Roses (Glenn Rhee x reader)

34| Lifeless

Y/n POV

"It's off. We'll take our chances" Rick said as he walked up to Daryl and I. Daryl explained to me everything that had happened and what their stupid plan was.

"I'm not saying it was the wrong call, but this is definitely the right one" Daryl said as Rick finally came up to us. I glared at Rick, then again it was hard to be mad at Rick.

"What's wrong?" I asked as I looked at him.

"I can't find Merle or Michonne" Rick said as he looked at us. My blood ran cold, that fucked had better not done what I thought he was going to do. "They've gone" Fuck.

"Come on" Daryl said as he started to pick up his pace and we followed after him. We went back into the prison and we showed Dick the room where we lost saw Merle.

"He was in here. Said he was looking for drugs. Said a lot of things, actually" I said as I muttered the last part, but Rick heard it.

"Like what?" Rick asked as he helped us look around.

"Said that you were gonna change your mind. Here we go. Yeah, he took her here. They mixed it up" Daryl said as he picked up Michonne sweater. I didn't want to freak out.

"Damn it! I'm going after him" Rick said as he circled around the room.

"You can't track for shit" Daryl said to him as we followed him after.

"Then we both go" Rick said, and then he looked over at me and I nodded my head yes.

"No, just Y/n and I. I said I'd go and I'll go. Plus they're gonna come back here. You need to be ready. Your family, too." Daryl said before he head out.

I turned around and gave Rick a bone crushing hug. He was like another one of my brothers.

"He's not. Your family. Tell Glenn I'm okay and I love him" I said as I let go of the hug and went after Daryl.

...

When we were walking around it was quiet. None of us said anything and we didn't expect too. We were in a hurry to make sure they were both safe.

I saw Michonne standing around after she killed a walker and I ran up to hug her. She hugged me back tightly.

"I'm so glad you're safe" I said with a smile and a breath of relief.

"Me too" She said as she gave me one last squeeze before she pulled away.

"Where's our brother?" Daryl asked as he came up right beside us. "You kill him?" Daryl asked when Michonne didn't say anything.

"He let me go." Michonne said as she shook her head. He is going right after the governor.

"Don't let anything come after us" I called after her a we ran off from the area she just came from.

A million thoughts were racing through my head. I just hoped we got him before the governor did or before he did something in credibly stupid. I ran until I couldn't feel my legs but it only pushed me to go farther.

We ran through a neighborhood and past trees and roads and grass. Everything looked so peaceful and almost like all the walkers were gone. There were only bodies laid across the ground but none of them alive in sight.

I followed Daryl as we came across the grounds where Rick met up with the governor. There were walked bodies and walkers eating eachother. It looked like a big graveyard.

We slowly passed by the walkers without waking up any of them. We saw some walkers corpses that looked like new ones like guards almost.

I stoped when I saw a walker that looked familiar. It looked up and my heart dropped. It was Merle eating some dead person. But it wasn't Merle. His eyes were gone. They were dead.

I heard Daryl shift from where he was standing. I stayed where I was as Merle looked back at me. It let out a growl as he stood up and walked over to us. I stepped in front of Daryl as he walked back I pushed the walker and screamed.

It wasn't Merle, I could feel the tears start to roll down my cheeks as I didn't want to kill him. He was my brother and you aren't supposed to kill your brothers. It shouldn't be like that. He promised us, it was us to the end. Merle didn't stop coming back at us and i kept pushing him back before i took my knife from my back pocket and pushed him to the ground.

I stapped him in the head over and over again. Until his body was loveless and I couldn't feel him moving anymore. Until you couldn't even recognize it was Merle expect for the Knife he had attached to his hand.

I didn't stop until I felt Daryl pull me away and he wrapped his arms around me and pulled me to his chest. I don't know hailing we stayed there and cried in eachothers arms.

We didn't have to say anything. It was like someone was kicking you in the stomach over and over again. Merle was more like an asshole father to me. He was a better dad than my real dad was.

It wasn't supposed to end like this. Not Merle. I didn't stop crying until my head hurt and the tears just wouldn't stop. It felt like I stayed there for years just watching his dead corpse hoping it was all just come big prank and we would come out from one of the trees and laugh at us for being babies.

I just wanted him back again. I would trade anything for him to call us a pussy or shove us around like he used to. It was just Daryl and I. Our whole life was spent watching our loved ones die around us. And till this day his voice won't leave my head.

"Get your ass up and move on"