You and Me (Daryl Dixon x Reader {Ricks Sister})

Chapter 5 - Gone to Shit

The rest of the day kinda blurred by. I didn't do much, but I did help finish laundry. My head was hazy after being punched, my eye had a nasty bruise that I saw when I looked in Shane's mirror.

I didn't even wanna begin to think about Rick's reaction when he saw it. Hell, I didn't even wanna think. My head was pounding. After a while I passed Carol, and stopped her. "Hey.. I'm sorry for earlier today. Are you ok honey? " I asked her gently, she nodded a bit.

"Yeah.. Yeah I'm fine but what about you? He hit you pretty hard. "

"Don't you worry about me Carol, as long as your ok that's all that matters. " I replied, hugging her. "But from now on I won't let him hurt you or Sophia ever again, and Shane won't either. We've got your back. " I whispered to her before pulling away, she nodded and offered a small sad smile.

"Thank you. " she whispered.

I looked to where Jim was, he was digging. Just digging. He's been at it for a few hours now. No one knew why. "Hey, Shane. " I said, walking to him, "what do you think is up with him? "

"Dunno. Bout to find out. " he said, looking at me, "but you, you need to rest. Don't mean to be an ass but you look like shit. " he said before walking away.

I watched him, before turning and walking to Lori, who was watching Amy and Andrea come back, holding some fish.

"Oh my god, what a catch!" I said, prepping the kitchen area so we could start cooking the fish soon while everyone else swooned over the fish. Then Lori took over for me while I cleaned and de-boned the fish.

But once again. A good moment can never just, stay good. Dale called down to us after Amy and Andrea were speaking to us, "I, uh, I don't mean to alarm anyone, but we might have a problem. "

We all followed Shane out as we looked at Jim, who was still digging. Shane confronted him, but something seemed off. Jim didn't seem like himself. He seemed erratic, possibly hostile. Shane tried to get the shovel from him, but to no avail.

"I don't wanna have to take it from you. "

"And if I don't? Then what? Then you're gonna beat my face in, like Ed Peltier, aren't you? " he looked around at the group. "You all saw his face, or what's left of it"

"Jim stop! You didn't see it. He was violent. He was beating his wife, punched me. " I tried to reason

"Well either way it wasn't Shane's place to step in! That's their marriage, not his. "

A bit while after an argument, a small fight broke out. After a while longer, we got Jim tied to a tree trunk where he was under the shade.

"Hey Jim.. You drink some water for me, okay? " I asked lightly, and he agreed.

"Pour some on my head? "

"Sure thing. " I said, "cooling you down? "

"Mhm.. Uhm, how long do you think they will keep me like this? "

I sigh and look at Shane, "I think until Shane thinks your not a threat to yourself or others. You really over heated out there and became really erratic. Like a whole nother person."

He sighed, "yeah.. Sorry if I scared the kids. "

"You had a sunstroke Jim, no one blames you. " Shane said gently.

We all stayed like this for a while, calming down Jim and keeping an eye on him, before continuing with food.

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It's been a few hours since Jim. It's been several hours since the group left on the run. I was getting worried, and I could tell Lori was too. But right now I was trying to not think of that, right now I was trying to enjoy this good ass fish. We were all talking, sharing stories, when Amy got up and started to walk away.

"Hey where are you going? " Andrea asked.

"Had to piss" she said lightly, "god you try to be discreet. " she giggled before walking away. We all continued to laugh and chat before something happened. A scream. Amy.

"MOM! "

"CARL!! "

chaos. That's what the next while was. Chaos. Guns were firing left and right, walkers closing in on everyone.

"SHANE! GET THE WOMEN AND CHILDREN IN THE RV! " I called, firing my gun, when the dreadful sound of it clicking sounded. I abandoned the handgun, picking up my blade and stabbing as many as I could.

It was getting hard to keep up, and right before I could stab another one, an arrow whizzed past my head, piercing it. I looked to my left, the group. They were back with the guns.

"Y/N! CATCH!!" Daryl called as he tossed me a bigger gun. I caught it, and started firing, the dead dropping quickly as everyone shot.

Then it was done. As soon as it started it was done.

Andrea dropped down to Amy, sobbing. "NO! no.. Ohh, no.. " I watched for a moment, before turning. Amy was a good soul. And she was so young. It didn't feel right. It felt like I was dreaming.. A bad, horrible nightmare.

Rick ran up to me, hugged me, then looked at me, I said nothing as I pointed to the RV, and he instantly ran off. Glenn saw me, and walked up to me, just standing there, before I grabbed him and gave him a hug, then pushed him off, "you guys scared the shit out of me! What the hell happened out there?! "

"I got kidnapped, but it's ok. They were harmless, really. Just some people protecting the elderly and got scared, we left them some guns to keep the elderly safe and walked out without injury."

"Well, all that matters is that your safe. " I said, then Daryl caught my eye. He was watching me, before turning away. I did a quick scan. Oh my god.. Merle.. "Hey uhm, Glenn, I'll be back. " I said, and he nodded, going and hugging Dale.

"Daryl..?" I asked softly, my hand on his shoulder. "Was he.. "

"Nah, the asshole cut his own hand off, cauterized it, and stole the van. " he scoffed, facing me. "He ain't dead."

I sighed with relief, "thank god. At least he's alive. "

He nodded, "yeah, damn shame he didn't come back though. Then again, he woulda brought his anger back here. "

I nodded, "yeah.. Yeah probably. But at least he's alive.. That's more than some of the others can say. " I gently took his hand in mine. "And hey, I'm sure in the future we will come across him. " I smiled at him, letting go his hand go.

"You think so?" He asked, looking down at you, before he leaned over to pick up his arrow from the Walker he shot for you.

"I do. " I say with a smile.

"What makes you so sure? "

"I just.. Got this gut feeling. " I say, and he just hummed in response. "We will find him. Now, c'mon, I think we still have some fish left over. "

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Hey! I was not expecting to write again today but I did wanna knock out a quick chapter. This one was back to being a bit shorter than the last two, but I'm thinking the next chapter will be a bit longer, next chapter I'm gonna try to focus of capturing Glenn and Y/Ns friendship and Daryl and Y/Ns chemistry. Also, usually I'm watching the show while I write, but my Netflix stopped working and it won't be up for a while, so I had to read the script, so if some things seem off this time around I'm so sorry! But anyway, thank you for reading, bye now!

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