no time to die | daryl dixon

020 | worry.

lillian walked up the steps of the greene house with stella, showing the young girl the room she had basically grown up in. "woah." stella had said while looking around the room, to the posters on the walls, the record player, the bed, the desk. everything.

"you stayed in here?" stella asked while sitting on the bed "yeah, for awhile." lillian said while standing in the door way. "who was that man?" stella asked. "stay away from him, please." lillian said making stella nod. stella noticed as her mom zoned off, it didn't look normal to stella though, she looked completely frozen before her eyes shut and she fell to the ground. shaking.

stella didn't know what to do but scream and cry, she ran down the stairs and saw daryl on the porch with maggie, glenn, and hershel. "daryl it's my mom she's shaking." stella said while crying, maggie immediately running into the house and up the stairs, the others following.

maggie turned lillian to her side, stella cried into daryl's chest. "is this normal?" the redneck asked "if she hits her head." maggie said while lillian slowly stopped seizing. "did she hit her head?" hershel asked stella who shook her head "is she going to be okay?" glenn asked with worry lacing his voice.

"she should be fine." hershel said while maggie placed lillian's head in her lap, waiting for her to wake up. "i can stay with her, i mean if you want." daryl said nodding to the position maggie and lillian were in, maggie had a slight smirk on her face before nodding. daryl walked ok with t and switched places with maggie. "whenever your sleeping in her lap, she'll always plays with your hair, i've noticed that." daryl said to stella.

"really?" stella asked with a grin on her face, the rest of them deciding to leave the room, "yeah, she loves you a lot." daryl said with a small smile on his face while brushing lillian's hair back. "i think you have a crush on her." stella said making daryl freeze up. "what?" he said quietly, not looking at the young girl but to her mother instead. "the way you look at her, you always have a small smile on your face when you talk to her too." stella said with a smile.

daryl ended up questioning everything, did he have feelings for her? he didn't know. he knew it wouldn't be safe for lillian or stella if he acted on feelings that he wasn't sure he had. daryl didn't think of himself as a good guy, nor a guy who could be a father figure, though when he couldn't sleep he would think about what it would be like sleeping next to lillian, being the reason why she laughed, he thought of keeping her and stella safe.

but he didn't have feelings for her, he knew he didn't.

it took a total of ten minutes for lillian to wake from her comatose like state. when she slowly opened her eyes she was face to face with daryl which she hadn't expected. she went to move to sit up quickly but daryl grabbed ahold of her shoulders lightly "slowly." he whispered causing her to listen to him, she looked at him with furrowed brows as he had a worried look on his face.

"what happened?" she asked while rubbing a hand over her face, stella coming and gently hugging her mom "you had a seizure, are you okay?" daryl asked "yeah, i'm fine, just have a headache." she said with a small smile "what happened?" daryl asked "can you go tell hershel or maggie that i woke up?" lillian said looking at the girl in her arms, she got up and left happy that her mom was okay. "lily, tell me what happened, please?" he asked again making her sigh.

"alex and i were talking about stella and i fell and hit my head on the bookshelf." she said, it was only a partial lie, it wasn't that she didn't trust daryl with the truth it was his reaction that she was scared of, she didn't know how he would react. "lillian." hershel said from the door way "hello." she said smiling up at him while continuing to sit on the floor "how are you feeling?" he asked "i'm okay. it's just a headache." she replied causing the older man to nod and leave the room once again.

"we're going to talk about what we have planned next for searching for sophia soon." daryl said with a sad look washing over his face "okay, ill take some advil and i'll come with." lillian said "no, we're fine, you stay here and rest." daryl said "im not staying here by myself while alex is in this house, i can't do it. im coming with." she said forcefully making daryl sigh and roll his eyes, getting up and leaving the room making her follow behind him.

"you should've seen how worried that man was." maggie said when lillian joined her in the living room. "eh, doesn't seem that worried to me." lillian replied. "he was, i think he still is." maggie said with a smile. "i miss my blonde hair, i think." lillian said out loud making maggie laugh "it's your natural colour, it'll eventually come back when your roots start to grow again." maggie replied making lillian nod.