Fighting for our Future {TWD Daryl Dixon}

5: Meeting

I didn't sleep much last night. I felt betrayed. I was used by my family so that they could gain information. I finally just got a family, a real family, and the first thing they do is use me. If this is what having a family is like, maybe I was better off without one.

I finally walked out of my tent. I'm not ready to face everyone, but if I stay in my tent all day I'll be forced to face them, at least if I'm out of my tent I'll be able to walk away. I look off in the distance and see Daryl, Glenn and my father having a conversation. About me, and what happened last night no doubt. My father sees me and his face drops. Yep, it's clear he knows.

He started approaching me. I didn't want to talk to him so I started walking away. He called for me but I ignored him. I kept walking until I saw Shane. Usually I wouldn't stop to talk to him. However right now I actually preferred his company. "Hi Shane."

"Hey." He was loading guns up into a bag. "Ready to help me teach some folks to shoot?"

I nodded. "Yeah, I need to get out of here for a while. I'll go get Sophia and Carl."

Before I could leave his side, he turned to me and asked. "So how'd you do it? Convince Lori and Carol? I've been trying for a while."

"It was easy. Maybe they just needed to hear it from someone that hasn't been with them through this whole shit-show." I said. He groaned at my answer. Clearly the real reason they agreed when I asked was because they know that eventually they need to learn, and that I would never steer them wrong.

I walked away to grab Carl and Sophia. Lori looked at Carl and told him to be on his best behavior, then looked at me. "Protect him if things go wrong please."

"Lori, you know I will. I'd never let anything happen to this little gremlin." I gave Carl a playful smirk and ruffed up his hair. He swatted my hand away.

Carol walked up and kissed Sophia on the cheek before we headed to the car. Shane was already loading some people into his truck, Andrea, Beth, Maggie, Glenn? Glenn already knows how to shoot. Why is he coming? Daryl is right next to our vehicles on his motorcycle. He's not coming with us right? I heard Shane telling him to just follow us so he knew where to go. Shit Daryl is coming. I guess I can't really escape Glenn or Daryl today.

I watched Carl and Sophia get into the car. I instructed them to put their seat belts on. Carl groaned, but did it anyway. There are so many ways you could die in this apocalypse, but I will not let him die from refusing to wear a seat belt.

Before I opened my own door, my father approached me. I didn't make eye contact with him. I'm mad at him. No scratch that, I'm pissed. "Nora.. Can we talk?"

"No." I said blankly.

"Nora.... Please." He begged. I looked around to see that others were still getting ready to leave. I held up one finger to him, before opening my car door. "Soph, Carl, I'll be right back." They nodded.

I walked away with my father right behind me. Do I want to talk to him, no not really. I knew I needed to however. We were now far enough away to where I could see everybody still, but knew that nobody could hear us. "What do you want?"

He looked at me tears in his eyes. "I'm sorry." I rolled my eyes. "I'm serious. I'm sorry."

"What for? Invading my privacy? Or making me believe I could trust you?"

"Whoa, You can trust me. I did what I did because I was worried about you, and about the rest of the group. You were withholding information, we didn't know exactly what we were up against. We needed to know."

"Yeah, well now you know. You know what that sick fuck did to me. Let me ask you something." He raised an eyebrow. "Now you're probably wishing you didn't know right? Now that you know all the pretty little details of what happened to me. How I begged for him to stop, how he made Liam watch. How his group killed every other person in my group, while that monster in the shed was on top of me. How they were going to kidnap me, so they could continue to use me, over and over again. How to escape I had to stab their leader in the throat, and kill another. Well there's your pretty little details Rick." He looked horrified. "Now if you don't mind, I need to teach Sophia and my brother how to shoot, so they can defend themselves if they ever fucking need to, because God forbid something like that happens to one of them someday." I started walking away.