The archer| Daryl Dixon

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A butterfly danced on my finger as I sat against the tree, an explosion made me jump and look up.

I grabbed my gun and sprinted towards the fence, the building engulfed into flames. "Shit!" I cursed and grabbed my rifle before running towards the gunshots.

I stood by the fence and saw the group and more surrounded by walkers, I shot at the walkers in front of me, "Guys! Over here!" I yelled as I shot the ones sneaking up behind Maggie.

They all climbed over the fence and we ran into the woods.

I was immediately engulfed in a hug by Maggie, I smiled and hugged her tightly, "I'm so glad you're okay." I whispered before turning and hugging Glenn.

I hugged Sasha then bob, before turning back to Daryl.

I grabbed his hand and squeezed it as he offered me a faint smile. "Rick we got out, it's over." Glenn spoke watching as Rick pulled his gun from the duffle bag.

"It's not over till they're dead." Rick stated, I clasped my hand on Rick's shoulder and gave him a look.

"Come on let's just go." I spoke shaking my head. I looked forward as a branch broke, Carol. I let out a small breathy laugh as I seen her.

Daryl ran up to her and hugged her, his head resting on her shoulder slightly lifting her off the ground in the process. Slight jealousy bubbled in my chest but I pushed it down and smiled, glad she was back.

Rick walked up to her, "Did you do that?" Rick questioned and she nodded. He wrapped her in a hug and I stepped forward as they pulled away.

"You're a badass carol." I smiled and hugged her, she smiled and hugged me back.

"You have to come with me." Carol stated.

We walked up the road to a small shack, Tyreese held Judith in his arms as he shut the door. Carl and Rick dropped their weapons and ran to him. Cradling Judith in Rick's arm as he kissed her head.

Sasha took off running behind them and wrapped her arms around her brother, I smiled at the interaction and stood back with Maggie and Glenn.

Maggie grabbed my hand and smiled, "I missed you Gracie." She squeezed my hand and I looked at her. "I missed you too mags." I said and hugged her again.

"Wait I want to introduce you to some people." Maggie pulled me with her to the new group of people.

"That's Abraham, Eugene, Rosita and Tara." I gave a nod at them, not fully trusting them before my eyes caught Tara's and I immediately recognized her.

I gripped my knife in its holder and went to walk up to her before Glenn grabbed my wrist, "Hey! Don't she saved me. She got me back to Maggie." Glenn pulled me back as Tara just looked fearful.

I turned back to Tara and nodded at her then looked at Glenn.

I walked back towards Daryl and stood beside him as he kept his gaze on the reunion. I bumped my shoulder against his, "You good?"

"I'm good." He nodded turning his head to look at me, my fingers went to the cut on his neck and grazed my thumb right below it before dropping it as Maggie smirked at me.

I rolled my eyes and walked towards Rick and Carl where they held Judith, "I think she missed her Aunt Grace." Rick smiled and handed Judith to me.

I smiled down at the baby and I kissed her forehead.

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I held Judith as we sat on a log in the forest, Carl let her play with his fingers as he was sat next to me.

Daryl sat agains the tree watching me, Carol beside him and nudged him with a smirk. "What?" He questioned with a grunt.

"What's going on between you two?" She smirked and wiggled her brows at him, he pushed her shoulder and looked down at his shoes.

"Nothing." He muttered as she looked at him with a face that said 'I'm not stupid'. "I'm going to find us food." He spoke standing up up and grabbed his crossbow.

"I'll come with you." I spoke up placing a kiss on Judith's head before handing her off to Carl and grabbed my machete jogging after him.

We walked side by side in the forest as we got farther and farther from the group. "Hey, I'm sorry that I held a knife to your neck back at the farm." I blurted out making him stop.

I almost bumped into his back but quickly moved out of the way, "Why you apologizing now?" He questioned. "I don't know, I just thought about it and I never apologized." I shrugged as I continued walking.

He pulled me back by my hand and cupped my cheek kissing me, I was caught off guard and pulled away as his eyes looked at me confused.

I leaned forwards and connected our lips again, our lips molded together and moved softly against each others.

We broke away and turned are heads as we heard screaming coming from the distance. We both ran towards the screaming, seeing our group already there and killing walkers that surrounded what looked like a priest on a rock.

I stabbed the last in the head as Rick looked up at the man, "You can come down now." He spoke still cautious in case the man was a threat.

The man slid down off of the rock and I kept my grip on my knife, he lurched forwards and hurled all over my boots.

"Seriously!" I groaned and stumbled back as I looked back up at the man, "Come on man." I shook my head as he apologized.

Daryl bit his lip and suppressed his laugh, and I shot him a glare. "I have no weapons of any kind." The man said.

He looked like he didn't even come outside much, he looked terrified even being close to us.

"I have a church." He spoke looking at all of us, I didn't trust him but anything would be good instead of outside.