Night Shift (oc x Daryl Dixon)

(6) burden 

Not proof read I'm super tired<3

After that dinner, Madeline found it hard to move.

She was a hopeful girl, many would say pure. So pure in-fact, she couldn't understand how someone took take someone else's life. Someone's loved one, someone's mom or dad, someone's friend. It was unbelievable to her.

Madeline tried to think of any situation to where, Shane would had needed to do something so terrible. Maybe Otis tried to kill him? He wouldn't. She knew Otis and that wasn't him.

Soon Madeline had realized that was the only think she could think of to be the reasoning. Self defense, fighting back to live. But that wasn't the case; it couldn't be.

The yellow bright sun shines into the girls room.

The bed she was sitting in was slowly uncomfortable from the burden in her mind which was weighting the room down. While her feet hung off the bed, so nearly touching the hard wood beneath her. But not quite there. Her cover was though, as if she had gone crazy in her sleep. The bed was never like it was for the night before.

Everything can change from the night to the morning.

Who would believe her, was all her mind came up with. No one would, a feeling doesn't mean anything in a court of law. Rick wouldn't believe a word she said. She could maybe tell Glenn and t-dog but yet again it was just a target on her back if Shane heard her talking.

Maybe she should keep it to herself.

But that felt impossible.

But she had too. Till maybe Shane give it away, or maybe when someone else sees the same guilty look Madeline was scarred by. Someone would pick up on something, they would. She had to have faith that someone would get this killer away from her family.

This was a new experience, a cold blooded killer roamed the family's farm. Not even the dead had reached there, yet somehow a killer has. It a fallen world.

Madeline's eyes batted, as she took a shaky breath in. Her brown hair, sticking to her back from the sweat she had going down her body.

She felt more uncomfortable once realizing. But she knew there was nothing to do about it, so she gave in to it. Let her hair stay in place, would keep it out of her way hopefully. Hopefully Shane would stay out of her way.

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Madeline walked towards the RV that was sitting out on the open land. She had already saw a group there, Maggie was stood talking to Glenn a couple feet away from it. Whispering about something, that for some reason Madeline had no interest in. Which might have been the first where she wasn't being nosy about her older sisters plans.

Dale and T-dog stood talking much louder then the other two. Which actually did get Madeline's interest. T-dog had been kind to her, and she hadn't much talked to Dale. But he seemed like a nice old man like her father.

Lucky before she had to force herself into the conversation, T-dog was already yelling out for her. "Madeline!" He hollowed echoing down to her.

Madeline who was already looking at him, now had everyone looking at her. Including her sister and Glenn. She smiled through, forcing it though. She walked towards them. Letting her boots turn the dirt to dust as she walked.

"Hello T-Dog." Madeline reached them, T-dog just sends her a nod. Before she turns to Dale, "I don't think we have met properly." She stuck her hand out before the man. "I'm Madeline Greene."