The scar left by memories.

Part 2:forgiveness

It came to the morning, I was up at first light with the sun warming the tent. I realise my dad has already gone so I get dressed into shorts and a short sleeved t-shirt. I unzip the zipper and walk out getting used to the morning sun, I walk over to my dad, "morning dad" I say. "Your up early" dad replied, I noticed I'd forgot to put my hearing aids in and could not hear him.

"One moment I forgot my hearing aids" I sign to dad. He just gives me a mad look , I quickly run to the tent and get them and put them in and return to dad. "What do I say about leaving your hearing aids ava-grace!" He scolds. "S-sorry I wasn't paying attention" I say quietly, dad looks at me and shakes his head "go and play with the other kids" Shane bosses.

"Morning" rick says in a sleepy voice, "morning" replied Carol. "Here I washed your clothes, there still abit damp", "you washed my clothes?" Rick questioned. "Scrubbing on a washboard ain't as half as good as my old Maytag back home" Carol giggled, "thankyou" Rick nodded and walked towards Ava who was sat down making daisy chains.

Rick sits down next to me and nudges me "you okey bug?" I look up from the ground, "yeah....im fine" I say quietly, "you can talk to me, I can see your dad is bothering you" Rick suggests. My smile faints slightly remembering earlier, "dad's mad at me because I forgot to put my hearing aids in", Rick looks at me with his pitty face, I can tell he feels bad it's written on his face. "Maybe forgiveness is needed you know your dad can be selfish and filled with anger, he will come around". I smile as Rick pats my head and walks off, what if dad doesn't forgive me?

It has been an hour or so and I have been playing in the woods with Carl, Sophia and the other children, we have been playing mostly tag since we don't know what else to play, I was running away from Carl as he is the tagger and I end up running too far. As I stop in place and look around not see anyone "CARL!?" I yell, I slowly back up and bump into something cold I turn around and my heart drops.

A walker.

(Ricks pov)

"I think it's the stupidest way to break your"- ,screams came from the woods it sounded like Ava, "MOM!" Carl yells. We all run towards the screaming and we see that Ava is being grabbed by a walker, me, glenn and the others get it and kill it.

(Ava pov)

I breathed heavily as I look at the walker that's now been bashed, and the thought of me nearly dying makes me breathe heavier. "They never come this far up the mountain" dale states, "there running out of food in the city is what!" Shane adds. As dad says that something russles out the bushes, "oh Jesus" dad comments.

It's Daryl.

"Son of a bitch" Daryl yells, "that's my deer! Look at it" he kicks it "all gnawed on by this filthy" he kicks it again "disease-bearing" kicks it once again, "motherless poxy bastard!" Daryl shouts in anger. "Calm down son, that's not helping" dale reassures, "what do you know about it old man? Why don't you take that stupid hat and go back to 'on golden pond?" Daryl says. "I've been tracking this deer for miles".

"Gonna drag it back to camp, cook us up some vention" Daryl suggests. I hate vention I don't like the texture of the meat, dad used to make me eat it. "What do you think? You think we could cut round this chewed up part right here?" Daryl questions, "I would not risk that" dad says in disgust.

"That's a damn shame, got some squirrel about a dozen or so" Daryl points out. "Come on people, what do y'all not know? It's gotta be the brain!" Daryl shoots the walkers head that was wriggling about on the floor.

Daryl start to walk to camp, and I try to catch up to him, "Merle Merle! Get your ugly ass out here! I got us some squirrel!" He yells. All I can think about is how Merle got left and how Daryl will react, he's gonna be so mad. I quickly run up to my dad "dad are you gonna tell Daryl?" I ask , "yes Ava-grace now go and sit on a log and do something" dad shoos me away. I just walk away and do as I'm told, he ain't gonna forgive me who am I kidding?.

"Daryl just slow up a bit" Shane walks after Daryl, "I need to talk to you about Merle" , "there was a problem in Atlanta" Shane tells him. "He dead?", "we're not sure" Shane reply's, "he either is or he ain't" Daryl gets angrier. "There ain't no easy way to say this so I'll just say it" Rick says interfering, "who are you?" Daryl asks.

"Rick grimes" Rick answers.

"Rick grimes? You got something you wanna tell me?!" Daryl questions.

"Your brother was a danger to us all so I hancuffed him to a roof, hooked him to a peice of metal, he's still there" Rick reply's. "Hold on, let me process this" Daryl says pacing back and forth "your saying you hancuffed my brother to a roof and you left him there?!" Daryl yells.

Daryl's lobs the squirrels at Rick and try's to bulge at him, until shane grabs him into choke hold, I run towards them in fear someone is gonna get killed. "Dad get off him your hurting him!" I yell, "you'd best let me go! Your setting a great example for you daughter!" Daryl yells. "Nah I think better not" Shane reply's.

"Choke holds illegal!" Daryl protests, "you can file a complaint" Shane added. As they was arguing I backed away and sat back down where I was, I took my hearing aids out to block the background noise as it was making me nervous. My life is gonna be hell if this is all that it's gonna be filled with, I continue making daisy chains and crowns distracting myslef from the outside world.

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Hey guyssssssss, this chapter is longer so I might try make them all the same!

1077 words.

Thankyouuuuuu.