Never ending nightmare - 【Daryl Dixion】book one

CHAPTER TWENTY SIX

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[warning: language]

Panic spread through the group like a wildfire as they shoved one another trying to get into vehicle's.

Daryl held charlie as willow helped get who and what she could in her jeep before it was too late. The hoard growing closer and hungrier by the second.

"I aint goin with ya, willow." daryl had a hand to charlie's head pressing it into his shoulder, trying to the soothe the scared baby as best as he could.

Willow stopped, head whipping around to face daryl. "what? What do you mean?" she asked, panic engulfing her normal strong demeanor.

"Rick and i are staying back to make sure everyone is out safely before we follow."

"You are fucking stupid daryl. Thats a fucking stupid thing to do." willow turned back around trying to hide her shaking hands and trembling lips. This was not the time to get emotional. She had charlie to worry about.

Blue barked, paws on the side of the jeep. The walkers were getting closer.

"Willow..." daryl reached for her but she pulled back.

"If you want to be stupid then go ahead but i have someone important depending on me." her eyes flickered to the crying baby in daryl's strong arms.

Blue barked louder, saliva flying and teeth showing. They were getting closer.

"Willow we need to go now." Glenn said, standing up and reaching to take charlie.

There was a loud scream. A gun went off and all hell broke loose.

They were surrounded.

Willow grabbed her handy metal bat and swung taking a walkers head off. The rotting flesh rolling on the ground.

"We have to go!" Glenn stood up and fired.

Willow turned to Daryl but the man wasn't there and neither was Charlie. Her heart dropped. Where was her baby?

"Willow!" Glenn's voice cracked as he fired again.

Willow's world spun around her. She couldn't find Charlie. Where was Charlie? Where was Daryl? Where was her baby?

"Willow!" Glenn shouted, now by her side. His hand grabbing her wrist to pull her in the jeep.

He sat in the drivers seat and revved the engine. The other's already started speeding down the dirt driveway away from the now over run farm.

Glenn stepped on the gas before anymore walkers could swarm them. Leaving them and the farm in the dust.

Willow set still. Gaze focused on the small bassinet in the spacious passenger floorboard where Charlie should be but instead it lay empty.

Her head spun and vision blurred. Where was her baby?

"Daryl has him." Glenn broke the silence. "They are okay. They got out."

Willow brought the bassinet in her lap and held it close. Hands running over the soft bedding. She remembered when she found it on a run. Charlie loved it and slept through the night with it.

"They got out." Glenn squeezed her hand. Willow said nothing the warmth from Glenn's hand was comforting but it wasn't enough.

"Look up ahead."

Willow lifted her gaze to the road. They had made it to the highway where everything started.

The group was gathered in a circle. Rick in the middle getting a head count and waiting for the stragglers.