Calamity | Daryl Dixon

3- Tell It to the frogs

"Merle! Get your ugly ass out here! I got us some squirrel. Stew em up!" Daryl shouts, Shane makes his way towards him.

"Daryl, slow up a bit. I need to talk to you. About Merle" Shane says cautiously before continuing "There was a...problem in Atlanta"

"He dead?" Daryl says after staying silent for a second.

"We're not sure..." Shane starts, but Daryl cuts him off.

"He either is or he ain't!"

I glance towards Luke, who is watching in silence before returning my gaze to Daryl, Rick bites the bullet and speaks up.

"Look, there's no easy way to say this, so i'll just say it." He starts.

"Who are you?"

"Rick Grimes" Rick introduces himself to Daryl.

"Rick Grimes? You got something you want to tell me?" Daryl speaks irritated.

"Your brother was a danger to us all, so I handcuffed him on a roof, hooked him to a piece of metal. He's still there." Rick tells Daryl what happened in the city and I grimace. Yes... Tell the younger brother of the guy you left on a roof to die that his brother was a damger to everyone... That'll go well.

"Hold on. Let me process this. You're saying you handcuffed my brother to a roof, and you left him there!?" Daryl exclaims angrily, all Rick replies with is...

"Yeah." ...Oh yes... That's smart.

I watch on in shock as Daryl throws the string of squirrels towards Rick and goes to charge at him; Shane beats him to it and tackles Daryl to the ground. I cover my mouth with my hand, I can't decide whether Im doing it in shock or to stop from giggling at the sight. I immediately stop as Daryl pulls out his knife.

"'Watch the knife!" I hear T-Dog yell as they disarm him. Shane gets him in a chokehold.

"You best let me go!" Daryl says as he struggles against Shane.

"Nah, think it's better if I don't." he replies.

"Choke hold's illegal." Daryl grunts, which makes me snicker, Luke glances towards me with a glare, so I stop quickly.

"You can file a complaint!" Shane responds sarcastically as they try to calm Daryl down. I can't hear what the men are saying as they're now talking quietly, out of earshot.

Chewing on my fingernail, I see Daryl starting to get emotional, so I walk closer to hear what they are talking about. Luke reaches forward to stop me, but I dont stop walking as I'm curious to what's going on.

"Hell with all y'all!" Daryl exclaims before continuing. "Just tell me where he is. So's I can go get 'im"

"He'll show you. Isn't that right?" Lori speaks from the RV door and Rick nods in agreement. Daryl storms past me, picking up the squirrel and storming to the campfire. I sit on a log nearby him and watch as he starts to skin some squirrel. He keeps glancing up at me, but no words are exchanged.

"So you and Daryl, that's your big plan?" Lori says making Rick look towards Glenn in hope he'll come along as well.

"Oh, come on." Glenn sighs.

"You know the way. In and out, no problem. You said so yourself. I'd feel a lot better with you along and Lori would to" Rick comments in hopes of convincing him.

"That's just great, you're gonna risk three men?" Shane says in annoyace.

"Four." T-Dog says makig Daryl huff and grumble.

"Five." Luke speaks up as well and I snap my head towards him.

"Luke... Really? I mean no disrespect." I say towards Daryl then continue "But we dont even..." I start to quieten as I see the look Luke is giving me.