The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon X OC Reader (Season 1)

Chp 34: Wildfire (Part 6)

At the Quarry,

Rick and Shane dig graves near the campsite.

"Say it." Rick states.

"Okay. I'm thinking if you'd of stayed here, if you'd have looked after your own.. Instead you went off. You took half our manpower and one woman power with you. I'm thinking maybe our losses wouldn't have been so bad." Shane tells Rick.

"If we hadn't gone off and brought those guns back when we did. I think our losses would have been a lot worse. Maybe the entire camp." Rick tells Shane.

The truck approaches and Daryl gets out of it.

"I still think it's a mistake not burning these bodies. It's what we said we'd do, right? Burn 'em all, wasn't that the idea?" Daryl questions.

"At first." Shane says.

"The Chinaman gets all emotional, says it's not the thing to do, we just follow him along? These people need to know who the hell's in charge here, what the rules are." Daryl says.

"There are no rules." Rick tells Daryl.

"Well, that's a problem. We haven't had one minute to hold onto anything of our old selves. We need time to mourn and we need to bury our dead. It's what people do." Lori says.

"I agree, but it's best that we keep going while also doing what we need to do." Rose says as she looks over at Daryl as he just scoffs and does what he needs to do.

In the RV,

Jim is lying and hallucinating. He sees walkers growling.

"Oh no. No no no no. No, not this, please. No no no. Oh, no no no. No no." Jim mutters to himself.

At the Quarry,

The survivors stage a funeral. Andrea and Dale are carrying Amy's body and putting it into a digging hole. Andrea is crying.

"I can do it. I can do it. I can do it! I can do it." Andrea repeats as she finally lays her sister's corpse into the hole.

At the Survival Camp,

The survivors are leaving the quarry to come back to the camp.

"Burying other people is bad enough, but the thought of one of us." Rick says.

"Shh." Lori shushes him softly.

"Are we safe now, dad? Now that we're together?" Carl asks.

"I won't leave again. I promise you that. Not for anything. Now give me a chance to discuss some things with your mom, okay?" Rick tells his son.

"Yeah." Carl says to his dad.

"All right. All right." Rick says softly.

Carl goes back to the camp. Rick takes Lori's hand.

"Shane blames me for not being here. Do you? We got guns now. We're stronger." Rick says to his wife.

"And we have fewer people. That makes us weaker. You want me to say I think you were right? I understand that. All I can say is that neither one of you is entirely wrong. It's the best I can do right now." Lori explains to her husband.

"What about the C.D.C.?" Rick asks.

"Rick.." Lori mutters out.

"We're at the ragged edge here. We need relief and we got a sick man who needs help. I don't know why people can't see that." Rick says.

"Well, look at their faces. Look at mine. We're all terrified. If one of us suggested, based on a hunch, that we head toward that city, you'd have no part of it. Tell me something with certainty." Lori says.