Rock Bottom (Daryl Dixon/ TWD)

Chapter 8

Chapter 8

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We all sat around the struggling fire, the fire illuminating the faces of my friends.

"Tomorrow we'll clear out a cell block for us to stay in." Rick said glances at us.

No one said anything, they just nodded. "How about a song Beth?" Hershel said smiling to the now blushing girl. You could see I'm Carl's eyes that he liked her.

"No dad, no one wants to here" she said firmly.

"How about...the parting glass?" Hershel said ignoring her last comment

"Why not?" Glenn asks, holding Maggie's hand in his.

"Only if Piper does it with me" she's aid smirking at me. A few weeks back I had told her when I was her age, how I loved to sing and dance around.

"Common' Piper, please?" Daryl said mugging my shoulder.

I huffed and shook my head at Beth, she was going to pay one day. "You start, I'll join in"

I said, giving in to her doe eyes.

"Of all the money that e'er I had

I've spent it in good company

And all the harm that e'er I've done

Alas it was to none but me

And all I've done for want of wit

To memory now I can't recall

So fill to me the parting glass

Good night and joy be with you all "

Beth's singing was soft, while mine was silky.

"Of all the comrades that e'er I had

They are sorry for my going away

And all the sweethearts that e'er I had

They would wish me one more day to stay

But since it falls unto my lord

That I should rise and you should not

I'll gently rise and I'll softly call

Good night and joy be with you all

A man may drink and not be drunk

A man may fight and not be slain

A man may court a pretty girl

And perhaps be welcomed back again

But since it has so ordered been

By a time to rise and a time to fall

Come fill to me the parting glass

Goodnight and joy be with you all

Goodnight and joy be with you all"

We finished in tune, I would say that we were pretty food.

Daryl looked at me shocked, "where'd that come from? Sweetheart" he said smiling at me.

"I used to sing, before shit hit the fan" I said staring at the sparks that shot from the flames.

"Good lord, she swore" Glenn teased. I rolled my eye at him.

"It's getting late, we need rest if we want to deal with those walkers tomorrow" Rick said. He had a point.

Daryl wrapped his arms around me and pulled me down into the grass. I cuddled myself into his chest for warmth and wrapped my legs around his waist. His arms wrapped around my waist and his face buried itself in my hair. This is usually how things went.