Two Opposites | Daryl Dixon

Chapter 47: Terminus

When Alexis woke she realized that she was laying against the car. Rick sat beside her, blood all over his face from the night before. Daryl walked up to the two dumping water on a towel. "We should save that for drinking." Rick said.

"Nah, you can't see yourself, he can." Daryl explained talking about Carl, he handed him the towel and sat down beside the man. "I didn't know what they were."

"How'd you wind up with them?" Rick asked.

"I was with Beth and Lexa, we all got out together. I was with them for a while." Daryl paused, looking at Alexis and then at the ground. Alexis held her breath waiting for the bad news to come.

"Are they dead?" Rick asked the question that Alexis was wondering.

"They're just gone. After that, that's when they found me. I mean I knew they were bad, but they had a code. It was simple.. stupid, but it was something. It was enough." Daryl explained, trying to say they aren't dead but they are not with him anymore, they must have gotten separated. Alexis felt tears pricking from her eyes not knowing if her friend was okay.

"And you were alone." Rick muttered.

Daryl nodded, "They said that they were looking for some guy. Last night they said they spotted 'em. I was hanging back, I was gonna leave, but I stayed. That's when I saw it was you guys, right when you saw me. I didn't know what they could do."

"It's not on you Daryl. It's not on you. You being back here with us now.. that's everything." Rick paused, "You're my brother."

Alexis smiled at Daryl's reaction, he seemed so shocked yet so relieved at the same time. "Hey, what you did last night. Anybody would have done that."

"No not that." Rick said, cutting of Daryl.

"Something happened, that ain't you."

Rick once again cut him off. "Daryl you saw what I did to Tyreese, it ain't all of it but that's me. That's why I'm here now, that's why Carl is. I want to keep him safe, that's all that matters." Rick explained.

The men stood silent for a minute until they noticed Alexis was awake. Alexis awkwardly smiled before standing up and heading for her stuff. She slowly reached into her bag and took out her heavier jacket, when she took it out something fell out of her bag and slid under the car. "Shit." she muttered, putting her bag down and getting onto the ground, laying on the cold road floor. Alexis couldn't see what she dropped so she rubbed her hand around until she felt something cold hit her hand, she quickly grabbed it tight resulting her to winch in pain when she felt something sharp hit her hand. "OW! shit. shit. shit. shit. SHIT!" she yelled, pulling her hand back out.

Daryl came running around the car and noticed Alexis's bloody hand, "What the hell happened?"

"I think my knife fell out of my bag, I went to grab it not knowing it was my knife and I stabbed myself." Alexis explained, pressing down on the cut.

"Come here." He ordered, taking her hand and slowly pressing a rag down on it.

"Is that clean?" Alexis smirked, making him look up at her with a slight smile.

"Shut up." He muttered, wrapping her hand with one of the bandages from her bag.

"Thank you." Alexis smiled, looking up at him. A sudden realization about Samantha hit her and she gasped, "Oh Daryl I need to tell you-"

"Alright guys, let's head out. We need to get back on the tracks." Rick ordered.

"Tell me later?" Daryl asked.

"It's important, it's about Samantha." Alexis explained.

"My sister?" Daryl asked.

Alexis nodded, "She's alive Daryl, she saved me and Ethan. She was with us for a bit but walkers split us up. We were gonna meet up at Terminus."