly walks back to the crate and carefully placed it back in the crate before covering it with the clothe.

I yank down on some roots and large pieces surrounding the hole fall. I block my eyes from the flying dirt and dust before looking up at the hole that is now bigger.

"Oh! Come on. Let's go." I say. Kelly is the first to go. She climbs up the hole and peaks her head out. She doesn't fit through yet.

"Just a little more!" She shouts from outside.

"Okay, let's do this." Jerry says. I turn around to continue on, but find Carol gone.

"Where's Carol?" I ask. I pull away from the others and run off to go find her. I back tracked all the way to the hole we came from and find Carol hangin on the side of the wall. I drop to the edge and held my hand out for her.

"Take my hand. Come on." I softly tell her. Carol looks up at me and reaches for my hand. I held on her hand tight and pulled her up.

"What the hell are you doin?" I ask her.

"We can take out half her horde from here." She says breathlessly. I knew she must've had a dynamite in her hand to kill 'em. There's another dynamite that shows she took some.

"You're gonna get yourself killed." I tell her. Carol's body tensed as tears began rollin down her cheeks and her voice breaks.

"She killed my boy." She sobs.

"I know." I say softly. "But you gotta come back with me. Please. Come on." I grab her hand and carefully guided her from the edge of the cliff. A loud boom fills our ears and the ground shakes. I pull Carol from the cliff and we hurry our way back to the others. Smoke and dust fill the area and I see B and Connie comin our way. Connie helps Carol walk faster and B holds me up on my feet. I can see Jerry right at the exit, holdin up a large, thick wood pillar. Everyone else had already escaped out of the hole, Jerry held on for the rest of us.