Tension is thick in the air as we eat today. Daryl is back on his feet, and we sit together eating rubbery scrambled eggs. I glance at Glenn who looks nervous. Rick and Lori are sitting close by, Rick making sure she's doing alright. Guess she told him.
Glenn finally speaks up. "Guys. Uh. There's walkers in the barn." Commotion ensues, Shane grabs his shot gun and runs to the barn we all follow behind.
"We gotta kill them." Shane yells.
"No, this is Hershel's land, his barn. What he says goes." Rick argues. "He believes they're sick."
"Well man they ain't sick. You want these things where we sleep? Where we eat? Your wife is pregnant Rick!" Shane yells. "We gotta go! It's one thing picking daisies when we thought this place was safe."
"We can't leave without Sophia!" Carol cries.
"We've been looking for over a week, that girl is gone." Shane yells.
"We're close to finding that girl, I just found her damn doll the other day." Daryl butts in.
"You found a doll. You found a doll Daryl. You know what, if I were here, saw you comin' all methed out with your buck knife and your geek ears, I would run in the other direction." Shane yells, and Daryl tries to hit him but everyone reacts too fast. People are on Shane, and Daryl.
"Enough!" I yell. "Rick talk to Hershel. Shane calm the fuck down. We need to keep a level head. Carol I'm sorry but if we don't find that girl by next week we gotta go. We've overstayed our welcome."
The group starts to slowly leave and I wait until it's just Shane and I. I push him up against the barn."You talk like that to Daryl ever again, and it won't be him you have to worry about. Got it?"
Shane shoves me off him and aims his shotgun at me. "Gonna shoot me Shane? Really. What will that get you? You'll be exiled." Shane slowly lowers his weapon.
"I just snapped. I think that baby is mine." He says. Realization finally kicks in. The way Shane and Lori acted together. The way he'd try and avoid Carl.
"Whatever. Whoever the baby belongs to isn't my concern. And I agree with you about the walkers. We should kill them. But be reasonable. Do you want to go back to that? Having to struggle to survive? Shane I'm with you when it cones down to it, but for now. Let's see where this goes."
I walk away putting a weak smile on my face, when I hear Daryl yelling at someone from inside a stable. I watch him storm off and I hear someone weakly crying from inside. I walk inside and help the woman to her feet.
"Carol? Are you okay?" I whisper.
"He wants to keep risking his life for my little girl. He could have died. And for what?" She strains to talk.
"I'll talk to him." I say, thrusting my hands in my pockets.
Daryl's POV
All I'm trying to do is help Carol find her kid. And she doesn't want my help anymore. We'll find her soon, I just know it. As I'm stabbing the mesh of the tent Mina walks in.
"My name's not Mina." She says taking me by surprise. "It's Erica. But I hate that name. Mina is my middle name. Only Shane and you know and I'd prefer to keep it that way."
"I don't know what to say." I mumble. What else is she lying about?
"I know what you can do though. You can go out there and comfort Carol. She cares about you. She just doesn't need you getting hurt. Neither do I."
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Something More than This. (The Walking Dead)
FanfictionMina Jameson is doing what it takes to survive. She's used to being alone, but will Rick Grimes and his group change that for her?