Twd Fanfic

Dog days

It had been a little while and Koa was settling in.
Glenn and her were becoming very close friends and Maggie and her were just as close.

Rick had gotten himself stuck in come type of community drama that might just be the end of the community and everyone was nervous and a panic went through the community as word of "saviors" and "Negan" roamed.

Koa spent most of her mornings hunting with Daryl where they made small talk but Daryl was short with her, not wanting to tolerate her being there.

"Could you move any damn faster? I'm trying to track."

"Mhm." She replied with the same venom he had, just usually with shorter breath.

Eventually they came across a dear but as Daryl shifted into shooting position Koa pushed his gun down causing him to curse her until he realized the deer had been infected with a bite in its side.

"Poor thing, I should put it down." Koa looked at it pitifully

"Yea? You gon' do that from here after you just shoved my bow down?" Daryl was still mad.

"Oh get over yourself Dixon just sit here and look pretty." Koa sneaked through the bush without a single sound, closely behind the deer she gently threw a rock to the opposite side of the dense wood and as the deer watched in fear, Koa snaked up behind it and slit it's throat.

Daryl's eyes widened and he smiled in shock.

"Where you even learn that." He was jealous in a way but convinced himself he could do it if he tried.

"Places, times." The sarcasm pissed Daryl off and he scoffed.

"Why you like that?" His eyes traced hers.

"Like what? Like you you mean?" She laughed like a mother when their child makes a simple realization.

Daryl got quiet and they headed home.

Daryl usually got infront of Koa and left her early, leaving her in the woods alone for a little while once he knew she knew the way.

Koa heard a cry, she decided to walk towards it hoping to put whatever animal that had been infected or brutally mangled or left down but instead she was met by a slim smooth black dog crying pawing at the ground but when it saw her it immediately growled and snarled.

"What the hell-" before Koa could finish the dog was snapping it's jaws at her barking.

"Woah, shush baby it's okay don't worry I won't hurt you" Koa held her hand out flat but still not close enough for the dog to reach and she noticed the stomach of it, she had been very clearly nursing puppies.

"You're a mama huh? Must be scary in this world." The dog calmed down as she spoke as if she understood the woman.

Koa stepped a little closer and the dogs ears went down, it wasn't aggressive and soon she realized that she was pawing at six puppies, all mixed with some different dog breed.

"Oh, oh no." Koa felt a sharp pain in her chest as she looked at the disgustingly mangled bodies of the chewed on babies, they must have been trying to bark and a walker heard them.

The dog looked at her with sad eyes and Koa could feel the mother's grief.

"You poor girl I-" Koa and the dog seemed caught off guard as they heard another small squeak.
One of the puppies must have been alive!

Koa almost ran to the puppies when the dog snarled but quickly stopped as Koa picked up the last remaining puppy inspecting it and finding no bites and no harm to it.
The walker must have found another thing to gnaw on and left the poor things.

Koa held the small baby in her hands, the mother watching her nervously when it walked over to them, seemingly in pain.

"What's wrong mama? You got something in your paws or what?" Her words began to tremble as a small piece of the mother's flesh was missing, it had been bitten.

Koa felt tears in her eyes.
There was so much death in this poor dogs life.

"I'm so sorry." Koa pulled the small gun out of her holster but she just couldn't do it she had always had a soft spot for dogs.

The dog whimpered as the woman tried to inspect the wound praying that maybe it wasn't a walker maybe it just took a fall or anything she pleaded in her own mind but she knew it was a bite more now.

She took the gun fully out of the holster and clicked it, gently rubbing the dogs ears and placing the baby, that looked no more than a few weeks old behind the log and covering it with her bag attempting to muffle the noise of the shot.

With a thump the dog had fallen to the ground and the sound of the gun had sent waves through the woods and Koa couldn't help but to collapse and remove the cloth from the puppy, holding it close to her as it cried with her.

*

"What the hell was that!" Daryl was talking to Carol when they greeted eachother but we're interrupted by a gunshot.

"Where's Koa Daryl?" Maggie said running out also hearing it faintly.

"I- I don't-" Daryl choked on his own words as he looked back into the woods.

"That couldn't have been Koa's gun, she doesn't shoot walkers unless she's in a hoard and it was only one shot." Glenn looked around panicked, the shit had rang throughout Alexandria and most residents had gone to the gate.

"I'll go find her just-" Daryl looked guilty and anxious, he was scared that if she had been killed or eaten it would be his fault for leaving her and he soon realized how cold it was that he just left her everytime.

Daryl ran into the woods, welding his crossbow and Maggie tried to follow but Glenn stopped her.