Night Shift (oc x Daryl Dixon)

(10) rounded

"Leave us alone." First thing Madeline heard as she walked with her head down. Her breathing heavy, her eyes red and puffy, her mind scattered. She didn't even pay attention to her family walking beside her. She didn't even realize Glenn helping the girl up, instructed by Maggie to do so, from the ground she was crying on. She was too busy trying to wrap her mind around what just happened.

The one thing she didn't want to be true about the world, was true. The second she realized, she felt all of her hope leak out of her body. At a rate so fast, she just felt a rush of cold air over come her.

In this moment, she wasn't thinking about how she was Carols daughter. Carls friend. Loris student. She held the girl as a token of hope. One that was shared with the rest of the people who lacked hope. The token was destroyed.

"Hey, Shane, just stop, man." An voice chimed in, she knew from the echoing it was coming from behind her. But she didn't even care to make out who it was. Getting herself inside behind her bed room walls, so she can be alone. Be alone and think about everything she once knew. That's all she wanted.

"You knew and you kept it from us." Shane screamed chasing after the family. Who had all deal with enough hardship today, they didn't need even more.

She didn't think about how confused they must be. She didn't think about how hard this was for everyone.

"I didn't know." Her father didn't even turn around to speak to the man face to face. His wife and son was just killed, fully killed. From what her dad believed.

All the girls had already mourned the lost of them. For Beth it was happening all over again. But Madeline and Maggie, didn't see the world how their father did. They didn't see them coming back, so this was expected to some degree.

Madeline threw her head back with anger. Just wanting everyone to shut up, the tears still stained her cheeks. "Stop please." She begged also not turning around.

"No no. That's bullshit." Shane kept on. He will probably never stop. Madeline thought. "I think y'all knew."

Madeline shook her head, as did Hershel. They didn't, her father wouldn't do that. It wasn't like he was keeping her in there just to spite the group. If he knew he would have said something. He wasn't even the ones to put them in there. Shane was just looking for someone to be anger at.

"We didn't know." Maggie also seem to cry out in a plea. Madeline hadn't realized, till she turned her head. That Maggie was basically carrying her father. Madeline didn't expect him to be so hurt by all of this. She didn't know why she didn't. But it brought a whole new pain to Madeline, seeing her father hurting.

"Why was she there?!" Shane yelled once again. His throat becoming sore.

That's when Hershel finally turned around, "Otis put those people in the barn. Maybe he found her and put her in there before he was killed."

Madeline quickly turned around at the words. Turning to face Shane, who she wanted to see every time Otis was mentioned. Her stomach turned all over again, every time.

As if Shane knew she would, he made sure to kept his eyes on Hershel. "You expect me to believe that? Do I look like an idiot?"

Rick stepped up, pushing himself in-front of Shane. "Shane, hey hey hey." The man tried to calm his best friend.

Hershel boiled with anger, he was a Christian man. Someone shouting at him, basically saying he wasn't. Set him off, "I don't care what you believe!" Madeline put his head in her hands, she was tired of the yelling. She just wanted everyone to stop.

"Everybody just calm down." Rick tried his best, to mute the situation. But it did nothing for her father.

"Get him off my land!" He yelled, Madeline jumped.