Solitary: The Walking Dead

Chapter Eighteen.

Little ass-kicker.

I stare at Rick as he sits on the floor, Daryl moves in front of the man waving his hand in Ricks face "are you with us man?" he asks but gets no response.

I let go of the boy and he walks over to Maggie, he reaches out and takes the baby from her, "let me see the baby" Herschel says, "what are we gonna feed it?" Daryl asks from next to me and we walk over to the man.

"We got anything a baby can eat?" he asks "the good news is she looks healthy" Hershel says, "but she needs formula. And soon if shes going to survive" he adds looking over to Daryl, "i'll go on a run quickly now" I say.

I walk over and grab my knife off the floor, i walk back over to Carl, "stay here, listen to Hershel and be strong little sheriff" I say, i gently lift his hat and kiss him on the head before putting his hat back down.

"Bear" i say getting the dog to follow me. I walk away to the gate, not listening to everyone behind me. I open the gate slightly and make my way out before shutting it behind.

I hear Daryl's bike pull up behind me, "they need you back there. I can do this alone" I say not looking behind me as i continue walking "i aint doin that" Daryl says.

"I know where to go" he says "get on", i stop and turn around, i walk over and climb onto the back of the bike holding onto Daryl, Bear runs off ahead, coming back over to us every now and then.

Daryl pulls his bike up outside of a building and we start looking around, i use the handle end of my knife and hit it against a window, smashing the glass.

"Bear watch" I say, he turns and starts pacing around, watching out for anything to come. I climb in through the broken window Daryl doing the same behind me.

I hold my knife up and start looking through the room, "he gonna be alright out there?" Daryl asks "yeah... he'll warn us if there's anythin" I say.

We walk out of the room and walk down opposite ends of the corridor, after seeing if its clear, we meet up at one rooms that had scratching coming from it.

Daryl reaches in and opens the bottom part of the door, i walk in after him and he nods his head to the pantry, i raise my knife up and walk towards it.

I quickly open the door and a possum hisses at us before an arrow shoots through its head. "Hello dinner" he says, his words muffled slightly by the torch in his mouth.

I open a cupboard and find formula and pacifiers, i swing my bag in front of me and put the things in my bag, thats when bear starts to growl.

I swing my bag over my shoulder and quickly make my way to the window we came in through, Daryl following behind. I climb out and see a couple of walkers making their way through the trees and towards us.

I land outside of the window and start making my way to the walkers, "go on" I say to bear, the dog runs over to the walkers and i follow closely. He jumps up nocking them to the floor and bitting the walkers faces, ripping it off.

I drive my knife into the walkers around us as he moves onto his next one, arows flying around us and hitting the walkers in the head. Once its clear we start making our way back to the bike. The sun starts to go down as we make our way back to the prison.

As we get closer to the gate, the group start clearing a path for us while Oscar slides open the gate. I jump off the bike and run inside, taking my bag off and opening it up.

"Here" i say handing it to Maggie, i walk over to Carl and the baby with Daryl next to me "hows she doin?" he asks, taking the baby from the boy.

"Hey kid" i say grabbing onto his hand, beth hands Daryl the milk bottle and he starts to feed her, Carl not taking his eyes of his little sister. Daryl manages to get the baby to latch onto the bottle.

He looks up at the group with a wide grin on his face "she got a name yet?" Daryl asks looking down at the boy, "not yet. But i was thinking maybe sophia. Then theres Carol too. And... andrea." the boy says sighing "amy, Jacui, Patrica. Or... lori... i dont know" the kid says.

"Yeah... you like that? Huh? Little ass kicker" Daryl says smiling down at the baby, "right? Thats a good name right?" he says looking to everyone around him, making everyone laugh.

"Little ass kicker. You like that huh? You like that sweetheart?" he asks the baby. "Carl its time for bed" I say leading the boy to his bed, leaving everyone behind us, "what about the baby?" he asks

"I'll look after her. You need sleep" i say, he doesnt argue with me, instead he takes his hat of and gets into bed, "night" he says "night" I says walking back to the group.

"Hows he doing?" Hershal asks "kid just lost his mother"i say looking down at my feet my answer giving them enough to know. "Im gonna go on watch" I say grabbing my coat and walking outside.

I grab a cigarette from my pocket along with my lighter and sit down on top of the flipped car, i look back at the foot steps and see Daryl petting Bear, i look back ahead and take a drag of the smoke.

The man climbs up and sits next to me, i hold out the pack of cigarettes to the man and he takes one, and then takes my lighter. "Thanks" he says with the stick between his lips muffling his words.

For the rest of the night we sit in silence.