Crossbow and Knives

The woods.

Crossbow and Knives traveled about a half of a mile in the woods. They had a walkie talkie with them in case they needed to send a message to Carol, but they had it turned off for now. They wouldn't want to risk scaring off food and calling for the dead to become food. They were smarter than that. They knew how to survive. Alone or if it ever happened, together. Like now. There was just something about them that showed that. It could just be Daryl's skills with his crossbow and Nicole with her knives. Only steps between them could be heard. There was no sign of deer prints, no birds chirping in the trees. There didn't seem to be anything in the woods... until.

A cabin was seen in the distance. The two cautiously hurried to it and checked around the cabin. It didn't look like it had been touched since everything started. But you never know. They two got up to the front door and Daryl knocked on the door. His ear pressed to the door listening for any growls. Nicole peaked into the home through a window looking for any moment. Neither had any replies. Daryl turned the knob to find it locked and soon went into position to break open the door. Nicole gestured for him to wait as she looked around for any place a hidden key would be. Then having no luck herself she took out her hidden and smallest knife out and stuck it into the lock. Moving her knife around before hearing the door unlock.

"Ta-da." She said with a playful smirk as she looked at Daryl but his facial replied wasn't exactly playful. It was sadden and serious. She opened the door and went in first, Daryl right behind her. He closed the door behind them and they started to look around. "You get the kitchen, I'll look through the rooms." Knives told Crossbow and he nodded in agreement.

Parting ways in the small one level cabin, Daryl headed right into the kitchen. A layer of dust present and obvious on the counters and dining room table in the room next to the kitchen. He looked through over the counter cabinets and found cups, plates, bowls, various spices and seasonings with some boxes of tea. 'Carol might like theses.' He thought to himself as he grabbed the few boxes of tea and setting them on the counter. Daryl then looked through the pantry and found some food. There wasn't much. Two cans of peaches, a can of pineapples, can of pears, three cans of tuna, five or so cans of different soups, two boxes of instant mashed potatoes and a box of whole wheat cereal. It was at least something. He took everything out of the pantry and set it on the counter.

Meanwhile Nicole went through the bedrooms one after another. There were only three rooms and one was a bathroom. Going into the first room she found mostly bedding, nicknack's and a mounted talking fish. Then heading into the bathroom she looked through the medicine cabinet then some under the sink cabinets. In the medicine cabinet she only found some boxed soap bars and an old toothbrush and toothpaste. Nicole only took the soap bar boxes out. Under the sink she found a cubby with some medical warp and bandage wrap. Something she actually needed right now. She hadn't changed her wrap since leaving the hospital. She never found the time or had the needed supplies. Pulling off her black tank top she revealed her abdomen wound and the twenty four notable scars on her back. Undoing the wrap, her scarred back turned towards the bedroom.

Daryl headed to the bedrooms to check on Nicole and tell her what he found. Stepping into the room he quickly stopped moving as he saw Nicole's bare scarred back. He stepped back and got out of sight but peaked to study Nicole as she worked on cleaning her abdomen wound.

Flinching at the hand sanitizer; Nicole put on her wound she used a towel that was there to help clean the wound. Using her wounded left hand to grip the counter. Directing to pain into a tense hand. Soon she putted a pad of cotton over the wound and wrapped it. She looked at herself in the mirror for a moment before walking into the room she was previously in, still shirtless.

As Daryl saw Nicole turn to look at herself in the mirror he hurried into the living room of the cabin in deep thought. 'She has them too.'

Nicole looked through the closet of the cabin for a better shirt than her tank top that had been starting to wear out. She was wearing it even before Terminus. Looking through the closet she pulled shirts out for men and tossed them on the single person bed in the room. Once pulling out about fifteen of the shirts she turned to look at them. There was a blue and black plaid shirt that she put to the side then grabbed a t-shirt with a Nirvana logo on it. It kinda made her proud since she's a Buddhist. She grabbed the plaid shirt and walked out of the room to find Daryl standing there in the living room. "Hey there crossbow." She nicknamed him and smiled.

Daryl just stood there in thought until Nicole came up behind him and spoke. Jumping slightly he turned to her and looked at her new shirt and the one she's holding. Giving her a mixed confused and displeased look at the nickname. "Why ya' holdin' a shirt?" He asked her.

"It's a gift for you! I found it in the closet, same with this shirt." She said and held out the plaid shirt to him.

He blankly stared at her before declining by heading into the kitchen.

Nicole stood there for a moment before quickly lowering her arms. She wrapped the plaid shirt around her waist prior to following him into the kitchen. Seeing the cans of food, the smile on her face lingered. "You found all this?" She asked.

"Mhm." Daryl simply nodded.

"We're gonna need a baaaaaaag." As she elongated the 'a' she looked around the kitchen for a bag. Which there looked like to be none. "I found a camping backpack in the bedroom I was in." She ran back to the room and to the closet, pulling out a camping backpack that had an old sleeping back in it. Walking back to the kitchen she forcefully pulled out the sleeping bag and tossed it to the floor. "I found it." She said looking down at the bag then looking up to see no one there. "D-Daryl?"

|| WHERE DID HE GO? IS THE SHIRT ACTUALLY WHITE AND GOLD? WILL DARYL EVER ASK ABOUT THE SCARS? Until the next episode of [Inserts mega anime title screen and sounds like the dude from Total Drama Island.] The. Walking. Dead!