Fighting for our Future {TWD Daryl Dixon}

116: Training Day

Warning: There are flashbacks in this chapter that contain child abuse. I did signal both the beginning and ends of flashbacks though, just so you all would be aware.

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Four More Months Later:

Avalon's POV:

**Flashback**

"Only those who have earned the right to walk amongst us shall eat." Beta told me while I was in line for food. I haven't eaten in days. I haven't eaten since I was taken by these freaks.

"So you're gonna kidnap me and starve me?" I asked while whining. This isn't fair. I'm the one who killed the damn pig. Nobody helped me. I did it alone because I was hungry and I wanted food. But when Beta found out I killed it, he took it from me. "I'm the one who killed the porky pig! And I did it myself! That means the pig belongs to me!"

"You haven't earned the right to walk amongst us."

I was hungry. My stomach was growling. "Either feed me or let me go home!! What's the point in kidnappin' me just to starve me? What did I do to deserve this? Nothin' that's what! Now get outta my way! I'm eatin' the pig I killed that is almost fatter than you!" I walked past Beta and tried to grab some of the pig because I'm starving, but once I was close enough to my cooked kill my hair was grabbed and I was tossed into a tree.

I fell down after my head hit the tree and I could already feel the blood starting to come down my face. Beta was standing over me. "You haven't earned the right." He growled at me as he glared at me like he was two seconds away from adding me to the herd.

"Please." I begged. Did I think begging would work for me? Absolutely not. But I had to try. I haven't eaten in a week. I've never had to go this long without food. I don't think I've been without food ever.

"No." Is all Beta said to me before walking away from my bleeding form.

He left me by the tree, bleeding, crying, and with my stomach grumbling. I don't understand why I'm not aloud to eat. What did I do to deserve this?

"I want my daddy." I cried as I hugged onto my body tightly with my legs to my chest. "I wanna go home.."

"What was that?"

I started shaking when I heard Alpha's voice in my ear. She had made it known that I need to be very scared of her. But everything I do seems to make her mad. Just yesterday I was humming a song to myself like Momma usually does for me when I'm scared. But Alpha told me that it was unexceptable and slapped me again. But I still don't understand what I did wrong.

Alpha slowly appeared in front of me and I did my best to act like I wasn't crying but obviously she could see the tears pouring down my face. She brought a hand up to my face gently wiping the blood and tears off my face. The look in her eyes as she did this was almost motherly. As if she cared.

But she didn't.

I knew what was coming but it still surprised me when her eyes turned cold and she smacked me as hard as she could. "Your daddy doesn't want you. You're still weak. He doesn't love you. You're a disappointment."

"No I ain't." I whined. "My Daddy loves me. He'll come for me. And when he does you'll be sorry."

Alpha grabbed my arm and forced me onto my feet and started leading me away from everyone else. I tried to pull away but she was too strong. Her grip only tightened on me and it hurt.