Our Extinction Event {Daryl Dixon}

Escape

"I can't believe I told everyone!" Parker whispered angrily. She was mad at herself for just blabbing about being pregnant. "Like, I was literally the one who said 'Don't tell anyone' and then I fucking told everyone." She pointed at herself and then motioned towards the people scattered about the train car. "I'm such an idiot. I don't even know half the people here! And I just full-on dropped a bomb that I'm with child." She slid her back down the wall, hiding her face in her hands, her knees tucked to her chest. Daryl and Parker were hiding in the back of the train car waiting for Rick to come up with a plan, and she was berating herself while Daryl listened. He found it funny because as much as he himself had wanted to keep the whole thing a secret- at least until they had regrouped with everyone, he still enjoyed seeing everyone's reactions. Especially when Carl made fun of Parker for being the one to spill the news to everyone, but it was like Rick had told them before 'They needed something good.' Daryl stared down at her on the ground, rubbing his jaw before sitting down beside her.

"Let's just get through this first, alright?" Parker nodded at his words. "We're gonna get out of this. Every single one of us."

"I'll be we'll all be fine. I mean I'm bulletproof, remember?" She leaned back, resting her head against the wall. "Well, actually I don't have the vest anymore so technically I'm not."

"Can't believe you gave that thing to Maggie. If we weren't in the middle of being shot at, I would have killed you for not havin' it on." Daryl laughed slightly, shaking his head at the stupid joke they had over a vest.

"I miss that thing. I think I was closer to that vest than I was with you." Parker elbowed him jokingly. "I'll get a new one, how 'bout that."

"Good. Less things for me to worry about." Daryl rested his arm on his knee, staring ahead, his eyes tracking Rick as he paced around. Parker smiled at him, looking down at her hands as she twisted the ring around on her finger.

"You know, if you had told me about a year ago that we would be here.." She glanced around at the train car they were in, imprisoned by cannibals. "..I probably would have laughed in your face."

"Yeah.. it all feels like a lifetime ago." Daryl agreed, shifting his position to make himself comfortable on the ground. "Atlanta, the farm, the old group." He listed off, leaning his head against the wall.

"God, I miss all that stuff." Parker chuckled slightly, taken aback by how much they had left behind since everything had started. "Time just feels so... so different now. Six months used to feel so long in the old world, but when we were at the prison? It seemed like it was only three days." Daryl hummed in agreement.

"But it's the same the other way around too. It felt like ten years had passed when I lost you at the prison, not just two weeks"

"Was it really only two weeks?" Parked sat forward a bit, shocked that it was only a couple weeks. "It felt like way more than just fourteen days." She ran her hand through her slightly tangled hair, sitting back. "That's crazy."

"It could have been a bit less." He replied with a small shrug. "Still felt like an eternity." Parker reached for his hand, interlocking their fingers together, and kissing his knuckles.

"We're together now. Everything's going to be okay." Rick had a plan, he always had a way to get them out of the hardest places. He's gotten them out of far worse. This group was one of the strongest that Parker had seen so far because although they were very different in terms of personality, they all had one common goal. Survive. They had endured so much and experienced hardships like no other, and yet they were still here. They were still alive. Abraham was telling the story of how he, Rosita, Eugene, Maggie, and Glenn had ended up in the train car as they all worked on creating some makeshift weapons.