Caryl One-Shots

A Little Gift

Daryl was kneeling beside a tree in the woods outside of Alexandria, the mix or warmth and coolness in the air. He was fixing up one of the walker traps that's been broken and was replacing it, tying the rope around it to where it can get around a walker. There was a breeze that blew in the air, as it hit Daryl, waving off some of the hair on his face. Daryl at last finished the knot around the trap. Once he sat up, he took this moment to deeply breathe in the air that filled in his senses. He exhaled deeply, as he closed his eyes, the sun shining in his closed lids.

The hunter felt the air for a moment, while he stood there, nothing but the light breeze, the leaves brushing along, dancing along as they did so. His mind is already filled with thoughts and other stuff going on in his mind. Stuff that's happened in the last few things. Emotions he can't understand. Just...a lot has happened so fast he's just trying to process through all of it. The air above him was peaceful. Almost peaceful. It's honestly been so long since he's heard the quiet like this.

But this mood was quickly ruined when Daryl heard rustling in the bushes, followed by a walker along it. Daryl looked behind to see the rotting corpse limping its way towards Daryl, growling in the process. Daryl didn't even bother killing it. He just walks off and leave the creature to do whatever. He jogged a bit to get some distance between him and the walker, and was heading back to Alexandria.

After more jogging, Daryl made it back to Alexandria and almost immediately, Eugene opened it for him and shut it. Daryl thanked him as he began to walk down the familiar streets, and down to his place. The houses that are so familiar to him ever since he and his friends arrived in Alexandria six years ago. Nothing has changed of it then. Nothing has ever changed. It's always been the same. Been the same since all this went to shit.

Daryl continued down the street, whilst being introduced by the neighbors and Judith and R.J. He gave off a wave as he heads towards his place, almost not realizing he was even walking down there.

When at last he made it, he set his stuff down and got everything settled down. He heaved a sigh of relief as he stretched. While doing so, Dog came in to greet him. He wanted and stood up on his hind legs to greet his owner. "Hey boy." Daryl said with a smile on his face, as he pet Dog. Dog jumped back down as he barked. "Yeah I miss you too." Daryl said as he was putting his crossbow down. While he did so, he gets a knock at his door, and immediately he went to open up and saw Maggie standing there. "Hey Maggie." Daryl said, as he puts his arms on the doorway.

"Hey. Have you seen Carol anywhere?" Maggie asked. Daryl shook his head almost immediately. "No. Haven't seen her." "Weird... she's been quiet for a few days." Maggie said, almost concerned. "What do you mean?" Daryl asked.

"Whenever we'd see her and say at least hi to her, she'd just give us a nod. That's it. No 'hello' or 'good morning' or anything like that. It's weird. She's never that quiet." Maggie said, her voice starting to show concern. "Well, what could be wrong with her?" Daryl asked. "I don't know." Maggie shook her head as well. "It's probably nothing and I could just be overreacting, but do you think maybe you could check up on her for me?" Maggie asked, feeling bad that she had to ask Daryl this when she could've done it herself.

Daryl stayed where he was, thinking about it. He and Carol haven't spoken to each other for a while. Now come to think of it, the last three weeks, she has been acting a bit weird. But Daryl just assumes she has her own things to do. It surprised him how he didn't realize it until Maggie came over for this.

At last, Daryl spoke. "Yeah. I will." "Thank you." Maggie said with relief in her. Daryl nods. "Do you know where she could be?" He asked Maggie. "Well, I saw her go to the Watch Tower." Maggie said. "Alright. I'll go." Daryl said, as he shuts the door behind him and makes his way to the Clock Tower.