Their Innocent Baby Girl (The Walking Dead)

The unexpected

Rick's POV

We came to a halt on the train tracks and began walking. We arrived to the location where the firearms and Merle are located. I debated whether we should get guns first or Merle first. But, being Daryl, he screamed down my throat. As a result, I turned to Glenn for his thoughts. We're going to grab Merle first, then the firearms, like Glenn said, so that's where we're headed now. We dashed up the steps to the door where T-dog chained up. Daryl yelled Merle's name. Merle was nowhere to be seen when we arrived, save for his cut off hand. Daryl calmed down enough to pick up the severed hand from the floor and wrap it in a bandana before placing it in Glenn's bag. Looking for Merle by walking around the building. He cauterised his stump to block the bleeding when we arrived in the room. Daryl went to the window only to see that he had fled the building. Daryl went on the defensive, accusing us all of abandoning his brother on the roof.

"I'm gonna get em." Daryl then goes to say. He's attempting to leave the conversation. I went out of my way to stop him by extending my hand.

"Hands off me." Daryl yells at me.

"You can't stop me."

"I don't blame you. His family, I get that I went though hell to find mine. I know exactly how you feel. He can't get far with that injury, we could help check a few blocks around. But only if we keep a level head." I went and said to him.

"I can do that." He told us.

We're all huddled together, devising a strategy for obtaining the weapons necessary to reclaim Merle. Glenn is circling the locations where wee need to be. Glenn's plan was to go on his own because it would be quicker and wouldn't draw attention to us as much as going in a group would.

" Hay kid, what you do before all this?" Daryl wondered.

"Delivered pizzas. Why?" Glenn then went on to say.

Daryl's POV

We descended the ladder and took our positions.

" You got some balls for a China man." I said to him. He turned around and said.

" I'm Korean."

Then he went to fetch the firearms, and then we're on our way to collect my brother. I'm waiting for Glenn to return, but I can hear something approaching in the distance. I get up and prepare to shoot.

"Whoa, don't shoot me. What do you want?" Some guy said.

"Looking for my brother his hurt real bad, you seen him?" I stated. The man begins to yell something in a foreign tongue.

" Shut up, you'r going to bring the geeks on us. Answer me?"

We returned to the building and attempted to interrogate him, but he remained motionless. So I snatched Merle's hand from the bag and hurled it at the kid. He screamed like a small child. When I was about to charge at him, Rick fucked up and stopped me.

"The men you where with took our friend. All we want to do is talk to them, see if we can work something out." Rick told the kid.

Time skip

"I see my gun's but they're not all in the bag." This dushbag said to us.

"That's because they're not yours." We untied the kid and returned him to his gang, allowing Glenn to leave the shithole with us.

"You have your man. I want mine." Rick started. We all got our weapons out, ready to blow this building up, when an elderly lady appeared out of nowhere. She went to show us Glenn was with some guy after she told us. Glenn, thankfully, was alive. We discovered we were at a nursing home for the elderly. We only had half of our guns when we left, and now we're on our way to the truck.We arrived at the area where we had parked the truck, but it was not there. We all assumed Merle had taken it. We have to now return to our camp on foot.

Idalia's POV

We were all sitting around the campfire, chatting. I sat close to Carl and Sophia as they chatted. Then Amy started shouting that walkers were approaching us. People were nervously running around. I became too afraid and rushed into the woods, where I attempted to claim the tallest tree I could see and wait for Rick to come and rescue me. I could hear Rick calling out to me, but I was too afraid to answer. Just in case the walkers show up and cause me harm. I could hear Daryl yelling my name and see him nearing the tree where I was hiding. Daryl tried hard to convince me to come down, but I refused. I couldn't because I was too afraid. To get to Daryl, I wanted to be a big girl and climb down the tree. So I breathed deeply and began to come down. I couldn't let go of Daryl once I was in his grasp.
Looking back at Daryl. He wiped my tears as Daryl holds me and rocks me. I sniffle as my sobs started to stop and lean my head against Daryl's neck.

"Can I sweep wit you Daow?" I ask him as I start to be in my head space.

"You can if you want to flower." He says. I smile widely after he said yes. 

We returned to camp. Rick noticed us and hurried over to us. Daryl advised Rick that I would be spending the night in his tent. We walked to his tent, where he tucked my up and kissed my forehead goodnight.

"Goodnight, flower." I heard Daryl say. I returned a soft whisper.

When I got out of the tent in the morning, everyone was dragging the walkers closer to the fire they'd build. And the folks we knew are going in the ground.

"A walker got him. A walker got Jim." That's the first thing I hear when I got out of the tent. All of the men cover the area around Jim, keeping him from running. When Daryl pulls his top up, he notices a large bit on his stomach. I reach Carl and offer to help him with his task. To drive my attention away from the task a head. 

I got into Daryl's pickup and we're on our way somewhere. Daryl pulls over to the side of the road and exits the pickup. He replied as he turned to face me.

"You stay here okay flower." I simply nod as he walks over to check what's going on. Daryl returns to the vehicle, and joins the others in driving away. Jim was sitting close to a tree when I looked out Daryl's window. I return Daryl's stare. 

"Did Jim become sicker?" I inquired about him. 

"Yes, flower, he become even sicker." Daryl informed me. I was saddened that we had to leave Jim, but it was probably for the best. Rick, Glenn, and Daryl are the lat people I want to become sick.