Brother's Keeper ¹ || The walking dead

6.

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Riven stares at the fire cracking in front of him, his hands inside of his jacket, Sophia sat next to him with Carol,

"..okay, I gotta ask, " Amy spoke up, catching everyone's attention, "I found this in my bag, and I definitely didn't have this before." She pulled out the carved mermaid, blonde hair with a pink tail.

"That's beautiful." Lori commented with a smile, and Amy smiled,

"Yeah, it is."

Sophia glances at Riven while quietly giggling, and Riven turns his head towards Sophia as he hears her giggles.

"..I saw Riven and Sophia at the RV earlier being sneaky." Carl spoke up, and everyone looked at Riven and Sophia.

"We were playin' spies. We weren't anywhere near Amy's stuff." Sophia said, and Riven threw Carl a look, but Carl only grinned at him.

"You know now that I think about it, Riven and Sophia were sneaking around the RV eariler." Dale said,

"Sophia, did you and Riven give me this?" Amy questioned with a grin on her face,

"No. We didn't," Riven spoke, standing up, "I'm going for a walk..alone."

Riven walked away from the campfire, and as soon as he was out earshot, Amy turned to Sophia,

"He carved this?" Amy questioned, and Sophia shrugged,

"I have no clue what you are talking about." Sophia was gonna keep her promise of not telling anyone it was Riven who did it.

Amy hummed, fully knowing it was Riven who did it, but she dropped the subject.

"It looks like me."

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Riven kicked a rock with his foot. He was worried about his brothers. They should've been back by now,

He sighs, shaking his head. He shouldn't be worried about them. They hated it when he worried about them.

Merle had called him a wuss for trying to care for him when he was younger, and it earned him a smack to the head.

He tried hard not to care about his brothers because Dixons didn't show affection, but it was bullshit, and he was only half Dixon, which meant the Dixon rules don't apply to him.

Riven pauses as he hears snarls and twigs snapping, his eyes darting around to find the source of the noise before he spotted them.

the dead, but as he went to warn the rest of the camp, he saw them heading towards a tent, Ed's tent.

Riven pulled out his knife from his waistband, but he stopped himself from going to the tent as he heard Ed's voice,

he watched as Ed opens the tent only for him to get attacked by the dead, and Riven knew he should feel at least something but he didn't feel anything but satisfaction as he watches Ed get his flesh torn apart by the dead.

the dead seemed to notice him, and he quickly turned around, rushing back to the camp to warn the others.

He freezes as screams echo, and gunshots follow. Riven feels hands grabbing at his shoulders, pulling him back, and snarls fill his ears.

"Shit!" Riven stumbled over his feet as he was pulled back, and he fell, his back meeting the ground, roughly, and he gripped the knife of his handle tightly before lifting his hand, and jamming the knife into the dead skull.

Daryl said it had to be the head or else they'll just keep coming. Riven pushed the dead off him and quickly stood up,

".. Riven!?" Riven snapped his head towards the sound of his brother's voice, and he pushed back the dead that was nearing him,

"Daryl!" He stabbed another in the head, but as he went to head towards Daryl, his leg was grabbed, making him fall,

"Fuck." The dead snarled as they climbed on top of him, snapping their teeth, but it went quiet as a bolt went through it's head, blood splattered all over Riven, who grimaced in disgust pushing the body off him.

"Riven!" Riven was roughly pulled up, "You bit?!" Daryl questioned, checking him for bites, and Riven shook his head,

"I'm fine! I'm fine! Where's Merle?" Riven questioned, and Daryl scoffed,

"You worried about him when you almost got yourself killed!" Daryl said, and Riven glared at him, pushing him back,

"Fuck you! Fuck you, Daryl!" Riven snapped, "You go to hell!" Riven pushed him back one more time before walking away from him to go check on Sophia, and Carol.

"Hey! Don't walk away from me, you little shit!" Daryl quickly walked to catch up with Riven,

As Riven neared the others, he pauses as he saw Andrea kneeling over Amy crying,

"Hey! You don't push me, do you understand me!" Daryl turned Riven to face him, but Riven stares at Andrea and Amy,

Daryl looks where Riven is looking, and he scoffs under his breath, and Riven turns his head to look at him.

"He dead too?" Riven quietly questioned, and Daryl shook his head,

"Nah, but he's gone." Riven nodded before he headed over to Sophia, who cried, removing herself from her mother and running over to Riven, hugging his waist,

"I thought they got you too." Sophia cried, and Riven sighed,

"I ain't goin' anywhere, Sophia."

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Morning came by fast, and everyone was separating the dead from their people, burning the dead, and burying their people,

Riven guessed the man that was digging holes was right, too.

Riven looks over at Carol as she hits Ed with pickaxe, and he looks away as he heads over to Andrea, who hasn't moved since last night, still holding Amy in her arms.

Andrea didn't bother lifting her head or aiming her gun like she did with Rick before. She simply let Riven crouch down beside her,

"..I did it..." He quietly spoke, "I carved the mermaid, made it look like her cause I don't know how mermaids actually looked."

Andrea looks at him and sadly smiles, "she knew she knew it was you. She just wanted you to admit it."

Riven chuckles a bit, "she knew I was never going too."

"She thought Sophia would spill, but she didn't." Andrea quietly said, the small smile disappearing

Riven looks down at Amy, and he sighs, "See you later."

"No goodbyes?" Andrea questioned, and Riven stood up,

"Goodbyes are forever."

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Thoughts?

Im not trying to make Daryl a bad brother, but the Dixon brothers have some issues.