Dangerous | Daryl Dixon The Walking Dead

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(Cats PoV)
I wake up in the cell, the bed was surprisingly comfortable. As I'm walking towards the stairs I see Carol and Lori talking

"Everything alright?" I ask noticing a worried expression

"Can you get Hershel we think somethings up with the baby" Lori answers and I nod

"Yeah no worries," I say and head town the metal stairs to see all the men standing around a table checking out the protective gear and weapons they've found "can I grab you for two minutes Hershel?" I ask causing the attention of the men to move from the weapons to me

"You alrigh'?" Daryl asks lowering the bat from his hands

"Yeah. Nothing to worry about" I smile looking at Rick, Hershel walks behind me

"It's the baby. I think I lost it" Lori speaks her hands grabbing her knees

"You haven't felt it move?" He asks her

"Nothing," she stresses "and no Braxton-Hicks. At first I thought it was exhaustion or malnutrition"

"You're anemic?" The older man asks to which she just nods

"If we're all infected, then so's the baby. So what if it's still born? What if it's dead inside me right now?" she mentions and instantly my head is filled with imagines of a Walker baby, loris stomach being eaten from the inside and her body being ripped open

"Stop you're stressing too much, don't let your worries take over you" I tell her

"She's right" Hershel agrees

"Then lets say it lives and I die during childbirth" Lori sniffs

"That's not gonna happen" Hershel tries to reassure the woman

"Why not? How many women died in childbirth before modern medicine? If I come back, what if I attack it? Or you Cat? Or you Hershel? Or Rick? Or Carl? If I do, if there is any chance, you put me down immediately. You don't hesitate. Me, the baby, if we're walkers, you don't hesitate and you don't try to save us . Okay?" She asks looking at me tears in her big brown eyes

"Okay" I nod as Hershel excuses himself

"It might've been better if-" she starts then throws her head down

"If what?" I ask she exhales heavily

"I'd never made it off the farm" she tears up

"Don't say that. You're exhausted, frightened but I promise you I will do anything and everything I can to look after you and the baby, he or she is gonna live, they're gonna have a good life" I tell her

"Yeah, that's true. My son can't stand me. And my husband, after what I put him through. And you, I was horrible to you" she speaks

"We've all been carrying that weight. All winter. We all are carrying to much guilt Lori but I don't hold anything against you, Rick certainly doesn't either he still loves you he's stressed right now but he would do anything for you and this baby and Carl he's getting to that awkward age he loves you so much Lori" I tell her

"I tried to talk to him. He..." she sobs

"He'll come around" I tell her

"He hates me. He's too good a man to say it, but I know. I put him and Shane at odds. I put that knife in his hand." she cries

"You know who doesn't give a shit about that? This baby" I speak slowly placing a hand in her shoulder she smiles and laughs Carol walks back into the cell so I let her take over and I head back down the boys who are all putting the gear on