Runaway Home - The Walking Dead, Fan-fiction (soon to be 3rd & final edit!)

Chapter 6: Normal

Amber had just ran straight into a tree. "Guaghh.." Not just a tree...! Several walkers all around her, head spinning she grabbed for her blades beheading the first walker to lunged for her.

THWACK! another down, bolt to the head... as Amber got to her feet a knife hit another and Amber bashed another's head into the tree.

"Wha' happened to you...?" Daryl asked despite seeing exactly what happened, thinking he'd at least spare her the humility.

"Got distracted..." Amber grumbled wiping her face with the back of her hand as she tried catching her balance.

Daryl retrieved his bolts, watching her slump next to the tree "..He didn't mean it ya know.."

"Could have fooled me!" Amber hissed holding a hand to her head.

"Rick's just doin' what 'e thinks is best.."

"He's wrong... He doesn't know what he's doing..." Daryl slid down next to her Ku now licking her face.

"And you do, do ya..." Amber groaned shaking her head and looking away from him "Look I've meet some of your people before..."

"..There Not My People!"

"They tried to run from him, Dwight and 2 other girls..."

Amber stared at him in shock "What? Sherry?"

"I think the one girl was Tina, she died.. walker got er. didn't catch the others name..." Amber let out a mournful groan "You knew em?"

"yeah..." Amber stared back at the ground.

"I tried to help them but they decided to turn on me and go back, took my gear.... Then Dwight came back killed Abe with my bow." Daryl growled fiddling with his bolts.

"Cowards.." Amber muttered under her breath, screwing her eyes shut in disdane.

"So, you know those two pretty well huh?"

"well enough..." Amber said getting to her feet 

"What about Negan?"

"What about him...?" Amber held her head in pain, not just from hitting the tree "look, I'm sorry I can't talk about this right now. I just.. I just want this to end..." Amber said getting to her feet, stumbling over the dead corpses.

"Amber...?" She turned around to Daryl, close to tears she pushed them away.. her de-miner changing before his eyes, acting like everything that just happened didn't phase her at all.

"I can't......"

How she do that.. I know it ain't easy, but that was just effortless.... Daryl frowned at her wondering if his eye's where playing tricks on him. "What?" Angry at him for possibly judging her "Like you've never pushed anything away! Never repressed anything? I can't talk about it, I can't even think about it right now! ...Don't you Dare judge me!" Ambers voice almost cracked, as she caught his gaze.

Daryl glanced down looking at his feet, a sick feeling in the pit of his stomach but he couldn't tell why. He just simply nodded in understanding before he started walking back to the gate. "Come on, Rick doesn't always mean what he say's... We could still use your help."

The three of them headed back to the gates. Daryl scratching his head & pullin a twig out his hair. Rick turned to see Amber storm off a bloody mess with Ku right behind her "Daryl, what the...?"

"Walkers.. she was a little distracted, almost got herself knocked out..." Rick turned back to him letting out a sigh of frustration.

"She, worth the trouble?"