Walsh|| daryl dixon

8

daryl's pov
here i have her in my arms as we walk into the cdc. dr jenner asks "what's up with her? she bit?" i shake my head holding her protectively "nah. ran into a bad group and they beat her pretty bad. think her ribs might be broken" eying the man. he nods "i can help with that. after the blood test" i nod and we line up for it. i sit her down comfortably and mutter to her knowing she hates needles "it's just a pinch nat" she nods and he takes her blood and then mine.

andrea almost faints because of lack of food. he shows them to the cafeteria and i stay besides nat as he checks her over. eying his hands on her body waiting for the second he steps outta line so i can cut them from his body. he says "they're not broken. they're fractured" pointing to a scan. i ask "got anything to help her?" he nods and hands me pills and i offer her some and some water and he says "she should be good as new in a few weeks...as for the wounds she has...there's no need for stitches" i nod and he cleans her up a bit and i say "thanks doc" helping her stand. we join the others and i make sure she eats good. she never does. always gives half her rations to carl and sophia.

she grabs my hand and i ask lowly "what?" noting the way she looks around slight pain on her face and confusion. she leaves and i follow her. no one notices. she mutters "i was here...before...as a kid" i ask "ya were a sick kid though so wasn't that normal?" she shakes her head "they weren't helping me. they were keeping me here." walking to a red door. she opens it and shakes. it's a room set for a girl of all ages. i ask "nat what is goin on? ya worryin me" she replies "my dad left me here for years. i wasn't sick. they...the doctors...were making me sick. i..." she rolls up her sleeves and i see the needle marks she never wants to talk about. "they were injecting me with something...repeatedly...until it just...stopped making me sick" i say "are ya sayin...they made ya immune"

she mutters "am i a monster? a part of them? can i even help people?" "no you can't" a voice says. jenner. she says "you did this to me" "we were messing with the structure of a cure for cancer. it became this virus. the structure of it. we couldn't just eliminate it. nothing worked. so we contained it. tried to make a cure...nothing worked. until it did. a rat. but it only immunized the rat. nothing cured the sick. so we moved onto a human. a girl.5 years old. the family needed money. so they gave us their girl for 5 years. you. thought you wouldn't remember you were so young. but it's amazing how the human mind and memory works. we let you go back home having collected your blood samples. it helped keep it at bay...until it didn't and now here we are. you can't turn. but you can't save anyone else." he leaves and she mutters "can't tell anyone"

"yer immune they should know" i say. she says "they're gonna make me out to be a monster. they already don't fucking like me daryl. they're gonna have hope they can be immunized too and force me through more trials. here or somewhere else. i'm not doing it again. i won't" i nod and hug her to me "ye secret safe with me darlin. yer safe with me"