Breathe Princess (Daryl Dixon Love Story)

Chapter Twenty Two

When we'd gotten back from our little walk in the woods, I helped Daryl move our tent and things further away from the group.

I hadn't even thought about how he felt when Sophia had walked out of the barn. This was his heart that was hurting and here he was looking after me; as normal.
Now, Daryl wouldn't like to admit it to anyone, but he was attached to the rest of the group and obviously he was attached to me.

He had been injured whilst running out looking for Sophia, this little girl that was walking around had a small place in his heart and he was hurting almost as much as Carol was yet here I was, running out to the woods because of walkers. I hadn't even lost anything.

I didn't know how to make him feel better, I was so awful at doing things like that, but knowing Daryl, he wouldn't let me do anything.

Rick and Glenn had run after Herschel who had disappeared into town apparently, after his family had walked out of the barn and been shot. Beth? She wasn't doing so good. She was in her room being watched over by Maggie and Lori, having gone into shock after her Mom had walked out. My heart went out to her, it really did.

Speaking of Lori, I could hear her speaking to Daryl outside of the tent that I was currently attempting to organise. I swear, Daryl would never be able to find anything in here if it wasn't for me organising.

"Your bitch went window shoppin', you want him? Fetch him yourself, I got better things to do." Daryl spat, I knew why he was doing it, as much as he cared he didn't want to lose anyone else and I was with him on that one. I didn't want to lose the people that I had come to love, but then again; they were out there and here we were doing nothing about it.

"Daryl, you can't just let them go out on their own." I stood out of the tent, looking at both Daryl and Lori.

"What's the matter with you Daryl? Why would you be so selfish?" He was anything but selfish. Daryl was the most selfless person I'd met when this whole world went to shit and this is the thanks he was getting for it? I stood there and crossed my arms as they argued, not really wanting to get involved in their pissing contest.

"Selfish? Listen here Olive Oyl, I was out there looking for that girl every single day! I took an arrow and a bullet in the process so don't talk to me about getting' my hands dirty, you want the idiots, go yourself 'cause I'm done lookin' for people." Daryl sat back down, sharpening some stick I assumed he was going to turn into an arrow.

"Annora?" Lori turned to me and Daryl's head shot up.

"She ain't goin' nowhere, I ain't losin' her as well." Daryl defended for me but I tried to stand my ground. I was glad that he was sticking up for me and we both knew all too well that I wasn't going to be going anywhere. I can't even fire a gun, how the hell was I meant to go out looking for Rick and Glenn. I mean I knew they could handle themselves in this kind of world, but Lori was worried and if it was Daryl, I'd probably be shitting myself.

"And what if I want to go help?"

"No Annora, you ain't goin'." He glared at me and I looked back at Lori, sending her a quiet apology and sighed as she turned away.

"Daryl, if I wanted to go, I could go. I'm fast?" It was true, I was. I mean like I said I'm not exactly good at using a weapon, but I can run.

"Because, I've lost too many people, you can't kill walkers and I ain't gonna sit around here worrin' about your ass just 'cause you wanna go on some stupid man hunt to bring them back."

"I could still help." I shook my head and walked off to the farm house, completely ignoring him as he called after me. I can kill walkers, I'm just not very good at it.

I spent all of my time in the house. I didn't want to go back out there to Daryl, even after a short spell of cooling down. I didn't like the fact that he thought he could control me. Like I said, I'm not the best, but he can't control what I do.