no time to die | daryl dixon

004 | reunion.

once everyone was done yelling over one another they heard a truck approaching them, amy ran and hugged andrea happily while morales reunited with his family. lori and carl walked away, she had noticed the tears falling from the young boys eyes which had made her feel nothing but pity for him and lori with what they were going through.

"i wish i had a dad." stella said sadly, lillian crouched down to look at her daughter who's eyes we're starting to water "hunny, listen to me when i tell you, we don't need a man in our life, okay? we've got this." she said while brushing the hair out of stella's face. "hey, helicopter boy! come say hello." morales said towards carl, making everyone look towards who was coming out of the drivers side of the truck.

"dad! dad!" carl yelled while running into the unknown man's arms while lori chased after him. it was a happy sight to see the reunion of the grimes family but she also noticed the sad look on shane's face, which made lillian wonder if something was going on between lori and shane. she had missed what life was like before, she missed ordering takeout because she hadn't felt like cooking, she missed the movie nights on the couch with stella she missed everything before the apocalypse.

but she liked being outdoors, she would always take stella camping before work got in the way, and keeping up with bills, though she liked sitting around the fire, listening to rick grimes explain waking up from the coma with stella fast asleep in her arms. ed had thrown another log of wood into the fire which he knew was against the rules "hey, ed, you wanna rethink that log?" shane asked "it's cold, man." ed replied "the cold don't change the rules, does it?" shane said once again.

"keep our fires low, just embers so we can't be seen from a distance, right?" shane continued "i said it's cold. you should mind your own business for once." ed said, making shane get up and walk over to them. shane had started talking quieter meaning lillian couldn't hear him, everyone in the group knew that ed was an abusive asshole and lillian couldn't wait for the day carol would leave him. she noticed carol get up and pull the log out of the fire making shane step on it to put it out.

"have you given any thought to daryl dixon? he won't be happy to hear his brother was left behind." dale said "ill tell him. i dropped the key. it's on me." t-dog replied "i cuffed him. that makes it mine." rick said "are you seriously making murder into a competition?" lillian asked looking between rick and t-dog. "i don't mean to bring race into this, but it might sound better coming from a white guy." glenn said "i did what i did. hell if i'm gonna hide from him." t-dog said "we could lie" amy pointed out.

"or tell the truth" lillian said "merle was out of control. something had to be done or he'd have gotten us killed. your husband did what was necessary." andrea continued off of what lillian had said. lillian got up and carried stella to the tent and laid her down in the cot, tucking her into bed and placing a kiss on her head before getting ready for bed herself.

she silently cried, she didn't mean to but she did, she thought of losing stella, and that's what scared her the most, she don't know what she would do without her daughter, she probably still would've been going down the wrong path, with her ex and the drugs, the drinking, she probably would've been dead by now, but stella had saved her, saved her from everything. she would do anything for her daughter, no doubt about it.