Daddy?

Gone... But Never Forgotten

¤Megan's POV¤

After out little party, we went to find some shelter. Dad said that there was an old barn near by so we went there. It started storming really bad at one point to where I couldn't sleep, so I got up and went over to my dad. He's just sitting there, picking at something on his hand. "Dad?" I softly pull his hand away from his other. He tenses up and tries to pull away. "What is going on with you?" I angrily ask. He says nothing. He just sits there, looking at his shoes. "Look at me." I softly say. He doesn't look up. "Damn it. Dad look at me!" I yell at him. I get a few looks and quietly apologize. Kneeling down, I grab his chen and make him look at me. His eyes are dead, but also crazed. It's like he has a wild animal trapped inside of him. But, in those eyes, I can see that he had lost hope. Hope for me. I slowly let go of his face as a tear runs down my face. "Dad.... Don't look like that. I'm here. I'm not gone anymore. Please dad." I cry, falling back on my butt. He says nothing, just looks at me. It's a look unlike I have ever seen him give me. It's a look of pain and anger with guilty and sort of happiness. I look away from him, not being able to handle all of his emotions. I hear a banging noise and look up at Sasha who trying to keep the door shut. Dad gets up, as do I, and we walk over to help her. Slowly, more and more of the group come to help. After a long battle with the door, we go back to our spots. I lay awake, all night. Not being able to sleep sucks. I just have so much on my mind right now. My dad basically acts like I don't live on the same spiritual plane as him, so that's another thing for me to think about.
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I wake up after finally going to sleep late last night. There is some stranger trying to convince Rick to come some place. "Rick. Who's that?" I yawn. "I'm Aaron. Nice to meet you. I would shake your hand, but I'm kind of tied up." he chuckled. I laughed at the irony of what he said and walked over to him. "Don't. We can't trust him." Rick stepped towards us. "I told you. I want to help you. Not hurt you." he pleaded. Rick was about to say something when Judith started to cry. "She's hungry. Is that apple sauce?" I walk to the table it was on, picking it up. "We don't know if it's poisoned." Rick harshly said. "I told you, if I was going to harm you in any way, I would have already-" "You taste it. If it's poisoned, you will die." Rick cut him off. "But. I hate apples." Aaron trailed off. "Eat it." Rick put the spoon to Aarons mouth. "Give me the damn thing." I snatch the spoon from Rich. "Don't." Rick looked at me, angerd by my actions. "Rick, don't worry. Okay?" I lock my eyes with his, looking at him in a certain way, saying that it's all going to be okay. "I can't be responsible. I won't be." he said. "Just let me eat it." Aaron butted in. I looked from him to the spoon before walking over to him. I sat down in front of Aaron and put the spoon up to his mouth. "Hold on." I say, putting my finger into the sauce, getting some. "W-what are you doing?" He asked. "If Ricks forcing you to try it, I don't want you to be alone. I hate the damn stuff too." I laugh, making him chuckle. "One, two, three." I put the apple sauce in my mouth. "How does it taste?" Rick asks, leaning down. "It's not poisoned. But I am never eating that shit again." I laught again. Rick takes the spoon and eats some too, then, gives Judith some. "See. I'm not here to harm you." just as Aaron says that, the rest of the group walks in. They starr talking about some person that was with Aaron. "Do yoy want me to cut these zip ties ofd of you?" I whisper to him. "I don't think Rick would like that." he looks up at me. "I don't give a shit." I go behind him, cutting the ties. "What the hell you think your doin'?!" my dad storms over. "What the fuck does it matter to you?" I snap at him. "You're my Fuckin' kid. I don't want this bastard rapin' you or some shit." he barked. "What?! Seriously dad?! You're such a fucking idiot!" I fet in his face. "If it helps. I'm gay." Aaron butted in. Dad glared past me, but went back to glaring at me. "That won't stop ya'." he snarled. Something snapped in me. I reached up and slapped my dad. He looked shocked, but quickly recovered, grabbing me by the collar. "Let go of me you bastard!" I starr clawing at him. "Stop!" Carol, along with others. He tries holding me down, only making me lash out more. "Stop." my dad mumbled, trying to hold me down. Finally, I feel a pair of arms wrap around me from the back, then they pull me away. I look up to see that it's Carl. I don't know why, but I sart to sob, uncontrollably. "Shh. It's going to be okay." he said, soothing me. "I think its time to go." Gleen breaks up all the drama. People agree and we follow Aaron to a car in the middle of the road. Me, Rick, Carl, And gleen road in the same car, and everyone else got in an RV. "I'm so glad you guys decided to come. You won't regret it." Aaron enthused. Rick said nothing, he just kept driveing. "Look at these pictures." Aaron reached into a bag and pulled out some pictures. "Wow. This is amazing." I marvel. Suddenly, we hit a walker. "Hold on!" Gleen yells. I grab Carl and hold onto him. "I love you." I say to him as we hit another walker. "I love you." he says, grabbing my face and kissing me. I can feel the car jerking around and start to cry, Carl still kissing me. "Hey. It's going to be okay." he says pulling away. He wipes away some of my tears and kisses me again. I feel the car spin out of control and Carl grabs me protecting me from any damage. When the car stops, I look up and see it's covered in blood. Aaron starts freaking out, telling Rick to let him out. He finally gets out and runs into the middle of the road. Carl and I get out along with Gleen and Rick. "Look!" I poiny to something red shooting up into the sky. Aaron freaks out again and takes off running towards it. "Where the hell are you going?!" Gleen yells. "It's over!" Aaron yells back, still rinning, Gleen going after him. Hisses and grows come from behind and I turn to see a huge hurd of walkers coming towards us. "Run!" I yell and we do. We run into the same wooks Aaron and Gkeen run into. We keep running untill we run into a group of walkers, there are at least ten. Carl pushes me behind him, killing some. I didn't hear, but a walker grabbed me from behind. I screamed as it bit my shoulder. Carl turned around, and I saw so many emotions on his face. He shot the walker and rushed to my side. "Y-you're going t-to be o-o-okay." he sobbed. "Carl. We need to help your dad." I grab my knife. "No. You stay here. I will help." he pleaded, still sobbing. "Carl. I'm already bit, it's okay." I force a smile. He pauses for a second before nodding. We finish off the last of the walkers and start to walk on. "Dad." Carl croaked. Rick turned and lookes at Carl then at me. His eyes landed on the bite and he broke down in tears. I smile, putting my other arm around Carl for support. "Come here." Rick sniffled. Carl walked me over to him and Rick picked me up, and carried me in his arms. Carl was silently sobbing, so I reached over the best I could and gave his shoulder a squeeze. He looked up at me with glossy eyes. We hear rustling and Gleen appears with Aaron. Gleen looks at me confused then looks at Rick and Carl before looking back at me. "She got bit." Rick choked out. "No. No. No." Gleen repeated, walking around frantically. "Gleen. Calm down. It's going to be okay." I smile, reassuring him. He looked up at me, biting the tears back. Rick starts walking again, Aaron in front of us. "I know where the flair was shot off. Maybe your people are there." he said, trying to brighten the mood. "I hope so." I smile.
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When we finally make it to a huge building, we see the RV. "Let me down." I tell Rick. "You sure?" he eyed me worried. "Yeah. Carl can help me." I smiled at him. He nodded and set me next to Carl. Carl then put his arm around my waist. "Thanks." I whisper to him, kissing his salty cheek. We walk in and see the whole group. Maggie hugs Gleen, then goes to me. "Oh my god. She's bit." Maggie gasps. "Real suddle Maggie." I say sitting down. Everyone crowds around me, saying goodbye and hugging me. Some saying sorry. The last was my dad. He looked down at me, but I couldn't bring myself to look at him. I felt a pair of strong arms around me and a muffled cry. "I'm sorry. So so sorry." he cried into me. "Shh. It's okay." I tell him, letting a tear slip. He pulls away, pulling me up. Carl came to my side and helped me stand. "Take me some place private. Only you, Rick, and dad." I whisper to him. He nods, shaking with sadness. Rick, Carl, my dad and I walk into a little run right behind some old shelves. "Can me and Carl have a little a lone time?" I ask them. They nod and walk out of the room. Carl starts to cry and I hug him tightly. "I'm going to be okay now Carl. Don't worry." I kiss his forehead before losing my balance and sliding down the wall. Carl rushed to my side and held my hand. I coughed and my lungs felt like they were on fire. Carl puts his hand on my forehead, feeling around. "You're burning up." he lets a tear fall. I close my eyes and feel it hard to open them back up. I look over at Carl and pull hus face to mine, kissing him. I could taste our tears mixing together. It was like a bitter sweet taste. "I love you, so so much Carl Gimes." I kiss him once more. "I love you, Megan Dixon." he kisses my hand. "Calk them back in." I cough. Carl gets up and tells them to come in. "I love you guys. I don't want my death to affect you and how you live out the remainder of your lives. I want you to move on. Especially you Carl. Find someone that makes you happy, someone you can spend the rest of your life with. Promise me you will do that." They all nod and I smile. Carl gets down on his knees in front of me and pulles out his gun, handing it to me. "I don't want to do it." I say. Carl takes the gun and puts it to my temple, laying his forehead on mine. "I love you" he says, then pulls the trigger.

¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡A/n!!!!!!!!!!
So...... That was the last chapter. The chapter has 2016 words (not counting this authors note) so yeah..... Megan Died. If you don't like thus ending, I'm sorry, but thus was the best way I saw fit to end this story. You could always make up your own ending of you want. Well, see you in my next book (The Man With The Crossbow) love you guys xxxxx -Kalista